I love stuff like this...

...because I am a geek at heart. (HT: The Corner.)

That's also why I love enlightening stories such as this one...

An Indian chief of yore was blessed with three wives, all of whom he loved (though, admittedly, he did have a favorite). Being a relatively wise man, however -- not wise enough to keep from saddling himself with multiple menstrual periods per month, but still not being a complete fool -- he didn't try to keep all three women happy in the same tepee; each wife had her own. Wife #1 had a very nice tepee made of the local buffalo hide. Wife #2 had a rather smaller tepee, but it was made of deerhide imported from the Appalachians, with matching beaded moccasins (the chief had a brother-in-law in the import/export business). But for Wife #3, the chief arranged to have shipped in, at great expense, the raw materials for what became the only hippopotamus-hide tepee on the entire Great Plains.

The chief was a vigorous man in his prime, and all three wives were shortly with child. Indeed, they all gave birth on the same day: Wife #1 had a beautiful baby girl and Wife #2 had a big strong baby boy. But Wife #3 won again: she had twins, a boy and a girl.

Which just proved once again that the squaw of the hippopotamus is equal to the sum of the squaws of the other two hides.