It's cute how the author emphatically states that 'two-spacing' is wrong. It's a convention that one either follows or doesn't; there's no 'wrong' to it, just a popularity. Next.
In another lifetime I was a deckhand on the Ohio and Mississippi for a few months after college. We motored through a gigantic cloud of these one day; they really were on every conceivable surface, and all over me. Absolutely harmless, but I danced the 'funky chicken' trying to get them off of me until I was too exhausted to do anything but mentally moan in creeped-out disgust.
Also notice the improper spelling of the word 'preceding' in the last sentence (entry 437 in the Big Book of Unintentional Ironies, '05, Houghton-Mifflin).
My gut feeling is I really don't think we should be basing the truthfulness of the bird/alka seltzer thing on some random person named "halsca" on answers.yahoo.com. Just a thought.
Stanford use to be the Indians, until that didn't work so well anymore. They changed it to Cardinals, because weird color names were in for about a month and a half in the seventies. This got changed to the singular Cardinal, because, well, just because people like to be difficult. The Tree is a totally unofficial mascot, and is part of the band.
Too many unbelievers here. That's the larval stage of the FSM. Do ye not see the first of His great noodly appendages sprouting? It is all as foretold in Good Housekeeping's Egg & Cheese Spaghetti Cookbook (1958, CBP, Chicago).
Also, I fully support this movement.... for other people.
(Sometimes I let my Inner Geek out for a bit)