News Flash.....A new, inexplicable phenomenon is sweeping the globe. Millions of women, armed with shovels, are streaming out of their houses looking for heavy things to lift. No-one knows why the women are doing this, but when two of them meet at a rock or in a snowbank they shout "Pixies!", hug, and keep right on lifting. Flashmob activity is suspected.

In a possibly related story, millions of men are staking out their local rock piles, armed with cameras.

Sorry, Lix...can't say it's ever happened to me. Maybe you're, um, well I was going to say "using the wrong muscles" for balance.....but that how can anything that gives you that feeling be an inappropriate use? I'd just count yourself lucky, and consider taking up weight lifting.

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