Weird But True

Weird but true

It’s every mother’s dream — turning her 4-month-old into a dust mop.

A new onesie manufactured in upstate Rochester comes equipped with mop heads at the arms and legs so infants can polish the floor as they learn to crawl.

In a tongue-in-cheek sales pitch, manufacturer BetterThanPants points out its “baby mop’’ teaches kids a “strong work ethic’’ — and, just as important, not to drop their food on the floor.

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This butterfly is migrating in style.

A monarch butterfly was still in its cocoon, switching over from caterpillar, in Maraleen Manos-Jones’ garden in Albany when it missed its chance to fly south.

By the time it became a full-fledged butterfly, it was too cold to make the trip.

So Manos-Jones got Southwest Airlines to fly it down to Texas.

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Don’t play Snoop Dogg for your pooch.

A Colorado State University study shows most dogs like classical music best.

Professor Lori Kogan said classical canines were more relaxed than dogs that heard no music.

Dogs listening to heavy metal, on the other hand, got nervous and upset.

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On a related subject . . .

We now also know which music birds don’t like — songs by Tina Turner.

A British airport found its recording of birds in distress did not drive their fellow tweeters away.

So they tried music by the American songbird.

The terrified British birds immediately flew off.

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A controversial British official has achieved a dubious distinction.

Finance Minister George Osborne is the public figure who most often appears in his fellow citizens’ nightmares, according to a new survey of 2,000 people

Osborne has been harshly criticized for his austerity measures.

In second place was former Labor Prime Minister Gordon Brown.