Here's a fun one, much lighter than recent heavy entries. From Larry Hammer on DM.net comes this reference to a Straight Dope article on the hydronamics of urinal splashback. I find that woman reall don't appreciate the complexities of peeing from several feet away from the target, where a poorly timed sneeze can completely destabilize one's launch platform. True, we cause more mess. On the other hand, we have a harder task.