some things that don't make sense

I went to a lecture with my mother recently whose title was "Thirteen Things that Don't Make Sense." (The lecture, not my mom.) Here, in my opinion are some of those thirteen things (and I think my mother would likely agree):

-- Why my mother and I thought we could understand a lecture about astronomical anomalies
-- How you can possibly be expected to stay awake in the Hayden Planetarium in dusky lighting after a cocktail
-- Why the website said the lecture was at 6:30 on Tuesday when the guy at the box office said it was at 6:30 on Monday when, in fact, it was at 7:30 on Monday
-- The way my dad dresses (but this has no bearing on the lecture whatsoever)
-- Why, in a lecture entitled THIRTEEN things that don't make sense, you'd only cover four of them
-- Why British accents are so much cuter than American ones
-- The difference between WIMPS and CHAMPS (I'm not kidding, this was actually covered in the section on Dark Matter. Or Dark Energy. I forget.)

Another thing we learned was that way back in the day there was a physicist named Fritz Zwicky who came up with an explanation for dark matter (or dark energy, I forget) that was, according to our understanding of the situation now, not far from the mark. However, in Fritz's day, he was maligned and basically kicked out of the establishment. He responded to this by calling his fellow physicists "Spherical Bastards" -- because any way you looked that them, they were bastards.

Now THAT made sense.