Universal Secret Revealed

Mark your calendars, folks. From henceforth and forever more, October 22, 2005 shall be known as X-Box Cessation Day. Be it known that, after months and months of research into the number of hours a grown male can play the same X-Box game, a conclusion has finally been reached. A 40 year old male has been witnessed playing Halo II virtually non-stop from 5:00 am until 11:30 pm -- a startling 18.5 hours. The game was only paused for the following:

• Junk food ingestion (3 times)
• Alcohol ingestion (1/2 bottle of Glenlevit and several beers)
• Elimination of above referenced items
• Communication with other techno geeks (2 trips to check e-mail)

At 11:32 pm, the subject was overheard proclaiming: "I'm tired of playing this game."

It should also be noted for the record that the phenomenon of X-Box Cessation seems to last a mere 6 hours, as the subject was once again discovered playing the SAME game by 5:30 am the following morning. At this time, the NIH is looking into possible treatments for this disease; however, a cure is likely decades in the making.