"NEWS": Greenstein's brain sacrifices survival instinct to make room for advertising jingle
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Matt Broughton /
04 August 2008 /
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Doctors are saying that poker professional Barry Greenstein's brain subconsciously made room for a catchy TV jingle by deleting valuable space required for his survival instinct. Now severely injured, Greenstein only became aware of the change later, having accidentally walked through a dark alley filled with knife-wielding yobs. He told us: "I knew I should have been running in the other direction, but all I could think was: 'I feel like chicken tonight; like chicken tonight'.
Greenstein's uncle died under similar circumstances when his brain traded the part that controls breathing for enough room to accompany the Bird's-eye Potato Waffles song.
Betfair would like to make it clear that the above story isn't true. Or very funny.
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