Thank you, Tanouye. Fartnutz does know the answers to the above.
1) Having spent the evening in a basement boiler room at a Harvard dorm, Fartnutz can attest to the fact that there are always nerds making out in the common rooms of Harvard dorms and students always have parents and brothers over in the guest beds, forcing most people at Harvard to sleep in boiler rooms, which can cause pretty serious hearing damage. Fartnutz's dad lost his hearing sleeping next to the boilers on a Navy ship during Vietnam, which is pretty much the same thing.
2) Thora Birch went from Ghost World to a Lifetime movie because she is too hot and sexy to appear on the big screen or on any television program that men watch.