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• Commented on Goldwag: Books that inspire me
  The title IMPOSSIBLE: YET IT HAPPENED! reminds me of another book that fascinated me in grade school, STRANGELY ENOUGH! by C.B. Colby. Relatively recently I learned that the book was a Scholastic Abridged version of a larger book from the...
• Commented on Praying mantis in my backyard
  Check out this walking stick bug (phasmid insect). It was hanging out on one window for about a week before it got rainy then cold. It's maybe 8 inches long. It's really amazing how much it resembles a stick or...
• Commented on How To Eat a Horse
  Well, in Italy, you can get horse baby food!...
• Commented on Inside Antiques Roadshow
  I'd like to see a follow-up show where they see if the owners of the appraised items can get anywhere close to the estimates given on the show....
• Commented on Space Shuttle Discovery STS-128 launch (Update: it was a real winner.)
  Combined Operational Load Bearing External Resistance Treadmill (C.O.L.B.E.R.T.) en route to ISS. "I'm so proud my treadmill will be going into space to help trim down those famously fat astronauts. Lay off the Tang, Chubby!" -Stephen Colbert...
• Commented on Ikea is owned by a "charitable foundation," pays only 3.5% tax
  Their office Christmas parties are filled with drunk, hot Swedish girls, too. So many reasons to be jealous of those tax-avoiding Ikeans!...
• Commented on Alcatraz Island, a tourist attraction that exceeds all expectations
  This was referenced slyly above, but for those who haven't seen it, I recommend the scene in the Mike Myers movie SO I MARRIED AN AXE MURDERER where Phil Hartman plays a tour guide on Alacatraz like none other....
• Commented on Bob Dylan mistaken for hobo, 40 years after Woodstock
  Let's face it, this is Bob Dylan. The likely scenario here was: COP, politely: "Sir, what are you doing here?" BOB DYLAN: "Abla ebbie yarda da DOON!" COP: "Excuse me?" BOB DYLAN: "Blabba da DOON! Yab da DOON!" COP: "Sir?"...
• Commented on Living in a massive high-rise with no neighbors
  If movies have taught me anything, when you're the only one living in a high-rise, that's when the replicants show up.... "Home again, home again, jiggity-jig. Goooooooood evening, J.F.!"...
• Commented on Botched building demolition creates real-world Katamari Damacy horror
  They should have put a Norwegian in the boiler room, and a pack of thermals upstairs. Masterful! Some days it's great to be alive....
• Commented on Shrink: I will create a WoW guild of shrinks to treat WoW addiction
  Maybe a 10th level shrink will actually be able to shrink things in World of Warcraft. If you bring them along into a dungeon as part of an adventuring party, they can render monsters non-aggressive by having them talk about...
• Commented on GPS jammer plugs into cigarette lighter
  It should be noted that, per the link, this has a range of about 15 feet. So, if you were the passenger in a car, you could plug this in to the cigarette lighter and block the GPS signal and...
• Commented on GPS jammer plugs into cigarette lighter
  Put it near a geocache and drive geocachers crazy!...
• Commented on Amsterdam: O'Reilly Factor vs. reality
  Maybe bicycle thievery is so high in Amsterdam because, with drugs and prostitution legal, it's hard to feel naughty. So they are reduced to stealing bicycles for a thrill....
• Commented on Dead Goat Polo Arcade Game
  In Soviet Russia, headless goat arcade game plays YOU!...
• Commented on Shelf Discovery: The Teen Classics We Never Stopped Reading
  I did like the sequel to CLAN OF THE CAVE BEAR, THE VALLEY OF HORSES, where Ayla invents oral sex....
• Commented on Flickr set for Stitch Wars, Star Wars-theme craft show
  Which brings us to the bizarre children's toy, TAUN-TAUN FIGURE WITH OPEN BELLY RESCUE FEATURE: http://planettom.livejournal.com/225212.html...
• Commented on Juice company rips off Get Your War On
  Never heard of GYWO. Took two minutes to peruse the website. It sucks. Jamba Juice: Next time, rip off something creative and funny....
• Commented on New black spot on Jupiter -- from comet, asteroid?
  Since oddly nobody has mentioned the 1994 collision of comet Shoemaker-Levy with Jupiter: http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/sl9/...
• Commented on Sarlaac pillow
  Put it on your sofa and you can lose your car keys for a thousand years......
• Commented on How to determine the value of a book
  Sometimes on Amazon used; eBay; bookfinder.com, etc. you see absurdly high prices for books that are rare, but they aren't THAT rare. Like, maybe $75 would be a reasonable price, but you'll see it listed for $500 or some such....
• Commented on Richard Dawkins helps fund atheist summer camp
  "...one time at Atheist Summer Camp I put a unicorn horn in my..."...
• Commented on Blog about awful library books
  Although some of these are funny on sight, the overall concept of that website disturbs me a little bit. The weeding idea that "these books contain inaccurate or outdated information, get them off the shelves" is a pretty big broom....
• Commented on Goats enjoy living in their own tower
  And the Fairview wines (South Africa) have the goat tower on their label: http://www.fairview.co.za/...
• Commented on Back to the Future wedding cake
  "Eat the clocktower! EAT the clocktower!"...
• Commented on Dress made from meat
  We're having a meatwave, a tropical meatwave......
• Commented on Hallmark's radiation-scarred ceramic Star Trek keepsake
  Bender: I'd only met the defendant, Fry, once, but I knew he was up to no good. Zap Brannigan: Use the beeps!...
• Commented on Limo with a sink on the fender, 1940
  Did they advertise it as "Has everything INCLUDING the kitchen sink?"...
• Commented on Infinite bookstore video
  in German Village in Columbus, Ohio, there's a bookshop, The Book Loft, which isn't on this scale in size, but manages to be a pretty good maze that the bookbrowser may want to leave a trail of breadcrumbs as they...
• Commented on Lawsuit loser Airborne changes its packaging art
  Airborne, Apply Directly To The Forehead!...