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• Commented on Mystery blob devouring Alaska coastline
  Meh. There are a pair of Gelatinous Cubes living down the street from me. We don't see them out much, but the streets around here are spotless....
• Commented on Honduras: Photos of Coup
  Uh, Anonymous @10 -- I'm pretty sure Antinous was referring to the previous U.S. president, who, along with his vice president and cabinet, exhibited very little regard for our Constitution and rule of law. While I haven't agreed with everything...
• Commented on RIP Michael Jackson
  sigh... now comes the inevitable: days, weeks, months, perhaps even years, of remembrances, retrospectives, tell-alls, and 2-hour televised tribute concerts for the self-proclaimed "king of pop."...
• Commented on Cats getting stoned on catnip
  Only one of our three cats ever took to catnip, but man, was she a mean drunk. Sweet kitty most of the time, but give her catnip (we had little linen bags that we filled w/dried 'nip), and she'd claw...
• Commented on Nose balloons for snot-headed kids
  I was pretty sure this was going to be a link to photos of kids blowing snot-bubbles out of their noses. Actually a little let down that it wasn't....
• Commented on HOWTO do writerly self-promo in the 21st century
  Misread the title as "Howto do writerly self-PORNO in the 21st century." Guess where my mind is....
• Commented on Toilet snake bites man's penis
  Bartender, give me a double scotch, neat, and a Unicorn chaser....
• Commented on Martha Mason, who spent 60 years in an iron lung, RIP
  @6 Mister Eppy: Because, unless I'm completely mistaken, those little oxy-wheelies simply provide a supply of oxygen to the breather. The iron lung Ms. Mason inhabited used pressure to force her lungs to expand and contract, forcing air into and...
• Commented on Star Trek original bridge and action figures reissue
  I had Mr. Spock and the Klingon. My friend Frank had Kirk and McCoy, and another friend had Scotty. It was hours of geeky fun when we all got together. I still have the figures in a box somewhere. Unfortunately...
• Commented on Inuit throat singing video
  Very cool. I'm a huge fan of the Tuvan style. This Inuit style is more rhythmic than melodic, it seems. Can you imagine Ondar singing Sygyt over this? I just got chills thinking about it....
• Commented on Man sentenced for vacuum sex
  @5 *rim shot* (And no, that's not a reference to a sexual act...)...
• Commented on Penetrating orbitocranial injury from kitchen sink
  Re: link @18 - love how the text describes taking off half the guy's skull as providing for the "non-traumatic removal of the foreign object."...
• Commented on Terrific special effects reel by 12-year-old
  @1 SE7A7N7 - Not goose, duck. "If she... weighs the same as a duck... she's made of wood..." "And therefore?" "........ A WITCH!" I'm no video pro, so... what was with the jittery camera work anytime there was an effect...
• Commented on Weird vine fruit
  #19 Aldasin FTW!...
• Commented on Videos of near misses with trains
  @20 Takuan: Thanks, I was going to point that out, but you beat me to it. George Carlin has an excellent bit on that. "*crash* Oh look! They nearly missed!"...
• Commented on Salmonella Peanut CEO won't eat his own peanuts, cites Fifth Amendment
  As a resident of Georgia, I can tell you we're REALLY proud of these folks. /sarcasm...
• Commented on Hallucinations that are tied to eye disease
  @14 - thanks for that link, Takuan. That's exactly what I get....
• Commented on MIT's Chameleon Guitar
  Meh. Give me a regular old Strat or 335, a tube amp, and a bag full of analog stompboxes....
• Commented on Hallucinations that are tied to eye disease
  @Cupcake Faerie #2 - I get those, too, but "mostly pleasant" is definitely not how I'd describe them. Because they almost completely block my field of vision, and because of the flashing/undulating, they cause me some discomfort, even when not...
• Commented on Top 11 compounds in US drinking water
  Oh cool, I can stop paying for my atenolol Rx now....
• Commented on Pneumatic tube-based postal systems of the late 19th century
  Maybe this was the series of tubes Ted Stevens was thinking about. The time period is about right....
• Commented on Presidential aging photos
  @27 - you beat me to it....
• Commented on Screamin' Jay Hawkins: "I Put A Spell On You"
  Ah, here's the story I was thinking of: ...Jay enhancing some lucky young couple's wedding, when, appearing into the afternoon summer sunlight they were greeted by the sight of Screamin' Jay Hawkins leaning from his hotel window opposite the church,...
• Commented on Screamin' Jay Hawkins: "I Put A Spell On You"
  He's in heavy rotation on my iPod. Love him, love his music. An ex-girlfriend of mine had a vinyl album of his (maybe a greatest hits?) that included this story on the dustjacket: Screamin' Jay carried around a stick with...
• Commented on Dog eats bean burrito in 1 second
  @9 "Your dog looks fat, maybe you shouldn't feed him taco bell." How about the owner? Did you see his wrist? He has none, unless you count the area of his arm that his watchband is biting into. And his...
• Commented on Help select the 100 greatest Looney Tunes
  COOK! COOK!! WHERE'S MY LUNCH? WHERE'S MY HASSENPFEFFER?! Oh, and any Foghorn Leghorn where he paddles the dog's ass with a board. Gotta love that. Seriously, just too many good ones to choose from. "Daddy! You're home from Peru! We...
• Commented on Transistor radios from the 1970s
  These are awesome. I had several cool transistor radios back in the day. Sadly, only one remains, a Coke bottle radio. Twist the cap to turn on/off and adjust the volume; the base twists to tune into that awesome AM...
• Commented on Good example of pareidolia
  Of course the child died short. Based on the adult heights in the picture, the child is definitely shorter than... ooooohhhh, you mean SHORTLY. My mistake....
• Commented on Your Virtual Girlfriend
  My first thought: "of course it's an anime character." Then: WTF? This whole thing leaves me feeling a bit uneasy....
• Commented on Tuvan Throat-Singing Rap by Ondar, with the voice of Richard Feynman
  More Ondar, from Letterman. Amazing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVyyhHFKI8E...