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• Commented on Goldwag: The Sarah Palin Conspiracies
  Palin cannot really see Russian from her house. That's merely an optical Aleutian....
• Commented on Willie Nelson beats Snoop Dogg at smoking pot
  @DEEPEYES -- you got it exactly! "Beware of being the Roller, when there's nothing left to roll!"...
• Commented on Panoramic view from a tongue
  I recommend finding a little animated film called, confusingly enough, "Treasure of the Sierra Madre", which is set in a dentist's office, from that same POV. Of course, you'll have bad dreams for weeks afterwards, but it's a small price....
• Commented on Occult America: The Secret History of How Mysticism Shaped Our Nation
  Many jurisdictions don't have the requirement to be "whole". I've read about it historically, but I've never encountered it. Probably a holdover from "operative" times, when Masons really were stonemasons....
• Commented on Al Franken draws map of the US
  Franken recently added Alaska and Hawaii to his 48-Contiguous-States party stunt. Here's his explanation of why it took him so long to acknowledge the half-century-old geography shift: http://is.gd/33eS2 It's a nice little stunt, at least somewhat cooler than pi to...
• Commented on Firefighters told to cool it on the energy drinks
  I came into the comments section here to say something about "electrolytes", but the Brawndo fans have already taken care of that. My work on this planet is done. You no longer need me. Best wishes and farewell....
• Commented on Hedy Lamarr: '30s film diva, mobile phone tech pioneer, anti-Nazi gadget inventor.
  Damn! You beat me to it!...
• Commented on Drew Friedman print of Don Knotts as Barney Fife
  ...he couldn't have survived anywhere else. Oh, come on! With a bit less fundamental decency and just a little more unearned smugness, he could have been President....
• Commented on Hippie weirdo yoga farmers
  Excuse me a minute. I have to go beat up the 70's....
• Commented on Giant "bad ass" watches from Diesel
  > Giant "bad ass" watches from Diesel Damn! I am so disappointed! From reading the headline, I was expecting to read about an enormous character of harsh and unsavory reputation who had perched himself on top of a locomotive engine...
• Commented on Sleepwalker stabbed
  Thank you Anonymous. Meanwhile, this story reminded me of an old joke about a drunk who brags to his friends that he's discovered a bar that's so fancy they have gold-plated urinals. I'll let you either look up the punchline...
• Commented on TV preacher proves that only the Christian god is real
  I used to work for a great metropolitan newspaper, and our city room editor habitually swore by yelling "Great Caesar's Ghost!" The first time I heard it in a staff meeting, I thought he was kidding -- it was so...
• Commented on Preternaturally Verbose Infant Instigates Spontaneous Outbreak of Lulz (video)
  Sounds a lot like Thermian. Maybe she's trying to get Commander Taggart to help save her planet?...
• Commented on Desk with treadmill
  Does no one remember Fielding Melish, Woody Allen's unlikely hero in Bananas? Before falling into a Central American revolution, he worked as a products tester, attempting to demonstrate something just like this exerdesk....
• Commented on Whip It Good
  No fan of the bullwhip should miss the ridiculous movie Oblivion (1994) with a bullwhip-toting gal named "Lash". The end titles of the film even pimped a sequel, Backlash....
• Commented on The New RAW website
  After Bob died the first time, I felt kinda bad that I hadn't been in touch with him for awhile. But then, once he then-again woke, he discovered email and led a lively discussion group for several more years. Now...
• Commented on Godaddy: Don't Buy dot-TV Domains, The Island is Sinking.
  Monkeythumpa is right! Maybe in a few years, it'd be like having an Atlantis domain. What would that be anyway .atl? .at? .ats? Although, it isn't as if your websites would actually be hosted at Tuvalu, or run through networks...
• Commented on ABL PDS75 industrial-class apple peeler
  Nooooobody escapes frrom Missus Tweedy's Apple Farrm!...
• Commented on The Chairman: a cellphone
  It looks beautiful, but it's probably got a magnetron in it, so remember not to bring it into your casino's high-tech security room....
• Commented on CAPTCHA Poetry
  Thank you #14! As I read this post, the first thing I thought of was also "lurgid bee". When I find myself with awful poets One thing comes to rescue me Humming lines of gibb'rish Lurgid Bee! Lurgid Bee! And...
• Commented on Store won't put kid's controversial name on cake
  Kinda puts the whole "boy named Sue" thing into a new perspective, don't it?...
• Commented on Kopbusters -- reality show that busts cops for conducting illegal drug raids
  This is a brilliant idea, and I hope it spreads. As long as there is no penalty for false positives, the system will continue to generate more and more of them. Reverse stings like this are a good way to...
• Commented on Hierarchy of Beards: the evolutionary history of face-fur
  Puts one in mind of the old Soviet poster of their great leaders (and this Chinese version, known affectionately to foreign diplomats as "The History of Shaving"....
• Commented on 130,000 inflatable breasts missing at sea
  All those missing boobs, huh? Well I just read that Saxby Chambliss of Georgia won his Senate runoff election with a lot bigger margin than in November. Co-incidence?...
• Commented on Paper bottles for mineral water gluggers
  I used to keep tropical fish. If I added straight tap water, the fish died. If I added Poland Spring water, the fish didn't die. I explained to the fish that tap water was perfectly safe and that there was...
• Commented on Video: Microphone Fellatio
  I might be just a little bit in love....
• Commented on Bush snubbed at G20 Summit
  To those commentators who say that Bush is instead snubbing the other leaders, look again. Several of them clasp their hands together or put them at their sides or behind their backs to make them unavailable for Pres. Shrub. They...
• Commented on "What could be more festive than a cross covered in fuzzy Christmas lights?"
  (Scene: night, very late, very dark, swamp sounds: crickets, peepers, the occasional owl. By the light of a thin moon, we can only just barely make out the outlines of a small cabin, maybe a dimmed lantern or a banked...
• Commented on What do you call the shop on the corner?
  Re: "Spa" (#22 and #48) -- when I first arrived in Boston (c. 1980) I began to hear people talking about "spas" and having been to school not far from Saratoga, I thought they were referring to numerous local hot-springs...
• Commented on Metal detectorist's mysterious find
  It looks like an indicator for a molding process. Sometimes on the bottom of a molded part, or on one of the detachable pieces of a set of molded parts, there's a batch number indicator. Someone turns the dial to...