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• Commented on A drink that sounds even more unappetizing than "Dairy Drink"
  Dairylea sounds fine to me, but I pronounce it like "dair-ee-lee". I guess it could be problematic if you insisted on pronouncing it "dair-ee-lee-uh"......
• Commented on More on the LRAD sound cannon at Pittsburgh G20 protests
  So, did anyone find out if ear plugs are an effective defense against the LRAD?...
• Commented on Amazing video of girl barely missing an out-of-control car
  The blather about guardian angels is annoying, but the anchors are just trying kill time; can't have dead air. What more do you suppose they had to say on the subject, presuming they knew nothing more about the episode than...
• Commented on Pop-up camper on a shopping cart
  "It is also largely about self-reliance and making due with less." Oh. That explains why he's asking for donations....
• Commented on Battle of The Billboards in LA: Giant Boozy Ladyparts are OK, Criticizing Insurance Companies Ain't.
  Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, and sometimes an abstract picture featuring a mango is just an abstract picture featuring a mango. I don't think I'd see a vagina in that billboard if you hadn't pointed it out. And...
• Commented on Lynchian version of "Can't Take My Eyes Off You"
  As others have already said, that would fit in the Black Lodge in Twin Peaks. Still, I don't think it's particularly Lynchian, nor creepy. It's pretty awkward, but not creepy....
• Commented on Spacemen are transmitting silent little floaty vlogs at planet Earth (also: laptops in orbit!)
  I wonder how the absence of gravity affects cooling in those laptops?...
• Commented on Goatse hoodie
  Wow! In this picture, at least, it's like Goatse meets Unibomber!...
• Commented on Gizmo with a weight added for extra heft
  ...Or maybe the weight keeps it from sliding around on your desk as much, or something. There are other explanations for adding the weight....
• Commented on Maybe These Massive Wheel Spikes Shouldn't be Legal
  Just because you see them on the highway doesn't mean they're legal. But they probably are....
• Commented on Radiohead manager to launch new record label
  I'm sure no one (besides me) will confuse Polyphonic with Polygram....
• Commented on God Hates the World, by Westboro Baptist Church
  If it's too late to change His mind then I won't change anything for His sake. What's with the upside-down Canadian flag? What must that little girl think of a god who hates the world? Oh. It looks like I'm...
• Commented on Many Restaurants Remain Oblivious to Mobile Web
  I could hardly care less if a web page displays correctly on an iphone, but a surprising number of restaurants still have no web page at all!...
• Commented on American Former Gay Pr0n Star Is Big In Japan
  Wow, that video doesn't help me understand the meme at all. Maybe it helps to be Japanese or gay?...
• Commented on High school teacher recounts being dosed
  Goddam. The thought of someone dosing me without my knowledge really pisses me off....
• Commented on Lux Interior, CRAMPS founder, has died.
  The way you capitalized CRAMPS in the headline, I thought you were talking about some role-playing game, like GURPS Cyberpunk....
• Commented on US Airways bumps Flight 1549 survivors up to super-elite status for a year
  Well, it looks like I'm jumping on the bandwagon, but I don't see why USAir should give the passengers more than a year of super-elite status; the bird-strike was hardly their fault! Would people be complaining if they hadn't given...
• Commented on Mummified Soviet-era East German flat unearthed
  "There was no toilet in the flat - the occupant used one on the landing." My first girlfriend lived for a time in an apartment building (in a 2-room efficiency) in the mid-80s in Lowell, MA that had no toilet;...
• Commented on Australian family caged, detained, starved and deported by US customs
  Thanks for telling the story, but you do yourself a dis-service by using biased language. Detained and caged? Caged is already covered by the word detained, isn't it? Isn't virtually every jail cell a cage? And starved overnight? They weren't...
• Commented on What will you miss about newspapers?
  I'll miss the crossword. It's just not the same completing crosswords on my screen....
• Commented on Susie Bright: Rick Warren can either come out of his closet, or go take a hike
  I don't understand why a Presidential inauguration needs any religious figure at all....
• Commented on Obelisks of Erotic Gratification from 1930s Gernsback magazine, Sexology
  Wow. I don't understand why the self-gratification/coitus block is so small relative to the climax block....
• Commented on Bill O'Reilly on Sarah Palin email hack
  I don't think "tough cookie" is a sexist phrase, but it sure as hell is patronizing. I don't doubt that he is sexist, there's just nothing intrinsically sexist in the phrase....
• Commented on Oregon man threatens suit for the right to video-record cops on the job
  Wow! WTF was the officer pushing the guy for? Sure, he wasn't pushing hard, but it was obviously meant to provoke a reaction, and was unprofessional. Then they move out of view of the cruiser-mounted cameras and one officer tries...
• Commented on Millimeter wave scan machine at Denver Airport
  "Remote viewing location" sounds like a location for "remote viewing" (insert link to wikipedia here). You need a flash mob to take pictures of the screen. They can't block the whole mob without calling in reinforcements....
• Commented on BBC documentary maker compares injections of THC and cannabidiol
  Knowing that cannabis affects different people differently, one person's trial doesn't really tell us much....
• Commented on Manual for a post-war British bungalow
  I'm confused. The bungalows were built by Woolaways and suffered shrinkage from condensation. Were they made of wool? I can't imagine a wool building!...
• Commented on Starbucks at Guantanamo Bay?
  My employer provides both Starbucks and Dunkin' Donuts coffee. Just the beans, though, not the franchise stores....
• Commented on Has Hillary Clinton seen the video for the Golden Earring song she plays?
  Some people (such as me, often) just listen to the music and don't pay attention to videos....
• Commented on Rosie the Riveter (North Vietnamese edition)
  Yow! She had to hold her mask with one hand while she welded with the other? That had to suck!...