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• Commented on Holy water dispensers to combat swine flu
  Sure, SK, the ads cycle, but unless BB is advertising both Going Rouge AND Going Rogue, you didn't see what you thought you saw. And despite the oft-mentioned "wall" between editorial and ad sales at BB, I very much doubt...
• Commented on Holy water dispensers to combat swine flu
  No they're not, SK ... look at the ad again....
• Commented on A drink that sounds even more unappetizing than "Dairy Drink"
  You're right! If you gratuitously mis-pronounce the word, it does sound kind of funny!...
• Commented on Church converted into magnificent bookstore
  there is a process for deconsecrating a church when it's no longer used, so it can be put to secular use. And that process isn't new. Indeed, and as someone pointed out up-thread, this particular church has been deconsecrated for...
• Commented on Puerto Rican education system bans kids' books
  Okay, leaving aside the debate over the definition of "banned" (although I will point out that it matches the one used by the American Library Association for "Banned Books Week" and other such events), I have to take issue with...
• Commented on Economist waterboards Geithner in effigy
  Ha ha, torture is funny?...
• Commented on Steve Martin and the Muppets
  I'm a lot bigger fan of Martin than of Carrey, but in an Improv-off, Carrey would probably win it in a walk. If you've read Born Standing Up, Martin meticulously crafted even the most wacky-seeming, casual remarks in his act...
• Commented on Books about (or at least by) weird but interesting people
  I think it's interesting that Kirn's Atlantic essay leaves out the fact that his father was also a Princeton alum, making him a legacy admit. Since one of his main points seems to be a "me vs. them" dichotomy that...
• Favorited BBtv: A Brief History of Internet Trolls, with Adam "Ape Lad" Koford. on Boing Boing
• Favorited Boing Boing tv: S.P.A.M. Theater on Boing Boing
• Favorited Freeconomy practitioner will walk from UK to India without touching money on Boing Boing
• Commented on Quack back massager from 1930
  Indeed, I call shenanigans on both the usage of the term "quack" (it is and does exactly what it claims) and the suggestion that this particular massager has any relationship to anal beads other than a rough similarity of form....
• Commented on Are the photos of Borneo's monster snake real?
  I think the funniest thing about this thread is the people posting about how the picture obviously shows a boat, rather than being a fairly straightforward (and in my opinion obvious) Photoshop (or a real monster snake). I can appreciate...
• Commented on John Hodgman explains what's wrong with "Meh"
  "QQ" may have been retro-acronymed to stand for "quit qurying," but I'm pretty sure the original usage just comes from the fact that the two Q's look (vaguely) like a pair of crying eyes . . ....
• Commented on Bears In Love statue
  I look forward to the upcoming collection of "Hummel Zen" links....
• Commented on Primatologist Frans de Waal on the recent chimp attack
  People should not be allowed to keep chimpanzees (or tigers, or cheetahs, or other similarly dangerous WILD animals) as pets. Hopefully this horrible incident will convince more legislators of this fairly obvious fact. And despite her retractions, the owner obviously...
• Commented on Blank Slate manga
  What's the difference between "writing the English adaptation" and "translating" . . . does the story/content really get changed that much when these are brought to the non-Japanese market?...
• Commented on Onion headline from 1993: Roy The Forklift Driver addresses nation
  But, I think the Joe Plumber wasn't applauded for his "insights" as much as how Obama reacts to difficult questions from anyone who dares ask them: using State PCs to rummage in his financial background, Biden ridiculing him on Letterman,...
• Commented on Halloween cocktail photos
  I get that you may have learned about this through the Craftzine blog, but if you want to alert people to the content why funnel us through a nearly identical post there, when all it does is link to the...
• Commented on American Fascist Writer Westbrook Pegler
  If I quoted Hitler on any topic at all, would you give me a pass, or would you seriously question both my judgment and my ideology? I'm not sure it's technically possible to Godwin a thread that has "fascist" right...
• Commented on American Fascist Writer Westbrook Pegler
  Let me just say that I'm astounded how many Palin defenders have descended on this site, and I am equally astounded at anyone who actually thinks it's ok to quote somebody horrible if "it is a good quote". You're kidding...
• Commented on American Fascist Writer Westbrook Pegler
  Pegler sounds like a real pig, to be sure, but I think it's a stretch to link Palin's beliefs to his simply because a speechwriter inserted a pithy Pegler quote about small towns into the acceptance speech she delivered at...
• Commented on Mackerel economics in prison
  Okay, if no one actually wants to eat the mackerel, why exactly do they have any trade value? At least with something like cigarettes and soups you can see the widespread appeal of the product, and thus the tangible benefits...
• Commented on Indonesian /C/h/i/n/e/s/e/ schoolgirl flips off old begging woman
  An interesting and thought-provoking image, and the photographer's other two pictures on that site are also great. This one captures (or at least appears to capture) a moment in time that allows for a number of different interpretations, and I'm...
• Commented on Arse Elektronika event on sex and tech now under way in SF
  Well, one of them anyway . . ....
• Commented on Arse Elektronika event on sex and tech now under way in SF
  Okay, all the graphics and website links and everything else are spelling "Elektronika" with K's . . . why isn't Boing Boing?...
• Commented on Newlyweds tasered and arrested twice in 48 hours
  Read the comments on the article ... multiple people claiming to have attended the reception say that it wasn't raucous, and that the gallery owner and police completely overreacted. At a minimum, the claim that a lamp being thrown through...
• Commented on McCain staffer slams Dungeons and Dragons players
  Actually, I think this is a potshot aimed primarily at bloggers (pretty much the only people writing about the "issue" in question), and that the gaming bit was just added as a little extra nerd-baggage that dovetails smoothly with the...
• Commented on Scamorama: book explains how to get into scambaiting as a hobby
  Wow ... the possible appearance of discrimination makes you distinctly uncomfortable, and yet you advocate blocking all emails from scam-prevalent countries, the majority of which are perfectly legitimate communications, until their governments "do something" about a whole class of crimes...
• Commented on Scamorama: book explains how to get into scambaiting as a hobby
  Would you scam someone who had done nothing to you? Burtburt, why do you keep asking variations on this question? No one here is advocating scamming someone who had done nothing to them. They're only voicing their approval of (gently)...