Those are very cool. I'm thinking, though, that most wives would exercise a veto on decorating the house using giant legos, other than *maybe* in a "guy room" where giant legos would at least be an improvement over the shabby old pieces of crap leftover from when the guy was in college.

It does also seem likely, as Joel points out, that the Lego company will send lawyers to at least attempt a thumping, which could make buying additional pieces problematic. Right now, it looks like they're only available from that Homology place in France, anyway. Not that I'm in the market.

Yes, they'll be trained to recognize the bags. Just like they were trained to recognize the TSA-approved locks they cut off my luggage.

Of course, if the bag actually had that graphic, it would likely be considered an invitation to a a full review of your laptop's files, with the laptop outside of your sight. Taking just long enough for you to miss your flight.

But long enough for them to have time for the body cavity search.

@ZehnKatzen ,
@Brian Carnell:
What was the hangup in the 1930s over red nail polish?

In the argot of the '30's, she would have been thought of as a loose woman. Garish shades like red were for women of shaky repute.

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On the other hand, the garish red nail polish might hint at a greater likelihood that she "reacts with pleasure and delight to marital congress," so you'd still be 9 points to the merit side of the equation.

A harder problem to solve would be to actually setup a system that rejected stuff that's wrong. Unless it just started with the axiom "everything on the Internet is wrong", which would actually have a pretty high hit rate.

@wgmleslie: I'm glad to hear he apologizes for the babelfish puzzle.

@SCOTTFREE - "Pollute all the public sources, and you can sell the private, non-polluted sources for a mint."

Actually, what they generally do is just bottle the same public sources and sell that for a mint. They claim, of course, that they're applying sufficient extra filtering and whatnot to justify the premium. It's really the same water, though. In some cases wells driven into the same local aquifer, and in some cases basically the same tapwater.

A (nonlocal) company operating around here wants to pull 400,000 gallons of day out of the aquifer that all the local towns pull from. The State signed off on it, on apparently not very much measurement or other research, but there have been strenuous local objections (of course). I don't see why; if the local source becomes unusable, we can just import bottled water from somewhere else. /sarcasm.

Maybe if they could get $36 a bottle, they wouldn't have to draw so much of it.

Uh, honey, I know you like flowers and stuff for Valentine's Day, but all I could find was red, and I didn't want to be disrespectful of Islam. That's why I didn't get you anything. Yeah, that's the ticket.

"...just makes me feel like I'm being led by the nose or smacked across the back of the head with a big hammy fist."

Given the response to the image, maybe it's something else he's being led by, or is smacking him across the back of the head,

which I guess he objects to, even in the name of art, history or geography.

I prefer the inclusion of the catch-all error handler if all else fails:

Unimaginable Error (perhaps with some added flip comment)

I could see some poor time-crunched user going ballistic (all over the poor tech support person) if he saw that out in the wild.