Phonics teaches children to read very slowly.

I have only seen something like this once before. I know a guy from here in Louisiana who fills bags with water and pennies. He hangs them from his porch awning and told me they're for good luck. I assumed this was a modern version of the apotropaic "spirit bottles," which are just bottles you hang in a tree to scare off mean boogeymannish ghosties. It's not an unusual custom here but I don't know how widespread this is... I think it's a voodoo thing brought over from Africa. There seems to be a similar custom in the middle east using nazar amulets instead of bottles, pic: http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://lh3.google.com/_5Q1TB6UIp-c/RqM6valN-4I/AAAAAAAABeo/Ry39oGcdGl4/s800/2a%2B-%2BCappadocia%2B01%2B-%2BA%2Bwishing%2Btree.JPG&imgrefurl=http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/35-EzUG-56_ZkIBf3PAsnQ&h=600&w=800&sz=130&hl=en&start=2&um=1&tbnid=vhA0LdhCQ1EQPM:&tbnh=107&tbnw=143&prev=/images%3Fq%3Devil%2Beye%2Btree%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26sa%3DG
Anyway, I have no factual basis or anything for my theory about the connection here, but I guess its as good a guess as any.

As for the Japanese cat-scare bottles, why would they do that? Especially since they have to rent dogs?!

I always heard it was a freemason symbol, along with... was it Cincinatti?

Hey, it's the castro theatre

Hey, did anyone else get a massive allergic reaction to this Airborne crap? I got hives on every inch of my body for three weeks... They actually lasted longer, but it took 3 weeks for me to stop getting new ones. It was terrible, and between my toes. I'm pleased to be getting my $15 bucks back, but I feel like they owe me more for all the money I lost while I became the most horrifying model in North America. My doctor told me it's very common and called airborne something like "a random cocktail of obscure herbs and spurious medical claims."
Oh, and I still got jetlag and a cold. I hate them.

Rant aside, can anyone tell me why it's not under FDA jurisdiction?