"as Victor gave me a kiss goodbye he lovingly whispered, “You are not allowed to bring any more goddam towels in this house or I will strangle you“. And that was exactly what I was still echoing through my head an hour later, when Laura and I stopped our shopping carts and stared up in confused, silent awe at a display of enormous metal chickens, made from rusted oil drums...
..So he loaded it onto a trolley, but Beyoncé was surprisingly unstable, and the giant 5 foot metal chicken crashed over onto the floor. And Laura and I were all “CHICKEN DOWN! CLEAN-UP IN AISLE 3″ but he didn’t laugh...The salesman was having a hard time, and he told everyone to stand back “because this chicken will cut you“, and at first I thought he meant it as a threat, like “That chicken has a shiv”, but turns out he just meant that all the chickens’ ends were sharp and rusty. It was awesome, and Laura and I agreed that even if we got tetanus, this chicken had already paid for himself even before we got it in her truck.
Then we got to my house and quietly snuck the chicken up to my front door, rang the doorbell, and hid around the corner. Victor opened the door and looked at the chicken in stunned silence for about 3 seconds."
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Are eggs actually chicken menstruation?
Yes, and honey is actually bee vomit. Thank you, science!
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How Cute: Reborn Eyeball Repositioning Tool
I think that without the word "reborn" it wouldn't be so creepy.
June 16, 2011
"Justice is served...how food-breaks sway the decisions of judges
The vertical axis is the proportion of cases where the judges granted parole. The horizontal axis shows the order in which the cases were heard during the day. And the dotted lines, they represent the points where the judges went away for a morning snack and their lunch break.
The graph is dramatic. It shows that the odds that prisoners will be successfully paroled start off fairly high at around 65% and quickly plummet to nothing over a few hours (although, see footnote). After the judges have returned from their breaks, the odds abruptly climb back up to 65%, before resuming their downward slide.
via Not Exactley Rocket Science Blog at discovermagazine.com
June 15, 2011
Simplistic solution to marriage problems: 40 Beads
The woman who brought us "He's Just Not That Into You" has a new book suggesting that giving a husband 40 beads could save a marriage.
"The way it works is that the husband (and only the husband) gets 40 beads for a year, and any time he wants to sex his Mrs., he hands her a bead. She then has 24 hours to respond with sex."
"Yes, the answer to all marital problems is just ...creating an intra-marriage currency which makes her a functional prostitute to her husband"
The author says “It’s an easy way without having to communicate”
Because communication causes so many marital problems, I guess.
June 14, 2011
If this is class warfare, we're losing!
- “It is wrong for Warren Buffett’s secretary to pay a higher tax rate than Warren Buffett"
- Occupy: The Original
- CEO pay increased 27 - 40% in 2010
- Pepper Spray Cop joins the parade
- Fox News: Pepper spray is "a food product."
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Should I be worried that the top Google result (update: in October of 1994) for Relentlessly Optimistic is to the former Iraqi Information Minister? That's somewhat offset by the fact that the #3 link is to Sponge Bob Square Pants. - The Meaning of Optimism
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