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Bulk Mayonnaise Kills

nobody@vox.com(hedgehog) — Mon, 19 Jun 2006 21:20:51 -0600

Mayonnaise Kills, originally uploaded by hedgeman.

This is a warning label on a bucket of mayonnaise on sale at Costco. The bucket is so large, that children can apparently fall into it and drown. Now that's bulk!!

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Robots!

nobody@vox.com(hedgehog) — Wed, 21 Dec 2005 07:28:59 -0700

Once again, T-Rex says what I'm thinking.

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Pass The Potato

nobody@vox.com(hedgehog) — Tue, 12 Jul 2005 22:29:44 -0600

Pass The Potato

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Rub a dub dub, four presidents in a tub.

nobody@vox.com(hedgehog) — Fri, 08 Jul 2005 15:11:09 -0600

The real reason they're cleaning Mount Rushmore.

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Sign. Sign. Everywhere a sign. Blocking out the scenery, breaking my mind. Do this, don't do that, c

nobody@vox.com(hedgehog) — Thu, 23 Jun 2005 19:50:58 -0600

Here are a couple pictures of amusing signage that I've been meaning to post. People should think before they post signs (or blog entries for that matter!)

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Spidey, the good Samaritan.

nobody@vox.com(hedgehog) — Tue, 01 Mar 2005 22:46:06 -0700

This is old, but still sacrilegious (via Boing Boing).

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Is Jumping the Shark illegal anywhere?

nobody@vox.com(hedgehog) — Sat, 26 Feb 2005 21:56:31 -0700

From the Guardian (via Boing Boing) comes this at first highly amusing story about a pair of students from England:

… A couple of students from Cornwall are intent on making American criminal history by spending their summer breaking as many US laws as possible.
Starting in the liberal state of California, they hope to evade the attention of local police officers when they ride a bike in a swimming pool and curse on a crazy-golf course.

In the far more conservative - and landlocked - state of Utah, they will risk the penitentiary when they hire a boat and attempt to go whale-hunting.

If they manage to outwit state troopers in Utah, and perhaps federal agents on their trail, they will be able to take a deserved, but nevertheless illegal, rest when they have a nap in a cheese factory in South Dakota.

The reason for this trip? They want a book deal. Now I think it was really funny when Tony Hawks (not the skater) traveled "Round Ireland with a Fridge," but crazy British people traveling around a former colony doing something strange isn't that funny in itself. I think the getting the book deal to pay for your drinking in a foreign country gravy train needs to stop because it has jumped the shark.

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Mozart and Crack

nobody@vox.com(hedgehog) — Mon, 31 Jan 2005 16:00:28 -0700

Sometimes I have no idea what the Times of New York is smoking. For example, Sam sent me this piece that makes no sense:

THERE is everyone else in music, including the New York Dolls, and then there is Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, whose long-awaited 249th birthday was celebrated last week. Mozart's music will endure as long as there is brunch; and yet, a smog of reverence hangs over him today, obscuring the man himself from view. Were his quirks really foibles - or vice versa? Such questions used to be thought impertinent, but thanks to exciting developments in infotainment scholarship, Mozart's biography is being punched up as never before.

Mozart's devotion to his career on the Vienna police force was legendary. Once, conducting the debut of his opera "Le Nozze di Figaro," Mozart noticed that the stage manager's snuff box was open. "What the -" exclaimed Mozart. "That's pure rock cocaine!" Within seconds, he was off the podium and tearing through the streets of Vienna in his Camaro. When he made the collar on a backstreet, Mozart began pistol-whipping the dealer, even as his partner, Larry da Ponte, urged him to go back to the opera house. Mozart replied, "All the operas in the world won't keep scum like this off the streets."

Link: The Composer Was a Cop.

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Testing the Post Office

nobody@vox.com(hedgehog) — Mon, 17 Jan 2005 15:51:20 -0700

These guys know how to do an experiment that is worthy of Science Monday:

Having long been genuine admirers of the United States Postal Service (USPS), which gives amazingly reliable service especially compared with many other countries, our team of investigators decided to test the delivery limits of this immense system. We knew that an item, say, a saucepan, normally would be in a package because of USPS concerns of entanglement in their automated machinery. But what if the item were not wrapped? How patient are postal employees? How honest? How sentimental? In short, how eccentric a behavior on the part of the sender would still result in successful mail delivery? …
We sent a variety of unpackaged items to U.S. destinations, appropriately stamped for weight and size, as well as a few items packaged as noted. We sent items that loosely fit into the following general categories: valuable, sentimental, unwieldy, pointless, potentially suspicious, and disgusting. We discovered that although some items were never delivered, most of the objects of even highly unusual form did get delivered, as long as the items had a definitely ample value of stamps attached. The Postal Service appears to be amazingly tolerant of the foibles of its public and seems occasionally willing to relax specific postal regulations.

Link: Postal Experiments (via Boing Boing)

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I bet he wishes it was his bra

nobody@vox.com(hedgehog) — Mon, 13 Dec 2004 18:42:19 -0700

Link: Electronic key blows up car:

A FRENCHMAN heading back to his car parked in the street had the vehicle blow up in his face when he used his electronic key to unlock the doors at a distance, paramedics said. The explosion was apparently caused by a spark from the security system igniting gas cylinders the man had in his boot, one of which apparently had a leak, they said.

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