Along the same rationale having a child is the worst decision anyone can make, the average cost to raise just one child is between $200K and $300K. That's a pretty big investment for a pretty much guaranteed goose-egg financial return on your money. I'm glad most people don't look at life the way it seems Mr Barker does.

@Wellin- Only for french predators with outrageous accents

I agree with Natey, hermit crabs have been using our trash for shelter for a while now. Octopodesuseseses are much more interesting than hermit crabs though.

That's where it went! I've been looking for that thing for a while, it's my "settin-a-spell-by-the-fire" log. That's the last time I lend it to space-bigfoot, sheesh!

Sorry guys, I don't think the CA Dept of Fish and Game has a history of photoshopping and/or producing phony news releases. http://dfg.ca.gov/news/news08/08125.html

51" long is a big fish, I wonder if the lady-salmon believe that whole thing about if size matters....

It's a pogo-gun, but they have to be used in pairs. You point it at the ground, step on the part perpendicular to the barrel, and pull the trigger! Never quite caught on because you have to reload after every hop.

It's a white piece of cloth, presumably for providing contrast to whatever object (an axe with a tumor, for example) you want to place on it for the purpose of taking a photograph of said object to post on the internetz.

@redphone - sorry, if you look closely at the bill in the picture you can see that it's only worth $100 billion until Dec 31, 2008. It's pretty bad when your economy goes bad before the milk in the fridge does.

Wow, they were spending $125,000 a year on magazines, cable, and toilet paper? Oh to live the glamorous life of a Wall Street housewife....

"We've all got to die sometime. I haven't got cancer from smoking so she'll probably be all right anyway."

Can't argue with that logic....

Industrial piñata machine for mucho grande fiestas! Or maybe an engine hoist for pulling the engines out of non-horseless carriages?

Is it just me or does it look like the rope is wound the wrong direction for the ratchet mechanism to be of any use if a load was applied?

Negative in black please, if you would be so kind.

Funny clip, but I think it's even funnier that Manticore tried to vote for Obama in the last election ;)

I remember that from Reading Rainbow back in the day, Levar Burton used a similar toaster in one episode about colonial American toast and how it was ultimately responsible for winning the Revolutionary War, or something like that, I can't really remember, I was only like 7.

Seriously, where's the futbol? This is all very fascinating but I was promised tiny Mia Hamms and miniature hooligans.

Perhaps some bizarre merger between lolcats and icanhascheezburger to provide hilarious sustenance?