Seems like people tend to be a whole lot more cavalier about eating expired food ... until AFTER that first bout with food poisoning. My first and only experience occurred about 9 years ago and to this day I'm still pretty darned careful about eating anything that might be 'off' - once bitten, twice shy!

My dog twitches a lot in her sleep, and tends to make ridiculously cute "squeaky" noises. Maybe I'll try that tonight and be 33% of the way there to longevity!

(How DO tortoises sit, btw?)

Sounds like quite the trip! Here's hoping he stays safe. And I wish I had a scooter, they look like such fun ...

Here I thought the title was a setup for a joke ...

Hey man, don't be hatin' on the Honda Civics!

Ha ha, I can so empathize! Every time I see an article like this, it makes me glad I fled the corporate world when I did for a nice cozy spot back in grad school. I may be living off of Ramen noodles and have no room in my budget any more for gum, but at least I never have to hear words like "straw man" or "bandwidth" (as in, "do you have the bandwidth to take on this project?") any more.

The one that always made me twitch the most at my old job was "phenomenality," which got bandied about every time someone wanted to measure the success of a given project ("How high is it on the phenomenality scale?" *twitch twitch twitch*). I couldn't hear that word without launching into a bastardized version of the song "Ma Na Ma Nah" in my head ... doo doo de doo doo!

Good on 'em, we should all be so lucky =) Here's hoping George and Brad many, many years of wedded bliss!

Wow, one of those suckers could make for the most - um - remarkable performances of The Nutcracker ever ...

Eh ... a story pulled from The Sun? Doesn't that make an already far-fetched notion seem downright ludicrous?

Those all look very moving; I'd love to see the Welsh Dragon one in particular. But I think I like the peace monuments featured on another page of that site even better ...

My favorite part is the bit about giraffe milk being able to "form curds" - who else is up for some giraffe cheese?

Aww, that got to me, too. Sad and sweet. It would be nice if more of the people who felt like that could get together themselves ...

Just wanted to say that I really like the fact that you just had a summary on the main page - it's a neat article and I enjoyed reading it, but I also really appreciated being able to scroll past it -quickly- to see the posts underneath first =) I hope you consider doing this for other longish posts in the future ...

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"Bus stop, wet day / she's there, I say / 'Please share my umbrella'"

That song is going to be in my head for the rest of the day now, so I figured I'd share ...