2008-08-28 10:51:26: I don't allow ketchup to come anywhere near any food product I actually want to eat and enjoy.
Ketchup is like Coca-cola. Inorganic, chemically altered beyond recognition of whatever it was made of, cloyingly sweet and totally pervasive in western culture.
Also, both work really well for cleaning pennies.
2008-07-31 07:56:28: I'm willing to allow the flag if it's actually life or death important, but if that's the case wouldn't you be calling me instead? One person I work flags all his emails as "IMPORTANT" and they never are. His crying wolf has ruined it for everyone.
Sorry, you all haven't convinced ...
2008-06-18 07:26:29: As a semi-professional ceramicist (read:potter): I was never going to make ashtrays. Damn hippies, they keep buying them and now I can't stop...
2008-04-11 06:03:30: You know, before that night I met him in downtown Rangoon, I don't think I'd ever met anyone who could better me in Indian leg-wrestling (Ozark rules), but better me he did, and danged if he wasn't such a good sport about it that I ended up buying his drinks ...
2008-04-02 10:08:27: Food poisoning. I remember at one point sleeping in the bathtub because 1) I'd be closer to the toilet, and 2) it would be easier to clean up if I couldn't make it that far. A close second place goes to mono, which I have had the misfortune of having ...
2008-01-28 08:41:44: I don't know if we could prepare, but I'm pretty sure we'd cope. We already have all the mass-media in place (internet-braille translators, radio, braille versions of books), but would we be that interested in what happens two towns over anymore? Our view of the world would contract significantly with ...
2007-12-10 10:37:29: If I recall my art history correctly, an "true" icon was a miracle in that it could self-replicate. Any painting that could instantly transfer its own image to any other object that touched it, would definitely qualify in my book.
2007-12-07 10:41:25: *looks around stealthily, then climbs into secret space, begins eating hidden candy and reading large stash of comic books, waits for adults to wonder where he is*
2007-12-07 06:26:33: Cockroaches. They'd all rise at once from their hiding places under the sink and behind the radiator and destroy us. They'd be able to attack and destroy our cities first and follow us in the the rural areas where they'd have the advantage of cover and numbers. There wouldn't be ...
2007-12-07 06:44:05: On lack of preview - Any of the social insects would destroy us if they gained intelligence. I mean, they construct entire cities of their own and we can barely agree on pizza toppings.
2007-12-05 07:22:25: Honestly, my first response was Tony Bennett. He's been around forever and is utterly shameless about duets. Plus, his rotating backing band assures him a whole slew of connections.