25th March, 2004
Stupid Bear Tricks
This looks almost as fun as those “magic capsule” things that would grow a sponge animal out of a capsule when you immersed it in water. Wonder if it works with vodka? Good thing the weekend is here. [via BoingBoing]
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25th March, 2004
Overheard at the Kwikimart
Stopped into a convenience store on my way home from work this evening and was treated to a staggering example of the American educational system at work – a conversation between two college-aged cashiers regarding the location of an Irish pub:
Cashier A: It’s at location X, right?
Cashier B: No, that’s an English pub, the Irish one is at location Y.
Cashier A: Are you sure? ‘Cuz I don’t wanna end up at the wrong one. I hear that the food at the English place is nasty.
Cashier B: What does it matter? Isn’t all that food the same?
Cashier A: (exasperated and rolling her eyes) Like, duh, England and Ireland are different states, of course the food is different.
Right. Fortunate for me, I was finished signing my credit card receipt at this point and was able to flee the building before I caught something stupid.
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25th March, 2004
Drinking Water
Wandered into the break room at work today to refill my water bottle at the cooler. Usually, I’m pretty zoned out and don’t notice much about the water cooler bottle (except on occasions when some scurvy bastard has – once again – drained the last of the water and left the empty bottle on the cooler*) but today, I noticed that if you look at the top of the bottle (when it’s on the cooler), one can see a dire warning, written in all caps: FOR DRINKING WATER ONLY. NOT TO BE USED FOR ANY OTHER LIQUID. Visions of my tobacco chewing high school friends who used to carry around Mountain Dew bottles, known as “spitters”, as a holding vessel for their nasty tobacco-tinted spit entered my head when I started wondering just what the hell kind of liquid was stored in one of these bottles to prompt such a warning. Ignorance, as they say, is bliss.
*As a side note, we keep the spare (full) water cooler bottles in the boiler room. This not only keeps the bottles out of the way but also ensures that all newly replaced bottles will only dispense piss warm water for at least an hour following replacement. Yum.
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