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Me too, but it's "Shock the Monkey" which doesn't make sense in this context.

I have had similar conversations with my wife a few times, but I'm the one with working color vision.

It is a simple mathematical fact that if you get married one year and have twins the next, your household will contain over a million people within 20 years.

Not exactly a surprising result. How exactly is "gambling is fun" supposed to reduce gambling?

You obviously don't have kids. You can't trust a child's judgement because they don't have the experience to exercise good judgement. Your job as a parent is to look out for them w…

Glad it's not just me.

With the battle-axe, sir, with the battle-axe!

A high percentage of fatal poisonings in the US have been Southeast Asian immigrants because, in the button stage, the North American death cap looks nearly identical to the paddy …

It's 0.00019884 furlongs, if that helps.

I have plenty of unpleasant memories of being young. They don't involve RadioShack though.

They were always terrible, but I have fond pre-teen memories of saving up my allowance to buy components off the pegboard in the back and then failing to make anything that worked …

25 years ago, I had a Honduran roommate who barely spoke English. One day he came home with a thrift store VHS on how to make longbows and he watched that thing over and over like …

If you're going to cheat, way cheaper to put nitrous oxide in the tank and claim it's compressed air. 50% boost in oxygen content without having to engineer your engine to not burn…

I used to write my undergrad history essays in rhymed couplets because I figured the grad assistant doing the grading would be grateful for a break in the monotony and it was faste…

This is how it usually goes--it's vanishingly rare to retain a photographic memory into adulthood, but it's not that rare in kids. I had it too, but then I started sprouting hair i…

$6K on mine, 17 years and counting. How many more of these anecdotes do we need before can call it data?

I wish my lone internet-of-shit device worked well enough to participate in a botnet. My house came with an internet connected sprinkler system--if the power blips, the sprinkler s…

Worst case of this is online reviews at Home Depot. Every review is five stars even when the text is something like "it spontaneously combusted as soon as we brought it in the hous…

Here's the Hunting of the Hare (starts on the page marked 113 and it's in Middle English, but there's a glossary after): https://www.researchgate.net/publication/236869902_'The_Hun…