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for the pets

by Rob Friesel

From the IKEA website…: When you love pets there’s no way they could ever be too much. That’s almost a sentence. And almost as good as: Our pets may not have the best table manners, but that doesn’t matter with these practical solutions for feeding time. Since when has “feeding time” required “solutions”? I mean, […]

Woodwagon!

by Rob Friesel

As an update to the “Roadmaster!” post… I’d gotten some questions about “And what is ‘Wood Wagon’? How do you play that?” And here, I thought everybody knew this one… So, we present: WOOD WAGON! Ideal for highway trips, commutes, and spins around the block, the basic rules to “Wood Wagon!” are: A wood wagon […]

Mad Lib: “The Secret Agent”

by Rob Friesel

James Bond, Secret Agent Double-0 log-Π, was in a tight spot. He was trapped in the bloody jungle of United Arab Emirates and the crazed mufflers were closing in. He glanced at his companion, Amy. The expression on her face was full of tea bag. He remembered all their sultry times together. He was about to […]

disturbing

by Rob Friesel

Not to shatter anyone’s hope of having a good weekend but…: this is clearly the most distubring thing I’ve ever seen. And I’ve seen Happiness. And as if it wasn’t bad enough… What’s up w/ “Also available in ‘Brown’ model”? And why is the ‘Brown’ model wearing a black beret reminiscent of the Black Panthers? […]

my $2…

by Rob Friesel

From the “I-hope-this-is-real” department and also from the “I’ll-never-shop-there-again” department… Via Gizmodo… “I’m just here to pay the bill,” Bolesta says he told a cashier. “She looked at the $2 bills and told me, ‘I don’t have to take these if I don’t want to.’ I said, ‘If you don’t, I’m leaving. I’ve tried to […]

Um… Uh… What…?

by Rob Friesel

From the “Truth Really Is Stranger Than Fiction” Dept.: A Chicago-area woman is being sued for emotional distress consequent to sperm theft. Though the court has pretty much already agreed that “it was a gift — an absolute and irrevocable transfer of title to property from a donor to a donee […with…] no agreement that […]