Warning : May contain more than your daily recommended allowance of randomness
How’s that for a title? 🙂
Obviously, this is a question for the guys. There’s a place in Amsterdam that etched the image of a fly inside the urinals in its bathrooms, to make guys aim at it. And they’ve said it really helps. (Click on the picture for more info on that.)
Obviously a fly is not the only option for the picture. So what other images would be good to put inside a toilet or urinal?
We got an e-mail from Thomas Wayne today, who has a question for our readers here. Since there are several doctor-esque people that comment here, we decided to oblige his request.
This morning I had a headache. I tried resting some during lunch, and dozed off for a few minutes, but my head still hurt some. So I decided to eat. Today’s menu consisted of a sandwich — not too exciting, right? But there was a new bag of Cheetos in the cabinet, which I grabbed. I opened the bag and smelled the cheesy goodness, then proceeded to eat some. While eating, I felt better, not just from being happy because Cheetos are scrumptious, but my head wasn’t hurting as much. So I wondered if I should just keep eating Cheetos until my head didn’t hurt anymore. I ate quite a few Cheetos, and then my head hardly hurt at all.
Could I have stumbled onto a new cure for headaches? Does anybody have any research or theories or hypotheses that might back this up?
Any thoughts?
Does the subject line intrigue you? Are you wondering how I can work all that into a single post? Well, hang on for the ride into randomness. 🙂
Earlier today I was searching through my e-mail archives for something, and came across this e-mail between Thomas Wayne and Mango-Man from back in 2001 :
Graveyards are peaceful… except when it’s late at night, like around midnight, and you can barely see, and you hear these groaning noises but can’t see anyone, then you feel this hand on your shoulder, and it’s all covered w/hair & warts, and you scream AHHHHH! and run away as fast as you can, dodging open holes reserved for caskets, all the while these people are chasing you, and their clothes are all tattered & torn, and they’re limping but somehow they keep up w/you, and you keep running but you never get to the end of the graveyard, even though it’s not that big… well, maybe that’s just on TV… oh, wait, the TV’s off… ~ Thomas Wayne
and then there was that time… that you decided you were smarter than that wile e. coyote… & you think you CAN catch that old road runner … so you set a trap so that when he opens the door an anvil falls on his head… but after you spring the trap and catch the roadrunner you realize that its not really the roadrunner after all, but your older brother and he don’t think it’s funny. in fact he’s pretty ticked off… and is screaming about all the terrible things he’s gonna do to ya… but that’s okay… because he’s tied up in a big ole pot full of water and carrots & tators… i mean, after all… what’s he gonna do??? ~ Mango-Man
Well, that was certainly random… It sounds like they were working too much and/or had been watching too many cartoons. Although, is it possible to watch too many cartoons? That might be debatable. But I know for a fact that it’s possible to work too much. My personal “research” has proven that without doubt. These things must be kept in balance. I need to work less and watch more cartoons. Or even better — find a job where my work is to watch cartoons… and eat nachos… and drink unlimited amounts of sweet tea. If only I could figure out how to get paid for that…
In one of our staff discussions today, we started talking about ice cream, specifically how adding Oreos to vanilla ice cream makes it so much better. Our resident randomness expert, Turtle Dundee, suggested making an ice cream called “Awesome ‘n Cream”. Start with vanilla ice cream and lots of crumbled Oreos, then add chunks of chocolate, cookie dough, graham crackers crumbs, more types of chocolate, etc. He said it would be “ice cream that ate like a stew”. I don’t particularly care for that analogy, but his point was that there would be many chunks of toppings — more than you could shake a stick at. In fact, there would be more toppings than ice cream.
Perhaps Ben & Jerry’s could implement this, since they aren’t afraid to try new things. Just remember that you heard it here first. (And we better get some credit for it.) It should be sold in reinforced buckets, with the slogan of, “This has so many toppings that the standard container couldn’t handle it.”
Another possible slogan could be, “This is the most awesome ice cream ever!” Yeah, that sounds catchy. The TV commercials could have the official spokesman say stuff like, “Our competitors are mad because we thought of this first.”
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