Ephemera

A friend of mine recently visited Hawaii and found out where to get all the stuff you see on infomercials.

The As Seen on TV Store.

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Not a whole lot to be said about this.

I really wish I had to make stuff like this up.

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(This is not my own story. It may be true, but it didn't happen to me. It just works better to tell it in first person. And Jimmy probably wasn't Jimmy's real name.)

Some of the members of the resident's association in my neighborhood want to put speed bumps in the streets. It's a quiet area and kids like to play in the street. They don't want any children getting hurt. I can understand that, but speed bumps are a nuisance, they can damage cars, and we need to teach kids not to play in traffic -- not make traffic safer for kids to play in.

When I was a kid, we played in the street all the time. But we knew to get out of the way when a car was coming. I never knew any kid to get run over by a car.

Jimmy did fall out a tree on his head and kill himself. We climbed trees all the time. Our parents didn't start a petition to cut down all the trees. They knew as well as the kids did that Jimmy was a little bit stupid and clumsy. Our parents just took their kids aside and explained to us that we had to be more careful and think about what we were doing so we didn't end up like Jimmy.

Now everyone, especially Jimmy's parents, were upset by what happened, but everyone, including Jimmy's parents, knew that it was probably inevitable. My generation grew up a little bit smarter on average… a little bit better at taking care of ourselves… just generally a little bit better -- all because of what happened to Jimmy.

And not just because Jimmy wasn't a part of it anymore.

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Here's a screen capture of last week's episode of Star Trek: Enterprise. On the left is what was shown on UPN in America, on the right is how the same scene appeared in Canada. Makes me real damn proud. :doze:

WrongCountry (NSFATV)

(Not Safe For American Television)

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Yahoo! News - Report: Atkins Had Heart Disease History

I'm not going to editorialize too much on this. I just now heard about it and read the article. I would have thought something like this would have come out much sooner. Read the article, decide what you want to believe, and you can post comments here, on the BBS, or discuss it in chat. (If anyone's in there.)

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