Archive for January, 2008
A travel agency executive, when asked about his company’s new nudist airline flights: “It’s an unusual gap in the market.”
Fly naked on Germany’s first nudist holiday flight [UK.Reuters.com]
Double Dipping Demonstrably Disgusting
1 Comment Published by Joel January 31st, 2008 in Food. Share ThisAccording to a report detailed by the Times, double-dipping your chip back into the dip does indeed send your menagerie of mouth monsters back into the French onion slop. Don’t do it.
On average, the students found that three to six double dips transferred about 10,000 bacteria from the eater’s mouth to the remaining dip.
Each cracker [...]
Whitney Stump, Local Hero
3 Comments Published by Joel January 31st, 2008 in Real Estate. Share ThisWhitney Stump of Muncie, Indiana, couldn’t get his local government to paint a crosswalk at his local intersection, so he painted it himself. Then the city threw him in jail for 10 days. Now he’s sworn to finish the job.
Stump, a 27-year-old Ball State University graduate student and father, says he was arrested once on [...]
How to Read the Daily Racing Form
0 Comments Published by Jason January 31st, 2008 in Finance, Sports. Share ThisI needed a 5th or 6th lesson on how to read the Daily Racing Form—through a strange twist of fate, work is sending me to the track. Lo and behold: the DRF itself supplies a fantastic online tool.
How to Read the DRF [Drf.com]
It Has Begun: Carlsberg’s $400-a-Bottle Beer
1 Comment Published by Joel January 29th, 2008 in Beer. Share ThisFrom Bloomberg:
The brewer, Scandinavia’s biggest, introduced a beer today that costs 2,008 Danish kroner ($396.47), the price being based on the year of its introduction. The Vintage No. 1 brew will be sold at three Copenhagen restaurants, including Noma, a holder of two Michelin stars and the world’s 15th-best restaurant in 2007, according to S.Pellegrino.
The [...]
The Future is (Somewhat) Meatless
11 Comments Published by Joel January 28th, 2008 in Fitness, Food, Meat. Share ThisTwo interesting pieces came on my radar this weekend. I’m not about to give up meat entirely, but it has become less and less of my diet of late, and after my birthday early next month, I’m probably going to end up cutting it out almost entirely for a couple of months while I work [...]
Esquire.com’s Five Worst Dating Video Profiles
6 Comments Published by Joel January 25th, 2008 in Romance. Share ThisWhen forced to pick between crazy imbicilic cretin or white rapping fucknuckle, I always go with the creepy hillbilly mutant grown from DNA harvested from one of Paul Lynde’s turds. Attraction is not a choice.
The Five Worst Online Dating Video Profiles [Esquire.com]
Video: Secrets of Seduction Commercial
6 Comments Published by Joel January 24th, 2008 in Romance. Share ThisA few of you have expressed some concern about my recent fascination with the pick-up and seduction community. Thank you for your healthy skepticism. I will say this: for as many good tips and advice I am discovering, I am finding just as many cases of pathetic armchair Casanovas.
I hope this video will quell some [...]
Secret to Tender Pie Crusts: Vodka
3 Comments Published by Joel January 24th, 2008 in Food. Share ThisI make a damn fine pie, but my crusts have always been a bit shit. Now I’ve got a new recipe in the wings, courtesy of Cooks Illustrated, which while untested seems brilliantly obvious: add some booze.
The trick to this pie crust is the inclusion of vodka. Eighty-proof vodka, which is 60 percent water and [...]
“Is there any reason that semen would be bad for my fish?”
1 Comment Published by Joel January 21st, 2008.A man wants to know if jerking off into his guppy tank will cause his fish any harm. Just don’t forget to cuddle, I say. [StraightDope.com]
Basic Things No One Told You About Sex
1 Comment Published by Joel January 21st, 2008 in Sex. Share ThisNothing mindblowing for most, but it’s always good to have a down-to-basics primer.
You’ve probably heard jokes about this before. Yep, it can be hard to find the hole. Even if you know where you need to go visually, the vaginal entrance can be smaller and tighter than you think so you may not feel exactly [...]
An Atlanta florist is selling the “Broquet,” baskets of amply masculine cactus and carnivorous plants that can be given from one man to another. [BananaFlorist.com via Seth Godin]


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