@Cairnage: Have you ever taken a bus or a train? Methinks a 40 minute conversation discussing how the new laundry detergent makes someone's pant's feel itchy or how the new girl in the office is like totally annoying feels like 14 hours.

@sleepneed: In regards to your third point, when you fly from Japan to US you don't have that silly liquid rule to deal with. However, if your flight connects in the US, you can have your liquids in your carry on until you connect/layover in the US.

Argh...I see Cathay Pacific flies from Los Angeles to Hong Kong. That's a long flight to be sitting next to someone chattering away on their cellphone.

@pz: Nope. Hipsters. Dirty dirty hipsters.

@pz: They don't like the Tony Hawk skateboard, the like the "I am going to the grocery store on a skateboard" skateboard.

@Allen Buck: It is a bigger issue that the creator of the cartoon decided to use cute, cuddly teddy bears for the comic.

@CaffineFreakUs: You forgot about the magic smoke...let it out and it doesn't work anymore

@The Lab: My guess would be some sort of short circuit protection. The light bulb is a resistive load, whereas the water and the tweezers have R~0. Maybe some di/dt limiting with a clamp? There was no voltage when the circuit was wet, so it would have to clamp the voltage low either mechanically (a la GFCI) or…

@Incoherent: Just to be safe, you might want to consider changing it out. I mean, I wouldn't lose sleep over it, but new ones can be picked up relatively cheaper than replacing a burnt down house.

@ImmaLion: Fine, when they plugged it in, this happened.

@Platypus Man: Nah, should water get in the socket it is going to want to go to ground. It is much easier to go to ground through the water than to go through the guy's bodies to ground.

Finally, a better solution!

@pahlx025: Hmmm, Minneapolis is at the end of the list too...I think that was just a typo.

@coldfuzion: I made the journey to Prescott, WI for all my explosive needs more than once in my youth.

Huh, I was expecting a higher ratio of unicorns to leprechauns...the more you know.

@quangry: grumble grumble...back in my day, when I went to college the dorm's handed out books of everyone else that lived in your dorm that showed pictures of people, their room number, the telephone number of their room, their home town, and their classes.

@Wwhat: Punished? What article are you reading, because the one I read here said "Because of the tax, employees with domestic partners pay about $1,069 per year more than a married employee with identical coverage."

This article goes 100% against what pop music tells me (ref: Taio Cruz f. Ke$ha - Dirty Picture)

@MizJenkins: I should hope having your grandson accused of rape would be a dagger in the sole of any woman

@Angelina Scarangella: Ah, I was missing the connection where lacrosse player = guilty of rape.