Do the new robots have the Roomba's drag and drop feature: a snaggle of dust will drag behind the back end of the Roomba and eventually let go. Maybe that's one reason why the Roomba needs to criss-cross the room several times. I still like mine even though you have to prepare the room and clean the sucker out (two…

Dr. Seuss would not be happy, Mr. Spratt. :-)

If you showed me selected portions of that and told me it was the interior of the Titanic, I would have believed it. Wow!

What, no publicity shots of someone awkwardly holding it up to their face trying to use it as a phone?

@Segador: There are so many factors involved when you're trying to translate expressions, especially slang. "Dude, that chick is smokin' " might be translated as "Friend, that women is beautiful." But in fact the expression does not just mentioning the beauty of the woman, but also the effect that her beauty has on…

I recall reading that shortly after Pearl Harbor, FDR told Churchill that the USA could provide 50,000 aircraft; Churchill dismissed that as American bragadoccio. The final number of US aircraft produced during WWII was of course many times that amount.

Outhouse in drag.

@Justin: At MIT, yes. Been doing it for decades at least. Barcard, MIT '71.

@ajaxman93: [sorry, posted in error and can't delete it. Apologize for wasing your time.]

The Astronauts stood in the lunar lander, but then Moon gravity is only 1/6 G, and even under acceleration I don't recall if they got over one G. But at 3-4 G? Will be even more entertaining if the rocket starts to spin.

@Ben Howe: Yer probably right. :-)

Naw, it's to announce that Apple Corps (the record company) has taken the Apple name back, and the computer company's name will be changed from "Apple" to "Jobs."

@Habs: Actually you can, but then it would say "M-Cell" instead of "3G." Great comment, BTW.

My 755T is recalled. Entered the serial number on the website, got the confirmation e-mail with included UPS label. Guess I'll send it in for a new battery. It'll be shipped to El Paso. Good thing I live near Austin, a mere 600 miles away. Can use the wife's TomTom in the meantime.

It worked for Paula Jones.

@Pew Pew BOOM: Bird with dog teeth: scary. Bird with dog teeth and human-like tongue: really scary! Photo: priceless.

"Manned" = mannequinned

@Euclidean: Typing in all caps is considered shouting and rude. Comments consisting of "wrong" or "shut up" are hit and run trolling and impress no one. Forgetting to set the flaps for takeoff is pilot error. I could be mistaken as to the warning system on this particular aircraft - it seems a lot of other posters are…

Forgetting to set the flaps is pilot error. The warning system would only come into effect after the pilot error.

Shows how online gadgets isolate us. In the original the man, the woman and the guy behind the counter could be engaged in a conversation, making us feel sorry for the loner with his back to us. Now they're all isolated from each other.