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    Dan
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    I thought Undercover Boss was the show where well-meaning CEOs learn what it means to work for minimum wage, then fires the shitty bosses and rewards the True Heroes™. I'm confused. Did the CEO go undercover as the manager of one of the restaurants?

    "The system will pour over massive data sets..." Pore.

    It's pretty much guaranteed that he woke up with an odd accent caused by a condition called Foreign Accent Syndrome.

    A "laser" thermometer just uses the laser to show you where you're measuring. They actually use an infrared sensor to do the measuring.

    Does the company have 3D models pre-made for the coloring pages they put out, then just skins the model with the kid's colors? I wonder how well it works when you add stripes, spots, or some other pattern. Can you just view it from one angle or can you see it from all sides? This is actually really interesting.

    Soap gets rid of bacteria plenty well by lifting them off the skin so you can rinse them away. Unless you're doing a surgical scrub, the soap won't be on you long enough for the antibacterial agent to work.

    On the one hand, this is my fetish. On the other hand, Regular superhero outfits weren't skintight and revealing enough, were they?

    And has a corset on under there.

    Has got it goin' on. (clap clap)

    They already paid $125 for a "better" seat that turned out to have hard sides, meaning they couldn't used the extra space anyway.

    I wish my mom could take this principle to heart. It's absolutely impossible for her to admit a mistake. She constantly defends why her decision was reasonable with the information she had. It's a festering problem in my parents' relationship and she's totally blind to it.

    "Pegasus: 1 pegasus." Hehe.

    Save the whales, but not the universe, eh?

    It's not the speed guide, speed hint, or speed suggestion. Speed limit. As in "upper bound". Here in NC, the speed "limit" is the minimum you're expected to go, even in the rain, hauling a trailer, unfamiliar with the road, whatever. I'm sick of it.

    The algorithm has looked at dozens or hundreds of pictures of guitars and identified the common graphical elements that let it identify a guitar. These images fool the computer by happening to contain the patterns it has identified.

    African grey... Hulk? African grey... goo? African grey... water?

    For the novice and the advanced student alike, cleansing is basis for elimination of every kind of disease. The purpose of this book is to simplify the cause and the correction of all disorders, regardless of the name or names. As we eliminate and correct one disease, we correct them all, for every disease is

    Why so many winter hats? Is the room kept cold to simulate high altitudes or is it just not heated?

    Can anyone ID those vehicles?

    A pink half-track full of surfboards! Awesome!