@Priper: I would speculate that the anticoagulant properties of heparin are tied to changes in the cell membrane that make the outer layer less "sticky" - that is, it blocks receptors that allow the cells to latch on to each other. If that's the case, then a parasite would have a similarly difficult time getting a…

@Saturn666: {}

Utter dumbness. Total failure.

@Bluecold: Where is that, at NIST? Runs on cesium or something? Yikes.

@TheJaz: Oh, I mean that another commenter pointed out my error - as in "tag, you're it" - after which I pretty much deleted my original comment.

@TheJaz: Nah, I have neither standing nor litigious desire.

@TheJaz: Am I the only one who thinks that this crosses the line? I mean, I know you meant it to be funny, but it's somehow slanderous in the way you've phrased it.

@andrew15: I would, but @ THIS STATMENT IS VERIFIABLY INCORRECT."

I think it's pretty cool, in the right environment. Not for your elegant Victorian or Edwardian dining room, but for an art-deco or industrial themed space? Yeah.

I looked to the website for more information on this thing, hoping that maybe the image didn't tell an accurate story - like maybe there was a channel behind the firebox, so that instead of dropping wood on the burning pile, it would slide down the back and underneath - like a an auto-stoker on a coal furnace.

Always with the Lox. What about some nice smoked whitefish?

@Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet: +1 for the cupholders.

@The Lab: Yeah, I'd prefer not to be, but my son was (still is?) a huge fan of Bleach. Bizarre stuff. You can find a lot of very confusing information about it on Wikipedia, but it's not my thing.

@wjbean: Here ya go. This is Paul Bunyan's own earpiece, by golly.

@LordObento: Oop, memory is going. Thanks.

@MJDeviant: Cut it out.

@MikeofLA: From the game "HeyLunch" of course.

@The Lab: You know, of course, that he's referring to anime, right?

Redacted because I'm getting old.

@The Squalor Also Rises: Which puts you on the right website.