That was done:

The Straight Dope tested this; Cecil reports that running got you less wet. His test was walking with a sheet of paper and running with a sheet of paper. Here is a link:

Everclear is 95% pure grain alcohol - that would work twice as well.

One fake tree for 20 years versus 20 real trees grown in monoculture concentration camps, ruining the soil et c. - you do the math

I am definitely going to make some amigara cookies for all my 'friends' but it will be for celebrating the new year closer to the coming apocalypse.

Bamboo species have specific life cycles; when it is time to flower and go to seed, the entire species everywhere in the world flowers, goes to seed and dies. If the panda does not have 2 different species of bamboo to eat, it will go with the bamboo. Just thought you might want to know that.

Sorry, that is too deep for me; Sunday Sign-off, Ryan Lanza, Robo-ketchup bottle, I am lost and will just nod and smile and wave good night.

I had to read that over time after time changing the letters until I came to 'p' then realized what you were saying.

Thank you - I am so used to not seeing this shit, that I don't understand when someone complains about the ads. Who on earth does not use AdBlock? and why not?

Rudolf the Red Knows rain, Dear. Rudolf first shows up in 1939 so it should not be included in the really old iconography; though, come to think of it he is getting close to 100 so in American time-frames, he is almost ancient.

Thank you - I was hoping someone would do a nice parody of the stupid spams - I tried a couple things early-on but they did not catch on.

Are you responding to the ketchup bottle or having a bummer of an acid trip?

There was an armed guard at Columbine - he even shot the perps, see how much good it did?

Er, maybe you are stupid - she fell down and hit her head. Congress let Bush get away the death of thousands of US troops, Reagan got away with the death of 130 marines, yadda yadda. You need to read up on the word 'essentially' and the word 'murder' so you won't look so stupid when you post.

Well, it works on 2 levels - why would an insurance company want to provide insurance in a state where they are 'damned if they do and damned if the don't' - that would make no sense on any level. Another level is why would an insurance company that pays any attention to the mood of the country, want to pay for Viagra…

We had a cat (Augie who lived, somehow, to the ripe old age of 19) who would eat any kibble that came out of bag. Our neighbors, who kept 2 German shepherds to guard their motorcycle repair yard/shop - yeah junkyard dogs, came over to tell us that they were sitting by the fire with the dogs at their feet when the…

Don't let the door hit you on the ass on the way out. Giving up on America is a quick way out of the world.

I think her side of the affair-thingy is that another military leader from Afghanistan sent her about 300 emails, she was the 'honorary' representative of S Korea, and she claimed honorary diplomatic immunity to try to get newsies off her lawn. The 300 emails are sometimes referenced as 2.000 pages but most of the…

I used the government standard of 2080 work hours per year. I remember the number because of how easy it is to convert from hourly to yearly and back (I drop the 80 so I can do it in my head). I know that there is no place where there are that many $1,000 bills just laying around.

If it takes 2 seconds to pick up a $1000 bill that would be 18,000 per hour or 37,440,000 per year, so I think it would be worth his while to pick it up.