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Serrated knife found baked into Subway sandwich {Slashfood}
Jul 17th 2008 2:56PM I find it amazing the number of people who don't know math. A foot is 12 inches so a footlong sandwich would be 12 inches.
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I find it amazing the number of people who don't know what "context" means. They see something that doesn't seem right to them and attack it out of context, ignoring any qualifying data that might render their argument null and void.
A footlong sandwich is TYPICALLY CUT IN HALF. That's a SEVEN INCH KNIFE in a SIX INCH SANDWICH.
Serrated knife found baked into Subway sandwich {Slashfood}
Jul 17th 2008 2:46PM How could a 7-inch knife get in a sandwich? It's not impossible. Consider: A newly-formed loaf happens to get set on a knife. It sits long enough for the dough to fall down around the knife. The loaf (with knife) gets picked up (levelly enough that a rigid object wouldn't be noticed). It get frozen, proofed, baked, cut (remember the knife is on the bottom and could be below the cut line), filled, then cut in half. Again, the knife is on the bottom, so the cutter might not notice the (cutting) knife isn't going all the way to the board. Guy opens the wrap, grabs one end (the knife might be showing out the other end, but he's not looking there), bites down, and..what's this?
Improbable, yes. Impossible, no. Though its' more likely the knife got dropped into the loaf while the sandwich was being made and just worked its way into the sandwich until it appeared to have been baked in. (Except that the bread clinging to the blade should appear crumby, and it looks more doughy, which would support the argument that it was baked in)
Jimmy Carter Was Wrong {Political Machine Blog}
Jul 16th 2008 3:19PM Dave, you are abosolutely right. People like Jimmy Carter had a chance to solve this problem 30 years ago; but, istead, they did nothing
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Matt, he TRIED to fix it. Reagan just undid everything. He even took the solar panels off the White House.
Jimmy Carter Was Wrong {Political Machine Blog}
Jul 16th 2008 3:12PM Actually, Jimmy Carter was working with an incorrect equation. A fellow who went over the equations used to predict how much oil is in a given region discovered an error resulting in a 50% understatement of the oil available. Comparing predictions based on this (erroneous) model to actual yields from given sites confirms his analysis.
As for fuel efficiency, cars are getting the same mileage today as they were 50 or 60 years ago, despite having more efficient engines. Why? Because we have so many more things for the engine to do in addition to moving the car. Stereos, air conditioning, airbags--it all works against fuel economy.
Surprising dogs breeds to be wary of {ParentDish}
Jul 7th 2008 2:29PM Wasn't it a 12-year-old dachsund that was destroyed a few days ago after it chewed off its owners toe while she was sleeping?
The new milk jug makes its debut {ParentDish}
Jul 2nd 2008 3:19PM I don't see that this design would be any easier or cheaper to make than the jugs we've had for the last twenty years or so. I've never used one, but from the looks (all that space on the same level as the mouth), I would agree that it has a higher spill factor than other jugs. I have used milk bags: Quik Trip carries the kind edith olah describes (they also carry standard jugs) and our elementary school experimented with individual-size bags back in the 80's (they required a different cooler than the cartons, and the staff considered them harder to deal with).
As to raw milk, do you know what one of the most lucrative professions of the Civil War was? Wet nurse. Parents wanted their children to nurse many different individuals because the nurse could pass on resistance to infections in the milk. Can you get a similal benefit cross-species? Quite possibly, but the Government won't study that because they already "know" it's irrelevant. Also, there's growing evidence that enzymes present in many raw foods actually help digestion. Raw milk also contains many beneficial bacteria, just as the "active cultures" of yogurt do. All this gets destroyed by pasteurization, especially the "ultrapasteruizastion" favored by the USDA. (In fact, one way to determine if UP has been successful is to test for phosphates, which are necessary for the boedy to absorb calcium. If the phosphates are gone, UP was successful!) see http://hubpages.com/hub/Ultra-pasturization for other things pasteurization destroys, and then stop wondering why kids have cholesterol problems!
Yes, the chance of salmonella is lessened (not eliminated) by pasteurzation. But so is the "chance" that your kids are getting whole nutrition, because you're giving nutritional credit to a food that no longer has those nutrients.
Now where did my jumbo jet go? There it is! {Gadling}
Jun 12th 2008 2:31PM 'Scuse me if I'm sounding like a nitpicker, but a "727" is not a "jumbo." Planes didn't get "jumbo" until the 747.
How to Spot a Fake Anything {Shopping Articles Blog}
May 16th 2008 3:25PM I don't understand why people buy fake purses, if they can't afford the real deal, why be a poser? People will only snicker at how fake your bag looks. I'm 16 and already know more than someone who writes about fakes for a living! Haha [=
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I buy what works for me. Given the choice between a $10 bag and a similar $100 bag, I'll take the $10 bag every time. If fact, I think you're an idiot to spend $100 on ANY handbag. The difference in quality doesn't justify the difference in price, you're just paying for the label. And I'vee seen many examples of many kinds of GENUINE articles dismissed as ''fakes''
How to Spot a Fake Anything {Shopping Articles Blog}
May 16th 2008 3:17PM The fake ring isn't just fake, it's a crappy photo. If I shot the fake like the real thing and the diamond like that fake is shot, I bet I'd convince you the fake is real. There've been exposes on jeweler/''magicians'' who, with a bit of sleight-of-hand, replace the real diamond with a fake without the owner ever being the wiser.
And don't forget all the synthetics and ''flaw-fixed'' (like Yahudas) which can be had for considerably less than ''naturals''
Red Bull enters the cola wars {BloggingStocks}
Apr 8th 2008 3:07PM If it's got a premium price tag, then it's competition is the gourmet colas (like Sprecher), not the mass colas (Coke, Pepsi, RC, store labels)
