Israeli police are on the lookout for a thief with a super-sized chocolate craving. The robbers broke into a factory in the northern Israeli city of Haifa late Monday and walked away with nearly 100 tons of chocolate spread. [Link]
Please promise you won’t turn me in. I’ll make it worth your while…
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And the nominees are:
COLDCUT MOUNTAIN - The inspirational true story of six heroic friends who took on the monumental task of consuming appetizers intended to feed sixteen - and conquered the mountain.
THE BRUCHETTA ULTIMATUM - A party guest dodges new, superior international snacks as he searches for his unknown pasta while a culinary agent tries to track him down.
NO COMPANY FOR LO MEIN - The feast was laid but the chairs were empty. Where were the eaters of the night? Lurking… lurking…
HOW GREEN WAS MY FACE - The evidence was clear: Four empty champagne bottles. Four. Oy.
MIDNIGHT CHOWBOY - It stalks the kitchen by night. What leftover party wings are safe from its slavering jaws?
Coming soon to a theater near you:
A TIME TO DIET
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I recently came across this site. It’s a (largely empty) Wiki of obsolete skills. It makes amusing reading as a list, mostly for the unexpected juxtapositions (Bleeding patients is right before Blowing the dust out of a Nintendo cartridge). But the more I thought about it the more I realized what a complete waste of bandwidth it is. Why do we need a Wiki for this? This is what the whole internet is. If you want to learn flint knapping, dBase III how to churn butter or make a 5 1/4″ floppy disk two-sided, google it.
And anyway, should we find ourselves in a situation where we actually NEED to navigate with a sextant, you’ll be knapping flint with your laptop because it won’t be good for anything else. Better hope we still have books. No, the intriguing thing about the site is realizing how thoroughly our skulls are stuffed with skills we’ll never use again. Here are a few examples:
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Any frequent hiker knows about the all-important 10 essentials for surviving your walk in the woods. Silly things like water, map, compass, first-aid kit, knife, light, fire, food, extra clothes, emergency shelter. Sure you can lug all that crap along. Wimp.
Here’s an alternative list I developed snowshoeing near Mount Rainier yesterday.
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