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The New Gillette Occam.

I was shown this online and though it was funny. Enjoy!

Oh Mrs. O'Leary. If Only You Had Known What I Know.

I just had a new couch delivered, today. It came with a modicum of documentation explaining, for some reason after I purchased it, why people should buy this couch, and why I was so damned smart for buying it.

It also came with a small warning tag. After the usual warning about smoking, it basically said "this couch is flammable. Do not set it on fire. You may die."

I can only imagine what I would have done if they hadn't warned me. Now, if you'll excuse me. I feel the need to go set my chairs on fire.

Are They Serious?!

Apparently, Ya Ya the panda had one of her cubs suffer SIDS. Namely, she rolled over on the cub and crushed it. While I genuinely feel bad about this, especially after reading that when she awoke to find that her cub had been taken during her rest she lay around listlessly, that's not what I found interesting in the article.

The mention almost in passing that the mother and father, Ling Ling, were shown a "mating video" before breeding. A mating video? So, that's like, pandas having sex.

We showed the pandas porn? We showed... *snicker*... the pandas... PORN?!

They say it so matter-of-factly in the article. The utter absurdity of having PANDAS watch a training video seemed to escape them, or they just didn't mention it.

Panda Accidentally Crushes Cub in China

"When wintertime rolls around, the gorillas simply freeze to death."

Does anyone else remember the episode of The Simpsons where they accidentally wipe out the town's pidgeon population with lizards, then they control the new lizard over-population with snakes, which are in turn controlled by massive groups of snake-eating gorillas.

For some reason, I just don't see this ending well.

Scientists Ponder Releasing Virus to Kill Carp (Via LiveScience.com)