"And then you can flap your arms and fly to the moon."
-- bristolz, annotating an electric eel generator.
"That sentence should be shot and left to die at the side of the road as an example to others."
-- waugsqueke, about the intro to "Corrective Goggles."
"The next time Im out curling, I could easily bake this by acting like a complete idiot."
-- rcarty, annotating "Full Contact Curling".
"... after all, there's only so much you can do with a door before it turns into a window, a porticulus, or a drawbridge."
-- ye_river_xiv, about the creative process.
"Heavier toe nails are capable of ricocheting around the cabin, and could easily puncture the flimsy fabric of a modern aircraft."
-- xenzag, explaining FAA standards
"still single huh?"
-- Stork, on phlish's idea for selling bottled female saliva as a lubricant
"this is the HB, where you lovingly craft a tiny little nugget of (what you believe to be) original thought, and offer it up for annotation like a master chef throwing an hors dourve into a sackful of hyenas."
-- lostdog, explaining how this place works.
"How do you reinforce steel? (Apart from, of course, repeating to it 'You're steel. Yes, you are')"
-- AbsintheWithoutLeave, commenting on a Padded Room made out of reinforced steel.
"What is it? Feels like a fish stuffed in a sock. Tastes like a dream!"
-- daseva, about the famous Dark Burger.
"I'm looking for a solution which is unlikely to eat my gerbil."
-- Fishrat, worried about his lonely pet.
"Ah, that was a spelling error - should've been 'hamstered'. It's the stage before 'ratified'"
-- Ian Tindale, on being hampered by intelligence.
" This is the halfbakery, not crap bland sarcasm all over the kitchen floor--akery. FYI, just a thought."
--daseva, on a particularly bad attempt at humor.
"In a modern accelerator, the effective temperature is in the billions of degrees. You're not going to get that in a kettle."
--ldischler, on how to boil water
"The seismologists use the term "liquifaction". A mechanical engineer might say "pulverized", while a layman with a good blender might opt for "purée"."
--lurch, on the mechanics of j paul's "OrGy Room"
"It does seem like an odd phrase - I've never looked at a storm and thought "Oh, 8 out of ten for stormyness on that one.""
--zen_tom, on "Perfect Storm"
[Aug 09 1999, last modified Oct 20 2018]
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auto-recharging laptop
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Dude Startup
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electric pillbox
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everyone's a critic
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future email address
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Futurists: BetaLaunch
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Hot Spare, Inc.
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How many fingers am I holding up?
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HP 11C Bathroom Scale
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Human Personal E-Mail Organizer
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I left it *here*
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insider trading virus
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Pay-for-Read Weekly
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pop thesaurus
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posing
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Prank Tape
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quote nesting depth haze
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real-time forest voting
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Reality Guide
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Retinal Lantern
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sandwich scrubbing sponge
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search engine killfile
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See-through Griddle
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self-curling futon
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thanks!
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time travel radio
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trading cards with magnetic strips
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transcripTV
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turn-alone
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turn maps
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two-way drones
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UK: better uses for public data
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US History Channel Casting Call
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US: Vision Research Ideas
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valvo
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vanity postage stamps
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velcro wedding
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virtual CD changer man
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virtual cemetery flowers
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Virtual Living Room
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vote histogram
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waiting party line
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web harvester black hole list
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what-if chess
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wintermute virus
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YHOO 1999
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Zombie Toothpaste
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