[doingtherightthing]

``Dang! I could really chow down on some old string beans!''

C'mon admit it, who hasn't said this to themselves from time to time?

[doingtherightthing]

Oh yeah, thanks for the post nuconvert. Too funny!

[Pan_Yans Wife]

Excellent. I read the original article, but Barry's humor always brings out salient points. :)

[edayna]

But I digress. My point -- and I know this because I'm using powerful point-detection software -- is that people have...

We could all use this wonderful invention, point-detection software. Where do I buy it? Is anyone going to tell Kerry about this?

[NonValueAdded]

DB stepped over the line with his wood chipper comment. Dave, this actually happened to people. I love reading your columns and will continue to do so. However, I'm hoping that in retrospect you wish you left that analogy out. It IS a bad world out there and there ARE monsters in the closet and under the bed.

[noutopia]

Can my two X wives go there also?

[southernnorthcarolina]

PRACTICAL HOMEMAKER TIP -- Always keep an open box of baking soda in your refrigerator. That way, when people come to your house to visit, you can say: "Would you care for some cold baking soda?"

I've long felt this was one of the most brilliant marketing strategies of all time. People don't bake "from scratch" much anymore, so the folks at Arm and Hammer had to find a way to get people to buy more of their product.

The solution: convince people that keeping keeping an open box of the stuff in the fridge "absorbs odors." Of course, the Arm and Hammer people recommended that you open a new box once a month, and dump the old one down the drain "to keep it smelling fresh" too.

And people bought into it. People actually purchased the stuff for the express purpose of throwing it away. Sheer genius by the marketing department!

[Phil V.]

Microscopic 3-D image from "berrybowl" . . . approx 1.2" sq . . .

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[Joe Hadenuf]

If NASA scientists really want to know about life on Mars, instead of sending up robots that keep finding rocks, they need to send my wife, and have her take a whiff of the Martian atmosphere. If there's a single one-celled organism anywhere on the planet, she'll smell it. And if the other astronauts don't stop her, she'll kill it with Lysol.

Back to humor school Dave.

[Slip18]

Thanks for the humor thread, nuconvert.

"The most interesting part of the article concerns a discovery by a University of Arizona microbiology professor named Dr. Chuck Gerba, who is an expert on household germs. I am familiar with Dr. Gerba, because some years ago I interviewed him on bathroom cleanliness, and he told me that the only sure way to kill all the bacteria on a toilet is -- I am not making this up -- to put laboratory alcohol on the bowl and set it on fire."

Do NOT alight the toilet bowl, Cyber. We all know you like making things blow up.