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It's been a while. . .

Today's entry:

Dumb Ways to Die

In 1989, not one but two people got so angry at malfunctioning vending machines that they grabbed the offending machines and shook them to get out their purchases. The machines toppled over and killed them--two rare cases of death by vending machine.

Yesterday's entry:

The Business of Stupidity and Vice Versa

When McDonald's invaded Russia, the American bosses insisted that the Russian counter help give customers the standard Mickey D smile. Russian customers were insulted because in Russia smiling at strangers means you're making fun of them. How did Mickey D Russia solve the problem? They hired official Smile Explainers to shout into bullhorns at customers in line. "When you reach the counter, you will be smiled at. This does not mean we are making fun of you." And that's how Russia became the friendly country it is today.

Reaction

After spending a few moments explaining the Yu-Gi-Oh! card game to my brother-in-law, Ben: "You lost me at hello."

Dang.

Night of the Creeps and other stuff...

Having watched Night of the Creeps again this past weekend, I was surprised by how much I had forgotten of it. Back then, I did not catch the horror director names that were character names in it. The slug creatures really DID creep me out immensely, though not so much now. I still hate walking out in the morning to see slugs out and about though. - blech -

There are a couple of other movies I'd like to get to, but it will be a while. Man With the Screaming Brain is one, and Masters of Horror is another.

TiVo made In the Cut and Wild Things 2 very easy to watch. The combined time to watch those was about a half an hour.

Still, I'll never get that half an hour back again.