Actually, I haven't gone looking yet, because, you know, his birthday's in May and it's February. But according to his mother, there's a shop in town that would have them. Don't know about jeans; I'm looking for work pants. But she says they've got work pants that fit his brothers, and his whole family's that tall. Even his sister is nearly six feet tall.

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"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"

"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"

There's never a bad time to buy non-perishable presents.

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"Every book is a children's book if the kid can read." - Mitch Hedberg
"Distance doesn’t matter much in space, where if you just start a thing off with the right kind of shove, sooner or later it will get where you want it to go." -Frederik Pohl, Mining the Oort

I want him there for it, and besides, my money's been a bit complicated lately. I haven't gotten my February spending money worked out yet.

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Gillian

"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"

"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"

My sister goes through that. She is 6'1" and has legs that go on for days. I never envied the tall for that reason. My poor daughter has the same problem. She is very tall and very slender. You would think my sister and my husband got together to make a baby and just tricked me into carrying. Anyway, I always had to go a few sizes higher so she wasn't wearing highwaters, but even the slims would be hanging off her. I feel for tall people.

I have always suspected that phrenologists like tall people best for patients, since they have lots of bumps from cars, doors, etc., that were designed on the assumption everyone is under 6'.

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Yesterday, I saw a TV commercial for Dyson vacuum cleaners touting the wonders of their new brushless motor. James Dyson showed a typical motor claiming that the carbon brushes make dust (a little, I thought) and that the windings can burn out (duh). Then he showed his brushless motor with digital control claiming that it is better (okay). But the part that made this a bad commercial is that he went on to say that it had "zero carbon emissions."

So, we have Dyson confusing miniscule amounts of dust from carbon motor brushes with "carbon emissions," the reduction of which is all the rage these days becasue of the global warming issue. Dyson seems to be a smart guy, and I am absolutely sure knows better.

For shame Sir Dyson, for shame.

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And of course his vacuums will run only electricity from solar, wind, hydro, or nuclear powerplants!

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Why do the commercials for Horton Hears a Who insist on showing us clips of the voice actors in the recording booth? Is it because they assume we won't know their voices without seeing that? If so, why pay the millions of dollars to do the voices in the first place? (Don't get me started about the pain of bad movies based on really good Dr. Seuss books.)

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Gillian

"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"

"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"

And why are we getting Horton Hears a Who promos in every dang program on the tube for the last week? At this point I wouldn't go even if I had wanted to!

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I'll stick with the faithful Chuck Jones cartoon of HHAW.

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"If this were play'd upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction."
Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
Illuminati's Razor-The most complicatedly evil answer is usually the most correct answer. - Fazor
"Every book is a children's book if the kid can read." - Mitch Hedberg
"Distance doesn’t matter much in space, where if you just start a thing off with the right kind of shove, sooner or later it will get where you want it to go." -Frederik Pohl, Mining the Oort

Now available on DVD! (Actually, when I bought The Secret of Nimh at Best Buy yesterday, I got a little toy Horton free. Best thing to come out of the movie.)

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Gillian

"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"

"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"

Will someone please make this guy go away?

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Then there's this one:



My experience has been the burger as served is actually about 20% of the height shown, i.e., pretty much flattened.

Same goes for these:



Aren't there laws against misrepresentation?

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What's the second one even supposed to be? It seems to have a hamburger patty below and a chicken or fish patty above...

Those are onion rings above.

It must be the ever-popular "heart attack" burger. Can I get that with bacon?

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It gets complicated. It is illegal for the company to use anything but real food to represent what they're selling--the milk people, for example, have to put real milk in those glasses, but cereal people can and do use glue instead. (Milk looks blue in the camera, apparently.) Further, they can't add more to the food--more lettuce, more tomato, more beef, or whatever--than they would actually put on it in the restaurant/frozen food box. Not so much as a sesame seed. However, they can use all kinds of tricks to make what they have look better. Often, they put cardboard rounds in burgers, for example, to lift them off the bun a bit.

For the curious, I read all this in a 1980-something issue of Penny Power, which was Consumer Reports for kids.

ETA: On further thought, clearly it's only food that can't be added, or somehow cardboard rounds don't count. Or I'm remembering wrong; Gods know it wouldn't be the first time.

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Gillian

"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"

"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"

They can attach sesame seeds to burgers with airplane glue, according to an article I read in Muse.

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"Carl Sagan sent a message to ET,
Neil Armstrong walked in the Sea of Tranquility
Steve Squyers built Spirit and Opportunity
Dan Haylen upchucked in zero gravity." -Brent Simon, The Space Camp Song

I remember reading that most any picture of Ice Cream is actually Mashed Potatoes. They color the mashed potatoes to look like Ice cream. But the way mashed potatoes looks when scooped and the fact it doesn't melt under the lights makes it ideal for photography.

BK paints grill lines on their burgers using modeling paint.

Although they cannot add food to the picture, they can "fluff up" prop or support food. What you get at the restaurant is supposedly a squashed version of the picture.

The eggs pictured in menus, (IHOP, Denny's) are most often made out of Wax.