Scott Adams Mar 22, 2006
Scott Adams is the mastermind behind Dilbert.  He has a blog where he talks about very random and assorted things.  On the about page, it talks about how he got started drawing comics.  After working for many years in a number of different fields, he "entertained himself during boring meetings by drawing insulting cartoons of his coworkers and bosses."  How awesome is that?  Some bigwigs were sitting around a table thinking Mr. Adams was doing some serious note-taking.  Little did they know he was drawing pictures of them that would later make him tons of money.  Genius. #sociology
Open car door Mar 22, 2006
Sometimes I'll be driving to work on a 40-mph road and I'll have to come to a sudden and alarming stop because some dude parked on the side of the road is taking his sweet old time getting in his stupid car and left his big fat door open to oncoming traffic.  At times like this, I'm tempted to teach people a lesson.  I'd like to speed up to about 80 or 90mph and run into their open door, propelling it several hundred feet down the road.  Then I'd stop my car, back up a little bit, and say, "That's what you get for parking on the side of the road and leaving your door open to oncoming traffic.  Ya jerk." 

This was a huge problem when I lived in Hoboken.  Like any city, Hoboken isn't meant to be driven through.  It's a city for walkers and parkers.  Driving is highly discouraged, and the people parked on the side of the road know this.  They'll open their doors to oncoming traffic without even thinking about looking.  But it's not too big of a deal because the speed limit is around 25mph. 

This kind of thing shouldn't be a problem for undercrowded country roads.  It's not like there's a scarcity of open space.  The real issue is that stupid people don't park far enough off the road and don't think it's advantageous to use caution on 40-mph roads. #travel
Chubby Bunny Mar 22, 2006
Chubby Bunny is a game played by children and adults everywhere (that's probably not true).  The idea of the game is to stuff as many marshmallows as possible into your mouth while still being able to clearly say the words "chubby bunny".  The person with the most marshmallows in their mouth at the end wins.  It gets really gross toward the end because people start to drool and shoot marshmallows out of their mouths because they're laughing.  And watching a person spit 14 marshmallows out of their mouth at once is enough to make you gag. 

There's an urban legend out there that a child died from suffocation while playing this game.  Emails were forwarded that said something about a first-grader who stuffed her face so full of marshmallows that they emulsified (turned into a liquid mass) in her throat and blocked her airway.  Part of this is true:  There was a case of a girl who suffocated while playing chubby bunny, but she simply choked and died before anyone could resuscitate her.  The marshmallows didn't turn into a liquid mass in her throat.  The parents later sued the school and won lots of money. 

So whenever you play Chubby Bunny, be sure to have someone around who knows CPR.  You'd be surprised at how few marshmallows it takes to kill a person. 

(Although death is never funny, death by marshmallow kind of is.  Hence filing this under the funny category.) #food