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Well, sort of a documentary anyway.

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Posted: June 30th, 2008
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Lobster Catcher Arcade Game

So, I caught myself red-handed watching the fake news again, and, tell me why FOX & Friends had this piece on a lobster catcher arcade game in Denver.

You know exactly what I’m talking about, too. You know those games where you try to pick up a stuffed animal with a metal claw (which is generally impossible). What? I mean THESE:

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I mean, didn’t you have a childhood? Any-old-ways… so some cats in Denver decided to do this with lobsters. The best thing? If you grab it you get to eat it. Now… MNP by no means endorses cruelty to animals - but catching lobsters with a claw (oh, the irony) and tossing them into a boiling pot of water isn’t really much different than just tossing them into a boiling pot. So, the fact that PETA is so opposed is somewhat of a mystery. [ Ed: They also had a piece on a dog surfing competition that I felt differently about. I’m assuming only certain dogs really surf of their own volition. ]

This apparently came from Japan - like all ridiculous things. Anyhow, read on, and watch the video:

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You can play pool, foosball, shuffleboard, darts and video games at J.D.’s Bait Shop, a sports bar and grill on Arapahoe Road just east of Interstate 25.

Or play "The Lobster Zone."

It’s just like those games where you guide a claw toward a plush toy in a glass box, only instead of stuffed animals, you are going for live lobsters. It costs $2 per try, and if you snag a lobster, the kitchen will fix it right up for you.

"You have it with some fries and some slaw, and you are done," said Dennis McCann, who has run this popular southeast Denver-area watering hole for 13 years.

McCann, however, had been thinking about removing this novelty machine after one of his customers complained. Apparently, she didn’t find the irony of clawing a live lobster amusing.

Then last week came a letter from PETA, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, asking him to stop. PETA also put out a news release:

"JD’s Lobster Zone machine turns torture and death into a game, pure and simple," says PETA vice president Tracy Reiman. "Incarcerating lobsters in filthy tanks inside a boisterous club, making an abusive game out of their capture, and finally boiling them to death is every bit as reprehensible as tormenting cats, dogs, or any other animal."

When I called PETA spokeswoman Nicole Matthews, she was unaware that J.D.’s Bait Shop was just one of The Lobster Zone’s many customers.

Kris Volk, the Colorado distributor for the game, told me it’s played in a dozen other Denver-area restaurants. And Ernie Pappas, owner of the Apopka, Fla.-based company, told me his Lobster Zone is in more than 300 locations nationwide.

It’s been around for more than a decade, said Pappas, who hired a marine biologist to develop the tanks on his machines.

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Somebody from Concord New Hampshire or something e-mailed the show and claimed the game was created there, but, like Bob from Bob’s Discount Furniture would say: "I DOUBT IT!"

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Posted: June 30th, 2008
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Worst Furniture Commercial of… Life

While searching for a quality Bob’s Discount Furniture example for the post above, I came across this on youtube. This is… too real.

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Posted: June 30th, 2008
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Who got that Vocab?!

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Faffle Faf"fle

v. i. [Cf. Famble, Maffle.] To stammer. [Prov. Eng.] -Halliwell.

And in a sentence:

"That Pakistani place has the most delicious faffle I have ever tasted, my ninja."

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Posted: June 30th, 2008
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The Aquaduct

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The Aquaduct is pedal powered vehicle that transports, filters, and stores water for the developing world. A peristaltic pump attached to the pedal crank draws water from a large tank, through a filter, to a smaller clean tank. The clean tank is removable and closed for contamination-free home storage and use. A clutch engages and disengages the drive belt from the pedal crank, enabling the rider to filter the water while traveling or while stationary.

The Aquaduct is the winning entry in the Innovate or Die contest put on by Google and Specialized. The contest challenge was to build a pedal powered machine that has environmental impact. Please visit our blog ( http://theaquaduct.blogspot.com/ ) or email team.aquaduct@gmail.com for more details.

This is cool and innovative and all but… this joint is kinnnnda just a a glorified Brita.AA It’s a tad bit old but… it’s new to you!

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Posted: June 27th, 2008
at 12:33pm by Black Ock


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Naked on a Glacier

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Six hundred people shed their clothes on a glacier in the Swiss Alps to bodily cry out for help against a planetary emergency: global warming.

The nude volunteers posed for us and renowned naked "installation" artist Spencer Tunick on the Aletsch Glacier.

Without clothes, the human body is vulnerable, exposed, its life or death at the whim of the elements. Global warming is stripping away our glaciers and leaving our entire planet vulnerable to extreme weather, floods, sea-level rise, global decreases in carrying capacity and agricultural production, fresh water shortages, disease and mass human dislocations.

If global warming continues at its current rate, most glaciers in Switzerland will completely disappear by 2080, leaving nothing but valleys and slopes strewn with rock debris.

After all that - I’m still not sure what this has to do with global warming. It’s a bit more on the "corporal freezing" side.

Anyway, if you look this dude up, you’ll realize that he’s kind of just in to posing naked people.

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Posted: June 27th, 2008
at 12:24pm by Black Ock


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Gas Price Rap

I retract my previous statements.AA THIS is one of the most ridiculous things ever posted… and this may or may not be a theme day.

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Posted: June 27th, 2008
at 12:16pm by Black Ock


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Colorful Balls Protest

This is NOT a theme day.

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Posted: June 27th, 2008
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Be a Man - Self Exam

Among the ridiculous things posted here over the years - this still stands out.

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I don’t really know how comfortable I am with this dude’s concern for my personal genitalia.

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Posted: June 27th, 2008
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