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This morning a lot of Boston commuters were late for work, thanks to a suspicious package found under a bridge near I-93. The "package," newspapers reported, had tubes and wires sticking out of it and was eventually contained and neutralized. After the device was safely detonated and determined to not be an explosive device, everyone breathed a sigh of relief and went on with their lives. Until a few hours later, when another package was found under another bridge. And then another. At least five packages were found, all under bridges. What the heck was going on? Why were they all under bridges? Were we being attacked by trolls? Sirens went...

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Wednesday is Fun Fact Day

Fun fact: As of the writing, a Google search for "It's the meers" brings up about 59 results, including one from Commercials I Hate.com, a website I spent about an hour and a half reading today. Update: It's now up to 27...

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That Time of Year

Despite years of research and billions of dollars in government grants, scientists are still baffled by Joe's uncanny ability to work an old TV show called Captain Nice, into a conversation. Upon mentioning Captain Nice, he will offer a nugget like, "It starred Mr. Feeny", before switching the subject to another obscure short-lived TV series, Mr. Terrific. Perhaps most amazingly, every time this nostalgia bug bites him, he has absolutely no recollection of any of the previous times he's mentioned the same thing, virtually word for word, yet he can remember that the Cap'n's secret identity was Carter Nash. Since 2001, when we both started working...

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See You in Hell, 2006!

I'm just going to come out and say it. I like chai. And green tea. And flavored coffee. I used to get embarrassed ordering anything that wasn't plain coffee, until I heard Joe call french vanilla a "fruity drink" and realized that's just stupid. Funny how you don't really notice that something is dumb until you hear Joe say it. There's no end to the weird flavors they keep coming up with for coffee and tea, but has anyone ever thought of combining coffee and tea? Imagine coffee-flavored tea, or tea-flavored coffee. Cofftea. Or Teaffee. Why am I not working on developing this right now? It's a goldmine. Goldmine, I say! Crap. Apparently several hundred people beat me to it. Aw, my millions. Oh well. At least the Spare Change Guy is doing alright for himself... br> Panhandler arrested...

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