It's a tough choice as to which of the two life is worse without, but it takes $5 million to set up a Krispy Kreme franchise in a new country. I'd imagine that importing ice cream pints is much cheaper.
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Strip:Lucas: Emma, this is Lilah, my new housemate. Lilah, this is Emma.
Emma: Oh hi.
Lilah: Nice to meet you.
*Lilah and Emma freeze in a handshake for a panel*
Emma: Hun, I need to use your bathroom real quick. This way?
Lucas: Yeah, just past the kitchen.
Lilah: She's cheating on you.
Lucas: What? No wait... WHAT?!
Lilah: Trust me. I'm a girl, we can sense it on eachother. (sic)
Lilah: She's hiding something else too... I'm not sure what.
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Muslims win toy pigs ban - "Novelty pig calendars and toys have been banned from a council office — in case they offend Muslim staff. Workers in the benefits department at Dudley Council, West Midlands, were told to remove or cover up all pig-related items, including toys, porcelain figures, calendars and even a tissue box featuring Winnie the Pooh and Piglet."
Ah well. The Muslim exception.
Godsend Screams - Comment in StumbleUpon: "Hooooly shit. I'd like to somehow convince this guy to play at our local 'Black Metal' venue just to watch the crowd reaction. I think Zack Parsons said it best: "If you tell me you've heard something more ridiculous than Christian death metal performed Acapella then you are a liar.""
Recovering Christians: Pascal's Wager revisited - "Many objections to this simplistic argument can be found, but more novel and interesting is an alternative wager postulated by a Darwin Bedford, the "Atheist Messiah and Spiritual Reality Therapist"
Stormfury attempted to weaken hurricanes - "Watching monster hurricanes bear down on populated areas raises a question: Can't we stop these things? Preposterous as the idea might sound, scientists have tried to do just that — and failed. But does that mean it's an idea that can't work?... A mature hurricane of moderate strength and size releases as much condensation heat energy in a day as the fusion energy of about 400 hydrogen super bombs," Robert and Joanne Simpson wrote in a report to the Project Stormfury Advisory Panel, a scientific body formed in 1964 to try to find hurricanes' "Achilles' heel... In the face of this gargantuan machine," the Simpsons said in 1964, "man's puny resources do not allow the brute force, head-on, or trial-and-error approaches."