What Sid is trying to say in much fewer words is this: Donating blood is ridiculously easy and absolutely safe for the VAST MAJORITY OF THE POPULATION.

Thanks, Sid!

In some cases blood can't be transported safely to where it's needed quickly enough for their very stringent safety reasons, yes, so it has to be destroyed. That's no reason to NOT give where it IS needed...which is still pretty much everywhere.

It's still free - doesn't cost you a thing to give your blood. No matter what you may think of their business policies, giving your blood is free and it definitely saves lives!

It doesn't mean you guys can't encourage your friends to go!

Holy cow you guys are freaking sensitive. It's a funny parody of a song style. Sheesh. If someone was going around talking in a fake Irish accent would you get offended too?

I'm surprised Chris would *prefer* someone pranking an actual business than a funny song.

Can we start calling these "coffections" instead of "coffee" now?

Whee a curious story opens the floodgates of bigotry!

"Sigh, always a huge debate. This is why I don’t give money to religious charities."

Well that's a silly thing to say. I assume there's a huge chain of logic there you didn't bother to type out.

Wow, this tiny article really, really takes strides to be inflammatory and take the letters out of context. I haven't read them but the editorializing around them is atrociously insulting. Everyone on every spiritual path struggles in a similar vein. It's part of the step BEYOND "blind" faith. To say as they do in the article "Perhaps now we know why" in reference to why she wanted her articles destroyed is a slap in the face to her spiritual development as a whole.

Stupid.

Really neat. I enjoyed it greatly. Are there any mp3s of a cat purring?? Of course, our cat has the greatest purr of all, but I don't have a microphone to record it...otherwise I'd share.

Did anyone read Sid's post? The unicorn thing is pointless. Anyone who bothers to make fun of it (especially to the extent of those guys with tbe "billboard") is a fool.

Sid, thanks for taking the time to research and write that...I found it fascinating.

Wait, the Shakes (and the Quakers) still exist today. Okay, so their number have dwindled, sure, but they still do exist. I don't know what I'd call it "bombed miserably" compared to the other people who couldn't figure out how to feed themselves.

My grandparents were Quakers. Absolutely amazing people.

I love the song in this commercial to death. I am so glad they didn't get a cheap cover band to redo it. And I'm glad they didn't place it to avoid the mild curse:

"He can't even run his own life,
I'll be damned if he'll run mine!"

Hah, actually, Alex, the folks on theWAREHOUSE forums had the same request. Here's what I told them:

"Actually I think we did inadvertently open it after I had pressed it, having forgotten about it under several layers in the garbage can! Aubrey walked by the kitchen one evening commenting "eugh, I think something's rotten in there" - You know that stank when you walk by restaurant dumpsters (as opposed to, say, perfume and newspaper dumpsters) on a hot day after a rainstorm? It was kind of like that.

"

THe screw part means it's going to stop whatever you're trying to scrape when it butts up against that wood edge when it's screwed in. Odd. It looks like it's just supposed to plane a little off the edge of something, like flooring that's supposed to fit under the edge of a wall.

Hahaha, those kids were having a BLAST. I bet they loved seeing the finished project and the dad seemed cool enough that I bet he taught them at least a little about how he was editing the video too. Very cool and definitely cute.