@JChief00, I didn't become overweight until my late 30s. Pretty sure the local elementary school having a jungle gym had nothing to do with me not gaining weight during my late teens, twenties, and most of my thirties. Also I had only one year of PE in high school so shouldn't I have blimped up back then?

I started gaining weight when my job required me to work so many hours that I didn't have time or the mental energy to prepare anything other than simply prepackaged junk. But exercise had a part in it too... spending days and nights and weekends in a cubicle left little time for exercise. Nutrition and exercise both have a part in weight control but neither is controlled by the lack of throwing balls at the heads of children.

I'm curious how much of that is an on camera persona and how much is his actual personality. I saw an episode where he was making fun of an inexperienced producer for not catering to his every desire. But it came off as poking fun at himself for being overly demanding. Was that his intention? I don't know. He does seemt to have genuine respect for the people and cultures he encounters even if some of them aren't to his personal preference.

With the skingraft the finger was only a bit shorter than it had been. The cut was from the tip and along the pad of the finger instead of a simple lop off the top. The top third or so of his fingerprint is pretty much blank since the skin used for the graft was smooth.

Checking around it appears my memory is faulty and Guinness does indeed still list endurance records. Guess my brain cells don't win the memory endurance world record.

Didn't Guinness stop listing endurance events like this one a few decades ago because people were injuring themselves, sometimes fatally, in their quest for small print glory?

Same thing almost happened at the Burger King my brother worked at. He was cutting a Whopper in half, sliced off the tip of his finger. As he was tended to in back, other employees started to make sandwiches again and one of them almost threw the tip of my brother's finger on a whopper because it looked to her like a small slice of onion. Luckily another employee saw this and stopped her. They put the finger tip on ice but it couldn't be reattached (and it was pretty much a sliver anyway). I think they used a skingraft from his rear to fix the finger.

Fast food restaurants are basically mini production lines. An injury usually only stops things for a minute or two. At most the place where the injury happened is sanitized if there was blood but other than that, work continues. This kind of thing probably happens frequently though with a body part making it into the food undetected a bit more rare.

The two largest metros in the US also have the two largest amounts of a particular type of car? Wow, I'm shocked!

Pretty sure it wasn't a Crown Vic, but the police car used in The KLF's video for Doctorin' the Tardis was pretty sweet. A friend recently bought a surplus police car for his art business. They decked it out to look like art police, though they couldn't add a lightbar.

Is it just me or did it look like the seat belt would choke the kid if there were a wreck?

Die? Yep, that would have been me about five seconds in at the first ramp.

Working for CNET really has aged Molly Wood.

Others using bandwidth doesn't concern me that much. If it got to be a problem I could always change the router settings to prioritize my packets and/or ration bandwidth. My main concern would be someone using my router to download kiddie porn or some other file that would get my door kicked by men in black in while I'm sitting on the toilet.

I sometimes hear a sort of morse code sound coming from anything with a speaker. I always assumed it was interference caused by something in my neighborhood until I went to Vancouver on vacation and heard it there too. MP3 players, white noise generators, video game consoles, audio receivers, they all seem to do it from time to time.

I'm not saying it's aliens but...

The sound is caused by the air turbulance coming from Captain Canuck flying around to protect maple leaves, poutine, bunny hugs, homo milk (in a bag), and Japadog. He doesn't for some reason seem to be very found of ketchup popcorn salt so you might want to spray some of that in the air around Windsor.

Ego much?

Didn't we go through this in the late 80s when every sugary cereal claimed to be part of a nutritious breakfast while showing half the menu of Denny's out of focus behind the bowl of cereal? Or was that changed because it was during cartoon time when it is mostly children watching?

While I'm partially with JKearney on this one because nutritional information is clearly printed on the container so you'd have to ignore it constantly to not know that it's not a health food, I'm also familar with the advertising industry works. Mixing Madison Avenue get together with psychologists and a corporate structure that is legally required to maximize profits was one of the worst things that could have happened to public health. They know how to push all our buttons and have the motive to do so.