If nothing else, at least the swine flu's allowing the people researching it to "bring home the bacon" in such times of economic instability...

*ducks away from angry comments*

Sausaged between diseases from birds and pigs, you may feel the urge to start swine-ing. Don't be a flu and try to hogwash your hands and pig out on healthy foods. Above all else, don't boar us all with your pig's eye viewpoints about this pig-demic.

I suppose that all we can hope for is that the swine flu doesn't mingle with the bird flu; that may just be the day that pigs learn to fly.

Terrible, I know, but I just couldn't resist ^.^

A very old necklace pendant.

An old-fashioned way of getting rid of those stubborn, huge calluses. Instead of using sandpaper or an emery board, just stick the afflicted appendage into the cup and sand away!

Hey! I can see my house from here!

Used in ice cream shops, an instrument such as the one pictured is used to set a cone in whilst the server prepares the ice cream, grabs toppings, ect. Quite useful for those pointy-ended waffle cones, actually.

I do believe that it's an old tool primarily used on the Irish holiday of St. Patrick's Day. When a person forgets or refuses to wear green, this tool is used for an extra-painful pinch.

Honestly? When I first saw the picture and didn't read the caption, I thought it was a pair of scissors :)