Cheese, starch, butter, and meat. My husband's four favorite food groups! :-P

Just looking at the picture gives me a raging case of heartburn and grease burps. (Of course right now, EVERYTHING gives me heartburn and grease burps...)

--TwoDragons

@Ar0000n: The rapid swirling winds can pull cloud material down with it as well. Or if they're fast enough, the resulting drop in pressure will cause condensation to suddenly form in the vortex.

I've lived in Texas all my life. You just get used to the likelihood that a summer storm will produce a twister, and keep your emergency kit handy. Folks on the Coast and in Cali do similar, and accept that Crap Happens. :-)

--TwoDragons

It seems like a good idea, but what about the industrial debris that already washes down the storm drain as it is? Drips of oil, rubber residue from tires on the street, exhaust residue, random bits of garbage, cigarette butts (the WORST!), etc. Unless they scrub the roads hospital-clean every day, it's a bit futile, don't you think?

Not that I don't endorse any measure to keep the streams clean, of course. I've watched some very beautiful areas get really mucked up by all the trash us humans generate and any efforts we put forth to reduce that are great.

--TwoDragons

"Wedding rings! I sell to you cheap! You buy now!"

--TwoDragons

@jodie: Couldn't help m'self...I'd just been reading ICHC when I came to Neatorama and saw that heaping helping of pointy-pawed cuteness.

I'm allergic to cats, but it would STILL be so worth the Benadryl woozies and the raging case of hamburger arms I'd get playing with him! :-D

--TwoDragons

Look at those CLAWS! "I Can Haz Lasserashuns...?"

--TwoDragons

What a waste! He could have used it as an extra "passenger" to get him on to the HOV lane!

--TwoDragons

Uh............................whoopsie.

--TwoDragons

That. Was. So. Freaking. COOL.

I NEVER grow tired of watching stuff like this! :-D

--TwoDragons

This has GOT to be from Australia... ;-)

--TwoDragons

Well I was GOING to say an old-timey fireplace toaster, but it looks like everyone else is saying that too.

So instead, I'll state for the record that it's a banana.

--TwoDragons

I sure wish we got milk delivery here. It would sure beat carting three gallons of milk up a flight of stairs every week.

(Yes, we drink that much milk!)

--TwoDragons

Nate--BWAAHAHA! We used to do that too! Then we got bored and started to experiment. We discovered that if you dumped out several boxes and stacked them into a huge pyramid, and then lit the top one, it would start a chain reaction that lit the rest down the line. You could keep the fun going for eternity with enough boxes!

Mom banished us to the road after we filled the entire yard with sooty curls. Did you know that stuff turns into a black paste when it gets wet, and makes awesome shoe-prints all over freshly-cleaned carpet...? ;-)

--TwoDragons

Oh man, I remember snakes as a kid. They were my favorite "kiddie" firework! I would light dozens of them at once and watch them fill the driveway with long trails of ash. They'd stink like heck, too.

--TwoDragons

It's like the bastard love-child of Dr. Who's scarf and Carmen Miranda's hat!

--TwoDragons