Rocky Rook: At least I make something pretty and functional with my "unclassified psychological ailment." As opposed to slinging baseless pseudo-intellectual sarcasm...

I'm getting kinda tired of all the wasted yarn on these "knit graffiti" projects. It would be better spent on making more useful things, like blankets for keeping the homeless or premature babies warm, or comforting a traumatized child.

http://www.projectlinus.org/

--TwoDragons

*waddles jauntily in, sees article, goes pale, runs from room retching violently*

--TwoDragons

SenorMysterioso: HOOKER?! I'll have you know I'm a professional textile manufacturer, friend! Say otherwise and you'll be prying a size "G" hook out of your frontal lobe. ;-)

See, knitting needles might be overtly dangerous, but crochet hooks have a more...ominous...subtlety. Allow me to demonstrate on commenter Ted here...

--TwoDragons

$1.94 at the HEB in Marble Falls, TX. The lines have been absolutely staggering. I'm surprised they still have stuff in the holding tanks by the end of the day!

--TwoDragons

LisaParker--And here I thought I was the only Christian horror movie fan! LOL

Trivia requests: Evil Dead, Event Horizon, and In the Mouth of Madness!

--TwoDragons

Paraguay! Uruguay! PARAguay! URUguay! WABBIT SEASON! DUCK SEASON!

I'm Texan and I'm pregnant. I could eat a kiloton of barbecue! ;-)

--TwoDragons

Imagine being pulled over by that thing. Or a chase, or a shoot-out. Goodbye dignity! LOL

--TwoDragons

Hmmm, looks more like crochet than knitting. I do a lot of single-stitch crochet work (great for baby clothes!) and it looks exactly like that.

Mmmmmm, amigurumi food--low calorie and high in fiber! :-P

--TwoDragons, crochet fanatic

Tim--Castor oil comes from castor beans, not fish livers. That would be Cod Liver Oil, which makes me sick just writing about it...eeuugh...

Ironically enough, castor beans are the same source of one of the most deadly neurotoxins in the natural world: ricin.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricin

Sure makes those childhood memories of being dosed up with castor oil seem a bit more ominous, eh...? ;-)

--TwoDragons

That thing creeps me out...

--TwoDragons

Y'know, I'm not the most claustrophobic person in the world...but I still think I'll pass on this...

...um, yeah...Definitely pass.

--TwoDragons

Miss C: Tabitha's due December 21st. Christmas is going to be REALLY interesting this year... ;-)

I've been having a massive craving for candy corn and mellocreme pumpkins. The pumpkins are essentially the same candy as the corn, but about three times as much candy per bite and a little less dry than corn. So they're even MORE worth enduring the horrible tooth decay and general havoc to your blood sugar!

--TwoDragons

Gee thanks. I've done such a careful job of avoiding them, trying to be all responsible in my pregnant state and stuff...and now they're calling to me again with their honey-sweet-scented siren song...while their plumper counterparts, the mellocreme pumpkins add rich bass notes...oh no, there I go, drooling all over myself like an addict...can't...resist...must...eat...

--TwoDragons

It's not crazy, folks...it's the same property that causes wintergreen Lifesavers to spark in the dark. You can do the same thing by peeling duct tape.

Buy yourself a big bag of wintergreen Lifesavers (NOT the sugar-free ones! They don't seem to work!), shut yourself into the darkest room in your house with a mirror, block out as much light as possible, take a few minutes to let your eyes adjust to the darkness, then bite down on that minty confection while holding up the mirror.

Make sure you have the mirror facing the right way, of course...

You should see a very noticeable greenish-blue spark. Something about the menthol in the wintergreen oil used as flavoring enhances the triboluminescent properties of the candy.

http://recipes.howstuffworks.com/question505.htm

*runs off to buy more wintergreen Lifesavers...*

--TwoDragons

I have the time...I just wish I had the BUDGET to do this!

--TwoDragons