I sometimes check out restaurant.com for 60%-off gift certificates to restaurants. And just yesterday I found www.entertainment-savings-offers.com, which offered an additional 80%-off gift code for certain restaurants on restaurant.com.

Short version: I got a $25 voucher (to a restaurant I was already planning to eat at) for two dollars.

I love the way people who have never considered this question before are suddenly able to answer with the authority of an Alfred North Whitehead.

dbsmall: Pleasure can't make people happy. It can temporarily distract them from unhappiness.

That's the most awesome snowman ever built.

Squiggy, I'm only guessing here, but I suspect they're not going to have it shooting fire nonstop, all the time.

I used to know a guy who was an accomplished golfer and pianist, skilled enough that he was considering making a career of one of them. He knew he'd have to focus on one or the other, and he just couldn't choose, so he flipped a coin. It came up heads and he became a composer and music professor.

A, your generous willingness to share this remarkable insight has made the world a significantly better place.

The Arctic is ocean. All the land up thataway is part of one nation or another; apparently ice doesn't count as land.

Antarctica is covered pretty thoroughly above; see "Marie Byrd Land."

It doesn't play sound for me; what's it supposed to do?

ATTENTION EVERYONE: SATIRE ALERT.

The article's a bit vague, but that's not quite how the ordeal of hot water worked. The defendant's hand was plunged into "boiling" water, then wrapped with a bandage; but guilt wasn't assessed until three days later, when a priest would unwrap and examine the arm. The presumption was that God would heal the innocent person's arm in three days, not that the innocent person's arm would be unharmed.

For repeat offenses, the boiling water got deeper.

Smarterthanyou, mentalfloss often uses photos that don't match up to the questions; it's just generic stock-photo art to liven up the page, but it's not intended to help you answer the questions.

TK-4289, your girlfriend's cute, and you two obviously have similar enthusiams. Well done, sir.

angie493, I assume you live on nothing but the scantest subsistence diet because you give all money that you can possibly live without to charities. Come to think of it, why are you sitting there reading Neatorama when you could be out helping those who desperately need it?

I haven't watched the video (clunky old computer), but the text on the still screen is Japanese.

Oh my god, that's brilliant. I love the subplot with him having an affair with Mom.