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Via Reddit: "Clapping is high-fiving yourself for something someone else did."

Need a dentist?

You'll probably want to avoid Aspen Dental, unless you like burning money.

I really am (linguistically) an unrepentant American...

...because, on an email list just now, an acquaintance from the UK, reading that someone liked haggis, wrote, "Have you tried faggots? Similar ingredients to haggis but nicer, in my opinion."

And my eyes boggled.

This, from the nation that brought us "spotted dick."

Looked it up on the Google, and the term is actually the top return for Wikipedia, which claims that it is a pork sausage-ish thingumy also known as "savoury ducks."

Let's call it that, shall we?

More memory than I'd ever thought I'd need

Kingston announces 1 TB flash drive.

Mike remembers when he got his first 10 MB hard drive. He knew he'd never use it all up.

Someone needed coffee more than money

An MBTA transit cop foils a robbery at a Charlestown Dunkin' Donuts.

The would-be robber was threatening the clerk...with a spoon.

It was probably scarier than it sounds.

(But if he'd had some coffee *first*, he might not have snagged the spoon.) (And let's talk about how stupid it is not to expect a cop of some sort to be in a Dunkie, shall we?)

If you're a praying sort...

...would you put in the good word for one of my colleagues? Just got word a few minutes ago that she'd had a heart attack. She's my age (probably a bit younger), and has two kids and a very worried husband.

Question on Jeopardy! just now...

...asks for the name used by New Englanders for "milk shake."

Mike and I, simultaneously: "Frappe. Or cabinet."

And we lost.

Because we didn't phrase it in the form of a question.

And we weren't on the actual show, of course.

(The show would have had a cow over the "cabinet" answer. As Mike said, "Rhode Island is, alas, part of New England, baby.")