The phrasing here [from a sports column on Salon] made me laugh:

Instead, Manning spent all day dumping off screens and checkdown passes, which the Patriots' speedy linebackers gobbled up like things that get gobbled up by speedy linebackers.

Not something I'm accustomed to seeing outside of, well, here.

LA Zoo now has a baby pangolin. Which I'd never heard of until just now. Cool looking critter, and cool story of how it got here.

DX, what exactly does a saws-all do?

It's an oversized version of a jig saw/sabre saw, with a long blade, also called a reciprocating saw. It's great for demolition and remodeling work, like for cutting window-sized holes in walls, and other rough cutting.

All of my favorite tools are kitchen gadgets.

Can you kill anyone with a zester?

It might be kind of messy.

Can you kill anyone with a zester?

If you got them to stay still long enough, I don't see why not.

The most equivalent kitchen utensil to a sawzall is an electric carving knife.

Is it possible to be too zestfull to live?

Somervillains, did any of you watch the news. What the frilly heck is going on with the terrorist threat, here? I didn't want to put the TV on, because I won't have my kids living in a cloud of fear. I put the radio on, but the phone rang, Scott came in and went out again, and I was cleaning up, and only managed to catch about every third word, and some of those were uttered by H*wie Carr.

Can you kill anyone with a zester?

Yes, but it takeswould take a really long time.