My mother was bringing something like this [link] to us as a gift for mr. flea and they made her unwrap the present, open the box and play with it to prove it wasn't harmful. At a table far away from the other people.
I have also had security people unwrap a jar of honey I was carrying it and shine a flashlight into it to make sure nothing was lurking. And this was in Greece!
I find the inconsistency to be the most annoying thing, myself. That and the struggle with coats and shoes and a stroller and carry-ons and a child who is now capable of escaping if she chooses.
Anyone know how to do a reverse phone number lookup on Google? (there's a special command/switch you use with the phone number).
eta: Oh, you just have to enter it in phone-number format - eg: (312) 555-1212.
If you don't figure it out, you can do a reverse lookup on anywho.com.
I googled and figured it out (see edit). But thanks.
I don't get a reverse lookup or anything special with that, Tommy. Just a google of the numbers.
tommyrot, I've done it by just entering the phone # as xxx-xxx-xxxx
flea, were they afraid she was going to make an exploding geodesic dome? Anyway, what an incredibly cool toy (esp. for mr flea)!
Believe me, I've tried, but the baggage roller thing is so long that you'd need to walk yards at LAX and then back around to see the screens.
See, I already had to walk yards just to retrieve my shoes anyway....
Back from jury duty. Alas, no actual service. Coincidentally, my glasses set off the metal detector. Thinking about it, I suppose it's equally possible it could have been my hairclips, but still. Whatever.
Re earlier conversation on monkeys and dolphins using computers - it turns out that pigs can be trained to use their snouts to operate joysticks and play computer games:
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You know one advantage to allowing pigs onto the Buffista board is that whereas if a human user show demon like behavior all you can do is expel them, a big that showed demon like behavior is
Was there some kind of bomb? Some kind of IQ bomb that went off in the atmosphere this morning and blanketed the Earth with stupidity like nuclear winter?
