I worked with a girl who designed props for the stage production off the lion king
and in a single sentence have spouted more reality than all the superstitious beliefs in the world

An ancient Chinese philosopher once said: "If there are ghosts, the highways would be extremely crowded with them"

Which they are not
( Jahled 1.1%er, Sun 24 Aug 2008, 12:19, archived)

i now have an image of a street sweeper with a proton pack
i wish ghosts were real, just so that proton packs could be real
( spacefish portable wetnork graphic, Sun 24 Aug 2008, 12:31, archived)

Why do you think those sludge-gulper trucks need to have a big round chamber on the back?
The ghosts get washed into the drains, and have to be sucked out by a portable cyclotron.

It's the idea that you could fit one in a backpack that's just utterly preposterous.
( joefish wonders if planting 3 trees offsets enough methane, Sun 24 Aug 2008, 13:09, archived)