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How is THIS on the True Stories network???

Millennium (1989) – Plot summary

Trap the kitty.

Chat Noir – Flash game

Arf arf! (I wrote this.)

Animals in the Movies Quiz | PARADE Magazine

Why it smells like smoke

The standards at Stanford have gone right through the roof.

Looking for a paper writer on Film criticism

Can you catch more flies with honey than vinegar?

The definitive answer: NO.

Lately we’ve been dealing with a plague of fruit flies, and I’ve been turning to traditional methods to get rid of them. Along the way, I thought of the old adage that you can catch more flies with honey than vinegar (meant to make you be nice to people, I guess). But is it true?

To test the old proverb, I put out two soda bottles, one with a small amount of honey and one with some red wine vinegar at the bottom. I left them next to each other for two weeks. The results are indisputable: Vinegar catches far more flies than honey. In fact, honey doesn’t catch any flies at all.

The photographic proof is below. The vinegar bottle has maybe 15 flies in it (every one of those little flecks is a dead fly). Honey, none. You could put it on your toast, it’s so clean. I have never even see a fly go into the honey bottle, much less get stuck and drown. But they love the vinegar. So next time someone tells you you’ll catch more flies with honey than with vinegar, well, now you’re free to tell them to shove off.

Nice work, Germans!

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75 Years of Band-Aid

Tara D. Baldwin of West Yorkshire, UK: You bought my book but you didn’t sign your check! Argghhhhhh!

Serious brain cloud today. I couldn’t hear John C. Reilly’s voice (his sad sack from Magnolia) but could not think of his name or really make out his face. Damn I’m getting old. Finally it came to me…

Argh!

John C. Reilly

RUDE!

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