Oklahoma Wins HitHimAgain Lamest License Plate Award
Here is Oklahoma’s latest addition to its specialty plate offerings:
Let me explain how this plate earned our coveted Lamest License Plate Award.
M&Ms: Melts in Your Mouth and Also In Your Hands After Refrigeration
M&Ms gained popularity in 1941 with its widespread dissemination amongst American troops by the U.S. Army. They were distributed due to their unique ability to withstand the heat and conditions of the average battlefield without melting like other chocolate-based candies. Hence the promotion “melts in your mouth, not in your hand.”
Well I love M&Ms, I would say that it’s my favorite candy - especially almond M&Ms.
I like my M&Ms hard, and I generally prefer chocolate that has been hardened in the fridge. Even though M&Ms won’t melt when faced with above-average temperatures, their interiors do get soft and they therefore taste a little unusual when they are warm.
And this is how I uncovered M&Ms’ dirty little secret - their outer shell will become tacky and stain your hands after refrigeration.
It’s a good thing our troops fought in the Pacific and in temperate European climates. If the war had lasted longer and our soldiers wound up repelling Hitler from the Siberian steppes, morale surely would have suffered at the hands of sticky, yellow-red-blue-green-orange-and-brown stained palms and fingertips.
Oh, and as a complete non sequitur: you know those automatic spin-brush car washes? How come nobody ever implemented that kind of system in the average household shower?
Best Fast Food Chain: Rush’s
If you don’t live in mid-state South Carolina, I pity you. You are missing out on the greatest fast-food chain ever created. Rush’s is a model of perfection in an otherwise pretty lousy market. If there are any managers or entrepreneurs out there that are wondering how to make a fast food restaurant that works, take notice of what a faithful Rush’s customer has observed.
Look Out, Iran Has a Jet-Propelled Fighting Aeroplane!
The latest news coming out of Iran is that they have developed their very own jet fighter. I think if we’re going to Gulf-of-Tonkin ourselves into a war with Iran, we ought to know what we’re getting ourselves into.
OK, OK, so the picture above doesn’t accurately depict their new design. This is what it actually looks like:
Time to Find a New Country?
How many times have you heard celebrities whine about moving to another country if such-and-such gets elected? (Barbara Streisand, Alec Baldwin, Rosie O’Donnell, et al). Even I wonder what it would be like to purchase a small island and set up a minimalist form of government (probably just borrow the same Constitution we already have).
Then it got me thinking. Wouldn’t it be nice if there were a market economy amongst various forms of government? For instance, wouldn’t it be neat if you had a bunch of small countries close together that you could freely move between? And all the countries would extend you the same basic rights to life, liberty, and property. And none of the countries would tax commerce between one another. But if you didn’t like the way things were being run in one country, you could buy a house a couple of driving hours away and not have to worry about becoming a citizen in the new country or crossing the border.
This way, governments would strive to compete against one another to serve the people - keep taxes low, and government involvement in their lives at a minimum.
Oh wait. I think we had a system like that or something. Whatever happened to that?