Flowtron Leaf Eater

Prepare for the onslaught of fall leaves with the Flowtron Leaf Eater ($170). Featuring a fully capable, yet not Fargo-style body-approved motor,  the Flowtron easily handles double handfuls of twigs, leaves, and sticks, and is designed to sit above your trash can for completely mess-free cleanup, while the two step shredding/mulching process leaves you with valuable compost that can be used to beautify your lawn next spring.

 

 

 

 

 

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I belong to a networking group that meets WAY too early every Tuesday morning.  I've been attending meetings for over 2 years now, and still haven't gotten used to how freakin' perky some of these people can be at that time of the morning each and every week.  I should stop by one of their houses at 3 am on my way home from a gig, and see how perky they are THEN!

But I digress...

Each week, a different member of the group give a presentation for the members.  This morning, a company that sells laser printers/copiers/etc gave the presentation and had distributed dozens of fake $1,000,000 bills throughout the room.

I picked up 3 of them because I thought they might be fun to pass out from time.  You know, like leaving them in an offering plate or something clever like that.

Little did I know...

Roughly an hour and a half later I finished up meeting with a consultant on a project I've been working on.  At the end of the meeting, he jokingly said "That will be two million dollars."

I didn't say a word - reached into my wallet and dropped the two bills on his desk.

What followed was probably the best double take I've ever witnessed in my entire life.      It was PRICELESS. 

Like I said, sometimes the comedy gods can be gracious. 

I stumbled across a wonderfully caustic article titled: 8 Classic Board Games That Destroy Friendships.  Here's one of the entries for my very favorite game:

Here's an idea - let's get a bunch of anal retentive word nerds together to collaborate on a crossword puzzle and make a game out of it!   Get two or more people with graduate degrees in English playing this game and you may find yourself witness to a homicide.

It is like old-west cliché of gunslingers playing high stakes poker, ready to shoot the first person who cheats, except instead of guns, people have dictionaries.  Someone puts down the word "Adz" and people are going for their pocket-sized, easily concealed pleather-bound dictionary, or their hard-bound New York area phonebook-sized monstrosity of a dictionary, suitable for bludgeoning.  More likely these days someone is going to whip out their iPhones, allowing them to look up a word in a second and then dial the police the next minute when they are brutally beaten by a library-science major for negating their Triple-Word score.

I won't get into why the writer's opinion is true - but my family understands implicitly.  

BTW - "implicitly" is worth 19 points.