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daqman
05/19/09

In reply to Lawnmowers, Killer Bees and Fire: Five Tales of Mowing Madness
I was mowing some tallish grass last year and mowed the ears off the top of a rabbit. It was hopping around the lawn spouting blood then twitched horribly as it died. I bought one of those old fashioned non-motorized mowers to give the bunnies a fair chance.
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Harrison is playing FFVIII
05/19/09

@daqman: Should have got the camera and put it on youtube.
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badhatharry
05/19/09

@Harrison: I can't think of another tagline: Really? You want to watch something's painful death for amusement? Just go watch Faces of Death.
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bosskev
05/19/09

In reply to Lawnmowers, Killer Bees and Fire: Five Tales of Mowing Madness
I KNEW I'd made the right decision! I'm going to make a mural-sized enlargement of this article and glue it to my garage door 'cuz I am SO sick of my whiney neighbors bitching about my having concreted over my entire front yard. Hell, I painted it kelly green, even put in a few miniature golf holes. What's their damn complaint? On a breezy day, the windmill is an entertaining counterpoint to the fleet of permanently embedded pink flamingoes.
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medopal
11/16/08

In reply to Sony, Microsoft, and Best Buy Join in the Fight Against Tough Packaging: Clamshell's Days are Numbered
i was always thinking, why dont they give a free disposable scissor with every item they sell!!

Like u know, giving free straw!!

At least the scissor will be much cheaper than curing all the cut-hands and fingers!

btw, just yesterday night, i was this much near to break my home-door key to open a flash usb package.
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satoru
11/16/08

@DaSmith: Internal thefts from employees are still a major problem for even purely online retailers such as amazon or buy.com.
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satoru
11/15/08

In reply to Sony, Microsoft, and Best Buy Join in the Fight Against Tough Packaging: Clamshell's Days are Numbered
While this is hopeful, I won't really believe it will get any traction until Walmart gets on board. I used to work at P&G and if Walmart said "JUMP" we said "HOW HIGH", on command. They dictate how the packaging for products must look, and they demand that the packaging be as theft-proof as possible. It's as if allowing the consumer to get at the product ranks about 100th on the list of requirements. They simply don't care. It must be theft proof to deter both external, and internal thefts. Unless Walmart gets in on this kind of initiative, prepare to continue to toy with death while opening gifts on Christmas' to come.
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frigg
11/15/08

In reply to Sony, Microsoft, and Best Buy Join in the Fight Against Tough Packaging: Clamshell's Days are Numbered
Has anyone ever sold clam shells in clamshell packaging? I'd buy that.
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Nintenboy01
11/15/08

In reply to Sony, Microsoft, and Best Buy Join in the Fight Against Tough Packaging: Clamshell's Days are Numbered
I hated the Xbox 360 controller packaging above all else. It took me 30 minutes to get it out.
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BeautifulAgony
11/15/08

@Nintenboy01: If I remember correctly, you should have gotten 100 Achievement Points for your Xbox Live account for accomplishing that feat in under 30 minutes.

If you get it open in under 5 minutes, though, they ban you for haxx0ring...
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shiftyeyedgoat
11/15/08

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The Clamshell is like EA's software piracy prevetion: pointless and solely screws the customer actually PAYING for the product.

Now, if you find some way to turn this into an Obama story, I'll hurt all of you...
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BeautifulAgony
11/15/08

@shiftyeyedgoat: It's time for packaging CHANGE! We need to put the unassailable, impregnable clamshell packaging of the Bush administration behind us! For too long it has prevented hardworking, lower- and middle-class American families from enjoying the products they deserve, while only protecting the wallets of the richest corporations! Healthcare costs will actually DECREASE as we slowly transition AWAY from this harmful packaging, and we will be able to REDUCE military spending aimed at devising ways of opening this type of irrational packaging!

heh
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