adam|riggins

Steve from Sans Brains can appreciate this. He recently made two blog posts about finding a newspaper in the bathroom, and finding a third “emergency” roll of toilet paper in there as well. Well, today I made a trip to the local restroom here on the fifth floor, and lo and behold, what did I find? A wrinkled newspaper AND the third roll, which had apparently been used.

The mystery and intrigue of these products is quite simple. If you find a newspaper in the loo, do you read it or leave it be? You don’t know who has touched it, after all. With the third roll of TP, it tries to come off as the “emergency roll”.  Personally, I thought that is what the 2nd roll is for.  Go to Sans Brains to read the full write-up.

I just thought I found both in the same trip!

Ever been to Snopes?  It is one of my favorite websites of all time, and I visit it frequently.  In case you don’t know, they deal with de-bunking urban legends.  For example, say you get a stupid forwarded email from your Uncle Bob.  You know, that uncle whose every email has “Fwd:fwd:fwd:fwd:fwd:fwd:fwd:” before the subject?  Yeah, him.  Anyways, this website will get to the bottom of not only those kinds of emails, but also older Urban legends.  One of my favorites is “if you shave the hair on your arm, does it grow back thicker”.  Pssssst… it doesn’t.

Anyways, if you ever  have tried to highlight text from their website, they have somehow blocked the ability.  Well fear not, faithful reader.  I have figured out how to do it.

1. Click File -> Save As
2. Save it is a website to your desktop (or wherever you want)
3. Open the saved html file.
4. Voila!  You can highlight the text now!

I have only seen this on Snopes, but it is great when you need to set the record straight with Uncle Bob’s dumb forwards.

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