http://www.birdsbeforethestorm.net/2008/10/what-ive-learned-from-mythbusters/ anarchism, travel, music, and book design Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:01:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.birdsbeforethestorm.net/2008/10/what-ive-learned-from-mythbusters/#comment-87 Prof, Offlogic Fri, 24 Oct 2008 00:48:57 +0000 http://www.birdsbeforethestorm.net/?p=175#comment-87 Back when Rockefeller was the VP, a pressman at a local paper discovered that bomb-sniffing dogs just HATE highway flares. One dog woofed at his parked car, so the Secret Service pried open his car and cut the battery cables. Boy, it's a good thing that evildoers don't grind up highway flares, dissolve them in water/alcohol, and spritz the stuff around with spray bottles at likely speach/rally locations. That would be sheer chaos! Back when Rockefeller was the VP, a pressman at a local paper discovered that bomb-sniffing dogs just HATE highway flares. One dog woofed at his parked car, so the Secret Service pried open his car and cut the battery cables.
Boy, it’s a good thing that evildoers don’t grind up highway flares, dissolve them in water/alcohol, and spritz the stuff around with spray bottles at likely speach/rally locations. That would be sheer chaos!

]]> http://www.birdsbeforethestorm.net/2008/10/what-ive-learned-from-mythbusters/#comment-84 Mike Thu, 23 Oct 2008 12:06:09 +0000 http://www.birdsbeforethestorm.net/?p=175#comment-84 You can never watch *too* much mythbusters. They have a great way of taking what people seem to just *know* and putting it to the test, but without taking themselves too seriously. As a side note, Adam is a sometimes presence on the group-site <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/" rel="nofollow">metafilter</a> and has been known to engage in just this sort of further discussion. He comes across on-line in just the same way he does on the tube: goofy, bright, interested and fun. You can never watch *too* much mythbusters. They have a great way of taking what people seem to just *know* and putting it to the test, but without taking themselves too seriously. As a side note, Adam is a sometimes presence on the group-site metafilter and has been known to engage in just this sort of further discussion. He comes across on-line in just the same way he does on the tube: goofy, bright, interested and fun.

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