Steamed Hams

Something just made me think about this scene today

Skinner: Superintendent, I hope you're ready for mouth-watering hamburgers.
Chalmers: I thought we were having steamed clams.
Skinner: Oh, no, I said, "steamed hams." That's what I callhamburgers.
Chalmers: You call hamburgers steamed hams.
Skinner: Yes, it's a regional dialect.
Chalmers: Uh-huh. What region?
Skinner: Uh, upstate New York.
Chalmers: Really. Well, I'm from Utica and I never heard anyone use the phrase, "steamed hams."
Skinner: Oh, not in Utica, no; it's an Albany expression.
Chalmers: I see.

Chalmers: You know, these hamburgers are quite similar to the ones the have at Krusty Burger. Skinner: [laughs] Oh, no, patented Skinner Burgers. Old family recipe.
Chalmers: For steamed hams.
Skinner: Yes.
Chalmers: Yes, and you call them steamed hams despite the fact that they are obviously grilled. [shows Skinner the grill marks]
Skinner: Uh ... you know ... one thing I sh-- ... 'scuse me for one second.
Chalmers: Of course.

Skinner: [faking a yawn] Well, that was wonderful. Good time was had by all. I'm pooped.
Chalmers: Yes, I guess I should be -[notes entire kitchen is on fire] Good Lord, what is happening in there?
Skinner: Aurora Borealis?
Chalmers: Aurora Borealis? At this time of year? A this time of day? In this part of the country? Localized entirely within your kitchen?
Skinner: Yes.
Chalmers: May I see it?
Skinner: Oh, erm... No.

Japanese Ambassadors

Japan now has two cartoon ambassadors. Doraemon was declared its anime ambassador earlier this year. Now Hello Kitty has been named Tourist Ambassador to China and Hong Kong.

The article also says that Hello Kitty lives in London with her family

Oreos

Reminds me of a certain Simpsons episode

14 tons of Oreos spill on IL highway
ASSOCIATED PRESS
05/19/2008
MORRIS, Ill. -- Got milk?Police say a trailer loaded with 14 tons of double-stuffed Oreos overturned Monday morning, spilling plastic sleeves of cookies into the median and roadway.Illinois State Police Sergeant Brian Mahoney says the truck's driver was traveling from Chicago to Morris on I-80 around 4 a.m. Monday when he fell asleep at the wheel and slammed into the median.Mahoney says the force of the crash ripped open boxes of the cookies, but their plastic wrappers kept them from covering the ground.The crash about 50 miles southwest of Chicago remains under investigation.Mahoney says no charges have been filed but both lanes of traffic remain closed while authorities remove the cookies.

Chicagopedia

A couple new ones at Chicagopedia

• Witchya - witchya / witt cha / prep. phrase. "With you." As in: "You mind if I come witchya?"
• Nodjew? - nodjew? /no d'jeww/ Phrase. Much-contracted way of saying: "No, did you?" Often used as an answer to the question: "Jeetjet?"
• Elgin-O'Hare Expressway - Elgin-O'Hare Expressway/ el GIN oh HARE ex press way / n./ An optimistically named suburban highway that is the butt of many jokes because it reaches neither Elgin nor O'Hare -- and is often backed up. The roughly six-mile road, located near Schaumburg and Roselle, opened in 1993 with ambitious plans to someday link Elgin to the airport. Yet it now only connects Hanover Park to Itasca, ending at U.S. Route 20 to the west and I-290 to the east.
• 588-2300 - 588-2300 /five ate ate too three hun dred/ n. The phone number and catchy jingle, drummed into our heads for decades, of Empire Carpet, now known as Empire Today. The jingle was penned and performed by ad man Lynn Hauldren of Evanston, who has also portrayed the mustachioed Empire Carpet Man since 1977. It's his former barbershop quartet singing the jingle, which now includes the "800" prefix. Remarkably, despite decades of advertising, Empire operators have been known to ask callers, "How did you hear about us?"

Ten weirdest computers

Here's an interesting article I found about computers

Ten weirdest computers

1. Optical Computing - light signals to process data
2. Quantum Computing - using qubits which can be both 1 and 0 (Bender would be confused)
3. DNA Computing - Not really sure sounds like has to do with DNA reading input and running progrmas
4. Reversible Computing - reusing the output signals
5. Billiard Ball Computing - using chain reactions there's a video explaining
6. Neuronal Computing - using living cells to compute which can be used to create cyborgs like in the video at the bottom
7. Magnetic Computing- not too sure
8. Glooper Computer - ions a chemical goo
9. Mouldy Computers - using slime mold to find the shortest route in a maze
10. Water Wave Computering - again not sure

Beer can coffin

I'll let this story speak for itself, no comment.

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Man Uses His Coffin As Beer Tub


An Illinois man says he hopes to get his money's worth out of his new coffin, eventually. In the meantime, Bill Bramanti of South Chicago Heights says that his specially designed silver casket is serving as a beer cooler. The 67-year-old Bramanti recently ordered a coffin designed like a can of Pabst Blue Ribbon beer.

The coffin's interior has a black liner to prevent seepage. On Saturday, Bramanti hosted a party and filled his red-white-and-blue casket with ice and PBR. The 67-year-old administrator for the village of Glenwood figures he can fit about 15 cases of Pabst inside. Bramanti ordered his coffin from a Chicago Heights funeral home and had a local sign company design the PBR can. He says he doesn't know yet how much the coffin will cost.

Illinois man orders custom beer-can coffin
The Associated Press
SOUTH CHICAGO HEIGHTS, Ill. --Bill Bramanti will love Pabst Blue Ribbon eternally, and he's got the custom-made beer-can casket to prove it. "I actually fit, because I got in here," said Bramanti of South Chicago Heights.
The 67-year-old Glenwood village administrator doesn't plan on needing it anytime soon, though.
He threw a party Saturday for friends and filled his silver coffin - designed in Pabst's colors of red, white and blue - with ice and his favorite brew.
"Why put such a great novelty piece up on a shelf in storage when you could use it only the way Bill Bramanti would use it?" said Bramanti's daughter, Cathy Bramanti, 42.
Bramanti ordered the casket from Panozzo Bros. Funeral Home in Chicago Heights, and Scott Sign Co. of Chicago Heights designed the beer can.

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