That rumour is somewhere between a gross exaggeration and outright lie - unless Canada is using a very different polymer than that which has been in use by Australia for the last twenty odd years. Yes, very hot air will shrink Australian banknotes (I've actually done it with a fiver), but it has to be a lot hotter than anything available in a clothes dryer.

Right. Before he was mugged, he only had one Swatch!

Closer yet, but still not quite accurate. You see, religion is just fine until people get involved in it. Only then does it become dangerous.

I don't know about this particular device, but it got me thinking that, at least in similar devices, I can't imagine it would be too difficult to include an accelerometer and have it wait for a gesture to wake up the display. For example, a quick flick of the wrist through 120 degrees and back again would be sufficiently unusual to not be done accidentally, not so odd that you'd look conspicuous doing it, and very easy to remember. Yeah, you wouldn't wanna try it with a Starbucks soy chai latte in your hand, but regular watches have similar issues on that front.

Those trees really do spoil your view of the wood, don't they?

Hardly. They try to catch their prey unawares because it uses less energy and has a better chance of success to creep up 125 yards on a gazelle and then give chase at 25 yards than to simply chase it down from 150 yards.

While the meat industry may strive to do so, I doubt that there is an abbattoir anywhere in the world that has managed to completely remove stress and fear from the livestock about to be slaughtered. On the contrary, I suspect that immediately before the "What the..." moment, there is a great deal of "I smell fear ahead", and "I don't like this, it's all wrong" leading to appropriately natural levels of stress and fear hormones in my tasty burger. This $375,000 burger is probably going to be as flavoursome as a glass of water.

Are you insane? Man, tigers are bad enough with only 4 feet! Imagine the carnage they might wreak with an extra 6 feet. No, I fear 10 feet tigers are far too high a price to pay regardless of the benefits.

RTFA, newb!

Ahh, but a month from then, it will be passé.

All guns need smart owners. But gun owners are human. Not all are smart, and those that are, are not always so. That is the real problem.

Of course, the word "smart" is completely interchangeable with "educated", "sane", "law-abiding", "sober", and any number of characteristics desirable in those entrusted with the responsibility of owning a lethal weapon.

In that case, Scuzzlebutt's *Rim shot* may help.

Peasant: What I object to is you automatically assume superiority.

WillAdams: Well I do write with a fountain pen!

Peasant: Oh, fountain pen? Very nice! An why do you do that, then?

WillAdams: The Lady of the Lake, her arm clad in the purest shimmering samite, held aloft MontBlanc from the bosom of the water. Signifying by divine providence that I, WillAdams, shall be placed above the hordes of Bic-toting plebeians. That is why I am your better!

Peasant: You can't expect to become an elevated being just because some watery tart threw a pen at you.

WillAdams: Be quiet!

Peasant: Strange women lying in ponds distributing writing implements is no basis for a system of class distinction.

WillAdams: Shut up!

Peasant: I mean, if I went round saying I was enlightened because some moistened bint had lobbed a Schaeffer at me, they'd put me away!

WillAdams: Shut up, will you. Shut UP!

Not really. The Laurasians simply outsourced all their code-cutting to Gondwana - part of which would later become known as...

(Finishing that sentence is left as an exercise for the reader)