Wednesday, January 26, 2005

Teflon is Devastating

That's right. Devastating. Did you know, that there was this lady, who had an African Grey Parrot in her living room, and when she started to boil water in a teflon coated pot, the parrot dropped dead, and then her kid was born with facial deformities, all because teflon is so devastating.

I learned this and other fantastic factoids such as oil is a good conductor of heat (actually, it has a high heat capacity... that's very different), and you can't sharpen a serrated knife (which you actually can).

Erin got a call from Celebrity China yesterday saying we won a trip at the bridal fair, and that we needed to go to the quality inn on Edmonton Trail and McKnight up by the airport (no, its not by the airport, its on the other side of deerfoot). I figured it was a marketing pitch, she was hoping we won something... we made a bet. If we won a good prize, I'd buy her dinner, if it was a waste of time, she paid for the gas. Guess who got gas money today. I don't like being 'tricked' or 'manipulated' by vendors, and don't trust products that need to do that to get you to buy them, so I was making wise ass comments the whole time. At one point they brought around food. I wasn't hungry and politely declined. Erin as well. It was at that point we were told we weren't welcome and we could leave any time we wanted. So we stayed... hehe. It was fun. Moral of the story, there's still no such thing as a free lunch.

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