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02-01-2005, 10:44 AM | #1 |
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2/1/2005: M&Ms sorter
Farked today, and making the rounds, is this M&Ms sorter built from a kit. Yes, for only $168 you can sort your M&Ms by color using automation. I would say I want one, but I don't; this place will sell you specific colors and even custom messages. But a better option is to get a round-trip to Vegas and visit the M&Ms World store where they sell even more single colors... by the pound. |
02-01-2005, 11:10 AM | #2 |
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It's an ingenious mechanism. Plus, it's vertatile - you can use it for Skittles and SweetTarts, too!
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02-01-2005, 11:17 AM | #3 |
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Somebody PM Wolf! Quick!
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02-01-2005, 12:15 PM | #4 |
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Awwww, somebody remembered about my little "problem".
Cool idea, although I find that I like the zen like experience of hand-counting. When it comes time to sort the big bucket o' change into rolls to take to the bank, I do that by hand also, despite having more than one clever coin sorting and counting devices at my disposal. I'm going to send this to my friend who is also an M&M sorter, although she does it for obsessive compulsive reasons and then eats them in order from largest to smallest in number, including the blue ones.
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02-01-2005, 12:17 PM | #5 |
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Does she wash her hands before and after handling each one?
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02-01-2005, 12:23 PM | #6 |
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Good question, but no. She's just a sorter.
Most of her obsessive-compulsive tendencies are put to good use because she is a quilter.
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02-01-2005, 12:29 PM | #7 |
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LOL - wolf i misread your statement. i thought you said most of her tendencies are put to good use because she is a "quitter".
i was going to say, that doesn't sound very OCD to me.
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02-01-2005, 12:49 PM | #8 |
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I have a friend who won't eat blue M&Ms because she thinks they taste "funny"--she says it has something to do with an ingredient in the blue food coloring. I haven't had M&M's in a while, is there any truth to this? Or is she just as wacky as I've always suspected?
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02-01-2005, 12:55 PM | #9 |
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I shun them not because they are blue, but because they are actually tan and have gone bad.
Sordid details here.
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02-01-2005, 01:02 PM | #10 | |
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02-01-2005, 02:50 PM | #11 | |
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02-01-2005, 03:16 PM | #12 |
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Wolf - You might also want to avoid the red ones. The red coloring is made from squished bugs.
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02-01-2005, 03:29 PM | #13 |
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Ah yes... the carmine dilemma. I remember getting freaked out in eighth grade when some guy told this to us... hence why I tend to avoid many yogurts now.
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02-01-2005, 04:37 PM | #14 |
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Lac beetle juice maybe not in M&Ms, but definitely in Junior Mints:
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02-01-2005, 04:52 PM | #15 |
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Not lac beetle (at least I don't think so) but cochineal from which carmine is made.
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