Though an athiest/Jew/Hindu/etc being offended or not shopping somewhere because someone says "Merry Christmas" to them is just as silly as refusing to shop somewhere because they said Happy Holidays instead of Merry Christmas.

It is a carved-into-the-very-fundamental-physical-properties-of-the-universe rule that misstating a phone number in a very public setting will always result in directing people to a phone sex number. Three times over the last three years at my current job I've been involved with emergency fixes to deal with incorrect phone numbers that reached production on web pages. Every single one of those wrong numbers (each different) was a phone sex number.

Agreed. But it's also basic marketing- because someone might react this way, we have to do "X."

Apparently there are a lot of phone sex lines.

But he looks so normal



That is really funny to read in conjunction with your current avatar :)

And it took two months for it to be noticed.

Or two months for it to be reported.

The only thing that could have made that more awesome is if it had been a gay sex line. Because Charlie Crist directing people to gay sex=searingly funny irony!

Hehehehehehe.

This takes my screen name to a whole different level. :eek:

(Note: Technically SFW, but could be highly embarrassing.)

I'm guessing it's an artwork somewhere. I don't recall seeing them in K-mart. :D

You're probably looking in the wrong departments

Strange Lights Over Norway

The first two photos totally look "enhanced" with an effect, but the only explanation I have for the others and the video is that it's most like a test missile that exploded. There are many more articles with photos and videos too.

Phil Plait (www.badastronomer.com) gave his take on it this morning. He agrees it is a rocket spiraling out of control.