Any idea why I find this patch of ice a few steps outside my apartment building’s front door to be a bit unsettling?

Why do variations of green olives always come served in some sort of brine while black olives are served in water? I would like to try a black olive that has been spiced up a bit, but I can’t seem to ever find one.

And why it is that only green olives are ever stuffed?

In case of fire … “PULL DOWN SIEMENS”

Sure, on my way out of the burning building, I’ll stop just long enough to bring a $20 Billion company crashing to the ground.

This strikes me as a fire alarm which would only really come in handy for extremely experienced and talented corporate raiders.

Seen on an advertisement card found in magazines. At first glance, a misuse of parentheses.

Maybe there’s some hidden subtext? The sentence without the parentheses reads “The most culture can buy”. Maybe the authors are hinting that there’s no point being cultured because all you get is a subscription to “Cheap Eats”.

As an (interesting) aside of (useless) trivia, these advertisement cards are called “blow-in” cards because they are blown in to magazines.

A meander down a snowy sidewalk in Cleveland, Ohio quickly turned into a quizzical pondering session when I crossed this patch of sidewalk without any snow on it. What’s under there that’s melting the snow anyway?

Is it just the building heating system, or could it be something more exotic or unsettling?

- Tip of an as yet undiscovered volcano?
- The apartment of certain heroes in a half-shell?
- A fire-breathing dragon?
- Cleveland’s nuclear arsenal?

Is this a cousin of Luke or Anakin? Perhaps a more distant relative.

“How is one supposed to get a bay leaf out without removing the top?”

A great question posed by a reader from Chicago!

Any clever suggestions for this reader?

Para contactar Kellogg’s con preguntas o comentarios acerca de los Corn Flakes por favor llama por teléfono. Tus comentarios escritos en Español no pueden ser leídos, pero con gusto te atenderán por teléfono en tu idioma.

It’s morning and you’re enjoying breakfast at a diner. The food is greasy and tasty. You can feel your energy for the day building and you’re excited that you decided to eat here.  In fact, you’re so thrilled by the experience that you fail to keep tabs on an important factor.  This place has bottomless coffee.

Most diners do, in fact.

The kind waiter / waitress swings by your table every few minutes and offers to top off your cup.  You’re eating salty foods, and so you keep needing more to drink, so of course you say “Sure, fill ‘er up.”

Generally, this endless stream of coffee is a good thing. It should be up to you to decide how much you want to drink.  That said, it’s risky business. With the constant refilling, the fact that most fills are not quite  a full cup and not quite a half-cup, it is quite easy to lose track of just how much coffee you’ve imbibed.  Before you know it, you could be 48 oz of coffee in and none the wiser!

So as you lift that next piece of delicious bacon off your plate and prepare to enjoy chomping down on it, watch out for that shaky hand or sudden loss of ability to focus your attention, that could be the sign that you may need to switch to water.

Notable Exception: To our friend who sports six coffee cups on his/ her desk at work, we’re pretty sure this danger is not going to be an issue for you.

Are the towers of plastic containers, stacked in descending volumetric order, that sit in kitchen cabinets across America our modern adaptation of Russian Nesting Dolls?