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What's in the purse? Not even Indiana Jones is reckless enough to excavate the unearthly horrors that lie beneath the surface of receipts. Rather than incur the curse, it's best to just leave the old purse alone.

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I don't see the problem. One Direction Farrier would have been a perfectly good name. Or, for something more traditional, we could have chosen Slayer Farrier. But I never win arguments with my wife and had to pay for the legal name change from my own pocket.

Recipe: Lemon Thyme Chicken Thighs

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Have you ever wondered what you did wrong when a supposedly crispy batch of hash browns turns out mushy and soft? Or when that piece of chicken doesn't look as beautifully crisped as on the cookbook cover?

Perhaps you're making one of the most common mistakes beginners make in the kitchen.

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Audiences loved the LEGO Batman movie and gamers have enjoyed the LEGO DC superheroes games. They're fresh takes on classic heroes that you can recreate yourself with your own LEGO collections.

But, as a practical matter, being a LEGO superhero would be awful, as the webcomic Pictures in Boxes demonstrates. The only good thing about being a minifig hero is that your foes are equally disadvantaged.

Firstborn children aren't the only ones that turn one. So do new mothers. Here's a beautiful expression of gratitude.

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What toddler truisms are we missing?

We’ve all had to stand in line next to some insufferable brat of a child who won’t stop shouting out his desires for the entire world to hear. But most of us don’t have the gall to do what one Burger King customer claims to have done.

In a post on Reddit (cue the disclaimer that his entire story may be B.S., but it’s worth discussing anyway), a man claims that he was just trying to end his bad day on a good note by treating himself to some BK.

“When behind me comes this woman yapping on her cellphone with a little monster of a child,” he writes. “This kid was out of control, screaming, punching his mother throwing around a gameboy whenever something didn’t go right in the game.”

He says the mom paid more attention to her phone than to her kid, who was screaming about how much he wanted an apple pie.

The customer says his already bad headache got worse and so he asked the mother nicely to quiet her kid down.

“Immediately she gets up in my face telling me I can’t tell her nothing about raising her child and to mind my own business,” recalls the customer, who says the mom rubbed it in by calling her kid “sweety” and assuring him that he’d get his pie.

By the time the customer got to the front of the line, he says he could only think about how the loudmouthed brat and his mom had spoiled this little trip to BK.

“I then decide to ruin their day,” explains the customer who ordered all 23 pies the store had in stock.

“I take my order and walk towards the exit,” he recounts. “Moments later I hear the woman yelling, ‘What do you mean you don’t have any pies left, who bought them all?’ I turn around and see the cashier pointing me out with the woman shooting me a death glare.”

It’s one of those scenes that, were it in a movie (and it may be from a movie for all we know), you’d probably laugh and think the guy was an evil genius. But does the same hold true in real life?

Go ahead and vote on whether this man deserves a pat on the back or a kick in the rear:

[via Eater]

Next week (August 4 and 5) my 11-year-old daughter Jane and I are conducting a free 2-day live video workshop produced by CreativeLive. We’ll show you how to make 12 cool projects, ranging from electronic musical instruments to balloon videocameras.

You can watch the live video of the workshop for free, or if you live in the SF Bay Area, you can come into the studio and participate with me and Jane. (If you want to come into the studio and have a 9- to 13-year-old, let me know in the comments.)

Here’s the link to RSVP to the free live class, and to learn more about the class: http://cr8.lv/markfdiy

Please forward this link to anyone who might be interested. Thanks!

Today, my fiancé said "Rachel" instead of my name when asked to repeat, "I take thee, Emily, to be my lawfully wedded wife." I was shocked, so he explained while laughing that he doesn't even know a Rachel. He ruined our wedding for a Friends quote. FML

Today, at work, an old man was having trouble using his credit card at the checkout. I told him to "just stick it in", and he replied with "I love it when you talk dirty to me." The whole line at the checkout laughed. FML

Today, my husband thought it would be romantic to pick me up and fall on the bed with me while we were kissing. Our faces smashed together as we hit the bed, and my tongue is still bleeding on and off. FML