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So let’s say you decided to take a trip and see what all the fuss is about with this marijuana tourism stuff in Colorado (let’s hope you were more successful than Maureen Dowd). But after all that cooking eating, giggling and agreeing with Neil deGrasse Tyson about everything, you forget to grab your marijuana-themed souvenirs and you’re already at the airport to head home. You’re out of luck.

You’ll have to rely on your words and Instagram shots to remember the experience, as the Denver Airport has banned all cannabis souvenirs featuring those signature leaves in the design, reports the Associated Press. Such products could taint Colorado’s image, airport officials believe.

It was already illegal to bring actual marijuana on the premises, with the state providing amnesty dropboxes for people to dump their overlooked weed before flying.

But after a retailer tried to set up a free-standing kiosk in the airport to peddle marijuana leaf boxer shorts and other items to capitalize on Colorado’s legal recreational marijuana, officials worried about the state’s reputation.

“We don’t want marijuana to be the first thing our visitors experience when they arrive,” airport spokesman Heath Montgomery said.

The retailer in question might sue, as she says the souvenirs are legal. And besides, the airport has no problem exhibiting craft brewers, which also features a product that’s only legal for people 21 or older.

But such a lawsuit would not be very likely to succeed, as it’s up to airports to decide on concession operators and limit free-speech activities like people passing out brochures.

In Washington state, the only other state where you can buy recreational marijuana, Seattle-Tacoma International Airport has no such ban on pot-themed souvenirs, a spokesman said.

Smaller airports in Colorado also don’t ban the items.

But that doesn’t budge Denver’s airport officials, as airport spokesman Montgomery says it has a special obligation as the gateway to the Rocky Mountain region.

“Frankly there’s a lot more to Colorado than pot,” he said.

If you’ve got a flair for puns, however, you’re in luck: Things like “Rocky Mountain High” will get by, while any depictions of the marijuana plant, products with the word “marijuana” and pot publications will get the boot.

Main Denver airport bans sale of marijuana-themed souvenirs [Associated Press]

Musician John D. Boswell, aka Melodysheep, pays tribute to the golden age of the Internet with this catchy musical remix of clips and sounds from 1990s Internet advertisements.

Previous Melodysheep Musical Tributes: Robin Williams, Steve Irwin, Mister Rogers

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I've always been fascinated with permadeath options in games. Witcher 3 might have a doozy.

Witcher 3 senior game designer Damien Monnier and level designer Miles Tost recently streamed the game on Twitch and hosted a little Q&A afterwards, which Game Informer transcribed.

CD Projekt RED is still working on the possible "Insanity" difficulty, and is considering ideas like the game automatically deleting your save data upon death. 

There are some other tidbits. You can still play the game and roam around the world after beating the game. Your choices from past Witcher games will be recounted towards the beginning and you can amend them how you like (if you're changing platforms). And you can meditate anywhere you start a fire, but not at a fire in a stranger's home. How respectful.

CD Projekt RED Answers Fans’ Burning Witcher 3 Questions [Game Informer]

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We know from years of talking to people on the frontlines of customer service and billing that they don’t always have the nicest things to say about customers; you probably wouldn’t either if your day consisted of being yelled at for issues beyond your control. But most people don’t let their distaste for customers boil over to the point where they actually rename a customer “A**hole Brown.”

Granted, Brown is the last name of the customer in this story from consumer advocate Chris Elliott, but her first name is most definitely not related to an anus or any other excrement-connect body part.

And yet, there it is at the top of her Comcast bill, “A**hole Brown,” minus the asterisks of course.

The customer could only surmise that the name change had something to do with her request to bring down her monthly expenses by removing the pay-TV portion of her Comcast package, even though it cost her a $60 fee to cancel. As usually happens in such calls, her cancellation request was escalated to a retention specialist.

(Hopefully not this retention specialist.)

“I was never rude,” she tells Elliott. “It could have been that person was upset because I didn’t take the offer.”

She says she tried to get some sort of explanation and to have her name changed back, but neither the local nor regional Comcast offices were any help.

Elliott was able to get someone from Comcast HQ on the phone and they took the matter a bit more urgently.

“We have spoken with our customer and apologized for this completely unacceptable and inappropriate name change,” a company rep tells Elliott. “We have zero tolerance for this type of disrespectful behavior and are conducting a thorough investigation to determine what happened. We are working with our customer to make this right and will take appropriate steps to prevent this from happening again.”

She’s since heard from a Comcast senior director of government affairs, who offered to waive that earlier $60 fee and promised that the employee responsible for the name change would be terminated.

A subsequent call from a general manager in her region assured the customer that her name has been corrected.

However, the customer is not satisfied with mere apologies after the fact.

“This is unacceptable,” she tells Elliott. “I am requesting everything back I paid Comcast for doing this to me.”

Square Enix is preparing to launch the Ultimate Action Triple Pack and Ultimate Stealth Triple Pack for PS3 and Xbox 360 in North America this year, according to listings on Amazon spotted by @Wario64. The Action Triple Pack includes Tomb Raider, Jus...

Anthony Richardson (previously) of The Exploding Heads returns with another NFL "Bad British Commentary" video, doing the 2015 College Football National Championship game between the Ohio State Buckeyes and the Oregon Ducks.


Bad British Commentary

Previously: 2014 Bad British NFL Commentary

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It’s true that most cheeses are named after their place of origin, so John Green goes ahead to tell us the story of the cheese’s origin as well. Even cottage cheese was once made in cottages. However, there are some in which the name is a little more complicated, like Monterrey Jack (there is a Jack involved). There’s even a cheese named after another cheese! Learn about two dozen cheese names in this week’s mental_floss List Show.

Bossa Studios' bread simulator, I Am Bread, is making its way to iOS, the developer announced today.

The iOS version will feature all the new content that is being added to the Steam Early Access version, including the recently announced Garage area.

In the studio's latest "Bread Diary," the developer clarifies that development on the iOS version won't begin until development on the PC version is complete and I Am Bread is out of Early Access.

According to Bossa, I Am Bread will "definitely" be out of Early Access this Spring. It's currently available for $10 USD.

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Quinn the Bernese Mountain Dog puppy was eager to go outside and play in the snow, but he wasn't quite prepared for such a slippery adventure.

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Fast Food, Restaurant | GA, USA

(I’m a manager in a well-known fast food restaurant.)

Customer: “You a**holes are trying to kill me!”

Me: “I’m sorry, ma’am, what’s the problem?”

Customer: “You stupid mother-f***ers are trying to kill me!”

Me: “I assure you we’re not trying to kill you. Could you please tell me what’s wrong?”

Customer: “I ordered a [Soda] with no f****** ice, and you stupid mother-f***ers filled the cup with ice! I am deathly allergic to ice!”

Me: “I’m really sorry about that, ma’am. Let me fix that for you.”

Customer: “You’d better fix it. And I want my f****** money back, you stupid mother-f***er. I’m going to call the district office and have you all fired.”

Me: “Sure. I need to get that number from my office, as well as a refund slip for you to sign.”

(She continues to call me assorted names as I walk away.)

Me: “Sorry about the wait. Just print your name and sign. You can include a contact number if you’d like the district manager to call you.”

Customer: “I’m calling the f***ing office first thing tomorrow morning.”

Me: “I apologize again. Here’s your money, and here’s your [Soda], no ice, to which you are deathly allergic. I’m really sorry for the inconvenience. Have a good night.”

(She leaves the store still cussing up a storm.)

Next Customer: “That was amazing. Your facial expression didn’t change a bit the whole time.”

Me: “That’s because a decade of working customer service has left me dead inside. Now I’m going outside for a cigarette to try to finish off the rest of me.”

(The next morning I got a phone call from the district manager about how I was rude and unsympathetic to her serious medical issue, which she conveniently didn’t explain to him. I faxed him the refund slip with the reason for refund: Customer is deathly allergic to the solid form of water. He ended up praising me for not physically assaulting her.)

I'm not sure why there's such a lurid appeal to reading someone's automotive nightmares, but there is. It's not all schadenfreude, though, there's real sympathy. And if anyone deserves sympathy, it's this Canadian fellow stuck with an unholy 2012 Subaru Impreza that he's claimed, so far, is on its fourth engine. In the past 3,106 miles.

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