Chewing The Fat: Wednesday Ground 'Round

Just in time for April Fool's Day: Ponzi gardens, Beano for cows and breast enhancement in a bottle. But it may be all very real... Looking for a good excuse to jump head-first into gardening? Sarah Gilbert at Wallet Pop challenged herself and readers to start a garden for $25...

By Daniel Daugherty

April 1, 2009

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Just in time for April Fool's Day: Ponzi gardens, Beano for cows and breast enhancement in a bottle. But it may be all very real...

Looking for a good excuse to jump head-first into gardening? Sarah Gilbert at Wallet Pop challenged herself and readers to start a garden for $25. It's based on these encouraging numbers, figured out by Kitchen Gardeners International. Even Bernie Madoff couldn't promise that kind of return on that kind of investment.

By now you've probably heard somewhere that methane in cow farts contributes to global warming. It looks like the problem might be solved with the simple addition of Omega 3 to their diets.

You thought energy drinks and theme restaurants were getting strange? Cracked has a list of 14 bizarre soft drinks, some of which make energy drink marketing and theme restaurants look sane by comparison. The highlights:

~~Grossest~~ Second Grossest: Coolpis kimchi drink

Grossest: Placenta 400000

Heart Attack in a Bottle: NEEDS Cheese drink
Too Good to be True: Okkikunare, the breast-enhancing drink

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