June 4, 2002

12:21 AM

Fingertip found in a Japanese Rice Ball. In other news, the feds are thinking about investigating rumors about dead bodies being stored inside the biggest ball of twine in Minnesota.
posted by kingmissile (15 comments total)

Nowhere does it say in your latter link that feds are thinking of investigating rumours about dead bodies inside the biggest ball of twine in Minnesota...
posted by gloege at 5:41 AM on June 4, 2002

I cut off a slice of my thumb working in a kitchen in Detroit in 1990. Just a little sliver, but it was lost forever when I was slicing cucumbers without the chainmail glove.
posted by adampsyche at 5:52 AM on June 4, 2002

Ripley's Believe It Or Not may have a pair of the biggest balls ever.

No bigger than kingmissile's, apparently.
posted by yhbc at 6:11 AM on June 4, 2002

Nowhere does it say in your latter link that feds are thinking of investigating rumours about dead bodies inside the biggest ball of twine in Minnesota...

*whoosh*
posted by fahfooh at 6:21 AM on June 4, 2002

*whoosh*

Took the words right outta my mouth, fahfooh.
posted by kingmissile at 6:51 AM on June 4, 2002

We have the technology to reattach this rice ball. Nurse, give me a scalpel.
posted by ook at 7:22 AM on June 4, 2002

You guys are just bein' silly, now.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 7:48 AM on June 4, 2002

Fujii apologized. "We'll make sure this sort of thing doesn't happen again," he said.


From now on, only fingerless employees.
posted by GaelFC at 8:07 AM on June 4, 2002

it wasn't a mistake, it's a feature!
posted by Hackworth at 8:23 AM on June 4, 2002

Twine is so old school.... Rubber band balls are in, and destined to crush large buildings.
posted by MJoachim at 9:07 AM on June 4, 2002

Anybody got a non-yahoo source for this? It's perfect for my site (Tastes Like Chicken), but I hate using yahoo these days, since they drop stories after a few weeks.
posted by NortonDC at 9:21 AM on June 4, 2002

never mind, got it.
posted by NortonDC at 9:25 AM on June 4, 2002

Sheesh, I've been wanting a gazebo in my backyard for years. Now even balls of twine have their own gazebos.
posted by iconomy at 9:43 AM on June 4, 2002

(I just hate using Yahoo since they changed to that moronic CMS that creates unpronounceable URLs -- in some cases I've been unable to get MeFi to parse them inside an HREF tag.)
posted by dhartung at 9:53 AM on June 4, 2002

It's not as big as the yarn ball out of Sam & Max Hit the Road. That game was soooo cool... *sigh*
posted by RokkitNite at 3:44 PM on June 4, 2002