Wednesday I wrote about people who are using Chock full o' Nuts cans as urns, ala the movie The Bucket List. As part of the reporting for the column I visited the factory in Suffolk.

Some of things I learned:

- Chock full o' Nuts is popular in the NY area. Hills Bros., also produced in Suffolk, is more popular in Chicago.

- Chock full o' Nuts is regularly seen in the television kitchen on Two and a Half Men.

- For product placement scenes in movies, everything in the aisle is often made by the same company.

- Chock full o' Nuts started as a nut shop, not a coffee shop, but added coffee during after The Depression as a way to make money.

For a while I've wanted to buy an instrument. Specifically, a ukelele or a trombone. I think it would be fun. Plus, they're fairly affordable. I'm not sure I would be any good at it. But I'd like to give it a try. Then I saw this flowchart. You can substitute a lot of different items for pan flute.

Somehow I got on the condoms companies' mailing list. This press release reads exactly like a Smoove B column: nice, nice, nice, inappropriate. Whoa! Where did that come from?!? One of these things is not like the others.

Here's what I mean:

For the romantically UN-inclined, LifeStyles(R) Condoms offers up some tips to keep things hot both in the bedroom and out: 1. Start the day special – While your significant other is in the shower in the morning, take a towel and warm it up in the dryer. It’s a simple way to show how much you care. 2. Short and Sweet – Leave love notes in surprising places like in a coffee mug or on the steering wheel. Don’t be afraid to make them steamy – letting her know how much she turns you on will have her yearning for the night all day long. 3. Small gift Mondays – No one likes Mondays. Give your lover something to look forward to by surprising each other with small gifts on the first day of the week, be it her favorite flowers, meeting him at the driving range with a bucket of balls, or picking up a Pleasure Pack from LifeStyles Condoms and making Monday the best night of the week. 4. Make her pleasure your priority – Not every man is as skilled in bed as his lover may lead him to believe. Heat things up for her with Excite^TM Sensual Gel, shown to improve the ability to reach climax in 94% of women!

Cough. Cough. Cough. What?!?

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