This just in from the Department of Duh: Cap’N Crunch Crunch Berries are not a fruit.  Last month, a judge in California dismissed a claim brought by a woman who believed PepsiCo, the parent company of Cap’N Crunch manufacturer Quaker Oaks, had misled “reasonable consumers” with its colorful Crunch Berries.  “Plaintiff contends that the colorful Crunchberries, combined with use of the word ‘berry’ in the Product name, convey the message that Cap’n Crunch is not all sugar and starch, but contains redeeming fruit,” the opinion says.  Find out what Judge Morrison C. England Jr. thought after the jump. “This Court is not aware of, nor has Plaintiff alleged the existence of, any actual fruit referred to as a ‘crunchberry,’” England writes in the May 21 opinion brought to our attention by the blog Lowering the Bar. “Furthermore, the ‘Crunchberries’ depicted on the PDP [principal display panel] are round, crunchy, brightly-colored cereal balls, and the PDP clearly states both that the Product contains ‘sweetened corn & oat cereal’ and that the cereal is ‘enlarged to show texture.’  “Thus, a reasonable consumer would not be deceived into believing that the Product in the instant case contained a fruit that does not exist,” he said.

Source >> Lowering the Bar

Have you ever driven down the highway when there’s construction work going on and wondered who makes all the money from selling the orange barrels used to block off lanes? That’s a lot of barrels. So many barrels, in fact, that a student at NC State in Raleigh, North Carolina helped himself to three of them and constructed this most-excellent Barrel Monster. The construction company he stole the barrels from wasn’t amused and 21-year-old Joseph Carnevale (even his name is fun!) was arrested. According to The Smoking Gun, “Police estimated that Carnevale’s artwork caused $360 in damages to Hamlett Associates, the North Carolina construction company that owned the barrels.” So those barrels cost $120 each?

Source: http://www.crunchgear.com/

ThinkGeek.com is offering a “blood stained” shower curtain or bath mat for your home “because sometimes it’s just scary having to wake up in the mornings.”

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“For as long as I can remember I’ve always dreamed about converting a building, such as a barn, a mechanics shop, a church, into a home. Well, some folks in the UK have converted done just that. They purchased a church for £92,000, spent £300,000 in renovations, and it’s now worth about £650,000. I’m not sure that I could live in a home surrounded by gravestones though….EEEKKK!! Would you want to live here?” Source: http://desiretoinspire.blogspot.com/

History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.

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