Out of the Blue

In honor of the late Dave Thomas I took my appetite to a drive-through Wendy's last night. It's not often that I manage to swing by Wendy's, as they suffer from fewer locations than their competition. In spite of this, it has always qualified as my favorite of the fast food joints, but even then I found myself truly shocked at the quality of my dinner, which was tasty and shockingly fresh. I don't know if they were putting extra effort in after the death of their founder, if I had freakishly good timing, or if this location was some sort of burger heaven (I almost said nirvana, but that's inappropriate isn't it?), but when is the last time you had a fast-food burger that you had to be careful to keep from burning your mouth? My own answer is easy enough -- last night was the first time ever (even counting that McDLT hot side hot/cool side cool dealie).

Story of the Day: Congressman Strip Searched. Thanks Jamie Fullerton.
Wild Science: First image of extrasolar "planet" captured. Thanks [MP] Wolverine [MP].
Media of the Day: Futurama Framegrabs Anthology of Interest 2. With shots of the portion of this week's episode where life was more like video games. Thanks Ant.
Bonus Media: Bill Gates dressed as Harry Potter. Thanks Russell Raymond. I find this as disturbing as anything we've ever posted.

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Re: The real Dave Thomas
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Re: The real Dave Thomas Jan 9, 2002, 22:38
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Here in Columbus, Ohio (home of the original Wendy's restaurant and the headquarters of Wendy's International, Inc.), the news of Dave's death has made the entire city a sadder place. He did so many things for so many charities and other organizations in this community. Not just the adoption work either. He has worked with everything from blood drives to purchasing lands for campgrounds for mentally handicapped children. He was not a bad person by any stretch of the imagination. His marriage of 47 (I may have this number wrong...couldn't find it after hearing it yesterday on the news) years with 5 children and 14 grandchildren is a testament to that.

I worked at the headquarters doing simple computer stuff for about 3 months a few years ago (never got to meet Dave, sadly, but I did get to install a new hard drive in his computer while he was away), and several of my co-workers were gay. So, if we add this information into your claims, you'd say "Dave loves orphans, but hates gays, but hires gays." Hrmmm. Contradiction? I think so.

If it helps, I also never saw Pat Robertson at the headquarters, so take that however you will
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