There I was, a-browsing the BoingBoing Archives when I came across an entry about dry ice bombs. People have been a little this summer about dropping Mentos™ or dry ice into soda bottles. Yes, yes, we know. Pow, sploosh, hooray! But listen to this:

You need to be very, very careful with dry ice. I spent one week in the hospital with a collasped lung and 4000 stitches, and my then-future wife received 500 of her own. And I wasn't even making a bomb, just playing around with dry ice - capped the lid and didn't unscrew it quickly enough. After a few seconds, the mountain dew glass bottle it was in exploded. It blew out all of the windows on the first floor of our house, and neither of us could hear anything for days. Be very, very careful.

Say what? You exploderized yourself into the hospital, peppered this girl with frozen plastic shrapnel, and she eventually *MARRIED* you? Maybe that's why I'm still single - I'm not causing my female companions enough grievous painful explosive concussive damage.

Oh, and while we're on the subject of explosives, the TSA earlier this week has reinstated KY Jelly as being in the category of things you are allowed to carry onto an airplane. Hooray! No more chafing, abrasive in-flight anal intercourse!

Up to 4 oz. of essential non-prescription liquid medications including saline solution, eye care products and KY jelly

Now perhaps I'm being insensitive, but does anyone actually consider KY Jelly to be "essential medication"? I understand that someone might be a little dry down there, but is it really life threatening? Would your nethers turn into a vortex of dessication, sucking into itself the beverages of all of your neighbors? But wait, further down the page you'll note that neither eyedrops, toothpaste, nor mouthwash are not permitted onboard flights. So out of these "wet" openings on our bodies - mouth, eyes, vagina, we're only allowed to service the last?