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If you have seen stronger and funnier evidence than this phone call that a high school degree from a public school in this country proves little to nothing about a person’s intelligence, I would love to see it.

This poor sap spends an hour on the phone (20 minutes recorded below) with no less than 5 Verizon Wireless reps trying to explain to them that $0.002, which is what they read from their screens and papers, is not the same as saying something costs “0.002 cents“. Not a single one of them is able to see the difference. I know, you don’t believe me. Just listen to the thing right below.

Hello people!? Just because it came after a dollar sign and a decimal point doesn’t mean you can read it “cents” willy nilly. I didn’t know whether to cry or laugh as I listened to this recording. Of course I erred on the side of fun and I laughed uncontrollably throughout the call. Here’s hoping that you do too.

Epilogue: According to the blog this guy set up, VerizonMath, after several days, hundreds of thousands of people learning of the incident, and no doubt hundreds of them writing or calling to Verizon, VZW has finally admitted their mistake, refunded the guy’s money, and promised to edit their reference materials to make things clearer for their 2nd-grade-educated reps.

Let’s be clear. I have no beef with you if you answer support calls for a living. I do think you’re incompetent if you don’t know how much money $0.002 is.

I don’t know who the folks over at EepyBird.com are, but they sure do have a lot of time on their hands. They have gone and recreated the water show that happens in front of The Bellagio with some 200 liters of Diet Coke and a bunch of Mentos.

Seeing this gets me thinking about possibly putting in a fountain that runs Diet Coke instead of water sometime in the future when I design my own house. Normally it would just be a mild mannered fountain like lots of other people have in their backyards. But, when you felt the need to spice things up a little bit, you feed it some Mentos and BAM, instant Diet Coke geyser. I think I could have a lot of fun with that. Plus since it would be using Diet Coke instead of regular Coca Cola, we wouldn’t have to deal with the issue of sugary syrupy stuff clogging the pipes. Or so I think.

Anyway, go check out the well choreographed video of the Diet Coke and Mentos Bellagio fountains.

Matt Groening, the creator of The Simpsons, has approved the creation of a version of The Simpsons’ opening credits with real people rather than animation. It is definitely interesting and probably funny to watch; probably funnier than most of The Simsons episodes these last few seasons.

Watch The Simpsons live action remake. [Google Video]

Read the article about the remake at The Sun Online.

Update – The link to the video broke after I posted this so I’ve found another copy and changed the link. It should work again. Enjoy.