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I usually thought of them as devices appearing in Road Runner cartoons, but they showed up in lots of other ones as well.

But what does that have to do with why I think the Internet is awesome? Because some crazy industrious buggers have cataloged every single ACME device that appeared in Looney Tunes cartoons.

I love the Internet because although I wish I had done this, there's no way I would have ever done it. Bravo!

As a side note, the ACME Christmas Package Machine (pictured right) is an ACME device I honestly think of every time I wrap a present. As mentioned before, I am terrible at wrapping, and I really wish someone would invent one of these bad boys, despite the dangerous hilarity that may ensue.

Problem was, I couldn't remember exactly how it went. I knew it was something along the lines of "You have to ride the horse that got you there." That didn't sound right. Mike suggested, "You have to dance with the horse you rode in on" which sounded better though vaguely disturbing at the same time.

In desperation I turned to Google, where I did a search on "you have to * with the * you " and I got some pretty varied results, including:

- you have to deal with the cortex you have to work on
- you have to deal with the public, you’re bound to have a hassle or two
- you have to stick with the lifestyle you have chosen for your character
- you need to replace with the cracked exe
- you have to replace with the folder, where you hold your inf driver files
- you need to comply with the law when you ship sensitive or strategically controlled goods to destinations outside Canada
- you have to downgrade ur psp with the homebrew downgrade
- you have to fight with the police, you have to fight with the prosecutors
- you need to deal with the dragon you need to slay
- you have to deal with the avatar you were given
- you have to race with the Chocobo Trainer in Calm Lands.
- you have to answer with the Peekamo id you get on the message
- you have to piss with the dick you have
- you have to fight with the woman you love it might as well feature a bitchen guitar solo

All so very true. I didn’t find the one I was looking for though — anyone have any suggestions?

This particular dream was a bad one though… pretty much all my teeth were either falling out or loose, and I remember thinking, "Boy, I'd better go see a dentist!"

So what did I do?

I got to my computer and sent out a mass IM to all my buddies on Yahoo Messenger asking them how much they liked their dentist. Would they recommend him or her? How convenient were their hours? Did they handle electronic submission of costs to benefits providers?

I know what you're thinking — John, you have awesome dreams.

I know what I was thinking — Here's a dream that nobody on earth would have had a few years ago.

Social computing and instant messaging have obviously seriously changed how I think, even in my dreams, and I think that's cool, if nerdy as heck.

So, to continue the trend about social computing and how it has changed traditional trends in life, and hopefully not because my teeth are about to fall out, I ask on my blog — anyone have a dentist they like in Toronto?

And yet, there are limits, or there should be.

Take this case, a person who is selling, and I am not making this up, a "beautiful pink "vagina couch" that I made in art school and no longer have space for".

Hey, it looks like a well-made couch, and it's certainly a conversation piece, but for some reason although I am moderately icked out at the thought of sitting on a "vagina couch", I am TOTALLY icked out at the thought of sitting on a second-hand "vagina couch".

I'm not sure … does that make me a furniture snob or a prude? Hmm.