The Zen of Mustard and Pickles

Jeff Atwood

06 Jan 2006 — 1 min read — Comments

A co-worker and I went over to Scott's house today at around 1pm PST to pick something up for work. Scott just got a new television, so he demoed it for us, flipping through the channels, comparing HD signals to regular signals and so forth. As we were doing this we happened across this exact episode of the Maury Povich show featured on Boing Boing:

The Maury Povich Show: My Fear of Mustard and Pickles is Ruining my Life

Quite a Zen moment. It could be worse. Your fear of mustard and pickles could be ruining your life.

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