Comments on: Episode 91: Shooting Fish in a Barrel

By: BD

BD — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 19:57:00 +0000

If shooting fish in a barrel is so easy, why did they have to try so many different ways to do it?

By: MikeJ

MikeJ — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 20:24:18 +0000

Re: curing hot chile. Born in New Mexico I have to tell you that you missed the most effective method of taking the pain from eating chile. Hot coffee. The pain comes from the acids in the chile, especially in the seeds. Drinking hot coffee or tea while eating will wash the acids from the inside of your mouth and stop the burn. Try it.

By: John Smallwood Woodstock,On, Ca

John Smallwood Woodstock,On, Ca — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 22:26:47 +0000

Pain from eating hot peppers can be cured by petroleum jelly.

The petroleum jelly idea was misrepresented.I believe the petroleum jelly or vaseline is supposed to be applied to your mouth before eating the chiles,thus preventing the Capsaicin from doing its job.I have won bets with this little tidbit of knowledge. ( Betcha can’t eat one of these lantern peppers ) I Scoff in your general direction.

By: elliot

elliot — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 17:15:37 +0000

maybe the elephants don’t wanna squish the mice

By: Monty

Monty — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 01:37:43 +0000

An oriental restaurateur gave me slices of lemon and orange to cut the hot chile pepper in my mouth. It worked! Very quickly, too. She said the acid in the citrus counteracted the base in the pepper. That might be why people say Mexican beer (which has a lime in the mouth of the bottle) works. It’s the lime:)

By: wes

wes — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 07:04:00 +0000

where were they when they shot the m134?

By: Hungarian Fan

Hungarian Fan — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 21:58:29 +0000

Elephants are mighty afraid of pigs, probably the stupid sounds given off by common household pigs makes them scared. This has been known for several millenia.

You can find ancient greek coin money in museums, depicting war elephants on one face and pigs on the other, to commemorate some battle, where Alexander the Great defeated the larger army of the satrapah of India with this tactic.

By: beng tang

beng tang — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 13:34:50 +0000

They should have tested the elephants with other small white objects, and also had a control with a more natural brown mouse. Maybe it’s the colour of the albino mice they used.

By: Old viking

Old viking — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 12:49:53 +0000

The “shooting fish in a barrel” segment was just a misunderstanding of the myth or proverb. The proverb refers to how easy it would be to shoot salted fish in a barrel, hence, non-moving, tightly packed fish (commonly salted herring) – not swimming in water. So however entertaining the take was, it was not at all on the mark..

By: Robert Wolf

Robert Wolf — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 01:41:13 +0000

a little creamy peanut butter on a saltine cracker takes the burn from a hot pepper away fast