i usually try to abstain from posting metafilter bits here because, well, you’ve probably already seen them. but the one on “Sewage machine company warns about ‘Finding Nemo’ flushes” is going to make the cut, for reasons that may or may not be apparent:

“A company that manufactures equipment used to process sewage issued a press release Thursday warning that drain pipes do lead to the ocean — eventually — but first the fluid goes through powerful machines that “shred solids into tiny particles.”

“In truth, no one would ever find Nemo and the movie would be called ‘Grinding Nemo,”‘ wrote the JWC Environmental company, which makes the trademarked “Muffin Monster” shredding pumps. “