The satirical site The Shovel picked up the distraction theme

Government s Budget Problems To Be Covered With Giant Burqa The Shovel

Can a man scoop fire into his lap, and his clothes not be burned?

The water you scoop from the pond is brown and stinks of human waste, but there s nothing else to drink.

But if they really were intelligent, why would they use a stick to extract termites from the ground rather than a shovel?

The oxen likewise and the young donkeys that till the ground will eat savory provender, which has been winnowed with the shovel and with the fork.

The oxen likewise and the young asses that ear the ground shall eat clean provender, which hath been winnowed with the shovel and with the fan.

He described various means of fishing including the use of nets cast from boats, scoop nets held open by a hoop, and various traps which work while their masters sleep .

Lystrosaurus ( shovel lizard ) is a genus of Late Permian and Early Triassic Period dicynodont therapsids, which lived around 250 million years ago in what is now Antarctica, India, and South Africa.

Tellingly, the influential neo conservative Richard Perle said in 2003 that he was still a registered Democrat, out of nostalgia for Henry Scoop Jackson, the powerful former Senator who embodied these commitments.

But there is another problem In the United States, only about a quarter of the almost 800 billion stimulus was designed to be spent this year, and getting it spent even on shovel ready projects has been slow going.

The benefit of the Max Pax coffee filter rings was two fold First, because the amount of coffee contained in the rings was pre measured, it negated the need to measure each scoop and then place it in the metal percolator basket.

So the Mars Rovers didn't scoop up any alien lifeforms. Scientist Penelope Boston thinks there's a good chance a 25 to 50 percent chance, in fact that life might exist on Mars, deep inside the planet's caves. She details how we should look and why.