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"If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate." Or the container. Or the surface the container rests upon. Or the air around it all. Or the room the table is in. Or the building the room is in. Etc, etc. When people tell me I'm part of the problem because I'm not part of THEIR...

Nice! Canon or not, it's great to see Tina with such a happy smile on her face.

Does anyone know how to make a cat start using a litter box? I'm tired of my dad's cat refusing to use one if either of the other cats has used it, and pissing on my floor instead. I'm not sure that the concept of "making a cat do X" is even meaningful in this universe. Cats are territorial, and do...

Well, it's German . Wha'd you expect? :twisted: English has weird rules, too. We just don't notice. :mrgreen: English is, at its core, a Germanic language, so it came by some of its weird rules by that path. Others came from its large admixture of French (actually a whole complex cluster of Romance...

Sarge, the Sage. Yes. With Thanksgiving coming up, that is always good advice. I would be very careful either calling Sarge a turkey or telling him to get stuffed... By no means, sir. With his skill and experience, and in the tradition of promoting an officer or NCO upon retirement, I would see him...

TazManiac wrote: ↑

Tue Sep 03, 2019 2:25 pm

Sarge, the Sage.

Yes. With Thanksgiving coming up, that is always good advice.

With respect to the topic title... it's well chosen to describe the pain and wounds of moving. Randy is probably thinking "The scars... my destination!" hiss Hey, if you serve up an obscure reference around here, you should expect somebody to lob it back at you! :) Or, should I say (with a jaunty w...

With respect to the topic title... it's well chosen to describe the pain and wounds of moving. Randy is probably thinking "The scars... my destination!"

Catawampus wrote: ↑

Sun Aug 25, 2019 3:18 pm

And Euryale's yell does seem to be enough to shock Monica.

If course she was shocked. She thought that Old Yeller was a modern tale.

Would you be allowed to put down some compost, maybe with mulch on top of it? Adding organic matter to the soil would help improve the soil's moisture-holding ability and could reduce stress in the tree.

Having had to make a penny-related contribution to the Pun Jar recently, I was reminded of the time I stopped into a church in a small town. The congregation was small and the church had clearly fallen on hard times. When they passed around a collection dish for offerings, I could immediately see th...

lake_wrangler wrote: ↑

Sun Aug 25, 2019 3:47 am

I "cents" a disturbance in the pun jar... as if millions of pennies cried out and went out of circulation...

(Dave places a few rare steel pennies into the Pun Jar, in honor of the car's steel frame)

You make very intelligent points, as to what would make a good vehicle for a senior. Essentially, it's everything this pictured vehicle is not... :lol: (Not to mention the price, given the brand, which would be way out of reach of a fixed-income senior... :roll: ) The pictured vehicle seems as if i...

And a few Sperry-Univac behemoths... :) Ah.... perhaps a Univac 1108? I once used one of those to point out an error in my FORTRAN instructor's claims about FORTRAN functions. The program I wrote demonstrated that the Univac 1108 could be programmed to show that 2+2 equals 6 (and of course this is ...

Or, perhaps, who is for breakfast, Tina?

Just Old Al wrote: ↑

Mon Aug 19, 2019 6:48 pm

Bookworm wrote: ↑

Sun Aug 18, 2019 10:54 pm

I keep wondering why people insist on advertising to all drivers that their children are mentally handicapped. They keep saying "SLOW CHILDREN AT PLAY".

Or what happens when they grow up - SLOW MEN WORKING.

Truth in advertising?

Typing was probably the most valuable course I took in high school... got more use out of it through my life then any other single subject.

I had a three-month old PSU in the new machine i built in April just quit cold with no warning last month. Luckily, Micro Center were willing to replace it instead of making me get an RA from Corsair. You have to be careful when you build PCs for running word processing and document-production soft...

Zevo Insect Spray. I'm still investigating, but it might be worth a look... There are wasp-killing sprays that are basically mint oil in soapy water, in a CO2-pressurized spray can. They work pretty well... effective knock-down and they disable the wasps quickly. Orange oil is an effective ant repe...

Bah. Bed bug infestations are more proof the DDT ban was overreaction. Why do you say that? The current rash (heh) of bed bug infestations is driven largely by the fact that bed bugs have adapted/evolved resistance to a lot of insecticides. I have no reason to believe that the same thing wouldn't h...