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What's the hazard with borax?

And Dave wins again.

Meanwhile, on a completely different note (pun definitely intended)... My choir director forwarded me an email from someone looking for amateur tenor and bass singers, to join in a choir to sing Verdi's Great Requiem... After consideration, and discussion with the person who originally had sent him...

It's why the things are so often laden with grammar and spelling errors, and what you would think are obvious absurdities: to screen out people smart enough to question whether the IRS would really send you a letter written in Engrish... I have to admit, I had never thought about that angle... That...

But now I'm so frosted off at Volkswagen over the diesel emissions fraud that I'll never buy another one. Better not buy a smartphone either. A bunch of manufacturers have been caught programming the phones to cook the performance numbers when the various testing suites are run. In other words, don...

I'll bet it had something to do with a new president or other high end management change... btw- I first joy-rid my first ride in a parking lot & it was an old air-cooled VW bus. That said, I'm still thinking of getting the successor; a Vanagon and w/ the Diesel bell-housing in there you can strap ...

And the Boca combination sound card/modem was a nightmare. {Boca was a company started by former IBM engineers - the same team who had been responsible for the PCjr...} I had my own nightmare with a Boca Ethernet card, years ago. I chose it because it used a very good Ethernet chip (AMD PCNet) whic...

I've always heard it as 'Quehr-ee'. Interesting. I've always thought it that as being a British variant pronunciation... haven't heard it used in the U.S. as far as I can recall. However... I believe I recall that some of the Appalachian accents in American English are derived pretty directly from ...

Furshlugginer publishing industry . . . .

Just last Sunday, when I filled up before driving to my dad's birthday brunch, a van filled up, next to my truck. A 73 VW van... Admittedly, the owner said it was costing her a fair bit, to keep it alive... I told her I knew the feeling (mine being a 1991 GMC Suburban...) Got rid of a 1970 VW van i...

Description sounds like they might have entirely replaced the suspension and drive train. The guys over at Doc's who rebuild old cars do that.

Yeah, I've been jammed up with work (technically working right now, actually ) and weekend crap with the ancestral property. Haven't looked in for a few days.

My condolences, Pablo. Did not check the board for a few days and am just seeing the news here now.

Sometimes the waiting is worse. Wishing comfort and peace to you and your family.

My grandmother spent ten years dying inside her head until her body finally gave out at age 102. I know what it's like. My mom didn't last that long, but I was missing her while she was still here. We thought her anorexia and dislike of formerly palatable foods was a symptom of dementia. She went f...

The FIAT 128 was a decent little car. There was nothing Sovet cost-cutting couldn't ruin. Remember once seeing the Yugo described (approximately) as a base-model Fiat assembled from factory-second parts by unskilled workers in poor light. Click and Clack about stroked out laughing at an unlucky cal...

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Sat May 11, 2019 4:11 pm

The Yugo i ripped a door off made a similar but not-so-loud noise...

Q: For why has Yugo rear window electric defroster?

A: For to warm hands when pushing in snow!

Good to see Jasper whatever thread.

Now, you want a bad joke?

Saw a thing just lately--with pictures--that dogs can ride the New York subways. If they fit in a bag!

Try convincing Jasper to ride the subway in a bag.

I knew opposite sides all equaled the same number. But I was thinking it was 6. That actually wouldn't work - what goes on the side opposite the 3? The numbers 1 to 6 total 21. There are three pairs of opposite sides on a cube, so if each pair is going to have the same total it must be 7. Quite log...

I knew opposite sides all equaled the same number. But I was thinking it was 6.

Goes to show, ya don't ever know . . . .

Jasper puts up with a lot. It's tough being a dog (as any dog will tell ya). But there are limits.

Always good to see Jasper. Makes the week better.