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Some days I still miss kneading dough at the bake shop, and it's been *ulp* 17 years? It was cash under the table one winter when I was between camps in the publishing gulag. No stress unless you backed into an oven or dropped something on your foot. It was a lot of fun. Sadly, no succubi, though. N...

Opus the Poet wrote: ↑

Mon Jan 18, 2021 9:23 pm

"When in doubt, C4."

After the heart attack, my brother was satisfied that the cardiologists were absolutely sure of what they were doing.

Obviously, because they used nitroglycerin.

. . . I've had good results dealing with folks like Grainger and McMaster-Carr. if they stock it, the quality's going to be dependable. However, even with their fairly broad stock of spark-stuff, they don't always have dilithium crystals in the size you need. And they only stock the common radioiso...

There was a freak incident here some years ago when the ground was very cold, and then there was a light mist or fog just about dawn. Flash-froze a layer of ice just millimeters thick onto the roads, and there were minor accidents all over the place for about an hour. This was not a normal ice storm...

I get the feeling that this particular supply run will not be going to Home Depot. They never keep those sort of items in stock. Yeah. One time I asked where to find a 100-millicochrane engine and extra warp plasma for a model rocket. Followed their directions and ended up in the parking lot. :mrgr...

AnotherFairportfan wrote: ↑

Fri Jan 08, 2021 2:43 am

Firing live ammo - even something as feeble as .22 ratshot - in the kitchen ... or basement ... or attic is not generally regarded as a desirable action.

I knew kids who did shoot .22s in the house. That's a big reason why I decided not to have firearms.

Three years ago, I draped a towel over the top of the door to my cellar, so the cats can't trap each other away from the food (in the house) or the litter boxes (in the cellar).

They can open the door to the unheated room off the kitchen if it's closed but not latched.

Wow. This is the kind of horror story that keeps me from even upgrading to Win10.

I'm sure you'll figure it out, but I'd throw the thing off the roof or put it out in the yard for the alley cats to piss on, or something.

I've owed Weird Al a beer if I ever meet him, back to the first time I heard "Another One Rides the Bus."

He has single-handedly saved an entire generation of accordion players from a lifetime of cruel abuse.

Not familiar with that one, but nicely animated.

Coulda been worse--she wants a talking rabbit, she gets Bun-Bun . . . .

Atomic wrote: ↑

Thu Dec 24, 2020 11:43 pm

How sad. The Linda Lovelace Holiday Special isn't is print any more.

Kinda chokes you up, don't it?

*Ducks and runs for the door again*

What's the other explanation for why elephants have flat feet? A: From jumping out of the palm trees. Why is it dangerous to go into the forest between 2 and 4 in the afternoon? A: That's when the elephants are jumping out of the palm trees. Why are some folks in elephant country so short? A: They w...

Alkarii wrote: ↑

Sun Dec 20, 2020 11:36 pm

So, they found a way to make wine worse? Hell of an accomplishment.

Oh, there's tons of ways to make wine worse. Trust me.

Point of fact, yeah--we are convinced that the cellar does affect the wine, though maybe not as much if you follow industrial sanitation procedures. But we do aerobic primary fermentation for almost everything, and then put most of it in oak half-barrels (~33 gallon capacity) for a year or two, befo...

The HORROR! Got to tell ya, friends, there's a whole lot more than 15 gallons of homemade wine in my cellar. That's a ridiculously low limit for family use. Why these guys were doing it at the plant is another question. Those carboys are pretty standard for home fermentation and storage. Whether the...

Hate to say it, but what can ya do?

This guy sounds like a real jerkoff.

The pharmaceutical firms are multinational, and vaccine research is global. It has been a top priority of the world experimental biology community. And the second-greatest number of papers published in my employer's journals this year have been from teams headed by Chinese researchers. This is a gre...

https://www.npr.org/2020/12/15/946381523/right-wing-embrace-of-conspiracy-is-mass-radicalization-experts-warn Right-Wing Embrace Of Conspiracy Is 'Mass Radicalization,' Experts Warn I don't remember any similar warning from them as the left embraced and wallowed in the "Trump Russian Collusion" myt...

Just a reminder: Socialism (gov't control of means of production) has been a failure since at least 1620. The Mayflower Pilgrims made a covenant with God to work the fields and share alike for the common good. They starved for the next several years. Eventually, Governor Bradford said the hell with...

But it's really great shit, Mrs. Presky!