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Been too long a day to deal with that one.

They still run those things in Philadelphia, too. I think it's been 3 or 4 years since the last disaster. But they've had disasters with the Baltimore water taxis, too, and those are modern watercraft. Touring a working harbor in a bucket, I expect the tickets impose a liability waiver on the passen...

Back in '76, housemates of mine had a used VW squareback with dual carburetors. Bicentennial 4th of July weekend, after consuming small purple barrel-shaped tablets that tended to affect perception, we were headed up a steep hill in a state park when the engine started running rough. The woman drivi...

Bah, just the sort of thing a typical fascist Bolshevik hippy would say, trying to erode our 1st Amendment rights!!!! First they'll take our fora, then our guns, then our reproductive systems, then our free comics, and then our waffles!!!!!! NOOO!!!! Not Our WAFFLES!!!... Give me Waffles or Give me...

jwhouk wrote:I bow completely to your filkiness.

Now, I'd suggest you do something before Mr. Simon comes calling...

One man's spieling is another man's horror. . .

What all the folks above said. You're playing hot potato with a live bomb here, and it's unfair of brother and SIL to drag you into it.

They need to work their way out of this swamp themselves.

My comment when friends yelp about howling errors in the newspaper: You can't complain about the proofreading, because there isn't any. Copyediting is not dead, exactly, but almost all of what is left of it has been offshored to India or foisted off on "independent contractors" (i.e., unde...

I'm at work, we have nothing to do, and it's really... I'll just say "warm", because I'm in the shade. We need to get a dartboard or something. There's got to be a joke about dartboards and touchscreens here someplace, but I can't put my finger on it or pin it down . . . . Forums have bee...

Artist growth is healthy and good, even if it disquiets some of the readers.

The alternative is Blondie Garfield's Family Circle, for better or worse . . . .

All of this has happened before and will happen again . . . .

You start out making cute little robots to fetch beer and stuff. Next thing you know, you're up to your ass in berserker cylons.

How does sentient bamboo deal with pandas?

^ Yep, that's IT! The older one. I even recognize the booklet.

Yes, kids, we had kitchen toys with naked line current, and Granny made sure we had all the artificially flavored sodium cyclamate we could stand!

(How did we get to be this old?)

Unless you put a big metal spike through the center of the ham, connected to the antenna/mast. Then, I would guess, you get shredded ham. That might work. In the mid- to late 60s, someone gave my mother a thing to cook hotdogs that was not much more than two parallel aluminum bars with spikes, each...

Alkarii wrote:Speaking of invasive plants, I have a bamboo thicket that surrounds my house. It was flattened by a bulldozer recently, but small shoots are appearing.

Looks like I need to make improvised napalm...

Styrofoam dissolved in gasoline? Or do you have another recipe?

GlytchMeister wrote:You know you're an engineer when you immediately think "why would there be boric acid in a nuclear reactor's coolant?"

And you know you've seen too much Monster Chiller Horror Theater when you think "to poison the mutant cockroaches."

GlytchMeister wrote:That actually looks kinda interesting... I'm supposed to be holding fire in that pic, but the green wash makes it look like I'm some kind of radiation-bender or something.

It increases the contrast nicely. I've seen that avatar a thousand times and never noticed the flame.

Not only that, people who buy crap to collect and hoard it are fools to think it has any value. Especially crap that's marketed as collectible and hoardable.

Even Hagar figurines.

Not so much. The majority of plant biomass comes from the air. That's why trees don't make depressions in the ground around them. Also from water. --FreeFlier And the nutrients from manure, etc., are dissolved in the water. Pretty amazing what trees can do with carbon dioxide, water, sunshine, and ...

Boxing used to be a lot more mainstream. I remember my grandfather watching boxing matches on TV when I was a little kid. I think they were on every week. He said it was fun when TV first got popular--you could watch the fight on TV while listening to it on the radio, and it was always more exciting...

I first learned to type on mechanical typewriters (high school, around '68) and Teletype 33s, so I'm very used to a stiff, positive acting keyboard. I still have a couple of PC keyboards made by Unicomp, using the original IBM buckling spring key switches... the ones with the nice "crunchy&quo...