The new one was delivered this afternoon. The old appliance, after 24 years, was still good — except for the rocking kick required to restore it to life when it would overheat and auto shutdown. Two big delivery guys balanced the machine between them on a 2 1/2 inch woven strap. Stairs? No object. I asked, how many deliverys do they make in a days work and was told up to 20. That’s only because of the limited light in a day but I think they must get wore out first.
If bunnies don’t lay eggs why is it on Easter that we recieve eggs from the Easter Bunny?
If you’re caught “between a rock and a hard place”, is the rock not hard?
Where did hamsters live before we put them in cages as a pet?
Why do they put “for indoor or outdoor use only” on christmas lights?
Why do toasters always have a setting that burns the toast to a horrible crisp which no decent human being would eat?
knee defender, for the frequent flier.
airport safe shoes.
it’s a jungle out there…
Watching the History Channel on Battleships and the launching of these new goliaths down the ways. A politician / dignitary is present to do the christening. More accurately, the honors are usually bestowed on the wife. I was struck by something. She swings the champagne bottle across the iron plated bow and — nothing happens! The bottle survives! She stands there in stunned disbelief. The officials gasp. Well, the mighty ship is leaving without waiting and it’s bad luck to fail so the manly man quickly grabs the thing and finishes the job. I can’t imagine anything more awful then having the world witness this spectacular failure not to mention that the cameras have just archived the embarrassment for posterity. Did these women just shrug the whole thing off or were they flaming mad at whomever (set them up) with the invitation to be “honored”. It seems so strange that such engineering expertise goes into the design and construction just to leave the importance of such a grand moment to chance. Perhaps it is okay. A generation ago maybe it was alright to be lady like and not smash the thing to smithereens. No shame at all. What were they thinking?
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No coincidence that the Washington Post has looked under some rocks in the Mesa Hostile Buyout. I wonder who might have provided the author with the storyline seed – wink wink. The chief perpetrator in this was actually fired for unauthorized trading and other sins, but then he went on to great success in a second act.
Some businesses take it to the extreme. The Club Dbbl Tree, Des Plaines is one. The flow restrictive shower head takes the zing out. For some it’s that first jolt of coffee in the early morning a.m. I require a good blast of hot water to jumpstart my day. Equipped with an empty spring water bottle of known capacity, and a pda handheld with clock timer I measured the output. Point 75 gpm. A new low benchmark. Where is my Leatherman tool? I could uncork that sucker.
Now he’s gone and done it. Normally mild mannered and self tending he’s in a heap of trouble. Dawg got himself a piece of another dog that passed too close to his property line. Its owner was unamused and called us on it. Rather than risk being sued I apologetically offered to satisfy the vet bill. Uh oh. Dog’s owner rushed him to emergency surgery where they put the dog out and stitched him up. Probably had to keep him overnight for ‘observation’. The victim has to wear one of those odd funnel cone neck collars for 10 days. Do you suppose expensive antibiotic prescriptions and a follow up visit or two? Grit teeth. I’m not going to think about it. We love(d) our pet but his fate is on the bubble.
There are two dogs in the article. This ringer is a hard act to follow. The background dawg (ours) is not distracted by this performance however. He is on the bubble and, as you can see, concentrating and totally focused on the task at hand. Observe the disc lying there on the grass in front. Soon it will get tossed skyward and he will be ready to nab it!
CNN has been airing the darkmoments rehash. Also, watched the documentary on PBS with the step by step collapse of the twin towers. I remember the media replays in the days and months following merely showed billowing smoke and perhaps a brief frame or two of one of the airplanes at or just before impact. Too intense. Finally, Time/Newsweek put the fireball on the cover (and were chastised for it). Two years later they are considerably less restrained about what they serve up. They show the entire sequence shebang including the play by play collapse. Luckily, Media shows restraint in not showing the rain of suicides that fell to earth from the shattered top level floors and fire inferno, but I predict that by next anniversary they won’t be holding back.