Susie was in a store. The owner called the police because some other teens were shoplifting which is stealing and very hard on a small store owner. Susie was busted with the others whom she did not even know. Susie's dad was a police captain known to the arresting officers.
Moral: Remember 'guilt by association', and the police will decide who is associated.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Cranberry at 11:56 PM on June 11, 2008

Explain that history is written by the winners. If she is unaware that women had to hide behind assumed names and resort to other subterfuges to exercise their talents, then a huge job of education will need to be done.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Cranberry at 11:43 PM on June 4, 2008

Watching Monty Python galloping on pretend horses - every time.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Cranberry at 11:33 AM on May 27, 2008

Are we all on the same page here? Is the "picture rail" a rather flat mini-shelf that pictures might set on? The molding that will hang onto picture hooks is shaped just like them. In old houses is it usually up by the ceiling.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Cranberry at 12:20 AM on May 10, 2008

What are you doing for anyone but yourself? Serving food or helping with the rent at a shelter? YOu are no longer a teenager, maybe it is time to look outward instead of inward.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Cranberry at 1:10 PM on April 9, 2008

Your picture looks similar to our Whirlpool Refrigerator-Freezer. To test the door gasket. close the door on a piece of paper. If you can pull it put, the gasket is not sealing.
It does sound like your problem is the ice chute flap not closing tight. Hope sealing that off for a few days will point you to a solution. Bummer when the factory guarantee has expired.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Cranberry at 1:44 PM on March 13, 2008 marked best answer

One wonders where you got all that hatred for a church you seem to know little or nothing about. Man up. Go to the counseling and tell the priest what your reservations are.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Cranberry at 12:32 PM on November 6, 2007

Googling FIVcat will give you links to a lot of opinions.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Cranberry at 12:45 AM on October 22, 2007

Portland is awash in colleges/universities. Surely a few phone calls to whatever institutions are handiest to your home or work would yield some help.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Cranberry at 11:46 PM on October 11, 2007

Nice tribute but you know Prefontaine died in a car crash?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Cranberry at 11:59 PM on October 9, 2007

The Shaker hymn is Simple Gifts. It has many permutations including Lord of the Dance.
Type "Shaker hymn Simple Gifts" into Google and click on the Wikipedia entry. If all else fails, you could devise your own sheet music.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Cranberry at 3:50 PM on September 18, 2007

Deathalicious driving with parking lights on is counter-intuitive if not amusing, but many newer cars have riding lights. The driver does not turn them on, they come on automatically and cannot be switched off.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Cranberry at 10:02 PM on August 22, 2007

Mardon me, padam, but you're hitting on my sat.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Cranberry at 11:22 PM on August 15, 2007

One of the reasons that people are losing their homes is that they have adjustable rate mortgages. When the rates were low, all was well. When the rates rose, they were unable to make their payments and lost everything. Beware.
When you get to the buying stage, it is a good idea to have a certified inspector look over the property before signing anything. Your lender may insist on it.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Cranberry at 12:40 AM on August 11, 2007

At a previous house, we had a little house built onto the back of the garage, right next to a door into the garage.
A moisture barrier protected the garage wall. We had an 850 gallon tub installed above ground with a step or two to access the tub. The west wall was solid and the works were outside of it. The south wall was common with the garage and the other two walls had 8' glass sliders.

With locks! You will want to protect your daughter and her friends... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by Cranberry at 12:18 AM on August 11, 2007

Oh dear! I fear that your father will have justified his actions in his own mind and buried the treachery to your mother along with your existence. If he has not told his current wife and children that he has another child, abandoned before birth!, he may be very unwilling to have that sorry chapter revealed now.
Be sure you are emotionally stable before you risk contact.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Cranberry at 11:44 PM on August 10, 2007

Would it be possible to require a valid email address from each potential member? And a real location - at least an area such as northern England or southwest US?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Cranberry at 10:44 PM on August 8, 2007

Some company - probably local - installed the previous owners' tank. If you can't summon up sufficient faith* to make dowsing effective, try the yellow pages. Perhaps the installer kept a record of where it is.
*We had friends who owned a plumbing company. The dad was the only one who could dowse underground water. The sons scoffed, but relied on dad and his branched stick or coat hangers.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Cranberry at 1:42 PM on July 28, 2007

Can't you redirect her energy in ways that is helpful rather than makes you grit your teeth?
zia is on the right track. See if you can find a hobby group, Bridge club, ESL teaching, some volunteer opportunity that you can guide your mother into. She needs something to do, especially if she is not working. She is looking down the long empty years and shuddering.
(Blessed are those who are not an only child.)
posted to Ask Metafilter by Cranberry at 4:05 PM on July 18, 2007

This might not apply for your late friend, but for the funeral of a young boy who had been killed in an accident, the memento was made in the shape of a bookmark. Obviously, he had a short life so there was not a great deal to say about him. A picture of him was at the top, then dob, played soccer etc., were listed down the length.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Cranberry at 1:25 PM on July 17, 2007

klangklangston -
Now that you are the famous 1,000,000th writer, your next job search should be a cinch.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Cranberry at 10:58 PM on July 10, 2007

The last box into the van is the first box out at your new place. What will you want first? Coffee maker? Clean sheets? Teddy bear? Office-style clothing?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Cranberry at 12:47 PM on June 23, 2007

A local boys home picks up overage pastries at Starbucks. After Christmas, there were also cans of hot chocolate mix and thick peppermint sticks.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Cranberry at 11:05 PM on June 20, 2007

Frisraelis?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Cranberry at 2:41 PM on June 13, 2007

Remember the old days when someone would have posted Captain Kirk yelling "Khan"? Good times.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Cranberry at 2:37 PM on June 13, 2007

Does the average home model dishwasher sterilize, or merely pasteurize at about 140° in the drying cycle. Is that temperature maintained long enough to be effective?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Cranberry at 2:34 PM on June 13, 2007

nanojath asked: Is there any real reason that you have to observe your own poop?
Perhaps for one of those popular year of pictures displays on Flickr?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Cranberry at 2:25 PM on June 13, 2007

As someone who maintains contact information for a club, I nth the suggestion to mass email your address book with the change and the date it becomes effective.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Cranberry at 2:11 PM on June 13, 2007

Nth the advice about not over-watering a succulent like aloe. Think desert with occasional rain.
Could it be the pot itself? I have a handsome pot with adequate drainage and its own saucer that killed every live thing planted in it. It is now the home of a silk ficus.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Cranberry at 1:29 PM on June 13, 2007

docpops, surely you will want to provide heart-healthy food for your guests! Dip the chicken pieces in milk and roll them in corn flake crumbs, bake in the oven.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Cranberry at 10:56 PM on April 28, 2007

Wendell, are you familiar with Faust?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Cranberry at 1:15 PM on March 31, 2007

Extended care and eventual closing of the estate are minefields. From what you have said, it does not sound like the "other son" is the man to negotiate such touchy territory. Have you talked to your mother-in-law's attorney? She must have made a legal document to name "other son" as executor.
If it comes to family dispute and increasing family polarization, a neutral party can be named executor - e.g., a bank. This can be expensive and unsatisfactory, but... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by Cranberry at 4:55 PM on March 21, 2007

Sweetie Darling, woodpeckers peck for food, and they can be quite destructive. Are they finding ants or other critters in/on your walls?
They also might carry vermin themselves as people have found when birds have nested in window air conditioners.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Cranberry at 11:43 PM on January 21, 2007

Sorry if this is a derail.
I realize that the point of this exercise is what would happen to man-made structures if man disappeared, but I doubt that all people everywhere would disappear due to any virus, nuclear accident, comet strike or whatever.
The survivors would be more interested in maintaining themselves than in maintaining buildings. The wisest would find the seed banks that are established around the earth and rediscover the backbreaking burden of agriculture... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by Cranberry at 5:06 PM on January 5, 2007

Holiday Eating Tips

1. Avoid carrot sticks. Anyone who puts carrots on a holiday buffet table knows nothing of the holiday spirit. In fact, if you see carrots, leave immediately. Go next door, where they're serving rum balls.

There are many more tips on this Dave Barry-type list.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Cranberry at 4:19 PM on December 19, 2006

I knew someone who "cornered" those she spoke to. Watching her writing with her head close to the page convinced me that she was simply myopic and needed to be close to focus.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Cranberry at 3:08 PM on December 19, 2006

Those who suggested mid-life crisis are right. NFLfan is looking at the bleak prospect of his 50th birthday and wishing that he had left some "footprints on the sands of time".
Adaptability is the name of the game. Realize that you are past fathering prime time - for the sake of the children who do not deserve elderly parents!
Do you really want to spend your retirement at PTA meetings? Or did you let wife #1 take care of all those little parental duties and... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by Cranberry at 12:44 PM on October 16, 2006

Thank you all for your input.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Cranberry at 12:12 AM on October 10, 2006

Minority report: all my contacts with IT people have been fruitful and productive. Thank you to all the geeks and nerds who went to the touble of learning how to fix the problems we non-nerds can make.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Cranberry at 11:26 PM on October 7, 2006

I get the Writer's Almanac and see an unsubscribe link at the bottom of every issue - down below "Be well, do good work, and keep in touch®".

Clicking on it should take you to a page of options for a number of their email services.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Cranberry at 12:54 AM on October 1, 2006 marked best answer

This is a family friend who is oblivious to your lack of interest? Have you considered that a family member might have asked him to "help" you, thus he feels he must?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Cranberry at 11:37 PM on August 23, 2006

Isn't this invasion a problem for the owner? S/He should provide professional fumigation.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Cranberry at 2:45 PM on August 20, 2006

If the squirrels have dealt you lemons, make lemonade.
Enjoy your own circus as the acrobatic squirrels outwit every diversion you try.
We were entertained as the bushy-tailed rats destroyed the cone of roofing material that was supposed to protect a bird feeder, and managed to climb a skinny pole and hang by toenails to tip and empty another bird feeder.
We have a hazelnut tree that has never borne fruit because the squirrels eat the buds.
We... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by Cranberry at 1:12 PM on August 20, 2006

If there is a dental college at a nearby university, one of the teaching dentists with a private practice might make a good choice for you. It worked for me.
Alternately, you might try being a practice person for the students. Disclaimer:I have no personal experience of student dentistry, but I understand that there is always supervision by a licensed dentist.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Cranberry at 12:44 PM on August 19, 2006

It is hard to explain, and I do not have pictures, but try this:
Hold the pants upside down;
Thread the left pants leg through the hanger, over the bar; from the opposite side, thread the right pants leg through the hanger over the bar to lie on top of the left leg.
The balance and the friction of the cloth will keep the pants on the hanger.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Cranberry at 1:42 PM on August 14, 2006

Exactly what routergirl linked to.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Cranberry at 1:43 PM on August 14, 2006

Somehow, even though I do not know you, I want you to be safe in Canada. After you finish high school and perhaps go to yet another country for college, I can't help thinking that you would be better off traveling with a Canadian passport.
While you are worrying about your family, and facing such a tremendous decison, I do not think that you need to take on the Middle East's political problems also.

BTW, you mean to be discreet about your family, not discrete.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Cranberry at 12:59 AM on August 13, 2006

What if there had been Hitler, but no Churchill to rally the British and appeal to Roosevelt for help?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Cranberry at 9:47 PM on August 9, 2006

Your 75-year-old grandparents probably feel duty-bound to care for their daughter. They are very unlikely to be able to do so on what seems like an extended basis no matter how they feel about putting her in an institution.
The advice to consult a social worker is probably best. The gpas will have to realize that they at their age they will not able to provide the most effective level of care, and that the daughter should be put where it is available.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Cranberry at 9:34 PM on August 9, 2006

Google has a better memory:
BAD SIR BRIAN BOTANY

by A.A.Milne

Sir Brian had a battleaxe with great big knobs on.

He went among the villagers and blipped them on the head.

On Wednesday and on Saturday,

Especially on the latter day,

He called on all the cottages and this is what he said:
posted to Ask Metafilter by Cranberry at 3:45 PM on August 1, 2006