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"There have always been tailgaters, but it's gotten way, way worse since the advent of nationally televised NASCAR, where it's done in races for obvious strategic reasons. Besides aggressiveness and stupidity, I think a lot of tailgaters have..." [
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"Take some time to figure out what it is that really interests you about this job: (a) the critters themselves, (b) customer service -- helping people find pets, pet stuff, pet services, etc., (c) sales -- selling stuff to people, helping the store..." [
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"If it's cedar, is much less likely to be pressure-treated than pine, since the whole point of using cedar is that it's pretty rot resistant without any treatment. However, as cedar, it will not make a good fire. It will crackle and spit, and will..." [
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2 days ago
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"The "good news" is that prostate cancer is a very, very slow growing cancer. This means that you don't have to rush the treatment, you can take your time doing research, exploring options, getting second opinions, making decisions about..." [
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2 weeks ago
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"From the Wikipedia page of Jerome Lettvin, MIT cognitive scientist:
While working in the Marine Zoological Station in Naples, Italy, he [Lettvin] had a 30 foot long room in which octopus holding tanks were kept, with fine mesh metal screens to..." [
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favorited 19 times, recently by Lentrohamsanin, Fiberoptic Zebroid and The Hypnagogic Jerks, Brainy, vytae, nudar, Demogorgon, Wolof, flotson, homunculus, marble, maxwelton, porpoise, eritain, ikahime, Venadium, davemee, funkiwan, JHarris, Brandon Blatcher
2 weeks ago
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"That post got more favorites (135 so far) than the total comments on this page (85 so far), of which a goodly number agree with allkindsoftime. So it looks like the ayes have it. Good job, forrest. Next item on the agenda, please...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by LarryC
3 weeks ago
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"Well, thanks for setting the ground rules there, DU, I'm sure everyone will comply." [
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4 weeks ago
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"Anyone managed to make an electric car that is more efficient (including electricity generation, transmission and storage losses) than an internal combustion engine yet?
They're more efficient more or less by definition. A petrol-powered car has..." [
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4 weeks ago
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"Not cheaper than a piece of carpet, but you could check out cork flooring, which is available in all kinds of shades and patterns, from around $3 per foot and up, but realistically $5-6 installed. But for under $500, a nice piece of carpet is..." [
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4 weeks ago
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"I recommend that instead of spritzing your clothes with cheap vodka, you drink the stuff in order to get through doing your laundry." [
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Last month
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"Perhaps it has been mentioned somewhere, but one of the interesting side affects of Alzheimer's is heightened sexual interest, along with loss of inhibitions. My mother-in-law, at a certain stage of her dementia, would say "I need to get me a..." [
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Last month
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"A double convection oven. Used to have one, have a single in our new house, wish we had the double.
Sliding shelves for pots and pans and whatnot in the lower cabinets.
Lazy susans in any corner cabinets.
A slim cabinet for trays and..." [
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Last month
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"What happens if you subscribe, set up all kinds of email messages to your good-for-nothing friends who will surely be left behind, and end up getting Left Behind yourself after all?..." [
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Last month
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"I vote that whenever languagehat answers a linguistic question, the thread is automatically closed to new comments at that point." [
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Last month
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"As already suggested and explicated, don't do this deceitfully. If you love her, if want to marry her, if she wants to marry you, and (I presume) her family and well as she want a church wedding for the two of you, then I would suggest jointly..." [
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Last month
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"If you blow up the map by clicking on it, the scrolling line of the drawing becomes a series of straight line segments. The end points of those segments match the coordinates in the "instructions to DHL" chart/poster, which can be blown up..." [
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2 months ago
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"@humanfont: I disagree with the doomsday analysis. I believe that the market will generate subsitutes for petrolium and fossil fuels and the price of oil will ultimately retreat to 90-100/barrel. General economic growth will be lower over the next..." [
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2 months ago
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"I have had the privilege of having several long discussions in recent years with Sen. Kennedy in very small group settings, asking him questions about a variety of topics, and I've been at several events where he spoke (all the way back to around..." [
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2 months ago
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"It's been around forever. I've seen it with the punchline, "You're right, there is a difference." The one amyms links is an updating of that one, I think...." [
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3 months ago
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"Thanks for the post. I experienced Sun Ra at one of the first shows at the Boston Tea Party in 1967.
Incidentally, the father of current Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick was Laurdine Patrick, a side man for Sun Ra for many years...." [
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3 months ago
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"The moral of this story is, you should always carry a cell phone when riding an elevator." [
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3 months ago
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"Start here.
I would suggest renting one for a few trips to find out if you like this, before buying one." [
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3 months ago
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"What you need is for you to become resistant to the bacteria. The washes keep you from encountering the bacteria and prevent your immune system from developing a response.
Exactly. In the old days the saying for this was "You've got to eat a..." [
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3 months ago
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"A quibble with Miko and Wikipedia: that "tradition" is not very old; you won't find "op-ed" pages in newspapers before the 1950s. The New York Times coined the term when it launched its Op-Ed page. According to The Trust: The..." [
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3 months ago
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"This is a Chatfilter question. However:
I'd contribute to NPR
Go ahead, but there's a difference between NPR and "my local NPR station" -- they are not the same thing.
You can call it "my local NPR station" if you..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Miko
3 months ago
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"so all that stuff you see marked at .99 is actually going to drop down to .95
Agreed. And if we get rid of the nickel, too, it'll go down to .90. To make sure of this, it would be a Good Thing if Congress, when abolishing the penny, abolished..." [
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3 months ago
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"I would submit the Rolling Stones' "Under My Thumb":
Under my thumb
The squirmin dog whos just had her day
Under my thumb
A girl who has just changed her ways
Its down to me, yes it is
The way she does just what shes told
Down to..." [
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3 months ago
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"The pluses:
1. You'll replace a high interest loan with a much lower interrest loan.
2. The interest you pay goes into your own 401K account.
The minuses:
1. You're credit card will be paid off, and you could be tempted to start charging again...." [
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3 months ago
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"I'm an old-fashioned geezer 59 years old who has been married to the same woman for 34 years. I've also dealt with some of those self-esteem problems on my wife's part. In case you're expecting that to just go away, it's not. Positive..." [
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3 months ago
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"and just for fun, Steven C. Den Beste's earliest archived Usenet post, Feb. 5 1982 at 3:58 a.m.
And, another ancient SCDB post relevant to the topic at hand...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by tehloki, grouse
3 months ago
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"Here's an earlier story on this kitty, from before it was caught. All in all, it seems like a pretty insane way to catch the critter: "crews took down all the drywall from the first floor of the home in search of the animal." As noted,..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by silkygreenbelly
3 months ago
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"A challenge for anyone who thinks this story is bogus:
MAKE UP A STORY JUST AS GOOD. PUT YOUR REAL NAME ON IT. PUT YOUR REAL PICTURE ON IT. POST IT RIGHT HERE...." [
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3 months ago
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"You know for a fact that it doesn't go there.
I knew that too, I commented there, so, sorry.
But anyway: "FREE TIBET" is absolutely a valid response to that question, and ought to be re-instated. It's unrealistic, sure. It might..." [
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4 months ago
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"By the way, this comment ("FUCKING CIRCLE PIT NOW"). still live, is as unrealistic, but valid, as the one in question." [
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4 months ago
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"I would do some more research on Vancouver housing prices to validate that they have been "increasing about 10% a year for the past decade." This could well be, but it means the average house has more or less tripled in 10 years.
If..." [
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4 months ago
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"I predict that in practice this is going to be way less hot than it sounds in theory
In fact, it will be pretty chilly, in practice, after September...." [
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4 months ago
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"In your scenario, if there are no buyers, then the house is worthless.
In terms of valuing the house for the purpose of extending a mortgage, that is indeed true. Of course, in reality, there is nearly always a buyer at some price, unless the..." [
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4 months ago
