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• Commented on Woman accidentally buys wrapping paper covered with swastikas
  What's most shocking about this story is that SHE ALREADY HAS HER TREE UP! Even the department stores aren't playing Christmas music yet!...
• Commented on Identical tract houses after 50 years of personalization
  I'm pretty sure the faux chalet (pic 2) look was one of the "looks" that was offered originally. I've seen that home more than once while driving through Santa Clara/Cupertino....
• Commented on Quiz: Donald Judd, Or Cheap Furniture?
  Acing this quiz makes up for failing miserably on the arial v. helvetica quiz....
• Commented on Birther congresspeople run from Huffington Post video reporter
  I'm waiting for the birthers to provide proof that BHO was born in Indonesia or Kenya!...
• Commented on Juice company rips off Get Your War On
  The best part of this controversy is that more people have been introduced to Rees and GYWO. Know Justice, No Juice!!...
• Commented on Painfully Inane Adwatch: The Twix "Need a Moment" Campaign
  When I bite into a York Peppermint Patty.......
• Commented on Scenes from an oxytocin party
  I went to an oxytocin party. It was awesome, I got totally high pushing an 8 lb. human out of my vagina!...
• Commented on I'm Not Hanging Noodles on Your Ears and Other Intriguing Idioms From Around the World
  The author of the Chocolate & Zuchinni blog has been doing a series on French food related idioms....
• Commented on Collection of airline logos
  A few years ago I found some vintage airline logo fabrics. I made a skirt of mostly defunct airlines....
• Commented on Lunar junk
  I don't think the laser ranging stuff should be considered "abandoned" or junk. People are still using it (at least on Mythbusters to prove that man did walk on the moon.)...
• Commented on What Not To Do This Earth Day
  Zikzak's (#4) comment reminded me of the pristine never-used 1970s bottle cutting kit we bought a few weeks ago at an estate sale. One of the virtues it proclaims to have is that it "helps stop pollution." Of course, the...
• Commented on Komodo dragons kill man
  Surely his fall out of a tree was partly to blame....
• Commented on Kid walks to soccer, neighbors call the cops
  I was curious about the "First Errands" show mentioned above and it looks like it's on youtube, just search for はじめてのおつかい ....
• Commented on What happens to junk left behind in foreclosed homes?
  I suspect most of the stuff has very little resale value. And considering how most Americans spend, I suspect the clothes are cheap polyester, the furniture cheap particle board and everything else is cheap plastic....
• Commented on Computers inspired by computers inspired by kittens inspired by kittens
  he's no Christian Bale, that's for sure....
• Commented on Costs of Education in Japan
  I'm happy to see this post becuase I now understand the bags my neighbor's twin's use. They had them as Pre-K students and they looked so huge! But they finally seem to fit now that they're in Kindergarten but they...
• Commented on Mystery maple syrup stink of New York revealed
  Gnosis, your radiators are filled with the sweat of lactation mothers of course! (see post#8)...
• Commented on Life at Wal-Mart
  Poor women and men have kids because having kids doesn't actually bring them down economically because their lives are already pretty crappy. So, why not have a kid who will love you (for a while at least) and provide you...
• Commented on Speaker system built into mannequin
  I'm with LifelongActivist@10 on this as well. Sexist and not clever....
• Commented on Warning sign on house
  My assistant is a "Witness for Jehovah" and she says if you take the literature, they will come back. Frankly, all the Witnesses that come to my house have been nice middle aged ladies who are very polite when I...
• Commented on The Donut Chef, by Bob Staake
  My favorite doughnut-themed kids book is Mark Alan Stamaty's Who Needs Donuts?...
• Commented on HOWTO resurface a table with dominoes
  if not resin, a piece of tempered glass or lexan....
• Commented on Internet is full of bullies, not pedophiles
  Thank God, I won't ever again have to listen to Jamie Lee Curtis say the words "sexually solicited" on the radio!...
• Commented on Making sauerkraut is easy
  I wish I'd known about the plastic baggy of water as a lid trick when we made kraut last year. Luckily we didn't have any scum and it was super delicious. We can't eat that much kraut so we've been...
• Commented on Bikers wearing pumpkin helmets
  those dudes just need DOT stickers (or the Nigerian equivalent of the the DOT) on their helmets so the cops don't bust them for wearing "novelty" helmets....
• Commented on Susie Bright: Daughter Songs -- Death and Loss at the End of the Year
  Thanks for the post and book recommendation. I have a recording of my mom (talking about taxes on the radio in the late 70s) but I haven't been able to listen to it yet....
• Commented on Police blotter: baby or burrito?
  Makes sense to me. We used to swaddle our baby and call her, pretend to put rice and salsa on top of her, and call her "burrito baby."...
• Commented on Kenyan cowboy shirts -- Stetson-cut shirts made in Kenya from second-hand clothes
  $75 for a handcrafted shirt is not bad, especially since there will be variations in material that make it difficult to be as efficient as a factory making 100s or 1000s of the same item....
• Commented on When spellcheckers attack: The Cupertino Effect
  In grad school, the spell check correction for one professor was "Cheater Lies" which was too excellent and fitting to not use....
• Commented on 50 homemade holiday gifts from LA Times
  I second making something you know how to make (or at least something that uses the skills you already have mastered.) I'm making cute lunch bags out of fabric in my stash and embroidering them with the recipient's monogram because...