My phone number used to be Buckingham 18329.

And when I lived in rural Scotland in the mid-80s, we had a TWO DIGIT phone number! (Local exchange, obviously.)

I miss the sound of the clicks, and I miss the hard feel of the ring against your finger as you forced it up and over to the metal stop.

As a kinesthetic person, I will never forget what that feels like.

God, this is bringing back memories.

Thanks for your insight, Marjoram.

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According to the dress code as copied here, it sounds as if a yamulke or muslim head scarf would also be forbidden.

And would they deny an Indian girl the right to wear a sari to her prom?

I agree with other posters that underneath it all there seems to be an issue of trying to whitewash these teens.

Why in the world did you create mosquitoes?

What came to mind was the old story about the bride who cuts both ends off of a roast before putting it in the roasting pan and then into the oven. Her new husband asks her why, and she says she doesn't know, it's just how her mom has always done it. So, the next time they go visit the parents, he asks the mom. She also says she doesn't know why, she does it because that's what HER mom always did. Holiday time comes, and the guy asks the grandma why she did it. Because her oven was so small, only a tiny roasting pan would work, so the roast had to be cut to fit.

I wonder if 100 years ago, a baby fell off this tower, and someone miraculously caught the baby in the laundry they were carrying home. A big hullabaloo was made, and a ceremony marking the occasion occurred at which the original event was recreated for everyone's edification/amusement.

And now, 100 years later, all local babies are thrown off the tower as a matter of course.

@91 - Congrats to you too, then, for having the great good fortune to be able to celebrate your 107-year-old grandma with your brother!

My suggestion to you and Mark, and anyone else in this situation, is to get those recipes down on paper!! (Yes, I speak from experience.) Keep in mind that if she writes them down, they may not be accurate. I use my grandpa's recipes lovingly, but I know to completely ignore what he has written. Watch them cook, and make your own notes. Keep their recipe cards though, so you can remember them every time you look at their writing when you're making their best dishes.

Enjoy your grandma as often as possible. She sounds like a real treasure.

@8 - I haven't checked, but is that a one-time example?

If you've never been in the midst of a miscarriage, you might not realize how distraught it can make you. Someone racing to the hospital, hoping to get there in time, or coming back in a state of mental chaos after having undergone a miscarriage could easily get in an accident.

Ain't it the truth? I think every parent has learned that rule of thumb the hard way.

@18: from your mouth (keyboard) to God's ears!

Wouldn't those be Jefferson Muskets?

Dyslexic agnostics aren't sure whether or not to believe in Dog.

My children love that joke so much, they say "Oh my Dog" to show surprise instead of "Oh my God".

@3: That's 8pm Pacific time on Sunday...10pm here in the midwest, and I assume 11pm on the east coast.

@6: Thanks for the lolz. At least you didn't call him Scotch!

My favorite part is that the "chain is long enough to reach the end of the maze", which of course means that when it's at the beginning, the door could be opened wide enough to squeeze in.

Not as workable as the 8-bit tie, unfortunately, but good enough for a laugh.

I've never blown glass myself, but I've reverently watched it done many times. It takes A LOT of effort to blow glass. You don't get a bud vase in one blow, let alone a wine bottle.

Maybe it has to do with the fact that once you get it to a certain largeness, after many blows, you don't have enough air pressure in your lungs to make it any larger?

They also sell these at the Container Store.

I used to make my own using a Sucrets tin. Dip matchSTICKS in melted wax to make them waterproof, for example. Ditto what Halloween Jack said about picking up free bits like sugar packets. But that was in my backpacking days.

Now, most of us need completely different items for "survival"...a fish hook is not as useful in most 21st century emergencies as a cell phone, for example. Really, how many of us are ever going to be in need of an emergency wire clip? Those of us who might be, already carry an all-in-one tool anyway.

#5, thanks for that link.

I was wondering if the reason they did it in the bucket of water was to avoid microscopic shrapnel. Based on the second video, I'd say that was it. Any exposed skin would get hit pretty bad.

@21 -

ITA.

If you force people to have more children than they can afford, and strong-arm them into tithing even when they can barely scrape by, then lo-and-behold you:

5. Contribute to widening divide between rich and poor (through)

6. Your own excessive wealth (and)

7. Creating poverty

It seems as if the only Catholics able to have sex without consequences are the (supposedly celibate) priests.

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I think that's a place to sit. Notice how there's a backrest of sorts (concave curves) above the convex curve at seat level?

Buying donuts and driving long distances are the sorts of things we assume young people are most interested in. But these students choose to engage in peaceful civil disobedience to draw attention to a major civil right/responsibility being thwarted in an underhand way.

Bravo to these students. The future is in good hands.

In addition to the other points already made, I wonder if we really want to take Edison at his word about his finances. We know he lied and obfuscated about other things, and money is definitely the sort of subject people get cagey about anyway.

There is no such thing as chocolate waste.

I agree with several other posters: the way to steam multiple items is with a stackable steamer. You can even be boiling something in the bottom level at the same time. Barring that, just steam consecutively, starting with the item that takes the longest time. Boiling multiple items simultaneously in the same water (when meant to be eaten separately, not as a soup or stew) is only for people with no taste buds.

Am I the only parent here?

This potty chair is eerie in its similarity to modern ones, other than the material used. They didn't have plastic then, so I for one will not fault them for their choice of pottery.

My guess is that the hole in front would 1) let out fumes so that the top hole didn't stink as badly (which would make the child much less likely to want to use it) and 2) is probably a peep hole so the parent can see if there's anything in the bucket. I assume that one lifts up the chair to clean the bucket underneath.

It is also quite possible that it's a chair that the child would use in general, but with the added bonus that if they had to go, they didn't have to go anywhere. Very practical, really, especially in an era of no disposable diapers.

Having followed the links and read the ingredients, this sounds like an amalgam of the conventional OTC medicine I use combined with Olbas' cough syrup, minus the honey. The lack of honey would be pretty traumatic, but the ease of getting both medicines in one product would probably be worth it.

Are there any chains in the US that carry it, or only independent stores?

LB, you're right about QWERTY originally being set up to keep the typewriter keys from jamming by being typed too quickly. However, as an additional trick to slow down the typing, it was also devised to be more difficult for right-handed typists (the norm). As a left-hander who doesn't a typewriter anymore anyway, I find QWERTY to be much easier, because most of the common letters are typed by the left hand.

As someone who learns kinesthetically, I think the learning curve to change the movement of my fingers would be painfully frustrating. I'd need to see convincing statistics that show it would be worth the effort to change. Better to change the angles and physical structure of the keyboard to deal with RSI.

Here's my favorite health insurance story:

Clean bill of health, but starting a family, so I decided to apply for catastrophic-only health insurance, just in case. Didn't cover prenatal care, L&D, well-baby checkups, any normal adult checkups...in fact, only kicked in once $10,000 per person per year had been spent, and even then only for things like car accidents. BCBS-IL turned me down when I was 4 months' pregnant because they said I was "infertile".

Top that!!

What would an ordinary act of truffle-squishing look like?