We can learn a lot from those big-screen documentaries. For me, I'm going to stop using nuclear-generated electricity, to minimize the likelihood of Godzilla showing up. ;)

One place I'll never go: any event with Angela Lansbury, it's too great a risk. ;)

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But you have to rotate the paper the matches are on.

For tools that have lots of pieces, Dremel for instance, I like using fishing tackle boxes because they have lots of little compartments for organizing all those pieces.

*I* think it's a spare steering wheel. With padded grip.

When one of my adult sons was much younger, he asked, "Daddy, what's a typewriter?" The best answer I could think of was, "it's like a computer, but ..."

Knew a woman from church, 70-ish years old and a former dancer, who could still bend over with straight knees and put her hands flat on the floor.

Some people have it, some can with practice obtain it, and then there's the rest of us. :)

MG (in training)

I agree, though my logic was slightly different. I assumed two sets of 1.5 hens in 1.5 days result in 3 eggs (that's 3 hens total). Which means that 1 hen can lay 1 egg in 1.5 days. 1 hen times 18 days equals 12 eggs.

This reminds me of the logic of 9 women and 1 month equals one baby. :)

St.Mary's:

In 2001, I was at an Independence Day celebration at George Washington's ancestral home (now a school) in the U.K. I watched our Stars and Stripes being hoisted, listened to the Star Spangled Banner sung, heard MLK Jr.'s "I Have A Dream" speech (in a British accent)... the most moving July 4th celebration I have *ever* witnessed or been a part of, all the more so for being on foreign soil.

I later asked one of the locals at the school why they did this, that I expected that us breaking away from them would be very much frowned on. Her reply was that there were many problems at that time in their history, and we solved them one way and they solved them another. (No animosity whatsoever.)

Here's to our British friends and allies who show what former enemies can become!

"Two all-beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions on a seseme seed bun."

<music>"Hold the pickles, hold the lettuce, special orders don't upset us, all we ask is that you let us serve you your way."</music>

"Winstonnnn tastes good, like a ci-gar-ette should." (And, if you were a child, you followed up with...) "No filter, no flavor, just tastes like toilet paper."

Have a friend who, with each audible report, would say, "Stepped on a duck!"

So, one Christmas, I gave him a can of Lysol relabelled as Raid Duck Repellant (Kills Ducks Dead!).

Snaccident waiting to happen.

I struggled with this, too. If I have two lenses (say, 90 mm 2.8, similar quality), and one is a macro and one is not, what's the difference? A: the macro can shoot targets that are closer to the lens/camera. I think that's about it. Things that are closer are more magnified. There are opinions, or maybe specifications, that describe what macro means, with numbers, but what it boils down to is, how close to the camera can you focus?

Haven't seen this answer yet for the water question.

Four gallons: already been answered, resulting in four gallons in the eight gallon bucket.

Seven gallons: why empty your eight gallon bucket? Just fill your three gallon bucket and dump it into your eight gallon bucket (that has four gallons from the previous steps) for seven total gallons.

I stopped giving out candy years ago; too often there were too many calories left over. I've started giving away cheap toys instead, like stuff you can get at carnival or party supply stores. Kids really seem to like it (at least, if they aren't so old they shouldn't even be trick or treating anymore), and parents also seem to like the idea.
Plus, what I don't give out this year I can just save and give out next year!