Jerry, this year people aren't putting pickles on their Christmas trees - they're putting pickleball paddles!

Easy! It's a toast rack.

If you ever find yourself in this situation - and please don't - learn from this example. A friend of mine who had been drinking tried to outrun a police car. He weaved through a few country lanes, then pulled sharply off the road into a patch of bushes and just crouched there in his car. A few minutes later someone rapped on the window. There stood the driver of the police car, who said" "Sir, you almost made it but next time, when you stop, take your foot off the brake. I could see your brake-lights half a mile away."

When it costs more than the frame.

No i-deer

Mary had a little sheep
With whom at night she used to sleep.
The sheep turned out to be a ram....
Mary had a little lamb.

The Bernoulli effect is why aircraft fly. The air passes faster over the curved upper wing surface, creating pressure lower than that on the lower wing surface.

I took a monopod and found it useful, but my beanbag resting on the side of the safari truck was more versatile.

The woman had clearly not read Mark Twain: Never argue with idiots. They'll drag you down to their level then beat you with experience."

Jerry, this is a fine example of lateral thinking. The man who invented the phrase, Edward De Bono, came up with something similar in Britain many years ago. Local calls from telephone booths were charged at a low fixed rate, and people were taking advantage of this by spending ages on the phone (this was in the days before mobile phones). The cost of converting every telephone booth in Britain to metered phones was considered prohibitive at the time, so De Bono was consulted. His idea, which was adopted with a huge cost saving, was to insert a weight into the handpiece. This made the phone heavy, discouraging long conversations. Same principle as the Slanty - make it uncomfortable for people to stay where you don't want them to stay!

I have the CS5 suite, and it won't run on my iMac with Monterey. Next week I'm having Sierra reinstalled as a second OS so I can run the programs. I subscribe to Adobe for PS and LR, but Sierra will allow me to run Indesign, which I was able to use until mid-last year, and which I need for book layouts, so for a once-only couple of hundred bucks I can save a second subscription to Adobe.

Most restaurants here in Australia won't give you a doggy bag in case you get ill - or -pretend to - and sue the restaurant. The world is not progressing for the better.

Jerry, I'm guessing your son is short, so he will have to be a little patient(!)

The indentation at the bottom of a wine bottle is to collect the sediment. Wine bottles contain the full amount stipulated on the label (usually 750mm in our metric country). I speak from experience. I have opened - and emptied - many bottles in my lifetime.

Reminds me of the old saying: Aim low. Achieve your targets. Avoid disappointment.