Hey, I've been in a firefight before! Well, I was in a fire. Actually, I was fired from a fry-cook opportunity. I can handle myself.

Wash ,'War Stories'


Natter 45: Smooth as Billy Dee Williams.  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Jesse - Jul 24, 2006 1:28:25 pm PDT #8486 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I cleaned my whole kitchen with baking soda one time, but I love the ease PLUS lack of fumes of the Magic Eraser -- no rinsing! No smelly! LOVE.


sumi - Jul 24, 2006 1:28:56 pm PDT #8487 of 10002
Art Crawl!!!

I have drunk diluted apple cider vinegar for my health.


bon bon - Jul 24, 2006 1:31:38 pm PDT #8488 of 10002
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.

Magic Eraser worked a little on my grout (enough to justify a swipe now and then), clorox bleach pen worked the best in terms of "almost no scrubbing" cleaning agents.


Zenkitty - Jul 24, 2006 1:33:41 pm PDT #8489 of 10002
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.

Apparently diluted apple cider vinegar is indeed good for one's health. But. My mother gulps it down, undiluted, by the glassful. Or mixed half-and-half with iced tea. You literally cannot have any vinegar in the pantry if she's visiting.


erikaj - Jul 24, 2006 1:34:51 pm PDT #8490 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!

for what?


sumi - Jul 24, 2006 1:35:28 pm PDT #8491 of 10002
Art Crawl!!!

I have eczema and it helps stop the itchiness.


Sheryl - Jul 24, 2006 1:36:59 pm PDT #8492 of 10002
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"

Well, feh. After paying a good sum of money for the plumber to unclog the condensate drain from the AC(what he thought was causing the puddles) I went to do some laundry and there was another puddle. I've called the plumber and scheduled an "any time after 8:30" appointment which means I have to stay home and wait for the guy, using more vacation time.(I wish there was some sort of time off allotment for this kind of thing. Can't use sick time for this, and I hate using vacation this way)


Zenkitty - Jul 24, 2006 1:37:13 pm PDT #8493 of 10002
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.

She started drinking a little bit in her tea, for her kidneys, which was fine. Then as she got more dementia, it became almost an obsession - more and more vinegar, less tea. So she doesn't drink it FOR anything anymore - she just drinks it because it's in her head to do that, I guess.


bon bon - Jul 24, 2006 1:39:30 pm PDT #8494 of 10002
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.

I was quizzing people at my workplace today to see if they knew the phrase "Do not fold, spindle or mutilate", and it seems that in my small sample, those of us 33 and up do, and 33 and under do not. Although not everyone 33 and up knows what spindle actually is.

I know what spindling is, and I think the deal here is that it appeared on the bottom of certain standardized tests?

ETA: [link]

For much of the 20th century IBM cards had the warning "Do not fold, spindle or mutilate," printed at one end, and that became something of a motto for the post-World War II era, though many people had no idea what spindle meant.


Sophia Brooks - Jul 24, 2006 1:43:28 pm PDT #8495 of 10002
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

I know what spindling is, and I think the deal here is that it appeared on the bottom of certain standardized tests?

I think that it appeared on a lot of punch-carded items. I believe my grandma's social security checks had it, and they were meant to go through a punch machine. When I used to play office, I would make big business-like checks and punch holes in them to make a punch card.