Long ago, college dorms had communal showers. And one of the residents thought it funny to sneak in behind folks and turn off the hot water, mid-shower. I took to cold showers then, and watching his shock when there wasn't any hot water to turn off was worth the chill. And the cold shower really wasn't that bad,…

Haven't ever tried foie gras; chicken liver pate' was a holiday special treat at my house for as long as I can remember. Wonderful stuff, though it does take a somewhat mature palate to enjoy it.

Inconsiderable? He has a vanishingly small ass?

I have a Henckels in the drawer, that I found under a prep table at a frat house. It was blade-only, and the blade had a big chip out about 2 inches from the tip. So I re-ground to a shorter form (12 inches), and riveted on a new oak handle, and have been using it for 50 years now. Good for peeling potatos, heavy…

I have a Henckels in the drawer, that I found under a prep table at a frat house. It was blade-only, and the blade…

Your tires are maybe 4 inches of rubber. You think maybe lightning coming across a few thousand feet of air is going to be bothered by that?

Hubble is a wonderful tool for a few thousand astronomers. What, exactly, does it do for millions of ordinary people that makes it more wondrous than the microscope, which has been crucial to conquering so many diseases?

18 would just absolutely stretch budgetary credulity.

Need 23 because 22 are in the shop at any given time.

Isn't that already in service, called the Osprey?

Maybe we could trigger the Yellowstone supervolcano. That might not fix the problem, but it would surely change our focus.

You all have rediscovered stropping. That's a sharpening technique that's at least two hundred years old.

Nope. They're poring.

Just a little bit contrarian - what might be the unforeseen consequences of sucking massive amounts of energy out of the atmosphere?

Surely you meant "disirregardless"

Be a whole lot easier just to throw the wood chunks and the thread spools away. Save effort and get a better-looking result.

I don't think that's exactly right. I live on a golf course in Mesa, AZ. Grass is green all year. It does take prodigious amounts of water, but they stay within allowed limits there in the desert.

Which means you replace the frame-and-screen part, and keep the rest.

It's a rain gutter. Who the hell cares about mildew?