And this is why I’ve been extremely leery about riding my recumbent trike on any road; being a bicyclist is already putting you in the position of being less visible to drivers, and the trike putting me down close to the ground essentially makes me invisible, even if I were to have a forest of poles waving…

That can be misinterpreted, too, as referring to his father and his father’s older brother Prince William. As I said, English grammar can be so entertainingly confusing.

“My favorite is a split pea and ham soup, but you could do a ham chowder or ham and rice soup.”

That picture raises “junk in the trunk” to an entirely new level...

“whether he will meet face-to-face with his father and older brother, Prince William.”

“There’s something to be said for selecting your own apples from the display and eyeballing deli meats to be sure they’re sliced perfectly thin.”

The first state to have a state aroma that doesn’t drive people away...

Southern California does have four seasons -- earthquake, flood, drought, and fire. They’re just not the same length from year to year.

I suspect that the sausage wouldn’t cook fully, although the flattening from the waffle iron should make it thin enough that the heat would reach all the way through. It would be necessary to experiment. Time to use up a chub of sausage and a tube of biscuits...

“...he did what’s apparently become the patriotic American thing to do: picked up an assault rifle and pulverized three cases of Bud Light.”

Nothing I found explained why they were built that way, although the one picture showing a side view of a car with that style of windshield having the top frame folded down; a search for “multi pane windshield 1915" just now turned up one page on the history of the windshield that states “The first windshields were…

Another of the infinite variations on the chupaqueso...

I’m not sure for that vehicle, but a little digging turned up that this type of windshield was in imitation of the horizontally split Brewster windshield, used in cars made by Brewster or for which Brewster constructed the bodies — with higher-end early automobiles, it was common for the manufacturer to supply only a…

Yes, and of course there wouldn’t be anyone driving around with the “I have winter tires; I don’t need to worry about losing traction, so I can just keep driving the way I’m used to” attitude... and pile up next to the “I have four-wheel drive...” idiots.

It’s kind of funny to see something like this when you look back at the history of lobster as a food and see that it was historically trash catch, food that you ate when you couldn’t afford anything else, and that prisons rioted with one of their demands being that they be fed lobster no more than three times a week.

WWII really gutted the spectacle of air racing. You look at the pre-war air races and the variety of aircraft designs by individual designers that participated, like the Bee Gee, then WWII rolled in, and you had the industry of the world devoted to squeezing out every last bit of speed and maneuverability; after the…

It would be nice if the sound designer had a better understanding of what a scramjet was. He described a ramjet reasonably well, but both ramjets and conventional turbojets have to slow the incoming air below Mach 1 for the engine to work; this limits the maximum speed they’ll propel an aircraft. A scramjet doesn’t…

They’ll just cart you away in chains.

“The RWD 350+ makes due with 417 lb-ft of torque.”

The coating on the paper is hydrophobic; it doesn't have any surface tension adhering the water to it. The oil has more adherence, so it sticks better.