That opening image needs to become a PSA: “Booze and Summer Don’t Mix Well.” and “Adults Do Childish Things.”

Dressing as a Plague Doctor for Halloween has pretty much eliminated the week of illness that would usually result from dealing with so many small children for a single night. Three years I’ve been putting that costume on for the night and it works every time.

I see a large button to be sold for people to pin to their clothes “I am a PAX 2009 Swine Flu Survivor. Pardon me for avoiding physical contact.”

ALWAYS.

Point 2 is horribly flawed because the influence of local taxes on local school district spending. People have been whining about this for years, but the major fact of the matter is that those who get more school funding almost always have a far more wealthy local tax base as well. There is also no effort made to…

The ride manufacturer is probably behind it, testing for interest in an updated but nonexistent version of the attraction. The days of having to design and build an actual ride prototype to gauge market interest are long behind us (you’d be surprise at how many roller coasters in active commercial use were the actual…

Bad, bad news, lady. If you have six kids and four of them are autistic, bleach isn’t going to solve the problem. The source in your case is obviously genetic.

Regarding that entire “thousand mile gun” nonsense, that is only happening because the civilian government negotiated away the Army’s ground launched cruise missile program back in the 1980's. The Army almost got Tomahawks, too. Instead, only the Navy and Air Force got them.

The whole railway gun was our idea to begin with. The first railway guns were huge mortars built on railway cars used by the Union Army during the ACW.

From my experience as a non-sports visitor, this is not Boston sports fan behavior; it is Boston resident behavior.

Are you sure this isn’t a French car? They put a cattle guard on the back end... which would be a typical French thing to support retreat.

I can get an entire “roadside repair” kit including jack, lug wrench and donut with rim for $30 for either of my cars. Meanwhile, the cheapest full size replacement tire currently is $45 and 3 hours’ time for installation and balancing using a rim you provide. Living paycheck to paycheck is why many people will drive…

I will agree here. Yesterday, I was coming out of a store and while approaching my car, I saw the tail lights on in broad daylight. I thought someone was stealing my car and went running across the parking lot. Turns out the switch connected to the brake pedal had electrically welded the contacts together. I assume…

Try as hard as you may to convince folks otherwise, you’re the one making yourself out to be a clown. You’re the one who thought you were hot poo by claiming a virus could infect a computer it had absolutely no means to attack, not me. So yes, you are a buffoon. And you certainly act like one of the “olden day” shills…

Wow. So, you don’t even know what a dad is. English isn’t your first language? Now I’m starting to understand why you call yourself a plumber. Must be the result of a Google Translate error.

And you’re a buffoon. From the very first computer virus, the most reliable method to defeat them was to not facilitate their entry into the system.

And now for the secret. A capacitor exploded in the power supply. So, the last thing its said was, well, “POP!” The box hasn’t been booted in two years because I haven’t bothered replacing it yet. So no, you are entirely, 100% making yourself look like an idiot. And no, the system isn’t dead. There is no damage to the…

Some days, I am astonished at what managed to survive the “cash-for-clunkers” nightmare.

The odometer lists the mileage the vehicle made before the engine vomited all over the hatch window and died.

One thing to be aware of (and listed in the article though I’m sure everyone missed it) is to keep them out of the light. I keep mine in a small, opaque, dark plastic bin and a 5 lb bag can easily survive the entire winter, whereas keeping them in the plastic bag they come in from the store inevitably leads to…