Yep, we have no room to point fingers I'm afraid...

Excellent point, and I would enlarge it to say that his meme applies well to any essential commodity that becomes scarce.

Perhaps, but only marginally. Someone else posted the fact that his inspiration came from the Oregon Dunes Project (an attempt to stabilize the dunes using poverty grass). Also, by the late 50s and through the sixties, the oil conflict and the general unrest in the Middle East were pretty evident. Marrying one with…

This device was not approved by the FDA, it was cleared. There is a significant difference. Approval indicates that sufficient reproducible data has been submitted to prove that the device or drug produces the effect it claims to with an acceptably small incidence of adverse effects. Clearance usually means that the…

This is nothing. We should be worried about the dogs, because they are subject to the placebo effect too. Who knows what they are thinking as they watch us screw things up?

A sentence or two huh? Hmm, so many reasons...

Definitely! I've done a couple of Warhammer 40K helmets in pep, and they're perfect for wearing. I'll have to paint and light one up. I need a new lamp in my computer room!

Depending on the model source it may contain even more surfaces. A pep helmet stiffened with fiberglass resin and painted would probably make a cool lamp with the right LED or fiber optics.

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Amen. The closest I ever came to living like this was a few extended military excursions. Even then we had some fairly advanced technology at our fingertips, despite being in a basic survival mode. It's damned hard, even with advantages and even with the knowledge that it's going to end in a few weeks. It's telling…

They also ignore the data regarding H/G tribal organization in general.

Never! I just didn't want to hijack the post. We could go for days on the history of the man or the church.

Although he was a pervy polygamist and a huckster, Brigham Young was one hell of an urban planner:

I wouldn't call myself introverted, however you hit my major sentiment square in the junk.

Awesome, I love Toronto, and they have a nice Harley Shop too! Thanks!

We had a corner mom and pop drug store around the corner from school. We'd hit them up every day after school for penny candy, and two or three times a day in the summer. It's a wonder we weren't toothless blivets (the fuel bladder, not the optical illusion).

Do you mind saying where? I love touring Canada, and this would make for a wonderful excuse for another trip!

Ah yes, a close approximation! I liked those too.

No, I mean the big hard fat ones, that were basically oversized versions of the original SweetTarts. They came packaged in individual cellophane. As a kid, I used to gnaw on them for days, and they would absolutely shred the inside of my mouth. But they were everything that was right about summer. I was born in 1957,…

Giant SweetTarts.