Thanx!

I have an inkling that my point missed you. Perhaps a look at the other comments to my entry may help.

YES! And there are different sizes of tubes, can be ‘telescoped’, and teach the kids new stuff wordlessly.

the magic he does owes a lot to manipulating his center of mass - that would suffer significantly if he played with an immobilized arm

This is simple. Panic will not help me. So I don’t let it in.

Thanks.

Look, Lorraine, I’m not dissing a working person, or their work product. Keep at it.

Guy must have circumvented 3 or 4 separate safety measures/devices make it. Work hard, get results!

With trepidation [for reasons you are free to surmise], I am compelled to opine that one does not ‘set off’ a cannon.

“The largest operator of the F-35, besides the USA, is Turkey by a wide margin.”

I’ve known about the low percentage of fully operational line fighters in USA armed services for many years.

Meh. A few hours incommunicado is just what the doctor ordered.

he’s a good one - no real potential harm - everyone ought to have a pet project, even a slightly kooky one

Life’s too short to spend time attempting to educate kooks. If one happens to be someone I care for, I give my love despite her being a kook. All others? I’ll keep my distance, and my supposedly wiser silence.

That’s great, Emily. You’ve been at work till ungodly hours, have to browse your phone’s gallery to remember the faces of your children, and now you’re delegating whole minutes of face time to a global digital surrogate. Great.

Seems to me the Independent journo got saddled with a mind numbing task to write n lines about air travel. Ignore their musings in comfort.

Nah. The one I am familiar with discriminates the ones that don’t ‘do’ anything and discards them. Will only play with live ones. Got my TV into modes and functions I had no hope to return from!

Always wandered why the Japanese for roe (at least for salmon roe) is イクラ, which sounds ikura, with the very subdued Japanese u, thus identical to the Slavic ikra. Any ideas?

You must have the burnt/smoked taste and aroma imparted by high heat/flame, for this to yield what the doctor ordered.

Absolutely accurate about over-coddling eggplant recipes.