Since you mentioned McDonald’s - a chicken Big Mac. Exactly like the ones in the US but with chicken instead of the usual beef. That was in Puerto Rico.

Pretty self-explanatory. This one, too:

If you drive up to a military base after dark, you normally turn off the headlights, but leave the parking lights on, at the front gate for basically the same reason.

The dreaded “AMEX Financial Review”. Sadly, I know it well.

Yes, those are called “fako” scores, as opposed to Fico scores. ;)

Have a gander at the part of this page titled “Credit Score Range”.

That report is on the first of the month for US Bank, and on the date your next statement is issued for all the other major credit card issuers.

True - I love PR!

I’m from DC, so I learned to parallel park in both directions with a LHD car.

That’s also true in far eastern Russia; most of the cars there are JDM grey-market exports.

Yes. Yes, it is. It really sucked to live there. I did my time there ‘88 to ‘91.

I believe it. As long as you’re on a municipal sewer system, those are great. If your home is connected to a septic system, those are bad juju. Sorry, Lifehacker - no, those folks very definitely should NOT be using one.

I believe it. As long as you’re on a municipal sewer system, those are great. If your home is connected to a septic…

Wow, that’s some USDA Grade A BS you’re spouting there. Moving a grave isn’t illegal, full stop.

Indeed, the word “man” has two primary meanings in English - “adult human male”, which is definitely gender-specific, and “adult member of the human race”, which is gender-neutral. It is the latter definition which is used to make words like “congressman”, which is indeed non-gender-specific.

CAFE is based on sales, not catalog items. Based on that, the Smart car must have almost no effect on it.

Yes, they’ve been required to be fireproofed for a long time now, in most big cities since the 1920s or earlier. My wife is a set designer and worked for a “stage and scenic supply” company that actually did the fireproofing - almost all the curtains actually went to movie theatres.

Guess what they use to fireproof theatre curtains. Yep, the same stuff.

55 pounds per cubic foot.

The sixties called, they want their ecological reference back.

It was math for me, too. I taught my daughter ring theory at three, and she proved Kramer’s Rule in Z mod 26 by her fifth birthday. (Not really ;))