OK, I call shenanigans. This was swiped directly from Cook's Illustrated.

I bought one of those to rejuvenate a MagLite that I got when I was working for Toshiba. Except that now I don't remember the "safe place" where I put the light. Dangit....

That's where they wanted me to go, but I refused.

Socks and sandals? I gather you mean "socks and sandals on smelly feet"? Or is it just that socks and sandals look so ridiculous together?

Yeah, my mom thought smoking was cool and sophisticated and all that booshwah. She died of lung cancer. That's about as cool as it gets.

The people who let my package marked in fluorescent letters EXTREMELY PERISHABLE rattle around on a truck for 13 hours on a hot day? The people who lied and said they'd tried to deliver when I'd been sitting within 20 feet of the door all day and never even heard the truck go down the street? The people who told me…

You could get some bookplates from MOO and sign those. That's what I did for my books. :)

We started out with three pleco's and two died the first year. The current one's really too big for the tank, but we can't figure out what to do with it! We keep losing the goldfish, but the pleco seems to want to live forever.

That's what I thought.

Goldfish and a huge Plecostomus in a 20 gal tank.

Just one question... why?

Use your library's web site. Put items that you want on hold. They will notify you when the item's ready to be picked up. So you don't have to drive in there till your books are waiting for you.

Many library systems let you download ebooks for free. I have gotten quite a few from the Los Angeles library that way. They "check out" for three weeks and deactivate themselves when their time is up.

Many libraries let you check out ebooks for free.

I usually read at least 5 books a week, usually more. If I had to pay for all the books I've read in a lifetime I'd need to be Bill Gates. Libraries rule.

What are the "downsides" of going to the library? And unless you keep the books out past their due date, there is NO fee, per month or otherwise.

I recently had to sit through an HOUR of Spongebob cartoons while I was babysitting. If kidlet's parents hadn't gotten the disk from Netflix I would have thrown it off the balcony with as much energy as I could muster as soon as kidlet went to bed. OH GOD is Spongebob excruciatingly bad and his voice is enough to etch…

Amazon Prime does. I just watched "Blood Oath" and "Trials and Tribble-Ations."

I'm a fan of the Mother Earth News. I started reading it very close to the time it started publication and I collected the magazines for years. The first year in this house, our storage room flooded and we lost 15 boxes of books and my Mother Earth News collection. I was thrilled to find out that they now offer the…

You might want to look up the famous person who used the term "voodoo economics" to refer to the trickle-down theory. Hint: It was not Ross Perot.