Sometimes not even that works. I brought in a form from my doctor saying I needed to take a week off work when I had bronchitis. My department manager told me if I did that I'd get fired. I needed the job, so I had no choice. Started looking seriously for a new job as soon as I got home that day.

The problem with that is that you rarely find anyone with a 50¢ coin in their change collection any more. They are just not that common in circulation these days.

Interestingly enough, I just opened a letter that offered a membership for two adults and up to four children to the LA National History Museum, the Tar Pit Museum AND the William S. Hart Museum for $68. That's as many visits as you want for an entire year, plus some great freebies like a behind-the-scenes tour and…

I agree. My kids were not allowed to have a TV in their rooms till they'd graduated from high school. Granted, my kids are probably older than a lot of Giz readers, but it's the principle of the thing.

There are plenty of ways to try to justify it, but it's still way too much money for something that turns your kid into a passive zombie.

Wow, am I glad I don't drink alcohol. Ew!

Oh, good lord. As if making a grilled cheese sandwich in a pan was a Herculean labor.

Oh, that goes back way further than Barry Manilow. Vaughn Monroe's "Full Moon and Empty Arms" comes to mind.

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I'll be happy to tell you any old iPad is a new iPad if you'll just send one along and let me keep it. Promise.

Brahms' first symphony was cloned from Beethoven's ninth. These modern copycats are nothing new.

Get the Social Fixer add-on instead (for all browsers). It makes just about all of Facebook work your way.

I don't have a smartphone so I still print the stuff other people use their phones for.

I think I"d just save the $500. It would last me a long time if I didn't have to spend it all at once. Of course, I thought my 3rd gen Touch cost so freakin' much that I still don't want to take it outside the house.

I grew up in central Virginia in the 1950s and early 1960s when a nuclear war was much more likely than most people realized (Curtis LeMay had a lot to answer for in the hereafter). Given the technology of the day, our repeated "nuclear drills" were worse than a joke. We weren't told to get under our desks. We were…

That's a great way to do it! Unfortunately I don't have a smartphone.

Binder clips rust. Buy some plastic sock clips at the local 99¢ store and use those.

I took two pieces of enameled wire and ran them across the soap dish lengthwise, crimping the end of each piece of wire around the dish (metal soap dish attached to the wall). The bar of soap rests on those and dries out very nicely. Every so often we have to push the wires aside and wipe accumulated soap drippings…

It only does that if you don't read the directions! I just paid attention to the warnings on the web site, installed it and still have Chrome in pristine condition. RTFM, guys.

No, more like RTFM. The web page gives specific warnings about all that.