The volume control on my A/V receiver is digital, a number between 0 and -60dB. I only set it to even numbers; there’s just something very wrong with it set to -27.
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“...drop off used bottles for recycling...”
The board game Monopoly began as a teaching tool to show the evils of property monopolies, and the virtues of a “single tax” system under which people profit only from their own labor; wealth created by land was to be shared by all.
Fun fact: the US and others built similar small carriers in WWII. Called Escort Carriers, or sometimes Jeep Carriers, they were much smaller and slower than large fleet carriers, but using commercial hulls could be built quickly and cheaply. They were intended to escort merchant convoys, protecting them from attackers.…
This has been going on forever in Reader’s Digest Condensed Books, published from 1950 - 1997..
I have been inside the bomb bay of the Enola Gay, the plane that dropped the atom bomb on Hiroshima. How is a long story, short version: I know a guy. If there’s a truly haunted place anywhere in the world, it’s there.
I lived in the DC area, and was a Senators fan during their catastrophic 1961-1971 last stand. Their only winning season was 1969, the year Tricky Dick threw out the first ball from the stands; they come in 4th in the AL East. Most other seasons were unmitigated disasters, on average losing 90 games. It was said:…
FYI, one classic Cinnabon is 880 calories; three is a full day’s calorie allotment for most people. Just sayin’...
Back in the ‘70s we knew a couple who couldn’t have kids, and had adopted an adorable 5 year old girl. Then, the mom became pregnant and gave birth to quints (!); she had been on fertility meds. Sadly, one baby didn’t make it but the other four were healthy. When they told the 5 year old about her new brothers and…
My wife and I are on Regal Unlimited (it’s pretty great), so I was able to score two seats the minute they went on sale. Opening day was already completely booked, but I got two good ones for Saturday. I feel so smug. We were there for A New Hope in first run at the Uptown Theater in DC, and now we’re here for the…
Actually, it could get a lot worse yet. What the airlines really want to do is pack passengers in much tighter than they are now. These stand-up seats are an airline CFO’s dream.
My wife-to-be was dating a friend of my brother; I met her at his place. They had just come from a Halloween party and she was dressed as Holly Hobbie, a cutesy character popular at the time (the ‘70s). The costume included a large bonnet, and she took it off and offered me a cookie she had stored in there. Yes... she…
“Dump dinner”
Everything you need to know about this sort of thing is in Strunk & White. Just follow that and you’re fine.
Oh for heaven’s sake... everyone knows that Reese’s Cups are the best tasting thing ever in this history of food. Why are we even talking about this?
Oh for heaven’s sake... everyone knows that Reese’s Cups are the best tasting thing ever in this history of food.…
“She did not get abducted by aliens or slip through a time portal.”
Re. Living With Myself...
