I saw that too - was trying to think up something clever to say before posting. I loved the plushy Cthulhu I got for Xmas.

2. buy your beans in bulk too then you have your full load of essentials. Red beans and rice - mmmm

The panda pretty much did the same thing - it has a wrist extension that looks like a thumb (hence the book).

"It also works in the close confines of the bedroom" - now I am worried, is this a form of sex play? What would you use as a safeword?

I was always told to immediately disconnect the cables because the you want to keep the computers/electronics isolated - don't know for sure if the 2 systems could cause interference problems but....

This is what I want - it called the judge and it fires either a .410 or a modified .45 (gawd, a .45 long rifle!).

Yes - those huge duals, one could be flat but be held up by the other one so you walk around your rig and bounce a bat off the tires.

It is like trying to give directions in French:

There is a very charming Swedish movie "My Life as a Dog" where this young boy obsesses over Laika - nominated for 2 Oscars and won numerous international awards.

I used to wonder when I would get that knock on the door - a girlfriend of mine disappeared from beauty school with a 'broken arm'. I never saw her again; the child would be about 40 now. Disappearing was a pretty smart move on her part - I was an empty-headed party boy for at least the next 20 years. I sometimes…

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I bought my wife one for Xmas a couple years ago - we had to 'roomba-proof' the house. It kept getting hung up on all the cables and wires and cords on the floor, then it would run up onto the lamp base and get stuck there. It got itself jammed under the kitchen cabinets. Now none of the dust gets into the bin -…

I was going to say some of the same things - especially about the anti-microbial effects of the wood cutting boards.

No, no no. It was a joke in Innocents Abroad. The reason I even brought it up was that I believed it myself until I googled it. If you can find corroboration. please let me know.

@etwarrior: I am not sure what your old saying was about:

Swamp coolers can only lower temperature by 20 degrees - Tucson would get up 113.

I think it was the ease with which carbs are converted to sugar and you feel hungry again sooner than when eating proteins/fats which take a little longer to be converted so you feel satiated longer.

In the US, buy your coke from your local bodega and/or buy your coke with a yellow cap on Passover(?) to get sugar coke. Most bodegas import their coke from Mexico and there is a prohibition against grains on Passover (again with the ?? as I am not Jewish).

I don't think seeing in the infra-red would help that much against the predators that already do that very well. I infer that finding a cave at night was an easier adaptation and more useful than seeing in the infra-red.

I think what puts us on top of the food chain is that we are about average at everything. Birds of prey can see detail sharper from further away; scavengers can smell more from further away; others run faster, hear better, et c.; our average is better than their weakest so we do not have to compete against their best…