Earthworms are an invasive species in North America; they are destabilizing the temperate forests by breaking down the forest detritus faster than the local ecosystem was designed for. They can be seen slowly infesting the soil around cities - working outward slowly over the years.

Why do people who get upset cry ‘snow flake’ all the time when getting all pouty about it seems kind of snow flake-y.

Maybe you should have included ‘/s’

Er, she is driving in reverse so I doubt she is in park; I think the ‘mixed message’ works really well.

The first thing I learned to cook was fried egg sandwiches then I graduated to pot roast - potatoes + cheap meat + water; wrap tightly and cook all day at 175 F

I don’t know if this counts but reading a book “Reinhart’s Women” woke me up because the guy got up and made an omelette! Up to that point I did not imagine I could cook something other than a pot roast (Montana boy - meat and potatoes, what else is there?). I know it does not sound like much but just the description…

Years ago 60 Minutes ran an episode complaining that 60 minutes AUS was using their name w/o permission - I can’t remember why they were unable to put a stop to it but there is no relationship.

My brother was raised on a leash because he could climb a fence and disappear in under 2 minutes. He was very active and always looking for something new and interesting. Often he would take me along so when mom put him on a leash and attached him to the clothes-line - when we finally figured out how to unclip him, we…

I went top the opera with a friend who wore a bee costume - I wore a suit and envied him.

When I worked tech support for a giant coffee corporation, I would get calls about not being able to change the time from 3:00pm - I suggested they take the protective layer off the screen.

How come no one seems to study the affects of carbonation? I drink more than a liter of sparkling water per day and sometimes wonder how that affects me (I bought a CO2 tank and make my own so I do not contribute much to plastic litter). In my youth, I use to drink 102 ounces of Coke per day back when they first…

I thought so too, until I noticed that his chin was square (ref: odd difference in how male vs female chins form) - then I noticed his ‘apple’.

Yes! When I smell that first hit when someone lights up, I am transported to my 5 year old self, huddling in the hopper of a combine with my brother and lighting up a cigarette. This was in 195? If you bought your ciggies from a machine for US$0.30, you got 2 pennies sealed in your pack as change.

Wasn’t Walnuts a name for McCain? We used it anyway; something about his cheeks.

When I lived in Tucson, I learned that swamp coolers can only lower the temp by 20 F so when it was 113F outside, we could get down to 93 inside - we lived in front of huge fans.

You understand that there is a disgusting other definition for brown noise? It is the theoretical sound that will cause all humans that hear it to empty their bowels explosively.

Swamp coolers - that is how we survived Tucson during ‘the dry heat’ but when the 3:30 rainstorms started we had 113 F temps with 100% humidity - there was nothing to help.

Isaac Asimov gave up on arguing over the bible since it is internally contradictory so you can support any position with carefully chosen quotes.

I had to delete the adjective myself b/c, for some reason, nightshade is almost always prefaced by ‘deadly’. Try it; say ‘nightshade’ a couple times w/o the adjective.

There are 3 stages to learning to play chess: