Something I learned today.

[Susan]

Mmmm. Toasted pine nuts.

[Jonathan]

I had pine nut cookies at the press preview for an exhibition last week. An odd breakfast food, but I guess they figured Italian cookies go with Italian Renaissance paintings...the cookies were quite tasty and good with coffee.

[Cynthia]

Oh those sound nice. I would eat them.

[Jonathan]

They were this type:

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

I would eat those.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

We know that pine nuts were part of the Neanderthal diet.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

We also know that when writer Judith Thurman has people over for dinner, she buys fancy takeout food and presents it as her own concoction. Then she toasts pine nuts over the stove to fill her house with that enticing just cooked a fancy meal smell. A good tip for the lazy.

[Cynthia]

In old time cookbooks they advised young women to put an onion in the oven to fool the bridegroom into thinking dinner was coming.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

That bloomin onion.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Oklahoma ranks first in the nation in the proportion of 4-year-olds enrolled in pre-kindergarten classes.

[Félix]

4-year-old whats?

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Guess.

[Jim]

Rhinoceros?

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Another synonym for slut: dick biscuit.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Never get in the "Cashier in Training: Please be patient!" line.

[evie]

Lobstergirl wrote: "Never get in the "Cashier in Training: Please be patient!" line."

Never ever,

Were you patient?

[Félix]

Hah!

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

I was so patient. So was everyone else in line, as it took her 1/2 hour to process all of us.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

In mid-April, if the sequester isn't solved, they will begin furloughing air traffic controllers, one day every two weeks. It doesn't sound like much, but mid-April coincides with "thunderstorm season" when controllers have to be even more vigilant because flight paths are changed and rearranged.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Patrick Stewart is straight. I had no idea!

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Styles of wife-carrying: piggyback, fireman's carry (over the shoulder), or Estonian-style (the wife hangs upside-down with her legs around the husband's shoulders, holding onto his waist).

Estonian carry:

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Each year Finland holds a wife carry competition where the winner earns the “wife’s” weight in beer. Finland keeps trying, but Estonia has won nine years in a row (as of 2006), and has perfected the “Estonian Carry.”

[Jim]

Monona(near Madison) has the same prize for the wife carry during their Fourth of July celebration.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

A new study finds that global warming could cause feral goat populations to “skyrocket.”

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Yes, Theresa Heinz Kerry was married to a wealthy heir of the Heinz fortune, who died in a plane crash (he was a Senator from Pennsylvania), after which she married John Kerry. I believe she is a billionaire. I don't know if the second part of your statement is correct.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

This might shed some light.

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_an...

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

This too:

http://mediamatters.org/research/2004...

Basically it sounds like rightwingers were spreading the false story that Mrs. Kerry was funding his campaign, when in fact she wasn't, and it wouldn't have been legal for her to.

Right-wing pundit Ann Coulter asserted that Teresa Heinz Kerry is funding Senator John Kerry's presidential campaign -- a false claim that was subsequently repeated in an August 5 editorial in The Washington Times.

In discussing Heinz Kerry campaigning on behalf of the Kerry-Edwards '04 ticket, Coulter asserted that "[t]here's no one who can tell her to stop. She's funding that campaign." The next day, a Washington Times editorial accused Heinz Kerry of having "used her immense inherited wealth for the second time in less than eight years to resuscitate her husband's faltering political career." The editorial alleged that "Kerry has deftly exploited [his wife's fortune] to his maximum political benefit -- first during his tightly contested 1996 Senate race and then during this year's Democratic presidential primaries and caucuses."

According to a June 2003 USA Today article titled "Kerry campaign says he can't tap wife's fortune," "Under federal campaign law, assets solely under the control of Heinz Kerry, including those reported on Kerry's recent Senate disclosure form, cannot be used for the Democrat's presidential campaign." In fact, when the Kerry campaign was running out of money during the primary season, as The Washington Post reported, Kerry mortgaged his half of the home he shares with Heinz Kerry in Boston and put the $6.4 million to his own campaign. And contrary to The Washington Times' assertion that Kerry used his wife's money in his 1996 Senate campaign, the Boston Globe noted in November 2003 that Kerry also used his Boston home as collateral to take out a $1.7 million personal loan to help fund that campaign.

[Aliyah]

I just realized that enemies are disguised as friends/harmless people and that people will sabotage someones ideas even if they believe that that person has good intentions or fighting for the same thing.There's a concept like that in Sociology, but I forgot what that was...

That and that Varsity/med school is just a bigger high school. And that students are just like Survivor castaways.

[Bibliophile]

Today I learned how wheel alignment equipment is used for passenger cars and commercial vehicles. Also how to identify different wheel alignment lifts.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

There is a product called "Beyond Paint" which you can use on many, many surfaces without sanding or priming first. You can paint metal, formica, linoleum, corian, glass, etc. with it as well as all the usual suspects like wood.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

I thought you were never supposed to flush drugs/pills down the toilet but it turns out there is a long list (approved by the FDA) of things you can flush, and which they recommend you flush because it's safer than putting them in the garbage. I am surprised to see all sorts of opioids on this list, like fentanyl and oxycodone!

(Note that ideally you would take these drugs to a collection site, some organizations or municipalities or even pharmacies will take back unneeded drugs and destroy them. But if this isn't available to you, flushing is acceptable for some drugs.)

[Scout]

Ketchup cleans copper.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

In urban areas the fox's only natural predator is the coyote.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

A fire in an apartment building is more suspicious when it's on the top floor. It could be an indication it was set by the landlord. In order to get the most insurance proceeds from the fire, you have to remove the roof from the building.

[Cynthia]

Wow.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Don't put out food for feral cats. You will attract coyotes, who will eat the cat food, then eat the cats.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Dogs can tell the difference between words that differ only with a vowel, but not when you change a consonant. If a dog’s name is ‘Mick,’ the dog will not respond to ‘Mack’ or ‘Mike,’ but will respond to ‘Tick.’



“A lot of dogs have problems learning the command ‘bow’ — which is when the dog keeps his front end down and bottom end up — because they have already learned the word “down,’ and have trouble telling the difference between consonants,” Newman says. “That’s one reason you wouldn’t want to name your dogs ‘Tom’ and “Bob,’ where the vowels are the same and the consonants different.”

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Prince Charles inherits the possessions of anyone who dies in Cornwall without a will or next of kin, a power that in some years has yielded hundreds of thousands of pounds.

[CD]

Lobstergirl wrote: "Dogs can tell the difference between words that differ only with a vowel, but not when you change a consonant. If a dog’s name is ‘Mick,’ the dog will not respond to ‘Mack’ or ‘Mike,’ but will resp..."

I wonder if this source/ person had ever actually owned a dog?

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

"Distaff" means female.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

I always wondered where the candle wax goes.

"Wax is made of hydrogen and carbon. When a candle burns, the hydrogen and carbon from the wax combine with the oxygen in the air to become carbon dioxide and water vapor. Most of the matter in the candle (99.9%) ends up as these two gases."

0.1% of the candle ends up in the air as smoke, soot, and trace gases. If you burn a lot of candles indoors, this can lead to cardiovascular and respiratory problems.

[Cynthia]

Very interesting, LG.

[Phil]

Lobstergirl wrote: ""Distaff" means female."

I didn't know that but, in retrospect, I should have know it, because horse racing has distaff races that are always for fillies & mares.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Weirdly enough, the largest private owner of farmland in the U.S. is:

Bill Gates....

[Cynthia]

Lobstergirl wrote: "Weirdly enough, the largest private owner of farmland in the U.S. is:

Bill Gates...."

Wow.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Powell's buys books from you online. You can enter ISBNs and they will immediately tell you if they want to buy it and how much they will pay, based on their current stock. If they don't want your book now, you can always try in the future when their stock is different. They pay the shipping cost.

They are extremely picky about the book's condition. I entered many ISBNs because I was curious about what they would take. They like new releases (last year or two) but not ALL new books. They didn't like obscure books. You can then click "accept" if you want to sell. You have 7 days from clicking accept to get them in the mail (postmarked) otherwise their offer is rescinded.

My list of ISBNs came back with 17 books accepted (36 rejected).

OUR OFFER:
$60.00 in Powells.com Virtual Credit.
-or-
$40.00 in PayPal funds.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Author Paula Fox was Courtney Love's grandmother. Fox gave birth to Courtney's mother (the father was never named) and gave her up for adoption. There are rumors the father was Marlon Brando, as Marlon and Paula were living under the same roof at the time. So Courtney Love might be Marlon Brando's granddaughter.

[CD]

Even Ferrari recalls cars! About 10,000 for imminent brake failure possibilities. Nothing like not being able to stop your bright red ego booster in mid low level flight.

Ferrari strongly urges owners of certain models to park the car at the side of the road and call Ferrari assistance! YIKES!

Oh, and the best part? There is currently (1 Nov 2021) No Fix!

Several stories on the web including:

https://www.kbb.com/ferrari/recall/

[Phil]

CD wrote: "Even Ferrari recalls cars! About 10,000 for imminent brake failure possibilities. Nothing like not being able to stop your bright red ego booster in mid low level flight.

Ferrari strongly urges ow..."

I was next to a yellow Ferrari a couple of days ago, waiting in the valet line at a casino in Las Vegas. I was wondering who spends all that money just to risk the almost certain dents they'll pick up in traffic on the "strip."

[CD]

Phil wrote: "CD wrote: "Even Ferrari recalls cars! About 10,000 for imminent brake failure possibilities. Nothing like not being able to stop your bright red ego booster in mid low level flight.

Ferrari strong..."

Maybe it is a rental.