TIL Wally is a wuss. I once had a four year old Lil Stampie take his bottle of "personal lubricant" to the check out at CVS. He had a cold and it was for his raw nose.
TIL Wally is a wuss. I once had a four year old Lil Stampie take his bottle of "personal lubricant" to the check out at CVS. He had a cold and it was for his raw nose.
In reply to Stampie :
When I was in eigth grade, I was in a school play and my character was sort of a Peter Sellers/Inspector Jacques Clouseau ripoff. The costume notes described him as having his hair slicked back.
Around that time, I remember watching Sha Na Na on TV, and heard on the radio that those guys used something called KY Jelly on their hair because it was water soluble and washed right out.
So one day after school, my girlfriend and I (both about 13 years old), walked down to the drug store and asked the pharmacist where we could find KY Jelly.
I swear that the guy just stood there and stared silently at us for about five minutes before finally asking us what the hell we needed it for.
Woody said:TIL that Geddy Lee's real name is Gary, and that Gerry Garcia only had nine fingers.
I think it's pronounced "Gary" but it is spelled "Gerry". I work with a Canuck with the same name.
At one point I’d have been embarrassed, probably, but I don’t remember it. I’d been sent on errands for adult diapers for elderly relatives as soon as I had a license.
At one point I remember getting the depends, some tampons for my girlfriend, pack of condoms and a bottle of bourbon. I was a pack of cigarettes away from a Robert Earl Keen song.
In reply to mtn :
Some days I don't want to people, and certainly don't want to hear Karen's comments about how times I come in and if we've tried any crystals, happy thoughts, etc. the one benefit of self checkout should be less human interaction.
TIL that a 10-32 thread is functionally identical to an M5-0.8 thread.
Also I learned that either my range is "special" or people on the internet are doofuses. I had to replace the bake element and everything I read talked about how people spent hours trying to get the wires out of the insulation after taking the old element out. I just pulled the range out and took off the electrical access panel on the back and plugged the new element right in. 10 minutes, in and out.
In reply to wae :
People on the Internet are doofuses.
I looked for a writeup on RX-7club for dashboard removal, because I needed to replace the heater core in my '84 and the Alldata procedure was "remove dashboard", and I wanted an idea of what I was getting into. The only writeup was from a doofus who peeled the interior like an onion, removing the dashpad first using all manner of right angle screwdrivers and stuff, and his method would have taken 15 hours to get to the heater core. It doesn't take 15 hours to assemble the interior of an RX-7 on the assembly line.
The real procedure is drop steering column (only an option when you have FC front swapped your car), remove four bolts on the sides and two in the middle, a small handul of electrical connectors, and remove from vehicle. All those "can't get to them" screws holding the dashpad on are now easily accessible if you wanted to go that far, which I didn't, because I wasn't replacing a dashpad I was replacing a heater core.
Woody said:TIL that Geddy Lee's real name is Gary, and that Gerry Garcia only had nine fingers.
I saw an interview several years ago where he explained that his mother's heavy Polish accent was responsible for his friends calling him Geddy.
Wally said:In reply to mtn :
Some days I don't want to people, and certainly don't want to hear Karen's comments about how times I come in and if we've tried any crystals, happy thoughts, etc. the one benefit of self checkout should be less human interaction.
I wonder how red Karen would get with those comments, when I reply that I've never jerked using KY and crystals, but at this point I'm willing to try anything.
In reply to Knurled. :
How to change a Nissan Versa/Tiida evap. core in Asia.
The music is annoying but the video is thankfully sped up and the evap. core is out just after the two minute mark.
How to change a Nissan Versa evap. core in the good ol' U.S. of A. 'Murica baby. Adapt. Improvise. Overcome.
middle of three short videos.
In reply to SaltyDog :
Yeah, accents can really mess up names. I worked with a lady for 12 years and thought her eldest daughters name was "Lauda' like Niki...then she sent me a video (proud Mama) of her daughter graduating from medical school and when they announced her name it was "Laura"...
secretariata said:In reply to SaltyDog :
Yeah, accents can really mess up names. I worked with a lady for 12 years and thought her eldest daughters name was "Lauda' like Niki...then she sent me a video (proud Mama) of her daughter graduating from medical school and when they announced her name it was "Laura"...
Yep... my great grandparents' accent/English troubles resulted in my grandfather's name being recorded incorrectly, so his last name was different from his parents and siblings. They never had it fixed. The tradition was maintained.
There are only three living people with that name now that are part of my family.
secretariata said:In reply to SaltyDog :
Yeah, accents can really mess up names.
My f-I-law is from Alabama and I had his friend "Lynn" at my wedding and I've seen the guy a 100 times in my town and last year he passed away and I saw his obit and his name was Len short for Leonard.
I called out my FIL and he said yes, his name is "Lynn".
Knurled. said:secretariata said:In reply to SaltyDog :
Yeah, accents can really mess up names. I worked with a lady for 12 years and thought her eldest daughters name was "Lauda' like Niki...then she sent me a video (proud Mama) of her daughter graduating from medical school and when they announced her name it was "Laura"...
Yep... my great grandparents' accent/English troubles resulted in my grandfather's name being recorded incorrectly, so his last name was different from his parents and siblings. They never had it fixed. The tradition was maintained.
There are only three living people with that name now that are part of my family.
It seems weird having a name that is rare like that. My wife was one of 5 people in the US with her last name due to either the name being intentionally Anglicized or poorly translated when recorded upon her grandparents entry into the US. Now there are only 2 and soon there will be none.
til that the Husky brad nailer will fire a 1.5" 18 gauge nail through 3/4" of melamine and into my thumb 18" away.
Surprisingly, it didn't hurt as bad as you'd think. Time to turn the compressor regulator down.
I'm not really an Oreo fan, but TIL that if you put peanut butter on them, they are berkeleying amazing.
Just have a glass of water handy, as they require a chaser.
In reply to Woody :
I didn't need to know that. I'm not a big fan either but I have a bag of chocolate covered Oreos from Christmas and a big jar of Skippy.
Sunday I learned my father bought cemetery plots you can see from my brother's kitchen window. My brother built a house across the street from the church where his father in law is the pastor and my father decided they wanted to be close to his grandkids so they are going to move into the church's cemetery. This was one of the more entertaining dinner conversations we've had in a while. I was told there's still space available if I was interested.
In reply to Wally :
My grandfather bought a relatively big cemetery plot on a mountainside in the coal region of PA, overlooking the booming metropolis of Tamaqua, which is currently in a condition about like you'd expect a small isolated city in the coal region of PA would look these days.
My last grandparent died in 1973 and my parents never lived in that area once they got married in 1950. I have almost zero connection to the region.
But there's space for a number of future family members and then some. And since we'll be dead we don't really care where we're buried. And buying a local plot would cost money.
So I guess that's where our ashes will spend their eternal rest.
secretariata said:Knurled. said:secretariata said:In reply to SaltyDog :
Yeah, accents can really mess up names. I worked with a lady for 12 years and thought her eldest daughters name was "Lauda' like Niki...then she sent me a video (proud Mama) of her daughter graduating from medical school and when they announced her name it was "Laura"...
Yep... my great grandparents' accent/English troubles resulted in my grandfather's name being recorded incorrectly, so his last name was different from his parents and siblings. They never had it fixed. The tradition was maintained.
There are only three living people with that name now that are part of my family.
It seems weird having a name that is rare like that. My wife was one of 5 people in the US with her last name due to either the name being intentionally Anglicized or poorly translated when recorded upon her grandparents entry into the US. Now there are only 2 and soon there will be none.
According to some geneology website, there are 66 people in the world with my name, and the majority of them are in Finland. (Might have been Sweden) Grandpa's parents were from what are now Austria and Romania...
Woody said:I'm not really an Oreo fan, but TIL that if you put peanut butter on them, they are berkeleying amazing.
Just have a glass of water handy, as they require a chaser.
If (and it's a BIG if) your teeth (or your diabeetus) can take the sugar hit, Oreos that have been on a dip trip through a can of raspberry cream cheese frosting are a real treat.
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