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Usually train tracks are pretty easy to spot. Generally, one might suspect that there is at least a chance that a train might travel on said tracks.

It's basically the Hansel and Gretle approach, but it works.

Good luck. The weather forecast isn't great.

So is mutually assured destruction something that doesn't work with respect to the middle east? They could destroy a city but we could obliterate an entire country. Is the idea that the islamist fanatics would get their hands on a government missile and launch it without regard for their lives? I don't get it?

As my English neighbor used to say, "you are rude, screwed and tatooed".

Black Bean Soup, made with onion, cilantro and veggie sausage. That'll do 'er.

It's all about style.

He posted that same video on his first post. He's the "Homeless mountain guide from Banff".

I have a couple of the Tech Friends and they are not as flexible in the stem as the Zeros. The wire used is 1 x 19 compared to the 7 x 19 used in the Zeros.

Do you think cam stops on the Zeros are an asset, neutral or a liability?

So at one point they were saying they found aminopterin, but then they changed the story to melamine. Melamine is an industrial chemical (triaminotriazine)used to make plastics and adhesives. An example is the cheap panelling they use in restrooms. Why would the Chinese deliberately add melamine to wheat gluten? The answer is because it contains a lot of nitrogen. The chemical formula is C3H6N6. When they test for protein what they really do is test for nitrogen. The test is really not specific at all. The Chinese know this, and boost the apparent "protein" content of their products by putting in any cheap chemical they can find that has lots of nitrogen. Besides melamine, they'll also occasionally use urea and cyanuric acid. The only concern is the bottom line. Can you make a product that will sell for the lowest possible cost. I think we should be very concerned about almost any product purchased from China. We can't be certain any of it is safe. Click here for updates on the pet food recall from the FDA

I said "time will tell". Since this thread started, I've had Aliens get stuck and I've had Aliens invert. I've become familiar at least with the Red #6 Zero, if not the smaller ones. My Zero is the short stemmed variety, although I've not encountered a situation yet where that was a problem. It goes in all the same places that my Yellow Alien worked, plus would be more reliable in a shallow vertical placement, I should think. There have been a lot of Alien recalls and failures in the past couple years. There's no way I'd ever buy another Alien, as long as they are made by CCH. Unfortunately, the only overlap between the two lines is the smallest three Aliens with the largest three Zeros. If they made larger Zeros, I'd buy them in a heartbeat. They'd be much more versatile than the TCUs.

That reminds me of this joke I heard. I think it was told by Mel Brooks on the Tonight Show. Grandpa, who was 80 years old came over to visit his son and daughter-in-law. The son and his wife decided to go out and hired a sitter for the father. "Grandpa, this is Heather, she's a nice girl, she'll stay with you while we are gone. I think you'll like her." When they came back, they asked the sitter how it went and she replied, "He started to lean over one way so I propped him back up and put a big pillow next to him so he wouldn't fall over. A little while later he started leaning in the other direction so I put another pillow there so he wouldn't fall over." When the father was asked what he thought of the sitter, he replied, "I didn't like her. She wouldn't let me fart."

That woman should take the baby to court with her and let the jury see.

He'll have a good long time to cool off and think while in prison.

Blind rage. Probably drug-related. I think "berserk" is a good term.

Yeah, you filed a TR. Just gotta rub it in, don't ya?

...or Parking Lot Rage. You decide.

I suppose it's possible. A metallic or stony meteoroid would have punched through an ice sheet, even if it were kilometers deep, but a comet might not have.

"cold stone" what is that?

A four-legged tribble

Oh we know it does. It's been bad for how long? Since the fire in 1994, was it?

No, he was a teenager, which is almost the same thing.

This is good advice. It pays to have a sort of mental map of the area you are in. By all means, bring the map with you, but it pays to have studied it in advance. If you have, chances are you'll never need to get it out.

Honestly, would you be at all surprised if he told you that? Come on, we're talking about Kevbone here!