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@applianceguy47: You are exactly correct. But I'm sure you also knew that Hostess management petitioned the bankruptcy court last week to be able to pay significant bonuses for their key management team (like $100k per important manager-person), while blaming the actual workers for their...

Forget Hostess, I'm saving my venture capital to bring back the Old Home Bread brand. They had C.W. McCall sing for their commercials. I can't think of any baked-goods company ever with a pitch-man that had a number-one Country and Pop song like Old Home did. Plus, he launched the 1970s...

Haven't owned an Osterizer for many years, but I remember the softish blade drive being worn out from making too many Margaritas. Never had a problem with the glass "threads" getting chipped, though. We've had a Cuisinart blender for a long time (since ca. 2000) that's superior to the old...

There is no usage fee for GPS reception. GPS makers will charge for map updates. But that's not really an issue, unless you live in a really booming area where they're building new streets and highways regularly. Context is important, though... How technically-receptive is the person that...

I'd either check the Federal Register or call Speed Queen. There's probably less brain damage associated with calling Speed Queen, though.

I think your Maytag is really a Whirlpool with Maytag badges. Which means it's only 5 or 6 years old. If 25% of the holes are rusting, either Whirlpool has bad QC, or someone has misused the machine to make that happen. It would be worth determining which is the case before replacing the...

Back then, or now? Everyone's familiar with BSE, aka "Mad Cow Disease", which is why we don't feed cow parts to cows any more, not since about 1992 anyway. Pork producers don't tend to feed hog parts to hogs - but that's more of an economic thing than anything else. In the old days, we used to...

@perc-o-prince: I guess that was an awkward way of expressing shock and horror how, living in the heart of turkey country, that anyone would ever consider cooking a Thanksgiving bird in a roaster oven except under duress. Like Russian or Cuban Soldiers in my front yard kind of duress. Do they...

@whirlcool: "I wonder if Hostess had any of those young "Ivy League Grad School Hot Shots" in to run the company. Usually when they pull those in the company usually sells off it's money making assets and then liquidates what's left. Isn't that what happened with Maytag or the US Textile...

@arilab: Sorry if I was coming off harsh. I have never flown as a airline pilot. I have done a little commercial work, dropping skydivers ("meat missiles"), but that was short-lived for reasons that are better not discussed here. I send my loved ones on airliners and have very little...

@Laundress: Sounds like the CenturyLink telephone people. They took over our phone service from Qwest, who took over our phone service from U.S. West, who took over our phone service from Northwestern Bell. Northwestern Bell had the pea-green trucks that would show up first thing the next...

Washers make clothes wet by necessity, obviously. If you want your clothes to get dry, you need to decide now much energy you're going to use in the washer to spin the clothes dry, and how much energy you're going to use in the dryer by blowing heated air into the clothes. The sum of the...

After years of building tight houses, I'm still trying to understand how non-vented dryers can be sold anywhere. Even in Europe. To me that's the same as having the whole family shower without turning on the bath fan. Let the mold and rot begin...

While there might be good reasons to critique SQ's product placement or feature-set decisions, I don't know of any credible evidence that would lead a person to say or much less be able to prove that SQ's products are anything less than robust. Put a modern WP, MT or GE machine next to a SQ...

@lotsosuds: Seriously? "If the lid don't fit, you must acquit" Or cook it until the wingtips fall off... Do they have a foodserver test in your county?

There are people here who will champion the new WP machines. Problem is, they won't open their wallets.

As much as company animosity may have created a bad work environment, I'm not buying. Like I said, I learned to fly from an ex-military guy. We can all be thankful that when I depart in my Cessna, I probably won't take anyone out with me. But the Military was always big on things like the...

@perc-o-prince If you can can cook a 20 lb. turkey, my hat's off to you. I live about 40 miles south of the turkey production capital of the U.S., Ellsworth, Iowa. Yeah, not where you'd take a family vacation. Ironically, my only serious motorcycle accident was when I headed North to my...

@sudsmaster: You should be so lucky as to go to school with a PB&J. Nowadays there are lots of kids at school that are allergic to a PB&J. So when I send mine, she gets isolated from the rest of the school, so as not to do something bad to a kid with allergies. And that's fine, because I...

@dirtybuck: I used to watch Captain Kangaroo! And the Dancing Bear. But I used to drive my mom crazy when that show had "Fred on Channel One". I complained to Mom that our TV dial started at 2, and I wanted to be able to see Fred on Channel One. Dad said be glad we have the 3 channels that...