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I've only seen sugared Mexican coke in bottles, I don't think it comes any other way. Sam's sells it by the 24 bottle case for about $18.00 which makes it less than a $1.00 per bottle. For me, Coke with HFCS is too syrupy and sticky. It's not all that refreshing. While Coke with cane sugar is...

Do they even use the Empire Room for entertainment anymore? That was a grand place, with a grand entrance off the main lobby. You had a nice dinner, then the show would start with drinks, etc. We saw a few acts there.

There are moisture sensing devices you can put on the floor around the heater or in the pan the heater sits in. If moisture hits them they let out a sound similar to a car alarm. We have those in our a/c drip pan as well as our hot water tank pan. Any moisture gets in there and we know about it...

Years and years ago (mid 60's) when Phyllis would be in Chicago with her night club act (Usually the Empire Room at the Palmer House) she'd also appear on WIND AM radio with Howard Miller. Howard's show was basically reporting news headlines and weather and traffic and light talk. His show ran...

The problem we have with garage sales is people price stuff as if it just left the store yesterday! KA stand mixers with missing attachments that are obviously used $389.00 FIRM! Usually just a lot of junk. A lot of it you just take one look and think "Why isn't this in the garbage can?" Most...

What a nice story! Very well done (even if the reporter did refer to the control tower Frigidaires as Blackstones). A lot of times stories such as this are reported like "Look at these nut jobs!", but this was different. It was presented as a bunch of regular people who just happen to like...

That guy sure did like his sputnik lamps! That was way too much for me. All that pink!

We do the same with wet towels. On the other side of the bathroom are two towel bars. Normally they are not occupied. When we have wet towels we hang them there to dry. Usually in a couple of hours they are completely dry, but most of the time we let them sit overnight before putting in the...

Damon, Texas They listed Damon, Texas as a ghost town. Granted it's small. Just a gas station with convenience store and a Post Office and a yellow blinking light intersection. But people do live in the area. The National Weather Service has a Doppler Radar site in Damon, so when storms come...

Those are the same Wascomats that our local Chinese operated laundry has. The controls are not intuitive at all and not that easy to figure out. Ours charge $3.00 per load and $4.25 for extra hot and extra rinse. I really can't tell if the heat is boosted or not. The glass on the window gets...

Where the lint can gather in a WP top filter dryer is at the bottom of the shaft that the filter fits into. It can also accumulate where the air hose exits the dryer on it's way out of the house. Even though the manuals for the dryers from the manufacturers tell the customers that the dryers...

There were a lot of teething problems with the 787 when it first came out. It has a lot of batteries onboard to ensure smooth power. In early models some of those batteries have caught fire in flight. This lead to a short grounding of the plane while Boeing figured the problem out. They...

The name of the television show that moved homes like this was called "Mega Movers".

While I haven't been to 787 school, I did find this note about the Air Conditioning System on the Boeing 787. It may have the kind of system you are discussing here. I know it's electrically operated rather than bleed air operated...

I once rented a R5 (Le Car) in Europe for about 10 days during a vacation there. At first I laughed at it, told the agent they couldn't be serious that was the car they are giving me, but it was. They told me to try it, if I didn't like it I could bring it back. I drove it and I actually liked...

I would think that cutting it down with another detergent would result in less than desirable results. It would like not adding enough detergent to the load in the first place.

The Dauphine was also known as the French joke to Americans who bought them in the 50's. They were known for breaking down and then parts always needed to be ordered from France via slowboat. We had a neighbor who had a Renault R10. He always said it made a bunch of noise but had horrible...

I don't know about canning, but I think with a stove top pressure cooker you have way more control of the heat settings than with an electric pressure cooker. The Cooks Country television show just discussed pressure cookers this morning. They much preferred the stove top models over the...