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Those fake-folksy, fake-sincere adverts always put me off. My knee-jerk reaction is that the author is trying to rip me off (surprise!) A hot water wash with bleach did nothing to clean up the machine. In what universe would that happen? Wait..... One with a 2 minute wash and a drop of bleach...

I blew dry my hair for a few years until I discovered punk in '80 or '81. A bit of hair gel and finessing and I was good to go. I dabbled with perms in the mid-80's in an attempt to tame cowlicks. After a few years I gave up and went to the flattop I've had since. Then all the gels started...

Many thanks for the info! I did find reference to batteries possibly needing to be kept in a separate, fire proof room. I did find one add-on package for 101K. But there was a strange lack of numbers.... of any type. I was expecting to be bombarded with facts and figures I didn't...

We had a power outage in my building recently and the elevators did what they were supposed to do. They went down to the next lower floor and the doors opened. So nobody got stuck, which is good. However, this created concern regarding the many elderly people and those with health conditions in...

In college the washers would eat laundry ... and regurgitate. It got to be a joke. It inevitably happened that a person would throw a load in, SIT ON THE WASHER until the cycle was done. There would always be at least one article of clothing missing and one article that that had NOT been loaded...

#8 Medical <--> environmental interactions are usually this complicated. It's all those pesky laws-of-physics things that annoy so many people. The problem is that the truth of the above does not change the fact that a prospective buyer needs clear data (like WITH NUMBERS0 which he can use...

Original post: That burner under the kettle is out of whack. Gas flames should never be burning yellow. Blue is the rule. I'm pretty sure that the flame should not extend beyond the bottom of the pot; most heat produced by flames licking up the sides does not heat the pot, but the room. IIRC...

It seems to me that performance years down the road depends on the quality of equipment installed and skill level of the installer. Skill level of the service folks currently maintaining older systems is as well. I can tell you that most techs today have no idea what to do with a 100+ year old...

#4 I'm not sure "and collecting a GIANT pile of cash" is a good lead-in. One doesn't need to be particularly business-oriented to know that gross receipts says exactly nothing about net profit. Its position as part of the lead-in suggests it does (else it'd not be there). So i'm catching a...

#12 Gluten Free pasta: I've come across A LOT of Italian food that doesn't fit the American idea of 'Italian' ... pasta & potatoes rabbit liver & kidney stuffing made with egg yolks - weighs a ton on a spoon, lol fried jellyfish peas & diced potatoes in marinara sauce with eggs poached on...

"Some say air travel went downhill when people stopped dressing up to fly." While I'm too young for suit & tie , I *AM* old enough that wearing jeans never even crossed my mind. I think it was my 2nd or 3rd flight by myself that I noticed jeans. I kept my thoughts to myself but more than a few...

Does it go as fast as the Corvair? Or guzzle as much additional fuel for the speed increase? Accounts of the plane have been all over the place. It was both very safe and very dangerous. The extra fuel required for the speed differential ate the profit for airlines. Yet trans-pacific flights...

Dream Machine: Unitized Neptune with water heater. Most likely, given the limitations of my building: LG 2.7 cu. ft. combo.

#32 Done!

#31 I am completely on board with this oven and dishwasher set-up! Yee-Ha! It makes sense that such design would come from the Netherlands where the average adult male is 5' 11.3", a full 2' taller than the average US male. Funny, in the US my height is 83nd percentile, 70th in Poland and...

Please Ignore the Link in #10!!! #29 IIRC, there was a paid version that gave all sorts of detailed info but I only downloaded the free version that basically gave you a list of what was on your computer and the public description provided by the company that wrote the software in question...

#29 Exactly. I added up everything my orthopaedists and physical therapists would want me to do in a perfect world. I came up with 21 hours and that does NOT include the travel time and the daily hot tub soak they all recommend. As one member once commented, "Well, I think you have your...

#15 "Spybot Search and Destroy ....." I seem to remember using that years ago and being happy with the results. #21 I'd try a few things before investing in a new laptop. 1. Defrag (defragment) your disc. That tends to speed everything up. 2. Use SpyBot Search and Destroy with Should I...

#17 "He's retiring in May so these issues wil be somebody else's problem (his outfit is finding out a lot of things about what all he does and is scrambling to reassign the various duties, LOL)." It is sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo satisfying to have that happen! How wonderful it is that RJ...

Interesting. I wear 10.5 EEEEE (no regular shoe store for me!) and I've never owned a refrigerator with a door that hit my feet. But now that I think about it, I think all my refrigerators have vented in the front. Yeah, the shoe size theory...... I don't know if/how width factors into it...