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"building code" for frost line in this part of Ohio is 4 feet deep.

They're not what they seem. In the tongue of Mordor they are called Gazgûl - or Gasoline Wraiths. They are tasked by Sauron to hang around gas stations seeking to snatch the One Winning Lottery Ticket to Rule Them All from unwary customers. They're also known to be exceptionally fond of bad coffee ...

Jim - we've had this situation happen to us before. The "panhandling" vs. "busking" depends on how your local laws are written. The way around this is to only busk on privately owned property. For instance, we often play at the local farmer's market here in town. But there are se...

Growing up we would go "tick tacking" just before Halloween. We would pick the field corn, shuck it, then throw the kernels at houses. Sounded like you were pelting it with rocks. We did the occasional window soaping, but never paraffin. I remember our house getting TPed a few times. I had...

Sorry - I have a house husband so am not qualified.

I just got back from a business trip to Newcastle Upon Tyne, and friends took me up the coast to Lindisfarne and Holy Island. May be a little out of the way than you were planning, but beautiful area. I know my friends bike all over the area.

the downwards view on Google is very current for our neighborhood - within the past 4 months. But the street view is 3 years old (there's a political sign in our yard so it's easy to tell).

long time ago, I used to run the atomic absorption instrument at work. Distilled water and deionized distilled water will pick up all kinds of things dependent on what they are stored in. And depending on what we were analyzing for, we would store the water in glass, Nalgene, or have to make sure it...

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Nanohedron wrote: somehow the idea of a Tyvek lab coat...

Our haz mat group has some wonderful full suit Tyvek, including the booties, in really bright yellow.

Dale - no matter what the topic, I always enjoy (maybe not agree with) reading your posts. And I hope it's ok to feel you and several others on this board are "friends" even if we've not met IRL. Do what you gotta do, but remember to stop in once in a while. And also remember, if you are e...

My son (the one that fixed F18 engines for four years) also was into model rockets (and radio controlled airplanes and radio controlled nitro cars). His "thing" with the rockets was to see just how BIG of a payload he could fit into one.

We also lost a lot of rockets.......

to get back to the thing with water coming out of it..... Many buildings in our company have gone to "sensor" faucets and toilets. Besides the obvious "no need to touch" feature, they are water savers. The have specific "on" times programmed in, so they shut off after a...

Innocent Bystander wrote:An online Geordie Translator.

oooohhhhh - I'm going to send that to Lynn to show her I'm getting ready for my trip!!!

I'm going to be going "across the pond" to Newcastle UK for a conference being held Sept 14 - 16. I'd love to tack on a few days either the week before or after (preferably after) and do some sights and meet up with some people. Being the typical "dumb American" I have no idea if...