#260 Dave Bell:
Rubbermaid tubs, tight-fitting lids, and contents that wouldn't be water-damaged.
My grandparents had an old book of woodcuts called "How to Tell the Birds from the Flowers". It had, say, a carrot, and on the facing page, a parrot. I vaguely remember doggerel couplets with each.
Christoph Niemann has done a lovely set of images that remind me of the book, only his are a lot better done.
Re: front-loading washing machines
They make risers for them. They're expensive, and even for me at 5', not tall enough. A handyman and a bunch of 2x4s made a secure stand where the bottom of the door opening is about elbow height. There's also now storage underneath.
The family I was married into used to mine their peanut butter jars, scraping almost to the edges so they looked full even when they were nearly empty.
At Thanksgiving and other large family gatherings, the passing of dishes at the start of the meal was chaotic. They gravitated towards the hapless visitor, who ended up with both hands full, table space blocked, and a serving dish on their plate. Everyone else's attention had shifted the other direction. Fortunately, previous victims warned me.
Rats, and then I mangled the pun.
"Manifold Destiny"
Steve C., Serge -
Just a case of manifest destiny
as per Ry Cooder
The easiest (and cheapest) way to keep the sauerkraut under the surface of the brine is a large freezer Ziplock (or other food safe plastic bag) about 3/4 full of water, with the air expressed before closing. Doesn't matter if it leaks, and it won't shatter, as did the insert for the lidded thrown sauerkraut pot I made long, long, ago.
Rats, lost a comment. In case the partial shows up.
Grumping re: "The Prisoner" 's Rover - since when is bigger automatically scarier?
The velociraptors were far more terrifying than T-Rex in the Jurassic movies.
Scary is wicked and fast, with nowhere for the protagonist to go. You don't need to upsize the shark. Rather than the army of refrigerator-sized zombies with double-bitted axes coming down the street, for sheer pants-wetting put someone small, with a sharp little knife, right behind me.
#637 ::: Stefan Jones
...I'm starting to look around for a sauerkraut bucket...I want to make about two heads worth.
Gallon glass jars work well. If you can't find them, check with the kind of bar that serves pickled eggs and ask for an empty.
#3 ::: mds
... (Or wildly pessimistic; your kilometrage may vary.)
Initially this was read not as a variation on mileage, but as [something]-rage, a comment on an angry as well as pessimistic view.
#66 ::: OtterB
...was the girl who came dressed as Hester Prynne.
Now I've got Meredith Wilson stuck in my head:
"I hope, I pray, that Hester will win just one more A"
Malleable lead: find a stained glass studio and ask for their trimmings. They generate a lot of otherwise useless scrap.
It's one industry where gen-ewe-ine lead is still used.
Maybe a major clue is body language? If you move like a guy, you're the alpha. The farther you get from that "norm", the less visible you become. If you move with purpose, you're a fast and easy sale, so an employee can pay attention briefly, demonstrate that they're doing their job, and get back to soldiering (loafing - was that this thread?). If I know what I want, half the floor staff wants to help. If I'm not sure what I need, I have a lot of trouble being visible. I am short, slight, older, and obviously female.
Tangent: I used to live in Capitol Hill in Denver and walked a lot. I was partway down a long alley when two kids came in from the other end. They were just old enough to be discovering patterns of facial hair. Their attention shifted from each other to me, and their path began to intersect mine.
It was coming on dusk, and in this usually busy area no other people were visible or audible. I started feeling adrenalin time-slow and sensory enhancement.
They made their decision and vectored toward me. At about two yards, one said, "Excuse me, ma'am, but how do you spell [soldier]?" I gave the letters as we passed, no one breaking step. One said "Told'ja!".
I am often mistaken for store/library help, and often asked spelling or grammatical questions from people I've never met. Never any quite as memorable as this.
Lee: oops, "him". Can it be seen as a credit to this group that the tone of posts here doesn't require carrying gender-typing for everybody? That sentence doesn't scan quite right. It's late, MileHiCon is off to a great start, and two more days coming.
Clifton: yup, sounds like Tommy Chong. No idea from which bit, though.
Too little, too late category:
Who else is going to be at MileHiCon this weekend?
Abi, this brings to mind the character (street panhandler? - it's been thirty years) from - Congress of Wonders? Firesign Theater? Child's Garden of Grass? (I can hear his inflections):
"I used to be all fcked up on drugs."
"Now I'm all fcked up on The Lord!"
Re: MSG & etc.
Thanks to everyone responding.
Mary Aileen -
Thank you. Whenever it comes will be fine. The concentration is certainly a component, much like overdoing caffeine from a product like No-Doz vs. multiple cups of coffee.
Maybe we need a thread dedicated to food additives and sensitivities?
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