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05-18-2024, 1:06 PM
Commas: they're not just for Oxford anymore:
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05-11-2024, 9:04 PM
Hmm...it just occurred to me that the last time I saw a K&S display, it was picked clean. But that was during the supply-chain issues 2-3 years ago....
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05-11-2024, 8:55 PM
Learn something new every day. :)
Oddly, they also sell "Bendable Copper Tube" in the same sizes, same alloy, and same wall thickness. Different...
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05-11-2024, 5:26 PM
I think I see part of the problem:
All the K&S tubing I've ever seen is brass, not copper. (I went through a ton of it decades ago, when slot-car...
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05-09-2024, 10:52 AM
Very long ago I had a knife my dad got from the USAF, probably as part of some survival kit. It was bright orange and had two 'blades'.
The...
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05-08-2024, 2:19 AM
"Hi, I'm Nick Dundee. I was the mumblety-peg champion at Alice Springs Middle School.
My friends call me 'Gimpy'."
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05-07-2024, 10:13 PM
I'm getting an image of a couple of middle-school kids playing mumblety-peg: the whole school goes on lock-down and SWAT gets called out.
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05-07-2024, 10:05 PM
I vaguely agree with you in theory, but somehow the concept of someone being computer-literate enough to handle Craigslist but not computer-literate...
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05-07-2024, 9:48 PM
I wouldn't give a nickel for the odds of a bladeless Swiss Army Whatever getting past a TSA screening.
It still looks like a pocketknife and most...
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04-30-2024, 12:11 PM
I saw the face right away, but...Nicholas Cage?!? Um, no, don't think so.
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04-28-2024, 4:44 PM
The Greenworks one I have (not sure bout the newer ones) can do that, but I only tried it once when it was new. I just don't have that many leaves to...
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04-27-2024, 5:31 PM
The first thing that grabbed my eye in the original pic was two people and five hands...huh?
Reminded me a bit of an AI-generated pic I saw awhile...
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04-27-2024, 5:22 PM
Back on topic...
I have two, a 18V Ryobi now used only for blowing cruft out of the garage, and a 40V Greenworks that shares batteries with the...
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04-27-2024, 5:16 PM
I'm still amazed the Tesla people let that particular trademark get away...
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