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  4. EleCivil

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    I'll leave it to The Wibcat to worry about TTDs. He's an expert in that sort of thing, and discussing all the permutations thereof. I, on the other hand, have a legitimate question.You said a while ago that you were practice teaching, and loving it. When I took teacher training many years ago--training that came to nought--we had practice teaching in the last year. Yet you said you still have another year to go, so you did classroom training in either your sophomore or junior years? Is that right? That seems early to me.But could you fill me it a little? Are you still becoming a teacher? I think you'd be magnificent at that.C

  7. Jason Rimbaud

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    Wibby, Trab --You're like me, ancient and unaware people. The meaning and significance of 4/20 was just explained to me today by someone. I think the fact we didn't know it was shorhand for a day of smoking weed for college students so inclined to do so says a lot about us.What it mostly says is that we're old fogies.Now I don't quite know why not one of the yongsters here saw fit to let us in on the secret, and allowed our ignorance to be so blantantly displayed to one and all. The shame of it. If any of you want to know, say, who won WW II, we'd be happy to fill you in.C

  9. Jason Rimbaud

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    I hate to disagree with my good and wise freind Trab, but when he's wrong, he's wrong. TP should unroll from the top, and that's an indisputable fact. If it comes off the bottom of the roll and you tear it, the new end will invariably stick to the roll and now be underneath, hiding, much like Des, and be very difficult to find, and you will need to find it unless you're a one-wipe-is-enough sort of guy, which means I don't want to know you. Tearing the paper off an over-the-top roll leaves the new end quite visible and easy to access simply by puffing a gentle stream of air on it.As for eggs, in a cold refrigerator they last a long time. I don't know about the rest of the country, but in CA they stamp a date on the end of the carton. I don't know if that's a sell-by date or a use-by date; it doesn't say. But look at the date the next time you're in the store and you'll probably see it's still a long time away.Trab's right in that a bad egg will give off a sulfurous odor that's unmistakable. If an egg when you break the shell doesn't look right or smell right or feel right, dump it. But they do last a long time.C

  13. Jason Rimbaud

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    Well, what does the location have to do with?
    Actually, nothing. There's no reason other than design style why the lever would be on the right or the left. Why they became rather standard on the left side of the tank has become lost in antiquity. Tanks used to be situated on the wall behind the toilets and well above them, so the force of the water entering the toilet was greater than it is today. It was commonly activated by a chain that was pulled. So there wasn't a flush lever per se like we have now.When the tank was attached to the bowl, the lever was commonly situated on the left side of the tank for no special reason. At that time, it became standard for flushing to use 7 gallons of water, and not too many years ago, that was cut in half as a water saving method, and the new standard of 3.5 gallons per flush was adopted. Those toilets were called, of all things, water savers.Today, with clean water becoming more and more precious, the standards have again been lowered. Flushing water usage on newer toilets is much less than ever before, and air-assisted systems have been designed to lower water used in flushing down around the 1 gallon per flush level, or lower.And all this has nothing to do with where the flush lever is located, but as there's nothing more to say about that, this will have to suffice.C
  14. Jason Rimbaud

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    And Trab, don't forget, get them hot enough, you start seeing white stuff.But let's review the question: how long can eggs stay in the refrigerator before they are bad?I don't think it's reasonable to ascribe being incarcerated in the refrigerator as the causative factor to them going bad. No more than you can say prison makes a boy into a hardened criminal, can you say the time spent in a refrigerator is the cause for an egg's badness. But hard time spent on the rock pile does make a boy go bad, I can hear you shouting, your anger coming so obviously from your misplaced liberal guilt. You see a boy lifting and swinging a sledgehammer that weights half his own weight, swinging it repeatedly in the hot sun, his thin muscles stretching and aching and near to tearing, sweat pouring from his face and the guard, swigging from his canteen and letting the water run down his face, sneering at him. “Can I have a drink, please sir,” gasps the boy, imploringly, weak from dehydration, weary from work.“What’s it worth to you?” leers the guard. Then he reaches for his zipper.Now as this scene plays out in prison camps daily, we should not worry about the boy, but pity the guard because he has to be in the sun, too. The boy, he was a bad ‘un, and that’s why he’s breaking rocks and giving lip service for water. He was a bad ‘un going in, and he’ll be a bad ‘un when he gets out, and time spent for his crimes was time spent off the streets and away from us God-fearing good people.And the same can be said for those eggs. If they’re bad in the refrigerator, then they damn well were bad before they went in there, and they deserve what they get, and you can leave them in that refrigerator till hell freezes over for all that. Serves ‘em right.Next question?C

  15. Jason Rimbaud

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    I don't know about wisdom. I've been fresh out of that for years, which I guess means it wouldn't be fresh anyway, but I do have some knowledge. I said I had some knowledge about toilets, and I do.If anyone is curious, here's a link: http://www.us.kohler.com/onlinecatalog/pro...ault&page=1That takes you to a catalogue page for Kohler, a major sanitaryware supplier headquartered in Wisconsin, in Kohler, Wisconsin to be more informative. Why I looked at their catalogue is because I already knew they made toilets with the flush handle on the side opposite to the normal one (all right, so I'm being a little fussy. The most common way I use a tolilet is to stand in front of it. The only way I flush it is by stading in front of it. Some people flush while sitting on it, but that runs the risk of parts of you getting wet with contaminated water if your nether parts are really... well, you get the idea. [some people say if you've got it flaunt it. I'm not saying I've got it. I'm simply saying I don't like to have to take a shower after flushing.] Anyway...to me, the usual handle location is to the left, the unusual one to the right, and I'll continue with that definition.)I checked through the catalogue and found over a dozen toilets with right-handed flush levers. So they wouldn't be special orders, except for at an outlet that only carries left-hand lever-location toilets.Kohler is a top-end producer, like American-Standard. Their products tend to be higher priced than most you'd find in a place like Home Depot.I don't think the location has much to do with whether a person is left or right handed. Even the most uncoordinated and awkward of us should be able to flush a toilet with either hand. Isn't that the true definition of ambidexterity?Well, it should be.C

  21. Jason Rimbaud

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    I can say with a certain degree of authority that toilet tanks are made both ways. And have been for years. The square hole that take the flush lever can be located on either side of the front of the tank, and sometimes on one end.I would say that the most usual place for it is on the left hand side of the tank as you face the toilet.And isn't this an odd thing to be writing about?C

  25. DesDownunder

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    Does he polish his undershorts while still wearing them? You know, gold doesn't tarnish, and doesn't really need polishing. Just exactly which part does he spend most of his time rubbing?But my point was--I keep getting distracted by visions of him assidously rubbing on those shorts--if he has to polish them, they may not be true gold lame. They might be something cheaper.It may be, Des, that you're hooked up with someone who has fool's gold in his shorts.C

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