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Why? Have you put iocane powder in it?

I took the dog out for a walk after supper, and we saw one of our neighbors walking down the road. He told me, "I just walked all the way from O'Reilly's". Auto parts store about a mile and a half away. He said that when he got up there and went inside, he locked his keys in the truck. And he locked his phone in the truck so he couldn't call for his wife. You know, I bet you that if he told the people at the counter, they would have let him use their phone to call home. Probably didn't occur to him. My first automobile was a 64 Ford Fairlane. You could not lock your keys in the car, because the only way to lock the car was to use the key. My fifth automobile was a 69 Ford F100, and again you could only lock the door with the key. Now somewhere between number one and number five I locked my keys in the car once. Once. And for the last 40 years, I treat my car door like my front door's deadbolt. I lock it with the key. It does not matter if you can just push the thing down and then slam the door. I don't do that. I use the key. If you use the key, it is impossible to lock your key in the car.

Cookie - a girl ahead of her time.

That guy is impressive. But I think the one I like the best is that safe in the brick wall.

So is that Shawn Bhawn, or Seen Bean?

You thought the dog clapping was stupid. Check out this gigantic salmon.

Everybody in California is a member of the Pink Pistols?

You didn't know about that? You can take a solid piece of iron or steel and hit it with a hammer, and if it is solid and homogeneous, it will ring like a bell. But if there's a void in it - an air pocket - it just kind of goes WHAP! One of the early methods of non-destructive testing. I've read of colonial gunsmiths doing the hammer test on a barrel to make sure that their welds were good. It's similar to bouncing a silver quarter on the countertop and listening to it ring. A clad quarter will not bring the same as a silver quarter. And a counterfeit coin will not ring like a silver coin or a gold coin.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piasecki_VZ-8_Airgeep Cool

After reading it over 3 or 4 times, I decided it was what Dave just said. You turn the water on, you take the band off the faucet and put it on your arm. But when I first read it - when I turn on the hose it comes off the hydrant and onto my arm - it read to me like something involved with turning on the hydrant caused the band to slide off the faucet onto her arm. It made no sense. If she had said - when I turn on the hose I take the band off the hydrant and put it on my arm - well that would have made perfect sense. She did it. But the way it read to me, something about turning on the faucet did it.

They have apparently left a step or two out in the pictures, because I have no idea in the world how this would work. But I'm glad it's working for Julie.

I have no idea what recipe Mama used. According to the internet, bread pudding is stale bread mixed with milk or cream, and egg, then baked. So - baked French toast. While bread and butter pudding uses both raisins and spices. The recipes I've seen call for sultanas, which would be called golden raisins here in the states. Dried white grapes, instead of the dried red grapes that make normal raisins. But I remember Mama's having both raisins and cinnamon, so I guess she made a closer to bread and butter pudding.

They might as well steal it from a submarine. Bubbleheads so seldom use the screen door.

Good point. Drop forged using steam hammers, and sandcast, does not sound like "hand forged" to me.