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Strange magic - ELO

When I read your question about meat safe, I immediately thought of pie safes. Pretty much what your picture showed, but to my knowledge they were used to keep fresh baked goods in. The bugs couldn't get in the little holes punched in it but air could get in and out, so your pies or bread could cool. According to this wiki article they were also used as meat safes. This I did not know. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pie_safe

Me and My Shadow

Nice to meet ya

Love is a Many-Splendored thing

Be honest now. Who knew CCKW was a deuce and a half without looking it up? My hand is not raised.

How long you been in SASS? "If it sounds the same, it is the same."

Thank you for your recommendations, one and all. I just placed my order. And if they rip me off I know who to blame.

Anybody not white is allowed.

Louie Hoo Hoo

Well according to the link that Father Kit posted, there are indeed laws, and like most laws they differ depending on the state. And, again according to the link, if they did what they did in the TV show they would have broken the law. That's what caused my wonderment - this TV episode. There was a TV show called Las Vegas. This family comes to Vegas for the son's bar mitzvah. That means he's 13. And he's a total nerd. A dork. A Poindexter. So trying to make him a little cooler, they (not his parents, a couple of casino employees) take him to a hair stylist and get a better do, and then they take him to a haberdashery and get him some better threads, and then they take him to the jewelry store and get him an earring. Nevada seems to have no laws at all about piercings or tattoos. Except for Clark County, which is where Las Vegas is. In Clark County, if it's a minor, parent or guardian must be present. Oops.

If you wanted to draw a picture on skin, in color, that you could then rub off with a dry handkerchief, what would you use? There was a Happy Days episode. Richie was lusting after this girl, and while he's talking to her he sees that she's paying more attention to this busboy's arm. He has a tattoo of a flag on his bicep. Richie knew that his parents would never let him get a tattoo - obviously the girl liked tattoos - so somebody (Potsie? Fonzie? It's been a while) drew a picture of a large mouth bass on his arm. But when he showed it to her it didn't impress her. So he questioned her intense staring at the busboy. She said it was because of where it was - whenever he moved his arm his bicep moved and made the flag wave, and she thought that was kind of neat, so that's why she was watching it. But she liked Richie and he did not need to have a tattoo. So he pulls out his handkerchief and rubbed his arm and hands her the handkerchief with the ink smear on it and the tattoo is gone. He told her that he was giving her his tattoo. Now before someone informs me that it was Hollyweird and it's not real and they can do anything they want to on television, they still had to have something drawn on his arm that he could wipe off with the handkerchief. So what would you use? It seems like any type of ink would dry too quickly, especially under studio lights.

If the 13-year-old kid goes into the tattoo parlor and says he wants a tattoo, is there any legal thing that says the tattoo artist has to turn him away? How about if the same 13-year-old kid goes and wants to get some part of his body pierced? Lots of little girls have their ears pierced, but they pretty much all had their parents with them when they got it done. So that would show parental permission. When little 10-year-old Susie shows up at the jewelry shop, would they cheerfully punch a hole in the side of her head with no problems, or would they legally need to have her parents okay?

Sugar Sugar

Don't forget the most romantic kiss in the history of kissing.

I go down and I enlist in the army. I'm going to be in the Army for 4 years. And when my four years is just about up there's going to be a sergeant trying his damnedest to get me to reenlist. Sign up for another 4 years. Stay in. But that's for enlisted. How do they do it with officers? I go through ROTC, or OCS, or the Point, and I come out with a commitment to being an officer for 4 years or 6 years or whatever. Now when that time runs out, do I automatically stay an officer unless I resign? Or do I have to re-up somehow? Get recommissioned? How does that work?

One would think that on a site like wiki, where they explain the meaning of every offbeat term you can think of, that they would not just throw "military retention" out there and leave it. It sounds like it means getting people to re-up. That might actually be what it means. But I'm just surprised they didn't explain it. They explain everything else.