I was a child of the 1950's. I grew up and lived in and around Cleveland, Ohio for the first half of my life. Today while watching a program on the local PBS channel something profound occurred to me. The TV program was showing film footage of 1950's downtown Pittsburgh. It was all black...
Offered here, a collection of twelve decorative and nicely carved pipes. Complete with multiple stands for display and many other accessories as pictured. Made in Europe by experienced craftspersons of the best materials available. These will display nicely and offer an air of...
Don't let the supermarket people take your forehead temperature entering the store. It alters your thought process. I went in for some milk and groceries and came out with a 12 pack of beer and 2 bottles of wine.
"I caught my son chewing on electrical cords. So I had to ground him. He’s doing better currently and now conducting himself properly."
"I built a model of Mount Everest, and my son asked, 'Is it to scale?' I replied, 'No…it’s to look at.'"
If someone pays you to shovel out a horse stable, does that make you an incomepoop?
I've putting off having my car's brakes fixed every day for months, but today I had to stop.
In that case, it would depend on what the car is. If it's a Pontiac GTO, it's also a Goat, therefore you can't lose. In fact, you could never have lost. Goats all around.
From Wikipedia
The Monty Hall problem is a brain teaser, in the form of a probability puzzle, loosely based on the American television game show Let's Make a Deal and named after its original host, Monty Hall. The problem was originally posed (and solved) in a letter by Steve Selvin to the...
I have always lived by a certain premiss. I learned it from the government way of doing things. Buy high and sell low. You make up the difference in the volume. Just add it to the deficit, and move on.
That is precisely where my estimate landed. I have managed to reach 3/4 of a century, with much difficulty at times. The road ahead is certainly shorter than the one I have travelled thus far, but I expect it to be smoother than what I have come to know.
Lizzie, you are indeed, a curious person. I remain at odds with myself as to your age. You seem young at heart, but your interests seem to fall to times too far distant for you to have experienced first hand.
My Dad used to read Ellery Queen. I remember the covers of the paperbacks. They...
My books probably won't suffer that end. They look good on their shelves. (I may need to get an anti-shake attachment for my phone/camera, sorry about the rather unclear photos)
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