Sampson clearly can’t find enough shirts that fit. Does he pay someone to follow him around and apply body paint every couple of hours?

Has he? It’s hard to see, but it kinda looks like his right arm is hanging down. It’s pretty clear his left hand is gripping the guy’s collar.

Thank you. I think you’re probably right about it being acidic (or maybe alkaline). Many essential oils are caustic depending on the concentration, and I’ll trust you’re right about that being bad for carbon steel. If this stuff is effective on stained enamel, maybe it will rehabilitate our old Lodge some. Fingers crossed.

This is different stuff, but I must have been tired and having trouble concentrating when I first read it. This clearly says it’s for enameled cast iron. It’s only in the warnings that they drop the “enameled” part (i.e., “ONLY for use with Cast Iron and Stainless Steel cookware”). Rereading, I begin to think maybe this is intended more as a stain remover than a normal cleaner since you’re supposed to use it on a “degreased and dry surface.” I have had regular stainless steel pans that never seemed to take a seasoning (can they even season like cast iron?) without being dirty. Because food stuck so badly, they also often appeared stained unless you really scrubbed. So I guess I can see why you might want something like this. Assuming I’m understanding it correctly now.

I got sick yesterday. Pretty sure it’s just a cold because I have a craving for junk food and for some reason that’s always one of my symptoms. I actually bought potato chips this last Sunday! I can’t help wondering if my body knew, that it was a sign, even though the only really unusual part about it was that I gave in and made the purchase.

“When yo’re done, park it behind the shed and spray it down. Make sure ya get alla gristle and clumps off. And don’t eat nuthin’ afore ya start. If’n yer stomach ain’t empty when ya start the sprayin’, it sure’n will be by the time yo’re done!”

You’re right. That’s why hickory sticks are in the $15.99 bucket. And don’t even think of taking any off the ground outside; we have the police on speed dial.

When enough people know a saying, but don’t understand its intent, its meaning drifts. The idea is supposed to be that the existence of an exception proves that there is a rule, with “rule” being in the sense of a generality.

I learned that from the Grammar Girl podcast and found it interesting enough that it stuck with me (because it was something I’d long wondered). Her example is a sign that forbids skateboarding while school is in session. “You can infer that you are allowed to skateboard at other times. The rule that the exception proves is that skateboarding is generally allowed. If that were not a rule, why would exceptions be made at all?"

Transcript: https://www.quickanddirtytips.com/qdtarchive/why-do-we-say-the-exception-that-proves-the-rule/

You can be both credentialed and a kook, can’t you? I remember him from his regular guest appearances on Art Bell’s radio show.

I’ve seen this movie. It doesn’t go well for people.

But I don’t. Even though i studyinged English Education and eighth grade reading level, that part escapes me.

“Defilement in the Ālaya-Vijñāna.” Ayup, very common Buddhist saying, at least 'round these here parts. Can’t yap with a Buddhist for 20 minutes without hearing that at least once. And Diogenes, masturbating in your window, and metronome metronome Megatron metatron monadic nodal structure, too. Yep, it all checks out.

Also, I liked the part where it asks you consider whether you’d borrowed the range. Who does that?

“Hey, neighbor, do you have a gas range, I could borrow?”

“Sure, Bud, it’s there in the garage. Just put it back when you’re done.”

“Thanks a load! Say, it’s burning green. Did you put copper in the burners?”

“Yes, I did. Just for you! Breath deeply.”

I’d assumed it was open BECAUSE it wasn’t producing heat; that is, because it was broken. And isn’t the cover lying on the carpet in front of the heater?

But maybe I’m completely misunderstanding. Can you tell us what you photographed and what we should be noticing?

Couldn’t have happened to a more deserving guy.

Wow. Almost belongs in !aneurysmposting@sopuli.xyz

Maybe the fact that the heat sink is shiny and clean while the rest is grimy and gross? I think you would normally expect there to be lots of dust on the fins, deposited by years of convection. On the other hand, since the cover is off, it’s probably reasonable to think they’ve just replaced the part? Idk, I’m guessing (about all of it).

The gods that speak plainly are the best gods.

… Also, maybe the worst gods.

I don’t play chess and I also had trouble. It’s a long castle. Ok. And it walks? What?

I vaguely remember hearing about an artist who, I think this was about 15 years, scavenged a bunch of the oldest camera phones they could find (i.e., flip and candy bar phones) and, because no one ever resets their electronics, pulled all the photos they held. I didn’t actually see how they displayed the pics (giant collage? coffee table book?), but I thought it sounded interesting from historical perspective. I’ll bet it’s a lot like nowadays except for the quantity since those phones predated constant cloud-connections. That is to say, mostly kids, SOs, and cats.