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1. about 15 hours ago on Pickles

   Wow, what a waste of perfectly good and (nearly) free chicken stock. Cook down that rib cage (including bones, skin and other stuff you didn’t eat) with a stalk or two of celery, and an onion or so cut into slices. When you’re tired of cooking it, chuck the bones (INCLUDING the bitty little ones) and celery and freeze the stock. Or use it for chickensoup (yes, that’s one word in my dialect), or the liquid when you cook rice, or …

2. about 15 hours ago on Pearls Before Swine

   I use an email forwarding service that allows me to create any number of aliases for my own email… and if any of these aliases “go rogue” and start being used to send spam, I simply disable forwarding for that alias. It works VERY well: I get about 1 spam every two or three weeks or so.

3. about 15 hours ago on Calvin and Hobbes

   … which is in turn MUCH smaller than a googolplex which is 1 followed by a googol zeros.

4. about 15 hours ago on Frazz

   I’ve never lived where putting water on snow causes anything but (muddy) water. But I’ve heard it can be a lot of fun, given sufficient clothing and equipment.

5. 3 days ago on Pickles

   And if it’s been dead long enough you should invest in the stock market. Chicken stock.

6. 3 days ago on Non Sequitur

   At least the carrot missed him…

7. 3 days ago on Stone Soup

   Did they used to have an allowance?

8. 3 days ago on Frazz

   The older I get the shorter my short-term memory gets. And it fails completely about 80% of the time I walk through a door.

   Pro-tip: Walking (immediately) back through the door recovers the reason about half the time. And deliberately DECIDING to go to the other room BECAUSE … works 95% of the time.

9. 4 days ago on Pickles

   Spouse has very spotty memory. I, on the other hand, simply remember the things I WANT to remember.

10. 4 days ago on Pearls Before Swine

    Our house has 2 bathrooms but only one kitchen. And yes, the “six weeks” time estimate to remodel it escalated to more than 12 weeks. But the kitchen is still very fine many years later. The most fun aspect: Going through the (large enough and low enough to step through) window to the deck where we could use the barbie to cook things… since the door to the deck was (and is) in the kitchen. The remodel on the master bedroom and bathroom (much longer ago) also took pretty much forever. THAT contractor declared bankruptcy and left town in the middle of the night… and we ended up hiring another one to finish. Sheesh.