Did I miss something? People over 30 don't have time pressures, don't have financial pressures like college tuition and hungry teenagers and don't have children? When did that start?

So, forget the bonus, stop whining and just be happy. Is that it? And for that it took a whole book?

Beta version of Princess Leia.

Let's do some math. The BBC article says that 10 out of 70 male gardeners are doing this, resulting in a 30% saving of water. So, if all of the male gardeners did this, they would save 210% of the water they now use, possibly resulting in some sort of flood?

There is another factor as well. Not long ago, folks weren't as mobile as they are today. The weekly shopping trip meant that you had eggs that might have been in the store for a few days and then those eggs sat in the fridge for a few more days. Today, the modern woman might decide at lunchtime to make something for dinner and pick up the ingredients on the way home from work. Voila! Really fresh eggs! That's OK. You can use them with the vegetables that flew in yesterday from half way around the world.

It's all controlled by computers. What could possibly go wrong?

Bitches at 3 o'clock.

An to think that,
a) All those people who died from similar accidents did so because God wasn't watching and,
b) God could see it coming and let it happen, while he was right there to see that it didn't get worse.

Let me get this straight. Carl Sagan never used the term "billions and billions." He only wrote a book entitled "Billions & Billions." So is it the ampersand or the capitalization that makes it different. I know! Someone else wrote the title?

And he was like, "Let's get married." And she was like. "OK." And he was like, "When." And she was like.....

I was in the press box during the 1964 Rose Bowl Game. Dr. Pepper had set up a table of coffee urns filled with hot Dr. Pepper for everyone to try. I was one of the few brave enough. It was great! I have prepared it this way off and on during cold weather ever since. Try it, you'll like it.

Bush calls another meeting on the financial crisis.

When I grow up, they're REALLY going to pay for this!

Most "fresh cut" christmas trees sold in urban area are cut in October before the heavy snows block truck access to the places where they grow

Sorry folks, but most of the reasoning here is bogus. Let's start with the article. If everyone flushed 3.5 gallons at once and it all overflowed at once, each house, apartment and store would have 3.5 gallons of water on the floor. This looks like a lot, but in a 5 by 8 bathroom, it would be less than 0.2 inches (let alone if it spread out across the house.
Second, if everyone flushed at once, not all of the fluid would zoom through the pipes at once. If you lived five miles from the treatment plant, it would take your flush over an hour to reach the point where mine, next door to the plant, entered the same pipe location.
Third, pipes would not burst. They are designed for worst case pressure, encased in compacted earth, and attached to manholes. Each manhole has a lid that would pop off before a pipe would burst.
As for velocity, yes the fluids would gain some speed, but not whole lot. Friction losses would probably offset any increase in head pressure.
Next, the lift stations are designed for the maximum theoretical flow of the inlet pipe. It is possible that backpressure from the outlet could affect the flow rate, but, again, the worst that might happen would be an ugly puddle right around the area of the pumping station.
Lastly, the real problem would be treatment plant capacity. It would probably accept and discharge all of the inflows, but it would not have adequate time to treat the waste. The result might be a decrease in water quality at the outlet of the plant.
Nearly this scenario exists each year at the beginning of halftime for the Super Bowl. We haven't had floods yet!