I have fond memories of playing wiffle ball on our street with other kids from the neighborhood. We used an old wooden baseball bat that was split in half. Could use either the flat side or the round side depending on what you wanted to do. Fun times. AND-it cut down on broken windows.

"Twaggies" to me means Two Year Agriculture students at the University of Maine.

Excellent PET (Photo Essay Thread). Reminds me of the old NY State Fair on steroids. One thing missing on the midway is the Girlie Show, Maybe too PC for this day and age? Thanks for the effort.

No sighting yet here in SW FL. I'm stocking up on some chemical warfare materials just in case.

You have to believe that Hank has one in his back yard in Arlen TX. Probably the one at the top with the warning label. Would they count as propane accessories?

That might explain why the stuff costs me about $20 a pound.

Two words: free markets. End of discussion.

Do you get any credit for knowing where it cannot be? I know the location above is not in Florida. Props to me.

Don't overdo a potato either. Once, MrsO put some potatoes in our first microwave to bake. She accidentally set it for 50 minutes and forgot about it until flames lit up the inside of the oven. Once the water content had evaporated, the potato went into ignition mode. Lesson learned the hard way.

From the photos, Streep/Thatcher is pretty much spot on. Some of the others are decent. Don't think anyone can look like a young Elizabeth Taylor, my crush as a young boy.

Not to mention how they are formed from the reproductive structures of their respective parent plants and their purpose in the life cycle of plants. Both contain or are designed to contain seeds. Both have an amount of fruit sugar in them. Both are propagated in orchards by grafting. I guess oranges have an advantage as they are also the name of a color.

Good thing there were no cameras around to record our reaction when we found out our 37 year old daughter was expecting identical twin girls. They were born March 12 and we couldn't be happier.

That's wild. Back when I was working in entomology research at Cornell I had to go to a USFS facility in Connecticut and transport about 50 Asian Long Horn Beetles back to our lab. Couldn't imagine having to work with bees.

I did that for one day as a teenager. At 6'3" I found out quickly that it was a job for someone built lower to the ground.

Why? Why not Elizabethan Olde English? While I'm on it. Why did they need those code talkers in the Pacific in WW2. Wouldn't it have been easier to just pull together a group of Italian-Americans or Polish-Americans who spoke their parent's language? Seems to me it would have confounded the Japanese troops on those islands just as well.