This might not be what the manufacturer recommends, but it's the way it's done in most households. Except I would tend to forget where the rest of the blades were put, and ended up using the first one for as long as possible. Now I just buy a bag of non-refillable disposables, and the rest of the bag disappears among the family. From Doghouse Diaries. Link
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The following is a Whodunit by Hy Conrad featuring Sherman Oliver Holmes, a mysterious crime solver and great-great-grandson of Sherlock Holmes. Can you solve the crime?
Sergeant Wilson found the letter and envelope torn up and crammed into the bottom of a wastebasket. Reassembling it while wearing plastic gloves proved difficult.
"It's from Henry Liggit's lawyer," he finally said, looking up from the jigsaw-like puzzle. "It outlines Mr. Liggit's proposed new will, disinheriting his three nephews and leaving everything to charity."
Sherman stood behind the sergeant, peering over his shoulder. "What do you think?" Wilson asked him.
"Hmm. It doesn't take a Sherman Holmes," said Sherman Holmes, "to suspect that Mr. Liggit's suicide wasn't really a suicide."
"My thoughts exactly," the officer agreed.
Sherman and the sergeant were in Henry Liggit's library, just yards from where the millionaire lay slumped in his chair with a gun in his hand and a hole in his head.
"Our first job, my dear Wilson, will be determining which devoted nephew opened Liggit's mail and discovered the threat to his inheritance." With that, Sherman led the way into the front hall where the nervous nephews stood waiting.
All three nephews lived in the Liggit house; all three had been at home at the time of the shot. None, or so they swore, had the least idea Uncle Henry had been about to cut them out of his will.
"Uncle Henry had been depressed," said Nigel, the eldest, in mournful tones. He was sipping a martini and Sherman suspected it wasn't his first of the day. "I spent all afternoon at home. About three P.M. I walked into the front hall. I was checking the mail on that side table when I heard the gunshot."
Sherman observed a few pieces of mail on the table. "When did the mail arrive, my good fellows?"
Gerald, the youngest nephew, raised his hand. "When I got home around 2:30, the mail was already on the hall floor. I walked right across it before noticing. I picked it up and put it on the hall table."
"Did you check through it?"
Fafa and Mario of Glove and Boots discuss Joseph Campbell's "Monomyth" theory that all great stories include the same elements. They also act out some well-known examples of iconic characters in their own wacky way. -via Laughing Squid
Pat Stansik achieved some YouTube notoriety and became that all-too-curious phenomena known as a local celebrity. I had to laugh, knowing all about this from my radio days. For years, in various towns, I found that if you meet ten people in a day, eight will have never heard of you, one has, but is not overly impressed, and one will act as if you are a movie star. It's always best to keep your ego in check. -via Tastefully Offensive
MediAvengers: The Earth's Mightiest Gossip is a blog that imagines what magazines, newspapers, and other media would be like in a Marvel Comics universe. Of course, superheroes would dominate the headlines, at the expense of movie stars and sports heroes. For serious Avenger fans: the implied stories are fan fiction and not necessarily canon. But they are a lot of fun! Link -via Geeks Are Sexy
Marble Brewery of Albuquerque will soon unveil a new brew called "Heisenberg's Dark," a tribute to the final season of the AMC TV show Breaking Bad. It will be an India Black Ale. No word yet on whether it will be available nationwide in time for the season premiere on August 11th. We can only hope! Link -via Warming Glow
Here it is, our collaboration with the always amusing What Is It? Blog! Tell us what this object is, if you know. If you don't, make a wild guess!
Place your guess in the comment section below. One guess per comment, please, though you can enter as many as you'd like. Post no URLs or weblinks, as doing so will forfeit your entry. We'll have two winners: the first correct guess and the funniest (albeit ultimately wrong) guess will win T-shirt from the NeatoShop.
Please write your T-shirt selection alongside your guess. If you don't include a selection, you forfeit the prize, okay? May we suggest the Science T-Shirt, Funny T-Shirt and Artist-Designed T-Shirts?
Check out the other mystery items this week at the What Is It? Blog. Have fun and good luck!
Update: the pictured item is a set of tongs, but these are specially purposed for handling hops during the beer making process. No one guessed that until after the answers were posted, and then ladybugs jumped in with the correct answer, so she wins a t-shirt from the NeatoShop! The funniest answer this week came from Sunfall, who said,
It's the first face hugger prototype. Man, they wasted three actresses before hitting on the idea that making it from unyielding metal might not be such a good idea after all... But hey, that's why now we have Sigourney Weaver, so be thankful for the little thingamajig!
That's good for a t-shirt, too! See the answers to all this week's mystery items at the What Is It? blog.
Wait, your guinea pig won't walk the dog? The guinea pig is the star of a Twitter account called Where is My Guinea Pig? that features pictures of the pig mowing the lawn, lifting weights, cooking, washing the car, and other activities. See a selection of the best pictures at Buzzfeed. Link
Without using words, Awkward Spaceship recreates a conversation that happens every evening somewhere. But it's not always the gender roles portrayed -I've been through this ordeal with various family members too many times, and generally just get myself a sandwich if no one else wants to cook or make a decision about dinner. Then the most clueless kid will come to me about 10PM and ask what's for dinner! -Thanks, Sam Kashe!
Innovations during the Korean War such as MASH units and helicopter ambulance service, along with improved medical techniques, reduced the rate of death from injuries by 50% compared to World War II. Nurses played a vital part in treating the wounded in Korea, like these shown at the newly-opened 8055th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital in 1950.
Some MASH units received up to 1,000 casualties a day, and although the surgery was crude at times, 95 percent of the casualties admitted to the hospitals left alive. Dr. Dexter Ball, who served in two different MASH units between 1950 and 1951, says that his unit was constantly moving with the frontline – amounting to 12 location changes in a single year. MASH units (at least in the beginning) only accepted patients who needed emergency surgery.
Read more about nursing during the Korean War with a list of pictures. Link -via the Presurfer
A 64-year-old man in Geelong, Victoria, Australia, was arrested soon after his carjacking victim called police. He couldn't make a fast getaway because it took him too much time to load his walker into the stolen car!
Police allege the senior from Queensland had bought a knife from the shopping centre's Kmart store and approached a 22-year-old female as she prepared to drive out of the carpark.
Geelong Senior-Constable Paul Mitchell said the victim wound down her window and the man held the knife to her throat, demanding she give him the vehicle. After putting his walker in the car, the man drove a short distance before getting out to load in other bags.
The unnamed suspect is charged with one count of armed robbery. Link -via Arbroath
The Key of Awesome parodies videos in which one person performs all the parts of a fully-produced song. People who do those projects are talented and impressive, but the technique on YouTube has become hackneyed by now. Contains a little NSFW language. -via Viral Viral Videos
This little boy talks a good game. He is caught red-handed looking for a early morning popsicle. When confronted, he tries changing the subject, distraction, lying, flattery, and all the tricks in the book -even after he's out of trouble! In Farsi with subtitles. -via Daily Picks and Flicks
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