Recent content by oldbrownhat

Yum! A well-crafted pie! But no!

Let's see if any of these fly...

Well he certainly thinks so, and I'm not going to disagree :) I'll pass on the compliment.

"Fish gotta swim, birds gotta fly. I gotta herd SOME thing til I die... Can't help lovin' that dog of mine!" (With apologies to Jerome Kern)

BBC article here. ...It was the most expensive and complex industrial project US industry had ever undertaken and would not be surpassed until the space programmes in the 1950s and 1960s... In today's money the aircraft, from design to completion, cost the equivalent of $55.6bn (£41.2bn)...

I should ask my retinal surgeon about this nexgt month. I have wet AMD and get injections monthly (ugh). I also have floaters in my right eye (worse of the two) which makes things worse as I'm always trying to look "around" them.

My gf has resurrected a hobby- crocheting - and has made a couple of scarves for retired colleagues. Being a geneticist, DNA is in her blood (so to speak) so she's done the DNA spiral. Went "thrifting" to try and find a used mannequin to display the scarves, but when she found nothing she...

re ironimg board:

MetalMan's "Belafonte's Bakery" did it for me this morning. I'd print it out and take it to my local bakery but I'm not sure anyone there is old enough to get the joke.

That doesn't look like the operation you said you were going in for :)

Now if you want to REALLY talk office pranks, wait until they go on vacation:

Not to detract from JohnRippert's pics of Peebee & family (after all, I'm primarily a cat person) but my visit to the local building supply store this morning was plesantly enhanced by this splendid beastie; what my gf would call a "big poople-schnoople bear" :) Plus, tomorrow (Aug.26) is...

A cheap way to do this is to remove the ignition fuse from the fuse box and keep it on you.

I hope all he did was look or there could be some bad digestive quincequonces! Actually, being a cat, he was probably just ogling the box.

I can definitely relate to this! I often say, "I'll get the hamsters working on that." I want to get this printed on a t-shirt: