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OT: Pete Seeger
The Usual Suspects unloaded their Usual discharge of [noun] on the grave of this great, good, decent, inspiring, gifted human being. His memory and his music will live on long after the Usual Suspects...
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Cold weather raises driveway
After maybe a week of temperatures continuously below freezing, day and night, my driveway raises well above the level of the garage's concrete. The baking soda box is 2" high. The edge of the...
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Indoor humidity too high
There is an interesting condensation pattern on the inside of the double-pane window. Even though neither side of the plastic (vinyl?) grids between the two panes directly touch either pane, the grids...
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Cable without a box
Are the new TVs "cable ready? When Comcast went digital I dumped them because I had a lot of old TVs and I didn't want to buy a box for all of them. I heard if you had a TV with a QAM tuner they would...
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garage door opener makes grinding noise
my garage door opener makes grinding noise when it reaches full open. it is 10 years old. worth trying to fix ?
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Anyone under 60 and healthy?
Is anyone participating in or visiting this group under 60 years old and healthy (not cronicly taking prescripton meds, not "disabled", not cripped, not whining about how much pain they are in, not...
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OT, Yippee! Global Warming Is Back In Alabamastan!
There's a saying in these parts, "If you don't like the weather, stick around, it will change." I'm sitting here at 6:00pm with the doors and windows so the 63°F air can breeze through the house. ^_^...
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Suggestions For Fixing This Slow Cooker Handle?
My son picked up the slow cooker pictured below for $2 at a garage sale. We tested it and it cooks just fine, but as you can see one handle is no longer attached. The center post that holds the screw...
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the furure
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RFIDcards
If the RFID chip on a cc is destroyed can the card still be used to make a purchase?
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OT Big trucks w/crip plates
I live in a rural farm area where there are a lot of big pickup trucks like this: and many of them have "disabled" window-tags or plates because there are a lot of old people around here driving them....
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Hole Saw For Steel Door - The Sequel
A while back there was a guy that posted about needing a hole saw to install a lock in a steel door. I wonder how he made out. There were a few suggestions that he use a bi-metal blade, and one poster...
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Vengdedvanger Stove
I'm looking to get one of those adapters that will change 55 gallon barrels to stoves. I get free clean barrels that had coconut oil in them. Does anyone have one of these? Single? Double? Much...
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Very OT: Bindi Irwin (Crocodile Hunter's Daughter) at 15 YO
Bindi Irwin Goes Glam For The Red Carpet In Australia | HuffPost Entertainment
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My internal flood lights turn on, but...
Hello, My internal flood lights turn on, but on very very low. A week back one of the bulbs was gone, but at the same time all the other bulbs (7 out of a to tal 8) were gone very low - I thought it...
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