Yes, we have no bananas
I chopped down the ornamental banana tree by our front door today, as we are in for a cold spell, I put a tarp over the root and a bunch of banana leaves, grass clippings, and beauty bark over that. …
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Mildly Interesting
Sally Struthers is a dingbat
I don’t know how Sally Struthers ended up pitching correspondence courses for so many years. I remember when she interrupted The Rockford Files, she gave you a huge list of careers to choose from, way more than shown on this…
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Trouble at the Home Depot?
Some years ago, we were fixing to go in the hardware store, but then I saw this in the parking lot; was there a zombie incident at the Home Depot? Or is he just picking up supplies? We took our…
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Grueling life on the farm pre-Netflix
This guy looks like he is thinking about going into his Uncle Marv’s Cheese business. The number of horse heads vs. the number of legs, is starting to get to him. I gained even more respect when I read the…
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Stranger Things Eggo Game; It’s evil Uno
Got my son the Stranger Things Eggo game, we played it once, but it’s basically overcooked Uno, The twist is that your character card gets flipped during play, and if it’s in the “upside down” you have to get it…
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Does anybody really know what time it is?
I really like this sort of lazy clock I got for Christmas. It displays the time in sentence form, changing to catch up every five minutes. That’s close enough for a retired guy. Now if I can just figure out…
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It was fun a quarter century ago. Outdated software galore
I was looking for a certain CD but got sidetracked looking at my old games; Simcopter, Simtower, add-ons galore for “The sims”… I guess I was into simulations back then. There are pinball games, a PONG reboot… And this treasure;…
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What would TSA think of this portable Zenith?
This portable (luggable?) Zenith radio featured a proprietary antenna that flipped out from the radio to pull in stronger or more distant am radio signals. When stowed, it looked like a small, elegant suitcase. I have a https://neverjethot.com/blog/2019/02/25/happy-to-be-playing-again/ Zenith Transoceanic,…
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Professional farts
We used to own a novelty store. One day I was searching for wholesale remote control fart machines (Think whoopie cushions but electronic). There is a company in China offering these; I don’t know what the Chinese researchers use this…
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Grandma’s soap saver
I was listening to the Larry Miller podcast, he was going on about saving soap slivers in the shower, somehow mushing them together to form a bar sufficient to bathe with. Apparently that is how they roll on the island…
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