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  1. Last night I put a thief in my mouth to steal my brains.

    Posted by: lechacal at September 24, 2009 2:12 PM

    Hmmm, let me think on this for a moment.

    I just made an ass of myself in the HOTD because I mixed up Putnam with hancock because I thought the house was on Hancock because it looks exactly like one I looked at.

  2. Wonderful story about the shower, Snappy!
    THL, babies start to lose weight when they’re seriously overdue.
    Corning/Pyrex used to be a client of mine – so many people have their grandparents’ stuff they started to branch out to new designs & cookware. The stuff’s nearly indestructable.

  3. Normally it doesn’t I have a bunch with a few chips around the rims but I don’t remember breaking any.

    I must have hit it ‘just so’ because when i tell you it shattered…I didn’t find one piece of it that was bigger than a pinky finger nail. Pulverized.

  4. That sucks THL. My favorite skillet lid met a similar fate. Someone I hate talking to called me one day while I was trying to cook and the lid fell out of my hands while trying to hold on to that, the phone and a spatula. I was ANGRY! I have found though that Pyrex brand baking dishes refuse to break. I’ve dropped those things so many times, including on concrete (what a terrible night that was…peach cobbler all over University Place in the Village) and it doesn’t even crack.

  5. Me too!

    Ugh, last night I was trying to get a baking dish out of the cabinet and I wasn’t paying really close attention cause a 12” round Pyrex lid to come sliding out. It fell onto the granite counter-top and turned into glass crumbs. It was like I shot it at close range.

    I had glass everywhere. It completely covered the entire kitchen and even shot out clear through to the far wall in the dining room. I spent 4 hours last night carefully sweeping then vacuuming then wiping down with wet paper towels every freaking inch of my kitchen.

    Oh how I cried!

    The cats were crying too, I had them all locked in various rooms upstairs as I cleaned. I chased the whole brood up and then closed every door.

  6. bxgrl,
    that’s part of the argument that is factored into the current debate.
    If the ice caps melted significantly in the past 20 years, for instance, the volume of water in liquid form added to the oceans would have a noticable and somewhat immediate effect on the Earth’s rotational rate, regardless of the understood steady decrease in rotation with time.
    We are talking about a very short time period in Earth’s history, the past 20-50 years, if significant polar water melted into the oceans it would be detectable as a slowing of the earth’s spin in that time period, well differentiated from historical trends over millions of years.

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