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  1. Fazby

    A Pipe For Your Thoughts???

    What is your passion? What interests you? Find something you love and you won't feel like it is work (most of the time). Does the new occupation require training, whether trade or degree? It may take time.
  2. Fazby

    Daylight Saving Time

    The extra hours are allocated to those who are born after the hour removal. Overall, the government may be underwriting it with more births than deaths.
  3. Fazby

    Life Is Short - Laughing Helps You Live Longer - huummm

    Same farmer different day... Man in field looking at a bull pawing the ground. The man shouts to the farmer "Is this bull safe?" Farmer yells back "Yes" (pause) "Can't say the same about you, though."
  4. Fazby

    Cold weather tip

    If you give a jump to someone's car, or receive one, here's a useful tip. If the car doesn't start, turn on the headlights. If they don't come on, you don't have a good connection. Adjust the cables and it should work. (Assumes it is indeed the battery...) It was also helpful with a car with...
  5. Fazby

    Non-Collectors' Collections

    No collection; just an accumulation. I purchase the ones I like, in the price range I consider reasonable. Some makers have caught my eye more than others. Sometimes, the purchases are made in a weak moment - those pipes aren't favorites, but they get smoked.
  6. Fazby

    Best Baked Beans Commercial Ever

    That's called 'blowing a kiss'.
  7. Fazby

    Stab protective gloves

    Always use a sharp tool. It cuts readily without the force needed for a dull tool. (If the worst still happens, at least the wound should heal better.) Keep all parts of you behind the cutting edge. (Be glad you weren't working in your lap!) Use a jig or jig of some kind to hold the...
  8. Fazby

    The low after the high

    Sounds like the same problem Sherlock Holmes had.  Please, do not apply the needle with the 7% solution. May I recommend some chess puzzles?  There are lots of books of those.  Some are short and sweet; others will (as the are designed) twist your brain. I also enjoy cryptic crossword puzzles...
  9. Fazby

    Don't play with stinging insects...

    http://site.alamedabees.org/2012/04/19/schmidt-sting-pain-index/ No way in hell I would try that....
  10. Fazby

    Lunting

    And just what is the distinction between curmuring and borborygmos?
  11. Fazby

    Lunting

    I had a professor years ago that said to never send a man named "Lunt" to India. Such a man would not be well received.
  12. Fazby

    Tobacco Pipes in California Prehistory

    {takes a bow}
  13. Fazby

    Tobacco Pipes in California Prehistory

    So why aren't California pipe smokers a protected species? Should be a Proposition 965 or some such.
  14. Fazby

    Favorite Sherlock Holmes Quote

    The brain attic was indeed in the Five Orange Pips, but it was a reminiscence of the passage in A Study in Scarlet.
  15. Fazby

    Favorite Sherlock Holmes Quote

    "I have another set of vices when I am well, but those are the principal ones at present." Watson, when considering sharing rooms with Holmes in A Study in Scarlet.
  16. Fazby

    Hitchhikers Guide or any other Sci Fi guys out there?

    Dune Ringworld Mote in God's Eye Demolished Man The Stainless Steel Rat books were good, too I am also a fan of Heinlein. http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/
  17. Fazby

    A pipe and... tea?

    http://www.uptontea.com/shopcart/information/INFObrewing.asp They have some terrific teas. I also recommend a Chatsford pot. A pot of tea with a pipe is wonderful.
  18. Fazby

    "In Defense of Smokers"

    Thanks for the link
  19. Fazby

    Reed problems

    "Can you name one cool male clarinet player? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Fountain
  20. Fazby

    My OTHER husband.....BoB

    "Although I gotta say I'm pretty sure that you are mentally unstable and have multiple personality disorder " You say that like it's a bad thing....
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