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1. about 18 hours ago on Moderately Confused

   I let others take the depreciation hit on books and buy them at library used book sales, Garage sales and at 1/2 Price Book stores. This of course is also my car buying strategy.

2. about 18 hours ago on Over the Hedge

   God had a wife, Asherah, whom the Book of Kings suggests was worshipped alongside Yahweh in his temple in Israel, according to an Oxford scholar. In 1967, Raphael Patai was the first historian to mention that the ancient Israelites worshipped both Yahweh and Asherah.

3. about 19 hours ago on Over the Hedge

   According to The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus by L. Frank Baum he was made immortal by the Gnome King and the Immortals. My grandkids love for me to read it to them each Christmas.

4. 1 day ago on Farcus

   Money laundering was definitely my first thought.

5. 1 day ago on Over the Hedge

   Sadly. camels cannot fly but it was a good start as they were after all man’s first all-terrain vehicle, and they can swim especially the Kharai breed. I once watched a flock of wild camels swim across the Pecos River. I’ve been fascinated by them and their American history ever since that great fishing trip,

6. 1 day ago on Drabble

   Yep, just 2 inches off the bottom is all you need to allow it to drink again.

7. 1 day ago on Grand Avenue

   I learned long ago how to tune out all of that noise and my wallet has been very happy ever since.

8. 3 days ago on Arlo and Janis

   I personally don’t believe there is a devolving here because the verbalization of nouns like “gift” is so widespread. I think rather that this is just a case of some folks wishing for the imagined “good old days” that never were. I say imagined here because outside of texts such as from over the last 400 years as stated by @ddjg below, there are no instances of the practice being banned from any literature that I know of. Misremembering the past is fairly common these days as too many wish for those better times that don’t actually line up with the realities of the past. This is very similar to the MAGA obsession with wanting to go back the “good old days” that were really only good if you were white but certainly horrifying if you were a person of color back then. With so many words being added and those being deleted from languages each year adaptation is necessary to maintaining communication.

9. 4 days ago on Arlo and Janis

   “Gift/gifting” has been used as a verb for over 400 years so it’s going to be difficult breaking folks of the habit. Language evolves so get used to it.

10. 4 days ago on Betty

    That’s exactly what I did 40+ years ago. I took some Shopsmith classes and created a lot of furniture, art and odds and ends over the years. Now my son-in-law is learning to do the same as my old machines still get the job done.