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1. over 4 years ago on Wallace the Brave

   The shoe: brilliant continuity!

2. almost 5 years ago on Cul de Sac

   The original Powell’s technical bookstore on the Park Blocks in Portland, OR was in a converted firehouse. One day I discovered to my surprise that it still had a fire pole connecting the first and second floor. Oh, how I wanted to sneak upstairs and then take fast way down!

3. almost 5 years ago on Wallace the Brave

   It’s even weirder than that… head lice don’t live “down there” and vice versa, even though they are essentially the same species. Or so says our pediatrician.

4. over 5 years ago on Basic Instructions

   Hello, fellow Apple enthusiast!

5. over 5 years ago on Candorville

   Darrin, thanks for the thoughtful responses.

6. over 5 years ago on Dilbert Classics

   I’ve usually heard it pronounced in the trade with a silent QL, I.e. post-gres.

7. over 5 years ago on Dilbert Classics

   True fact: printers also place unique patterns of nearly invisible dots on copies. Just ask Reality Winner about that.

8. over 5 years ago on Wallace the Brave

   Our daughter put a bean in her ear. Even the doc said it was surprisingly difficult to get out.

9. over 5 years ago on C'est la Vie

   Long ago, in what seems like another lifetime, my new bride and I would go to the Oberlin reservoir to cool off during the heat of summer. Our first trip out there, sharing the giant truck tire inner tube, we discovered the reservoir was populated by many many tiny fish, and they liked to come up to you and nibble on your exposed skin… it tickled so much that we didn’t relax much at all in the cool water!

10. over 5 years ago on Cul de Sac

    It’s a Midwest thing.