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| Words(such as ultimate, for
example) can have more than one meaning.
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| Don't trust
crosswalk signs. Look at the traffic lights and the actual cars.
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| The oil company name "ESSO"
comes from S.O.-Standard Oil. ESSO is one of the surviving pieces. |
| I'd always heard
"Rest and get plenty of fluids when you've got a cold", but it
wasn't until my late 20's that I actually found out that what they meant
was "drink water non-stop", and what an amazing difference it
makes to the level of discomfort your symptoms cause, and how quickly you
recover.
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| There is no one perfect form of
business or political organization. Each deals well with some problems and
poorly with others. If too many it can't deal with pile up, it changes.
Lastly, when renovating never assume anything is square, flat, or straight until you've done enough measurements to check it.
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| If you are going
to mix soda and fruit juice pour the soda first then the fruit juice or
else it just bubbles up everywhere.
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| If you leave a comments section
open for more than two days, new comments will only come from old
visitors, and will increasingly focus on the failures of the previous
comment-writers. This may stymie your quest to transform your traffic into
a self-sustaining source of new material.
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| If the mirror
keeps fogging up while you're shaving, take a little shaving cream and put
it on the mirror and wipe it off. It will not re-fog and you have a clear
spot to look in while you shave.
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You could mention that condensation happens because hot air
can hold more water than cold air can.
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A&D ointment is usually found in the
baby aisle at grocery stores.
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When supermarkets claim that they deal in only "Prime
and Choice" cuts of meat, and refuse to carry anything lower, it's not
as if it's really to your benefit. It's not like pay the same for prime and
choice, you pay more for the former and less for the latter. By refusing to
carry Select, all they do is restrict your ability to choose to pay a lower
price for lower quality (yet perfectly fine) meat.
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Honey is regurgitated pollen.
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| Many older churches (especially
Roman Catholic and Orthodox) have their Apse (the part with the altar)
towards the East. This is because the sun rises from the East and is a
symbol for rebirth.
Similarly, the word "orientation" is derived from the word orient, which is to the East of the Western World.
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| To prevent
Hamburgers from getting all puffy in the middle when you cook them make a
half golf ball sized divit in the middle (kind of like a donut hole that
didn't quite finish the job) when the meat puffs up and pulls into the
middle, you wind up with a perfect meat disc.
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| Even bad restaurants have good
nights, which happen to be when friends go and then rave about the place
and want to take you there.
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| Couple of
software related ones.
In Suitcase X1, if you try to activate a font and get the error "There are fonts in the suitcase xxxxx that conflict with fonts in the System Fonts folder..." Instead click the triangle next to the name to expose the subfonts, and activate one of those, it will then activate the whole suitcase. In Quark (on a Mac, don't know the commands for Quark on Windows) Command + Shift + F will skew a picture to fit into a box. Command + Option + Shift + F will scale the picture to the box, but keep it proportioned correctly. - That one would have saved me a lot of time in school if they'd bothered to mention it.
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The reason so many people don't find computers as easy to use and
work with as I do is because they aren't as interested in learning everything
about them as I am.
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When you're at work looking at porn on the web,
always keep your fingers on the ALT + F4 keys. Just hit those and it
automatically closes that browser window. If it's really good porn, maybe just
hit ALT + Tab and your screen will go to one of the other projects you're
working on (I like to keep an Excel sheet with lots of numbers on it open so it
defaults to this). I can't believe I'm taking time out of looking at porn to
tell you this...
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One of your submissions says that the goodyear logo
contains an Icarus foot. Icarus didn't have wings on his feet. They were
on his back. Mercury had wings on his feet.
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The human mind recognizes the shapes of
words, not each individual letter. This is why it's annoying and hard to
read when people type in all caps. Also, serif fonts are easier to read
than san serif fonts. (Ok, so I didn't discover these on my own, but
learned them in a typography class)
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The people that predicted flying cars were wrong. Since flying
takes more energy than just rolling on the ground, it makes no sense to fly.
Unless you want to waste energy, which more people don't want to do.
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COPS is the greatest television show ever. Its
like the Shakespeare of our time
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If you've got a document in
Microsoft Word that's in ALL CAPS and you need it otherwise, highlight the
text and hit Shift + F3 until it looks OK.
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