stuckincincy

Take the dust from a box of Sugar Pops, put it in a small pan with several pats of stick margarine, heat it and stir it, then spread or pour it on white toast.

If you need care in the interim, show up at a hospital ER and say "No comprende". What may cost people with coverage hundreds or thousands will be yours for free.

It might be "leaving the scene of an accident", for whatever that might mean in a particular jurisdiction.

If a deal does go down, that obviously implies there was something to deal about. The injured party's civil case lawyers will note that.

Go to a good, old-line department store - a Macy's or whatever. Then ask a clerk that works in the bedding department for their advice. They have the expertise and experience to guide you to the proper purchase.

Noooo...but your original post led me to believe that all the fury the heavens could muster targeted your car.

Bambi?

??? You initially reported hood dents. Now it's just "cracked" paint?

Happy B'day, gents!

That was back in the '80's, in West Germany. I've no idea what it is now after reunification. You didn't see many ratty vehicles, either. I was told they had strict inspection laws, and if you failed, they handed you a list of needed repairs. If they weren't fixed upon re-inspection, they confiscated the vehicle, had it crushed and gave you scrap value.

FWIW, Rucker's name was bandied about in the pre-draft newspaper chit-chat here in CIN. Had they not picked up IND's Ben Utecht, he might have been drafted by them.

A snappish reply to a fellow who responded to your asking for help. You might have a long job search...

I've not idea if it's still the case, but when I made trips to Germany, a fellow there told me that if you crossed outside the crosswalk lines you had no claim for your injuries and moreover were responsible for repairing the motorist's vehicle.

Are you shilling for the possibility of more Corps of Engineering funding, my friend?

I have to take your opinion a bit lightly here, olivier. You once posted how Sen. Robert Byrd impressed you as a great statesman or some such.

I'm waiting for the Law & Order episode. No flies or dust collect on that production company...

I knew you would chime in, Stl. Its a classic case of "time will tell"...right?

LBJ's "Great Society" program and legislation were the most craven, vote-grabbing ones I've ever witnessed. Anyone who thinks LBJ was an altruist needs to study some unvarnished history. It destroyed families, communities, people's lives, made them wholly dependent on the State. It very effectively replaced the old Jim Crow laws. And it met its' intent - the voting demographics are stark.

Not sure - wasn't the knock on Rucker that he couldn't effectively block a 1 mph breeze?

To complete the story... "On Murphy Brown, Bergen played a tough television reporter. Although the show was a successful comedy, it tackled important issues: Murphy Brown, a recovering alcoholic, became a single mother and later battled breast cancer. In 1992, then Vice President Dan Quayle criticized prime-time TV for showing the Murphy Brown character "mocking the importance of fathers by bearing a child alone and calling it just another lifestyle choice." While his remarks became comedic fodder, they paved the way for a subsequent episode to explore the subject of family values within a diverse set of families. Remaining true to the show's humor, Murphy arranges for a truckload of potatoes to be dumped in front of Quayle's residence; a reference to an infamous incident in which Quayle misspelled the word "potato" as "potatoe". In real life, however, Bergen agreed with at least some of Quayle's observations, saying Quayle's speech was "a perfectly intelligent speech about fathers not being dispensable and nobody agreed with that more than I did," according to the Associated Press.". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candice_Bergen

I ama chemist, Joe. But retired. My contacts are either dead, or dispersed to who knows where. I worked mainly in process materials, and process engineering, in automotive... coatings, sealants, metal-pretreatment, corrosion control, waste treatment, EPA regs and the like. More manufacturing work than chemistry, as it turned out. The auto, metal coating field is fairly active. The ever-increasing safety standards have brought a whole new kind of steel to the transportation biz, ultra high-strength steels etc., and soon to come - if these daffy new CAFE regs Congress pets themselves about actually happens - a lot of titanium and magnesium (Dirty secret - we are then talking about 25K entry-level vehicles). It's hard to figure out provenances these days. PPG, DuPont, BASF still are big players in the OEM business...topcoats, electrocoats, primers, repair coatings etc. The old, prominent pre-treatment companies...Parker and AmChem...have been sold, bought, sold many times. I think Parker was acquired by Henkel some time ago. I know they have an exciting project underway, a room-temp conversion coating, not using zinc phosphate or chrome compounds. Ford has a line running it somewhere. Henkel is also working on that old technique, autodeposition. I've lost track of the adhesive and sealer outfits. As always, there is a certain artistic component to coatings applications and subsequent durability. It's a field with grey boundaries - experience matters. Rheology is a big thing in the coatings biz. As well as solvent technology. I'll toss out terms like dilatency, shear,critical pigment packing volume, thixotrophy, pseudoplastic behavior, viscoelasticity. Thud. If you do get a job in coatings, do hunt up a copy of this: Paint Flow and Pigment Dispersion - A Rheological Approach to Coating and Ink Technology, 2nd ed. by Temple C. Patton, John Wiley & Sons, ISBN 0-471-03272-7. It's one of the Holy Books. Good luck in the job search.

"If the dreadlocks don't clip, you must acquit".

Interesting that chandler#81 mentions the Player's Union. There was an item in the papers last year, about the NCAA making some noises about using college player's names and images as a marketing tool, and the opposition to such - a person's name and image belongs to the person, not to be used without express permission. Obscure fact: Former 2nd baseman, HOF member Joe Morgan got a trademark on the phrase, "The Big Red Machine". Much to the chagrin of the Reds - they can't use it unless they want to fork over $$$ to Morgan.

Cosby PAVED nothing - he was very late on the scene. Ward Connoly, Niger Innis and others have been saying such for years. Of course, the liberal left attacked them as Uncle Toms.

Surprising - turning down a buck is out of character for the both NFL and the players.