Monday, December 04, 2017

JOY


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  1. If he did nothing wrong, why did Michael Flynn lie?[Click] LA Times columnist.

    Bring Back Home Ec![Click] The case for a revival of the most retro class in school.

    —Alan

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    1. What if they changed the name of the course from "Home Economics" or "Domestic Science" to something like "Independent Living Skills?"

      Alan

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    2. Yes, they should. Kids should be taught how to make out a check, how to cook simple foods, how to mend clothes, budget skills, etc.

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    3. "A Man, a Can, a Plan" should be a dandy up-to-date cookbook for the course, no? And how to handle credit cards is now a very important skill.

      --Alan

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  2. That's an excellent suggestion, Alan. Sez the former Betty Crocker Future Homemaker of America for her highschool. As I recall they offered the test to anyone. Covered three classes I was bored out of my mind with, so I took it. Astonished that I won, lol! Didn't make state though.

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  3. My boss told me about this one:
    Trump tweets wrong Theresa May[Click]

    —Alan

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  4. Good Heavens! This is just the cream of this afternoon’s stories, as far as I can see from a quick perusal!
    —Alan

    Woman shares new evidence of relationship with Roy Moore when she was 17[Click]

    Emails Contradict McFarland’s Testimony[Click]

    ”The Devil has a hand in hurried work.”[Click] “While Republicans were manically outlining their plans to take from the poor to give to the Trumps, they also, accidentally, nullified all of their corporate donors’ favorite deductions.”

    Mueller: Manafort Was Ghostwriting Op-Ed With Russian Colleague Last Week[Click] Does this win him an upgrade from house arrest to the iron bar hotel?

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  5. listener: My advanced scientifical estimate of number of cups of coffee a jar (100g) of Mount Hagen instant will make (my cup of coffee is a small mug, about 300-325 ml, not a teacup):
    Well rounded teaspoons (might be a bit on the strong side): 55 cups
    Level teaspoons (kinda weak-kneed coffee): 79 cups.
    So your slightly rounded teaspoons ought to come out about 60-65 cups, all right. Equals about 12 to 18 cents per cup depending on purchase price. That's two cents in 1965 money, when a regular cup of coffee cost 10 cents at a restaurant, as memory serves me. I remember occasional signs advertising coffee at five cents a cup. Near as I can figure, food costs about a third of what it did when I was a kid, adjusted for inflation.

    --Alan

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