Miscellany
Miscellaneous stuff – Humor, puzzles etc
Really Poor Product Name Design
I took a quick look at the name on this steamer and thought WTF?? VAG-STEAM??
A Useless box that shuts itself off. Willcomes Wooden Turns Itself Off Useless Box.
This box has a toggle switch. If you flip the switch on, the box opens and a finger comes out to shut the switch off. All that excitement for less than $25.
Purchased a new vehicle. The gas mileage sucks but I don’t get road raged any more.
I Purchased a new vehicle. The gas mileage sucks but I don’t get road raged any more.
Killing a wasp at all costs
I have a friend with severe allergies to insect venom. One afternoon I was in my room and saw the mother of all wasps on the window. This thing was HUGE. I was determined to get rid of it but I did something really stupid…. Continue reading
At least it was an improvement over doing the wash by hand.
My grandmother had one of these in the 1970’s. The tub was the washer. The top part was a hand cranked or powered wringer. If you never knew the origin of “Don’t get your ___ caught in the ringer” this picture should explain it. The whole process was very manual as you can see in the video below. I came across this while buying a modern dryer at Anchor Appliance in Tuckerton New Jersey (Got a good deal too!!). They had a collection of old appliance but unfortunately they had a fire. I’m not sure if any of the vintage appliances survived or were replaced. Continue reading
Dilemma – You need to get to a hospital. Do you get into THIS ambulance??
What an unfortunate license plate for an ambulance. If you needed to get to a hospital immediately, would you go in this ambulance or wait for the next one?
FAIL – drop a can of whipped cream and get a whipped cream rocket
One evening, I decided “Screw the diet” and got a can of whipped cream out of the fridge to top some ice cream. Unfortunately I dropped it. When it hit the floor, it converted itself into an unguided ballistic whipped cream rocket. The can launched into a corksrew flight pattern spewing whipped cream everywhere. I mean everywhere. Continue reading
Piebald Deer
We had a white deer in the herd for a while. They are not known as albinos. Continue reading
When you see something in a museum that you used as a kid.
While visiting the Tuckerton Seaport in 2009, I saw a Vintage Mercury Outboard that was very similar to one I owned.
Oops – I think we made a wrong turn here.
It appears that we made a wrong turn… Continue reading