I am off to to Chicago but just so you don’t miss me I will leave you with this:
Name This Tool

Take a minute to think about it. Give up?

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Some of you may remember my previous posts about Las Tortugas - a restaurant that serves huge, cheap and delicious Mexican Torta sandwiches. Someone ( I am not naming any names here) even doubted that I sized the sandwich up correctly.
did you measure? sometimes the eyes lie… lol ; )
I don’t know about women and [...]

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Although I enjoy reading and talking about politics, I never bothered to watch either a Democratic or Republican convention. In my younger years I had to watch, read and pretend to care about 5-hour long speeches given by L.I.Brezhnev at a Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. After the speech (or before) [...]

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Learn,Learn and Once Again Learn
V.I.Lenin
Seems like not too many of you have English skills as superior as mine, so I decided to share my secret. After all, I enjoy reading properly spelled and grammatically correct posts, so it’s in my own interest to bring everyone else up to my almost unattainable level.
Becoming an English Genius [...]

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Due to increased number of spam comments I turned on a spam-fighting plug-in on this blog. I have used it before but suspected that it trashed some comments without letting me know. If you don’t see your comment posted, please take a moment to email me. I don’t moderate, review or delete any comments so [...]

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Your result for The Commonly Confused Words Test…
English Genius
You scored 100% Beginner, 100% Intermediate, 100% Advanced, and 80% Expert!
You did so extremely well, even I can’t find a word to describe your excellence! You have the uncommon intelligence necessary to understand things that most people don’t. You have an extensive vocabulary, and you’re not [...]

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Fernando Chavez, also known as Mr. Magoo, Old Boy and Nando, 34, address unknown, a citizen of Mexico, Jose Estrada, also known as Enrique, Jose Estrada-Romero, KiKi, and QueQue, 42, a citizen of Mexico residing in Merriam, Kan., Juan Delgado, also known as Cachetes and Marana, 32, a citizen of Mexico residing in Kansas City, [...]

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May, you may want to skip this one.
Sunday’s weather cooperated and, as I as was anticipating, we were on the way to Lawrence to attend Kansas State Fiddling and Picking Championships. Last year we attended this festival just looking for something to do (for free) and we liked it so much that this year we [...]

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I am not an expert on warning sign placement (let me rephrase that: I am not an expert on anything), but if you reading the “Watch Step” sign on this photo, aren’t you already looking at the step? Wouldn’t it make more sense to place it at eye level?  Maybe there is some hidden [...]

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As always I am keeping up with the newest headgear looks. Today’s trip to Lawrence, KS brought me up to date.
Gene Hackman called from 1971, wants his hat back.

I wrote about cool hair before. Maybe my fascination with other people’s hair stems from a complete inability to fashion anything more then the look of a [...]

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