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AG: Twist-ties
Am 03.07.2015 um 05:32 schrieb Frank Krygowski:
(BTW, note the spelling. "Lose" is one of the most frequently misspelled words in English - so much so that I briefly wondered if other English-speaking countries spelled it differently.) Homophones are difficult to deal with for native speakers who learn language by ear; more important common errors are who's vs whose it's vs its their vs there (vs. they're in Northern England) So lose vs. on the loose (escaped) just lines up with the others. |
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AG: Twist-ties
On Fri, 03 Jul 2015 09:48:59 +0200, Rolf Mantel
wrote: Am 03.07.2015 um 05:32 schrieb Frank Krygowski: (BTW, note the spelling. "Lose" is one of the most frequently misspelled words in English - so much so that I briefly wondered if other English-speaking countries spelled it differently.) Homophones are difficult to deal with for native speakers who learn language by ear; more important common errors are who's vs whose it's vs its their vs there (vs. they're in Northern England) So lose vs. on the loose (escaped) just lines up with the others. From time to time I've had folks that were learning English tell me how difficult it is. For example, if an Indonesian can hear an Indonesian word pronounced he can spell it. I remember my secretary trying to come to grips with some of the English words, break and brake, for example. -- cheers, John B. |
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AG: Grease on your hands
(written 23 June 2015) Tragically, one day I bungeed a plastic grocery bag of emergency stuff to the outside of a pannier without tying the handles through the wires. I'd been refining that kit for decades, and I'd just made a spiffy new case for the tools. http://wlweather.net/pagesew/BIKE_KIT/BIKEROLL.HTM This morning I realized that one thing I haven't added to the regenerating tool kit is a lip-salve box filled with Eucerin Original Healing (the hand-lotion you can slice). So where do I get a lip-salve box now that lip salve comes only in sticks? Perhaps the screw-top nail-art boxes they sell at Sally's Beauty Supply would do (but what do I do with the other five boxes in the package?) I have some drop-dispenser bottles, and could substitute olive oil -- but I had a *very* good reason to stop carrying liquids in my tool kit. Oh, well, these days I fix my flats with a cell phone anyway. I've heard of people who clean their hands with gasoline after working on their bikes. Ew, gross, ick! *Any* grease or oil will take chain grease off; you don't have to use a solvent that stinks to high heaven, poses a fire hazard, and strips enough fat out of your skin to leave you with a medical condition. I used to use abrasive soap, but it doesn't dissolve grease as well as grease does. I generally use olive oil, because there's a bottle next to the microwave, and the kitchen is only one door from the garage. Before I started cooking with olive oil, there was usually a skillet of used fat sitting around. Special containers of "mechanic's hand cleaner" are available; the smallest can of Crisco works just as well. All work the same way: grab a glob of grease, rub it into the stain, rub it off with a paper towel, repeat until clean -- or, out on the road, until you don't mind touching stuff. ------------------- At that point I stopped writing and went for a twenty-five mile ride. Happened to pass Sally's Beauty Supply on the way back, but they have discontinued the empty boxes. Maybe I can find something suitable in the craftsy-waftsy department at Walmart. (Or I might find an old lip-salve box if I cleaned out all my drawers.) I must also check pill-box displays. ------------------- Before getting around to posting this, I found a sample packet of hand lotion left over from when I was a Fuller Brush Man. It still squished, so I added it to the emergency kit. -- joy beeson at comcast dot net http://wlweather.net/PAGEJOY/ http://wlweather.net/N3F/ -- Writers' Exchange |
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AG: Grease on your hands
On Sat, 04 Jul 2015 23:31:17 -0300, Joy Beeson
wrote: (written 23 June 2015) Tragically, one day I bungeed a plastic grocery bag of emergency stuff to the outside of a pannier without tying the handles through the wires. I'd been refining that kit for decades, and I'd just made a spiffy new case for the tools. http://wlweather.net/pagesew/BIKE_KIT/BIKEROLL.HTM This morning I realized that one thing I haven't added to the regenerating tool kit is a lip-salve box filled with Eucerin Original Healing (the hand-lotion you can slice). So where do I get a lip-salve box now that lip salve comes only in sticks? Perhaps the screw-top nail-art boxes they sell at Sally's Beauty Supply would do (but what do I do with the other five boxes in the package?) I have some drop-dispenser bottles, and could substitute olive oil -- but I had a *very* good reason to stop carrying liquids in my tool kit. Oh, well, these days I fix my flats with a cell phone anyway. I've heard of people who clean their hands with gasoline after working on their bikes. Ew, gross, ick! *Any* grease or oil will take chain grease off; you don't have to use a solvent that stinks to high heaven, poses a fire hazard, and strips enough fat out of your skin to leave you with a medical condition. I used to use abrasive soap, but it doesn't dissolve grease as well as grease does. I generally use olive oil, because there's a bottle next to the microwave, and the kitchen is only one door from the garage. Before I started cooking with olive oil, there was usually a skillet of used fat sitting around. Special containers of "mechanic's hand cleaner" are available; the smallest can of Crisco works just as well. All work the same way: grab a glob of grease, rub it into the stain, rub it off with a paper towel, repeat until clean -- or, out on the road, until you don't mind touching stuff. ------------------- At that point I stopped writing and went for a twenty-five mile ride. Happened to pass Sally's Beauty Supply on the way back, but they have discontinued the empty boxes. Maybe I can find something suitable in the craftsy-waftsy department at Walmart. (Or I might find an old lip-salve box if I cleaned out all my drawers.) I must also check pill-box displays. ------------------- Before getting around to posting this, I found a sample packet of hand lotion left over from when I was a Fuller Brush Man. It still squished, so I added it to the emergency kit. Way back when I was an apprentice one of the lads used to get cleaned up at the end of the day by plunging both hands in a 50 gal. drum of oil, scrubbing his hands together and than "rinsing " them in the oil again. Than just wash the oil off with soap and water. Apparently the oil and scrubbing got the grease and grime off, the rinse cleaned off the dirty oil-grease-grime layer and the soap just sluiced the new clean oil away. While the rest of us were struggling with the "Lava" soap and the scrubbing brushes he was off and away with clean hands :-) ( I'm not sure whether that was good for the lube oil though :-) -- cheers, John B. |
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AG: I never tried this myself, but it ought to work
I read somewhere on the Web that if you haven't got a wringer, you can press water out of wet clothing with a rolling pin: Simply lay the clothes out flat and roll the pin over them. The source said "a plastic table" -- I'd use my wooden picnic table, because the expressed water is going to drip all over, and it would be nice not to have to mop it up. I once stayed in a mountain cabin that had a wooden counter that also served as the drainboard of the sink; that would be an ideal place to roll water out of wet cloth. This trick might be useful when you've come in out of the rain, or when you come home dripping with sweat and rinse your clothes in a bucket. Better make it two buckets -- one for the black stuff and one for the rest. -- joy beeson at comcast dot net http://wlweather.net/PAGEJOY/ The above message is a Usenet post. I don't recall having given anyone permission to use it on a Web site. |
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AG: I never tried this myself, but it ought to work
On Sun, 12 Jul 2015 00:03:46 -0300, Joy Beeson
wrote: I read somewhere on the Web that if you haven't got a wringer, you can press water out of wet clothing with a rolling pin: Simply lay the clothes out flat and roll the pin over them. The source said "a plastic table" -- I'd use my wooden picnic table, because the expressed water is going to drip all over, and it would be nice not to have to mop it up. I once stayed in a mountain cabin that had a wooden counter that also served as the drainboard of the sink; that would be an ideal place to roll water out of wet cloth. This trick might be useful when you've come in out of the rain, or when you come home dripping with sweat and rinse your clothes in a bucket. Better make it two buckets -- one for the black stuff and one for the rest. Way back when, they used to make a two roller "wringer" for those who did the laundry by hand. Two rubber rollers in a frame with a hand crank to turn the rollers and a clamp sort of thing to attach it to the wash tub. Just the thing, if they still make them :-) My wife just reminded me that way, way, way, back when we were first married and coin washers weren't invented she used to wash all our stuff by hand, To get the water out, she tells me, just twist (wring) the clothes and then give them several vigorous shakes to get the wrinkles out. -- cheers, John B. |
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AG: I never tried this myself, but it ought to work
John B. Slocomb wrote in
: On Sun, 12 Jul 2015 00:03:46 -0300, Joy Beeson wrote: I read somewhere on the Web that if you haven't got a wringer, you can press water out of wet clothing with a rolling pin: Simply lay the clothes out flat and roll the pin over them. The source said "a plastic table" -- I'd use my wooden picnic table, because the expressed water is going to drip all over, and it would be nice not to have to mop it up. I once stayed in a mountain cabin that had a wooden counter that also served as the drainboard of the sink; that would be an ideal place to roll water out of wet cloth. This trick might be useful when you've come in out of the rain, or when you come home dripping with sweat and rinse your clothes in a bucket. Better make it two buckets -- one for the black stuff and one for the rest. Way back when, they used to make a two roller "wringer" for those who did the laundry by hand. Two rubber rollers in a frame with a hand crank to turn the rollers and a clamp sort of thing to attach it to the wash tub. Just the thing, if they still make them :-) My wife just reminded me that way, way, way, back when we were first married and coin washers weren't invented she used to wash all our stuff by hand, To get the water out, she tells me, just twist (wring) the clothes and then give them several vigorous shakes to get the wrinkles out. The other day after cycling to my gym to work out, I rinsed my jersey to get the sweat out. All I had to do was hand-wring it and, after 45 minutes, it was wearable--and it kept me cool in the 30 Celsius weather until it dried. It was a "Screaming Yellow" version of this: http://www.mec.ca/product/5036-376/p...-jersey-mens/? q=pearl%2Bizumi%2Bss%2Bjersey. -- Andrew Chaplin SIT MIHI GLADIUS SICUT SANCTO MARTINO (If you're going to e-mail me, you'll have to get "yourfinger." out.) |
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AG: I never tried this myself, but it ought to work
On 7/12/2015 8:12 AM, John B. Slocomb wrote:
Way back when, they used to make a two roller "wringer" for those who did the laundry by hand. Two rubber rollers in a frame with a hand crank to turn the rollers and a clamp sort of thing to attach it to the wash tub. Just the thing, if they still make them :-) Several choices: https://www.lehmans.com/p-690-our-good-wringer.aspx https://www.lehmans.com/p-2399-lehma...d-wringer.aspx https://www.lehmans.com/p-3046-home-...r-washers.aspx -- - Frank Krygowski |
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AG: I never tried this myself, but it ought to work
On Sun, 12 Jul 2015 19:12:10 +0700, John B. Slocomb
wrote: Way back when, they used to make a two roller "wringer" for those who did the laundry by hand. Two rubber rollers in a frame with a hand crank to turn the rollers and a clamp sort of thing to attach it to the wash tub. Just the thing, if they still make them :-) $195.00 from Dynajet $159,99 from Lehman $115.00 from Etsy $140.00 from Woodward Crossings $149.00 "from 2 stores" $165.33 from Shopzeon But there isn't room in my closet-size laundry room -- not to mention no tub to clamp it to. Swimming pools used to have free-standing hand-cranked wringers to dry bathing suits before you went home. I believe that the water just dripped onto the floor, which was designed for dripping-wet people. If I recall correctly there was a grid-like mat to accommodate people who hadn't taken their shoes off yet. -- joy beeson at comcast dot net http://wlweather.net/PAGEJOY/ The above message is a Usenet post. I don't recall having given anyone permission to use it on a Web site. |
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AG: I never tried this myself, but it ought to work
On Sun, 12 Jul 2015 19:44:45 -0400, Frank Krygowski
wrote: On 7/12/2015 8:12 AM, John B. Slocomb wrote: Way back when, they used to make a two roller "wringer" for those who did the laundry by hand. Two rubber rollers in a frame with a hand crank to turn the rollers and a clamp sort of thing to attach it to the wash tub. Just the thing, if they still make them :-) Several choices: https://www.lehmans.com/p-690-our-good-wringer.aspx https://www.lehmans.com/p-2399-lehma...d-wringer.aspx https://www.lehmans.com/p-3046-home-...r-washers.aspx Goodness. I didn't know that Americans were allowed to actually do laundry any more. I assumed that the political correction police would have labeled it as discriminatory toward Women, Men or "Others" as well as being hazardous to the environment. -- cheers, John B. |
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