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Re Firefox logo - apparently it’s actually a red panda (fire fox in Chinese).
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Says who? I don’t think it looks more like the red panda than it does the red fox… I mean has Firefox come out and said this? (Yes, I’m too lazy to Google.)
[QUOTE=elbows]
I look back now at all the money spent, chemicals inhaled, and unnecessary toil and am amazed that the solution was right in front of me the whole time and I couldn’t see it.
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Well, but in your own defense, I hardly think that qualifies as “obvious” since as you said, even when you read it you were skeptical.
[QUOTE=elbows]
Turns out, the easiest and cheapest and most effective cleaner for the glass door is ashes!
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Ashes are also surprisingly effective for traction on icy walks and driveways. Far better than sand.
Over the past few weeks I’ve had occasion to type a specific medical term again and again. I can never spell it right. Anuryzm? Annyerism? Then I realized that it has the same root word as neurotic, neurological, and neurosurgery. Aneurysm. It’s easy!
Found out just now, however, that the root word comes from nerve.
[QUOTE=elbows]
Turns out, the easiest and cheapest and most effective cleaner for the glass door is ashes!
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I just use water and a paper towel, or, if it’s really cruddy, water and an old scrubby pad from the sink. And I clean the glass before starting the fire.
What the hell are you burning in there??
[QUOTE=tdn]
I can never spell it right. Anuryzm? Annyerism? Then I realized … Aneurysm. It’s easy .
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Actually it’s aneurism
d+r
[QUOTE=Peter Morris]
Actually it’s aneurism
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Huh, looks like both spellings are valid.
[QUOTE=Tuckerfan]
That’s okay, when I was a little kid and we put in a garden in the back yard, I got mad because we were planting cucumbers and not planting pickles! :smack: (Yes, they did tell me that pickles were made from cukes, but I didn’t believe them. I was 3 or 4, so what do you expect?)
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Y’all can both relax. I was about, oh, 31 when I found out that pickles are actually small cucumbers.
Yes, I’ve eaten both all my life.
No, I never noticed the resemblance.
Yeah, they do let me out unsupervised every now and then. 
Well, I do clean the glass before starting the fire. But sometimes it needs cleaning while the stove is still warm with coals from the night before. Before building up the fire anew, in the morning, for instance. And I’m only burning wood so I don’t know what else I can tell you.
Paper towel and water just doesn’t do the job at my house, sorry.
[QUOTE=Peter Morris]
I only figured out a few days ago what **(:3= ** means
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Until I just now read this post, I’d never seen that before, anywhere.
Please, spare me from an indefinite period of baffled frustration, one which can only end in a :smack: :smack: :smack: moment at best:
what does (:3= mean?
It looks like a sideways walrus face to me, but I can’t see how that could possibly be right.
[QUOTE=tdn]
Then I realized that it has the same root word as neurotic, neurological, and neurosurgery. Aneurysm. It’s easy!
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Which doesn’t help if you have trouble spelling the other words too. Thank god for spell check. (which I don’t use on the Dope. I’m sure some have noticed)
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It looks like a sideways walrus face to me, but I can’t see how that could possibly be right.
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That’s exactly right.
[QUOTE=DLuxN8R-13]
Until I just now read this post, I’d never seen that before, anywhere.
Please, spare me from an indefinite period of baffled frustration, one which can only end in a :smack: :smack: :smack: moment at best:
what does (:3= mean?
It looks like a sideways walrus face to me, but I can’t see how that could possibly be right.
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Well, the poster he was replying to is * called* iamthewalrus(:3= **
[ETA]: Damn, beaten to it because of our crappy work proxy.
After owning a WW2 Civil Defense air raid warden’s helmet for something like 25 years, I only this week figured out that the insignia on the front is supposed to graphically represent an air raid siren.
I had watched about 75% of Shanghai Noon when the pun in the title dawned on me.
