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Bunny, he's still a bit of a wuss towards people, which is good. I hope it doesn't change.

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I have to admit, baseball seems like a super boring sport to me. It's not played here, but we have a similar sport, "pesäpallo" (Lit. "Baseball"). The bases are organized in a Z shape instead of a diamond, and instead of pitching from a mound, the pitcher stands next to the batter and throws vertically in the air above the plate. Otherwise it's pretty similar. The game was originally developed by the army to improve qualities necessary for soldiers - hand grenade throwing and sprinting for cover. Baseball played a large role in inspiring it. It's fun to play, but not to watch. Baseball makes for interesting movies though. Your variant that is, I don't think I could watch a movie about Finnish baseball.

I'm a Finnish-Swede.

Instead of mink-oil you can use any product designed for leather goretex garments. The one's I've seen include mink oil usually, but we have a lot of mink farming in Finland. Mink oil is good on any leather products, also the non gore tex ones.

I don't know if retailers in the states will react to the gore guarantees the same way they do here, but you usually get a lot o goodwill when buying them. After all, if you spend hundreds of dollars or euros on a waterproof jacket, you sort of expect it to be waterproof. Otherwise it would be false advertising.

Ethnic humor sounds like a PC term for racist jokes
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Interesting thing about women, they're usually a lot better at designing circuit boards than men. And back when Nokia was number one in mobile phones, art of their great usability came from the fact that women were in charge of designing the menu setups, making them easier to use. Male engineers tend to overcomplicate things.

7 dollar tomato plants are for people who only want a few. I think it's more of ornamental value at that point than a genuine food source. And for novices, it can really be worth it. Out of the 40 plants I started, only 7 made it to the finish line. And I put in about 3 months of work before they were the same size as the ones sold in the store for 5 euros. It would probably of have been cheaper to buy the ready plants than to give extra light to the plants for 3 months.
 
I have to admit, baseball seems like a super boring sport to me. It's not played here, but we have a similar sport, "pesäpallo" (Lit. "Baseball"). The bases are organized in a Z shape instead of a diamond, and instead of pitching from a mound, the pitcher stands next to the batter and throws vertically in the air above the plate. Otherwise it's pretty similar. The game was originally developed by the army to improve qualities necessary for soldiers - hand grenade throwing and sprinting for cover. Baseball played a large role in inspiring it. It's fun to play, but not to watch. Baseball makes for interesting movies though. Your variant that is, I don't think I could watch a movie about Finnish baseball.

Theres a version of baseball here in San Diego.... Called Over The Line.... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Over-the-line

Last one held had over 50000 spectators. Most of the team names cant be posted because they are considered obscene.... But One I remember most From back in 1967 .... was..... Fritz and Tittz LOTS of drinking and general partying as well. Scantily clad peoples and beer.... no wonder there are alot of spectators....
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deb.... obsessing about a divide by zero error....
 
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Deb, yeah it annoys me too. But I'm importing that sheet from the sheet I'm working with, and if I strip the errors in the import, for some reason the date format changes to a weird numeric value, so I need to format the errors away in the original sheet. But that's not something to do on a Saturday evening. Instead, you can jury rig together a compost thermometer, using makeshift materials. Electrical piping, heat shrink tubing, vacuum packer plastic bags and a cheap Chinese corded thermometer became this:


Yes, I know I'm weird.
 
Deb, yeah it annoys me too. But I'm importing that sheet from the sheet I'm working with, and if I strip the errors in the import, for some reason the date format changes to a weird numeric value, so I need to format the errors away in the original sheet. But that's not something to do on a Saturday evening. Instead, you can jury rig together a compost thermometer, using makeshift materials. Electrical piping, heat shrink tubing, vacuum packer plastic bags and a cheap Chinese corded thermometer became this:


Yes, I know I'm weird.

OOOH meee likey..... VBG.... BTW I am working on my divide by zero worksheet.... Hope you dont mind I borrow a couple of lines from yours....

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OOOH BOOOOOOM Zoom
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I live under the flight path to Miramar Air Station..... AIR SHOW... The Blue Angels just flew over..... NOW the Heliocopters are rattling the pictures on the walls.

We used to get all that when TOP GUN was at Miramar.... Now its Heliocpters when the Marines moved in.

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Deb, OTL seems like a fun thing. And the alcohol rules they've negotiated seem smart too. In Pori, Finland there is a annual jazz festival, Pori Jazz. Traditionally, people have sort of had a picnic there, enjoying some food and wine that they bring with them. However, this year some bureaucrat decided to spoil everyone's fun and demanded that alcohol law be followed strictly. This means no own alcoholic beverages were permitted at the festival. It's still okay to buy alcohol there, but it sort of spoils the happening since understandably, the wine selection of a makeshift tent bar is pretty limited. I understand the point of the law, you can only buy one serving at a time, and this way the people selling it can monitor the condition of festivalgoers (it is illegal to sell alcohol to an inebriated person in Finland - a law that clearly isn't followed in any bar or nightclub). The theory behind this is that you can keep fighting and other disturbances to a minimum, and sure, the rules are supposed to be the same for everyone. But jazz festival visitors aren't really the most violent bunch. (Interestingly, the most violent festival in Finland is always the tango festival in Seinäjoki. The heavy metal festival Tuska in Helsinki seldom sees any fighting at all.)

Now we have a super strict alcohol advertisement law taking effect next year. You are not allowed to advertise alcohol anywhere anymore. The beer companies even have to redo their delivery vans, and the Sinebrychoff horse carriage (Sort of like the Budweiser Clydesdales) won't be allowed either. The point of the law is to discourage minors from drinking. How in the heck does one horse drawn carriage make teenagers drink? Also, during the past ten years, alcohol consumption among minors has declined steadily.
 

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