> > It was never a pile of money, but it's still probably done.  
There's 
> > a decent bottle bounty up in Canada, which makes me wonder if 
some 
> > don't cart bottles and cans across.  
> 
> Those nickels mount up. Neither Rosemary nor Bonnie
> bothers with bottle deposits, being affluent enough 
> not to care, but when Rosemary puts out the recycling
> we hear someone early in the morning sifting through
> for redeemables. If they need it. more power to them.
> 
Good on them.  One neighbor, who has since moved, always put their 
cans with deposits out in bags instead of the blue bin.  If I hit it 
first, darned tootin' I took advantage.  Why should the state get to 
keep our money? 

> > > It really is a game for which I was not well suited.
> > The only games I've ever been much good at are Trivial Pursuit 
and 
> > some card games.  The rest ... pffft.
> 
> Funny, I would have thought you would be good at
> the crosswords and stuff like that.

I am, but those are solitary, not games with more than one player.
 
> > Someone probably poured cement into the factory.  As I recall you 
had 
> > to do something similar to a Trabbie if you wanted to import it 
into 
> > the US with the engine inside. 
> 
> I didn't know that anyone ever tried - why would one?

Car collectors are weird; they wanted them.  
 
> > > Most of them perhaps. But rationality is not a
> > > paramoumt human characteristic.
> > Some days, I'm not sure it's even a human characteristic.  
> 
> As I often have pointed out, the human race is not
> ready for self-government.

God told us that all the way back about 4000 years ago; it's still 
true.
 
> > > I thought that's what furniture was for.
> > That too, but cats are flexible that way.
> 
> Cats are flexible a lot of ways. Someone should
> investigate why their spines are so superior
> to ours.

We don't catch our own mice.
 
> > > Just acidy sweat, perhaps. We have members here
> > > with acidy sweat.
> > My late dad used to kill battery-operated watches, possibly for 
that 
> > reason. 
> 
> Might have been his aura or something.

He was an engineer; I think the watches got scared and (didn't) ran.
 
> > OTOH it's fairly safe in the long run.  Money in banks actually 
loses 
> > value over time with current interest rates.
> 
> It's interesting how some people are saying that
> the economy is wonderful, but interest rates are
> effectively, as you point out, minus, so long-
> term growth, too, is likely to be minus.

Banks can get away with it, so they do.
 
> > > > > It got a number of things right. Silverstone is one of
> > > > > the great inventions.
> > > > Ick. Not for me thanks.  
> > > Whyever not?
> > Nonstick is nastiness.  
> 
> I disagree. The days of flaky brown poison in your
> sautes are over.

I'm still not fond. 
 
> > > Me either, as I like pork but not rolls in general.
> > Especially not rock hard rolls, or rock'n'rolls? 
> 
> Hardtack and hard rock, no thank you.

They make good compost, but that's about all.  Possibly sheetrock 
substitute.
 
> > everything else.  THey only get mixed when they go to the curb.  
> > Makes life simpler. 
> 
> I'd have thought otherwise, unless your bottles are
> really wet when you dump them.

They air dry first. 
 
> > Ever tried it with Old Croc cheese from Australia? It's a really 
> > sharp cheddar that's been aged.  I had some in the back of my 
fridge 
> > for forever, sealed from the factory.  Pulled that out and made 
mac 
> > and cheese out of it.  Best it's come out in ages.  
> 
> Old Croc is okay, not nearly old nor bitey enough,
> though it sounds as if your specimen might have
> been old and improved.

Quite likely.  It probably aged a bit.  The cheese was definitely dry 
and crumbly.  That's the best cheddar.