At age 70+ it looks like I'll never see any more great achievements in human space exploration.

I'm thinking that sleep habits change with age. When I was in my 30's and 40's I could stay up late and get up early. It was necessary as I had moonlighting jobs and a day job to support my family. Now at 70+ such behavior are simply not possible. In fact I find I need a couple of naps during the day in order to function at top level.

We used blank 30.06 cartridges in our M-1 rifles during training exercises in the Army. They had a plastic plug instead of a bullet. Not a good idea to fire it at someone in close range.

Reminds me of the "bat shield" that a chemistry teacher friend of mine made after a demonstration went bad and some students were injured. He used it to protect the class from future accidental explosions.

One of the first lessons when dealing with large normally docile animals is to keep plenty of space between you, them, and a solid wall.

By now I'd think most everyone knows there is no dark side of the loom.

The show was like an old Mad magazine bit. You had to see it over a few times in order to catch all the gags.

I tip from 15-25% or more for really super service and I enjoyed flirting with the good looking female servers. The very rare times my service has been super bad or non-existent I've left a penny face down. It is the ultimate insult to a server. One of my main moonlighting jobs years ago was as a bartender in a busy college bar.

In my college days I'd put in a fictitious name and source in the bibliography. If a professor caught it I'd say it was done to protect my work against plagiarism. If memory serves me, the name I used was W.B. Tasker.

Cool, the prototype for Chatty Kathy.

How about St.Elsewhere? An entire TV series in the mind of an autistic child.

The most detectable time in our history would have been when VHF TV was broadcasting during the daytime only in the USA. That would have created a beacon like effect for those transmissions. They would have traveled about 60 light years by now and if there was someone 30 light years away we might get a response. Then again there may be a mode of communication we haven't even discovered and the galaxy might be screaming with communications. SETI would be like natives with drums listening for radio signals.

[joke]elephant back scratcher[/joke]

I'm thinking that those with the fewest "votes" are those least used by Neatorama readers. We all have our horror stories and they a probably not the fault of the airline company per se.

I see no information about the cost of this program. It might be nice to see and compare to the cost of other things the USPS does before I pass judgment on this latest event.