Does it have a middle setting for "both ends closed"? Seems to me that if you tried to turn the thing over while flipping the switch you'd be likely to spill some salt and/or pepper.
From French, I'd submit the expression "faire le pont" (literally, "make the bridge"). You "make the bridge" if Tuesday is a holiday and you take Monday off to make it a four-day weekend, or if Thursday is a holiday and you take Friday off to make it a four-day weekend. Effectively, you're "making the bridge" between the holiday and the weekend.
When I learned this phrase in high school French class, I thought, "Wow, there's something really cool about a culture that values its leisure time so much that they have an actual phrase for this."
It's a phrase instead of a single word, but it seemed relevant.
"Every nucleus has protons, which have a positive charge, and electrons, which have a negative charge."
This isn't what I learned in high school and college chemistry classes. I was told that the electrons circle the nucleus, which is composed of protons and neutrons. Did I learn wrong?
The shirt's pretty funny. The comments from knee-jerkers who don't get it are even funnier. And the funniest thing of all is the idea that a t-shirt will actually make one bit of difference in the world.
Not two weeks before that, a "derecho" struck us here in Memphis. 1.5 million people had no power for OVER A WEEK; I personally was in the dark for ten days in 90-degree heat (thank god it was a relatively cool week for a Memphis summer). It was a nightmare, but we got ZERO news coverage. Even as nearby as Nashville, the blackout barely rated a back-page mention, even though we were getting federal disaster-relief funds.
Locals who were here call it "Hurricane Elvis": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Elvis
When I learned this phrase in high school French class, I thought, "Wow, there's something really cool about a culture that values its leisure time so much that they have an actual phrase for this."
It's a phrase instead of a single word, but it seemed relevant.
I'm a dog-person. I just don't understand the attraction to cats. (And I've lived with cats for a large portion of my life.)
This isn't what I learned in high school and college chemistry classes. I was told that the electrons circle the nucleus, which is composed of protons and neutrons. Did I learn wrong?
Not two weeks before that, a "derecho" struck us here in Memphis. 1.5 million people had no power for OVER A WEEK; I personally was in the dark for ten days in 90-degree heat (thank god it was a relatively cool week for a Memphis summer). It was a nightmare, but we got ZERO news coverage. Even as nearby as Nashville, the blackout barely rated a back-page mention, even though we were getting federal disaster-relief funds.
Locals who were here call it "Hurricane Elvis": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Elvis