If you know your egg source, there's not much danger in a raw egg. Only eat raw eggs that didn't get wet or crapped on first (both are obvious). I try to avoid eating them raw from the store because I simply don't know where they came from (and the salmonella recalls lately have been really common) and they've been cleaned and you can't tell which started out dirty. It is thought that very few eggs actually come out of the hen with the germs inside already (I think what I read was 1 in 20,000) so if you can arrange to get unwashed eggs and only eat the clean ones raw, you're golden.

And if you're like me and raise your own chickens... well, you breath in enough crap while you're cleaning the coop that it really doesn't matter what's in the damn eggs.

"Especially if the lights are any color other than red or gray."

I thought we were talking about North Korea, not OSU fans.

That would eventually tend toward juries made up of mostly 18-year-olds.

That said, though, I feel like they ought to at least give you X years between. So say you get the call and serve, you get 5 years off, get the call and get turned away after coming in you get 1 year off, and get the call but get turned away before you even have to come in and you're back in the pot.

Unfortunately I have run across plenty of cases where the numbers weren't an option. These are cases where they want you to say words to get to the next step e.g. "Say 'sales' for Sales", not "Say '9' for Sales." The worst is my credit card processor, though, which for some reason allows using the keypad, but only gets it right half the time when you do (how's that even possible to screw up that badly). It's actually more successful when you speak your number, oddly.

(And I should have made it clear that I wasn't only a lector and in theater, but that it was often stated that I was easy to understand in both cases -- especially in the lector case, where there are so many truly awful ones. But I thought that would have been assumed. If I was bad at either of them, I wouldn't have brought it up.)

I was in theater and a lector for a number of years -- these systems STILL never understand what I'm saying. Evidently I can do Shakespeare, but "Yes", "No" and the digits 0-9 ain't happenin'. A shame, too, since there are perfectly useful little buttons on your phone that have worked for ages to navigate a menu.

Emergency vehicle sirens have been improved? Really? That's interesting (and I mean that literally, not sarcastically.) The only thing I've noticed about the sirens lately is that I can't hear them at all until the squad is sitting in my back seat. I don't think I've gone *that* deaf in the last 10 years.

I think the point there was that grandpa croaked in the interim without someone else having discovered the files. Photos in a shoebox in the attic can be accessed after being forgotten for 20 years, they don't need to be reviewed every 6 months.

More like you lose 100% of your paycheck and the price of goods goes UP 20%.

Savings just never seem to be passed on to anyone but the top management.

Why untangle? Just bring 'em all in in a big clump. They'll sit still better for afternoon lessons.

Would it make you feel any better to know that someone still has one of those, working, in their upstairs bedroom.

I wouldn't know who that is or anything. *whistles*

A movie based on a master's thesis couldn't be much worse than what they've been turning out lately.

So for the love of all that's good, quit giving them ideas.

The smarter spammers are aware of this trick, though; they cut off anything after the +.

I can just see this wading happily through the hydrangeas and chasing the neighbor's cat.

On the other hand... I'll take three.

True :)

Except when they cut in and your options are let them hit you or drive off a 20 ft. embankment into a creek XD But yeah, in general, VERY true.

Gah, I meant problems with people passing 30 seconds after getting behind me at insane speeds, not bicyclists. That was ambiguous. Sorry.