What did you learn today TIL

[Jed_]

With logic and proportion . . . .

[MissBarbara]

Ask Alice.

When she is ten feet tall....

You are sooooo dating yourself! 

Guilty as charged. Some great music came out of the 60s. 

Then again, I recognized that line instantly, though I'm not sure what that means...

[Katiebee]

Alice tried the potions and mushrooms. One made her a giant. One made her shrink.
“Through the Looking Glass.”

[ChirpingGirl]

I learned my 6 year old says she loves her "real" mommy only for giving her up so that I could have her because I'm the best mommy ever.

 

[MissBarbara]

Alice tried the potions and mushrooms. One made her a giant. One made her shrink.
“Through the Looking Glass.”

But where does the "hookah-smoking caterpillar" come into this equation? And what, exactly, happens when you consume, "some kind of mushroom"?

And, perhaps most important of all, why doesn't anyone "remember what the dormouse said"?

[Jed_]

And what, exactly, happens when you consume, "some kind of mushroom"?

You can party with me sometime, and I’ll show you. . . . .

[Katiebee]

Asking all these existential questions!

The mushroom makes you shrink, on one side, and grow on the other.

The dormouse never spoke louder than a whisper and had zero personality.

[watcher1]

Alice tried the potions and mushrooms. One made her a giant. One made her shrink.
“Through the Looking Glass.”

But where does the "hookah-smoking caterpillar" come into this equation? And what, exactly, happens when you consume, "some kind of mushroom"?

And, perhaps most important of all, why doesn't anyone "remember what the dormouse said"?

When you take a hit of Lsd or some peyote, all that you asked will be crystal clear. 

[RopeFiend]

I needed to pull a screw out of some dense plywood, but didn't know it had a hex head (I'd only brought screwdriver bits).  After looking at the screw and my Dewalt for a couple of seconds, I said "Hey, the screw head has 6 sides, and the chuck has 3... it oughta work!", so I twisted the chuck of the electric screwdriver onto the screw head and backed it right out of the wood.  No muss, no fuss, no running back across the building to find a socket wrench.

Numerous people have undoubtedly discovered the same thing, but I've never seen it done.

[MintJulie]

I needed to pull a screw out of some dense plywood, but didn't know it had a hex head (I'd only brought screwdriver bits).  After looking at the screw and my Dewalt for a couple of seconds, I said "Hey, the screw head has 6 sides, and the chuck has 3... it oughta work!", so I twisted the chuck of the electric screwdriver onto the screw head and backed it right out of the wood.  No muss, no fuss, no running back across the building to find a socket wrench.

Numerous people have undoubtedly discovered the same thing, but I've never seen it done.

I've done that too.

At my old house I ripped down a cabinet in a bathroom.  It snapped the head off a screw.  all that was protruding was 1/4" of the shaft.  I tightened the drill gripper thingy on it.  It slipped a couple times, but I got it out.

[_priapism]

I tightened the drill gripper thingy on it.  It slipped a couple times, but I got it out.

[Katiebee]

Oh God, Toe. Sometimes you are completely disgusting over the smallest provocation!

I guess you come by the title pervert honestly.

 

[MintJulie]

I tightened the drill gripper thingy on it.  It slipped a couple times, but I got it out.

Oh God, Toe. Sometimes you are completely disgusting over the smallest provocation!

I guess you come by the title pervert honestly.

 

I guess I shouldn't have led him on, Katie.  Maybe I shouldn't have made all those little sexual innuendos and said something like......

I was actually surprised I got it out.  It was stuffed in there so tight.  I didn't know what I was going to do.  I mean, I'm in the bathroom by myself with this thing sticking out and I couldn't leave until I rectified the problem.  It was already lodged in there, so I couldn't put lubrication on it, ya know.  I was just careful taking it out really slow so I didn't break anything.  My god, that was one heckuva screw.

[Jed_]

Nice Jules, very nice.  My day has been off to an annoying start, and reading that has made things all better.

[vinney]

I tightened the drill gripper thingy on it.  It slipped a couple times, but I got it out.

Oh God, Toe. Sometimes you are completely disgusting over the smallest provocation!

I guess you come by the title pervert honestly.

 

I guess I shouldn't have led him on, Katie.  Maybe I shouldn't have made all those little sexual innuendos and said something like......

I was actually surprised I got it out.  It was stuffed in there so tight.  I didn't know what I was going to do.  I mean, I'm in the bathroom by myself with this thing sticking out and I couldn't leave until I rectified the problem.  It was already lodged in there, so I couldn't put lubrication on it, ya know.  I was just careful taking it out really slow so I didn't break anything.  My god, that was one heckuva screw.

Don't screw with Jules... she'll always get you out in the end...

[_priapism]

I guess I shouldn't have led him on, Katie.  Maybe I shouldn't have made all those little sexual innuendos and said something like......

I was actually surprised I got it out.  It was stuffed in there so tight.  I didn't know what I was going to do.  I mean, I'm in the bathroom by myself with this thing sticking out and I couldn't leave until I rectified the problem.  It was already lodged in there, so I couldn't put lubrication on it, ya know.  I was just careful taking it out really slow so I didn't break anything.  My god, that was one heckuva screw.

[ChirpingGirl]

I learned the Nazis and Japanese captured B17 bombers.

[IdleBoast]

I learned the Nazis and Japanese captured B17 bombers.

Gosh. So did I, just this minute!

[ChirpingGirl]

The Nazis invented helicopters.

[psiberzerker]

Now, I want to look that hup.  HTF do you capture a Flying Fortress?  I wasn't aware of any American airfields being captured by Nazis.  The Japanese, we went back and forth with, but by the time we got involved with the War in Europe, Germany was already running out of Gas.  (Because they hung a left at Ukrain, instead of capturing the oil fields they needed, and decided on attacking Moskov with Tanks.  Brilliant!)

Now I have this fantasy of elite Fallschirmjägergeweh skydiving from converted Me163s wit FG43s, and magnetst to latch onto the wings, and set up bipods.  [Let us in, or we shoot!]  Signs to commit sky piracy en route from the Battle of Berlin!  They got pretty desperate towards the end of the war.  (The Natter was an even more desperate Rocket Glider for Bomber defense.)

I'm not as familiar with the Japanese weapons, and tactics.  Though such a cartoony/comic book stunt might be a little safer over the Pacific with recovery craft.

"Hail Hydra!"

The Nazis invented helicopters.

Sikorsky was Russian!  That's a pretty neit prototype, though.  Also, check out the Triebflügel that Red Skull used to make his escape!  A ramjet powered tail sitting auto-gyro!