Oh dear! That's it for all of us over here across the pond. In a land where we weigh rather than use cups its a pretty safe bet that over 95% of households have a set of scales. I know I can't make a cake without them. Dunno what they'd say about the lab scales in the living room though - they were a gift from my Dad after he retired. ;-)
Lizzy
On Wed, 5 Mar 2008 17:20:32 -0600, Mary wrote (in article ):
I saw some doozies when I was drafting for the Legislature too.
Maureen
On Wed, 5 Mar 2008 17:36:43 -0600, Sally Swindells wrote (in article ):
Yeah. I thought that was funny too.
Maureen
On Wed, 5 Mar 2008 22:41:23 -0600, Polly Esther wrote (in article ):
LOL! Polly.
Oh, good grief. What's next?
With DH doing electronics, his buisness, and making jewelry, me doing all kinds of stuff, we bought a couple gross of the things with little lips printed all over them. The ones with the lips were cheaper.
Only a politiian would figure that even though people like us should be able to sort out how to get by without the weeny bags, somebody bright enough to turn cold and flu medicine into an illegal drug would be stymied.
Nitwits.
NightMist
Yep I'm doomed. I have scales (cooking, dying, a myriad of uses), wee baggies (see previous post), chemicals (dying), wierd herbs (conjure), fertilizer (garden), I prolly have an FBI file 2 inches thick! And to think my dad was warning me about that when I ticked him off by doing an eighth grade social studies report on Chad.
NightMist we had to write to the country's embassy and ask for > Back in my much younger days, I had to do the inventory for a Narcotics
I was laughing so hard my DD came to see why. She uses the tiny snack bags for -- believe it or not -- snacks for my DGS's. She suggested the dealer's will use bigger bags.
When I said that might cut down on the profit margin, she said she thought the small ones were much more expensive. So, then, why are the dealers using the tiny bags? Maybe they are concerned with the amount of plastic left to litter the environment after they are empty. After all, smaller bags use less resources.
How about we write to the Chicago head of narcotics, and accuse him of trying to contribute to global warming!
Just wondering, NightMist, you don't happen to own a ski-mask, do you? Polly
"NightMist" < wrote, in part> > Yep I'm doomed.
The really terrifying thing about the whole mess is that we are at the mercy of people who run for office. Now, I don't want to offend anyone on here who has or will or is holding elected office. Some really do want to serve. But as a reporter I covered so many elected bodies -- everything from the Fordyce, Arkansas city council to the Arizona state legislature. By a frighteningly wide margin the people in those bodies have been mostly egotistical, under educated, narrow-minded rejects from Dumb and Dumber who feel in their hearts that they have the answers. And that they WILL straighten up the rest of us by legislating those answers into law. My husband is a journalist too. My sons grew up listening to us. Both were reading the editorial page of newspapers by the time they were in first grade. It's our household's solemn belief that anybody who desperately wants to hold elected office probably shouldn't be elected. Sorta like that old Groucho Marx riff: I wouldn't want to belong to any club that would have me for a member. Um, okay I'm obviously not making sense today. But the crux of the matter is this: people who think so well of themselves and their precious ideas that they go out and run for office very often have no business holding that office.
God save us from the politicians. And preserve our teeny little baggies! Sunny
Howdy!
Right, Val. Use the cream of tartar, for a longer rush.
Got her good, Sandy. Good for you. (It's not often we see Val bested.) Polly
hahahaha.....I bow to a master......now go wipe that powdery substance from your lip before you pick up the kids!!
Val
ade social studies report on Chad.
What was wrong with your choice of Chad for your report?
Erin (who got in trouble in 9th grade civics class by writing a report on the Sandinistas)
That's always scared me too! I probably have every ingredient used to make Meth. They are spread out around the house and garden shed, but I bet they could gather them up and make me look bad.
Here's something else (off the subject, I know). They convicted Scott Peterson on a hair from his wife's head on a pair of pliers, at least that was a big thing at his trial. Now, I don't know if he was guilty or not, but still. When I had long hair, I shed like a Golden Retriever. I bet my hair was in every tool box and bucket in DH's garage.
I just know the more you protest your innocence the guiltier you look.
I'm coming in late on this, but... times have changed. The scales I saw as "productions" from the crime scenes are little digital scales. Very precise (they don't like to lose any of the heroine from a sale), very portable, and reasonably priced. The sort of scales folks use in their kitchen aren't as precise, because they're usually spring loaded. They're usually bigger as well. It's the entire "kit" of paraphernalia they find, as well as the heroine itself (Dundee has a big heroine problem). Your regular kitchen scales and a few plastic baggies are not going to make you look like a druggie, if there isn't an ounce of heroine, cocaine, insert drug here, in your house, or people constantly coming and going at strange hours.
-- Jo in Scotland (who hopes to go into Scots Criminal law)
I inadvertently annoyed my father - who was in the Merchant Marines in World War II - by my choice of languages. I began to learn German at age 13. He was not happy about that. I got a long lecture about how "they" were on the other side of the war. Didn't I know any history?
Then I began to study Russian at age 14. He was quite angry. But, as he said, "At least they were on our side in the beginning...."
At age 15 I started to study Japanese. He was furious. "Are you trying to kill me?!? What's next? Italian? Why can't you just take French like all the other kids?!?"
-- Jo in Scotland (whose Dad died 16 years ago, but is not forgotten...)
There is always a big push to get "local control". I say, NO!
I've met the local office holders and for the most part, they're a bunch of idjits. At least I don't know most of them at the national level. They may be idjits but I don't see that on a daily basis.
Cindy
My daughter had to do a report on Germany in 6th grade, but could not mention the War (Fawlty Towers, anyone?). She also got detention from the same teacher for saying that Virginia was named for Queen Elizabeth because she was the virgin queen. (bad word!) AND . . . this was supposed to be the gifted class.
L>I got into deep doo-doo when I did a report on the unethical torture and
PATCHogue, NY
obviously only the kids were gifted. gotta love faulty towers for their subtlety along with the slapschtick (sic). BAAAAAAAAAAAAAASILLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! love his goose-step too. :)) snorfle, j.
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