Jul 23, 2010
Salt Tips
If you are in a restaurant and spill something greasy on your lap, or tie, pour a generous amount of salt on the stain and rub gently. It will suck the grease out. This also works with red wine. It works with red wine on carpets at home also. White wine also helps to neutralize red wine on carpets.
Suture This
Sutures have a long and bizarre history, dating back to ancient Egypt, where everything from tree bark to hair was used to stitch human flesh back together again. Archaeological records from ancient Egypt show that Egyptians used linen and animal sinew to close wounds. In ancient India, physicians used the pincers of beetles or ants to staple wounds shut. They then cut the insects’ bodies off, leaving their jaws 'staples' in place.
Other natural materials used to close wounds include flax, grass, cotton, silk, pig bristles, and animal gut. The fundamental principles of wound closure have changed little during the past 4,000 years.
Other natural materials used to close wounds include flax, grass, cotton, silk, pig bristles, and animal gut. The fundamental principles of wound closure have changed little during the past 4,000 years.
Late Night Snacks Myth
It does not matter what time of day you eat, as long as you eat no more calories than you burn, you will not gain weight. If you eat fewer calories than you burn, you will lose weight. If you eat more calories than you burn, you will gain weight.
Eating three meals a day at the same time each day can have other benefits in life, but snacks at night are no worse than snacks in the morning or afternoon.
Also, It is mathematically easier to lose weight than to gain weight. If you eat 3,500 calories more than you burn, you will gain 0.3 pounds, but if you burn 3,500 calories more than you eat, you will lose 1 pound.
Eating three meals a day at the same time each day can have other benefits in life, but snacks at night are no worse than snacks in the morning or afternoon.
Also, It is mathematically easier to lose weight than to gain weight. If you eat 3,500 calories more than you burn, you will gain 0.3 pounds, but if you burn 3,500 calories more than you eat, you will lose 1 pound.
Bacon Balm
Just saw this for sale on the net. Lip balm that can be used all year. Thought I would share. Mmmm!
US Employment Data
From the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (not seasonally adjusted):
Jan 2008 - 144,607,000
Jan 2009 - 140,436,000
June 2010 - 139,882,000
We have to go back to June, 2004 to find a like number to today, 139,861,000. These numbers do not reflect the number of people added to the potential work force during the past six years.
Jan 2008 - 144,607,000
Jan 2009 - 140,436,000
June 2010 - 139,882,000
We have to go back to June, 2004 to find a like number to today, 139,861,000. These numbers do not reflect the number of people added to the potential work force during the past six years.
That Doesn't Sit Well With Me
Sir George Sitwell (father of the famous writer Dame Edith Sitwell) was a very bizarre man in many ways.
This is the notice that Sir George hung in the hallway of his manor, “I must ask anyone entering the house never to contradict me or differ from me in any way, as it interferes with the functioning of my gastric juices and prevents my sleeping at night.”
He was a good gardener (he actually studied garden design) and, annoyed by the wasps in his garden, he invented a pistol for shooting them. After he moved to Italy to avoid taxes in Britain, he refused to pay his new wife’s debts which resulted in her spending three months in prison.
He was such an avid writer, reader, and collector of books that he had seven libraries in his home. Other eccentricities included paying his son an allowance based on the amount paid by one of his forebears to his son during the Black Death, and trying to pay his son’s Eton school fees with produce from his garden. Perhaps most bizarrely, Sir George had the cows on his estate stenciled in a blue and white Chinese willow pattern in order to make them look better. How does that sit with you?
This is the notice that Sir George hung in the hallway of his manor, “I must ask anyone entering the house never to contradict me or differ from me in any way, as it interferes with the functioning of my gastric juices and prevents my sleeping at night.”
He was a good gardener (he actually studied garden design) and, annoyed by the wasps in his garden, he invented a pistol for shooting them. After he moved to Italy to avoid taxes in Britain, he refused to pay his new wife’s debts which resulted in her spending three months in prison.
He was such an avid writer, reader, and collector of books that he had seven libraries in his home. Other eccentricities included paying his son an allowance based on the amount paid by one of his forebears to his son during the Black Death, and trying to pay his son’s Eton school fees with produce from his garden. Perhaps most bizarrely, Sir George had the cows on his estate stenciled in a blue and white Chinese willow pattern in order to make them look better. How does that sit with you?
Five More Uses for Peanut Butter
Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches will never go out of style, but here are a few more things to do with peanut butter.
Replace butter in cooking recipes with peanut butter for a unique taste, especially brownies. Yum.
Dogs and cats love it. Next time wrap their pill in a spoonful, so you don't have to force it down.
It works almost as well as goo-gone to get labels off of packages.
After frying fish, drop a plop of it in the pan and let it melt. Takes away the fishy smell.
Remove gum from carpet or hair by rubbing it with peanut butter and wipe the whole thing off.
Replace butter in cooking recipes with peanut butter for a unique taste, especially brownies. Yum.
Dogs and cats love it. Next time wrap their pill in a spoonful, so you don't have to force it down.
It works almost as well as goo-gone to get labels off of packages.
After frying fish, drop a plop of it in the pan and let it melt. Takes away the fishy smell.
Remove gum from carpet or hair by rubbing it with peanut butter and wipe the whole thing off.
What's in a Name
Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was nicknamed The Iron Lady and Imelda Marcos was known as The Steel Butterfly.
Jul 20, 2010
Fit as a Fiddle
This is another phrase where a single word has confused people – 'fit' in the context of this saying does not mean 'healthy', which is a 19th century definition. Its original meaning was 'suitable' – and it is still used in that context in the saying 'fit for a king'.
As fit as a fiddle means 'as appropriate as can be' – not “in excellent health”. The first use of the phrase was in the 16th century and it was originally 'as right as a fiddle'.
As fit as a fiddle means 'as appropriate as can be' – not “in excellent health”. The first use of the phrase was in the 16th century and it was originally 'as right as a fiddle'.
Cheesy
We all know that cheese is cheese and made from sour milk, but if you look at some packages, you find cheese products and cheese food. Here is the difference.
Cheese food is somewhere between 51 percent and 99 percent cheese. It is a food product made from regular cheese, and almost always with the addition of whey, emulsifiers, milk, salts, preservatives, and food coloring. Processed cheese is also known as “process cheese”, “prepared cheese”, and “cheese food”. American cheese and some 'squirt cheese' are cheese foods. James L. Kraft created the first commercially available sliced processed cheese.
Cheese product is composed of less than 51 percent cheese. More than half the product is made up of ingredients like emulsifiers, carrageenan (seaweed-extract stabilizer) and flavorings, like citric acid for that cheesy tanginess. Cheez Whiz and some varieties of Velveeta are cheese products.
Average Americans eat about 30 pounds of cheese a year.
A great cheese slicer when yours is in the dishwasher, use unwaxed dental floss.
Cheese food is somewhere between 51 percent and 99 percent cheese. It is a food product made from regular cheese, and almost always with the addition of whey, emulsifiers, milk, salts, preservatives, and food coloring. Processed cheese is also known as “process cheese”, “prepared cheese”, and “cheese food”. American cheese and some 'squirt cheese' are cheese foods. James L. Kraft created the first commercially available sliced processed cheese.
Cheese product is composed of less than 51 percent cheese. More than half the product is made up of ingredients like emulsifiers, carrageenan (seaweed-extract stabilizer) and flavorings, like citric acid for that cheesy tanginess. Cheez Whiz and some varieties of Velveeta are cheese products.
Average Americans eat about 30 pounds of cheese a year.
A great cheese slicer when yours is in the dishwasher, use unwaxed dental floss.
Birthday Cake Tip
Just saw this interesting idea to keep candle wax off of your next birthday cake. Slip a lifesaver on the bottom and it will catch any melting wax. You can leave the lifesaver on the cake when you remove the candle so you don't get your fingers in the icing.
Jul 16, 2010
Vitamin C
Linus Pauling, Nobel prize winner in chemistry touted that vitamin C was a cure-all for everything from preventing colds to curing cancer. He died of cancer in 1994. In spite of some other outrageous claims, vitamin C is still good for you, it just doesn't cure everything. Also, don't take the chewable kind, because it is ascorbic acid and will rot your teeth if you chew too much of it.
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