That was great! The other dogs were into it. They didn’t think it through, they should have held out for a postal truck.
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That was great! The other dogs were into it. They didn’t think it through, they should have held out for a postal truck.
Perhaps the Mason that made the biggest impact is John Landis Mason. He was a tin smith that invented the Mason Jar, a glass jar with a screw on lid that revolutionized food preserving. He also invented the salt shaker with a screw on lid. He had six daughters, he died penniless in a NYC tenement house in 1902.
John Landis Mason - Wikipedia
From early human history, farmers searched for a method to keep food from spoiling. Prior to canning, foods were dried, smoked and salted, or soaked in sugar for preservation. Other methods of canning preceded Mason’s, but did not provide long-term food preservation and were extremely cumbersome. Mason, a tinsmith, developed a square-shouldered jar that provided an airtight seal. The jar had a threaded neck and a threaded metal cap that screwed down over a rubber seal to the jar's shoulder, creating an airtight seal. The jars offered a more reliable method of preserving foods and were an immediate success.
With the increased safety and convenience of canning, urban populations were able to take advantage of fresh produce. The jars were affordable and re-useable and allowed for preservation of garden or farm produce such as tomatoes, pickles, fruits, and relish for use in the winter.
Mason jars were an integral part of food preservation for the next 100 years. Although canning decreased in popularity as refrigeration and other forms of food preservation emerged, the Mason jar is still today the common term for the fruit jar and used in home canning.
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John Landis Mason - Wikipedia
From early human history, farmers searched for a method to keep food from spoiling. Prior to canning, foods were dried, smoked and salted, or soaked in sugar for preservation. Other methods of canning preceded Mason’s, but did not provide long-term food preservation and were extremely cumbersome. Mason, a tinsmith, developed a square-shouldered jar that provided an airtight seal. The jar had a threaded neck and a threaded metal cap that screwed down over a rubber seal to the jar's shoulder, creating an airtight seal. The jars offered a more reliable method of preserving foods and were an immediate success.
With the increased safety and convenience of canning, urban populations were able to take advantage of fresh produce. The jars were affordable and re-useable and allowed for preservation of garden or farm produce such as tomatoes, pickles, fruits, and relish for use in the winter.
Mason jars were an integral part of food preservation for the next 100 years. Although canning decreased in popularity as refrigeration and other forms of food preservation emerged, the Mason jar is still today the common term for the fruit jar and used in home canning.
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Hot dogs and black and white photography for your Saturday evening
In Sovyet Rossiya, prison goes to YOU.
The summer I was 16 (1966) I was arrested 4 times in one month in Chicago. I was hanging out with some people I knew in the neighborhood around 65th and Halstead. The checkerhead constabulary couldnt figure out what a skinny white kid from out of state was doing standing around with the local gentry, but they were absolutely sure it was illegal. I was interrogated and released without charge each time, but, really...bologna sandwich for breakfast?When my friends and I were young hippyoids we used to hang around the town common on the park benches, the local constabulary did not like us at all and used to try to sneak up on us all the time at the back of the common in their cruisers and just sit there and watch us which we thought was kind of funny. Another one of the things they did for amusement was jump out of their cruisers and tell us all to get off the sidewalk and sit down and they'd then drive off. One time they did this and turned right around to make sure we had and we had all climbed the trees and they were scratching their heads, "Where did those $$#@@#^^ kids go??". One big fashion among us was to walk across the road with our arms around each other but the best thing we did was find an old washing machine box and put the shortest kid in it and we would walk him around with a leash attached to the box, none of these things amused the boys in blue though, they had no sense of humor.
We used to call them porcine names when they drove by and they'd slam on the brakes and of course try to figure out who had said it, they actually arrested one of us once for that and I was a 16 year old who ended up as a scared witness in court who kept kicking the witness box as I tried to answer questions I was so nervous, the lawyer for some reason didn't need me again. They actually put a little blue piggy bank on their dashboards after a while.
I don't know why they didn't like us after all it wasn't like the police station was right across the street..... it was.
I once thought it would be be very funny to sneak up behind one of my compatriots and wake him up with a firecracker blown up under his bench, he didn't like it and neither did the police, they arrested me for possession of fireworks, I don't know how they did though, I blew up the only one I had. I blew up the evidence.
Another time they were trying to make us get off the sidewalk and we decided we were the Chicago 7 and said nope we're not moving. They all got out (probably 3 or 4 of them) and walk right up to us, yelling "I said get off the sidewalk!", we stood our ground, one cop who weighed probably 400 lbs and was nicknamed "Tanker Brady" got a little too close to me and stepped on my foot which was in a moccasin, this hurt a lot so I started yelling at him, "Get your %^%^%$% foot off my &^%^&% foot you ^&^&^&(porcine name), he looked down and took his foot off and apologized, I was the hero that day.
I have the feeling that it was exactly like midnight rats in the army: a slice of bologna between two pieces of white bread -- dry. Yes?
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Not a troublemaker I 
There's a big difference (in my book) between doing something illegal and doing something criminal. And I call bull on anyone who claims they don't know the difference. Some just don't care, or don't believe it applies to them, IMO. The usual wormy view is the belief is everyone behaves like that, blah blah blah <- this is not fun to me
There's a big difference (in my book) between doing something illegal and doing something criminal. And I call bull on anyone who claims they don't know the difference. Some just don't care, or don't believe it applies to them, IMO. The usual wormy view is the belief is everyone behaves like that, blah blah blah <- this is not fun to me
Not a troublemaker I
There's a big difference (in my book) between doing something illegal and doing something criminal. And I call bull on anyone who claims they don't know the difference. Some just don't care, or don't believe it applies to them, IMO. The usual wormy view is the belief is everyone behaves like that, blah blah blah <- this is not fun to me
Yup!
See “jury nullification”
...had off brand ketchup...nasty.
There’s a lemonade stand under the Bloomingdales umbrella. 2¢ per glass for made to order, 1¢ per glass ready made. Wonder if there’s anything special in the 2¢ glass. Guess that lemonade is good for flushing down salty franks.
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There's criminal activity and there's criminal activity.
Guilty by Association Law and Legal Definition:
Guilty by association refers to the attribution of guilt without any proof on individuals solely for the reason that those whom they associate with are guilty.
Back in my yute there was a juvenile statute in my county commonly known as "Habits and Behavior." Don't know when (or if) it was finally struck down, but as the title implies, they didn't need much reason to run you in if you were under 18.
I spent a considerable part of my youth consuming illicit liquor from exactly these vessels.
In Georgia, Mason jars are ubiquitous (despite the Yankee name!).
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Oh yay, EKG test results are in and everything's jake.
Pretty much I'll never trust anyone who didn't hold a party in the woods and run from the police as a teen. My best guess is I was 16 when I took that first drink. It was a white Russian made with ice cream, and it was at a party thrown by my dearest friend's psychologist. That's probably as far as I should go with this tale.
Pretty much I'll never trust anyone who didn't hold a party in the woods and run from the police as a teen. My best guess is I was 16 when I took that first drink. It was a white Russian made with ice cream, and it was at a party thrown by my dearest friend's psychologist. That's probably as far as I should go with this tale.
My parents always served wine to everyone at the table with the Sunday roast. Maybe they thought that kids should build up a tolerance.
I got "detained" in NYC in 1973. Their standards were a little lower. Two slices of fairly stale bread and a slice of cheese..........dry. Breakfast lunch or dinner depending on the time of day you got picked up. Yum. That was at the police stations and court houses. The detention centers were not much better. I spent about a month there (unable to make bond.) I remember asking a guard at meal time "What is this?" His answer was "Food , eat it." I was released at the first preliminary hearing , no evidence. Wrong place at the wrong time.
I thought they did shoes and jars.
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