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- I want to buy a leather jacket at a brick and mortar store
Recently, my 40-year old leather jacket fell apart from old age I bought it at a Wilson’s Leather store in a local mall Wilson’s are still in business, but as far as I can determine, only online I’ve had bad luck buying clothes online I’m short, with broad shoulders If a jacket fits me in the shoulders, it’s usually too long Sizing charts are often inaccurate So I’d like to
- How to specify bifocal glasses? - Straight Dope
In my family (parents and 5 siblings) I’m the only one that never needed glasses But for some time (I’m 79) I do use over the counter reading glasses for close work I use +1 75 for using the computer and I just went up to +4 0 for reading However when doing research I go back and forth from the screen to reference books and have to switch glasses which gets real tedious I was thinking
- Historical myths DEBUNKED! - Page 19 - Straight Dope
The author Josephine Tey came up with a name for these historical myths She called it Tonypandy
- Preventing home title fraud - Straight Dope
This latest scam is to used forged documents to file a title to your home and then use it to sell your house out from under you or take out a loan using it as collateral It’s insidious because you don’t know it happened until it’s too late I found out my county clerk (I’m in NY) has a service to prevent this You give them your name and email If anyone files a document in your name
- Ancients Predicting Solar Eclipses - Straight Dope
That’s equivalent of saying that you can’t make a stopwatch without knowing the speed of sound Just because a suitably knowledgeable person can use a stopwatch to calculate the distance to a lightning strike
- The Inexplicably Unobtainable Hillbilly Crash Helmet
I’ve searched online and all I can find is a used, numbered reissue from 2012 on eBay for $400! Rat Fink and Big Daddy Roth branded hats and other items are innumerable and easily purchased online at a reasonable price But not the lowly felt Hillbilly Crash Helmet
- Who Married You? (that’s not what I mean-- check out the poll)
poll I got to thinking about this after I quoted a line in the “commercials” thread Just wondering how common this is becoming Feel free to post the year you were married, and whether it was by a man or a woman-- but this is not required You can answer up to six times, to account for more than one wedding I couldn’t figure out how to get the poll to let you give the same answer twice
- My online genealogy service linked me to American Kennel Clubs stud . . .
It’s amazing what my genealogy service (MyHeritage) finds for me without me even asking It notified me that via their OldNews service it uncovered pertinent family info for me This info turned out to be the registration name of our first collie along with sire and dam and breeder names, along with my dad’s name as dog owner Was NOT expecting that Our family dog was registered as
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