Washington Post
Reuters
11/26/12

WWII code found on long-dead pigeon in England may never be broken

Neat. Beats finding unexploded ordinance.

I love that Bletchley Park has a Pigeon Museum.

Code breaking and Bletchley Park have been some of my favorite readings.
We owe an awful lot to the men and women who served there.

And, I still can not rationalize that mathematicians can break a code
without even knowing how to speak/read the language !

Who do these little girls think they're fooling?

I see your beady little over-made up eyes going up and down in your rearview mirror, or in my rearview mirror. I see you weaving back and forth to the edges of your lane, drifting aimlessly, at 75 mph.

I see your smug little grin because Susie said Bobby will be at the Malt Shop after classes and you just KNOW he wants to marry you and have your babies.

(Or rather: B sez u b 2 MS @ 4 him 2 k?)

Put. Your. Freaking. Phone. Away. And. Drive. The life you save may be mine.

^^WSS^^

My bumper sticker.

Not so fun fact.... according to MADD:
Phone use - texting and/or talking will soon replace intoxication as the #1 cause of driving fatalities.

I plunged a toilet today.
I could only find one rubber glove. And wouldn't you know it was the left one. So I plunged with the wrong hand. Sinister.

And yes, there was a fluffy little turd disintegrating under all the toilet paper.

I cleared it though. As was obviously expected.
My first time. I've wiped up wee, removed poop from legs and butts and sanded over sick. My first plunging though.

Why did I choose to work in a school? Why the glamour of course!

Good for you, Sundae. A lesser person would have cowered in fear.

I recently in life discovered the trick of pouring water from a bucket into a plugged toilet instead of plunging. It's much easier and less yucky. You get a full bucket of water, hold it at shoulder height, and just pour steadily and fairly quickly right onto the clog. The water blasts it right through. Breaks up the clog and forces it down through the trap. And no plunger that might require cleaning. Obviously, this technique isn't such a good idea if the bowl is already on the verge of overflowing.

Sadly I am one of the only members of staff without children.
Cowering in the face of turdmarines is not acceptable.
Good plan batman. I'll try it next time.

Sundae, I'm not sure it would work in your situation, but you can turn a left glove into a right glove by pulling it inside out.

Of course, if the glove has already been used ... eewww...

and unless you're a stickler for fit, a rubber glove can probably be used on the opposite hand anyhow, at least for the duration of the plunging.

I think I'd also use a full face shield if trying the bucket-pour-from-shoulder-level technique. The vapor would really travel (it travels at least six feet from a normal flush).

I'm curious, though... from Sundae's post, but for all of you/us...

If you can wipe poop from legs and butts, why would you need a rubber glove for the plunger handle? Unless you use gloves for that too, which is not unreasonable. I reckon the plunger handle is just as contaminated as the tap handles or the toilet flush lever, and I don't glove up for them.

Must be the liberal in me.

TED Talk on the Politics of Disgust.