Search results

We've been in the new house for almost a year and the water is just terrible when compared with tap in manhattan. It appears to be very very hard with mineral residue. Would like to know if anyone out there went ahead and procured a water softener (e.g. from Home Depot). Are these things...

Are we allowed to discuss politicians? If not I apologize for bringing this up. I just wanted to say that I've been to enough airports and gone thru enough men's rooms that I would never, ever, ever, ever, dare to try and pick up any paper on the floor. Maybe if my passport fell out of my...

For those of you in the Middlesex area - along with the usual grouping of postal junk mail, I saw this in the "2007/2008 community resource guide". There is a listing on the third page under JJ Elek Reality Co. The pic in the upper left hand corner shows what appears to be the parking lot of...

Soooo, lemme guess, AGA hires some consultant to come up with some new-fangled name...and comes up with "Aqueon". The prices better still be the same... ::) I know some thread on RC mentioned the change - but just was wondering if folks on this board heard the same. Maybe I'm old school but...

So...before I get compared with Kathainbowen's most excellent post - let me first preface this with a disclaimer - I do not have great photos or witty captions. =) Shedd aquarium was built in the 1920s after John G. Shedd donated $3million buckaroos. It did have the largest indoor aquarium (5...

Good thing he didn't think it was a bass when he took the hook out of the mouth! lol...though you'd have pretty bad eyesight to misjudge a piranha for a bass. MOUNT HOLLY, N.C. - A fisherman looking to catch a catfish for dinner instead reeled in a fish that flashed its teeth and bit his...

This is sad, perhaps sadder by the fact that colon cancer is treatable if caught early. Courtesy of the Associated Press. NY movie critic Joel Siegel dead at 63 Fri Jun 29, 7:59 PM ET Joel Siegel, a longtime movie critic for WABC-TV and "Good Morning America" who racked up five New York Emmy...

Nice artificial reef! (not!) Tim Keeney, U.S. deputy assistant secretary for oceans and atmosphere and a key high-level figure within the National Oceanic and Atmopsheric Administration, checks out one of the approximately two million old tires that were dumped in the 1970s with the intent of...

By Jonathan TurleyWed Jun 13, 7:11 AM ET Fatherhood is the one job that you can get without the slightest degree of experience, knowledge or talent (despite what you may hear to the contrary on Father's Day). For that reason, when a friend had his first child recently, I quickly rattled off the...