Dewey defeats Truman

In 1948 the Chicago Tribune was so confident of election results that they printed the newspaper the night before and went to bed early.

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Hey, maybe I‘m jumping the gun here, but the New York Times has Trump at >95% right now and that can’t be easy for them of all people.

 

School project

Younger kid had to build an electric motor for a school project. Having a garage full of stuff, it was no hassle to find everything required to build one.

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I made her wind the coil.

But the question is, how do kids complete (or even conceptualise) something like this if they don’t have a Wouter around the house?

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Data point

If you fill up the tank of a 1.9 TDI VW Golf with unleaded, it will go 10 kilometers before quitting.

(Determined experimentally)

Gemsbok sirloin steaks

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One gemsbok sirloin, cut into thick steaks and marinaded in a mixture of oil, lemon juice, wooster* sauce, garlic and rosemary for about eight hours. Dredge in seasoned flour…

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…fry in a hot pan with some oil…

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…until done (in this case kids, so some of these are rather well done).

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Mushrooms (and beer) on the side…

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…and an egg on top. Nom.

* We were surprised to hear contestants on So you think you can cook pronounce it “wor-sez-tuhr-shur-shire”. Erm, no.

Ohhhhh… Kay?

*ring* *ring*

“Hello, Crazy Mo’s pizza place, how may we help you?”

“Well we’d like *yadda* *yadda* *yadda* *yadda* and a mac & cheese”

“Would you like the mac & cheese with penne or tagliatelle?”

*blink*   *blink*

It’s a fine line

I’m trying to register on the Old Mutual website.

Using a password with lower case letters and numbers:

om1

OK, let’s up the security on the password generator and use a password with upper case and punctuation:

om2

That’s a first.