Random possibly useful fact

['andersom']

In case of fleas. Use the garderobe the way it was meant to be used. 

"The name garderobe – which translates as guarding one's robes – is thought to come from hanging your clothes in the toilet shaft, as the ammonia from the urine would kill the fleas"

Footnote three

['andersom']

* imagines scent of people back then, and also ponders on what would happen if someone found that they had run out on toilet paper *




 





I am getting back to the anal fase, I fear.

['andersom']

Do not trust radar rain predictions if you really would like your washing to dry outside. 

 

['andersom']

Spanish moss has been used to make saddle blankets.
Cured in the right way, it also made a good stuffing for mattresses and furniture.

[odeon]

Scandinavian Airlines is moving its Gothenburg to London flights from Heathrow to Stansted.

[Parts]

Always make sure you use properly sized extension cords to avoid voltage drop and the ensuing damage to whatever is plugged in to the cord.  I have been trying to drill this one into a guy I have been working for who just bought a $6000 insulation blowing machine  which I predict will not last a year without him fucking it up.  Same guy bought a $15,000 spray foam machine which sent him to the hospital the first and only time he used it,  he hired me to use it  four times now it sits in a warehouse collecting dust

[Queen Victoria]

Spanish moss has been used to make saddle blankets.
Cured in the right way, it also made a good stuffing for mattresses and furniture.

Is it really called Spanish Moss there?  It's quite common here.  Every Mardi Gras there's at least one doofus who costumes as a Swamp Monster.  The next day they're usually covered in bite marks because they didn't know enough to clean the moss.  Hopefully it's a different doofus each year.

['andersom']

Spanish moss has been used to make saddle blankets.
Cured in the right way, it also made a good stuffing for mattresses and furniture.

Is it really called Spanish Moss there?  It's quite common here.  Every Mardi Gras there's at least one doofus who costumes as a Swamp Monster.  The next day they're usually covered in bite marks because they didn't know enough to clean the moss.  Hopefully it's a different doofus each year.

 

They call it "spaans mos" in Dutch. But the plant does not grow in Europe.

Wonder where that name comes from.

[Queen Victoria]

Spanish moss has been used to make saddle blankets.
Cured in the right way, it also made a good stuffing for mattresses and furniture.

Is it really called Spanish Moss there?  It's quite common here.  Every Mardi Gras there's at least one doofus who costumes as a Swamp Monster.  The next day they're usually covered in bite marks because they didn't know enough to clean the moss.  Hopefully it's a different doofus each year.

 

They call it "spaans mos" in Dutch. But the plant does not grow in Europe.

Wonder where that name comes from.

I heard it was because it looked like the Spanish explorer's beards.  But that doesn't make too much sense that they'd call it after themselves and not take the indigenous word for it.

['andersom']

Spanish moss has been used to make saddle blankets.
Cured in the right way, it also made a good stuffing for mattresses and furniture.

Is it really called Spanish Moss there?  It's quite common here.  Every Mardi Gras there's at least one doofus who costumes as a Swamp Monster.  The next day they're usually covered in bite marks because they didn't know enough to clean the moss.  Hopefully it's a different doofus each year.

 

They call it "spaans mos" in Dutch. But the plant does not grow in Europe.

Wonder where that name comes from.

I heard it was because it looked like the Spanish explorer's beards.  But that doesn't make too much sense that they'd call it after themselves and not take the indigenous word for it.

In Surinam it apparently is called "het plantehaar". That makes sense, looking like hair on plants.

This I found, looking for the etymology

Origin of the Common Name,
"Spanish Moss"

Native Americans called the plant "tree hair", which name the French explorers turned to "Barbe espagnole" -- "Spanish Beard" -- to insult their bitter rivals in the New World. The Spanish retorted with "Cabello franc�s" ("French hair").

"Spanish Moss", a milder variation of the French taunt, has survived. Another common name is "Graybeard".

[Parts]

Spanish moss has been used to make saddle blankets.
Cured in the right way, it also made a good stuffing for mattresses and furniture.

Is it really called Spanish Moss there?  It's quite common here.  Every Mardi Gras there's at least one doofus who costumes as a Swamp Monster.  The next day they're usually covered in bite marks because they didn't know enough to clean the moss.  Hopefully it's a different doofus each year.

 

They call it "spaans mos" in Dutch. But the plant does not grow in Europe.

Wonder where that name comes from.

I heard it was because it looked like the Spanish explorer's beards.  But that doesn't make too much sense that they'd call it after themselves and not take the indigenous word for it.

In Surinam it apparently is called "het plantehaar". That makes sense, looking like hair on plants.

This I found, looking for the etymology

Origin of the Common Name,
"Spanish Moss"

Native Americans called the plant "tree hair", which name the French explorers turned to "Barbe espagnole" -- "Spanish Beard" -- to insult their bitter rivals in the New World. The Spanish retorted with "Cabello franc�s" ("French hair").

"Spanish Moss", a milder variation of the French taunt, has survived. Another common name is "Graybeard".

Plastic Cree LED light bulbs take a lot of abuse.   I asked the maintenance guy at the apartment I was working on said 'Watch this these things are great ' threw one  onto the pavement in the parking lot when I asked if he had an extra one I could use in the attic and it still worked perfectly

[Trigger 11]

According to Sterling Archer, if you fart into a dryer sheet, it makes for a more pleasant experience, so keep some dryer sheets handy.

[odeon]

Who is Sterling Archer?

['andersom']

According to Sterling Archer, if you fart into a dryer sheet, it makes for a more pleasant experience, so keep some dryer sheets handy.

Why does it become more pleasant?

Do you have to wear a dryer sheet in your pants, or quickly remove your trunks and hold the dryer sheet in place?
And who will benefit from the more pleasant experience, the innocent bystanders or the farting culprit?

[Queen Victoria]

According to Sterling Archer, if you fart into a dryer sheet, it makes for a more pleasant experience, so keep some dryer sheets handy.

Why does it become more pleasant?

Do you have to wear a dryer sheet in your pants, or quickly remove your trunks and hold the dryer sheet in place?
And who will benefit from the more pleasant experience, the innocent bystanders or the farting culprit?

Remember, this is a cow asking these questions.