First-World Problems...

I have absolutely no idea what that is. I found it on the floor, and couldn't figure out where it is from.

The house is still standing, so it clearly isn't an integral part of the foundation. We still have power and heat, and the internet still works (fitfully, but that's a discussion for another day).

Admit it...many of you have a jar or drawer that has several objects of unknown origin and function, yet you are constitutionally incapable of discarding them!

Posted by: CBD at 02:00 PM

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1 50th!

Posted by: Weasel at December 29, 2024 02:00 PM (1BE4H)

2 Alien artifact.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 29, 2024 02:01 PM (Q4IgG)

3 bottom of a leg

Posted by: Skip at December 29, 2024 02:01 PM (fwDg9)

4 Butt plug. I'm sure of it.

Posted by: Plainoldtoast at December 29, 2024 02:02 PM (iNPqi)

5
You might need it someday!!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 29, 2024 02:02 PM (dxSpM)

6 Or maybe not.

Posted by: Plainoldtoast at December 29, 2024 02:02 PM (iNPqi)

7 It's that missing piece to the other thing that was missing a piece, but you didn't know what was missing.

It's that.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 29, 2024 02:03 PM (Q4IgG)

8 bottom of a leg
Posted by: Skip at December 29, 2024 02:01 PM

Whose?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 29, 2024 02:04 PM (uG7ov)

9 It's an alien life form, sent here to observe humankind and probe for its weaknesses.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 29, 2024 02:05 PM (nOjd9)

10 many of you have a jar or drawer that has several objects of unknown origin and function, yet you are constitutionally incapable of discarding them!

*A* jar or drawer? A barn, garage, and house, maybe, but *a* jar? No, that wouldn't be truthful.

Posted by: t-bird at December 29, 2024 02:05 PM (bkfCY)

11 Admit it...many of you have a jar or drawer that has several objects of unknown origin and function, yet you are constitutionally incapable of discarding them!

Then the very next day after the trash has been collected, you discover it is a part to something that will not work without it and is no longer obtainable.

Posted by: Ciampino - got to be at December 29, 2024 02:05 PM (i0xsb)

12
At least it's small. I have huge tangles of charging cords I have no idea of the devices they go to, even if we still had them.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 29, 2024 02:05 PM (dxSpM)

13 Looks like a mixing valve

Posted by: Accomack at December 29, 2024 02:05 PM (w9ItN)

14 Or maybe it's part of something from Ikea.

Either/or.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 29, 2024 02:05 PM (nOjd9)

15 Butt plug. I'm sure of it.
Posted by: Plainoldtoast
_________

You may be right. Image search says it might be a "bung cap."

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 29, 2024 02:06 PM (Dm8we)

16 Are you going to give us measurements or a size reference?

I'm guessing it's a urinal cake.

Posted by: muldoon at December 29, 2024 02:06 PM (991eG)

17
The day after I throw that out, Her Majesty would ask, "Have you seen?..."

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 29, 2024 02:07 PM (dxSpM)

18 Table, stool,. Looks like a metal piece would slip into the ring inside

Posted by: Skip at December 29, 2024 02:07 PM (fwDg9)

19 I found a knob thing I became convinced was the dummy plug for the car outlet that once upon a time was a cigarette lighter. It wasn't. it was the cap for a cologne bottle.

that thing, though. It looks like the spacer that goes into the shower head to make sure your showers are as piddly and miserable as Nancy Pelosi could make them.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 29, 2024 02:07 PM (D7oie)

20 12
At least it's small. I have huge tangles of charging cords I have no idea of the devices they go to, even if we still had them.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
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You never know when one might become handy. I have two grocery bags full.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 29, 2024 02:07 PM (0b3lL)

21 It means only one thing. You're a witch. And what do we do with witches?

Posted by: Stop staring at me at December 29, 2024 02:07 PM (y0ABb)

22 You find out where it goes when its home stops working

Posted by: Accomack at December 29, 2024 02:07 PM (GxmKP)

23 Admit it...many of you have a jar or drawer that has several objects of unknown origin and function, yet you are constitutionally incapable of discarding them!

**********

*shifty eyes*

*raises hand sheepishly*

Posted by: muldoon at December 29, 2024 02:08 PM (991eG)

24 Something for curtain cords or blinds. What ever you do - don't throw it away!!!

Posted by: Don at December 29, 2024 02:08 PM (byCoc)

25 A tiny igloo, surrounded by a security wall?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 29, 2024 02:08 PM (nOjd9)

26 That thing looks as if it could be a flow restrictor for a faucet.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 29, 2024 02:09 PM (0b3lL)

27 "Admit it...many of you have a jar or drawer that has several objects of unknown origin and function, yet you are constitutionally incapable of discarding them!"

Au contraire, there is an easy way to find out what it is... hide it in a place you can ensure you will completely forget about, and shortly thereafter you will find the empty socket that it fits into!!

Posted by: Ray Van Dune at December 29, 2024 02:09 PM (gfztU)

28 That's clearly a gravity-inhibitor module from a perpetual motion machine. Mine has one just like it.

Posted by: Paco at December 29, 2024 02:09 PM (mADJX)

29 bottom of a leg
Posted by: Skip at December 29, 2024 02:01 PM

Between the comment and the nic, "day" should be in there somewhere.

Posted by: Coach Duncanthrax at December 29, 2024 02:09 PM (a3Q+t)

30 It sort of looks like the end of dip tube for a hot water heater.

The what is it segments from Ask This Old House were always my favorite.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 29, 2024 02:09 PM (XV/Pl)

31 Have you had a knee or hip replacement recently? May want to check that out.

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at December 29, 2024 02:09 PM (GtpRB)

32 It's part of the toaster. Just drop it back into one of the slots. It'll be fine.

Posted by: Weasel at December 29, 2024 02:10 PM (1BE4H)

33
You throw it out. The next day, you're watching "Antiques Roadshow" when one is appraised at $25,000.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 29, 2024 02:10 PM (dxSpM)

34 It means only one thing. You're a witch. And what do we do with witches?
Posted by: Stop staring at me at December 29, 2024 02:07 PM

See if they float?

Posted by: Coach Duncanthrax at December 29, 2024 02:10 PM (a3Q+t)

35 On of those nylon bolts screw on the underside of the bowl to keep the seat on.

Posted by: BrianinTn at December 29, 2024 02:11 PM (pmeog)

36 It's an alien life form, sent here to observe humankind and probe for its weaknesses.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 29, 2024 02:05 PM (nOjd9)

Clearly it is the larval form. When it molts it will appear to be a tea-light, and the chrysalis form will be one of those slidy patches you put under the sofa and love-seat legs to keep from marking up the rug. Eventually when it emerges, it will be the battery powered hand-vac, that will eventually stop working and be migrated to the dump where it will spawn.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 29, 2024 02:11 PM (D7oie)

37 that thing, though. It looks like the spacer that goes into the shower head to make sure your showers are as piddly and miserable as Nancy Pelosi could make them.
Posted by: Kindltot

*********

aka Prostate gland

Posted by: muldoon at December 29, 2024 02:11 PM (991eG)

38 When you post a picture like this, there's supposed to be a tape measure next to the item for purposes of scale.

Sheesh, don't you guys know anything?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 29, 2024 02:11 PM (nOjd9)

39 We have no way of estimating size!!
Don't you know you are supposed to photograph it with an indeterminate-sized washer** alongside?

**washer = a very short pipe - Engineering definition.

Posted by: Ciampino - got to be a squelcher at December 29, 2024 02:11 PM (i0xsb)

40 My FWP is finding the form of Loratadine my kid will accept. She did the liquid if it was bubble gum, then, grape. Now, only reditabs.
Generics are verboten.

Posted by: Accomack at December 29, 2024 02:12 PM (GxmKP)

41 Discard things?
I’m not sure what that means.

Posted by: RI Red at December 29, 2024 02:13 PM (/YN3Y)

42 Is it the resealable pop top for your finest Two-Buck Chuck?

Posted by: t-bird at December 29, 2024 02:13 PM (bkfCY)

43 From your wifes Dildo? I saw a part like this once when I smashed my old GFs dildo because she tried to use it on me. I made it intro a Lure to catch large mouths.

Posted by: Fisht at December 29, 2024 02:13 PM (BHEHK)

44 It fell off of one of those drones overflying New Jersey.

I'm sure some Top. Men. will be by shortly to retrieve it.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 29, 2024 02:13 PM (a3Q+t)

45 float valve for a flux capacitor. Do you live in Hill Valley?

Posted by: muldoon at December 29, 2024 02:14 PM (991eG)

46 It fell off of one of those drones overflying New Jersey.

I'm sure some Top. Men. will be by shortly to retrieve it.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 29, 2024 02:13 PM (a3Q+t)

Remember not to look directly into the Neuralizer.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 29, 2024 02:14 PM (nOjd9)

47 In re: unidentified - or, more accurately, misidentified - objects, my stepfather told me of a hilarious situation involving a married couple, friends of his, who liked to collect antiques, but weren't very knowledgeable about the original use of the items. So it came to pass that they invited him to dinner one night, and offered him some homemade soup from a porcelain tureen having...one handle.

Posted by: Paco at December 29, 2024 02:14 PM (mADJX)

48 An IUD?

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at December 29, 2024 02:15 PM (RRNPb)

49 I'm guessing it's a urinal cake.

Posted by: muldoon at December 29, 2024 02:06 PM (991eG)

Nope! Doesn't taste like one.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 29, 2024 02:15 PM (d9fT1)

50 An IUD?
Posted by: Northernlurker
_________

That's not funny.

Posted by: Sandra Fluke at December 29, 2024 02:16 PM (Dm8we)

51 It is 3/4" in diameter, and about 1/2" in height.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 29, 2024 02:16 PM (d9fT1)

52 So it came to pass that they invited him to dinner one night, and offered him some homemade soup from a porcelain tureen having...one handle.

Did it start life as a chamber pot?

Posted by: Archimedes at December 29, 2024 02:16 PM (xCA6C)

53 IUD. Smell it and see.

Posted by: Zombie Dr. Ruth at December 29, 2024 02:16 PM (R/m4+)

54 aka Prostate gland
Posted by: muldoon at December 29, 2024 02:11 PM (991eG)

Hahah

Dave Collum, Chemist and talking head extraordinaire, once commented that for the first couple of times you urinate after getting your prostate removed, Do It Sitting Down or be surprised at the length and power of the arc

Posted by: Kindltot at December 29, 2024 02:16 PM (D7oie)

55 Washing machine? Could be used as a valve controlling flow of water.

Posted by: JM in Ill -- Behold the Manchurian Candidate at December 29, 2024 02:16 PM (5p8yf)

56 Nope! Doesn't taste like one.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 29, 2024 02:15 PM

Does it have the minty smell, though?

This could be an important forensic clue.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 29, 2024 02:17 PM (a3Q+t)

57 A fuzzy little ewok told me that plastic part looks like the missing piece from the pressure relief valve on his penis pump.

That or a hydrogen fuel injector that fell from a Jersey drone.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at December 29, 2024 02:18 PM (/MR36)

58 Are you going to give us measurements or a size reference?
Posted by: muldoon

A bit more info than just the pic would help.

Is it made of prefamulated amulite?

Posted by: mikeski at December 29, 2024 02:18 PM (DgGvY)

59 52 Did it start life as a chamber pot?

It did, indeed. I forgot to ask my stepfather if he demurred with respect to the soup.

Posted by: Paco at December 29, 2024 02:18 PM (mADJX)

60
It is 3/4" in diameter, and about 1/2" in height.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 29, 2024 02:16 PM (d9fT1)

_______

Run! Run for your life!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 29, 2024 02:18 PM (dxSpM)

61 It looks like the spacer that goes into the shower head to make sure your showers are as piddly and miserable as Nancy Pelosi could make them.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 29, 2024 02:07 PM (D7oie)

There are no flow restrictors in my home. And there are a few hotel rooms that don't have them any more because I got so irritated that I yanked them out!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 29, 2024 02:18 PM (d9fT1)

62 Bing seems to think it is a washer knob.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 29, 2024 02:19 PM (bss/y)

63 Backflow diverter for a Fetzer valve?

Door slide?

Posted by: DaveA at December 29, 2024 02:19 PM (FhXTo)

64 Next guess it's missing off vacuum

Posted by: Skip at December 29, 2024 02:19 PM (fwDg9)

65
That or a hydrogen fuel injector that fell from a Jersey drone.
Posted by: Dr. Bone at December 29, 2024 02:18 PM (/MR36)

_________

I thought a Jersey drone was a state employee.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 29, 2024 02:20 PM (dxSpM)

66 This is Precious about to be swallowed by molten granite.

*Sauron collapses

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at December 29, 2024 02:20 PM (DsA2n)

67 Backflow diverter for a Fetzer valve?

Posted by: DaveA
_________

Where would the ball bearings go?

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 29, 2024 02:20 PM (Dm8we)

68 drawer that has several objects of unknown origin

At least that round one won't jam the drawer.

Posted by: DaveA at December 29, 2024 02:20 PM (FhXTo)

69 If I don't figure it out soon, I might have to put it into the jar where all of the extra parts left over from gun reassembly go.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 29, 2024 02:20 PM (d9fT1)

70 gurgle is all over the place. Plastic ashtray? Really?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 29, 2024 02:21 PM (bss/y)

71 'Admit it...many of you have a jar or drawer that has several objects of unknown origin and function, yet you are constitutionally incapable of discarding them!'

Spare parts. I might need them later.
Who's going to look stupid later when they're looking for the very item they threw away? You. That's who.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 29, 2024 02:21 PM (3wi/L)

72 A bit more info than just the pic would help.

Is it made of prefamulated amulite?
Posted by: mikeski at December 29, 2024 02:18 PM (DgGvY)

We tested it using a dual-column gas chromatograph, Hewlett-Packard model 5710a with flame analyzing detectors.

Posted by: George Wilbur at December 29, 2024 02:21 PM (nOjd9)

73 An IUD?
Posted by: Northernlurker

That's not funny.
Posted by: Sandra Fluke

Funnier than an IED. Unless you're a roadrunner.

Posted by: mikeski at December 29, 2024 02:22 PM (DgGvY)

74 Bing seems to think it is a washer knob.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 29, 2024 02:19 PM (bss/y)

Bing is not very bright.

It is also made of silicone or some flexible plastic.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 29, 2024 02:22 PM (d9fT1)

75 When in doubt, declare it to be a bushing, and put it in a box on the shelf, marked "bushings". Some of its contents might even be bushings.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 29, 2024 02:22 PM (8zz6B)

76 If that's a hole, and it goes through it, would an axel fit through there? For a small wheel or something else that would rotate?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 29, 2024 02:22 PM (Q4IgG)

77 What do you do with a sick yacht?

Take it to the doc !

Posted by: Ciampino - got to be a squelcher at December 29, 2024 02:23 PM (i0xsb)

78 If that's a hole, and it goes through it, would an axel fit through there? For a small wheel or something else that would rotate?
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 29, 2024 02:22 PM (Q4IgG)

Wheel?

Posted by: Indians at December 29, 2024 02:23 PM (nOjd9)

79 "It's ... "

Posted by: Dr_No at December 29, 2024 02:23 PM (ayRl+)

80 A locking hub?

Posted by: Accomack at December 29, 2024 02:23 PM (MeckE)

81 that thing, though. It looks like the spacer that goes into the shower head to make sure your showers are as piddly and miserable as Nancy Pelosi could make them.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 29, 2024 02:07 PM (D7oie)

There was an excellent short video recently about what your world would look like under "Them" (no, not the ants). The dad makes taking a two-minute shower into a game for his young son.
Would link, buy can't remember the title.

That thing looks like a connector of some sort.

Posted by: sal at December 29, 2024 02:24 PM (f+FmA)

82 UMHWPE or nylon

Posted by: Accomack at December 29, 2024 02:24 PM (MeckE)

83 I have a corollary

Love when I'm doing a DIY repair on an appliance and after reassembly I...have a part left over. No idea where it was supposed to go or what it is.

But the appliance works well, so I write it up to my engineering genius that eliminated a non-essential part.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at December 29, 2024 02:24 PM (LVjsR)

84
UMHWPE or nylon
Posted by: Accomack at December 29, 2024 02:24 PM (MeckE)

________

Maybe POM. Good tribology.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 29, 2024 02:26 PM (dxSpM)

85 UMHWPE or nylon
Posted by: Accomack at December 29, 2024 02:24 PM (MeckE)

Teflon?

Homopolymer acetal resin?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 29, 2024 02:26 PM (nOjd9)

86 For certain, throw it away then it's place will be found out

Posted by: Skip at December 29, 2024 02:26 PM (fwDg9)

87 What do you do with a sick yacht?

Take it to the doc !
Posted by: Ciampino

Stop that. Stop that. You're not going to do any puns while I'm here.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 29, 2024 02:26 PM (Dm8we)

88 There's a good reason to not discard unidentified objects. If the item turns out to be important, it's difficult to buy a replacement since you don't know what it's called.

Posted by: Emmie at December 29, 2024 02:26 PM (dmQek)

89
But the appliance works well, so I write it up to my engineering genius that eliminated a non-essential part.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at December 29, 2024 02:24 PM (LVjsR)

_________

Three weeks later it collapses into a smoking pile.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 29, 2024 02:27 PM (dxSpM)

90 Admit it...many of you have a jar or drawer that has several objects of unknown origin and function, yet you are constitutionally incapable of discarding them!

If they’re of unknown origin, the one way of finding out where they belong is to discard them. The light bulb will click about a week after garbage day.

I try to trick fate by having a garbage can that I only empty about twice a year. First, the item of unknown origin goes into an ashtray. Then, after several months, into the non-garbage-garbage can. And then into the real trash, whereupon about a week later I realize where it went.

That said, I have occasionally discovered the reason for a particular item before fully discarding it. It is always glorious. Sometimes it turns a useful item into a very useful item; other times it allows me to toss two items of known origin instead of one of unknown origin.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 29, 2024 02:28 PM (EXyHK)

91 My current FWP is that I need two panels of 1/4" sheetrock, and I have only one, yet I am certain I bought enough for the entire job. I think elves stole a piece.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 29, 2024 02:28 PM (8zz6B)

92 75 When in doubt, declare it to be a bushing, and put it in a box on the shelf, marked "bushings". Some of its contents might even be bushings.

This is excellent advice.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 29, 2024 02:28 PM (xCA6C)

93 69 If I don't figure it out soon, I might have to put it into the jar where all of the extra parts left over from gun reassembly go.

I do that all the time, and have been pleasantly surprised as to how useful that can be.

Posted by: Paco at December 29, 2024 02:28 PM (mADJX)

94 @ 83 I have a corollary
______________________________

I once had a corollary, but my heart doc did a great job fixing it.

Posted by: Dr_No at December 29, 2024 02:29 PM (ayRl+)

95 It's ... a cam follower for the margarita mixer machine.

It works better if you turn it over.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at December 29, 2024 02:29 PM (/MR36)

96 Some kind of a foreskin to a mannequin.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at December 29, 2024 02:30 PM (YIxO9)

97
Dallas is getting whacked but good. I am content.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 29, 2024 02:30 PM (dxSpM)

98 91 My current FWP is that I need two panels of 1/4" sheetrock, and I have only one, yet I am certain I bought enough for the entire job. I think elves stole a piece.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Sheetrock and PVC used to be so inexpensive.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 29, 2024 02:30 PM (0b3lL)

99 I guess we need to ask one of our Indian betters what exactly that is.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at December 29, 2024 02:31 PM (YIxO9)

100 Have a metal connector found on the carpet in the living room. Same issue, no idea what it came off of. Pretty sure from hubbys recliner, been unable to find where on it. So it sits in a drawer until something falls apart.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at December 29, 2024 02:31 PM (Zu8BH)

101 At the risk of restarting the H1B war, I think this video is very interesting.
Crisis in Beijing: Streets Filled With Tears as Millions of Workers Leave, Empty Trains to Beijing

If you're wondering why so many are anxious to get those visas, start watching at about 5:10. If this report is accurate, the Chinese economy is about to implode. If it does, it will make the Japanese lost decades look like a picnic.

I feel sorry for the average Chinese worker, and especially those who have done what they were told would lead to a better life. This sort of mismatch between the educated elite and the jobs available to them is a primary indicator of coming societal instability.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 29, 2024 02:33 PM (xCA6C)

102 My poor old doggie looks especially sore today, so I'm cranking up to the furnace to a scorching hot 70. Now I'm getting a lot of vibration in the ducts.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at December 29, 2024 02:33 PM (YIxO9)

103 Is it a nozzle from your 3D printer?

Part of the venturi from your water softener?

Four-leaf-clover-making tip for your pastry bag?

Posted by: mikeski at December 29, 2024 02:33 PM (DgGvY)

104 When we bought this house we also bought the contents so we inherited the previous owner's mystery items (as well as having our own). We've been here for almost 8 years now so I figure if we could have found a use for these items we would have found it by now.

That's how I look it it. My husband is firmly in the "we may need that someday" camp.

Posted by: Art Rondelet of Malmsey at December 29, 2024 02:33 PM (FEVMW)

105 Oops, and now the video link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iySECQEQxY

Posted by: Archimedes at December 29, 2024 02:34 PM (xCA6C)

106 89
But the appliance works well, so I write it up to my engineering genius that eliminated a non-essential part.
Posted by: WitchDoktor
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Prof. never asks, what would you eliminate?', it's always, 'what would you do?'. It puts the mind into adding things and pretty soon you wind up with a German car.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 29, 2024 02:34 PM (0b3lL)

107 I palmed a big bag of "scraps too small to quilt with" off on our son's GF, the art teacher.
She may or may not have been being polite, but I appreciated her taking them out of the house.

Posted by: sal at December 29, 2024 02:34 PM (f+FmA)

108 That is the key to Magnus Greel's time cabinet.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 29, 2024 02:34 PM (63Dwl)

109 A one-of-a-kind performance. Simon was impressed!

https://tinyurl.com/3m4szc2e

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at December 29, 2024 02:35 PM (w6EFb)

110 But the appliance works well, so I write it up to my engineering genius that eliminated a non-essential part.

Right? It'll be fine.

Posted by: G.K. Chesterton at December 29, 2024 02:35 PM (xCA6C)

111
If this report is accurate, the Chinese economy is about to implode. If it does, it will make the Japanese lost decades look like a picnic.

__________

The Chinese economy has been predicted to collapse for ages. It might. But the US economy has also been predicted to collapse for ages. It might.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 29, 2024 02:35 PM (dxSpM)

112 That thar gizmo keeps alligators out of your house. Ever seen a gator in your home? Didn't think so.

Posted by: FLanole at December 29, 2024 02:36 PM (ZnrCl)

113 I rediscovered Command and Conquer Zero Hour so I'll be warring with the GLA this afternoon. Hope you all have a great weekend. Man it's hot in here.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at December 29, 2024 02:37 PM (YIxO9)

114 26 That thing looks as if it could be a flow restrictor for a faucet.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 29, 2024 02:09 PM (0b3lL)

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That is what I was gonna say. Flow restrictor/disperser

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at December 29, 2024 02:38 PM (xxf6X)

115 CBD ... Might it be a component of a child's sippy cup? ... The hole shown at the top might be for dispensing liquids, while the notch shown at the bottom might allow for the inflow of air ... Just a suggestion but, if any families with young children visited your home during the Holidays, you could check with them about any pieces that might be missing from their "away from home" items.

Posted by: Kathy at December 29, 2024 02:38 PM (qpw89)

116 Or find a Chinese person, they made it

Posted by: Skip at December 29, 2024 02:39 PM (fwDg9)

117 My best guess is - a part of your refrigerator's ice making contraption.

Posted by: Gref at December 29, 2024 02:39 PM (aBgBM)

118 Intrauterine device

Posted by: Dirac_Delta at December 29, 2024 02:39 PM (9EO0O)

119 Looks like a cap for a chair or stool to keep from scratching your floors.

Or, part of a Flux Capacitor

Posted by: Handy Mann at December 29, 2024 02:40 PM (4h72x)

120 Well, I am gobsmacked! Was looking for utility knife and pencil to cut my one sheet of sheetrock, and my eyes fell upon the "dead" car battery sitting on the bench. It had been written off in my mind as unrecoverable. Before Christmas, at a yard sale, I bought five-dollar piece of junk that had been an electric dolly for shuffling trailers in a parking lot. Took it apart, and inside was a nifty "marine" battery charger with dual 12 volt outputs. I set it up in the garage, and for shits and grins, connected it to the "dead" battery, and promptly forgot about it for a few days. Just now, I put my load checker on the battery, and it came back! Tests "excellent". I'm sure it will crank up a car. The five bucks I spent on that thing paid off.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 29, 2024 02:41 PM (8zz6B)

121 Former Pixar Staffers Melt Down Over Cut Trans Storyline in Kids’ Show: “Can’t Tell You How Much I Cried”

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I'll bet you did.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent at December 29, 2024 02:41 PM (L/fGl)

122 It's an alien life form, sent here to observe humankind and probe for its weaknesses.
Posted by: Cicero
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That alien is going to be ticked if CBD set it upside down.

Posted by: scampydog at December 29, 2024 02:43 PM (41CYW)

123 Former Pixar Staffers Melt Down Over Cut Trans Storyline in Kids’ Show: “Can’t Tell You How Much I Cried”

But don't you dare accuse them of having an ideological ax to grind.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 29, 2024 02:43 PM (xCA6C)

124 There's only one way to find out what it's for: throw it away, and as the garbage truck pulls away with the object, it will instantly become clear what it was for, and you will regret having thrown it away.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 29, 2024 02:43 PM (YqDXo)

125 I have no idea what it is, but I can tell you once you throw it away you will know what it is and will have to order a new one.....

Posted by: Ferd Berfall at December 29, 2024 02:43 PM (I8HuZ)

126 This is a lighthearted thread, as it is every Sunday.

Show some respect for it please.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 29, 2024 02:44 PM (d9fT1)

127 It is part of a launch key for a Poseidon missile system.

No, seriously.

John Galt lives.

Posted by: Going Deep. Out at December 29, 2024 02:44 PM (9X60i)

128 Former Pixar Staffers Melt Down Over Cut Trans Storyline in Kids’ Show: “Can’t Tell You How Much I Cried”

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I'll bet you did.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent at December 29, 2024 02:41 PM (L/fGl)
__________________

Support mental health like crazy!

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 29, 2024 02:44 PM (YqDXo)

129 humankind --> mankind

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 29, 2024 02:45 PM (YqDXo)

130 It's a thingamajig, it keeps the whatchamacallit from rubbing on the dohicky.

Posted by: Bob at December 29, 2024 02:45 PM (YiqZD)

131 >>>My best guess is - a part of your refrigerator's ice making contraption.

Posted by: Gref

>Everybody I know has a problem with these damn things! I'll never buy a frig with an ice maker because they suck!

Posted by: Dr. Bone at December 29, 2024 02:48 PM (/MR36)

132 that thing, though. It looks like the spacer that goes into the shower head to make sure your showers are as piddly and miserable as Nancy Pelosi could make them.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 29, 2024 02:07 PM (D7oie)
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I do battlefield surgery on shower heads to remove that flow restricter. Which I then throw away.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 29, 2024 02:49 PM (YqDXo)

133 I had one of those but the wheels fell off.

Posted by: Ciampino - got to be a squelcher at December 29, 2024 02:49 PM (i0xsb)

134 Hey! That's one of our M-2000 models. Looks to be in good shape too. You should get a lot of use out of it.

Posted by: CEO, Acme Widgets, Inc. at December 29, 2024 02:50 PM (W/lyH)

135 Bill Maher says Jay Leno's "accidents" arose from gambling debts he owes the mob.

https://is.gd/P9lInJ

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent at December 29, 2024 02:50 PM (L/fGl)

136 I keep a small box of stray parts in the hope of figuring out what they came from. Sometimes a part in that box finds its mating part. Such joy!

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 29, 2024 02:51 PM (YqDXo)

137 McMaster Carr has a replacement and your choice of nylon, derlin, oil filled acetal or UMHWPE delivered Tuesday.

Posted by: Accomack at December 29, 2024 02:51 PM (w9ItN)

138 I do battlefield surgery on shower heads to remove that flow restricter. Which I then throw away.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 29, 2024 02:49 PM (YqDXo)

Those agents of the devil are the clearest indication that our society is in decay.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 29, 2024 02:52 PM (d9fT1)

139 Furniture caster. You'll find out to what when you push whatever across wooden floors and wind up with a wicked scratch.

Posted by: L - Rooster one day, feather duster the next at December 29, 2024 02:52 PM (NFX2v)

140 Ferrule cap

Posted by: Robert A at December 29, 2024 02:53 PM (WVFZU)

141 What do you call an alligator in a vest?

An investigator.

Posted by: Ciampino - got to be a croc at December 29, 2024 02:53 PM (i0xsb)

142 When we moved a few years ago, we agreed to get rid of everything we couldn't identify. Haven't missed anything yet.
Have gotten rid of the curse of collecting junk.

Posted by: jimmymcnulty at December 29, 2024 02:53 PM (zW+7z)

143 Looks like a roller for a dishwasher rack.

Posted by: Joe sneed at December 29, 2024 02:54 PM (YNVsn)

144 That Texas storm from yesterday is blowing through here. 50 mph wind gusts for the last few hours and just waiting for trees to start coming down.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 29, 2024 02:54 PM (Dm8we)

145 Ah, the critical missing piece to my Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator!

Posted by: Marvin the Martian at December 29, 2024 02:56 PM (PiwSw)

146 100 casks of whiskey were lost at sea. By the time the search was completed, no tern was left unstoned.

Posted by: CEO, Acme Widgets, Inc. at December 29, 2024 02:56 PM (W/lyH)

147 39 We have no way of estimating size!!
Don't you know you are supposed to photograph it with an indeterminate-sized washer** alongside?

**washer = a very short pipe - Engineering definition.
Posted by: Ciampino

All piping shall be tubular. All tubing shall be pipular.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 29, 2024 02:56 PM (dg+HA)

148 At least it's small. I have huge tangles of charging cords I have no idea of the devices they go to, even if we still had them.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
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I put small stickers on charging transformers so I know what they are for. Saves a LOT of head scratching.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 29, 2024 02:57 PM (YqDXo)

149 Sigh...
Off widget sock.

Posted by: CEO, Acme Widgets, Inc. at December 29, 2024 02:57 PM (W/lyH)

150 When we moved a few years ago, we agreed to get rid of everything we couldn't identify. Haven't missed anything yet.
Have gotten rid of the curse of collecting junk.
Posted by: jimmymcnulty

When I moved last year my sister insisted I dispose of anything I was never going to use or wear again. I did and don't regret the large sum of money paid to the junk man.

Posted by: Tuna at December 29, 2024 02:57 PM (oaGWv)

151 I'm an idiot.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 29, 2024 02:57 PM (W/lyH)

152 Bill Maher says Jay Leno's "accidents" arose from gambling debts he owes the mob.

https://is.gd/P9lInJ
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent at December 29, 2024 02:50 PM (L/fGl)

It's obvious. He just fell down a hill. Sheesh, you people.

Posted by: Zombie Harry Reid at December 29, 2024 02:58 PM (nOjd9)

153 47
Is this the gravy boat?

https://tinyurl.com/yc8k665h

Posted by: Ciampino - got to be a croc at December 29, 2024 02:58 PM (i0xsb)

154 Would they just take some of Leno's cars?

Posted by: Accomack at December 29, 2024 03:00 PM (aHqhe)

155 What room was it found in?

Posted by: t-dubya-d at December 29, 2024 03:02 PM (RjlXJ)

156 Anyone see the tv adaptation of Earth Abides? Was a favorite book of mine a couple decades back. If so, worth watching?

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at December 29, 2024 03:03 PM (Zu8BH)

157 I put small stickers on charging transformers so I know what they are for. Saves a LOT of head scratching.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara
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Amp & Volt rating on mine.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 29, 2024 03:03 PM (0b3lL)

158 So this conversation just happened...

Loud noises outside
Hubbymayhem: what the hell is that?
Me: it's just gunfire.
Hubbymayhem: oh. Okay.

Both of us go back to reading.

The end.

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at December 29, 2024 03:04 PM (4XwPj)

159 Your neighbor dropped it at the card game ...

Posted by: Dr_No at December 29, 2024 03:04 PM (ayRl+)

160 Humor Brake .... wait, Break?

In German Prisoner-of-War camps, escapes were a a major problem, so they would try to break the prisoners’ spirits by making them do mindless things. In particular, they would make the prisoners stand in a line and all move their heads like a clock back and forth and say, ‘tick tock tick tock.’

Some prisoners, unable to escape or otherwise change their situation, chose a very subtle rebellion. They would do the head motions, but instead of ‘tick tock tick tock’, they would wait until the guards were further down the line and switch to ‘tick tick tick.’

None of the guards noticed this was going on for many months, until finally, a young lieutenant was caught ticking by a senior SS Captain walking behind the line.
The captain stopped the exercise, walked over, face-to-face with the young man, and “A rebel. Vell, don’t vorry, ve have vays of making you tock.’

Posted by: Ciampino - Hickery Dickery Mice at December 29, 2024 03:05 PM (i0xsb)

161 Dancing stripper Pop Tarts.

https://is.gd/yravOz

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent at December 29, 2024 03:05 PM (L/fGl)

162 40 My FWP is finding the form of Loratadine my kid will accept. She did the liquid if it was bubble gum, then, grape. Now, only reditabs.
Generics are verboten.
Posted by: Accomack at December 29, 2024 02:12 PM (GxmKP)

I am not a healthcare professional, nor did I stay in a Holiday Inn last night. How does she feel about Citrus Burst? :

https://is.gd/ErNZRF

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 29, 2024 03:06 PM (PiwSw)

163 > I do battlefield surgery on shower heads to remove that flow restricter. Which I then throw away.
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I do the same thing on gas cans. Everything inside that spigot gets ripped out.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 29, 2024 03:07 PM (Q4IgG)

164 >>>Bill Maher says Jay Leno's "accidents" arose from gambling debts he owes the mob.

https://is.gd/P9lInJ
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent at December 29, 2024 02:50 PM (L/fGl)

It's obvious. He just fell down a hill. Sheesh, you people.

Posted by: Zombie Harry Reid

>So how do we explain away Nancy Pelosi's hip injury?

There's some merit to this mob angle considering Nancy's husband, Paul - his face looked like hammered shit.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at December 29, 2024 03:07 PM (/MR36)

165 And your thingamadammit is an Illidium Q-36 Space Modulator. Be on the lookout for some weird little guy named Marvin.

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at December 29, 2024 03:07 PM (4XwPj)

166
"I found it on the floor, and couldn't figure out where it is from."

That picture looks like it was taken with the object in question sitting on top of the kitchen countertop so I'm going to venture a guess it was found on the kitchen floor.
I'll go further and guess CBD has a refrigerator with an ice maker that dispenses through the door.
Because of an intense period of holiday entertaining the ice maker saw a lot of use and this mysterious little part helps with the rotation slash indexing of the freeze-water-into-ice mechanism. Sometime in the middle of the night it came loose from it's appointed place, fell through the chute and ended up on the floor.
Get your fridge model number. Go to repair clinic dot com and look for an exploded view of the ice maker. See if anything appears to match.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 29, 2024 03:08 PM (dg+HA)

167 Got my sheetrock panel cut. Found the missing one, in pieces. Now I remember dropping one, last session, and it broke up badly. I could make up the missing piece by using 4 off-cuts, but that would mean another 12 feet of joint to be mudded and taped, and sanded, so not going there.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 29, 2024 03:08 PM (8zz6B)

168 There's some merit to this mob angle considering Nancy's husband, Paul - his face looked like hammered shit.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at December 29, 2024 03:07 PM (/MR36)
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Is that better than a hammered dulcimer?

Posted by: Ciampino - Hickery Dickery Meese at December 29, 2024 03:09 PM (i0xsb)

169 Everybody I know has a problem with these damn things! I'll never buy a frig with an ice maker because they suck!
Posted by: Dr. Bone at December 29, 2024 02:48 PM (/MR36)

The ones that make crescent-shaped ice don't work very well because the mechanism heats the ice so the little finger thingy can sweep the ice from the mold. The wet ice then falls to the chamber and freezes together. No bueno.

Posted by: Emmie at December 29, 2024 03:10 PM (Sf2cq)

170 No, thank you, citrus is out. I did not know Alavert is also loratadine.

Posted by: Accomack at December 29, 2024 03:10 PM (GxmKP)

171 There's a micro tamagotchi pet in the kitchen junk drawer of tape, thumb tacks, birthday candles, eyeglass repair kits and mini magnetic screw drivers.

No brat has claimed it in decades. But nothing other than the tape has been used either.

Posted by: L - Rooster one day, feather duster the next at December 29, 2024 03:11 PM (NFX2v)

172 Tim Hawkins comedy song:

Junk drawer:

https://tinyurl.com/6c4br9us

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 29, 2024 03:11 PM (SQOf0)

173
Well, before you discard that object....

this would be a good time to for Everyone to brush up on Chesterton's Fence parable.

In fact, next time you argue with a Democrat Shithead Totalitarian (why would you bother?) about the Constitution, etc., teach him Chesterton's parable.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 29, 2024 03:12 PM (BEPTv)

174 UMHWPE

Gesundheit!

or

It's pronounced azsh-weep-aye

Posted by: DaveA at December 29, 2024 03:13 PM (FhXTo)

175 A plate of dead French snails?

escar-stay

Posted by: Ciampino - Hickery Dickery Meese at December 29, 2024 03:16 PM (i0xsb)

176
I heated up some frozen coconut shrimp in the air fryer. It finished and I pulled the tray out to empty it. The smoke alarms all went off despite the fact there was no smoke.

Poor Diana was scared out of her wits. We hustled her outside, where she stood trembling. The situation righted itself, we retrieved her from the corner of the porch where she was huddled and she came in to the refuge of our bed.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 29, 2024 03:17 PM (dxSpM)

177 Get your fridge model number. Go to repair clinic dot com and look for an exploded view of the ice maker. See if anything appears to match.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty
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Agree. It looks like the part on the rotary auger thingy in the tray.

Posted by: scampydog at December 29, 2024 03:17 PM (41CYW)

178 74 freaking degrees in Texas today.

Fixin to light the grill and do ribs.

Posted by: These fish sticks are hard as tits at December 29, 2024 03:18 PM (qzt5N)

179 At the risk of restarting the H1B war, I think this video is very interesting.
Crisis in Beijing: Streets Filled With Tears as Millions of Workers Leave, Empty Trains to Beijing

If you're wondering why so many are anxious to get those visas, start watching at about 5:10. If this report is accurate, the Chinese economy is about to implode. If it does, it will make the Japanese lost decades look like a picnic.

I feel sorry for the average Chinese worker, and especially those who have done what they were told would lead to a better life. This sort of mismatch between the educated elite and the jobs available to them is a primary indicator of coming societal instability.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 29, 2024 02:33 PM (xCA6C)

Amazing how subservient these people are, all wearing their little masks.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at December 29, 2024 03:18 PM (iODuv)

180 Is somebody building an Interocitor?

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 29, 2024 03:19 PM (PiwSw)

181
Yeah, it's going to be 56 (and rain) tomorrow in Boston.

I'm going to wash the car and stow the garden hose for the Winter.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 29, 2024 03:20 PM (BEPTv)

182 176
All my cats panic if the smoke alarms goes off. Considering how sensitive the hearing is in dogs and cats, I'm not surprised.

Posted by: Ciampino - Hickery Dickery Meeses at December 29, 2024 03:20 PM (i0xsb)

183 Lots of people shooting new Christmas guns last few days.

Posted by: These fish sticks are hard as tits at December 29, 2024 03:21 PM (qzt5N)

184 My FWP today - I heard a unusual grinding noise coming from the garbage disposal yesterday so I took a look inside. After 5 minutes of diligent search, I spied a very small plastic end cap of some sort down in there. Removed it with a very long pair of needle-nosed pliers but damn if I know where that thing belongs.

"Agree. It looks like the part on the rotary auger thingy in the tray."
Posted by: scampydog

Is it good or bad that I understood immediately what you were talking about?

Posted by: Tonypete at December 29, 2024 03:22 PM (WXNFJ)

185 FWP, I did not drill a large enough hole in the base of Christmas tree for the stand spike. The tree stand spike is stuck inside the tree base. Cut the tree away and it now has a stump. Tried the vice, no good. Will get the Sawzall out later.

Posted by: scampydog at December 29, 2024 03:22 PM (41CYW)

186 I lost my Pentuclar ferniculator years ago. Thank you for finding it and could you please send it to me...

Posted by: Life of Wryly at December 29, 2024 03:22 PM (1FWWQ)

187
Re: Car Washes

What type of Idiot spends $20 (or more) to go through a car wash that 1) does a shitty cleaning job, and b) scratches the shit outta your paint?

Remember $5 car washes? Was it really that long ago?

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 29, 2024 03:22 PM (BEPTv)

188 182 Considering how sensitive the hearing is in dogs and cats, I'm not surprised.

In our last house, it was difficult to find out which ceiling bird needed new batteries. This sent my dog into an absolute blind panic.

Somehow the technology to install a blinking light on a smoke alarm to signal which one needs food is black magic beyond the reach of mortal men.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 29, 2024 03:23 PM (lXCUP)

189 Otherwise fearless dog, ready to protect me in a flash, is terrified of the toaster and the brad nailer. When she's driving me crazy, I reach for the toaster. She retreats to the rear of the yard.

Posted by: L - Rooster one day, feather duster the next at December 29, 2024 03:27 PM (NFX2v)

190 I hate gray rainy days.
Mrs D sent me out to get another gallon of milk from the garage fridge. Oh! The TP! Bathrooms need TP. I grab the TP. I get that distributed. Oh. Milk. Return to garage. Gets milk. Returns. Notices crumbs on floor. Goes to get the hand vac. Cleans up crumbs. Returns hand vac.
WTF had I started to do??? Sits down and reaches for beer. OH! That it. I needed another beer.
Sigh...

Posted by: Diogenes at December 29, 2024 03:28 PM (W/lyH)

191 My lovely wife's FWP. We were invited to a friend's house last night for supper. It was his birthday. Just us and him and his new GF.

GF made a terrific French Onion soup.

Onions cause wifey unnatural throat/stomach/bowel distress. Wifey ate it anyway to not trouble the host. Sick as a dog all night.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 29, 2024 03:28 PM (WXNFJ)

192 We didn't connect the ice maker in the new fridge.
They just shrugged.
We use plastic trays and the old ice bin from a late fridge ca. 1988.
Works great for the two of us.

Posted by: sal at December 29, 2024 03:30 PM (f+FmA)

193 You and Madame Mayhem are a hoot! 😊

Posted by: L - Rooster one day, feather duster the next at December 29, 2024 03:30 PM (NFX2v)

194 Onions cause wifey unnatural throat/stomach/bowel distress. Wifey ate it anyway to not trouble the host. Sick as a dog all night.
Posted by: Tonypete

Garlic does that to me. I feel for her..

Posted by: Tuna at December 29, 2024 03:30 PM (oaGWv)

195 How come no one ever gets "sick as a cat?"

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 29, 2024 03:30 PM (dg+HA)

196 The good thing about Google Chrome is you can right click and search on an image with Google Lens to see what it is.

Google has no idea either. But it does look like something from a dishwasher (the mechanical not spousal kind) or a small appliance.

Posted by: lancelot_link at December 29, 2024 03:31 PM (MPyOj)

197
Is somebody building an Interocitor?
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper

If you can't figure out where the part goes you can't join the Metaluna team.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 29, 2024 03:32 PM (63Dwl)

198 Aerator for a sink faucet

Posted by: Dan Patterson at December 29, 2024 03:33 PM (AnXz+)

199 >>>GF made a terrific French Onion soup.

Onions cause wifey unnatural throat/stomach/bowel distress. Wifey ate it anyway to not trouble the host. Sick as a dog all night.

Posted by: Tonypete

>French onion soup is one of the greatest cleansers in the fashion world. Pretty tasty.

You know you're at a first-world fashion event when the runway smells like onions.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at December 29, 2024 03:33 PM (/MR36)

200 *(the mechanical not spousal kind)*
Thanks for clarifying.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 29, 2024 03:34 PM (dg+HA)

201 I once got annoyed by some random metal bit rattling around in the map well of my car, and threw the damned thing away. Then I went in to get my tires rotated and discovered I had thrown away the key unit for the locking lug nuts.

Posted by: Trimegistus at December 29, 2024 03:34 PM (78a2H)

202 191 My lovely wife's FWP. We were invited to a friend's house last night for supper. It was his birthday. Just us and him and his new GF.

GF made a terrific French Onion soup.

Onions cause wifey unnatural throat/stomach/bowel distress. Wifey ate it anyway to not trouble the host. Sick as a dog all night.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 29, 2024 03:28 PM (WXNFJ)

I had brand new guests yesterday - this is why you ASK the guests what they can't eat, no matter how small they think the issue is. Saved me from using onions and causing the same issue...

New guests LOVED the food, so FWA works...

Posted by: Nova Local at December 29, 2024 03:35 PM (exHjb)

203 Modern culture's FWP - three aircraft having unplanned disassemblies on the same day.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 29, 2024 03:35 PM (WXNFJ)

204 Ask any AI. They will know.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 29, 2024 03:35 PM (/lPRQ)

205 Component for a thermal beverage container?
" for a garden hose spray nozzle?
" for aquarium accessory?
" for a power washer?

Okay, I'm all out of guesses ... Am gonna step away to
get a jump on dinner before the FOOD thread pops up.

Posted by: Kathy at December 29, 2024 03:35 PM (qpw89)

206 188
Somehow the technology to install a blinking light on a smoke alarm to signal which one needs food is black magic beyond the reach of mortal men.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 29, 2024 03:23 PM (lXCUP)
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The procedure: Step-ladder.
Climb up, open smoke alarm and remove 9v battery.
Apply battery terminals to tongue.
Pick yourself up off the floor when pain subsides, retrieve battery from under the couch, climb ladder and re-install the now wet and fluff-laden battery.
Schedule hip replacement.
If nothing happens when battery is licked then climb down ladder and go find a replacement 9v that you forgot to procure.
Remind wife to lay off the wine and vacuum dust bunnies under couch.

Posted by: Ciampino - Hickery Dickery Meeses at December 29, 2024 03:37 PM (i0xsb)

207
Need a nood washing machine?

Here's a good video showing the difference between a Speed Queen and Whirlpool. He mainly covers the "suspension" of the drum.

Did you know your washing machine had a suspension?

https://is.gd/cYQnXV

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 29, 2024 03:38 PM (BEPTv)

208 Posted by: L - Rooster one day, feather duster the next at December 29, 2024 03:27 PM (NFX2v)

I don't know what a brad nailer is, but does the dog just not like the look of them or the sounds they make?

Cat will sometimes come slowly nervously in the door he's been through thousands of times before and leap straight up in the air for no apparent reason and then take off.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 29, 2024 03:38 PM (VGk2f)

209 When I asked the multiple guests, I got shellfish was an allergy, onions were just a total digestive no go (but garlic was okay), and lactose was an issue (which doesn't matter when you tell the dairy allergy person that - we weren't having dairy anyway)...

Posted by: Nova Local at December 29, 2024 03:39 PM (exHjb)

210 That, my friend, is a screw cover. It probably fell off the bottom a table. I have many of these. Now, I just toss them in a Mason jar. In my college days we would have glued them to the bottom of the bathtub as a pilon used to establish the cockroach race track. Think I'm joking. We used to catch them, put numbers on their backs using Whiteout, and race them....for money, and beers on those special nights.

Posted by: Orson at December 29, 2024 03:39 PM (dIske)

211 Cord talk is reminding me to label the extension cords we use once a year for the outside Nativity. And to put that fact in the decor notes.
Because a year is a long time to remember details.

Posted by: sal at December 29, 2024 03:39 PM (f+FmA)

212 My late mother-in-law called that drawer the "slut drawer" because anything went in it.

Posted by: pchaz at December 29, 2024 03:40 PM (KspwL)

213
The problem with Speed Queens is they're too damn small for the $$.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 29, 2024 03:40 PM (BEPTv)

214 Does Ordon get the deluxe ASHQ platinum membership for identifying the thing correctly?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 29, 2024 03:42 PM (VGk2f)

215 212
I LOLed

Posted by: Ciampino - Hickery Dickery Meeses at December 29, 2024 03:43 PM (i0xsb)

216 Just spent an hour looking for the thingy that holds glass pane in cabinet door. Didn't know what it was called. It's a glass retainer clip. Who knew?

Posted by: olddog in mo at December 29, 2024 03:44 PM (hoCmQ)

217 Here's a good video showing the difference between a Speed Queen and Whirlpool. He mainly covers the "suspension" of the drum.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 29, 2024 03:38 PM (BEPTv)

Yes, I did. That's what killed the old one.

I am in love with my Speed Queen, which assumes I have enough sense not to stick my arm in a moving drum and doesn't make me stand there while it unlocks itself, for my own good of course, so I can add the sock I dropped to the load.

Posted by: sal at December 29, 2024 03:44 PM (f+FmA)

218 The problem with Speed Queens is they're too damn small for the $$.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 29, 2024 03:40 PM (BEPTv)

Drag Queens beat them in the quarter mile, but Speed Queens win the longer heats.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 29, 2024 03:45 PM (8zz6B)

219 It is part of a launch key for a Poseidon missile system.
No, seriously.
John Galt lives.
Posted by: Going Deep. Out at December 29, 2024 02:44 PM (9X60i)

If we were living in the Atlas Shrugged universe, Ragnar Danneskjöld would be capturing the LNG ships being sent to Germany

Posted by: Kindltot at December 29, 2024 03:45 PM (D7oie)

220 The problem with Speed Queens is they're too damn small for the $$.
Posted by: Soothsayer

One can't simply compare the capacity of the drum as like for like. SQs you can fill up to (iirc) 90% of capacity, whereas with all the others, one shouldn't fill more than 65% of capacity.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 29, 2024 03:45 PM (WXNFJ)

221
One can't simply compare the capacity of the drum as like for like. SQs you can fill up to (iirc) 90% of capacity, whereas with all the others, one shouldn't fill more than 65% of capacity.
Posted by: Tonypete

Well, you know how to stuff 10lbs of shit in a 5lb bag, tell me.

No way you're gonna stuff a King Size comforter in a 3.5cu ft front or top loader.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 29, 2024 03:49 PM (BEPTv)

222 My doctor, I tell ya. He told me that I talked like a fag. I said I need a second opinion. He said, "OK, your shit's all retarded." No respect!

Posted by: BourbonChicken at December 29, 2024 03:50 PM (lhenN)

223 The procedure: Step-ladder.
Climb up, open smoke alarm and remove 9v battery.
Apply battery terminals to tongue.
Pick yourself up off the floor when pain subsides, retrieve battery from under the couch, climb ladder and re-install the now wet and fluff-laden battery.
...
Posted by: Ciampino - Hickery Dickery Meeses

Once received a 9V from home insurance company as a free promo reminding us to replace batteries in our smoke detectors. So I used it in our nice modern smoke detectors which were hard-wired into a dedicated 110v circuit. The 9v was backup in case the 110v went down...
Shortly thereafter I heard a small explosion. Looking for noise, found the smoke detector lid had blown off and the remains of the defective battery the home hazard insurance company sent us.

Thanks guys.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 29, 2024 03:52 PM (/lPRQ)

224 People generally don't cough up fur balls

Posted by: Skip at December 29, 2024 03:53 PM (fwDg9)

225
Question:

What Happened to the Drones??

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 29, 2024 03:53 PM (BEPTv)

226 So this conversation just happened...

Loud noises outside
Hubbymayhem: what the hell is that?
Me: it's just gunfire.
Hubbymayhem: oh. Okay.

Both of us go back to reading.

The end.
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at December 29, 2024 03:04 PM

Gun Thread Commenter #1: "Rifle, pistol, or shotgun?"
Gun Thread Commenter #2: "Magazine or belt-fed?"
Gun Thread Commenter #3: "Caliber?"

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 29, 2024 03:53 PM (a3Q+t)

227 222 My doctor, I tell ya. He told me that I talked like a fag. I said I need a second opinion. He said, "OK, your shit's all retarded." No respect!

Posted by: BourbonChicken at December 29, 2024 03:50 PM (lhenN)
----
Tell him he's a duck since everyone calls him 'the quack'.

Posted by: Ciampino - Hickory Dickory Mooses at December 29, 2024 03:54 PM (i0xsb)

228
all the mysterious Drones just disappear?

Because the story sure did disappear out of the Fake News cycle.

(I'll bet You forgot all about the drones until now)

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 29, 2024 03:54 PM (BEPTv)

229 Maybe the scale is all wrong, could be only a 1/4" in diameter and from inside a pen

Posted by: Skip at December 29, 2024 03:54 PM (fwDg9)

230 The day after I throw that out, Her Majesty would ask, "Have you seen?..."
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh a

--

I threw out a tiny red straw I found on the floor
The next day hubby was looking for the straw for applying WD-4
"Oh..."

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 29, 2024 03:55 PM (OTdqV)

231 So this conversation just happened...

Loud noises outside
Hubbymayhem: what the hell is that?
Me: it's just gunfire.
Hubbymayhem: oh. Okay.

Both of us go back to reading.

The end.
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench)

Country Living?

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 29, 2024 03:55 PM (/lPRQ)

232 Chinese got the information from their drones they needed, turn tail and packed them all away

Posted by: Skip at December 29, 2024 03:55 PM (fwDg9)

233 464 I think I'll just take break from the internet until next year. Pray for America, Israel and the world and pray for Donald Trump, J.D Vance and their families.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke

Posted by: Promises, promises at December 29, 2024 03:56 PM (rFS/C)

234 >>>My doctor, I tell ya. He told me that I talked like a fag. I said I need a second opinion. He said, "OK, your shit's all retarded." No respect!

Posted by: BourbonChicken

>Your doctor told me chicken was on the menu for the food thread. Seasons greetings!

Posted by: Dr. Bone at December 29, 2024 03:56 PM (/MR36)

235 When life gets me down, I think about being a Jets fan.
God is in His Heaven and all is right with the world.

Posted by: Accomack at December 29, 2024 03:56 PM (GxmKP)

236 213
The problem with Speed Queens is they're too damn small for the $$.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 29, 2024 03:40 PM (BEPTv)

I have a Speed Queen front-loader. It will take a laundry basket's worth of clothes. I also use it to launder our king-sized comforters (not both at once).

Posted by: Emmie at December 29, 2024 03:56 PM (Sf2cq)

237 People generally don't cough up fur balls
Posted by: Skip at December 29, 2024 03:53 PM (fwDg9)

that's just because most people don't groom their cats by licking them thoroughly.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 29, 2024 03:57 PM (D7oie)

238 Think you have 3rd World Problems?

London, Kentucky Police Killed Man in His Home in Late Night Search Warrant Raid Apparently at Wrong Address–Reportedly Over a Stolen Weed Eater

- GWP

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 29, 2024 04:00 PM (/lPRQ)

239 Posted by: Promises, promises at December 29, 2024 03:56 PM (rFS/C)

Well, I meant from political news, o new named poster, but it didn't come out correctly , but I do like the kinder, gentler version of the insult factory offerings.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 29, 2024 04:01 PM (o9Fu8)

240 .
NOOD FOOD

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 29, 2024 04:01 PM (O7YUW)

241 FOODIE NOODIE TIME

Posted by: Skip at December 29, 2024 04:01 PM (fwDg9)

242 all the mysterious Drones just disappear?

Because the story sure did disappear out of the Fake News cycle.

(I'll bet You forgot all about the drones until now)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 29, 2024 03:54 PM (BEPTv)

We're too busy investigating all the pitting on our windshields now. Is it aliens or fallout from nuke testing?

Posted by: People of Seattle circa March 1954 at December 29, 2024 04:02 PM (A75H2)

243 One of my autistic cousins liked to take things apart: dishwasher, furniture with visible screws when lying on the floor, phones, etc.

At some point he learned to put things back together. But there was a little jar in the junk drawer with leftover parts.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at December 29, 2024 04:03 PM (JlcNN)

244 Did you hear that Cray computing is working on a new supercomputing cluster designed specifically to simulate mental illness? They’re calling it the Cray Cray.

--
When I was still in Africa I submitted to rec.hum (a newsgroup for jokes) a joke that went "I hear Cray Computers has a desktop now." (Considering the size of a Cray Mainfame, water cooling, etc. this was the joke).
I got an email from Cray to say they did in fact have a desktop computer, just only for very robust desks.

Posted by: Ciampino - Hickory Dickory Mooses at December 29, 2024 04:04 PM (i0xsb)

245
See! Americans don't know what it is.
Only Dot Indians know.
That's why we need H-1Bs./

Posted by: Speller at December 29, 2024 04:12 PM (pSotA)

246 FWP I have to make room for Christmas gifts by getting rid of current possessions.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at December 29, 2024 04:14 PM (JlcNN)

247 Country Living?
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher

Yep! Life in the country comes with neighbors who like guns. Including my brothers, our cousin, my brother's son, Hubbymayhem, our boy spawn, etc....

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at December 29, 2024 04:14 PM (4XwPj)

248 It’s a doo hickey also known as a thingamabob

Posted by: Eric at December 29, 2024 04:38 PM (a2F+C)

249 Jimmy Carter is mort.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at December 29, 2024 04:58 PM (ufFY8)

250 Check your dishwasher rack rollers.

Posted by: Aggie at December 29, 2024 05:22 PM (jopxR)

251 Damn, missed out on the pool...

Carter lasted long enough to 'vote'...

Posted by: Romeo13 at December 29, 2024 05:31 PM (QAkQ3)

252 No worries , mate, . . . it's a framus glim rod reducing valve cum sumpter dumpster semi per mearble, neon inflamatory . . . got that?

Posted by: Ray at December 29, 2024 05:34 PM (5wLuE)

253 Jimmy Carter is mort
-------

Welp, guess he's not going to the inauguration.

Posted by: JQ at December 29, 2024 05:37 PM (YoCnN)

254 It's a plastic thing.
It sticks into another plastic thing.
Or a (usually, really) cheap metal thing.
The plastic/metal thing is normally bigger than the plastic thing.
But not necessarily.
You can look for the p/m thing.
But you usually find it w/your foot.
Bare.
Toes.
Cheers!

Posted by: Icepilot at December 29, 2024 07:10 PM (+532A)

255 It’s a juicer.

Posted by: Mikey at December 29, 2024 07:31 PM (J7XQ0)

256 I have a drawer labeled Lost Souls for objects like these

Posted by: Solutus at December 29, 2024 07:46 PM (Jnnb9)

257 Door panel clip from a 70 Chevelle

Posted by: Spacebrain at December 29, 2024 09:27 PM (n0sJh)

258 Dishwasher wheel?

Posted by: Gregg at December 29, 2024 09:45 PM (5+8qE)

259 Spurval bearing race from a Rockwell Turbo Encabulator.

Posted by: West at December 30, 2024 12:08 AM (vTTFR)

260 >>>I have absolutely no idea what that is. I found it on the floor, and couldn't figure out where it is from.

It's aliens.

Posted by: m at December 30, 2024 03:57 AM (VnUSN)

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