We got a new soda machine at work recently. That’s a pop machine to those of you who think two word phrases should be abbreviated using the second word rather than the first. You’re wrong, but I know you exist, so I threw you a bone here. Anyway, this soda machine is quirky. ...
I can definitively tell you that oatmeal, Jell-O, Cream of Wheat, Gak, pudding, clay, tapioca, Silly Putty and tomato paste do not slide through a tube that's coiled up under your costumes that's meant to come out an orifice in your chest and spray towards the audience. It won't ...
Silly Putty. Just what is so silly about it? Silly Putty is a big deal in our house. It is a Very Important Thing. Like many of your children, my oldest son has a serious case of “fiddle fingers” and he loves – no, needs – to have something in his hands much of the time....
areusing 重复利用[translate] a心理咨询与治疗 Psychological consultation and treatment[translate] a我不会玩这个游戏 I cannot play this game[translate] a我妹妹很容易生气 My younger sister very easy vitality[translate] aEvery once in a while, I think of that teacher and remember what an impression...
Silly Putty was accidentally created when an engineer tried to develop a synthetic rubber in 1943. No one had a use for it though, until 1949 when toy store owner Ruth Fallgatter decided to sell it in her catalog. It outsold almost everything in the catalog that year. 1950: Magic 8 Ba...
I quit my job to become her part-time caregiver, using subway tokens to ride from Brooklyn to Grand Central. Three times a week I’d take a commuter train to Yonkers so I could take her on walks, clean up all of the nonsensical piles and mysterious stains she’d made around the ...
When my son was little he kept having a dream where he was in a car and it was rolling backwards and he couldn’t stop it. One day he got up and he was so excited because he had the dream, but this time he PUT ON THE BRAKES. Yessss. ...
Silly Putty In the early days of WWII, the Japanese seized control of the world’s major supplies of rubber, cutting off more than nine percent of the rubber supply to the US. Back in the US, things weren’t working out very well for James Wright in his quest to develop a synthesized...
Silly Putty A lot of parents hated this one because it only resulted in one thing: a big mess. But it came in different colors, could be transformed into whatever shape you wanted and worked great as a ball to throw at my sisters' heads. ...