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It occurs to me that my last entry will be completely lost on anyone for whom Reagan or later was the first President they remember.
Mine was Nixon. Man, I feel oooooolllllddddddd.
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May 31, 2005 - Tuesday
Deep Throat Revealed
By William Branigin and David Von Drehle
Washington Post Staff Writers
Tuesday, May 31, 2005; 6:33 PM
The Washington Post today confirmed that W. Mark Felt, a former number-two official at the FBI, was “Deep Throat,” the secretive source who provided information that helped unravel the Watergate scandal in the early 1970s and contributed to the resignation of president Richard M. Nixon.
WTF? What happened to Linda Lovelace?
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Beth has redesigned her blog for her 2nd blogiversary. Go say happy blogday and tell her how pretty it looks.
Home Improvement Tip #4,837
This is a “hose bibb”. We now have a new one.
Everyone knows that when you’re doing plumbing work, the first thing you do is shut off the main water supply, right? But what if, after you turn off the water main, the water is still on?
It’s a puzzlement.
Some people would think better of it and stop right there until they could either call in a professional or figure out how to turn off the water that won’t turn off. Other people…
Well, I’m here to tell you that you can in fact remove an old and leaking hose bibb and install a new one with the water flowing at full pressure — but it ain’t easy. And you’re going to get wet. Very wet. And your back yard will resemble a wading pool before you’re finished. But as long as you can keep your cool and continue fighting water spraying everywhere under incredibly powerful pressure until you somehow miraculously get the threads on the hose bibb and the pipe to line up in spite of the spraying water pushing the hose bibb out of position as soon as you get anywhere close to being in position and you can then impossibly keep them lined up as you rotate the hose bibb 360 degrees several times to screw it in while fighting the water pressure pushing it out of position, well, you’ll be just fine. And wet. Very wet.
