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Misc > 2,007 Things I Learned in 2007

1. Some 9 Volt batteries contain six AAA batteries.

2. I never get tired of hearing my daughter say "please" and "thank you." People always say they want their children to be creative. No one ever mentions how nice it is to have children that are polite and well-behaved.

3. Gray duct tape is good, but black duct tape is better, and clear duct tape is the best. New use for clear duct tape: covering the speaker on too-loud kids toys without making the toy look as if it was broken and then repaired with duct tape.

4. Spaghetti is good and white shirts are good, just not on the same day.

5. You're not supposed to put rice down a garbage disposal. There's something I didn't learn in college.

6. Don't take parenting advice from Britney Spears.

7. Don't take marriage advice from Pamela Anderson.

8. Don't take real estate investment advice from these people, at least not any more.

9. There's an easy way to correct photographic perspective in Photoshop.

10. I like looking at pictures of my kids. I understand now why so many people keep family photos on their desks.

11. There's such a thing as non-magnetic stainless steel.

12. I knew that natural gas was odorless, and that the smell was added by the gas company so you can notice leaks. What I didn't know is that the odor isn't added until it gets to the neighborhood where it's to be used.

13. Former Tonight Show laughtrack Ed McMahon served in WWII and Korea and was a brigadier general in the California National Guard. Did you know that? I didn't know that.

14. Cell phone warranties are worth the money. I used to balk at paying five bucks a month to insure a phone I got for fifty bucks. Now I realize the phone that costs $50 when you sign a contract costs $200 if you have to replace it.

15. Big cats have amazing jumping ability. The tiger attack at the San Francisco zoo was the second clue of 2007. The first was this YouTube video. Via Hell in a Handbasket.

What's amazing isn't just that the tiger had the ability to jump to the top of the elephant to attack the mahout, but that it had the sheer bravado to clamber up a multi-ton beast to reach its target.

16. Germany and some other Germanic and Scandinavian countries have a church tax that comes out of your paycheck.

17. Pressure washers can cut holes in you.

18. To get anything passed in the Senate it takes 60 votes, not 51.
2007. Innumeracy is rampant in America.

See also:
- 2,006 Things I Learned in 2006
- 2,005 Things I Learned in 2005

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