Today I Learned (TIL)

Norm!!!

TIL that Jason Sudeikis is George Wendt's nephew. 

TIL that the end credits song to WKRP In Cincinnati doesn't have any actual lyrics. It's all just random vocalizations.

TIL that the dad from A Christmas Story was also Kolchak: The Night Stalker.

TIL about what I'm calling bacon crack. Baked bacon in the oven 23 minutes at 350. This is the drippings in the pan that I then scraped up. 10x better than the bacon. 

TIL that one of my parking brake cables is severed about 6" forward of the rear wheel on the Expedition. No clue when that happened..

In reply to Stampie :

Wife's elderly grandparents would fry country ham up in a skillet and the white fat on the edges would get cut off and fried up. 

Me bring a Yankee would ask them in rural Alabama; you going to eat that? Yes, crackle or crackling?

Yesterday I learned two things.

The first, doctor seuss is now a brand. Thing 2 has a thing at school to read a doctor Seuss book with family. Ok, we have a bunch. I start looking, none of them are written by Dr Seuss anymore. His son who took over yes, but also s bunch of really random writers.

The second.

yes, that's my pole saw that can give me "11 feet of reach". Sounds like a good idea on paper, looks like fun. But Holy crap is it heavy and unwieldy. That little chainsaw head goes up in weight a hell of a lot with the 3 foot extension added in. 

TIL that the fastest vehicle powered by a Mopar Demon engine is an S197 Ford Mustang.

TIL that you can option out a Chevy spark to the tune of $24,000, more than doubling the cost of a base model car.

* All figures in Canadian dollars

TIL that seeing an LM002 in person didn't excite me the way my childhood dreams of an LM002 would.

TIL I'm not the shiny happy person I thought I was. I had some E36 M3 to talk about Stampie's childhood dreams & I just couldn't do it...  

Edit: I blame Putt Putt...

TIL that the key fob for a 2015 RAM is so well waterproofed that you can run it through the washing machine without any water intrusion l.  I also learned that I'm not as good about emptying my pants pockets before putting them in the hamper as I thought I was.

TIL- How to make friends with a  crow:

I'm going to try it this summer.

TIL that the rest areas on the Ohio turnpike have auto flushing toilets which is a little disconcerting if you're a stand to wipe type person.

Stampie said:

TIL that the rest areas on the Ohio turnpike have auto flushing toilets which is a little disconcerting if you're a stand to wipe type person.

Um...  

Okay, nevermind.

1: stand to wipe folks... what is wrong with you? So weird. 
2: 

In reply to mtn :

I imagine "stand to wipe" boys deal with a lot of vertical chocolate sandwich action.

I want full access when I wipe. I don't want no seat in my way.

TIL that Jimi Hendrix was actually live in the picture on the cover of the Mothers' We're Only In It For The Money.  I had always assumed he was pasted in later.

In reply to Duke :

Check out Gale. Very pregnant, probably with Moon.

Smoke in her hand

In reply to Peabody :

Yeah, that was never lost on me.

TIL that rupturing the tendons in your biceps is pretty damn painful.  Also makes your arm look funny, though not in a funny "ha-ha" kind of way. 
 

It would be time to scrap this body out if I hadn't installed all these aftermarket parts, including a new knee this Wednesday. 
 

And what was I doing to tear up the bicep?  Turning a screwdriver. 

In reply to Karacticus :

Damn, I'm sorry.

In reply to Karacticus :

Ouch. 

It always sucks seriously injuring yourself doing mundane things... when I snapped my Achilles (hard to believe it's been like 6-7 years now) everyone who knew me assumed that it happened biking... and then looked dumbfounded when I said "No, I was pushing a car..."

Karacticus said:

TIL that rupturing the tendons in your biceps is pretty damn painful.  Also makes your arm look funny, though not in a funny "ha-ha" kind of way. 
 

It would be time to scrap this body out if I hadn't installed all these aftermarket parts, including a new knee this Wednesday. 
 

And what was I doing to tear up the bicep?  Turning a screwdriver. 

Uggh; my boss had that happen, he was dropping a box of nails in his cart at Home Depot and when he released the box he said the tendon made a noise like a roller blind. Yech.