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[Carol the Dabbler]

57 minutes ago, Arcadia said:

One of my storage jugs is in fact a milk jug. The other is clear plastic -- apple juice jug, maybe? Something. I'll used them for comparison purposes. Check back in a couple of years.

Yes, please do keep us posted!

Your milk jug is presumably #2 plastic (high-density polyethylene), but the clear jug is more likely #1 (Polyethylene terephthalate -- yeah, I had to look that up!).  My money would be on the #1 to last longer, but unfortunately I don't recall ever buying anything in a gallon-size #1.  Number 5 plastic (polypropylene) is also very durable, but that's mostly yogurt tubs.

 

[Carol the Dabbler]

For my fellow Rocky & Bullwinkle fans, here's a video of June Foray and Bill Scott doing those voices on-camera:

I just love that kinda stuff!  (Here's a link to some related videos: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=rocky+and+bullwinkle+voice+actors )

Came across that video while looking up info on real-life flying squirrels.  Turns out, even though I don't believe I've ever seen one, they do live around here.  In fact, counting all three North-American species, they pretty much cover the entire continent.  And if you shine an ultraviolet ("black") light on them at night, they all fluoresce pink!

There's also a Eurasian species, but I have no idea whether it fluoresces.

 

[Arcadia]

11 hours ago, Carol the Dabbler said:

 

I had no idea the same people did all the different voices! Rocky & Bullwinkle was always my favorite kid's cartoon. Very subversive, tho I didn't know it at the time. I watched them again when I was in my 20's and found them even funnier.

They mentioned Crusader Rabbit ... I remember that was another favorite, but more rare. I must off and see if any of it has been preserved on YouTube.....

 

ETA: Found some! But it's not what I remembered, apparently there was more than one incarnation. One thing I did not know was it was the first cartoon created specifically for TV. But that's not the version I saw.

[Carol the Dabbler]

57 minutes ago, Arcadia said:

I had no idea the same people did all the different voices!

As I recall, the credits at the end of the show listed maybe four or five voice people.  Lemme go check.  OK, according to IMDb, Paul Frees did Boris Badenov and Inspector Fenwick.  As he demonstrated in that video, Bill Scott did both Bullwinkle Moose and Mr. Peabody.  June Foray did Rocket J. Squirrel, Natasha Fatale, and Nell Fenwick.  Sherman (Mr. Peabody's boy) was voiced by Walter Tetley.  Snidely Whiplash was voiced by Hans Conried.  Most of them also did a bunch of miscellaneous voices, and a bunch of other people did still more voices.

Did you ever see a short-lived (13 episode) sitcom from 1984 called The Duck Factory?  My brother and I loved that show, partly because the actors included Don Messick (who we'd previously known only as voice credits on Yogi Bear and The Flintstones) and Jay Tarses (whose name was familiar from a variety of behind-the-camera credits).  June Foray had a cameo in one episode.  Oh, and the young guy who played the lead was pretty good, fella named Jim something, here it is, Jim Carrey.  Would love to get that on DVD  (It does seem to be available as used VHS cassettes, for $70-something.)

 

[Arcadia]

20 hours ago, Carol the Dabbler said:

Did you ever see a short-lived (13 episode) sitcom from 1984 called The Duck Factory?

Nope, missed that one. Sounds like something I might have enjoyed, though I confess to not caring much for Jim Carrey's brand of acting.

[Arcadia]

On 6/28/2022 at 12:34 PM, Carol the Dabbler said:

Your milk jug is presumably #2 plastic (high-density polyethylene), but the clear jug is more likely #1 (Polyethylene terephthalate -- yeah, I had to look that up!).  My money would be on the #1 to last longer, but unfortunately I don't recall ever buying anything in a gallon-size #1.  Number 5 plastic (polypropylene) is also very durable, but that's mostly yogurt tubs.

Ran across this scary bit of info today............

Plastics can take anywhere from 20 to 500 years to decompose, depending on the material and structure.  Additionally, how fast a plastic breaks down depends on sunlight exposure.

And....

Plastic can take anywhere from 20 to 500 years to decompose or break down in any environment, including landfill. When plastic decomposes, it breaks down into small pieces that may not be visible to the naked eye, however, these small pieces of plastic will never fully decompose...

Thank goodness for repurposing/reusing/recycling, but I do wonder how effective that is.....

Edited July 5, 2022 by Carol the Dabbler
Retyped first quote to be visible on dark theme.

[Carol the Dabbler]

4 hours ago, Arcadia said:

I confess to not caring much for Jim Carrey's brand of acting.

In that case you'll be glad to know he wasn't like that in The Duck Factory.  At least I recall him as being perky rather than umm, Carrey-ish -- so apparently he was more restrained.  (I like some of his more recent stuff too, but I'd probably enjoy it more if he dialed it back a bit!)

Added:  I went looking on YouTube to see if they had any samples -- and the entire series seems to have been posted by several different people.  Just type Duck Factory into the YouTube search bar.

 

[Carol the Dabbler]

10 hours ago, Arcadia said:

Plastic can take anywhere from 20 to 500 years to decompose or break down in any environment, including landfill. When plastic decomposes, it breaks down into small pieces that may not be visible to the naked eye, however, these small pieces of plastic will never fully decompose...

I guess that's good news in a way.  As we've all noticed, brand-new plastic can be pretty stinky at first, releasing large amounts of volatile substances into the air, but this outgassing decreases quickly.  Apparently the slow-down continues, to the point where the remaining plastic is virtually inert, and therefore fairly harmless.

 

[Carol the Dabbler]

Alex just saw a TV ad for artificial Christmas trees.  On July 13th.     Five months and 12 days before Christmas.

 

[Arcadia]

On 7/13/2022 at 3:04 PM, Carol the Dabbler said:

Alex just saw a TV ad for artificial Christmas trees.  On July 13th.     Five months and 12 days before Christmas.

 

Were they on sale?  

[Carol the Dabbler]

5 hours ago, Arcadia said:

Were they on sale?  

Still trying to get rid of last year's stock, you mean?  No idea.  Just being FOR sale at this time of year is weird enough!

 

[Carol the Dabbler]

On 5/26/2022 at 1:26 AM, Carol the Dabbler said:

Our typical power outages last two or three hours, but this time there was a derecho (a storm front of unusually strong winds) that knocked down numerous trees

Had another outage today, just a bit over four hours long this time.  There was no strong wind, no lightning, no storm at all.  But it's very hot and muggy, so I'm sure everyone's air conditioning was going full blast -- till everything stopped.

When I phoned to report our outage, the nice recorded lady said there were a few hundred (I forget the exact figure) homes affected.  When I called back three hours later, she said nearly 2,500.  I'm wondering if perhaps they had to shut down a large section of their customer base in order to replace some piece of equipment?  Can't seem to find anything about it on the news.

OK, found this on their Twitter account:  "We currently have 2,491 members without power due to a down transmission line."  That'll do it!  (That initial few-hundred count must have been before they knew the full extent of the problem.)

Transmission lines are the ones on those big honkin' towers.  They carry wholesale amounts of electricity cross-country from a power station.  So if the transmission line that feeds our area goes down....

 

 

 

[Carol the Dabbler]

I've been pondering certain aspects of the 2001 film Kate & Leopold (starring Meg Ryan and Hugh Jackman, respectively).  If you don't want to read any spoilers, don't click on this box:

Spoiler

Leopold accidentally goes from 1876 to 2001, where he meets Kate and they fall in love over the course of one week.  Then he finds out that he must return to his own time.  After he leaves, Kate is persuaded to follow him back to 1876.

What I'm wondering is, would I be willing to go back in time (and how far back) if I knew it would not be possible to return to the present?

I'd like to hear what y'all think you might do.

 

[Caya]

A time before computers? Not even for Hugh Jackman.

[Carol the Dabbler]

13 hours ago, Caya said:

A time before computers? Not even for Hugh Jackman.

Before computers doesn't bother me so much, since I grew up well before the home-computer era.  What *would* concern me is the state of medicine and dentistry.

 

[Caya]

I'm just barely old enough to have grown up without computers as well, which is why I want none of that back. But yeah, medicine is another good point, not to mention such lovely details as not being allowed to vote yet.

[Carol the Dabbler]

Vote, right -- and own property.  A lot of things have changed over just the past hundred years or so.

I think I could manage without some of them, though, depending on the incentives.  But without modern medicine, I would probably have died when I was ten years younger than I am now.

 

[Arcadia]

I've had this conversation a couple of times. When I was younger I would have said yes. Now, though ... yeah, dentistry.....

[Carol the Dabbler]

11 hours ago, Arcadia said:

When I was younger I would have said yes. Now, though ... yeah, dentistry.....

I don't care to end up with full dentures (like both of my parents), and I suspect that was the best that could be hoped for in the late 1800s.

Fortunately, after years of disappointing results from one dentist after another, I recently found a detail-oriented fellow who quickly got my mouth into good shape -- though I still need to make appointments for three implants, so I'd better stay here in the 21st century.

 

[Fantasy Lover]

No thank you, no voting rights, not allowed to work, not allowed to drive a car, no roe v wade I'll pass thanks.

[Carol the Dabbler]

My condolences to the Royal Family, to the people of the UK -- and to the world, really -- on the passing of Queen Elizabeth II earlier today, and best wishes to King Charles III.

 

[besleybean]

 I am republican and frankly furious at the immedate installation of a king.

[Fantasy Lover]

I heard it, it was to be expected with her age and the passing of her husband.

[Pamela]

44 minutes ago, besleybean said:

 I am republican and frankly furious at the immedate installation of a king.

He has to wait a year for his coronation. He's 73.

[besleybean]

Holy moly...

well if we can manage without a monarch for  a year...

frankly it shows we don't actually need one.