ask questions of the 43T community that I can't answer researching on the internet relying upon our collective expertise to satisfy my sometimes very odd curiosity

If you were asked by some friendly tourists sitting next to you on a plane where the best place in Los Angeles to see the Hollywood sign was, what would your answer be?

And furthermore if your answer were to have been that you were pretty sure you could see the sign from the outside patio at the Griffith Observatory, would you have sent these unfortunates on a fool’s errand?

At my gym there’s a big, and in my opinion unmissable, sign that reads “Drying Swim Trunks Not Allowed – Health and Fire Hazard”, however, it seems to be extremely common despite the sign.

I shared the sauna with a few pairs of trunks a couple weeks ago and afterward I was all freaked out about what the hazard to my health may have been. I tried to look it up and there are lots of references to how it is a fire hazard and a few that say that it is a health hazard, but I am having trouble finding any definitive medical explanation of why it is.

What is hazardous about it, exactly?

Tonight I was in the sauna and a dude popped in and dropped off his wet swim trunks. I made him take them out and he was really cheesed at me demanding to know why it was a health hazard. I couldn’t answer the question, I could only point to the FREAKIN’ ENORMOUS SIGN that said very clearly “Health Hazard” and repeat to him that those words and his trunks were freaking me out and I’d prefer he do what the sign said.

So, after like what seemed forever, he takes his trunks and goes and 20 seconds later, another dude opens the door, slogs his wet trunks in and goes into the steam room where apparently these trunk drying illiterates hang out.

I couldn’t go through it again, so I left the sauna.

Now, my question is why is it a health hazard? Should I worry about the apparently rampant practice at my gym of drying swimwear in the sauna? Can you tell me why?

I am part of the protests, candle virgils, protest letters, protest petitions, etc. But this does not appear to be working enough to make this happen. Is there any other way to stop the war in Iraq and bring back our troops. What needs to be done? Really.

((huggs))

Love,

George :)

in spinach, carrots and now I hear hamburgers, do you think this is a massive plot by terrorists to start looking at the world’s food supply and create a panic? I can imagine all the children being really upset when they can’t go have a happy meal at Mcky Dee’s.

I’ll give you three recent examples when I noticed it.

I looked through a stack of papers for my mortgage statement. It wasn’t there. Why they send the statement a full month in advance is a mystery to me. I’m not going to pay it 35 days before it is due and how do they expect me to keep track of it for a month? Anyway, so, to keep track of it, I had put it in this specific stack of papers. So, I looked through it a second time. It wasn’t there. I looked in about 10 other places. In an act of utter desperation, I looked in the original stack a third time. And there it was.

I just went to whole foods and bought a pint of organic half and half. Yesterday, I took it out of the fridge and they had transformed it into a pint of lowfat buttermilk. I didn’t buy lowfat buttermilk. I don’t know what to do with buttermilk (make biscuits? Pancakes?); I wouldn’t have bought that. I bought half-n-half. Why did they change that?

I have been in the Sacramento airport 30 times. The last time I was there, I saw a representation of the Sacramento, or maybe the American, River on the floor of the terminal. That was never there before and when they matrixed it in, they made it look all old and original.

I have what I believe to be an antique armoire that I bought from a consignment shop as a gift for an old live-in girlfriend that I somehow still have… uh, the armoire, not the girlfriend. I have very little recollection of how much I paid for it, but it was a while ago and I’m not sure it’s relevant.

It has what appears to me to be bone handles, it is not in perfect shape, but pretty decent.

Anyway, I want to sell it. Mostly, I want it to be elsewhere, but I have this nagging feeling that it is worth something and a few hundred extra dollars would not be unappreciated around here.

What do I look for to determine how much it is worth? I don’t want to rip anyone off, including myself by selling it too cheaply. You know, the ‘ole win-win thing.

Like “Murphy’s Law” (“Anything that can go wrong will go wrong.”), that describes the following?

Nothing of interest will be scheduled for months and months. Then, during the one week you’re out of town, all the bands you ever wanted to see and all the events you wanted and a few friends from out of town will all come to your city while you are away.

Is there a neurological or psychological disorder whereby the subject sees just about every face as extremely familiar, as if he or she knows them, but just can’t quite place it? But, in reality, it’s just some sort of dysfunction of facial recognition?

I warned you that my curiosity is odd.

Ok, this question comes from the following tidbits. I once thought I lost a contact lens behind my eye (apparently impossible due to a membrane sealing off the front from the back). Somebody once told me that women who wear makeup have around a tablespoon of mascara behind their eyes by the time they’re in their 30s (I can find no proof of this, but wait, this isn’t my question). Finally, I also heard someplace about sometimes having to remove eyes to disentangle stuff like hairs from the optic nerves (also possibly apocryphal).

But, I think the eyes can be removed and replaced back into the socket.

These things got me to thinking. If somebody were to pop out one of my eyes, would we be able to turn it around such that I could look into my own eye socket?