Recent content by jimintoronto

Canada Post buys commercial vehicles from the 3 Canadian based automotive companies. They specify the interior racking and shelves and cargo dividers, but the vehicles are stock designs. Exterior advertising wraps are applied at the same time the interiors are installed. The Canada Post fleet of...

Think about this for a minute...IF a quarter of a second spray has NO CALORIES, so does a one second spray, or a 3 second spray. Relax. By the way, do you know why it is called CANola oil ? First developed and produced in western Canada....Yes. JimB.

I am amazed at the high number of people on this forum who are living so far in the past. By that I mean the practice of sending bill payments through the mail system. Have none of you heard about using the Internet to pay your bills ? I am by no means a computer guru, BUT I do know how to...

Take charge of your own affairs, before the departing happens. Write out your wishes on paper, and distribute them to several reliable people that you can trust to carry out your directions. My Wife and my Lawyer both have copies of my will and my funeral plans. I have a pre paid contract with a...

My Father used to say..I want another slather of that gravy, on my meat. His pronunciation of the world ELM, was more like ELUM, same with the word FILM, which he said like FILUM. He called a pizza, a pizza PIE. Although he professed to be "Alergic to milk " he loved Butter Milk as a cold summer...

It is called "the Vanity Press " for a very good reason. Millions of perfectly good trees died so some hacks could publish their banal words. At least now, with E books, the waste of paper has been somewhat reduced. Jimb.

I guess you have forgotten that the US military has teenagers operating equipment that can kill people? In any case, the reality is that the grass cutting jobs will be filled by immigrant laborers. Jimb.

I suggest that the barges were "rafted together, in a group " and the mooring lines were not sufficient to hold them to the pier. JimB.

Perhaps the families of the two murdered victims will now be able to sue his estate, to try to get the money that he was ordered to pay them, by the civil courts, but which he never did pay them? JimB. In Toronto.

My wife's hair stylist is wonderful, and I have switched to her shop, from a young hipster guy, who had an attitude, charged more every time I went into his shop, and who insisted on me booking an appointment using his web site application. She cut my hair as I asked her to do, in 20 minutes...

The State where you live MAY have an office of " The Public Guardian " which can be appointed by you, to make sure your decisions included in your last will, will be followed. I suggest that you do some looking around the website of the State Government where you now live. As for the position of...

Some serious security faults in this theft. Coming in through the roof, on a week end , is a tried and true method that has been used many times in the past decades. Once inside, the movement alarms SHOULD have been triggered by the crooks . If the outgoing security warning signals relied on a...

Fat kids with fat parents. The adult buys the food, not the child. The child eats what the adult gives them. Who is the enabler ? The parent. Jimb.

Please tell those of us who don't live in the UK...WHY were 700 people "prosecuted between 1999 and 2015 " ? What were they charged with, exactly ?? Details, please ? JimB.

Ron Popiel was the man behind Ronco products. link. Ron Popeil - Wikipedia A US success story, for sure. By the way, a vegetable that has been sliced thinly, is known as a Julienne cut . One example would be thin sliced carrots, in a salad. Jimb.