Month: February 2007

  • Reprinted From Friday, April 08, 2005

      GOOD THINGS TO KNOW


    1. Beer conditions the hair
    2. Pam cooking spray will dry finger nail polish
    3. Cool whip will condition your hair in 15 minutes
    4. Mayonnaise will KILL LICE, it will also condition your hair
    5. Elmer's Glue - paint on your face, allow it to dry, peel off and see the dead skin and blackheads
    6. Shiny Hair - use brewed Lipton Tea
    7. Sunburn - empty a large jar of Nestea into your bath water
    8. Minor burn - Colgate or Crest toothpaste
    9. Burn your tongue? Put sugar On it!
    10. Arthritis? WD-40 Spray and rub in, kill insect stings too
    11. Bee stings - meat tenderizer
    12. Chigger bite - Preparation H
    13. Puffy eyes - Preparation H
    14. Paper cut - crazy glue or chap stick (glue is used instead of sutures at most hospitals)
    15. Stinky feet - Jell-O!
    16. Athletes feet - cornstarch
    17. Fungus on toenails or fingernails - Vicks vapor rub
    18.
    Kool aid will clean dishwasher pipes. Just put in the detergent section
    and run a cycle, it will also clean a toilet. (Wow, and we drink this
    stuff)
    19. Kool Aid can be used as a dye in paint also Kool Aid in
    Dannon Plain yogurt as a finger paint, your kids will love it and it
    won't hurt them if they eat it!
    20. Peanut butter - will get scratches out of CD's! Wipe off with a coffee filter paper
    21. Sticking bicycle chain - Pam no-stick cooking spray
    22. Pam Will also remove paint, and grease from your hands! Keep a can in your garage for your hubby
    23. Peanut butter will remove ink from the face of dolls
    24. When the doll clothes are hard to put on, sprinkle with corn starch and watch them slide on
    25. Heavy dandruff - pour on the vinegar!
    26.
    Body paint - Crisco Mixed with food coloring. Heat the Crisco in the
    microwave, pour in to an empty film container and mix with the food
    color of your choice!
    27. Tie Dye T-shirt - mix a solution of Kool Aid in a container, tie a rubber band around a section of the T-shirt and soak
    28.
    Preserving a newspaper clipping - large bottle of club soda and cup of
    milk of magnesia, Soak for 20 min. and let dry, will last for many
    years!
    29. A Slinky Will hold toast and CD's!
    30.. To keep goggles and glasses from fogging, coat with Colgate toothpaste
    31. Wine stains, pour on the Morton salt And watch it absorb into the salt.
    32. To remove wax - Take a paper towel and iron it over the wax stain, it will absorb into the towel.
    33. Remove labels off glassware etc. rub with Peanut butter!
    34.
    Baked on food - fill container with water, get a Bounce paper softener
    and the static from the Bounce Towel will cause the baked on food to
    adhere to it. Soak overnight. Also; you can use 2 Efferdent tablets,
    Soak overnight!
    35. Crayon on the wall - Colgate Toothpaste and brush it!
    36. Dirty grout - Listerine
    37. Stains on clothes - Colgate
    38. Grass stains - Karo Syrup
    39.
    Grease Stains - Coca Cola, It will also remove grease stains from the
    driveway overnight and take corrosion from car batteries!
    40.
    Fleas in your carpet? 20 Mule Team Borax- Sprinkle and let stand for 24
    hours. Maybe this will work if you get them back again.
    41. To keep FRESH FLOWERS longer Add a little Clorox, or 2 Bayer aspirin, Or just use 7-up instead of water.
    42. Aluminum foil - will remove dirt and oxidation from chrome.
    43.
    When you buy bread in the grocery store, have you ever wondered
    which is the freshest, so you "squeeze" for freshness or softness? Did
    you know that bread is delivered fresh to the stores five days a week? 
    Each day has a different color twist tie. They are: Monday =
    Blue, Tuesday = Green, Thursday = Red Friday = White and Saturday =
    Yellow. The colors go alphabetically by color Blue- Green - Red - White
    - Yellow, Monday through Saturday. Very easy to remember.

  •  Reprinted from Tuesday, December 10, 2002
     


    GREAT MOMENTS IN TOILET PAPER HISTORY

    500 B.C.-A.D. 500: Roman Civilization
    —
    All public toilets feature a stick with a sponge attached to its end,
    soaking in a bucket of brine. Citizens use the tool to freshen up.
    1391: The King's Pleasure
    — Chinese emperors begin ordering toilet paper in sheets measuring 2 feet by 3 feet.
    1596: A Royal Flush
    —
    Sir John Harington, a godson of Queen Elizabeth I, invents the first
    flushing toilet (a distinction often attributed to plumber Thomas
    Crapper).
    1700s: Damn Niblets!
    — Colonial Americans wipe with corncobs, later switching to old newspapers, catalogues and almanacs.
    1857: Every Sheet Bears My Name
    —
    New York entrepreneur Joseph C. Gayetty manufactures the first packaged
    pre-moistened sheets of bathroom tissue called "therapeutic paper" in
    packs of 500 for 50 cents. Gayetty is so proud of his innovation that
    he had his name imprinted on each sheet.
    1861-1904: The Gifts of Thomas Crapper
    — British plumber Thomas Crapper revolutionizes the toilet with a series of plumbing-related patents.
    1872: Kimberly Meets Clark
    —
    Charles Benjamin Clark, a 28-year-old Civil War veteran, recruits John
    A. Kimberly to join him in building a paper mill in Wisconsin.
    1890: On a Roll
    —
    Scott Paper introduces toilet paper on a roll. But the paper goods
    company is somewhat embarrassed to be associated with such an
    "unmentionable" thing and refuses to put its name on the product.
    Instead, the toilet paper bears the name of intermediaries. As a
    result, at the beginning of the 20th century, the Waldorf Hotel in New
    York becomes a leader in the toilet paper business.
    1902: Enter the Green Bay Giant
    — Northern Paper Mills, that later became Quilted Northern, opens, producing Northern Tissue.
    1916: Gas Masks Become Sanitary Napkins
    —
    Kimberly-Clark begins concentrating on a special wadding paper. With
    World War I brewing in Europe, this product, Cellucotton, was adapted
    for use as a filter in gas masks and bandages. Nurses began using it as
    sanitary pads. Cellucotton was renamed "Cellu-Naps," and then "Kotex."
    1920: The Tissue and the Pop-Up Box
    — Kimberly-Clark introduces the Kleenex tissue. Nine years later, this product is marketed in the patented Pop-Up box.
    1928: From Charming to Charmin
    —
    Hoberg paper introduces Charmin. The logo a woman's head from a cameo
    pin was designed to appeal to feminine fashions of the day. A female
    employee called the packaging "charming," and the product's brand name
    was born.
    1932: Wiping Away Depression
    — Charmin tries to mitigate the pain of the Great Depression by introducing the economy-sized four-roll pack.
    1935: Who's Got the Tweezers?
    — Northern Tissue is hailed as one of the few splinter-free toilet papers on the market.
    1942: A Softer World
    — St. Andrew's Paper Mill in England introduces two-ply toilet paper.
    1944: Patriotic Toilet Paper Duty
    —
    The United States honors Kimberly-Clark with an "E" Award (for
    excellence in commercial services) for its heroic effort supplying
    soldiers fighting in World War II.
    1964: Enter Mr. Whipple
    —
    He appears for more than 20 years in TV, radio and print advertising.
    The real George Whipple was the president of the Benton & Bowles
    advertising agency, which came up with the "Please, don't squeeze the
    Charmin" ad campaign. He sold the rights to his name to Procter &
    Gamble for $1. Dick Wilson, the vaudeville veteran who portrayed Mr.
    Whipple on TV, later recalled his agent calling him about the project.
    "My agent asked me, 'What do you think of toilet paper?' And I told him, 'I think everybody should use it.'"
    For
    his role in making Charmin the No. 1 toilet paper in America, Wilson's
    salary grew to $300,000 a year, and Procter & Gamble promised him a
    "lifetime supply" of toilet paper.
    1973: The Johnny Carson Toilet Paper Scare
    —
    Johnny Carson makes a joke about the United States facing an acute
    shortage of toilet paper. This prompts viewers to run out to stores and
    begin hoarding. Carson apologizes the next day for causing the scare
    and retracts his remark.
    1991: Covert TP
    — The U.S. military uses toilet paper to camouflage its tanks in Saudi Arabia during the Gulf War.
    1995: The Great Toilet Paper Caper
    —
    A Philadelphia city employee is charged with stealing $34,000 worth of
    toilet paper from Veterans Stadium just before an Eagles football game.
    The accused, Ricardo Jefferson, was fired. City spokesman Tony
    Radwanski said: "We don't really know how long this was going on. We
    only looked at a 10-month period from October 1994 to August 1995, but
    man, he really wiped that stadium clean."
    1999: Paperless Toilet
    —
    Japanese inventors unveil the paperless toilet. The device washes,
    rinses and blow-dries the user's bottom with a heating element.
    2000: Men Are From Folders, Women Are From Wadders
    —
    A Kimberly-Clark marketing survey on bathroom habits finds that women
    are "wadders" and men are "folders." Women also tend to use much more
    toilet paper than men.