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Harbor Freight is awesome - and it's conveniently located next door to the PetSmart my wife works in :)

touche'

Next time, I'm going with CJ.

Be glad she doesn't have a penis; your insurance would have probably tripled.

And speaking of penises:

I have a different view of HFT; my experiences have been that most of their tools are crappy Chinese ripoffs. But then I haven't been inside one in years.

no...youre right. a vast majority of them arent what I would consider high end "lasts a lifetime" tools. but there are some decently priced throw away tools there that will usually suffice for as long as I need them at a price that I wont feel terrible about when it breaks.

that and open end wrenches and sockets. I have long history of losing those constantly. usually anything 7/16 and 9/16. never really understood why.

I broke my penis in the harbor on some freight once. That wasn't very fun either...

I'm working with a new PM on a project and every single time she announces herself on a call it is with her full name including middle initial. Like Mary S. Smith.

Trying to decide if that middle initial is real important to her and I should use it when introducing her. And I can't think of a way to ask without it sounding like "is there a reason you sound like a pretentious ass?"

^^ Just don't get in the habit of calling her Jesus H. Christ behind her back, or it might get back to her. ;)

I often joke that I'm a typical guy in that there are only eight colors and women are being silly when they pretend there are more. Which is of course exaggeration. I know there are more colors, I just mean that I don't see any real value in naming each possible variation in wavelength.

So it isn't that when someone says "chartreuse" I don't know what it means, it is just that in my head I replace it with "on the yellow side of green."

Anyway, I had reason to be looking at the Crayola page listing all 135 colors they've ever officially had (some are different names for the same thing, there are currently 120 colors) and I realized that there were quite a few I can't even begin to guess in what area of a color wheel they'd fall:

Beaver - Some kind of brown. Possibly pink.
Bittersweet - The color of melancholia.
Blizzard Blue - I assume this is actually a blue color. But maybe just white? Like Blizzard Orange would be?
Cerise - Pink, the color of dead lambs.
Cotton Candy - Standard cotton candy colors: pink, blue, white.
Inch Worm - At least where I grew up, inch worms came in several different colors (and level of hairiness).
Jazzberry Jam - I hope "jazzberry" isn't a real thing.
Outer Space - Well, I assume this is black, but I have no idea how it might differ from the black that already exists.
Periwinkle - Periwikles are little river slugs that create a crusty coat of river gravel. We used them as bait when fishing as a kid.
Razzmatazz - I assume this is what you get when you juice a jazzberry.
Timber Wolf - The color of Kevin Garnett?

ETA: And just looking it up I learn (or, more likley, relearn) that what we called periwinkles are the larval stage of caddisflies. And that in other parts of the country periwinkles are a type snail. Still don't know what color I'd call them.