More likely @MsBean ‘s mom, but yes! 
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This chief executive performance could perk up the weary viewer:
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That was also an excellent Simpsons episode!!!
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How do you get the deal?
I remember that one!
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It just shows up for me on the Prime page prime.amazon.com
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It was rated a top ten episode.
“Our source was the New York Times.”
Can anybody name this classic movie quote?
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Thanks! It’s showing up as a deal of the day at $2.99 for me. Still a deal.
Dr Strangelove. The US President is shocked that the Russians know about the American nuclear arsenal and doomsday plan. And the Russian president answers, Our source was the New York Times.
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I never thought of that as any kind of regular or preventative maintenance task. To me, changing one of those would be a major provocation. Too much potential for bad things to happen.
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They don’t last forever. Often they leak just a little under the toilet with no visible sign - just an olfactory one. Since I first had a leak I now make it a practice to replace them when I first buy a house. You can get them with a built-in plastic funnel that helps with alignment. It isn’t much work at all - one pipe and two nuts.
Honestly I was trying to come up with a list of things to do while at home. grin
We do a twice yearly audit of the cupboards (both of them) and bin anything significantly past its “best before” date. I’m usually OK with whole spices to let them a few months past, although the ground ones go to the Great Spice Rack In The Sky. .
I think the only things my mother had in spice cabinet were iodized salt, ground pepper in a square can, garlic powder, and paprika. I’m not really sure where my love of spices comes from. It doesn’t appear to be genetic.
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@Auspicious - you know me, I’ll go there re: the seat splatter issue! BUT, you’ll have to wait a bit, cause it’s too early on the West Coast to get into that yet. Besides, I only wake up enough to drink a cup of coffee, take early a.m. meds, and strangely enough, go back to sleep AFTER the coffee. Go figure.
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Here you go @Auspicious - assuming you mean GI, rather than urinary. Women, because they don’t lift the seat up, are frequently unaware there is splatter. Once the H brought it to my attention, I’m meticulous about checking, especially after nearly a year of being on and off oral antibiotics, as well as a reaction to a medication. Both of them wreaked total havoc with me. However, occasionally, and due to the urgent nature of the events, and anxious to get back to interrupted tasks, I forget to check. This mortifies me, but when it does happen, H leaves the seat up as a nonverbal reminder. This works for us. Hope not TMI, but a fact of life. BTW, and very thankfully, the 9.5 weeks of IV and picc line antibiotics didn’t have the GI effect, as they go directly into the bloodstream, naturally.
As an aside, did the math on the vancomycin solution I had to infuse for 5.5 weeks - 25 pounds of the stuff. Quite possibly the strongest anti-b on earth, and considered a drug of last resort. Happy my body was able to tolerate it, after allergies to the first two. As a matter of personal curiosity I’m planning to tally all the mls of the other two antibiotics as well as the mls of the saline flushes I used. No wonder I still feel like crap some days…
Oh, and next we need to talk about aging prostates - I dare YOU 
My man doesn’t clean toilets or large pots and pans but he has 2 Porsches each with with 2 sets of track tires, a 22 foot Grady White Fisherman 232, a Kubota front end loader with a back hoe…and all of the power tools one man could possibly dream about.
He’s a fortunate man.
John “owner of 8 yr old Skoda” Harters
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Was just going to say the same as @Harters! My man does it all, makes a much better wife than me. Really stepped up since I got sick too. This in addition to his regular job, where he manages 35+ people. The most amazing workaholic I’ve ever met.
Ironically my next car will be a Porsche with a turbo 4. I’m going to have the garage redone. The man gets to drive the Porsche, but doesn’t get to choose my new car. Just need to get garage cleaned out 1st. 4 major remodels, you can only imagine what it looks like. Yikes, & I have little stamina from recent events. Coming back slowly though…
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Proud driver of a purple 2013 Honda Fit with manual transmission and no electronics.
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