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Lunches be hanged, "trades" are frequently looked down on by the college "educated" today, those elite personages who couldn't change a tire or their own oil or cook a meal if their lives depended on it, and who believe any mouth-breathing knuckle-dragging chimp can perform any physical task equally well, from scrubbing a floor to building an automatic transmission.

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Anything that used to be "common knowledge" isn't apparently being taught much these days; I vividly recall having learned how an internal combustion engine works, how a wing makes lift, how electricity is generated, and that the Sun is a star all by the sixth grade, and I've encountered a lot of folks fairly recently "educated" who know none of that.

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Grade school should turn out students who are proficient in basic arithmetic, able to read and comprehend sentences, paragraphs, and easier books, able to write coherent paragraphs explaining what they've read, who know how to look up information in dictionaries and reference books (not just google everything), and who know basic geography (like where Europe is and the countries it encompasses) and basic science (like fire is rapid oxidation, what the periodic table is, and the different kinds of energy).

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Shaker Village in New Hampshire was established by Benjamin Whitcher in 1792 where he harbored and protected local Shakers from persecution, eventually donating the land on which the village was built

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Built models, if well done, are interesting historical artifacts, and if poorly done are challenging but rewarding subjects for rebuilding and modification...just like full-scale junkyard rescues.

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Rescues can make excellent doggies as they may have lived harrowing lives and understand how good they now have it in your domicile! 

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Domicile for my dog is supposed to be his doghouse but more times then not I find him sleeping in my bed then I'm in the doghouse.

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Tree branches are all over my yard from the recent windstorm, and I'm not going out there to pick 'em up until the temperature warms up a bit

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Bit, used to be able to get a shave and a haircut for two of them, now everyone thinks you are talking computer language.

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User error is something I have to deal with more often these days as technology is becoming smarter then the customer.

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