Pipes When temperatures start to drop below freezing, your plumbing may be in danger. Pipes where water tends to linger, unprotected by the insulation that guards the rest of your home, can freeze on particularly cold nights. The expanding ice can even crack pipes and flood homes – a disaster you definitely want to avoid. …
Good Call Before calling it quits on a pair of dead corded phones or even retro-era rotary phones, transform them into an unconventional set of bookends. First, remove the cords (or unscrew the microphone covers from the rotary phones), spray-paint two scrap metal bases, then use screws to secure the handsets to the bases in …
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Celebrity breakups are as much a part of Hollywood as the glamour and fame. And yet, the public is often still shocked and dismayed when a particularly well-loved celebrity couple splits. Even more shocking, though, is how much the celebrity divorces usually end up costing. We examined a dozen of the most expensive celebrity divorces …
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1. ‘The old man the boat.’ Besides sounding like a rejected Ernest Hemingway title, this deceptive sentence is indeed grammatically correct thanks to some well-placed homonyms—multiple words that share the same spellings but have different meanings. Homonym #1 here is ‘old,’ in this case being used as a noun meaning ‘old people’ (like how you …
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