Stop Leak does work. . .Yes, it does, on pin holes. It is a special blessing if you have to deal with holes you can't see and you don't have a few hundred dollars for radiator repair or replacement, or the car isn't worth the cost of repair. The closest thing to a real disadvantage of Stop Leak is ...

Hi Dingbat,

Unless your pseudonym is an allusion to Edith Bunker it sure is inappropriate for you. Few people I know think things through as sensibly and realisticly as you do.

On the odd chance that it might help you I'd like to pass on the technique my wife and I used to stop her father from ...

Mac,

You're not very specific about where the leak is in your car. If it is a radiator hose the problem may be that cracks have formed, probably within two inches of either end. Most radiator hoses have enough slack that you can cut off the cracked part and reclamp the new end to the radiator. This ...

Yes, Daughter, thank you for posting this. It is profoundly encouraging to me to find instances of people making their way in the world without harming other people.

Bless you.

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On one of Art Linkletter's shows he was interviewing 5- and 6-year-olds about whether they looked more like their daddies or their mommies. One little boy brought the house down by announcing, "I don't look like either my mommy or my daddy. I look like the mailman."

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Colin,

This sounds a lot like one of my days except that there is no way that I can ever either remember or even reconstruct all those details of how I got things so mixed up. Your post brings to mind Mark Twain's observation: "Have a place for everything and keep it somewhere else. This is not ...

When I was in school in the south (south of the Twin Cities) I got up early one morning to write a theme due that day and found that my fountain pen would not work---the ink in it was frozen. There was about 1/16" of ice on the ink in the bottle too. I used the handle of my toothbrush to break ...

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most people were no worse off in 1907 than today. .

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In 1907 there were no Federal or State income or sales taxes and no very expensive social programs. From the stories my grandparents told me I think that people who were healthy and employed were probably somewhat better off than they ...

Yogi's son claims "My Dad never said those things he said."

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Many happy returns, Stud. Sorry I missed the day.

A Sunday school teacher in Minnesota had spent more than 10 minutes vainly trying to get her 6-year-olds to come up with the word "love". Finally, in desperation, she asked them, "What was the last thing your daddy said to your mommy before he left ...