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MELTING METAL
A pound of coke will melt 20 pounds of bronze or 9 pounds of iron.
C. W. Ammens, founder
(LR) Legacy Rule of Thumb from previously published collections
Current Rating: 5.1 out of 10 based on 15 reviews
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SMOKING HASHISH
Good hashish should make you cough on the first hit.
Anonymous hashish smoker, Poplar Ridge, New York
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Current Rating: 4.4 out of 10 based on 20 reviews
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THE SURVIVAL RULE OF THREE
You can live three seconds without blood, three minutes without air, three days without water, and three weeks without food.
Sandy Figuers, geologist, El Paso, Texas
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Current Rating: 5.7 out of 10 based on 20 reviews
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SADDLING A HORSE
Check your stirrup length from a mounted, standing position. Stirrups are properly adjusted if you can just fit the palm of your hand between your crotch and the saddle.
Stacey DiGiovani, equestrian
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Current Rating: 5.0 out of 10 based on 16 reviews
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CUTTING FIREWOOD
It takes ten eight-inch maple trees to make a cord of wood.
Michael Blyskal, state real estate appraiser in The New York State Conservationist, Albany, New York
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Current Rating: 5.3 out of 10 based on 16 reviews
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LOWERING YOUR TRAVEL RISKS
Pick a hotel room between the third and sixth floors. Three floors puts you above street attacks and random shootings, while six floors will keep you in range of a cherry picker or fireman's ladder if the place goes up in flames.
Stephen Kindel, quoting Eugene Mastrangelo and Jerry Hoffman, security analysts, in Savvy
(LR) Legacy Rule of Thumb from previously published collections
Current Rating: 6.0 out of 10 based on 26 reviews
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CLEANING UP LITTER
When a state passes a bottle bill, paper and plastic litter disappears from roadsides and parks in the same proportion that beverage bottles and cans do - which is almost totally.
Isabel T. Coburn, authority at large, Pemaquid Beach, Maine
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Current Rating: 4.5 out of 10 based on 15 reviews
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PLANTING CONIFER SEEDLINGS
Two people equipped with mattocks or dibble bars can plant 800 to 1,000 conifer seedlings in a day, if no beer is served before noon.
Joe Schwartz, editor, Danby, New York
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Current Rating: 4.5 out of 10 based on 16 reviews
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EVALUATING KID'S SPEECH
A child whose speech and intelligence are developing normally will say as many words per utterance (plus or minus one) as his or her age in years - e.g. a child of about 1 should be starting to make one-word utterances, a child nearing two should be starting to put two words together, etc.
Kate Gladstone, Brooklyn, NY, USA
(EC) Collected by The Editors
Current Rating: 5.7 out of 10 based on 16 reviews
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PROJECT DURATION TIME ESTIMATE
When estimating how long a project will take to complete, start with your best guess. Double the numeric part and use the next higher time unit. This value will be closer to reality. For example: A "short" two day project will actually take four weeks to complete. It always works out this way.
Stuart McDow, Austin, TX, USA
(1) Contributions from this contributor since (2008-01-09)
Current Rating: 5.5 out of 10 based on 17 reviews
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MULTIPLYING 9'S
Any multiple of nine will have digits that add up to nine or a multiple. (e.g. 9x9= 81, 8+1 = 9; 9x5= 45, 4+5 = 9)
Waldo Weyeris, Engineer, Boulder, CO, USA
(48) Contributions from this contributor since (2008-01-22)
Current Rating: 7.8 out of 10 based on 18 reviews
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