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1860
Carpentry
BUILDING STAIRS
A set of steps will be comfortable to use if two times the height of one riser, plus the width of one tread is equal to 25 inches.
Ken Vineberg, architect
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1861
Joker
FIXING THINGS
If you kick it and it works better, that's low tech.
Debbie McLaughlin, somewhere in Washington
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1862
Writing
INDEXING
An average index has three to five entries for each page of text. A light index has one to two entries per page. A scholarly or technical index has ten entries per page.
Bill Kaupe, consultant, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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1863
Education
TEACHING CHILDREN
The biggest child in your class will be your most cooperative student. The shortest child will be the class bully.
Carol Martindale, teacher, New York, New York
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1864
Logging
LOGGING
For some reason, most serious sawing accidents happen to beginners or to professionals in their eighth year of logging.
Ned Bounds, sawyer, Salmon, Idaho
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1865
Listening
LISTENING TO DRIVERS
The person doing the talking after a fender-bender is usually the person who caused the accident.
Steve Carver, illustrator, Ithaca, New York
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1866
Sports
WINNING AT TENNIS
You can break your tennis opponent's concentration by smiling while you serve.
Carolyn Lloyd, 15-year-old student, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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1867
Fruit
EATING A CANTALOUPE
A cantaloupe is ripe when it has a musky smell at the end opposite the stem.
Brad Edmondson, editor, American Demographics
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1868
Joker
EATING IN CAFETERIAS
Cafeterias serve institution-grade foods. Never imagine anything else.
Dean Sheridan, electronics technician and deaf actor, Torrance, California
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1869
Music
TUNING A MUSICAL INSTRUMENT
A stringed instrument is less apt to slip out of pitch if the strings are tuned up from flat than it is if the strings are tuned down from sharp.
Robbie Aceto, musician
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1870
Weapons
DESIGNING A GUN
A safe rule, if you want to design a gun with recoil that is not too unpleasant, is to make the gun weigh at least 96 times the load of shot it is built to fire.
W. W. Greener, arms maker, from The Gun and Its Development (written in the 1800s)
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