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Monday, October 22, 2007
3:36:00 PM EDT
Hearing This is Halloween -- Danny Elfman
Popular Mechanics offers up 25 Skills Every Man Should Know, from patching up a radiator hose to cleaning a bolt action rifle. For most of these, my tendency would be to just ask my wife, who knows how to do most of these things better than I do, with the exception of the geek-related skills, like extending the home computer network. Yes, that's how these things suss out in the Scalzi household. You need something geeky done, talk to me. Everything else, talk to her. Except for killing spiders. That's mine, too.
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3:36:00 PM EDT
Hearing This is Halloween -- Danny Elfman
Be Manly!
Popular Mechanics offers up 25 Skills Every Man Should Know, from patching up a radiator hose to cleaning a bolt action rifle. For most of these, my tendency would be to just ask my wife, who knows how to do most of these things better than I do, with the exception of the geek-related skills, like extending the home computer network. Yes, that's how these things suss out in the Scalzi household. You need something geeky done, talk to me. Everything else, talk to her. Except for killing spiders. That's mine, too.
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The problem with this list from Popular Mechanics is it's...what the word, uh, mechanical. They're important, but there's more to being a man, isn't there? After a quick Google search, I found a couple of other similar articles with more important things to know.
AskMen.com's list contains knowing how to leave a tip, set the mood, undo a bra, cure a hangover, play poker, and do the laundry and groceries.
http://www.askmen.com/fashion/how_to/46_how_to.html
Maxim's list has 100 things, including (again) how to remove a bra (this must be very important), how to keep a woman pregnancy-free, what wine to serve and how to let it breathe, how to turn a watch into a compass, how to turn a TV into a tornado predictor, and (just for monponsett) how to find the g-spot.
http://www.maximonline.com/articles/index.aspx?a_id=256 -
When I looked at that list and saw no mention of "the G Spot"... I know some dork in a cubicle wrote it, and dismissed the entire thing out of hand.
10/28/07 9:35 PM
My wife still grips because Im not Bob Villa or Norm the Master Carpenter...
Of course, I kinda see her point.........
Im not allowed to use power tools, unless there are bandaides in the house..