Greasy Thumb Guzik commented on NWA Flight 253: Winners, Losers, Heroes, and The Schadenfreude of Burning Balls

"@Arken: I have a friend that's a retired chemist & he told me that the chemicals that the liquid bombers attempted to use wouldn't have worked without a large quantity of dry ice to keep it extremely cold during the mixing process."

Greasy Thumb Guzik commented on The Invincible Charlie Sheen's Old-School Christmas: Chokin' Ladies Out

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Greasy Thumb Guzik commented on How To: Build Your Own Full-Scale Eiffel Tower

"I believe the correct term is "Puddled Iron". The original iron parts of the Statue Of Liberty's framework were also made of that."

Greasy Thumb Guzik commented on Was Bernie Madoff Assaulted in Prison?

"@badasscat: There have been numerous articles about people that did, in fact, invest all of their life savings with Madoff."

Greasy Thumb Guzik commented on Inside the $1 Billion Christmas Tree Business

"Well, the Great Tree in the Walnut Room on the 7th floor of Marshall Field's in Chicago is a fake one, undoubtedly an American made one from a number of years ago, due to fire regulations. And an interesting side note: The woman that used to be in charge of decorating it [for something like 20 years] was Jewish!"

Greasy Thumb Guzik commented on The Top 13 People Politicians Should Not Have Had Sex with in the 2000s

"@miss_msry: It was the Chicago Tribune that took it to the wall & went to court to get the file released. It was , I think, a fascination about what the hell was a guy who claimed to be a choir boy doing sealing his divorce records. Plus, anyone with the last name Ryan is poison in Illinois politics now & there had to be people at the Trib that didn't want a guaranteed loss because of that."

Smitros commented on The Fake Decade

"Following military slang for consecutive zeroes, we could call this the Balls Decade--and the people listed have evidenced some big ones."

Smitros commented on White House Party Crashers: A History

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Smitros commented on The Top 13 People Politicians Should Not Have Had Sex with in the 2000s

"Knotty pine and standpipes aren't safe around these people."

Smitros commented on NYC Travel Chaos Continues

"I wonder if the deal at JFK is the Stonewall moment for travelers."