Ask Rachel
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- Monday blackouts, soy boy and getting clean
- 07/14/2022
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Interesting fact: Soy lecithin is an emulsifier, sure, but it’s a food lubricant? Not two words I usually put together outside the ol’ love shack.
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- Covert blow-outs, wet spots &?ant farming
- 07/07/2022
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Interesting fact: Coasters are also referred to as beermats in other parts of the English-speaking world, where clearly they do not drink lemonade or iced tea on warm, humid days.
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- Open wide, plastic pruning & double standard
- 06/30/2022
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Interesting fact: A recent report reports that there are, reportedly, other pencil numbers besides #2. And that the number refers to the hardness of the graphite. Someday, if I’m very lucky, I’ll meet a pencil with a #5 or #6.
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- Joltin' Joe, star struck & first-world probz
- 06/23/2022
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Interesting fact: Bocce is reportedly the world’s third most popular sport, behind soccer and (this is why I say “reportedly”) golf. But you sure don’t hear Simon & Garfunkel lamenting long-lost bocce players.
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- Lighten the load, avo-present & soiled saddles
- 06/16/2022
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Interesting fact: We burn about 100 calories running a mile. An avocado can have 200-300 calories. A $2 avocado therefore is still a worse bargain than gassing up your car.
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- Smooth & slobbery, please hold and breaking down
- 06/09/2022
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Interesting fact: The service life of the Motorola bag phone ended in 2008 when the networks went extinct. Long live the bag phone
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- Cats away, lost in translation &?real talk
- 06/02/2022
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Interesting fact: Durango.org has an entire section on visiting town with your dog, but no mention of hiking with your cat or visiting the 5-acre cat park.
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- Untucked trends, bathtub Bordeaux & pet names
- 05/26/2022
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Interesting fact: The Rock started his wrestling career as Rocky Miavia, and like me, he learned to drop his last name for public appearances.
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- Drawing the line, meter men & customer disservice
- 05/19/2022
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Interesting fact: The average business will hear from about 4% of its dissatisfied customers. Not me; I never survey people about how I’m doing.
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- Do not enter, distracted driving & unwanted guests
- 05/12/2022
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Interesting fact: The 20th century was the heyday for euphemisms of the butt, the king of which is the keister (1930).
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- The Animas High interns take over Rachel
- 05/05/2022
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Interesting fact: In 2011, the Durango High School senior prank went haywire when the students filled the school with bales of hay, closing the school for four days after the hay released clouds of mold spores and dust.
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- No. 2 crimes, so long yellow license plates & foul winds
- 04/28/2022
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Interesting fact: In honor of Earth Day, every answer uses the word “green.” So what if we forgot about Earth Day until after the fact?
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- Scavengin' nuts, coffee OD & lameduck lobbyist
- 04/21/2022
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Interesting fact: A lethal dose of caffeine is about 10 grams, or more than 100 double espresso shots. Volume wise, that’s only like 15 cans of beer. Challenge accepted.
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- Stale cologne, coffee conundrum and cutting out
- 04/14/2022
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Interesting fact: Fresh air and sunshine will do wonders for clingy odors. Tune in next week for what to do with your sun-bleached fancy dress clothes.
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- Drinking to Ukraine, sticker shock and grand dilemma
- 04/07/2022
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Interesting fact: I Snopes’d myself, and nope, produce stickers are edible only in the sense of “technically you can swallow it if you don’t choke on it.”
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- Dodo don'ts, no pain/all gain & final plunge
- 03/31/2022
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Interesting fact: The dodo bird went extinct in 1662, and while reports about the final cause of death are inconclusive, it was probably quicksand.
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- Ripped jeans, No. 2 crimes &?elitist Elons
- 03/24/2022
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Interesting fact: Front plates are, apparently, so aesthetically treasonous to snobby people that Tesla models don’t even come with front plate mounts (though they provide one that super uncool drivers can affix by themselves).
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- Tie me up, leveling the field & haunted plants
- 03/17/2022
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Interesting fact: A 7-year-old Louie XIV liked the knotted neck kerchiefs that Croatian mercenaries wore, and it’s thanks to that little brat that young men learn double Windsors on YouTube today.
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- Damned kids, friendly avoidance & personal yeller
- 03/10/2022
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Interesting fact: Blonde hair can sell for up to three times the price of dark hair. Guess not everyone’s in it for Locks of Love.
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- Matters of the heart, throwing shade & the age game
- 03/03/2022
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Interesting fact: Drapes are curtains with a liner to block out more light. Draperies are just drapes for people trying to hit a syllable quota.
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