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[gfish]

Argh. Wire coathangers need to come back. They were so useful. Are plastic coathangers useful for anything beyond hanging coats? I think we've lost an important bit of hacking kit here.

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[ashley-y.livejournal.com]

Isn't abortion legal here?

[olafthunderfoot.livejournal.com]

i've got a few dozen in my closet, the uniform company supplies them! whatcha need a hanger for?

[gfish.livejournal.com]

The crankshaft for this stirling engine (http://www.physics.sfasu.edu/astro/courses/egr112/StirlingEngine/stirling.html). I was hoping to get it done tonight, but I'll find something that works tomorrow.

[olafthunderfoot.livejournal.com]

if ya lived closer, i'd give ya a hanger. the engine looks interesting!

[peteralway.livejournal.com]

Are plastic coathangers useful for anything beyond hanging coats?

Plastic coathangers allow the model rocketeer a legal, non-metallic way to simulate the sharp bends in the fuel and oxidizer lines at the top of a solid-propelled 1:1 flying replica of Robert H. Goddard's liquid-propelled rocket of March 16, 1926.

Cut properly, they make a hook effective in removing bird nesting material from a drier vent, though admittedly a wire hanger has more versatility in this sort of application.

[sistawendy.livejournal.com]

You evidently never have anything dry cleaned.

[hollyqueen.livejournal.com]

I'm glad I'm not the only one who made that immediate connection!

[ilmarinen.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I was gonna say, dry cleaners and the like give-out wire hangers. Wire hangers suck so much at hanging things that no-one actually sells or buys them but they do seem to be cheaper.

Personally, I buy wood hangers (mostly Ikea Boomerang) and use plastic for hang-drying clothes. I only resort to my plastic or few metal hangers for clothes storage if I run-out of wood. I have almost enough wood hangers at this point, just need a few more packs.

-B.

[darlingfreak.livejournal.com]

Without wire hangers, Halloween and Mommee Dearest would have been very different movies.

[darlingfreak.livejournal.com]

Well... Bush is president so who knows for how much longer.

[jadine.livejournal.com]

I buy wire coat hangers for exactly that reason. You can still get them, you just have to look a little harder.

[memegarden.livejournal.com]

Striking icon. Nice point.