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Grumpy Old Woman's energy tips

'nuff said.

still do the walking and don't even have a clothes dryer except the solar kind. you should see people when i tell them i have a solar clothes dryer, usually have to explain that it is a clothes line

- 'We didn't have this green thing back in my earlier days." -

Her generation did not invent and spread the use of plastic bags. That would be the boomers.

She also did not have norovirus spreading by the paper grocery bags they used and recycled. Does anyone else remember how to make a textbook cover with one?

http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/Health/20120510/norovirus-reusable-grocery-bag-120510/

...and a new agency to oversee bag sanitation. I'm certain there's a "green" company out there already with a million-dollar machine to achieve this. More jobs saved or created!

Good job on the Americanization of this article, however, (and there's almost always a however) you missed the mark on these words:

Petrol - Gas, or gasoline
git - silly, incompetent, stupid, annoying, or childish
smartarse - Smartass

Well spotted (pardon the British phrase), Tinman57. I had intentionally left "git" and "smartarse" in, because I wanted to retain some British flavor, or flavour, if you will. And I reckoned (British)/figured (American) that American readers would get those. I'll continue to let them stand. However, shame on me: How could I possibly have referred to American's cherished "gasoline" as anything other than that? Petrol is indeed gasoline in the land of the free and the home of the brave. Or, to apply another definition: Petrol - fuel that powers motor vehicles and that costs on average $3.70 per gallon in the U.S., and $8.20 per gallon in the UK. I've now changed the word accordingly in the story. Please forgive the original un-American oversight!

Here's what I think:
http://www.instigatoragainstapathy.com/2012/09/so-i-guess-word-smartarse-has-been.html