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My kids are into soap bubbles a lot at the moment, and young as they are, they aren't very careful with them. So they're going through quite a lot of that liquid.
Now, the soap bubble liquid that you buy at the supermarket is either quite overpriced or of bad quality, usually both actually.
So being who I am I started thinking that I should mix the stuff myself.
After some googling I find the Soap Bubble Fanciers Yahoo group (No kidding)
After some more googling and reading I quickly found out that polyethylene oxide is a long-chain polymer that can turn water and detergent into "excellent bubble juice".
I find out that the recommended brands of PEO are J-Lube and PolyOx WSR-301[^]. Availability of Polyox seems to not be so good but J-Lube should be available at Farm/Ranch or Vet supply stores.
No, the penny didn't drop, and I was still amused by the existence of the Soap Bubble Fanciers Yahoo group.
Some more googling and I find out that J-Lube is a gel for veterinarian purposes.  The penny still hasn't dropped.
I'm finding nothing at any farm or pet suppliers where I live, so now I check for the price and availability on Amazon.
Now the penny dropped. All the way.
The first hint was the name of the reseller.
The second hint wasn't a hint, it was a sledgehammer. It was the "people that have bought this product also looked at these".
It will indeed be amusing to see what suggestions I will get next time on Amazon.  Even more so for my wife 
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<voice quality='gravelly'>Welcome to my dungeon of delight.</voice>
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Somehow that made me think of Marcellus Wallace.
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Does he look like a bitch?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I know it's wrong, but this whole experience was wrong on so many levels.
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At least you don't need to call on Winston Wolf! 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Had to look up that.
I would have referred to Viktor, the Cleaner. From "La Femme Nikita".
Great actors both of them.
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You start dropping "Pulp Fiction" references and you miss Mr Wolf? 
The "Dead N****r Storage" section is one of the best bits of the film!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I know,  My memory for names isn't the best.
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Zagyg stop, please!
Geek code v 3.12 {
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- r++>+++ y+++*
Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
}
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
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I usually take DryFluid Extreme. It takes care of any lubrication and does not make a mess, just in case you ever need to make an oil change 
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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I finally got fed up with Windows 8.1 and decided to get rid of it. I considered Win 10, but from postings here on CP I decided to let the Early Adopters sort out the quirks and maybe I will consider it in a year or two.
So I was left with my beloved Windows 7. I made an image of my Win 8 systems partition (in case I wanted to go back to Win 8.1) and dusted off my Win 7 OEM disk. I just completed a fresh Win 7 install and so far everything looks great. It's nice to have a stable system and features like the Win 7 gadgets back.
I won't "upgrade" from Win 7 lightly in future!
How do we preserve the wisdom men will need,
when their violent passions are spent?
- The Lost Horizon
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My new notebook might arrive tomorrow. Fortunately it has no OS installed, so it will be Win 7 again. I don't intend to use any newer windows at all and if Win 7 becomes obsolete, then I may kiss Mickeysoft goodby for good. I would do so already if Linux distributions would get a little better for NVIDIA graphics chipsets.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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OK, seriously now : forget all the blabla and "bad bad OS, I won't upgrade, I stick with mw old stick" : Win10, as every other windows, is not the best OS you could dream of, but it is the most up-to-date, and the best windows in class now. The more you wait, the greater the gap to close to the next version, the less shiny the new OS will look.
Just my 2 cents.
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Quote: the best windows in class now
That is the class of Windows that are on version 10?
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Cornelius Henning wrote: features like the Win 7 gadgets
The weather gadgets on two different 7 computers failed, strangely about a month apart apparently because the service is no longer available.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Don't forget to remove the spyware that MS has backported from Windows 10 to Windows 7.
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I've just received a welcome email from Tesco for signing up to their delivery service ... which I did ... in 2000!
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Didn't want you to miss out on any sales!
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.1 new web site.
I know the voices in my head are not real but damn they come up with some good ideas!
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Also, Windows 95 just released and we've got some great sales on Microsoft Bob.
But, hurry, these deals won't last.
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But wait there's more for a limited time only you can get Lotus-123 for only $29.95.
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.1 new web site.
I know the voices in my head are not real but damn they come up with some good ideas!
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Ha!!
After 37 years with the corporation, I started getting notices that I needed to complete the on-line "New Associate Orientation" training!!! 
"Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed."
- G.K. Chesterton
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You can hardly believe it, but John Smith was once a very shy guy who was afraid of human contact.
He didn't have any friends at school and his time in college was a social vacuum.
He messed up work interviews time after time.
For years, a relationship was unthinkable, let alone a large group of friends.
But people can change. Radically change.
Not John though. He refused to co-operate for this interview.
Loosely translated from De Speld[^] (where none of the news is actually true) 
modified 2-Sep-15 17:07pm.
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 So how is this supposed to help ... or is ritual humiliation a big thing for De Speld? What does that translate as, 'The Torturer'?
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Should've used the joke icon.
Nothing in De Speld is actually true, John Smith isn't real, it's just an anti-climax kind of thing.
De Speld translates as The Pin by the way.
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