Once read a consumer reports in the 80’s that listed Ultra Bright fluoride teethpaste as a best buy which is available in the dollar stores for $1.25 – I won’t pay $4
As I read this strip a garden spider crawled along the wall behind the computer across an old Hockey team photo from 2002 featuring Atures Irbe in his grimy hand made pads and Weeks in his cool looking oversized black panther pads. Lost the cup in the finals to Detroit that year, but I remember going to the triple overtime game against Toronto and Weeks beating Bodeur who broke his stick over his goal after the loss in the earlier rounds.
I pay the price for a single vegetable for a pouch of seeds. Plant the entire pouch, and might get lucky enough to eat half a serving of the planted vegetable after the insects, birds, animals, elements, weeds, molds and fungus destroys most of the crop.
But when a whale does it, it’s ambergris – an expensive perfume ingredient described as having a marine, fecal odor when “fresh”