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Where does house dust come from? (Easter Sunday Ramble)

Posted on 04/05/2015 10:41:27 AM PDT by SamAdams76

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1 posted on 04/05/2015 10:41:27 AM PDT by SamAdams76
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Best column I’ve read in a while.


2 posted on 04/05/2015 10:46:52 AM PDT by AbnSarge
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My grandmother said it was stardust.


3 posted on 04/05/2015 10:48:06 AM PDT by Mercat
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Human skin.


4 posted on 04/05/2015 10:48:33 AM PDT by Husker24
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“Human skin. “

Not if you live with a cat. She rolls in the sand and comes in looking like a ghost kitty. She immediately shakes off.


5 posted on 04/05/2015 10:51:46 AM PDT by Gen.Blather
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Last year, we got rid of the last of the carpeting in our home....we're now 100 percent porcelain tile.

Helluva difference, in the dust department.

Bonus: We were also able to dump the rug shampooer and the Oreck.

6 posted on 04/05/2015 10:52:05 AM PDT by ErnBatavia (It ain't a "hashtag"....it's a damn pound sign. ###)
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Easter dust bunnies, of course.

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7 posted on 04/05/2015 10:56:35 AM PDT by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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” 1) he actually belongs to said club and 2) he is either on the practice field or the game field.”

“Ditto for sneakers. Grown men wearing sneakers looks so lame and sloppy. Unless you are actually jogging around your neighborhood, weeding your garden, walking your dog, cleaning your garage or painting your house, then put on “grown-up” shoes, OK?”

Opinions, most will ignore or find ridiculous but you are as
entitled to your opinion as much as you are entitled to being gay. And as with such you should keep to yourself, or not, this is America.


8 posted on 04/05/2015 10:56:40 AM PDT by Slambat
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Dust is the remains of chaos. The world is constantly degrading. Falling into disre0air. And returning to from where it came. Dust ischaos.


9 posted on 04/05/2015 10:59:28 AM PDT by Deathtomarxists (Free Taco Salad Muffin - apply at Hillary's Wiped Clean Server Farm, Lolita Arkansas)
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Quite right. I spend a good bit of my time looking at samples of dust from air and surfaces.

Far and away the most common component is human (or animal) skin flakes.


10 posted on 04/05/2015 11:02:55 AM PDT by Sherman Logan
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California must have the most dust.

They have the most flakes.

11 posted on 04/05/2015 11:05:32 AM PDT by mountn man (The Pleasure You Get From Life Is Equal To The Attitude You Put Into It)
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Well done!

Before your untimely death, didn't you use to do the closing segment on CBS's "60 Minutes"?

12 posted on 04/05/2015 11:08:34 AM PDT by PROCON (It's easier to fool people than to convince them they've been fooled -- Mark Twain)
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As old Morty from Swiffer Sweeper says, “We create very little.” It is the opened back door where 7 fur babies come and go 50 bazillion times a day bringing in half the grass, leaves, and dirt from the yard along with all the presents they show off.


13 posted on 04/05/2015 11:14:20 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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Cellulose insulation.


14 posted on 04/05/2015 11:14:27 AM PDT by Dalberg-Acton
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"What is the right speed for driving back roads?"

IMO, five miles over the speed limit. Fast enough so you aren't holding people up, but not so fast that you'll get a ticket. Around here, people tend to do ten miles under the speed limit on back roads. It's maddening.

You're right that Tom Brady doesn't go around wearing his jersey, but he's often seen swishing around with a scarf around his neck and hipster glasses & knit cap. I don't like either of those looks.

And I think sneakers for men are fine.

I enjoyed your writing.

15 posted on 04/05/2015 11:17:51 AM PDT by CatherineofAragon ("This is a Laztatorship. You don't like it, get a day's rations and get out of this office.")
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Now, let's finally get to the dust in your home. Where does it come from? Well, for one thing, humans are constantly shedding dead skin from their body.

Exactly what I was going to say, when I read the headline. Daggone. But I have an ultrasonic humidifier, and its mist evaporates and leaves very fine carbonate dust from the tap water I fill it with. Plus stuff from the hot air flues in the winter. And maybe some frsctured cobwebs I missed. Most of the lint from my clothes dryer goes outside or in the wastebasket, I guess.

16 posted on 04/05/2015 11:25:53 AM PDT by imardmd1 (Fiat Lux)
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Everybody knows dust is made by homosexuals in Kentucky.


17 posted on 04/05/2015 11:47:11 AM PDT by bigbob (The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
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A kid comes home from Sunday school where he has heard the line, “Remember man that thou art dust and unto dust thou shalt return.” He asks his mother if this is true and she says it is. So he tells her to come quick and look under his bed—someone is either coming or going.


18 posted on 04/05/2015 1:19:44 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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I was expecting some sort of joke about the Easter Dust Bunny.


19 posted on 04/05/2015 2:51:26 PM PDT by scrabblehack
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20 posted on 04/05/2015 2:54:45 PM PDT by JoeProBono (SOME IMAGES MAY BE DISTURBING VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED;-{)
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