Sometimes you just can't remember if you turned off the toaster oven before leaving the house.
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The toaster was not faulty but was a probable source of the fire.
The rye bread was thick and moist, like cake, and Ed dropped a couple of slices in the toaster.
About six people cut up their credit cards and bake them in the toaster oven as if they were TV dinners.
He claims that he and the Toaster developed the secret signal over the many years that Mr. Jerome has been watching.
WSJ: A Midnight Dreary for Those Who Seek Tell-Tale Signs of Poe's Elusive 'Toaster'
He began the vigils in 1977, after discovering a reference to the Toaster in a local newspaper's archives and deciding to check its veracity.
WSJ: A Midnight Dreary for Those Who Seek Tell-Tale Signs of Poe's Elusive 'Toaster'
Infamously, the Snuggie merged a sweater and blanket, while a more classic combination references the toaster oven combined from, well, a toaster and an oven.
Also annoying: The F30's sweeping interior redesign leaves the 6.5-inch LCD display clumsily thrust through the top of the dash, like an electronic Pop-Tart leaving the toaster.
"It's like saying, 'There's no Santa Claus, ' and suddenly seeing the sled go across the sky, " recalls Mr. Jerome, who says he's seen the Toaster 32 times.
WSJ: A Midnight Dreary for Those Who Seek Tell-Tale Signs of Poe's Elusive 'Toaster'
She cracked a couple of eggs into the pan, broke up the yolks, and stirred them with a cooking fork, then sliced a muffin and put it into the toaster.
On occasion, says Mr. Jerome, the Toaster has left notes, including one that seemed to disparage the Baltimore Ravens, the local professional football team named after one of Poe's poems.
WSJ: A Midnight Dreary for Those Who Seek Tell-Tale Signs of Poe's Elusive 'Toaster'
When he appears, the Toaster is typically shrouded in a long coat, his head covered with some kind of hat and a scarf that drapes across his face, the spotters say.
WSJ: A Midnight Dreary for Those Who Seek Tell-Tale Signs of Poe's Elusive 'Toaster'
The "Downton" characters bear witness to many innovations of the day: the telephone, women's suffrage, the cocktail party, the toaster and the idea that one can choose one's own path in life, regardless of birth.
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Mum looks at me as I'm putting bread in the toaster and she says: "Mark, if you want to come down to breakfast wearing that top again, you're going to have to shave your armpits"...
But the product itself faces the same problem as the toaster: cooking grains is a fairly simple task, how do you build a product that can do it better and therefore be worth a premium to consumers?
He says another missive, left in the mid-1990s, indicated that the original Toaster was passing the torch to his sons.
WSJ: A Midnight Dreary for Those Who Seek Tell-Tale Signs of Poe's Elusive 'Toaster'
Home and work, separated since the first stirrings of the Industrial Revolution, have been growing back together again: BlackBerry on the nightstand, toaster in the photocopy room.
Mr. Jerome says the moment of truth has arrived for the real Toaster.
WSJ: A Midnight Dreary for Those Who Seek Tell-Tale Signs of Poe's Elusive 'Toaster'
He also heads the clubby group of Toaster spotters who meet inside the cemetery.
WSJ: A Midnight Dreary for Those Who Seek Tell-Tale Signs of Poe's Elusive 'Toaster'
Carrying too heavy a stress load is like running a car engine past the red line or leaving a toaster stuck in the 'on' position.
My mom has a Keurig machine, and a box of K-cups is the size of a small toaster oven and besides the box, every single cup generates a wasted plastic container and foil lid.
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Twenty years after LaCie's first collaboration with Philippe Starck, which resulted in the award-winning "Toaster" hard drives, the partnership continues to develop products that are as functional as they are stunning.
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C. dozens of cabinets the size of toaster ovens whir quietly on countertops.
Joan Blades, co-author of The Custom-Fit Workplace also was cofounder of Berkeley Systems, creator of After Dark and the iconic Flying Toaster screensavers.
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