Crate and Barrel, U Village. You might have to go a little over your price range, but not TOO much. Well-made, inoffensively clean modern design.

Late breaking news: I just got a flyer in the mail for Dania. They're having a sale. Sofas for under $800.

Olympic Athletic Club in Ballard has a pool.

First answer is best, but also: cruise ships.

It's almost impossible to compare purchasing power from that long ago. Also, in 1702, the US was still a collection of separate colonies, and used British money -- but not at par. The value of the pound used in various US colonies varies, but was somewhere around 3/4 as valuable as a UK pound, so 20 pounds would be something like 30 Massachusetts pounds, for instance. Inflation since then has been something on the order of 20 or 30 times -- but Massachusetts doesn't use pounds anymore, of course!

Look at it a different way: how much did an average person earn in 1702? £20, or even less, was as much as a working class person might earn in an entire year. For instance, a footman might earn £6-8 per year! Of course, they'd have room and board included -- but it would be very rough living indeed -- a corner of a room to sleep, porridge or leftovers to eat. In contrast, a prominent London doctor would have earned £12,000 a year.

What do these people earn today? You might compare that footman's wage to minimum wage today -- working at McDonalds -- so maybe $10,000? And today, the richest earn much more than a thousand times that -- not doctors, maybe, but sports stars, singers, CEOs: $12,000,000 wouldn't be anywhere near the top. Some hedge fund managers earned nearly $1,000,000,000 a year until the recent financial meltdown.

See here for more info on wages in the 18th century in England:
http://books.google.com/books?id=o_hwrAoqxmQC&pg=PT1&lpg=PT1&dq=18th+century+salaries&source=bl&ots=LhOhv0aKHT&sig=F_XBVh-U8Wt4evjrazE3HxHguAo&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=3&ct=result#PPA141,M1

Flamenco guitars ARE classical guitars; "Classical" is the broader category. A flamenco guitar is typically a little smaller, lighter, and brighter-sounding, and has a heavier pickguard to protect against the characteristic finger-tapping rhythm. Traditionally a flamenco guitar has wooden friction tuning pegs, not modern steel geared pegs.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flamenco_guitar

If you are dehydrated, you may not poop even though you "should". Pour a few beers in there, and suddenly, things start to loosen up and move, because of the liquid and the bulk. Drink a couple of glasses of water at midday and see if it happens then instead.

"Come Saturday" or "Everything With You" by the Pains of Being Pure at Heart.

There's no such thing.

You could say that Free Credit Report band, but that's not a real band; it's actors for a television commercial.

Bands play music that they like. Sometimes other people like it too, sometimes they don't -- and, of course, the biggest factor in a band's success is luck.

But no band ever says "hey, I'm sick of being poor, I'm going to play something shitty and popular to sell out", for the simple reason that this strategy CANNOT POSSIBLY WORK. If you did it, you still wouldn't sell any records.

Your opposition of "talent" against "sell-out" makes no sense. Neither have any real connection to big-time success.

Is it kind of sproingy when you swing it lightly in your hand? Try grasping it by the handle and lightly smacking the palm of your other hand with the rounded side of the bowl end. Does it pack more punch than you expected?

If so, it's for cracking ice. Put an ice cube in your palm and lightly smack it with the tool, and you now have a handful of crushed ice for drinks. Act quickly or you'll freeze your hand. Don't WHACK your hand; let the spring of the tool do the work.

Bite the bullet and go megastore at Fry's in Renton. No bullshit, just a guy who knows how puts the thing in.

You can get one now that displays your ipod track info on the faceplate, which is cool.