- how much horsepower their car has/its MPG city and highway.
- how to use power-tools without flinching.
- a solid, non-wavering opinion on the current championship sporting event.
- a fairly detailed knowledge of the current socio-politico-geographic layout of the current country in turmoil.
- how much they can benchpress/how much they tell others they can benchpress/when drunk.
- a fairly manly reason why they no longer 'work out'/a very high-brow, awe-inspired reason why they still work out (e.g. 'look good naked' is not a good reason. Good reason are : 'be there for my kids', 'so I can play with them till the sun goes down', 'for my volunteer work in the Tibetan hinterlands where I must free climb twice a day with 200 pounds worth of much needed medicine and food hanging from a caribinger pierced through my testicles')
- how to fix that thing that's making that really weird noise but wasn't before.
- what the HELL is all that crap when they open the fuse box.
- proper treatment of electrical burns.
- every term the car mechanic uses when they give an estimate ("Yeah, but to do it right, we'll have to re-align the Moss de-conflabulator, double jigg the pinion vice and router out the compression anchor tube.")
- NOT what sort of shampoo they use or why they use it.
- more or less what's going on when they have to pull over and pop the hood.
- from sight, whether a screw is 3/8" or a 1/4"
- what is, and what is NOT, a 'real beer'.
- at least one guy in the Joint.
- five different slang terms for mammary glands.
- if not what it actually means, then at least how to use the term 'load-bearing' in such a way as to appease wife/girlfriend/and Home Depot construction expert.
- at least one food, of which the only real version can be found at a very specific city (e.g. "You think that's pizza? You haven't had pizza unless you've been to...").
Periodically updated. Periods may vary.
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(I lie, I don't know anyone in jail.)
monky : purely coincidental. Yup. Absolutely.