Candice Bergen was born on this day. She played Murphy Brown, host of "FYI," a hard-hitting, fact-finding, newsmagazine show. She was intelligent about some things yet sometimes clueless about others -- like the morning she woke up and said: "What's that smell?" Following her nose to the laundry room, she discovered the odor was strongest there. It was nasty sewer gas, seeping up and in through a drain in the floor. And because the drain was rarely used, the water held in the p-trap (that s-shaped bend in the drain line that acts as a barrier and holds back sewer gas) had slowly dried up over time. It now was allowing gas to escape back into her home. The answer? Pour water into the drain! For more tips, visit our Web site at onthehouse.com. And that's the On The House tip for today.