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Re: Milwaukee Midget
« Reply #5220 on: July 20, 2015, 07:26:25 PM »
Back row, far right hand side, Nick Martin, our on-the-salt captain, taking his place amongst the captains of industry.

https://www.facebook.com/theproscloset/photos/a.173235816074031.48833.168973999833546/1003852243012380/?type=1

His business, the Pros Closet, has been utilizing PayPal since its inception.  As the largest E-Bay retailer of used bicycle parts and accessories in the world, his presence for the bell ringing ceremony is high praise to his business acumen.

Atta boy, Nick!

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Re: Milwaukee Midget
« Reply #5221 on: July 21, 2015, 07:53:46 PM »
midget,

Harold has graciously offered some Cosworth valves to the effort.    He'll send them off next week.    As soon as they arrive, I'll check out if they can be made to work.   I'll have to find out if a .280" stem retainer will fit under the existing tappets.    What will fit the existing tappet ID will be the key issue.

Pleasant weather today south of the "curtain".    Methinks it calls for a weissbier . . . . . . . .
 :cheers: :cheers: :cheers:
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Re: Milwaukee Midget
« Reply #5222 on: July 22, 2015, 08:08:05 PM »
Midget, I think the cat is out of the bag :cheers:
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Re: Milwaukee Midget
« Reply #5223 on: July 22, 2015, 08:14:46 PM »
Meow?  :?
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Re: Milwaukee Midget
« Reply #5224 on: July 22, 2015, 08:47:52 PM »
Ahhh . . . now I get it . . .

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/a-lion-ish-sighting-in-milwaukee-starts-a-hunt/

Explains why all the catnip in the garden is gone . . .

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Re: Milwaukee Midget
« Reply #5225 on: July 22, 2015, 08:55:39 PM »
Dood. Catnip. Yeah, that's what it was.  :roll:            :cheers: Wayno

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Re: Milwaukee Midget
« Reply #5226 on: July 22, 2015, 09:06:30 PM »
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Re: Milwaukee Midget
« Reply #5227 on: July 22, 2015, 09:49:15 PM »
One oversized feline, and every damned fool with a camcorder thinks he's Richard Attenborough.

There's more to worry about in alleys of the Brewer's Hill neighborhood than a lost lion.
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Re: Milwaukee Midget
« Reply #5228 on: July 22, 2015, 10:00:52 PM »
You are assuming the cat is lost :-D
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Re: Milwaukee Midget
« Reply #5229 on: July 23, 2015, 06:32:03 AM »
I think it wants to sample Beerhaven's microbrews with a t-shirted white-tail . . . . . . .
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Re: Milwaukee Midget
« Reply #5230 on: July 23, 2015, 06:39:42 AM »
One oversized feline, and every damned fool with a camcorder thinks he's Richard Attenborough.

There's more to worry about in alleys of the Brewer's Hill neighborhood than a lost lion.

A few miles from the domicile of the midget, but fairly close to his "workplace".

Well, at least it's not a Bear . . . . . .   oh wait, no danger to anyone in Sconnie Nation from one of them, plus you can see them coming from blocks away with those navy and orange uniforms . . . . . . . . .

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Re: Milwaukee Midget
« Reply #5231 on: July 23, 2015, 08:40:42 AM »
I think it wants to sample Beerhaven's microbrews with a t-shirted white-tail . . . . . . .
[/quote Is that similar to the pink bellied double breasted mattress thrasher???/
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Re: Milwaukee Midget
« Reply #5232 on: July 23, 2015, 09:18:37 AM »
FLOYDGER: You're BAAAAACK!!!!!! :cheers: :cheers: :cheers:
Glad to read you. :-D

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Re: Milwaukee Midget
« Reply #5233 on: July 23, 2015, 09:28:57 AM »

Well, at least it's not a Bear . . . . . .   oh wait, no danger to anyone in Sconnie Nation from one of them,

One of the long-standing jokes I have with Kate addresses her inability to discern directions.  Doesn't understand east from west, always turns the wrong direction when going into the mall . . . It's nothing short of amazing to me that her brain function stops when it comes to issues of direction and spousal choices.

I tell her, "Don't wonder off - you'll be eaten by bears".

Well, about three years ago, and about an equal distance from our house but in the opposite direction of this alleged lion spotting, a Black Bear was treed in an industrial park.

"See", I said, "They're coming to get you".

It doesn't help that the town she grew up in, Mukwonago, it a Potawatomi word meaning bear's den.

So today, I feel like the scarecrow, escorting Dorothy through the forest.

Fordboy, I seem to recall, many many years ago, a quasi-professional football team in Illinois, and I think they were called the Bears.

Whatever happened to them? 

 
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Re: Milwaukee Midget
« Reply #5234 on: July 24, 2015, 06:18:02 AM »

Well, at least it's not a Bear . . . . . .   oh wait, no danger to anyone in Sconnie Nation from one of them,


Fordboy, I seem to recall, many many years ago, a quasi-professional football team in Illinois, and I think they were called the Bears.

Whatever happened to them? 
 

To the best of my recollection:    Whilst being guided by Marc Trestman on some sort of hunt in the "near Northwoods", it was rumored that they were killed, skinned and eaten raw by some local "meat packers".     Trestman was last seen running east at a speed capable of "aquaplaning".    There were some rumors of some survivors being led back to civilization by a "cutler", but so far, these are just rumors . . . . . . . . . . .

There is a rescue mission being planned, to be headed by a guy named "Fox", but I'm guessin' the lion will make short work of him and his intrepid (and probably tasty) little group.

 :cry:  :cry:  :cry:
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