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Humor -- stories, links, etc -- may not be right for kids to read! => THE place for (what you think is) funny stuff. => Topic started by: floydjer on January 04, 2018, 02:43:17 PM
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Hmmm....
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Midget bike?
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M.C. Escher ?
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I shall offer a small hint to all of the mechanical minds...The rear sprockets each have one way sprags in them...Think about it a moment. :wink:
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How can you tell? Your eyes be much bigger than mine. :evil:
Mike
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Two speed? Pedal backwards for high speed?
Ron
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Very good Ron !!...I understand they are common in Asia. :cheers:
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New topic but I like Jerry's title so I'll let it ride.
https://biggeekdad.com/2013/03/irish-news-report/
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Aye then....did the lassie say her mum`s lorrie got wedged in her Bristol`s lift ?? :cheers:
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….OK
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D*mn photoshop
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NFW
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SO , how did it get up there , I presume it digs itself DOWN !!!
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I'd guess that the excavator got there by clever use of Photoshop. :wink:
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Well they got the shadows in the right direction ..
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The real fun starts about 2:50
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CA1YVzFhLCc
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They drove it up there from the inside.
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This is a bit hard to visualize , up the stairs , elevator , a really big DUMB waiter ??
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... I presume it digs itself DOWN !!!
How good is the operator to get the debris into a dump truck? :mrgreen:
Mike
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Large holes in the floors and plenty of large timber cribbing..Or so the story goes. It`s China so my guess is it`s real.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3V9QHBgrPNY&feature=youtu.be&t=8
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since the Landracing community is awash w/ bright minds...count from 1 to 100...How many times does the number 5 occur ???
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Once. :-D
Wayno
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^^^ So close...………..
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:?
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I counted by 20's – it never appeared.
Then I tried dozens – overshot the objective and still no 5.
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Sigh....Patti got it right in about 7 seconds. 5,15,25 etc.
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Fifteen isn't five. It's fifteen. Twenty five isn't five. It's twenty five. Five is five. :cheers:
Wayno
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Wayno..... :? Does the number 5 occur in either of them?
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OK. 11. :roll:
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….?...20. 5,15,25,35,45,50,51,52,53,54,55 (two of them)56,57,58,59,65,75,85,95. My bride is way smarter than I am.
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OK then
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ooops
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OMG a LIDNOTITE! :-o :-D
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Or a SHAKER *snark* :evil:
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Young Stainless????
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Grand fun
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daughter? maybe...
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Grandfather perhaps??
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Okay - I'll ask it.
Is that propellor an optical delusion or is it kinda backwards-looking?
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Okay - I'll ask it.
Is that propellor an optical delusion or is it kinda backwards-looking?
Maybe, maybe not- it depends on which way the engine rotates. Kinda breezy cockpit.
Regards, Neil Tucson, AZ
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and it achieved 67 MPH ?!!..?? :| For those who delight in such absurdity www.douglas-self.com has endless pages of that sort of thing. :cheers:
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has to be related
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Not a bad joke or random Franklin bashing...?.Patti retires today after 43 years of radiology. Wish me luck. :cheers:
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When I retired, Mary said "I married him for better or worse, not home for lunch"!
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Not a bad joke or random Franklin bashing...?.Patti retires today after 43 years of radiology. Wish me luck. :cheers:
I always wondered why she had the glow about her...
Looks like no more free x-rays for you...
Linda has been retired for almost 8 years... and I'm still alive... but she does watch a lot of those shows that tell you what mistake the murderer made to get caught... :|
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Unh, mmm --yeah, the tie rod end just might not look like the picture, for sure.
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I dunno Jon...last time I replaced a tie rod end, I threw out a disc...?????... :friday
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Hmm...I guess you don`t like the caliper of my humor.... :cheers:O.K...I`ll stop... :clap
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No! I don?t want this discussion to fade because it became too overheated.
John
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I could try to drum up some activity, Jer - yanno, ratchet it up a bit, maybe start lining them up for you.
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As a friendly reminder most of us slide out of DST in the very near future...
Just be glad you don't have this job... :cheers: aktion086
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Moving 'em in the wrong direction in the Fall - must come from driving on the other side of the road........... :-D
Ed
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Well yea... they have to move them back tonight... otherwise we wouldn't have a picture :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :naughty
:cheers:
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I had nothing to do w/ this..
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I had nothing to do w/ this..
I have to give them some points for style and imagination! Safety not so much.
BR
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Here's a Marquette-area band for you to enjoy. They've been playing for a good bunch of years -- this song is pretty much what they do. It includes a few (!) U P things that might need explaining, like the photo of "Karl" -- the longtime TV weatherman up here. Heikki Lunta is pretty much a good translation into Finnglish (the local argot, if you will) of the name of the country singer -- Hank Snow. Ya get my drift here?
Turn on the sound and wish you were here, too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bm7oZDtrOSg&fbclid=IwAR0-NGCnQZbL5vg3AdrCFImJeIGIVqgmx2wSZZgioGytqBoS1jNdFC3FrtY
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I think the pictures show why my dad was proud to be FROM the upper peninsula (Iron River, MI). We went there often on vacation but never in the winter. Like the band though.
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Yea... yea... sure those youppers always exaggerate their snow... one of the times I went up there to work the USAF coordinator called in the morning just as I was leaving for the UP and said they had 4 feet of snow the night before... didn't cancel the trip, just being sure I was prepared.... like I said they always exaggerate... got up there and found out they only got 47 inches.... :roll:
:cheers:
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Was flirting with a gal at the bar the other night. Was going really well when she asked "Boxers or Briefs?" I coyly answered "Depends". She left shortly after....
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Me thinks this guy is a youpper! :cheers:
Diary of a Snow Shoveler
December 8: 6:00 PM. It started to snow. The first snow of the season and the wife and I took our cocktails and sat for hours by the window watching the huge soft flakes drift down from heaven. It looked like a Grandma Moses Print. So romantic we felt like newlyweds again. I love snow!
December 9: We woke to a beautiful blanket of crystal white snow covering every inch of the landscape. What a fantastic sight! Can there be a more lovely place in the Whole World? Moving here was the best idea I've ever had. Shoveled for the first time in years, felt like a boy again. I did both our driveway and the sidewalks. This afternoon the snowplow came along and covered up the sidewalks and closed in the driveway, so I got to shovel again. What a perfect life.
December 12: The sun has melted all our lovely snow. Such a disappointment. My neighbor tells me not to worry, we'll definitely have a white Christmas. No snow on Christmas would be awful! Bob says we'll have so much snow by the end of winter, that I'll never want to see snow again. I don't think that's possible. Bob is such a nice man, I'm glad he's our neighbor.
December 14: Snow, lovely snow! 8" last night. The temperature dropped to -20. The cold makes everything sparkle so. The wind took my breath away, but I warmed up by shoveling the driveway and sidewalks. This is the life! The snowplow came back this afternoon and buried everything again. I didn't realize I would have to do quite this much shoveling, but I'll certainly get back in shape this way. I wish I wouldn't huff and puff so.
December 15: 20 inches forecast. Sold my van and bought a 4x4 Blazer. Bought snow tires for the wife's car and two extra shovels. Stocked the freezer. The wife wants a wood stove in case the electricity goes out. I think that's silly. We aren't in Alaska , after all.
December 16: Ice storm this morning. Fell on my ass on the ice in the driveway putting down salt. Hurt like hell. The wife laughed for an hour, which I think was very cruel.
December 17: Still way below freezing. Roads are too icy to go anywhere. Electricity was off for five hours. I had to pile the blankets on to stay warm. Nothing to do but stare at the wife and try not to irritate her. Guess I should've bought a wood stove, but won't admit it to her. I hate it when she's right. I can't believe I'm freezing to death in my own living room.
December 20: Electricity's back on, but had another 14" of the damn stuff last night. More shoveling. Took all day. Damn snowplow came by twice. Tried to find a neighbor kid to shovel, but they said they're too busy playing hockey. I think they're lying. Called the only hardware store around to see about buying a snow blower, and they're out. Might have another shipment in March. I think they're lying. Bob says I have to shovel or the city will have it done and bill me. I think he's lying.
December 22: Bob was right about a white Christmas, because 13 more inches of the white shit fell today, and it's so cold it probably won't melt 'til August. Took me 45 minutes to get all dressed up to go out to shovel, and then I had to piss. By the time I got undressed, pissed and dressed again, I was too tired to shovel! Tried to hire Bob, who has a plow on his truck, for the rest of the winter; but he says he's too busy. I think the asshole is lying.
December 23: Only 2" of snow today, and it warmed up to "0". The wife wanted me to decorate the front of the house this morning. What, is she nuts!!! Why didn't she tell me to do that a month ago? She says she did, but I think she's lying.
December 24: 6". Snow packed so hard by snowplow, I broke the shovel. Thought I was having a heart attack. If I ever catch the son-of-a-bitch who drives that snowplow, I'll drag him through the snow by his balls and beat him to death with my broken shovel. I know he hides around the corner and waits for me to finish shoveling and then he comes down the street at a 100 miles an hour and throws snow all over everywhere I've just been! Tonight the wife wanted me to sing Christmas carols with her and open our presents, but I was too busy watching for the Goddamn snowplow.
December 25: Merry F!=3D@x@!x!x1 Christmas. 20 more inches of the !=3D@x@!x!x1 slop tonight. Snowed in. The idea of shoveling makes my blood boil. God, I hate the snow! Then the snowplow driver came by asking for a donation and I hit him over the head with my shovel. The wife says I have a bad attitude. I think she's a fricking idiot. If I have to watch "It's a Wonderful Life" one more time, I'm going to stuff her into the microwave.
December 26: Still snowed in. Why the hell did I ever move here? It was all HER idea. She's really getting on my nerves.
December 27: Temperature dropped to -30, and the pipes froze. Plumber came after 14 hours of waiting for him; he only charged me $1,400 to replace all my pipes.
December 28: Warmed up to above -50. Still snowed in. The BITCH is driving me crazy!!!!!
December 29: 10 more inches. Bob says I have to shovel the roof or it could cave in. That's the silliest thing I ever heard. How dumb does he think I am?
December 30: Roof caved in. I beat up the snow plow driver. He is now suing me for a million dollars; not for only the beating I gave him, but also for trying to shove the broken snow shovel up his ass. The wife went home to her mother. 9" predicted.
December 31: I set fire to what's left of the house. No more shoveling.
January 8: Feel so good. I just love those little white pills they keep giving me. Why am I tied to the bed?
This you Slim?
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Ain't Slim, he's got his own snowplow. :cheers:
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Maybe when I get to Kudos in the morning I'll post some pretty snow pics fro :clapm the past week or so.
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Bah..Post a pic. of the Snow Pole during the winter of `78-`79. :?
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This page shows what Jerry is talking when he mentions "snow pole".
https://www.pasty.com/snow/
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How high have you seen the snow get during a single storm?
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That's not really an answerable question thanks to drifting from the winds, and also because the snow will pack itself down with its' own weight if it's wet vs dry, and so on.
The greatest snow depth - on the flat ground - is a bit over 4 feet -- maybe 52" or so, if I remember correctly. Again - it packs down all by itself.
The storm(s) we had during the last week of November brought a couple of big-butt snowfalls -- the first left around 30" at our house Tuesday overnight into Wednesday, and that was followed by another two feet or so that weekend.
I spent a LOT of time moving snow around.
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That is a lot of snow. One good thing about being retired is the ability to stay home until it all melts.
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45.3 celcius 113 fahenheight today in Adelaide South Australia . Tomorrow i am rostered observer in our local Fire Spotting Tower
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45.3 celcius 113 fahenheight today in Adelaide South Australia . Tomorrow i am rostered observer in our local Fire Spotting Tower
Rostered observer, or did you mean to say roasted observer. :-P
I hope that tower has air-conditioning.
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Paul
Sounds like good practice for SpeedWeek downunder.... take beer and water...
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A few years ago, I took this photo of my wife standing beside a sign on the U P of Michigan, not far from where Slim lives. Thats the total amount of snow there during the previous winter.
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WZ, here's a link to more pics of the snow thermometer. It's on US41, and it looks way better when there are a few feet of snow around it. Same link as above:
https://www.pasty.com/snow/
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Spent 12 of my 20 years in the USAF in Michigan. I was a couple hundred miles south of Slim next to lake Huron our average snow fall was only 84 to 96 inches. If you got a nor'easter off the lake we could get 4 feet over night and go weeks below 20 degrees. If you had a white Christmas you had a chance the same snow would be on the ground at Easter
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Here's a Marquette-area band for you to enjoy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bm7oZDtrOSg&fbclid=IwAR0-NGCnQZbL5vg3AdrCFImJeIGIVqgmx2wSZZgioGytqBoS1jNdFC3FrtY
Damn you Slim it's been a month almost and I still have that tune rattling around in my head (lots of room up there), and now we have 8 inches of snow here in Palmdale 40 miles west of El Mirage for cripes sake.
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. . .a month???
That damned Goggles gave us this one years ago and I still can't get rid of it . . .
www.youtube.com/watch?v=76LbvnoIDkE
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Stan.... are you OK...
A guy your age could fall... and not be able to get up...
Maybe you need a big hat to fall on lol8
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. . .a month???
That damned Goggles gave us this one years ago and I still can't get rid of it . . .
www.youtube.com/watch?v=76LbvnoIDkE
Stan, thanks for refreshing our memories, NOT. :-(
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not saying a word.. :-D :-D
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not saying a word.. :-D :-D
The Ghost of Christmas Past...
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A cowboy, who just moved to Montana from Texas, walks into a bar and orders three mugs of Bud.
He sits in the back of the room, drinking a sip out of each one in turn.
When he finishes them, he comes back to the bar and orders three more.
The bartender approaches and tells the cowboy,
"You know, a mug goes flat after I draw it.
It would taste better if you bought one at a time."
The cowboy replies, "Well, you see, I have two brothers.
One is in Arizona, the other is in Colorado.
When we all left our home in Texas, we promised that we'd drink this way to remember the days when we drank together.
So I'm drinking one beer for each of my brothers and one for myself."
The bartender admits that this is a nice custom, and leaves it there.
The cowboy becomes a regular in the bar, and always drinks the same way.
He orders three mugs and drinks them in turn.
One day, he comes in and only orders two mugs.
All the regulars take notice and fall silent.
When he comes back to the bar for the second round, the bartender says, "I don't want to intrude on your grief, but I wanted to offer my
condolences on your loss."
The cowboy looks quite puzzled for a moment, then a light dawns in his eyes and he laughs.
"Oh, no, everybody's just fine," he explains.
"It's just that my wife and I joined the Baptist Church and I had to quit drinking."
?It hasn't affected my brothers though."
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I just happened on a post on Facebook mentioning that someone was at the Bryant memorial service.
Am I living on a different planet or what? Not only am I surprised that I missed notice of a celebration of Tom Bryant's life, but I checked into the post and the service is for a basketball player.
Really! Not kidding!!
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There is something wrong with this picture...https://www.oregonlive.com/coronavirus/2020/04/coronavirus-cases-plateau-in-oregon-drop-not-expected-for-six-weeks-new-estimates-show.html (https://www.oregonlive.com/coronavirus/2020/04/coronavirus-cases-plateau-in-oregon-drop-not-expected-for-six-weeks-new-estimates-show.html)
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As in they don't practice what they preach at the news release?
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Lighten up on the serious.
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Easter always brings great springtime weather - most places. Here's OUR forecast:
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Slim,
How could you possibly stay warm ?
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May need some wood to keep you warm...
are you up to that :?
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Bah...Mowed my yard and the yard of the Milf next door. :cheers:
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Terry and the rest of youse guys: Here are a few pics of our yard and some firewood from the back of our land. This is how we stay warm.
(https://i263.photobucket.com/albums/ii147/SeldomSeenSlim/509%20Dukes%20Road%20stuff/IMG_6157_zps4ia3x9bk.jpg) (https://s263.photobucket.com/user/SeldomSeenSlim/media/509%20Dukes%20Road%20stuff/IMG_6157_zps4ia3x9bk.jpg.html)
(https://i263.photobucket.com/albums/ii147/SeldomSeenSlim/509%20Dukes%20Road%20stuff/IMG_6159_zpsf4uelaph.jpg) (https://s263.photobucket.com/user/SeldomSeenSlim/media/509%20Dukes%20Road%20stuff/IMG_6159_zpsf4uelaph.jpg.html)
(https://i263.photobucket.com/albums/ii147/SeldomSeenSlim/509%20Dukes%20Road%20stuff/IMG_6158_zpsk0nfmsux.jpg) (https://s263.photobucket.com/user/SeldomSeenSlim/media/509%20Dukes%20Road%20stuff/IMG_6158_zpsk0nfmsux.jpg.html)
A couple of the runabouts that we use to get the wood to the yard:
(https://i263.photobucket.com/albums/ii147/SeldomSeenSlim/509%20Dukes%20Road%20stuff/IMG_6160_zpsrdkzfwrm.jpg) (https://s263.photobucket.com/user/SeldomSeenSlim/media/509%20Dukes%20Road%20stuff/IMG_6160_zpsrdkzfwrm.jpg.html)
Here's the real way we stay warm. We heat the house, the garage, and the hot tub with wood, and sell enough to not pay anything (net) to heat the house. It's a Central Boiler unit rated at about a quarter-million BTU/hr input.
(https://i263.photobucket.com/albums/ii147/SeldomSeenSlim/509%20Dukes%20Road%20stuff/IMG_6161_zpsttjlkiaf.jpg) (https://s263.photobucket.com/user/SeldomSeenSlim/media/509%20Dukes%20Road%20stuff/IMG_6161_zpsttjlkiaf.jpg.html)
And that, Terry, is how we stay warm.
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Sheesh Slim... you scared the shit out of me... I thought you were going to post a picture of your wood :?
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Snow pic. time. :clap
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Waiting Slim...... cromag
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Be patient, my children. I had to plow a coupla feet of heavy snow and it was heavy. And it was snow, too. I'll show you later.
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Shame I stopped smoking cigars....I'd sit out on the deck with an Oliva series V and admire the pics. cromag :clap :clap
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I opened the door Monday morning and was greeted by this:
(https://i263.photobucket.com/albums/ii147/SeldomSeenSlim/509%20Dukes%20Road%20stuff/IMG_6164_zpsmuifcaku.jpg) (https://s263.photobucket.com/user/SeldomSeenSlim/media/509%20Dukes%20Road%20stuff/IMG_6164_zpsmuifcaku.jpg.html)
I applied a bit of snow thrower - the snow was crappy and hard to blow, for sure - and the doorway view had changed:
(https://i263.photobucket.com/albums/ii147/SeldomSeenSlim/509%20Dukes%20Road%20stuff/IMG_6165_zpsjfrstnam.jpg) (https://s263.photobucket.com/user/SeldomSeenSlim/media/509%20Dukes%20Road%20stuff/IMG_6165_zpsjfrstnam.jpg.html)
Then it was time to get the truck out of the garage. For some good reason I chose to do the truck move before getting the Bobcat and plowing. Start and warm the pickup's engine for a minute or so, select full 4WD, click the garage door opener and look at the frickin' 2-3 foot deep snow between me and the 4-foot bank of heavy moist snow left by the Road Commission's plow earlier in the day. Wholly Cow, this is gonna be something, I thunk to myself.
Drop the trans in gear, let the slack out of the drive train, and STAND ON IT yelling Ramming Speed!!!. I was doing well but lifted a bit as I neared the road - didn't want to do a banzai into the ditch and forest across the road. That was a minor error -- I came to a quick halt in the middle of the mess, and I sure as heck hoped I could back out because I couldn't get the doors open in the snowbank. But it was okay - I backed all the way into the garage for another full pull, and this time made it to the road. I stopped to take this photo.
(https://i263.photobucket.com/albums/ii147/SeldomSeenSlim/509%20Dukes%20Road%20stuff/IMG_6166_zps5fbkjryj.jpg) (https://s263.photobucket.com/user/SeldomSeenSlim/media/509%20Dukes%20Road%20stuff/IMG_6166_zps5fbkjryj.jpg.html)
Remember the old saying (common up here in the U P): April Blizzards bring May lizards.
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You call that snow??? :cheers:
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Slim, you are far more ambitious than me. My plan would be to go back to bed and sleep until all of it melted.
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Yah der hey Slim,
Ahm a tinkin' dat maybe dat UP dere, ain't a so gooder a destination fer my retirement.
Jus' cuas a da snow doh, ya know, not caus a da neighbors. Ahm OK wid crazy ex-Illinis/Illinis, caus a bein' one meself.
Sorry to disappoint, know you were kinda lookin' forward to my bein' your neighbor.
:dhorse: :cheers: :dhorse:
Formerwintersportsboy
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I have never experienced snow like that before (and there is no hint of disappointment in that statement).
Here in the South East UK it is unseasonably spring like. The view of our yard has a little less snow.
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Yea... The lawn has already been mowed 3 times... once before AU, once by the neighbor that was mowing to get out of the house and mowed mine too and I mowed a week ago.... yep it needs it again. Hopefully last night's 28 is our last freeze so I can get the garden in.
On the bright side the wheat is 18 inches tall and it looks like the wet winter was good for it. :cheers:
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I have no critter...But....
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Does the dog bark like Daffy Duck? We used to do that with helium in science class.
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The new norm? :friday
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Overkill??
:dhorse:
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When things don't turn out the way you planned...
cromag
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Mike...I doubt either involved party was overly bright. :cheers:
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I learned on a Ford 8N tractor. Gear shift pattern was:
R 4 1
2 3
That, combined with the 4-speed on the column of a Mercedes we had -- taught me to look for the pattern first. :-D :-D
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Pic for Slim
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It's plane to see it's not three on the tree! :naughty
Jer, do I get a toufer for this? :?
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Been home a long time...
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Hey Bob..
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He can work on his spelling too.
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Friday ...
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The patio?? Governor Half-Whitmer says we can play golf. :cheers:
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Is that a goobernatorial proclamation... if I could play golf in Michigan it would be the first time.... aktion086
:cheers: :friday
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Indeed Bob. Gov. Witless-mer also says we can travel to our own homes too! Of course, all along the dope heads could buy weed and the un-born babies could be murdered. Have to keep those tax dollars rolling in. cromag
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Jerry, would you explain how this is racing-related?
Jerry said: "...Gov. Witless-mer also says we can travel to our own homes too! Of course, all along the dope heads could buy weed and the un-born babies could be murdered. Have to keep those tax dollars rolling in?"
Get the hint??????????
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This is not aimed at you, Slim :cheers:
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And neither is this Jon.
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Nor this. :cheers:
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Not even this one.... :dhorse: 1drink
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Slim...That stuff go away yet? My niece ( Prof. at Marquette) says she is knee deep in snowflakes where she is. :friday
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Good news. Restriction on motorboating has been lifted! I say we RACE right in. :clap
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Long list! aktion086
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Hey Mike... your list starts at the second half of your life.... there was a lot of shit you survived before that...
riding your bike without a helmet
owning a pocket knife
playing stretch (sticking a knife in the ground next to the foot of the other person playing)
having a BB gun
having a bow and arrows (although my older brother got shot in the leg... luckily I had a BB gun to keep him from killing me before Mom got home)
walking to school
playing outside till dark
driving a car when you were 10
driving a car when you were 16-18 (way more dangerous than when you were 10)
drinking beer before you were old enough to buy it legally... see above
Viet Nam
Next...?
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Uh..Racing?
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Pretty cheap?
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Mike...Patti and I cut mine..I started, she corrected. Looks...O.K. :cheers: Racing!!! :clap
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There certainly were a lot of people that thought this was a good idea.. Racing. :cheers:
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That'd be a fast boat going the other way... look at the prop on that thing... it looks like a Franklin...
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Looks like it could clear the path of pedestrians ? just slice thru the crowd.
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I'm guessing they have not fired that thing up yet as their hats aren't missing.
Are those the legs of the Eifel Tower in the background?
Don
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I'm guessing they have not fired that thing up yet as their hats aren't missing.
Are those the legs of the Eifel Tower in the background?
Don
Yes they are. I had the pleasure of seeing one of those vehicles in motion at the Concours @ Meadowbrook several years ago. The sound was..impressive. So was the dust.
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No Jon...That is not me in my youth...
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I'm reassured, Jerry. Thank you.
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Is that youth your half-sister (half-brother?)?
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Half....brother....Friday already?? :cheers:Bravo SB.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPcVWmIQvKQ&fbclid=IwAR3jLLd28ZsJGlgtYCohVLMPQUW6kuQ0JsteSSHRDUbqpyV4ma5fA_AEjEE
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Just waking this place up...
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Back to the pandemic:
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Mike...I have a folder stuffed with memes regarding that topic. Shame I cannot share them. :cheers:
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I can share this...
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World-wide holiday :friday
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This one shouldn't cause any hand wringing...
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New stamp???????????
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Hey Woody
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One more...for now.
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Do you have them in a 8 port style? The mrs. has big lungs.
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If 8 might be good, 12 would be better :friday
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Would 12 require some sort of surgery ?
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It's your Mrs. You tell me :clap
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.....Few of those were terminal.....
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...And the company that made those masks has shut down..No idea as to the employee firing order. But knowing would be pointless..
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Sounds like a condensored version to me Jer! :-P
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Would 12 require some sort of surgery ?
On second thought maybe some head work :naughty
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Sounds like a condensored version to me Jer! :-P
That left me dizzy, Woody.....Does it seem off to you that Sparky hasn't plugged in a post? His timing must be off......
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I do not want to dwell on this anymore so do not distribute anything to me or contact me. :wink:
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I do not want to dwell on this anymore so do not distribute anything to me or contact me. :wink:
Well jeeez..If you feel that wired I'll advance to a new topic. :clap :clap :clap :cheers:
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I do not want to dwell on this anymore so do not distribute anything to me or contact me. :wink:
Well jeeez..If you feel that wired I'll advance to a new topic. :clap :clap :clap :cheers:
As long as it's not TOO retarded... :dhorse:
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I do not want to dwell on this anymore so do not distribute anything to me or contact me. :wink:
Well jeeez..If you feel that wired I'll advance to a new topic. :clap :clap :clap :cheers:
As long as it's not TOO retarded... :dhorse:
..that would leave a gap...and we do not need a vacuum in our thread. :dhorse: :dhorse: :dhorse:
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I feel my learning curve has been advanced centrifugally today! :roll:
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Just happy you didn't re-coil in horror... 1drink
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Someone building their own gearbox??
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Now, that?s a big knurling tool, right there.
John
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Drive reduction gears for a battleship?
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It floats too!
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Oh NO..............
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Not politically correct.............. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Mn49k9xoxU
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Now that is gun control........
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Neil...F'n right :clap :cheers:
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"Not politically correct..."
Did you get the wrong forum? Seems like it to me.
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cromag :clap :clap
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Another grand idea :cheers:
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Looks like a great idea to me ? except I'd like the propeller on the front, so that when I fell off it wouldn't chop me up.
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Still not seeing it SB
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After driving to the local lake or river you flip those thingies on the wheels outboard and they become paddle wheels. I am oddly attracted to this device.
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For Pete
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Oh to be young again!!! :clap :clap
Pete
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Pete...A wise old machinist once to!d me.. "Even the oldest of dogs still has one last bite in him" :evil:
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For Pete
That would make a great avitar!!
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For lack of a better venue - - Here's a rant about my 2021 VW Jetta rental car.
I'm driving this car while awaiting word on my truck (I ditched it last week and managed to to out the passenger side A pillar - it'll likely get totaled). Since it was Christmas week there wasn't much rental inventory so I took what I could get. My overall response so far is that the built-in systems are designed so that the most inept drivers are protected from their ignorance - and everybody else will be so bored that they'll have time to study the owners manual (as they're driving down the road) to figure out "How The Ford Can I Adjust The Dash Lights?"
First of all, though, is the anti-skid stuff. Coupled with worn front tires and 6" of sticky snow - - I had to have the kids push me back into the garage when I got stuck about 10' out. And that was only after I looked through the manual so I could defeat the anti-skid system that wouldn't let the front tires spin as I tried to back. They'd alternate as the 'puter sensed spin in one so moved power to the other front wheel. Five minutes of looking and I found it, did it, and got the car back in the garage. WowShootDangPoop! That was a bother.
The dashboard lights were too bright when I got the car - - - and only a week later I discovered the dimmer. I hate bright dash lights! I searched the manual, the internet, and my soul for a way to dim them. And after deep delving into my failings and the web - I found it!! Yippee! It's in the Settings menu of the infotainted display. It is NOT on the dashboard. (I'm not talking about the ambient light sensor/dimmer thing). I was driving home, selected "Settings", scrolled to the dashlight intensity tab, and saw that it offered three settings (not the continuously variable intensity that I'm used to), and selected "Min" (it was on "Max", of course). And then the frickin' thing told me that it won't work while I'm in motion.
What The Royal Blue Flying F**K is this? Did the driveability crew finally get overrun by the liability guys?
I could go on, but I have to do some work today or Nancy will catch on. In the meantime I've got a call in to the rental place, too, asking them to upgrade me to something with points, a carburetor, and a transfer case.
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Don't worry Slim, the autonomous cars will be just fine! :-P :evil:
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Modern vehicles, in fact just about everything now has a Farking menu! I drive cool old stuff & appreciate real switches that don't require a chip to decide if it's ok for my request to be granted!
I have to deal with this stuff when I go out to newer trucks that breakdown. A common problem is the lights go out while driving.
So here's trucker Joe or Jill :wink: packing 80K LBS down Hwy30 in nowhere Wyoming at night & the light controler sees something it doesn't like so it shuts them off! That has to be a Holy Sh1t moment for the driver. :? Without all the equipment & licensing to scan it I have to locate the controller, unplug it to clear it & then diagnose the problem that shut it off & that is usually a bad connection that showed a higher than normal resistance. In the good old days that would have just popped a fuse. The only other option they have is wait for daylight & drive it to the nearest dealer & get on their waiting list.
This crap has got way out of hand.
Sid.
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When we bought a new car two years ago, the salesperson spent about 5 minutes telling us of all the features. About 10 seconds in he lost me. I still don't know if there's an emergency/parking brake. And so much more. We recently went on a 3500-mile road trip. I kept track of the miles and gallons and did the math. I'm sure the car did, too, but was too busy to tell me about it.
We wanted to get to a certain state park in the Gold Country that was a ghost town where my relations had a saloon in the 1800s. That person that my wife lets give us directions on her phone took us on miles of dirt roads until she abandoned us. We took the paths most used at intersections and finally found it. It had a paved road leading out. Oh, well.
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I think the basic problem is that these days the car control systems are designed by computer weenies instead of the "human factors" engineers. Having to enter a menu and scroll down to sub-menus is no way to operate a car. Flipping or turning a switch doesn't even take a driver's eyes off the road.
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As the late, great P.J. O'Rourke once wrote...." Nothing will go through deeper streams, climb steeper hills or go around corners faster than a rental car"
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Jerry, are you sure about who said that? It sounds like Freud.
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It may have been Denise McCluggage (sp?) who wrote of racing a rental car on the Pan-Am Highway. She left it leaning crazily at the curb in front of the rental agency, dripping fluid everywhere, and complained to the Agent that " the car seemed to fall apart all of a sudden."
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some years ago, when My Son was racing Karts Internationally, the older "kids" would argue to rent only FWD cars.
I found out soon enough that they would find a McDonalds and steal the serving trays.
Then put the rears on the trays and lock the parking brakes, and then race around parking lots...
It really was fun, or so I hear....
J
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Freud taught me that cars were not designed to run at high speeds in reverse on freeways as they would overheat as the radiator would not get sufficient airflow.
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Jerry, are you sure about who said that? It sounds like Freud.
Beyond sure Jon.
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But given the opportunity Freud might teach your 12 year old grandson to drive.... at 100 mph... from the pits to roads end... and then let him take it on into to town to Smith's... and back.... :laugh:
At least he had him drive forwards... and not in reverse... :cheers:
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May the good Doctor rest in peace. For those that came to the salt too late to meet and know him - - we aren't exaggerating. Really - he did all these excessive activities and more. And those of us that hung with him - we got to be with a guy that is a true legend.
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And oddly enough...He and I had a mutual friend here in G.R.
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🤔 How did they place that Scout up there?
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Easy Peasy, Photoshop!
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I shall offer a small hint to all of the mechanical minds...The rear sprockets each have one way sprags in them...Think about it a moment. :wink:
That could work, then. Just my opinion. If not for the sprags, the thing would tend to "bind" on itself, I believe.