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To the admins:

I don't know if you have control over the Recent Posts area, or not. If so, might I suggest returning it to it's previous format?

It was nice to be able to click it and open a new window to the last 10 poasts. Actually, I wish it had been more than 10, 20 would have been better. But with the way it is now, a person gets no idea what the poasts are about. You have to click and read each one to see the content. Kinda like going into each forum and clicking on every thread to see what it's about. Much more time consuming.

Thanks!

Okay, it's done.

Thanks Scuzzy. I hope the change back is fine with everyone else. I'd expected a little discussion from others to see if the sentiment was the same. I might be the weird one, with normal humans having liked the change :-)

You aren't alone. I like the old way as well. It makes it look less cluttered at the bottom of the screen and if you want to see the recent poast, you can click the link and presto!

Mark H

Well, Mark, at least I know I'm not the only weird one here :-)

Just watch. Ace is gonna come in and tell Scuzzy to put it back.

Scuzzy will tell Ace he should stay in Indiana and never leave his house.

Then Ace will tell Scuzzy he looks like his cat and that his Gremlin is better than Scuzzy's Honda.

Then Scuzzy will tell Ace his feet stink and are too big, and that he looks like his Gremlin.

Then Ace will call Scuzzy a maroon.

Dude will come in and say Ace is funny, and stick a bunch of smilies in.

Did someone say the word Ace? I like to think you are talking about cards and not jesters. ;)

Mark H

WELL HELLOO PEOPLE CAN HEAR YOU IN HERE.  GEEZ CRIMINY.

It's not like you have the door closed, you know.  Scuzzy, if you would please oh honorable king, please put things back the way they were.  However that was.  Not like I was paying attention, particularly.  And; may I add:  your feet stink, and are too small.  I did not, ever, own a Gremlin.  I did own two Hornets, back to back, of which my wife will not forgive me.  Especially for the second, which idled at something like 60 mph and had the quaint slider interval windshield wiper dashboard control.  Plus, the crease in its Orange side.  

Unlilke the 70 Hornet, with the Pez decal on the glovebox.  

Scuzzy, you are a maroon, too, if I haven't said so lately.  Also, with all the snow, I shan't be leaving my house.  

Ok.  That oughta do it.  Dude, if you would please, follow up with some smilies and a couple quotes, including "Ace is an idiot, yet funny too" comments.  Thank you.  

I do my best.  A Jester's lot is not an easy one, may I say.  I do hate clutter at the bottom of my screen; not like I'm using screens at the moment.  Not with these temperatures.

Ace;  I hate Winter.  Plus, predictability.  When I'm gone, I hope people will say "Golly, he had a good heart.  Although his liver was shot."

:( , I liked it the other (more selection) way, but its ok.

Dude, I don't know if you and I are talking about the same thing. The way the recent posts had been changed, there were only five there. And it was the same as opening a forum and looking at the threads. Are you sure you weren't looking at all the smilies instead?

Ace, you should probably keep quiet and go back to scraping the toe jam from your toenails. Word has it here on the west coast thats the reason everyone here is glad the winds blow southwest to northeast. Some guy in Indiana growing panda jam in his shoes. By the way, I will give you credit for the Hornets. They are actually one step up from a Gremlin :-)

Mark, sorry I got this started. I kinda figured Ace would show up and Dude would follow. You know Ace............ he can smell his name being typed from 50 paces. Maybe 50 Pacers. I think he had two or three of those vehicles too. Maybe a Pinto or three.

Some day, Dude will own a car. He'll look high and low to find his dream machine. No expense will be spared. Newspaper ads. Auto trader magazines. Emails. Hand written letters. (with no speel chucker) Phone calls and trips across the country.

Color won't matter. Condition won't matter. Cost won't matter. Come rain, sleet or snow........ he's gonna have a Hornet!!!

After 30+ years, I still have my 67 Chevelle SS. In thirty years, Dude will be able to say the same about his Hornet. Probably have a Gremlin and a Pinto too :-)

I resemble hold it resent your remarks, dangit.  And, once again, I've heard my name mentioned.  Well, not really my name, but the other one.  I did own a Pinto, I will readily admit.  It was very pretty; silver with the red contrast lower panel.  A runabout, with the full rear window glass.  The car yesterday voted the Worst Of All Time, even beyond a Yugo.  No Pacer, although the art teacher where I taught had one.  Hey; remember the denim interiors in AMC cars?  Hey, remember AMC cars?  You will also note there are no Pintos, nor Hornets, on the road.  Well, you might guess they've all been snatched up by collectors.  You might.  I guess a junkyard is a "metal collector."

What my previous motor vehicles, and toes, have to do with your complaints about recent "posts" being recently changed is beyond me.  And why, after all these years, you mispelled Poast.  Or why, the balmy breeze from the grand Northwest inundated the kingdom of Michiana with about a foot of stinking snow yesterday.  Plus, who put the dang lake there, anyway.  I would blame Michigan, since it's named after them.

The Chevelle is obviously a keeper, and well cared for.  I wonder why Ford didn't make a Fordelle or why there wasn't a Pontiacavelle.  

If there was a car called a Machi, it would have been Machiavelli.  Ferrariavelli.  I shall now sit here and amuse myself with other variations on this one joke.  Then I'll go blow the driveway, again.  And think of more.

Ace; I wouldn't have minded rain, as much.

Ahhhhh, I thought you had mentioned a Pinto once upon a time in a land no so far away.  I don't mean beans. Lordy! Ace, pinto beans and soggy panda jam dripping from his shoes. That's probably a combination no landfill would accept. Dude would probably even leave the room.

Your feet came into this cuz we were having a conversation, and lo and behold, who comes walking on in cuz he heard his name being typed? Ace, of course. We knew you were coming long before you got here. Since this room happens to be up wind, your feet gave it away 233 steps afore you even entered.

I have to laugh. My sister and brother in law had a green Pacer at one time. And a Rambler another time. Sometimes they would ramble around with the Pacer, and pace around  somewhat when they had the Rambler. Kinda like tumbleweeds, you know.

Do you mean 'Post' was misspelled when it should have been 'Poast'? I'm confused, Dang it! It says recent "POSTS" right there on the front page. So, I didn't misspell it. Someone else did. Not me. They did. Always wondered about that.

And the button at the bottom of the reply page, right next to the 'Preview' button also says 'Post'. Now, I ask you, did I spell those wrong too? Or was that again someone else? Don't blame me if I'm comfoozed about the whole Dang post/poast thing any more.

Yeah, I've kept the Chevelle. I keep it well. And I'll keep on keeping it too. Right in the garage. And Ford did make a car like that, cept with a different name. One that people will pay big bucks for now. Some kind Boss thing, like a 302. Same as your shoe size. (302 is considered little in car/foot sizes)

They had another one that's a collector now too. The Mustang. As popular as it was, they could have called it Muchelle. Kinda like the Beatles song "Michelle".

Pontiac did have one. It was called a GTO. Some called it a Little GTO, and even made a song. I think the little part was referring to your feet. Maybe the GTO part too. As in, like, you know...... what people say when you walk into a room while looking at the panda jam leaking from them little feet.

Get Them Out!! That's really what GTO means. I read it somewhere. Well, maybe just here. But I did read it.

Don't forget the Rollsavelli. And the Porschelle. The Toychelle. The Hondavelli. I think they made a BMWelle too. I could be wrong on that one. Maybe it was a Beemerelle.

I still drive Toyota's and a VW camper van now. And a well taken care of Chevy now and then. I think Scuzzy probably still drives a Honda. Maybe a Mazda. Dave still drives Buicks. Well, he did till that guy turned it into a blue Belgian waffle.

By the way, you misspelled "misspelled". But I can understand. It has more syllables than post. Or poast. You're forgiven.

OK. Ace drove a pinto and Dude will drive a Grimlin or Hornet in a few years. 44mayg drives a 67 Chevelle SS as well as a Toyota and VW.

Ace had to give up the pinto, because the head liner collapsed due to the odors from his soggy panda jam dripping from his shoes.

Scuzzy is too busy with his Honda/Mazda to chime in to this conversation.

I personally drive a Toyota Tundra 4x4, because the WV hills can be pretty treacherous in the winter. Since Ace doesn't like winter, I don't mind having it around. We also have an Odsmobile, which is really a GM with a little more sound proofing.

I think my nose is starting to burn, because Ace is about 233 steps away from poasting. Geez Louiz, I don't know that I can take anymore of the soggy panda jam.

I think 44mayg and myself will have to find a secret place to talk about what we don't like. The problem is that Ace would still find us somehow. I think it is tied to his fortune telling. Ancient times have shown us that some jesters could tell the future. Of course those jesters didn't have stinky feet.

Dude, or maybe it is Travis F, will eventually chime in with more ;D.

Continuing with the muscle car theme from 44mayg's last poast, my Dad got me a nice hard back book on muscle cars. Very nice book indeed.

Mark H

Hi Mark

I can relate to a book like that Muscle Car Book. In fact, I can relate so well, I got one from someone as a present for something I can't remember whether birthday or Christmas. Anyway, I got one of them big hard books a few years ago too. Pictures of the cars I used to see cruising around all the time while I was a teenager. I bought my Chevelle when I was 19. Traded my 58 bug on it. Paid $1500 for the Chevelle. With all the engine work and power stuff I did to it, along with other stuff, that $1500 was only a small piece of the cake. I have to show you a little something here:

Feature Chevelle (http://www.chevelles.com/feature/may.html)

After many years of searching, I finally came across a brand new OEM shift boot this past summer. FINALLY! Still in it's original GM packaging, that dang thing cost me almost $300. (Shift boots are normally around $25) I tell yuh, they aren't easy to find for a 67 Chevelle SS, 4 speed, bench seat without console.

The old boot hangs in my garage. Same place my autographed rod from John Force's car hangs. Had to come up with something creative in hopes to get that rod prior to going to the races. So I did, created it and showed it to him at the drags in Seattle. He asked what I wanted, and....... well, that's why the rod is in my garage today. Also got all this on video so the origin can't be disputed. Wives can be good for running the vid when the occasion warrants it :-)

My regular driving car is an 86 Toyota MR2 with only a little over 100,000 miles on it. Our other Toyota, which my wife drives, is a 92 Celica. The VW van is an 81 camper with a pop-top sleeping area, two burner stove, sink, fridge, and lots of cabinets and storage. You could literally live in this thing. A most excellent camping/travel rig.

Ok; okay.  First off, I don't mispell misspell.  That's just how I spell it.  Secondly, I blame Scuzzy for the whole mispelled "Post" stuff that's around here, since he's the master of the house or warden or whatever and so should take responsibility for every dang little thing that goes wrong, even stuff that I cause.

Secondly, I did have a Mustang.  A 68.  Sadly, it rusted through after being re-fabricated after the first rust through.  A 68 is the model for the new upcoming Mustangs, of which I am pleased.  

Otherwise, Elvis Costello said writing about music is like dancing to architecture, so I figure reading about cars is akin to humming to lunchmeat.  Although I do like reading car mags.  

Thirdly, my feet are fine.  Give it a rest.  Or let me put them up, and give them a rest.  I don't even want to think how you'd make a jam out of Pandas.  At least it'd be better than a preserve, since you'd think it'd at least go away over time.

Scuzzy has terribly tiny feet, and I thought they were in an Acura.  But that was awhile back, so they're probably now in some Crown Vic or Impala with a christmas tree on top.  You'd think he'd take it down, by now, since his birthday finally ended.

Ace; Mark misspeled VW again.  Buggy Punch.

When they're not in my Acura, they are in either a Crown Vic or an Impala since we have both.

Otherwise, my feet are fine are, thank you. It's nice to know you care.

This is a momentous occasion in the Forum, as we can all join toes or hands in celebration of the end of hostilities by the foot soldiers here.  No more will anyone's lower appendages (no, lower than that one.  Way down there, at ground level) be chastised or defamed.  No more jamming to Pandas, stinking, or shrinking.  We cherish podal diversity, and shall not denigrate the feet nor footware of our fellow Poasters.  

It's been awhile since we've had a Math problem posed, so I appreciate Scuzzy's conundrum of which car isn't he in when he's in one, and how do you fit three cars in a two-car garage.  

Perhaps he could poast a picture of the threesome parked in a space for a twosome, unless he takes road shots from his way to or from work, or even during.  That could be pretty exciting, I would think.  I don't recall any photos since the racy desktop series, or some from Scuzzy since his tour of the appliance graveyard or sitting by the side of something, somewhere.  Or that group shot of Neon, of which supposedly one was him.  Heck, I have a digital camera now.  If I knew how to poast a picture, I'd try it.  I wouldn't pose a head shot, as I know my moustache would pale next to the grandeur that is Scuzzy's.  Well, or pale in general, if it's a "in between day" for the Grecian.

Ace; it's nice to be nice to the nice.  ' :)'

Quote from: 44mayg on January 28, 2004, 20:30 hrs
.......I have to show you a little something here:

Feature Chevelle (http://www.chevelles.com/feature/may.html)........

That is a sweet looking car Steve! I like it.

Mark H

Thank you.

Oh; hold it. Dang.  Ok; sorry.  My mistake.  I thought you were talking about me, again, as usual.  "Oops."   Heh.

I couldn't figure why my car would be that appreciated; shoot, with the road salt and snow it's hardly even blue anymore.

Ace; suppose I could drive it through the yard to clean it...

Thanks Mark. Well, I say thanks, but I can't take credit for building it. GM did, I just own it. I did all the goodies after GM built it. When you give it a little gas (Snicker!) it'll pin you to the back of the seat quite well :-)

Ace, I'm sorry to hear your car is over salted. Iodized or not? That's one thing nice about living in the area we do. It's a dry climate and cars don't really rust around here. It's a different story over the mountains where Seattle is.

By the way, my Chevelle hasn't even felt a raindrop for more years than I can remember. It never comes growling out of the garage unless the sky is clear and the ground is dry. Around here, that's most of the year. Winter does tend to leave wet stuff laying around for weeks at a time sometimes.

"I love the sound of a big block in the morning"

(Direct quote from Apocalypse now :-)

Quote from: Ace on January 29, 2004, 13:23 hrs

I couldn't figure why my car would be that appreciated; shoot, with the road salt and snow it's hardly even blue anymore.

Ace; suppose I could drive it through the yard to clean it...

My truck is grey and even it looks filthy with all of the salt and stuff from the roads. It has been to dang cold to wash it. I would take it through mud just to make it look like it is dirty on purpose, but the mud is frozen.

Well, I guess you and I have something in common. I never thought I would say that! :o

Mark H

Thank you.

Oh; we have plenty in common.  I've driven through West Virginia, for about 10 minutes, on the road to D.C.  Thankfully, not in the winter, although the rain was sure wet back in June.

I didn't realize how dry it was N.W.  I have a desktop photo of Seattle up now, that I altered, and it's even dry.  If I get a new Mustang I'll do the same; it'll be the Summer car.

When I get it.
When I'm rich.
When...

I like "Big Block" from Jeff Beck.  I did get the Apocalypse Now redux version, that has the cut scene from the Plantation.  That was a pretty cool scene; glad it's in.  Plus the surfing.  Plus the smell of a big block in the morning.  Or sun block, if you're surfing.

Ace; I love the sound of my 3.0 Taurus in the morning when it starts when it's 3 degrees.

The Northwest itself isn't dry. We are on the east side of the Cascade Mountains. It's an arid, sage grass type country. I live in the Yakima Valley, which is green from canal and river irrigation. There's quite a variation of crps grown here. Some of them you might have around the house at times, like asparagus, grapes, apples, corn, anything with mint oil in it. And of course, since the valley is one of the countries largest hop growers, some of that bubbly you have on occasion probably has a Yakima Valley crop in it.

On the west side of the mountains, it's a bit more rainy and humid. When the weather comes off the ocean, it dumps it's load on the west side of the mountains. Those same clouds, when they tend to make it here, are usually drained. In fact, the Yakima Valley regularly has something around like 300 days a year where the sun shines.

You might have possibly heard of the mad cow disease found in the US? Well, that ranch happens to be 8 miles south of here in Mabton.

Price of beef hasn't been too bad around here since :-)

Hey Ace, I've been to the top of the Space Needle many times. Even the new son in law to eat in the restaurant which is right below the observation deck in the center. Over $70 for the two of us. It was our day out, and I'm glad the wife and daughter wanted a day to themselves.

Where the seating is, that part of the restaurant rotates 360 degrees about every 45 minutes. This gives you a complete view of Seattle while you eat. The tables are on, if you want to call it this, a large disk about 10 feet wide. This is the part that rotates. The kitchen and everything else is in the center. To find where a table is to serve your food, they have a computer screen that shows the location of the tables as they travel around. I have some good pics from up there. If you'd like to see them, I'll load a couple to my server a later.

This thread is amazing. It goes from a request to muscle cars to climates and locations.

Ace, you should try driving through the eastern part of West Virginia about now. I am sure it is intereting to say the least. In my location, we don't have any snow on the ground now, but in the East, there is much snow due to the elevations.

I like to drive my truck through WV. It sets up high, so I get good views. A nice sports car would be neat to drive in the state during the summer. A convertible top would be the icing on the cake.

Mark H; thinks the phrase "you can't have your cake and eat it too" is stupid. If you don't have a cake, there is nothing to eat.

I believe the expression is supposed to be, "You can't eat your cake and have it too". In other words, you can't eat the cake and then still have your cake, because you've already eaten it.

It does seem pretty stupid, though. If one really were so gluttonous to eat a cake and want to have another one, then one should just get two cakes. Or two could get two cakes, and one could give one cake to the other one. Wait. OK. If Juan has one cake, and cuts it into two pieces, then his nieces cut one pie into two pie pieces, how many pieces of Juan's nieces one pie would Juan eat at once?

Now which queen said, "Let them eat cake"?

Marie Antoinette was also called Madame Deficit and blamed for the country's
financial problems. It is true that she enjoyed a lavish lifestyle; her
mother wrote to warn her that "a queen can only degrade herself by this
sort of heedless extravagance in difficult times." But Marie Antoinette
was not quite as foolish and spoiled as the public believed. It certainly
is not true that she said "Let them eat cake" when told that people were
starving. As a woman and a foreigner she made a convenient scapegoat for
the nation's problems, and it seemed that no slander against her was too
wild to be widely believed.

Well, I got the saying backwards, but the meaning is still pretty much the same. I would say Juan eats no pie, because he would have bought one instead of cake if he liked it better.

This is a 100% true statement!

"When there's a cake in Steve's house, he's gonna eat all he wants of it."

Ace only wishes he knew how to spell cake so he could butt....... I mean, join in on the conversation.

I'm just estatic that I get birthday cake next week! ;D ;D ;D Anytime someone has a birthday in our home, I can't wait to eat the cake.

I have the same responsibility in my house as Steven, which is to eat all the cake I can. :)

Mark H

Quote from: 44mayg on January 28, 2004, 00:33 hrs
Dude will be able to say the same about his Hornet. Probably have a Gremlin and a Pinto too :-)

nope. Escalade! Thats what I want when i grow up :) :D

Easy there Mark. I didn's say I eat all the cake I can, I said I eat all the cake I want. Well, maybe not all I really want. I limit myself on sweets. I ain't fat, and I sure the heck don't want to get there. Guess that actually makes the statement 99.9% true.

If I'm gonna get fat, it's gonna be from eating steaks. Yeah, big chunks of mad cow disease steaks bought on sale locally. Guess I'd have to eat a bunch. cuz I cut the fat from any ex-living thing I eat that has fat attached. Well, cept bacon.

Dude, why would you want one of them kinda rigs? Stinking overpriced disposable machines they are. Besides, by the time you grow up, they probably won't be around any more anyway. Actually, I think by the time you grow up, it's all gonna be anti gravity and cool stuff like that.

I predict Ace will find another Pinto, buy it, fix it.......... well, he probably won't fix it, but he'll buy it anyway and drive it forever and ever.

He'll call it his trusty little pony. His Pintcalade. His trusty steed. His baby Mustang.

Yea, your right about the cake Steve. I don't eat it all, but what I want. I too trim the fat off of the meat I eat. I love steak! I'm not really overweight and don't plan on getting that way. I do need to work out more though to insure I don't get "the belly."

I too would pass on the Escalade. I can just see Travis hovering over the streets in his 2014 Pontiac Floating Enterprise. I will probably still be driving my truck at that time. I guess at least the roads will be less crowded as everyone hovers above me.

Mark H

Well, that takes the cake.  At least this didn't spin off into "Whose Wife Makes Better Cake Than Mine? NObody's!".  Actually, I tend to bake the cakes in our house; I have a knack.

You can't have your cow and eat it, too.  

Ace; it's the eternal meat poast, now. High protein - high fat - high carbs - high life - high SUV's.  

Quote from: Ace on January 29, 2004, 22:06 hrs
Ace; it's the eternal meat poast, now. High protein - high fat - high carbs - high life - high SUV's.  

We need the eternal meat poast to counter the eternal pizza poast.

Mark H

Ace has a Knack. Probably keeps it in His Sharona. (You younger poasters will just have to wonder)

OK Mark, I think we can get something going here concerning an eternal meat poast. And as usual, we have to use Ace as the fall guy. After all, that's what he's here for, and he wanted (begged) for the job anyway. I think we can somehow integrate this all into an Ace, meat, eternal, pizza, mad cow kinda thing. (See below)

Ace made eternal pizza with mad cow brain? No, too obvious. (See above)

(Snicker! Dude's gonna get stuck in an eternal  loop on that one! :-)

Hmmmmmmm, what do we really know about Ace?

Pinto, panda, jam, feet, jester, clown, maroon, cake, Indian, salt, rust, buffoon, mustache, Taurus, misspells misspell, 68 Mustang, hums to lunch meat, idiot, marguerites, Heineken, twitching DNA, doofus, janitor.

Ace's pizza delivery special:

"PANDA JAM PIZZA"

Spicy crust made from large sections of well rusted and seasoned Pinto panels, dipped in Heineken and mixed with all natural salt extracted from street runoff.

Tomato sauce with a hint of panda jam flavoring for that original old homeland tangy flavor.

Large slices of marguerite marinated mad cow brain liberally spread over a generously thick layer of crusty green stuff strained from a mustache.

All of this cooked and delivered, piping hot, by the patented hot humming Taurus enclosed exhaust box oven method, directly to your front door in 27 1/2 minutes or less, or your next mouth watering panda jam pizza is totally free.

Order now, and receive a one quart container of our mysterious sweet and sour twitching DNA pizza dip absolutely free!

Ace: "I not only bake the best cakes in the world,  but my pizza's are second to none!"

Well, Grr-oss.  I don't know what I'm second to, but I've worked with nuns and I do not want to go back to that.

I suppose the pizza as described is better than a cow pie, although I don't see why at the moment.  It's early, though, and maybe the next cup of coffee will open my eyes to the experience as described.

Ace; the fall guy, not the winter guy.  I look forward to further news on Dude growing up.  

I like the car part of this poast, let's keep it going...

My regular rides are a 1995 Ford Taurus wagon and a 2000 Dodge Grand Caravan, but my REAL rides are a 1957 Chevy and a 1983 BMW R80RT motorcycle.  The Chevy was my grandfather's; I have the original sales receipt.  My sons, ages 10 and 7, are already fighting over who gets which one.  Charming...

Dude, I agree with 44mayg.  The Escalade is a wussmobile.

Dude, I agree with JimS agreeing with Chevy.  Besides being way too big and cumbersome, those things are huge.  It's a boat.  Criminy, if you want something to impress girls, or guys, or just ride above the crowd, get a Maybach or an ocean liner.

You know, I saw where Greg Norman's yacht actually carries a small yacht, on board.

There are still some raised 4wheelers around these parts; back when guys used to jack up their cars to about 4 ft. off the ground, so as to run over other guys and cars.  And, serioiusly, there's a Pinto around that did that.  That is just too funny and weird.

So the Beemer is a driveshaft?  I always thought that was really cool of them.  A guy around here who had worked at Bendix and built custom cars (had a beautiful sky blue Willys) had a beemer bike, and I was always impressed by that.  Don't you think BMW's new design team ruined the cars, though?  Like they chiseled them, and forgot to put the pieces back.  

The new Vette looks great, I think.  If I get really rich, I'll do that instead of the new Mustang.  

ace; really rich.

I must say, Jim, you have the classic of all classics. And the thing that will demand a premium price, if ever sold, is the fact it's been in your family since new and you have the original sales slip. Probably isn't cluttered up with all the extra crap and legal talk like what you walk out of the dealer with today.

I never buy new, but we keep our cars a long time. I don't like playing their stinking "Let me check with my manager (again and again)" routine.

Last time we bought a car, I looked the salesman straight in the eyes and told him what I wanted to pay a month, what I wanted done to the car and that I wasn't going to waste my time playing their games. He went to check with his manager, came back and started to play. I got up, my wife got up, I looked him straight in the eyes and flatly said, "I told you, I'm not playing this game!" I was dead serious. We had a cherry 89 Camry to trade and didn't need the new car anyway.

We were on the way out the door when he stopped us. I let him go tell his manager what was going on. When he came back, the deal was done. That was the 92 Celica, which we've now driven for about six years. It's a good car, runs great, power everything and has a deluxe factory stereo system. A very important option, if you know what I mean :-)

Dude, if you ever come back, here's something I didn't think I'd ever say. "I agree with Ace agreeing with Jim agreeing with me" Don't even think of that over priced piece of disposable iron on wheels.

Quote from: 44mayg on January 30, 2004, 02:03 hrs

Ace made eternal pizza with mad cow brain? No, too obvious. (See above)

(Snicker! Dude's gonna get stuck in an eternal  loop on that one! :-)

huh?? lol your right!

OK, Jim. Keeping the subject on cars, here's a picture of my Chevelle in the garage. I took this one night to see what it looked like in the dark. Actually, it's also a picture from inside our fridge with the door shut.

(http://www.televar.com/~stevemr2/zblack.gif)

That car even looks nice in the dark! It looks exactly like my truck in the dark. Imagine that.

Mark H

That darkness is exactly what Ace did to the old chatroom when he decided to stay. It's also what his chair sees when he sits. And it's what Ace looks like when the lights are on.

Yeah, that's my wife and I in the front seat. Just like it was when we were dating in the early 70's. If you notice, the car's a little dusty....... just like the people in the front seat :-) Can't get away from that dust around here.

HEH! Ace in the old black chat. And he thought we were ignoring him. Heck! We just couldn't see him.

Yup, the Beemer got a driveshaft, no muss, no fuss.  It also has a dry clutch and uses 90 wt. oil in the transmission, which is what cars have done forever but was unusual on bikes back then.  Infinitely better than using crankcase oil to lube the tranny.

I like the new Beemers, but now being married with kids, they're way, way out of my range.

44mayg, if you look at your Chevelle at the correct angle, you can see its lineage from my '57.  I'd never noticed this before.  Under the dust, I can see that it looks very straight.  Very nice!

The only option my '57 has are backup lights.  No radio, no carpet, no power steering or power brakes, no A/C, no A/T (it's got three-on-the-tree).  My grandfather was rather practical, driving it to church on Sunday, and not much else.  It had 29,000 miles on it when he died in 1975.  When my father died in 1991, it had 59,000 miles.  It's got about 61,000 now.  I wish I had more time to work on it.

Dude, SUV's are the most unpractical and irresponsible vehicles ever made, especially if you don't need one, and especially the huge ones.  The Ford Explorer and Chevy Blazer are basically five-passenger vehicles; this is a lot of car to carry five people.  Who really needs four-wheel drive?  Everyone has four-wheel brakes; four-wheel drive just makes it easier for idiots to get into trouble.  I lived in upstate New York for 15 years.  If you know how to drive in snow, and use the right tires, you'll seldom even wish for 4-WD.  Granted, some people do need 4-WD, and some need the towing capacity that some SUV's offer, but this is the vast minority of SUV owners.  Hummers, Escalades, Navigators; what a waste of resources.  I'd be embarrassed to drive one.

I'm ranting again, aren't I?  And I'd promised not to...

If you want to hear me rant, though, mention the Superbowl halftime show...

Quote from: JimS on February 03, 2004, 08:42 hrs

If you want to hear me rant, though, mention the Superbowl halftime show...

Now that is something to rant about! >:( I am certainly glad we don't have kids yet to see that trash.

Mark H

I know things were going to go badly when Y.A. Tittle came out for the coin flip.  

I didn't know Tito Jackson was going to perform.

I knew there was supposed to be a "mystery guest," but hadn't thought of Mr. T.

Ace; stupid boob tube.

Guess I'm one of the lucky ones. Never saw a minute the super thing. Not even a second. I think I was watching the science channel. Maybe the history channel. Discovery. Well, all three, but not at once. Could have even been a movie.

I wonder why Michael doesn't look like Janet any more? They used to. Like twins. Kinda. He's so white, and his nose really shrunk. Really red cheeks. Lips disappeared too. Must be that disease.

Yeah....... right!

Even though the stadium is covered, there was a nip in the air....

Ace; oops my wardrobe just malfunctioned.

They had a Kamikaze air show too? Man, I woulda watched it for that alone. Not the ads. I'll see them later.

Can you believe how many people admit they watched it for the ads? Hope the stupid networks don't jump on this like they did these boring reality(?) shows.

I can see the TV lineup now.

8:00 - Ads, Ads and more ads. By the way, there will be some lame reality show between the ads. Tune in to these ads. 98 central.

98 central? Yeah, you heard it. Something else the stupid networks all started doing. One at a time, now all of them all the time.

In the old days, like a year or two ago when a second wasn't so important, you'd hear an evenings program being advertised. Then, they'd announce the time it was going to be on.

"Tonight on DumBC TV.......... 9, (with another pause)........ 8 Central"

It's become more like,

"TonightonDumBCTV98Central"

Now the dumb jerkwads don't even toss that little second of pause in there any more. Like there's some kind of time call 98 central.

Maybe on Mars. Sol 98, or something like that. But not on my world. Wherever that is.

WOW! I can't believe Ace didn't jump on the Kamikaze thing. He must be getting slow in his old age. Maybe he just didn't get it. Maybe he's scared of being politically incorrect. Maybe he had a relative that was a Kamikaze pilot :-)

Geez Louise, Chevy, I got it.  Shoot, Dude probably even got it.  The halftime show crashed and burned, so why not.  I don't understand why they wore helmets, though, or carried parachutes.

I've got a Japanese Stratocaster, actually.  And, it would be a relative "who" was a Kamikaze pilot, not "that."  Well, I didn't, but if I had it would have been that:  "who."

Ace; it was a good game.

get what Ace?

Quote from: Travis F on February 10, 2004, 21:05 hrs
get what Ace?

Well, Ace was wrong as usual. You didn't get it. ;D

Mark H

Uhhhhhhhh............., Dude! Like, I'll give you a hint. Read closely and think about it over and over.

Ace wrote "there was a nip in the air"

OK Dude, read that line a couple times, or more if you need to.

Done yet? Now look at what could be considered the 'click' words. The words that prompted my reply are  'NIP' and 'in the air'.

Now, my reply concerning the Kamikaze. A Kamikaze was a pilot, of sorts anyway. And what was the nationality of Kamikaze pilots?

I won't say any more as I don't want to offend anyone unintentinally. If I want to offend someone, I'll do it on purpose. But since this is America, and it was a joke, no offense intended.

Dude, watch a WWII (World War 2) movie, and see what the slang for the Japanese enemy was at the time.

Nip in the air............. Kamikaze.

Get it now?

Ace got got it: Score 1
Ace thought Dude would get it: Score -1
Ace total: 0

Dude didn't get it: Score 0
Dude total: 0

HEH! Dude and Ace are in first place with each other!

We now have a contestant for "Longest Poaster's Poast Spent Explaining A Previous Poast To The Exhaustion Of Many."

Ok, I know this won't be easy, but I think I can win this.  Dude is tough, and darn good looking, but it's not like that light bulb goes off in his neck all the time.

Here's another clue:
Nippon
Nipponese; people living in Nippon.

I'm usually up to my neck with National Socialists (Nazis) in RTCW.  I think I'm getting to the final battle in it, but it's one looong game.  

That clue about "what was the nationality of Kamikaze pilots" might deserve an update, after 9-11.  

Ok; I hope there's a tiebreaker soon.  I'm calling "tails" on the toss.  If it's sudden death.  Well, like in a successful Kamikaze mission.  

Ace; what'd they do if they messed up; Hari Kari?  Harry Carray?  Yeah; HE should have been committed.

Ace, you do have to remember that Dude is our youngest(?) poaster here. Sometimes you have to sit young people down and draw them a picture. And art isn't a quick thing to do.

Also the most likely to be experiencing puberty. Small spurts of hair growth around the chin. Zits. Shyness around girls his age, or women who actually need a bra, with the frequent blushed cheeks showing innocence. A light bulb on one side of his neck.

Hey! If he had one on the other side, we could call him Dudenstein! Travestein. Travenstein. Young Dudenstein. Dudenshtein.

"If Harry Carrey committed Hari Kari, then they would have to carry Harry!"

Oh now I get it :D , Im studying Japan in Social Studies (which I( do at home and LA, the rest at school), thats a pretty EDIT: cool place Japan :)

There were a couple cities that weren't so pretty toward the end of the war. Actually, that was the end of the war.

I've been to Pearl Harbor three times, and each time, we've gone to the Arizona Memorial, and museum close by. They have some pretty impressive stuff to look at.

Among all the things from the attack on Pearl Harbor, they have a large piece of bomb shrapnel in a display case. I hadn't realized the iron was so thick at around 2 to 3 inches. I can see how they could damage most anything they hit.

Quote from: 44mayg on February 13, 2004, 21:33 hrs
There were a couple cities that weren't so pretty toward the end of the war. Actually, that was the end of the war.

For a further history lesson, it was a B29 bomber named the Enola Gay that dropped the first nuclear bomb in history.

Mark H

And for just a touch more history..........

Little Boy (uranium gun-type device) was the first nuclear weapon used in warfare, and was dropped on Hiroshima, August 6, 1945. It's force was equal to 13,000 tons of TNT.

Fat Man (plutonium implosion weapon) was the second nuclear weapon used in warfare, and was dropped on Nagasaki, August 9, 1945. It's force was equal to 20,000 tons of TNT.

Quote from: 44mayg on February 13, 2004, 23:02 hrs
And for just a touch more history..........

Little Boy (uranium gun-type device) was the first nuclear weapon used in warfare, and was dropped on Hiroshima, August 6, 1945. It's force was equal to 13,000 tons of TNT.

Fat Man (plutonium implosion weapon) was the second nuclear weapon used in warfare, and was dropped on Nagasaki, August 9, 1945. It's force was equal to 20,000 tons of TNT.

And those pale in comparison to the current nuclear weapons of the world.

Mark H; All out nuclear war has no winners, just a world full of losers.

Good history lession i have going here :D :D :D

I've always though, ask anyone at Poasters about anything and theyre sure to answer :D :D :D

To add to what Mark has said, below the pic is a little more info on something quite large.

By the way, since we are now talking nukes, this is the desktop picture I use on both computers and laptop. I'm not one who changes the desktop a lot, so this one has been my favorite pic for several years. Notice how it's blown what few icons I keep on the desktop to the far left :-)

(http://www.televar.com/~stevemr2/zdtop.jpg)
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The largest nuclear weapon ever produced was the Soviet thermonuclear Tsar Bomba ("King of Bombs"), which had an estimated yield of 100 megatons. The explosive force of this bomb would have been approximately 6,500 times the 15-16 kiloton bomb detonated at Hiroshima. A scaled-down 50Mt version of Tsar Bomba was tested in September 1961, in the largest man-made explosion to date.

(*My note - A Megaton is equal to 1,000,000 tons of TNT*)

The largest bomb ever produced by the United States was the Mk/B 53, also a thermonuclear weapon, which had a yield of 9Mt. Though the United States and the Soviet Union attempted to make larger and larger bombs early on, the "big bomb" race was later abandoned: in the 1960s and 1970s, the superpowers replaced almost all of these very cumbersome weapons with the smaller yet still formidable multiple independently targetable re-entry vehicle (MIRV) warheads that tip today's intercontinental ballistic missiles.

HEY DUDE! We use Google! :-)

As acronyms go I don?t believe I?ve ever heard one more fitting than MAD.

I?ll save dude the trouble of looking this one up. It stands for Mutually Assured Destruction. The excuse for the excessive build of nuclear arms, and the sorry legacy of past political leaders (on all sides).

How very true Pat. MAD stands for itself quite well.

The United States is the only country to have ever used a nuclear device on another country during wartime. Although the US and the USSR were rivals in creating as many nukes as possible, and except for the use during WWII, both countries have been responsible about keeping them out of conflicts because of MAD. The Cuban crisis was quite close to those boundaries being broken.

Now, there are rogue countries which possess these weapons. But even rogue countries pretty well know better than unleash a nuclear weapon on another country, especially if it's an ally of Russia or the United States. Even they have some kind of standards to keep themselves from being turned into sand in retaliation.

France is a jerk country. It's the only one that never exploded a nuclear device on it's own soil. It chose to tramp around the world and the pacific dirtying up other territories with it's tests.

Terrorists like Bin Laden don't have any standards. If he had nuke, he'd do his best to use it on the United States or one of it's allies at first chance. Even a small one can destroy a good sized city.

Yep, Google is great for finding out facts - hint, hint.... Of course, not everything on the internet is true, so you have to have some knowledge to start.

Nice lesson we have going here.

To add to it, a surrender was issued just before the second nuclear bomb was dropped, however, word didn't get to the right place in time to prevent it.

Mark H

Hmmmmm..... suspicious.

Suspicious, kinda like word didn't get to Pearl Harbor in time that hundreds of Japanese planes were headed their way.

Gee, too bad the two way radio hadn't been invented yet.

Oh, wait. Yeah it had.

I've watched more than one documentary over that whole fiasco. They try to explain everything away, but a person still has to wonder. Were the powers in charge at the time looking for a good excuse to get in the war?

Bet they really wanted to drop that second one no matter what.

Guess we'll never really know.

Kinda like Kennedy. Hoffa. Ace.

Well, paybacks are heck.  It was that or invade Japan, and that would've made RTCW look like a cakewalk.  And there's still enough snow out that we don't need cake to trudge through, too.

I saw "Pearl Harbor" last night.  Boy, that took awhile to get going.  I'd heard it was about Pearl Harbor, with a love story mixed in and it ended with the A-Bomb drops.  Instead, it was a love story with Pearl Harbor mixed in and Doolittle's raid.  The love story was fine, although it eats up about the first 40 minutes and the end.  Doolittle's raid takes about 10 minutes; they come up to the coast and bomb one industrial section (Tokyo isn't on the coast, it's on a bay, so I can't figure out it's just over this ridge, but whatever).  Then the China "landings" (crashings) and the like.  From my reading, one plane had its crew captured by Japanese, and some headed to Russia and most were taken in by Chinese.  This made it looked like everyone crashed and Japanese surrounded them all, and they had to shoot their way out to get to the Chinese.  I wish they'd taken a bit more time and expense on that part of it.  

It's a good thing that military intelligence has advanced to the state it's in today, where we're sure of stockpiles of WsMD and the whereabouts of terrorist cells and leaders and pinpoint strategic weapons can allow us to get in and out in

Oh, probably a couple years or so.  Next: On To Mars!

Ace; the God of War..

All I know is they need some intelligence over there on Grape. Man-o-man that was insane yesterday, quite MAD.

Anyway, I?ll go out on a limb here and recommend a book, if you can find it. I think it?s now out of print. I did do a search at half.com and there are some copies available.
Nuclear War, What?s in it for you? By Ground Zero Staff.
As I recall, excellent reading, contains more than all you ever really need to know about nuclear weapons and war.

Also Carl Sagan?s writings on nuclear winter are good reading.

If you can find a copy of  Alas Babylon by Pat Frank you might want to give that a read. It was written back in 1959 when nuclear war was thought to be winnable or at least survivable. It tells the tale of a family that makes it through a nuclear war and some of the challenges they face.

Quote from: Ace on February 15, 2004, 12:22 hrs
I saw "Pearl Harbor" last night.  Boy, that took awhile to get going.  I'd heard it was about Pearl Harbor, with a love story mixed in and it ended with the A-Bomb drops.  Instead, it was a love story with Pearl Harbor mixed in and Doolittle's raid.  The love story was fine, although it eats up about the first 40 minutes and the end.

I think the movie Titantic had the same problem. It was a love story with a ship hitting an iceberg and sinking mixed in with it.

Mark H

Ace, I hope you have a good surround system for watching home movies. They did a good job with that too!

Titanic was a good movie too. I especially liked the part toward the end when Jack finally sunk, and his face was disappearing down into the deep, dark water :-)

Why, as a matter of fact, yes I do and yes it was.  I have a Bose center channel and split surrounds, and use the Cambridge Sound system for movies and videos (it's got the two mid/tweeter boxes and two subs split).  I leave off the Infinity 3 ways for movies, but run them with the others for CDs.  It's a lot of sound.  It flows up the stairs so you can hear fidelity all through the house, to the back porch.  

I started down 23 but the light was out at 23 and Douglas, so we looped over to Grape.  I wish there had been an iceberg to take out 1000 or so of those idiots.  What a mess.  It was nightmarish.  

He shoulda been a Jumping Jack, into a boat.

Ace; maybe the Japanese took out the Titanic.  That'd be some movie.

Titantic is truly awesome on a good surround system as is Pearl Harbor.

Mark H

Ace, in all this time, you've finally impressed me as someone who might actually have taste. No, not that you taste good. I doubt that. From Gremlins and Pintos, you said you have Bose and Infinity speakers. Nice touch! If it's really true. Knowing you, you've just probably seen the ads. Thats why you can spell the names :-)

Man, we've talked about cakes, cars, nuclear bombs and a bunch of other stuff. I think we should talk music now. Music systems. Amps. Speakers. Surround.

Whatever you got for the house, share it with the rest of us. Eveyone has to have some kind of music box. Doesn't matter if it's big or small. (Ignore what women say :-)

My home music-surround-window shaking system:

Amp - Pioneer VSX-504S
150W x 4
100W x 6 (surround mode)

Speakers
Infinity SM155 4 way with 15" woofers (Main)
Infinity SM85 (Front)
Infinity SM65 (Rear)
JBL PSW 1000 100W 10" Self Powered Sub
Center Channel - Quickly Deleted!

I had a center channel speaker for surround use, but only for a couple days after I put this system together. It was an excellent center speaker, but took too much power from the front speakers and sounded weird. Kinda boxy. Especially didn't like the way voices sounded.

When watching a movie or playing a video game, I only run the sub, front and rear speakers. Even with the main speakers off, the ones I run are still good enough to feel all the bomb blasts and explosions up through your throat.

For music, I run the mains, (light them 15's up) sub and front speakers. It's like being there. These will shake, rattle and roll pictures and stuff off the walls. Empty your pockets. Break things. Straighten your hair. Untie your tennis shoes. Flatten your car tires. Defibrillate your heart.

Fleetwood Mac, Metallica, Nickelback, ACDC, ELO, any good hard hitting rock............. ROCKS!!

But not for long periods of time. My ears would break and I have to turn it down every time the space station or planes go overhead.

No country.
No punk.
No rap.
No hip hop.

I went with the Bose low profile center channel speaker; I also did without that for a long time (added the Bose side surrounds first).  We have a narrow shelf that's up behind the TV, so space was limited.  I've got it on the Surround Sound and Theatre settings (have a Sony receiver) but not on the Hall, Live or Acoustic (music only) settings.  It has a natural clarity, even with a concert video that's center-dominant.  I can adjust any of the speakers for relative volume, so each sound field has a different take... that helps to adjust to different mixes for videos.  The Bose runs from $179-199 (got it at the 179, naturally).  I'm not a fan of Bose for music, alone, but for bouncing sound around and for this speaker they were great.

I concur with the music to eliminate, so as not to bother people.  My recommendations from this (last) year's purchases:

Songs for the Deaf; Queens of the Stone Age - Heavy, catchy, 70's style rock.  Foo Fighters - heavy, catchy, 90's rock.  Audioslave - heavy, catchy,
2000's rock.  

Porcupine Tree; progressive, catchy, early Genesis meets heavy, catchy modern rock.

Best eclectic polished performance and songwriting; everything from Mark Knopfler.  Ragpicker's Dream being the latest.  

Ace; I never listened to the gremlins or Pintos that much.

Now that we are talking hi-fidelity, here is the system I put together last year.

Bose double cubed 6.1 surround speakers (small in size, large in performance).
Yamaha 6.1 receiver.
Sony wide screen television.

I must say that it absolutely rocks! It is actually like being at the theater without the talking, ringing cell phones, and sticky floors.

I guess I am a stereo buff, photography buff, and a computer buff. If must be that I like electronic gadgets. ::)

Mark H

Quote from: Mark H on February 16, 2004, 09:40 hrs
I guess I am a stereo buff, photography buff, and a computer buff. If must be that I like electronic gadgets. ::)

Mark H

...or perhaps you just like doing things in the buff ;D

You should hear some of the radio ads here for the Nude Furniture (http://mulbiremotorsports.com/html/nfd.php) store. Everyone is shopping - in the nude!, and on and on.

I don't have any, but Bose and Yamaha are good stuff. I have yet to hear the Wave Radio. It probably sounds great for it's size, but the cost seems high no matter what it sounds like.

I'm an electronic gadgets freak too. Just love that stuff.

The GPS market has been really growing the last couple years. Handhelds are selling better than ever. And getting better too. I stepped into owning my first handheld GPS almost 10 years ago. The technology is awesome with the accuracy and info displayed getting better and better. I was ecstatic when they shut off SA (Selective Availability).

The government used to be afraid non friendly forces would use GPS for bad things, so they introduced a slight error into the system the civilian population could use. (Gee, like they couldn't use the foreign GPS system also up there) This caused GPS receivers to not be as accurate as they really could be. With SA shut off, accuracy is now down to a few feet. Speed and elevations are also quite accurate and don't bounce around like they used to.

Lasers are awesome. When I was around 10 years old, I saw a picture of a beam of light (laser) burning a hole in a razor blade. WOW! A beam of light burning through stainless steel, with a shower of sparks on the backside. I was in love :-)

I did buy a handheld green laser ($$ back then) a couple years ago. The visibility of the beam is great. I can stand on a hill behind our house at night and see it on the sides of truck trailers on the freeway a mile+ away. Been through a bunch of the cheapie red ones over the years. It's green all the way for this boy now!

For a cool toy, I built a Tamiya King Tiger RC 1/16 scale tank last year, model 56018. This is one cool tank!

The Lightwave 4000 10 LED flashlight is great, but newer ones give off better light now. I still haven't seen any that will stay lit on a set of batteries the number of days the Lightwave will.

An actual piece of Titanic Coal. (I had Jack bring it up from his trip way down under :-)

Been looking at the large plasma TV's, but gonna wait a while longer till production is up and prices are down.

I need a piece of Trinitite. Found this stuff while looking for info for the nuclear poasts. (Fused sand from the Trinity nuclear test site)

Guess I better stop. There are too many cool high tech toys to mention.

Funny thing, I still haven't been suckered into a cell (cel) phone or PDA :-)

Quote from: 44mayg on February 16, 2004, 14:58 hrs
....I have yet to hear the Wave Radio. It probably sounds great for it's size, but the cost seems high no matter what it sounds like.

The wave radio sounds great. I had a coupon to get it free direct from Bose with the purchase of the speakers that I bought. I paid the extra little bit to get the CD version though. A Bose Wave Radio CD for almost free was too good to pass up. ;D

Mark H

I've imagined the Wave Radio has real good sound. No window shaking bass, but good quality bass and tone. You did get a good deal, but I know with the price of Bose equipment, you ended up paying for it somewhere.

If I remember correctly, Bose, JVC and Infinity are all one company now. Or at least owned by the same company.

Kenwood used to make very high quality amps and stuff in the 70's and early 80's. That was the reason Kenwood was my first quality stereo purchase way back then. But they were bought out by some company that made crap for quality, but stuck with the Kenwood brand name. In other words, Kenwood wasn't really Kenwood any more.

Too many companies have done that. I only wonder how many. I guess a good search on the net would provide some solid info. Maybe some day I'll dig into that one, but probably not till it's time for a new system :-)

I just have a mid-range Sony surround sound receiver with Infinity speakers. It gets the job done. Since the Luxman got stolen, I just can?t spend that kind of dough on stereo equipment anymore. They did leave me my Bang and Olafson turntable though, that would be hard to replace.

So what about concerts? You know live music, what have you all seen live?
I?ve seen a couple of shows, so I?ll go first.

In no particular order and as best as I can remember.

Genesis
With Gabriel: I saw the first American tour. It was outside of Chicago at some university hall that sat about 400 people, it was great. Then 4 times after that, they always closed with Supper's Ready. I saw the Lamb Lies Down on Broadway twice, heck I?d go see it again if I could.
Without Gabriel: Twice, It just wasn?t the same and I rapidly lost interest.

Peter Gabriel Alone: 3 times, what can you say, it was the Gab, always good entertainment.

King Crimson: I saw them twice they were awesome.

Gentle Giant: 3 Times, a great if not very well know band, one of my favorites.

Emerson, Lake and Palmer: I saw them once in Chicago, good show.

Pink Floyd: Twice, both times in Chicago, fun, fun, fun.

Jethro Tull: Once in Chicago and once in Florida, another great band. Too bad I missed them last summer.

Moody Blues: Once in Chicago, very nice.

Yes: Three times, the first time was when Rick Wakeman, had his keyboards set apart from the rest of the band and dressed in the magicians costume. Anyway good music, they are doing a 35th anniversary tour this year, I?d like to see them.

Tangerine Dream: Pretty spacey.

The Tubes: Bizarre, I mean, really.

Alice Cooper: What a nightmare, but fun.

Frank Zappa: What an entertainer that guy was.

Hawkwind: I don?t know how well known this band ever became, but they did a stage show that was awesome.

ZZ Top: Loud

Nectar: Another little known German band, great tunes and we got to know them and got backstage passes. 3 times.

Fleetwood Mac: Another good band.

Eric Clapton: was a good show.

That?s all I can remember right now. I?m sure there were others, but it was a while ago.

Quote from: pat on February 16, 2004, 18:44 hrs
Pink Floyd: Twice, both times in Chicago, fun, fun, fun.

By the way, which one's Pink?

That was the big pink pig blimp, they flew around during the outdoor show.

HEH! It's nice hanging out with those who remember Pink Floyd when they were new :-)

I like your idea Pat, although I can't put down much of a list of concerts, so I think I'll add a little something extra so my list isn't so lame.

When our daughter was growing up, she was a Def Leppard lover of Joe. This was before Steve died, but the drummer had lost his arm. I'll have to admit (confess?) that they did do a couple good albums, maybe three.

Living in a small town, we don't have many large name bands even come close to here, let alone anyone else famous. But here's my list of concerts we've been to anyway. Dang, I could write it on a stamp!

Two Def Leppard concerts. LOUD!!
Two Candlebox concerts.
Paul Revere and the Raiders

Now for some extras, stage shows:

Howie Mandel, and got his autograph on each of our tickets.

Gallagher, the watermelon smasher. He does like red Jello too. I tasted it :-) Got his autograph on a $20 bill, which I still have. When he went to sign it, he said he's signed many denominations, but never a $20.

George Carlin

Famous people I've met:

Sky King (Can't remember his real name)
Robert Conrad (Wild Wild West)
Gallagher
Joey Cora (Mariners)
Mel Stottlemeyer

John Force (Got an autographed rod from his funny car...... made a trade with him for something I made, an engraved .44 magnum cartridge)

Been to Bill Gates house, but couldn't get in to meet him. I wanted him to autograph my Win95 CD. Dang security!! We were at what I call "Bill's Gate". Well, we WERE at his gate. Got pics. Fancy place. DUH!

I don't know if this counts, but I've visited congressmen and senators about not needing some proposed and useless firearms laws. I also jumped down the throat of an anti-gun governer we used to have. Got that one on video, thanks to PBS, and it was fun :-)

Scuzzy's Setup:

Yamaha DSP-A1000 7-Channel Receiver (a true beast of burden)
Sony CDP-C79ES 5-CD Changer
Sony S707ES Tuner
TEAC V970X 3-head Cassette Deck
JBL XPL-160 Main Speakers
Infiniti Kappa Video Center Speaker System
Infiniti Micro II Rear Surround Speakers
Yamaha Front Effect Speakers (I forget what model)

My XPL-160 speakers are my favorite part of the setup. They peak at 600 watts (8-ohms) each, and can be driven by dual amplifiers. The sound they reproduce is nothing short of stunning. I bought them in 1992, and 12 years later they still command well over $1000 a pair. Well worth it, as nothing comes close to touching them.

My favorite band? Too hard to say, but I never tire of listening to Bad Finger.

Scuzzy; It's called riding the gravy train.

AV Setup:

Sony 54" TV (VEEERY NICE! :D )
Koss Theatre-In-A-Box (DVD player and 5.1 sound, speakers are small, but good, subwoofer is big, but little bass)
RCA VCR

Equipiment that we used to have set up:
Sony 54" TV
Sony STR-DE345 A/V Reciver
Poineer front speakers x2
Sharp surround sound speakers x2 (actually, these were real speakers, not meant for surround sound, that I had on my ((now wrecked or lost)) Sharp stereo)
Sony CD Player (5-Disc)
Sony DVD Player (this sucked and thats why we got the Koss set-up)

Equipment in my room:
JVC minisystem hooked up to computer

Fav bands:
Rush
Led Zep
Yes
AC/DC (Otto: "Spell ACDC!"
            Lisa: "ACDC"
            Otto: "you forgot the lightning bolt)
Creed
Billy Talent

Concerts I've been to or have on DVD/VHS:

Been to:
Alice Cooper/scorpions/ (some other band wich i forgot the name of)
Tragically Hip
U2

Have on DVD/VHS:
"Led Zeppelin - The Song Remains the Same (wreckecd :( ) " < DVD
"Led Zeppelin - DVD (lost somewhere in a CD holder that I cant find :'( ) "
"Woodstock - A festival of music " Origonal (1969??) < VHS
"Woodstock - The Lost Performances " < VHS

First date my wife and I went on was a Yes concert at Notre Dame in 72; have seen them 3 times since including in the round, with Trevor Rabin, and last year with the original reunited group (without Bruford). Also caught Jethro Tull last year; they're a lot of fun.  Have seen Van Halen 3 times, Def Leppard in the round (appear as they do in the DVD, except with change in guitarist), Genesis with Phil leading (I wish I had caught Gabriel, as that was my favorite).  The newest Gabriel concert DVD is stunning; easily the hit of the year.

The actual best concert I attended was Stone Temple Pilots in Fort Wayne.  In was nearly tribal in the mood, and they perform such an exceptional range of music (an acoustic set interspersed into it, as did Def Leppard) that it was incredible.  Cheap Trick was the warmup, and I do like them, but their sound just didn't cut it; distorted loud instead of clear loud.  Have also seen Yngwie Malmsteen twice; I love the guy, but he is one heavy weight on his latest DVD.  You'd think someone who sweats that much would lose weight.  Also saw Bachman Turner Overdrive (warm up for Van Halen) who are the Heaviest Band.  They have the scale to prove it.

Porcupine Tree opened here for Yes last year, and we were stunned.  That's where I had to seek out their CD.

My brother was a (THE) Association fan, in high school, so he'd drag me to go see them several times...  I didn't exactly Cherish the memories, but they were a good group, especially vocally.  I saw Dave Brubeck while at Purdue, as well as a range of ballets and assorted classical concerts.  Had seen Virgil Fox and the Heavy Organ twice; that was a kick, for any Bach fans, especially with the light show.  Saw the Beach Boys a long time ago, and they were getting old then.  Saw Don MacLean during the American Pie heyday, and Isaac Hayes before the Chef.  My wife saw Paul Revere and the Raiders too... that's when bands were fun and quirky.  

I just bought a Peavey 100 watt head that was way marked down, to go with a 2x12 speaker cabinet, to enhance the little Marshall and little Fender.  I apparently would like to go deafer, quicker.  It's that Yngwie influence.  But I'm not going for the tight stretch pants, too.  My wife draws some lines, here.

Ace; which one is Jethro?

QuoteMy favorite band? Too hard to say, but I never tire of listening to Bad Finger.

Hmm, I wonder if Scuzzy ever shares his Bad Finger with Ace?

They're all bad.  And, surprisingly normal sized.  

Usually it's his trigger finger.  We would play Badfinger on the juke box at the pizza place down in the service ctr. at Purdue while we were dating.  No, not Scuzzy and me, my Wife and me.  Geez louise.

Ace; he probably wouldn't let me drive if we went out together.

Yes, that's the Badfinger I was typing about.

Scuzzy; I do the driving, Ace does the walking

Can't let Scuzzy kill this one. It wouldn't be right.

He's a cop.

Like Greyhound says,

"Leave the killing to us"

I know people have taken to Greyhounds as pets; I guess to save them from a life of racing and abuse.  They're kinda like Whippets, like in that Devo song.  I personally don't care for them; they are too long and lean and weird looking, besides way too fast when they run around the house.  I didn't know they are killers, too, though.  That would scare me.  I guess it'd be like having a little race car zipping around you.   I don't know if they typically take you out in the turns, or if they flip over and explode or just crash into the wall.  Maybe a banked living room would be of help if you own one.

Firemen have dalmations, but I don't know what the police would have as a dog.  I guess a police dog, if there were any available.  Or any that like donuts.  I can't think of too many dogs that wouldn't try a Krispy Kreme.  I suppose a cat would, too, if he got his paws in the icing.

I don't think a cat would be that much fun, in a police car.  It'd probably hide under the seat or lounge in the back window and ignore everybody.  Or try to hit the siren, when you aren't looking.  Heck, I'd rather walk than ride with one of those.

Ace; I'm glad the poast wasn't killed.  Unless I just did; then that'd be ok.

Why would people take to having Greyhounds as pets? I can't think of anything more stupid you've ever said than that. Not one thing. Well, probably lots, but I just wanted to say that.

Why the heck would someone want a stinky old diesel burning bus running around their house in the first place? You can't tell me that someone wouldn't eventually get killed.

And if it was full of cats, that's even worse. Can you even begin to imagine the smell? With that bus running around the house, and all full of cats, I don't think anything would ever stay in the litter boxes where it's supposed to.

I think we should change the subject here to guns. Fun guns. Favorite guns. Guns and ammo. Firearms. Target practice. Shooting. Bullets. Reloading. Primers and their pockets. Trimming cases. Resizing.

Ok, sure.  I'm game.  I'd hate to feed a Greyhound, too.  Or clean up after one.

What would be a good handgun to buy, if somebody wanted one for home defense or self protection?  I'd be thinking of something like a small caliber like 22.  Or so.  Or what's comparable.  I don't know the particulars about ammo configuration and all that.  What would you recommend?

Ace; I've got the Crossman pellet gun, but unless it's an Opossum I don't know what that would stop.  Or annoy.

Personally, I like a 45, which can do a lot of damage if needed for self defense.

Mark H

I don't know how familiar you are with firearms Ace, but I guess since it was a serious question, I'll give you a serious answer.

I have several different firearms scattered in different places around my house, for two reasons. Out of view, but quick and easy to get to when you know where they are. And they aren't hammers. (A handgun is no better than a hammer if it's unloaded :-)

One, if someone was to break in, it would be harder for them to find all the firearms. It's not a good idea for them all to be in one place, unless you have a gun safe. But we do have a house alarm, and if you remember, we have Stryke. (A walking indoor alarm from the German Shepherd Company :-)

Two, it will probably never happen, but if all your firearms are in one place and someone breaks in, what happens if you aren't in the right room at the right time? You wouldn't have access to a firearm if it was needed.

Personally, I have a couple 44 Mags, a .45 auto, several .22's and some rifles around.

If you aren't familiar with handguns, these are a good way to go for home protection. Not as bulky as a rifle or shotgun.

If you want to go with a .22 caliber, either a revolver or an auto loader will work good. The longer the barrel, the better. (Longer barrel, more velocity. More velocity, more knock down power)

An auto loader provides quick firing if needed. One type I've owned for many years is the Ruger Mark I target pistol (auto loader), .22 cal with a 6 7/8" barrel. These are VERY reliable and accurate. I've shot thousands of rounds through this particular one, and it's still very tight and accurate. A testament to the quality and reliability of Ruger firearms design. The newest model is called the Mark II. And you want the target model as it has a heavier barrel. There's also a bull barrel model.

The main concern with an auto loader is you need to make sure it's well broken in and polished in the places where parts move together. You want to keep it clean and lubed with a light oil. I take my guns apart and polish the trigger mechanism and other part that need it. Depending on the gun, I might also adjust trigger pull and work on the sear.

Dry Slide is excellent for firearms. It's a moly base with a light carrier that gets it into very tight places. After a short time, the carrier evaporates and leaves the moly behind in them hard to lube and tight fitting parts. And two other good reasons. In cold weather, it doesn't thicken and cause the gun to jam or fail. Two, being only a thin dry layer of moly (miniature ball bearings) it doesn't attract dust, dirt or powder residue.

You will have to practice, practice and practice. Get to know your auto loader. If you don't, you could find yourself in a bad situation in case of a stovepipe. (Case get's jammed) An auto loader is great for quick follow up shots as they have a very short trigger pull.

Your second choice is a revolver. Again, the same practice and care information applies as above. The plus with a revolver is they rarely jam. The minus is, they usually hold less rounds, and if you don't manually cock it before the next shot, you'll have a longer trigger pull. When cocked, the trigger pull is similar to an auto loader.

As for ammo for a .22, I keep my home defense .22's loaded with CCI Stinger ammo. This is a long rifle, hyper velocity hollow point round. Very reliable and very fast, which will offer more knockdown power than a standard .22 long rifle round. And you want hollow points for defense.

OK, I'm long winded, but that's actually a condensed version of information for you. No kidding!

PS: You can kill or stop someone with a pellet gun if the shot is placed in the right spot. I have one of those Crossman pellet guns also (pump-pistol-.177 cal) and the pointed tip would be most effective for penetration because of their lower power.

I'd check to see what they had for breakfast with my Glock 22 (40 cal). Glocks are my favorite semi-auto, and they make perfect duty weapons. I'm always armed, including in my house, and I have my draw down to 8/10 of a second. On the range, I can get two to the body and one to the head on an average of 1.2 seconds.

The office I work for is great. We get unlimited time and rounds at the range, which helps enormously. Our Sheriff says he doesn't want marksmen, he wants professional gunfighters. Each academy student fires a *minimum* of 3,000 rounds over a 3 week period. Gotta love it. :)

The first one I would reach for, in home, would be a .44 mag. If closer, it would be the .45 auto. If the situation called for it, next on the list would be my sweet shooting, series 181 stainless Mini-14. (Zeiss scope equipped) And lets just say, the clips would be more than 10 rounds and all legal as these are pre-ban clips.

When I carry outside the home, I carry whatever feels right at the time. Sometimes it's something big, sometimes it's a .22 derringer. Most frequent is my .45 (stainless P-90), but size isn't always the most deciding factor, if you place the shot right. Thank God I've never had to place that shot, and don't want to place that shot, but I would if needed.

I'm not really a Smith fan, but I do have my eyes on the new Smith 500. That critter is a BEAST!!

Sarah Brady can BITE MY BRASS!!!!!!!!

Stupid jesters. Can't never trust them. Believe them. Waste time listening to them. Reading them. Don't reply. Reply not. Answer not. Not cool. Jesters cool are not.

Ask a serious question for once. Not a joke. No joking around. "HEY! WHATS......?"

Take a hundred hours to put together an answer they might understand to that not really serious question. They don't answer. Never trust a joker. Jester. Clown. Ace. Demoted to two of clubs.

Reads all around it. Poasts all around it. Skirts it. Avoids it. Snickers at the suckers.

Sure, I'll help. Stupid me. Never again the sucker. Was serious? Not any more! Never was. Was never. Never mind!

Keep the pellet gun. It's safer for a rookie.  Pump 20 times. Aim at air. Squeeze trigger. Watch for falling lead. DUCK!!

I wouldn?t be too concerned.
The only ?Heat? Ace is going to be packing, will come in a tube. Which I?m sure he?ll need once he starts jogging again.

Pat, Ace can't jog.

His feet stick to the ground too much from that Panda jam growing between his webbed toes.

No, I got it.  Japanese.  Kamikazes.  "Nip in the air."  I already said I got it.

Hold it, that was the other one.  Ok; this one too.  Got it.  Good advice.  Fascinating.
Understood part of it, even.  That much info, it takes me awhile to absorb it. I'm a novice at this kind of thing, and I want to actually understand it so I can figure what I didn't.  I was off in the other room for awhile, too, plus actually shooting things in RTCW a lot these past days.  Actually finished the game; killed Heinrich and everything.  You know if I'm quiet I'm good with it.  It's when I get talkative I'm confused.  Appreciate your knowledge on the subject.  Even Pat's, in my care and feeding.  You wanted to talk about guns anyway, so not like you needed me for the straight man.  Or target.  

I wish I had a place to target shoot; as a kid my brother and I would pepper Drewery's bottles with BB guns.  Wish I could just shoot the fence in the backyard, like we did back then.  I did impale the back wall of the garage testing the Crossman when I put in a new cartridge...  Had to pry the dang things out.

I wouldn't go with the heavy artillery you and Scuzzy drifted into; I was just going to focus on what you said with the smaller calibers.  Is a 9mm like a 22 size..?  I have been trying to find a clear, explanatory web page on different caliber demonstrated and compared just for over all reference, and everything gets way too detailed and only looks within a genre (like grain comparisons for 22 cartridges..).  I'd like to see something that discusses ammo size and effects, since that's what matches the pistols.  The Ruger site was interesting, and I like that they combine guns and golf.  And seems they do well with the 22 size... Glock seemed dedicated to more size and $. Smith & Wesson was startlingly expensive.  Any other brands worth checking?

Ace; I like the idea of going with a Hammer.  Would you say ballpeen, or claw works best?

9MM is .35 caliber, so it's bigger than a .22 caliber and has more power.

Well, I guess power (energy) is a relative thing. The caliber doesn't decide energy, but the weight (mass) and velocity of the bullet are the true deciding factors. The 9MM is a larger diameter bullet than a .22. But even so, the 9MM has less power than a .223, which is what an M16 (military) fires. It's a smaller bullet than the 9MM, but the 3200+ fps velocity makes it much more deadly.

The military also went to a 9MM as a sidearm in most all cases now, replacing the .45 auto. Sure, you get more rounds loaded in a 9MM, but I think going to it was somewhat of mistake. The .45 is a much larger bullet and has better knockdown power than a 9MM. It might take two or three shots with a 9MM to take someone down, where a .45 might do it in one. Again, location of the shot is the most critical element. But the .45 penetrates winter wear much better than a 9MM. Bigger bullets going much faster, such as the .40 or the even larger and more powerful .44 Mag, don't have any trouble with any kind of body wear. (excluding body armor) Get the idea?

I own several Rugers for many reasons. They're well made, you can find them anywhere, and they are less in cost than many other brands. Your mention of the cost for a Smith firearm was a good example.

I don't know if you made it to the MII page on the Ruger site, so just in case, here's the link.

Ruger Mark II (http://www.ruger-firearms.com/Firearms/FAProdResults?function=famid&famid=5)

By the way, I forgot to mention in the other poast that the 6 7/8 barrel and bull models have adjustable target sights. I wouldn't trade my Mark I for a Browning, Smith or just about anything else. It's accurate, reliable, balanced and feels good in the hand.

I can't verify this, but I read one time the Air Force issued the 5" bull barrel model to it's pilots as a survival gun. Maybe they still do, did at one time, or maybe never. Just something I had read and don't even remember where.

Claw, for sure!

Hey thanks.  I understood that, even.  Pretty soon I'll be able to talk the talk and hear the hear.  Here here.  I think it's a dirty trick for deer or bears or whatever to put on winter wear; you'd think they'd just go au naturel and play fair.  Dick's Sporting Goods has a pistol crossbow; that looked like fun.  As a kid I had a crossbow, as well as a sling and slingshots.  BB guns and pistols, too.  The pistols had no velocity though, dropping 10" in 15 feet.  And to the left.

When I golf is usually when I want to shoot something or someone, besides double bogeys.  I've only hit one person with a ball, and I apologized.  Still, he should've known not to stand besides the bushes off to the side way over there, when I'm aiming straight.  The maroon.  

Ace; my daddy was a pistol, I'm a son of a gun

Glad the info helped and you could understand it. I write that stuff off the top of my head, so I might not always get it to come out or convey the message the way I intend it to be. I'd really like to know what you decide on what to get.

I'd hoped others would have jumped in on the gun topic too. It's a fun subject, and with probably a lot of gun owners here, there could be some fun conversations, debates and stories.

Doesn't anyone else here own guns?

Guns are fun! :-)

ALWAYS HANDLE A FIREARM LIKE IT'S LOADED.

It was very concise and informative.  I am going to go to Home Depot this weekend and try to scope out hammers, and then work up from there.  Huh; I wonder if you need a scope, for a hammer.  I suppose if you're some distance away, it could help.

Shoot, I think bottle rockets are fun, if somebody forgets to let go.  You'd think a projectile that simple would be easy enough to learn.  We had a situation here where a 3rd grader brought a handgun to school.  Apparently pointed it at various kids... had the clip fall out and knew how to reinsert it.  Principal wrote a letter to let parents know "no one was in danger."  

Must be psychic.  Well, psycho.

The next week, a kid shows up at the same school with (just) bullets... Sorta makes you wonder if they were supposed to connect, and he got the date wrong.

Ace; I say "always handle a Jester like he's loaded."

You can probably get a scope for your hammer. Just make sure it's nitrogen filled.

That kid who took the gun to shcool should be slapped. Slapped hard! His parents should be double slapped hard for not teaching him to not touch a firearm unless an adult is present and it's handed to him by that adult.

Dude, don't play with guns!

ALWAYS HANDLE ACE LIKE HE'S LOADED.

That's what I always say. Or type. Even when Ace is empty, he can easily go off. I wouldn't point him at anything that I wasn't willing to destroy. Especially a computer. :o

Scuzzy; Ace should be placed in a Full Metal Jacket.

I don't think I, nor anyone else, should ever have to or want to handle Ace. Nobody. No one. He shouldn't be touched by humans.

I don't even want to be downwind with that aura about him, you know. Those feet. Like panda jam or something. Upwind. Waaaay upwind! With Ace filtering glasses too.

Never attempt to handle Ace. Just call animal control. They have nets and ropes and stuff.

But I will have more respect for him if he gets a Mark II and learns how to use it :-)

That would probably be the order I'd do it, too.  

Hey; what about the 22 that looks like a 45...?  Is that better or worse?  And is a rimfire basically same difference in production as a centerdealshooterthingy?

Ace; first thing I'm gonna do is look down the barrel to make sure it's clean.

The 45 will have much more punch than a 22.

Mark H

Well, yes.  The sledgehammer has more punch than the ballpeen.  

I was referring to the other line by Ruger (not the MarkII) that look like a 45 but are a 22.  Just wondered how that would work differently from the other configuration.

Ace; and that centerfire deal compared to rimfire.  I take it one nails the center of the cartridge and the other smacks the outer rim... same ammo?  same result?

OOPS: I was writing this at the same time you replied Ace, but I'm gonna leave it the way it is.

"Hey; what about the 22 that looks like a 45...?  Is that better or worse?  And is a rimfire basically same difference in production as a centerdealshooterthingy?"

Ace, I don't know which one you are referring to that looks like a .45, so I can't say if it's better or worse. (Than what?)

I'm not sure about your other question either, so I'll venture a guessed answer.

Rimfire and centerfire guns are pretty much the same in that they fire a bullet. Difference is, the firing pin in a rimfire hits the rim of the case. A centerfire hit's the primer in the center of the case.

Look down the barrel all you want. That's how you see if the barrel is clean. Just be sure it's unloaded first. If you don't and it goes off and hits you in the eye, be sure to tell us how it felt.

Some people use a bore light to light the inside of the barrel so they can see how clean it is. I use my fingernail held in the light, and pushed in behind the forcing cone. That's the start of the barrel where the bullet jumps from the cylinder to the barrel on a revolver.

Where the bullet exits is called the muzzle. Hence, the phrase "muzzle velocity", how fast the bullet is traveling after it exits the muzzle. (barrel)

Before looking down the barrel of a gun, make sure of the following:

1. The clip is out of the gun or the revolver cylinder is out, whichever is the case.

2. There is no bullet in the chamber.

It is the bullet in the chamber that causes the most accidents as people think that removing the clip or pulling the cylinder out removes all the bullets. They forget about the one in the chamber. :o

Mark H

OK Mark, I have to do a snicker on you about a technicality. Besides, you have to remember we're talking to Ace here and he might take it literally.

A bullet in the chamber has never hurt anyone. (As long as it stays in the chamber) It's when it leaves that chamber, via the muzzle, that people get hurt. Have accidents. Are injured. Damaged. Die.

If Ace was a caliber, he would probably be a .001 :-)

Quote from: 44mayg on February 27, 2004, 22:32 hrs
OK Mark, I have to do a snicker on you about a technicality. Besides, you have to remember we're talking to Ace here and he might take it literally.

A bullet in the chamber has never hurt anyone. (As long as it stays in the chamber) It's when it leaves that chamber, via the muzzle, that people get hurt. Have accidents. Are injured. Damaged. Die.

If Ace was a caliber, he would probably be a .001 :-)

Yep, I forgot to mention the pin has to be impacted to get the bullet out of the chamber. I forget that I am talking to Ace and not normal children. With Ace, one has to bring it down to a different level of simplicity than if one is talking to children.

Mark H

Yeah, I know what you mean about Ace.

He's still probably trying to figure out why a .45 auto has more power than a .22 or 9MM.

He probably thinks his Crossman pellet gun has more power than all three put together.

I can hear it now.

Ace: "Well, my 177 Crossman HAS to have more power. It's a much bigger number than a 22, 9 or 45....... even all three of those put together!"

If Ace was a bullet, his muzzle velocity would be 10 fps.

Well, perhaps I meant the 22/45 Rugers rather than the Mark II Rugers.  I have to have a Snicker's when I remember I need to talk like I'm talking to the toys of the children rather than directly to them.  Criminy.

Or to the houseplants where the toys were hidden.  Only you guys would actually debate the correct technique for looking down the barrel of a loaded gun.  

Thanks for the rimfire vs. centerline comparison, though.  I wondered if one was better by nature or if it really didn't matter.  Sounds like it doesn't matter.

ace; plays = fool.

That's OK Ace, but I hope you understand our comfooshun.

Just on the MKII page alone, there are like around 20 different models. So you did throw a stovepipe into our actions :-)

Since I know you know what a stovepipe is in firearms lingo, I won't bother you with a description.

"If Ace was a stovepipe, santa woudn't be able to fit down his chimney."

I know that you know that I know, and that's enough for me to know, that you know.

You know?

Ace; I guess that's where smokestack lightning comes from.

Quote from: Ace on February 28, 2004, 20:52 hrs
I know that you know that I know, and that's enough for me to know, that you know.

You know?

Ace; I guess that's where smokestack lightning comes from.

Exactly! Thats what i thought!

Dude, you musta upgraded to a hunnerd watt bulb to figure that one out.

Besides, this string started out innocently enough and it's dying down to at least having given the eternal pizza poast a run for it's money.

But everyone seems to have melted away, so I guess I can't let you be the one to kill it.

Ace, we all knew you knew what you knew, and knew you'd tell us what you know. And I know that's saying a lot, you know?

This thread must live! What is the latest movie everyone has seen? I saw "Second Hand Lion" on DVD last night and really liked it. I recommend it as it is a fairly clean movie that is good for the kids to watch as well.

Mark H

Donnie Darko :D

OK, so it's not quite ready to die. Good idea Mark, the movie thing.

We might not get anyone famous close by, but movies are a different thing. Growing up, and to this day, I've seen thousands of movies.

We have a place that rents movies on Wednesdays, two for one. (4 movies for $4.23 total ain't bad!) I always get new movies, but not anything under 90 minutes. Kinda makes me feel they were pushing it to get an hour and a half out of the script. Longer is usually better. I wait for the lesser ones to come out on cable.

"Second Hand Lion" was a good movie. Got it this past week and recommend it to anyone. Good family movie, good story, good acting.

Also got "The Missing" with Tommy Lee Jones, which I also recommend to anyone. Ron Howard (Opie) has always done good movies. And as usual, his brother Clint has a part in it. He's kinda funny looking, but always does a good job with his parts.

Just got through watching the Oscar awards, and I'm going to have to see "Mystic River". I heard it was real good, so it's on the list.

I was hoping Sean Penn would take the Oscar he finally won and smack himself in the head and say "I'm so wasted!", but he didn't.

There are hundreds of excellent movies, but some timeless classics are:

Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Animal House
Red Dawn
Predator
The Great Escape
To Kill a Mockingbird
Lethal Weapon (first one only!)
Fifth Element
Short Circuit
Beverly Hills Cop
Scarface
Full Metal Jacket
Breakfast Club
Untouchables
Top Gun
Green Mile
Road to Perdition

Guess I better stop or this could go on for pages :-)

Those are just a few of the movies I can watch more than once and enjoy every time. I know I've left out a lot, so I'll leave room for someone else.

Well since the topic has switched to movies, I?ll take a minute here to rant a bit on The Lord of the Rings.
IMHO this is the absolute worst hack-job of a movie I have ever seen made based upon a book. Indeed it would take a trilogy of books just to point out the discrepancies between the movie and the written word. All this movie got right was the names of the characters and places.
I?ve been a fan of TLR for going on 30 years and have read it several times along with the Silmarilion, Unfinished Tales, and some of the other books and history?s put forth by other authors. It is indeed downright shameful what the producers of this movie did; I don?t doubt JRR is rolling over in his grave.
If you think you liked the movie, do yourselves a favor and read the book.

Terminator
I
II
III

And I have also seen
Matrix
I
II
(yet to see) III

I agree with 44mayg's list totally. I loved "Fast Times at Ridgemont High," "Short Circuit," "Beverly Hills Cop" and "Top Gun."

Mark H

I can certainly understand what you're talking about Pat, and you aren't ranting. I enjoyed the first two, and looking forward to the third. For that exact reason, I don't think I'd want to read the book(s).

Some books I've read more than once, and the movies I liked which followed the original writing real close are:

"To Kill a Mockingbird"
"War of the Worlds"
"The Time Machine" (early 60's)

There was a newer version of "The Time Machine" which came out a couple years ago. To me, that version sucked because I've read the book several times and also saw the original more than once.

For those who hadn't read the book, or saw the 60's version of the movie, the one that came out a couple years ago might have seemed a good movie. I could only sit there and keep thinking how bad this movie sucks. It's not even close to trying to follow the book.

Come on people, I know most everyone likes to watch movies. Lets hear from some of you others!

How about over there in England? Australia? Canada? What movies are popular there?

Mark, if your movie list is anything like mine, it's a whole bunch bigger than what I listed above :-)

Those are great movies. The early Time Machine is a classic along with War of the Worlds. The day the Earth Stood Still is another golden oldie along with Metropolis.
I?m a big fan of the early Hitchcock flicks and like a good animation.

I?d just love to here what you thought of Bowling for Columbine.

Quote from: pat on March 01, 2004, 06:25 hrs
Well since the topic has switched to movies, I?ll take a minute here to rant a bit on The Lord of the Rings.
IMHO this is the absolute worst hack-job of a movie I have ever seen made based upon a book. Indeed it would take a trilogy of books just to point out the discrepancies between the movie and the written word. All this movie got right was the names of the characters and places.
I?ve been a fan of TLR for going on 30 years and have read it several times along with the Silmarilion, Unfinished Tales, and some of the other books and history?s put forth by other authors. It is indeed downright shameful what the producers of this movie did; I don?t doubt JRR is rolling over in his grave.
If you think you liked the movie, do yourselves a favor and read the book.

The goal of the movies was not to satisfy all the hardcore tolkien fans... it was to make $$$.  Having read all of the books, I must agree with you that the movies do not follow the trilogy exactly.  But was it not entertaining? I don't think the movie was designed for a bunch of people to pick at it and look at how it is different from the book.

I must also tell you that Tolkien sucks. I'm sorry.  I know all of his works were in-depth, organized, and designed to be literary masterpieces, but the entertainment just isn't there.  You are not a fantasy reader until you read the Dragonlance and the Wheel of Time series.

You name some other good classics Pat. Too many good movies out there to be able to name them all.

I find myself watching an old black and white western, war, or space movie on occasion, depending on who the main actors are. Sometimes the cheap special effects 60's movies are also fun to watch.

The old Sinbad movies with their stop frame animation are cool. Let's not forget "Jason and the Argonauts" either. There's something about early movies that are still good even if the special effects are somewhat primitive.

Frank Sinatra, Jerry Lewis, Charles Bronson, Steve McQueen, Clint Eastwood, Jimmy Stewart, Bob Hope, Fess Parker, John Wayne.......... the list goes on, are some of my old time favorites in most any older movie.

Anyone remember "The Dirty Dozen?" How about "The Bridge on the River Kwai?" Red Skelton? Father knows best? My three sons? Dobi Gillis?

You pose quite a question when you ask me about "Bowling for Columbine".

It's been playing recently on cable. I started to watch it once, but saw where it was going. I think you asked the question because of the heavy gun related theme to this so called documentary.

I've seen too much slant in the media over firearms over the years. It's a basic truth that an honest and level headed citizen could be trusted to have a hundred different full auto firearms in his posession, and not be any kind of threat to society. Same thing goes for gasoline, a car, knives, baseball bats..... you name it.

But give any one of those items to someone who has no respect for another person, and the story probably won't have a happy ending.

The problem in our society isn't with what good people own. Those who lack morals and respect for others and their property is the cause. Those minority of low life gutter sniffing imitations of human beings walking this earth are the problem. Not the inanimate object they see fit to use in evil ways.

Michael Moore's vomit is nothing less than another feeble attempt at twisting truth and reality. What little I saw of it, well, the channel was changed and I haven't attempted to watch it again. I've seen enough tripe like that over the years that there's not actually anything new in it. Same old, same old.

Tick! Tock!...............

OK, to be fair, I did a search to find a little more about it. I can't say this is factual, as I haven't watched "Bowling for Columbine". But I will venture to say there is probably some truth to it. You might find the editing of this movie to be quite interesting.

Truth about Bowling for Columbine (http://www.hardylaw.net/Truth_About_Bowling.html)

This wasn't the only site I looked at. I also noticed that anti gun sites thought "Bowling for Columbine" was great.

The truth is somewhere in the middle. Probably right between the editing Michael Moore did.

You can be your own judge, but my minds made up.

Mag,
Thanks for the link I?ll read it over later. My own opinion of Bowling was that it was an overly simplistic anti-shocker. What I mean by that is that it draws upon a terrible tragedy to put forth an opinion and tends to lump all gun owners under one roof and doesn?t really root out the cause of the problem. I don?t own any guns; it?s just not my bag. I don?t have a problem with those who do. Heck, I could cares less about golf, that doesn?t mean I think nobody should have golf clubs. I suppose golf clubs could be a formidable weapon in the wrong hands also.
Golf clubs don?t kill people????????..

Wade,
Sorry mate, I found the movie not to entertain me. Too busy being critical I guess.
Outside of the LOTR, I don?t think I?ve read too much fantasy work. I do like a good science fiction novel though.

Haha.. you're exactly like half of my friends ;) and thats what I tell them every time

Quote from: pat on March 01, 2004, 16:23 hrs
I suppose golf clubs could be a formidable weapon in the wrong hands also.

At least that is what an airline inspecter will tell you. ;)

Mark H

;D how true!

Golf clubs dont kill people ... guns dont either.

No joke.

They kill when some idiot stops thinking and decides he will misuse either one of them.
Who would think a toy airplane would be a weapon?  This 20-year-old lady brutally impaled her young son with one of his toy airplanes, jabbing it through his chest several times.. the unfortunate thing is that she is elgible for parole every X number of years.  

Where is this going? Well.. many things can be used as weapons, taking guns out of the hands of the public is the dumbest thing the government could do.... This will only make the criminals in our country more confident about what they are doing; if the house they are breaking in to doesn't have any guns, what do they have to worry about?

The shotgun is remaining under my bed no matter what people think.  Warning: after breaking into my house you might not be walking out.. one leg will surely be missing... shotguns dont miss.. i guarantee it

Golf clubs don't kill people.

Golf balls do.


Ace; what's your favorite knife?  Mine is a pointy one that's sharp.  

Well I suppose we could touch on the weather a little here. March roared in like a lion last night. Up here in Northern Michiana, we had some great thunderstorms roll through. I found them very refreshing after all the snow and cold of last winter.

It is in the 60's here in West Virginia. It is interesting to know the weather in other US states, as I could end up in any of them. My best job leads are in Mississippi, Missouri, Indiana and Massachusettes.  If we have to move out of West Virginia, Indiana is the best case and the location is the closest to West Virginia, where our parents live. As some know, my plant is closing and May 31st is my last day, so I am looking pretty hard right now.

One place that I refuse to live is Michiana as that would put me with Ace. :o

Mark H

No, that wouldn't put you "with Ace."  It would put you "In Michiana."  

Ace; at least Indiana and Michiana are easier to spell than Massassachusettes.

I'm in Houston... that should be self-explanatory when it comes to weather

They Live - GREAT MOVIE!!!! Has anyone seen it? Its VEEEERY RARE! I have it and I love it, I highly reconmend it if you can find it :)
John Carpenter's   "They Live" - 1988 - Rated R  (http://www.theofficialjohncarpenter.com/pages/themovies/tl/tl.html)

Who lives?? What are you talking about?  

Judas Priest, Travis, (or "Iron Maiden, Dude") you come barging into the dang poast chain, when we were talking about golf and moving to Michiana, and start blurting out "They Live!" at people.  I don't know what the heck got into you.  

Pat's a carpenter; sure.  John, I don't know.  He lives, in Michiana, just like me.  Pat, that is.  And probably the weather's worse than Houston, for the most part.  I don't know; I'd probably have to ask Neon.  Although if they have penquins running around, it might not be that much nicer than here.

I bet if you combined the Return Of the King with Houston, you'd get:

The Alamo.

I saw the original with John Wayne et al.  I even had a model set of it.  I'm looking forward to the new one, although Billy Bob is sure having a bad hair day in it.

Ok, then.  Let's get back to talking about movies, and knives.  Like Jim Bowie, in the Alamo.  And Dude; try to stay on topic, willya??  Geez Louise, the poast isn't just about pizza anymore.

aCe; that woulda been something if it was David Bowie defending the Alamo.  I bet it wouldn't have taken as long, if he was.

Thirty more replies and we will have attained the 174 replies that the eternal pizza poast attained to date.

I now have an official interview in Indiana, so I need to get out some filters just in case Ace is within a 200 mile radius of me due to the jam dripping panda feet of Ace.

How did we get from weather to movies again? Travis, you have mixed things up and that is not cool. Now see how I was able to get a weather term in that sentence (I'll give you a clue, the term was "cool").

I think I keep hearing that Elvis is the one who lives. Last I heard, he had left the building.

Getting back on weather, what is the worst storm you have ever been in? I would have to say I have been lucky so far. We did have a tornado locally to me in West Virginia, but it was several miles away from me. The accompanying storm was pretty bad, which was where I live.

As for winter storms, it would have to be the 18 inches of snow we recieved in late March 1993. What made it the worst storm is that it was during my spring break from college. I did get my senior project done before everyone else due to being snowed in.

Mark H

OK, if we're gonna give the Eternal Pizza Poast a run for it's money, I guess we gotta spice things up a little. Well, no spice, but lotsa little.

A lunatic rambles on:

Sarah Brady - not cool
Hitting your target - cool

Broccoli stinks - not cool
A fresh apple - cool

A headache - not cool
Giving someone else that headache - cool

Stubbing your toe - not cool
Barefoot walk on fresh cut grass - cool

Broken records - not cool
Records broken - cool

Bills in the mail - not cool
Cards in the mail from your kids - cool

PMS - not cool
GPS - cool

Lemon pie - not cool
Chocolate pie - cool

Firecracker going off in your fingers - not cool
Firecracker in a fresh cow pattie - cool

Running out of gas - not cool
Blowing the doors off a Ford with my Chevelle - cool

Broken kite string - not cool
String bikini - cool

Blown speaker - not cool
A good concert - cool

Mondays - not cool
A day camping - cool

Old age - not cool
New underwear - cool

Bad drivers - not cool
Flippin' those drivers the bird - cool

Toilet running over - not cool
Lit M-80 in that toilet - cool

Obnoxious neighbor - not cool
Hitting that neighbor with a water balloon - cool

Your best friend dies - not cool
New puppy - cool

More rambling. Rambling Rose.

We hate to interrupt this program. This is only a test.  If this had been a real emergency, you'd have been instructed to tune to your local radio station for information on how to kiss your butt goodbye.

Hi, I'm from the government, and I'm here to help you. (Yeah, right)

Don't pull the mask off the 'ole Lone Ranger. His horse might kick you.

Dang it! I forgot what I was gonna say.

Geez Louise, Chevy, not all 30 in one poast.  

I agree with MarHK that we should discuss Best Weather Movies.

"Twister" would have to be right up there; wasn't about anything else.  Maybe "Perfect Storm" although I didn't see it; had a feeling of what it was about.  "Waterworld" would have to be the worst; I don't know where all that rain came from but it sure didn't make it interesting.  Pat noted the Michiana storm front from the other night; we spent 3 1/2 hours at South Bend Regional waiting to see if United Express would actually attempt O'Hare.  Chicago was getting hit big time.  And not that United would ever tell anyone if they actually planned to run those flights; they put "on time" when they're delayed and "delayed" when they're cancelled.  Actually went from "3 hour wait" to IT'S BOARDING NOW RUN in seconds.  Criminy.

I don't think "Chicago" had any weather, as the whole movie was indoors from what I remember.  But "Moulin Rouge" was on the roof, for awhile.  "Alien" had some lousy weather, on that planet.  Probably shoulda stayed out in it, though.  And "Pitch Black" and "Darkness Falls" makes you wish it'd stay light out, longer.

Yikes.

I'd say "Saving Private Ryan" makes you think a nice sunny landing wouldn't have made a lot of difference.  Same with "Pearl Harbor"... nice day.  Not.

Ace; "Bram Stoker's Dracula" and "Jurassic Park II" makes you glad you're not out on a ship, in the rain.  

So weather and movies? I?ve always wondered about the ending of the ?Thing? there they are sitting there looking at each other.
So who?s human?
Who?s a thing?
Both?
Neither?
Do they freeze to death?
Get rescued?
Infect the planet?
Perhaps they moved to Michiana and opened a shop where you make your own pizza to take and bake at home.


As for real storms, I can remember the Blizzard of 70 something. Snowed in for three days until the big-front end loader came down the road and dug us out. Drifts as high as the tops of the telephone poles. That was fun.

Yes; '73.  We were inundated.  This year it was above the bottoms of those same poles.

I think in "The Thing" they all looked at each other and yelled "They Live!! They Live!!"

Ace; or something like that.  Stupid dog.

OK, weather and movies?

I vote for The Blob. Maybe the new version, maybe the old version. Either one. That was some of the worst weather there could have been. After all, they did come from the sky. Kinda like weather. Fell from the sky. Like a not so perfect storm.

War of the Worlds too. Them guys really came from high in the sky. Way up there. I think NASA's rovers are gonna wake them up again. Probably live in the canals. When I was a kid, there were canals. Well, that's what they said anyway. Really!

Snow - cool
Aliens that suck blood - not cool

Rain - cool
Falling shuttle parts - not cool

I love War of the Worlds. I remember hearing about how people reacted when it was originally done over the radio. It is sad that some believed it was true and committed suicide. :(

Mark H

Being as far back as it was, I can understand why people might have thought it was really happening. Even when I was a kid in the 50's, I thought there was some form of life that had, or did exist on Mars. After all, the experts had been saying for years there are canals that had been dug on the planet. Of course, this later turned out to be untrue.

But I don't have sympathy for those who killed themselves. I guess that was just natures way of weeding out the weaker of the species so the strong could survive and try to fight off the enemy from Mars.

By the way, is anyone else here following the exploits and pictures of Spirit and Opportunity, the rovers now on Mars? I check daily and have amassed over a hundred megs of pics and movies from the site.

I'd love to see a pic with the footprint of something in the dust. Maybe even the foot itself, or a strange looking face staring at the camera :-)

Why go to Mars to see a strange looking face with a camera, when you can go to Indiana and see Ace. ;D

Mark H

After all the movie talk I took the afternoon off and went to the one-dollar matinee over there behind the Best Buy off Grape. Saw Master and Commander with Russell Crowe, high drama on the high seas, and a really big storm off Cape Horn.

My mother has a record, yes real vinyl, of the original radio broadcast of the War of the Worlds thing. It?s fun to listen to; I can only imagine the havoc that must have caused.

There?re just as likely to show the footprints they find on Mars as the ones they found on the Moon.

That's interesting about War of The Worlds.  It really did happen.

"They Live!!"  "They Live!!"

Ace; there were footprints in the snow in my back yard, but they're gone now.  I just bought a 27" RCA at Best Buy, for my father in law.  You know, it's not like you can put one of those in a car, in the box.

HAH! All you War of the Worlds movie lovers can eat your hearts out. Probably just cuz I mentioned it here, the AMC channel had it on this afternoon. So I watched it. I'm pretty sure they did it just for me. Uh huh! Yup!

Speaking of Martians and stuff, did anyone else here become famous by being one of the few people who's names are on the disks on Mars now? Well, I guess there are 3.5 million names.

I signed some family and friends. When done, you get an online certificate with your name and certificate number. Those who signed up are on a very special CD ROM that's attached to the platform of each rover.

Snicker! I did sign my dog up too. Somewhere, on a planet....... far far away......., are a couple disks with the name 'Devils Litening Stryke' burned into them :-)

And these aren't regular disks. Due to their special construction, they are around $100,000 to make. I can't remember if that was each, or for both. Regular disks have a projected life span of a hundred years under perfect storage conditions. The disks on Mars have a projected life of 500 years under the extreme Martian conditions.

The name of this project is "Red Rover Goes to Mars" and I submitted the names back in 2001.
You can see the disks attached to rover platforms in some of the pictures sent back from Mars.

How cool is that??

I think I borrowed those CDs from a guy at work to burn... Forgot to give them back.  I tried listening to them, but decided to go with The Strokes "Room on Fire" instead.

I hope they don't wind up finding water on Mars, and those things get wet...

Ace; angry red planet.

Looks like Elvis, and everyone else, has left the room.

Sure can't let Ace turn out the lights, so I will.

CLICK!!
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Ok, Okay "Dave"... let's not go there.  It only takes two, to tango.  

Scuzzy is probably at home, if he could be.  Otherwise, there could be any number of poasters chomping at the bit ready to join in.  You just have to be patient.

Chomp.

Once these people give up on pizza, they'll be here... you'll see.  They'll see the artichoke hearts, and realize that ain't natural, and they'll come running back.  

They will  They Live!!

Ace; they do.

CLICK!!
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Nope this thread can't die. It is eternal. Someone pick another topic. I will be traveling by air 6 out of the next 8 days going on out of state interviews, so I expect to see another topic when I get back from my first trip. If not, I will enlighton everyone on my travels.

Mark H

MARK!!! BE CAREFUL!!! LOOKOUT!!!! DON'T FLY OVER THE OHIO SQUARE! IT'S WORSE THAN THE BERMUDA TRIANGLE!! CARS HAVE BEEN LOST FOR WEEKS TRYING TO TRAVERSE ITS GREAT EXPANSE OF NOT MUCH OF ANYTHING!!!

Better than driving it, at least.  Let us know where in Indiana you land.  I would avoid the United Express Chicago-OHare link, though, as those are flights that don't.  They should taxi the jet down the tollroad instead of even attempting air travel.

We could discuss states you've travelled through or over that you didn't want to live in.  Or other weapons that could be used against a well-meaning Jester.  Or go back to knives, as a weapon of some destruction.  Or pizza, and knives you could cut one with.  Or film, so as your digital photos don't come out pitch black.  One of those.

Ace; I vote for "Ohio"

When I go to Indiana on Thursday, I will land at Indianapolis airport. No Chicago for me. :)

Vacations: What was your most exciting vacation? Mine would have to be the three week trek across America when we went to Yellowstone N.P. Of course Glacier N.P. was as far West as we went, so it wasn't a total trek across the country.

Mark H

Heck Mark, I've been trying to keep it alive. Even brought up space, Mars and other boring stuff. You think that might have something to do with it? Boring? Stuff?

Couldn't even find out if anyone is famous enough to have their name (and dogs name) on those disks millions of miles away.

Then Ace said he stole them. Borrowed them. Same dif where Ace is concerned.

I don't think Bubba visits here. He'd probably like it.

And JimS split completely.

I think Neons light went out.

Chandler never comes here.

Query? I don't think he smiles much. (Just kidding! :-)

Dude? Well, he must not be in the mood to poast a hundred smilies. Maybe he has a cast on his finger from the last go around.

Favorite trip surely wouldn't be over the dog in the dark. Not good for me. Not good for him.

I guess the trips to Hawaii were the best.

The beaches, sights, thongs on Waikiki, walking Waikiki at night and the warm water with little fishies nibbling at your legs. More thongs. Good food and a bikini at the table next to you.

Gonna do it again too. Maybe next year.

Most fun....... YUP!

I'd have to say going to UP mall, but on a weekday when the traffic wasn't as bad on Grape or Main.  

Or our honeymoon, in West Lafayette.  Or the week I had off before I started this job, when I got to play golf a couple times.  One of those.

Ace; I'd rather nibble on fish than they on me.

Just came back from an interview in St. Louis, MO. On Thursday, I will fly to Terre Haute, IN for another interview. I hope Ace lives in the North Eastern part of the state so that I don't smell his feet with that Jam between the toes.

Mark H

Ace..... go fishing for an afternoon.

Mark........ say "Hi" to Dave while you're in St Louis.

Understanding Engineers - Take One

Two engineering students crossing the campus when one said, "Where did you
get such a great bike?" The second engineer replied, "Well, I was walking
along yesterday minding my own business when a beautiful woman rode up on
this bike. She threw the bike to the ground, took off all her clothes and
said, "Take what you want." The first engineer nodded approvingly, "Good
choice; the clothes probably wouldn't have fit."

Understanding Engineers - Take Two

To the optimist, the glass is half full. To the pessimist, the glass is half
empty. To the engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.

Understanding Engineers - Take Three

A pastor, a doctor and an engineer were waiting one morning for a
particularly slow group of golfers. The engineer fumed, "What's with these
guys? We must have been waiting for 15 minutes!" The doctor chimed in, "I
don't know, but I've never seen such ineptitude!" The pastor said, "Hey,
here comes the greens keeper. Let's have a word with him." "Hi George! Say,
what's with that group ahead of us? They're rather slow, aren't they?" The
greens keeper replied, "Oh, yes, that's a group of blind firefighters. They
lost their sight saving our clubhouse from a fire last year, so we always
let them play for free anytime." The group was silent for a moment. The
pastor said, "That's so sad. I think I will say a special prayer for them
tonight." The doctor said, "Good idea. And I'm going to contact my
ophthalmologist buddy and see if there's anything he can do for them." The
engineer said, "Why can't these guys play at night?"

Understanding Engineers - Take Four

What is the difference between Mechanical Engineers and Civil Engineers?
Mechanical Engineers build weapons and Civil Engineers build targets.


Understanding Engineers - Take Five

The graduate with a Science degree asks, "Why does it work?" The graduate
with an Engineering degree asks, "How does it work?" The graduate with an
Accounting degree asks, "How much will it cost?" The graduate with an Arts
degree asks, "Do you want fries with that?"

Understanding Engineers - Take Six

Three engineering students were gathered together discussing the possible
designers of the human body.  One said, "It was a mechanical engineer." Just
look at all the joints." Another said, "No, it was an electrical engineer.
The nervous system has many thousands of electrical connections." The last
one said, "Actually it was a civil engineer. Who else would run a toxic
waste pipeline through a recreational area?"

Understanding Engineers - Take Seven

"Normal people believe that if it ain't broke, don't fix it." Engineers
believe that "if it ain't broke, it doesn't have enough features yet"

Understanding Engineers - Take Eight

An architect, an artist and an engineer were discussing whether it was
better to spend time with the wife or a mistress. The architect said he
enjoyed time with his wife, building a solid foundation for an enduring
relationship. The artist said he enjoyed time with his mistress, because
the passion and mystery he found there. The engineer said, "I like both."
"Both?" "Yeah. If you have a wife and a mistress, they will each assume you
are spending time with the other woman, and you can go to the lab and get
some work done."

Understanding Engineers - Take Nine

An engineer was crossing a road one-day when a frog called out to him and
said, "If you kiss me, I'll turn into a beautiful princess." He bent over,
picked up the frog and put it in his pocket. The frog spoke up again and
said, "If you kiss me and turn me back into a beautiful princess, I will
stay with you for one week." The engineer took the frog out of his pocket,
smiled at it and returned it to the pocket. The frog then cried out, "If
you kiss me and turn me back into a princess, I'll stay with you and do
ANYTHING you want." Again the engineer took the frog out, smiled at it and
put it back into his pocket. Finally, the frog asked, "What is the matter?
I've told you I'm a beautiful princess, and that I'll stay with you for a
week and do anything you want. Why won't you kiss me?" The engineer said,
"Look, I'm an engineer. I don't have time for a girlfriend, but a talking
frog, now that's cool."

Someone, please give me a one-page version of this to test the endurance of my printer. I missed it on the pizza thread. It'd give me something to read while away from my PC in the Guadalupe mtns next week. So I can think about the Poast office. :)

Well, I'm back from Indiana - a day late. My connecting flight didn't arrive at Cleveland airport and it was the last flight home. I had to stay overnight and fly in today. That means by the end of Tuesday, I will have been on an airplane 7 out of 8 days. I am sick of airports, security clearances, airport food, hauling luggage, packing, driving to the airport, interviewing and crowds!

A local job opportunity would be great, but all the plants here a laying off people or closing right now. :(

I didn't smell any stinking panda jam toes, so I have concluded Ace must be no where near Terre Haute or Indianapolis, Indiana. If he is, he must have had extra thick socks and boots on the days I was there.

Tomorrow, it is off to Mississippi on my continuing North American job search tour.

Hey Mark...... good luck, and be sure to say "Hi" to Tom and Huck while your in Mississississippppi. Be sure to keep Ace upwind from you too!

iansl, just go to the first page in the thead and hit print. Then work your way through the other pages doing the same. Be sure to load your printer with paper frequently :-)

Mark, since my last poast, which was the last poast just before this one, but this is now the last poast at this time, I came across some disturbing info for you.

I snuck over to Indiana, the place that tolerates Ace, and took this video of what he was doing when you flew over first time a few days ago.

This video is disturbing, so anyone who is under 18 should leave this thread ASAP.

Dude, this means you and your friends, and anyone else with a weak heart or constitution.

I was totally shocked at the lack of compassion Ace displayed with this uncalled for public exhibition. I have to apologize for being the one to have to show this, but the truth must be known to all who have fallen for Ace and his seemingly friendly personality.

Mark, Ace is not really your friend.

It's all an act. A great big act.

While you're in search of a new job, traveling the globe, this is all Ace could find to do when he saw your plane fly over.

Ace, you should be ashamed of yourself, and I hope you got ants in your grubby little pants!!


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I should have expected you to have disturbing news, as you are typically disturbed.  

I would agree everyone should leave this thread ASAP.  There isn't even a mention of pizza in it, anymore.  

True, it isn't like me to show compassion during fly-overs.  Anyone could tell you I am nearly aloof during air shows.  Focused; sure.  Dispassionate; I would concur.  Except at the beer tent.  And when the B1 or B2 comes in.  

Let me add, though; if Mark, or one of the many Steves, or Geez or Whiz or any of a number of Poasters flew over in that plane, I would not lie twitching on the ground like your bizarre, yet disturbing, little white-faced mimekin seems to be doing in your "movie."  I would run.  I have a healthy respect for WWII war planes, as well as the love of weaponry several have displayed here.  Putting said large caliber weapons on the wings of a warbird wouldn't bode well, in my estimation, and I think I'd prefer to wait in the comfort of the airport for the incoming traveller rather than roll about the ground with a bullseye on my b(#@ ok back.

But that's just me.  

Ace; no, I'm not near Terre Haute nor Indy, unless visiting.  Good luck in Mississississipppi, Mark.  If you get an offer of $20K plus I think it puts you in the "filthy rich" category in that state.  Unlike Indididiananana where it creeps up to $30k.

Well, I'm back from Mississippi and glad there is no more airports in my near future. Flying 7 out of the last 8 days gives one a new perspective on being at home. Never take it for granted.

I think all of my interviews went well, however, I like the job in St. Louis the best with Indiana being the best location. I guess we will have to see how things shake up. Still hoping something opens up locally, but it doesn't look good for our little West Virginia valley that used to be known as the Chemical Valley.

I am disturbed by Ace's actions on the ground. That explains the bright points of ramdom light we saw. It was apparently the sun reflecting off the bells on Ace's hat and shoes.

Mark H

I resemble that remark, Ace. I'm not disturbed, or disturbing. I distribute. Distributing. Distributor.

I'm only the messenger of the info I distribute, and it was disturbing. The message was. Disturbing I mean.

I'm glad Mark was able to back up that the video was genuine. Real. Factual. Accurate.

He saw you Ace. I saw you. Now we have all saw you.

Mark, it's too bad you don't know Dave. He lives just outside of St Louis. A place called Festus. No, not the guy from Gun Smoke. This is a town.

He's one of the originals from the early days of those of us who are older than we want to admit. Cept Ace. He has birthdays all the time. Like his little brother Dude.

Scuzzy has a lot of birthdays too, so you have to watch out for these guys.

Well, we know Scuzzy is a guy. We still aren't sure about Ace.

Cool fighter plane Mark :-)

Quote from: 44mayg on March 16, 2004, 02:14 hrs
Cool fighter plane Mark :-)

It was awesome flying in a fighter plane. I know the pilot wanted to take out the random light reflecting jester on the ground. I remember hearing that the pilot was losing his ability to judge targets because of an awful smell coming from some feet with Panda Jam between the toes.

Man, everyone has abandoned us cept for you Mark. Even Ace is scared to come back in here.

Well, between the two of us, I'm sure we can knock that stinking pizza thingy record off the first place position.

If you ever make it over Washington State way, be sure to stop in. I want to go for a ride in your prop operated jet plane.

Leavin' on a jet plane. Don't know when I'll be back again.

HEY! Anyone wanna know how to make your own 3-D pictures? The ones like on NASA's site from the rovers? You get to wear those cool red and blue lens 3-D glasses.

Speak up! Or it's just gonna be Mark and I finishing up the marathon for the longest thread record.

I have a PDF file from a friend that shows how to make a 3D picture. I haven't looked at it yet, but it looks interesting.

I would like to visit Olympic National Park sometime with my wife. We love the mountains.

What would draw people to this thread? If someone doesn't start something, Steve and I will pick the topic. :)

Mark H

This method is using Paint Shope Pro.

All you need is your two pics, a left and a right. When you have those, you can do a 3-D pic in a minute or less.

Getting the two pics framed right is the tricky part. You take the first (left) then move your camera to the right a couple inches, then take the second (right). That second one is the tricky one.

You need to frame the pictures the same. Lets say, if there is a leaf in the upper left of the frame for the first picture, you need to have that leaf in the same location for the right picture.

Yes Mark. Since this is our own private thread now, we can pick whatever topic we want.

How about a topic of hobbies? My hobbies are photography, carpentry (nothing serious), computers and my wife.

What are your's?

Mark H

So you don't want to know how to do the 3-D pics with PSP?

I'll do the hobby thing in a later poast.

I use Adobe Photoshop, but the procedure should be similar. What other details do you have?

Mark H

Here is how to do 3D pictures with Adobe Photoshop straight from Nasa's internet site:

Step 1
Start out by picking a subject. People are a good place to begin because they tend to pop out in 3-D photos. Place the subject in a setting with a lot of angles and depth (not in front of a flat wall), and about 10 to 15 feet from the camera. Hold the camera steady by securing your elbows in your chest and snap a picture. Make sure your subject stays very still, then step just a tiny bit to the right, about the distance between your eyes or less, and take the same picture. When you slide over for the second shot, you -- and most importantly your camera -- should move in a parallel line.

Step 2
The next step involves transferring the images into photo-editing software. Any program will work as long it allows for red, blue and green color channels to be manipulated independently. The following instructions will refer to Adobe Photoshop. If your pictures are digital, just open them up in the software. If your pictures are hardcopies, transfer them to a computer using a scanner, or drop them off at a photo-developing store and ask for digital files (any file type will work).

Step 3
Once the left and right eye pictures are open, convert them both to grayscale by clicking on the 'Image' menu bar and selecting 'mode' then 'grayscale'. Next, assign the left eye image red, green and blue channels by going back to the 'Image' menu bar and selecting 'mode' then 'RGB' (the image will still appear gray). Do not repeat this step for the right eye image.

Step 4
Now you are ready to merge the left and right images. To begin, make sure the left eye image is still selected. Open the channels display menu by clicking on the 'Window' menu bar and choosing 'channels.' Highlight the blue and green channels (press the shift key to highlight both at the same time). Important: only the blue and green channels should be shaded blue. At this stage it doesn't matter which boxes to the left of the channels show eyeballs (eyeballs indicate which channels are displayed).

Step 5
Go back to the right eye image, select the whole thing (go to 'Select' menu bar, then press 'all') and copy it (go to 'Edit' menu bar, then press 'copy'). Switch back to the left eye image and paste (go to 'Edit' menu bar, then press 'paste'). Now, highlight the RGB color channel; an eyeball should appear in all four channel boxes. At this point, you should see a blurred red and blue picture. An alternative to this step is to use only the blue channel instead of the blue and green when pasting into the left eye image.

Step 6
You are almost done. But first the left and right eye images need to be better aligned. Start by highlighting only the red channel in the channels display menu (it should be shaded blue). The next step is crucial because it allows the red-tinted picture to be shifted over while the blue-tinted picture is still visible. Go to the RGB channel and click only on the square box to the left. An eyeball should appear in all four boxes, but only the red channel should be shaded. Now pick a point in the center of the picture to match up; for example, if a person is your subject, eye pupils are a good target. Zoom in on the target by selecting the magnifying glass icon in the tool bar then click on the target until it appears fairly large.

Step 7
Next, select the 'move' tool located in the upper right corner of the tool bar. Using the up and down arrow keys, slide the red-tinted image over until your target matches up and no longer shows any rings of color.

Step 8
Zoom back out. Objects toward the outside of your picture should still be haloed in red or blue. In other words, the overall goal in this step is to limit the colored tints as much as possible. To cut out excess red or blue at the far edges of your picture, crop it using the crop tool, also located in the tool bar (once you've outlined your picture with the tool, go to the 'Image' menu bar then press 'crop').

Here's the info for using PSP. 2 and 3 are pretty much the only thing you need to learn concerning the program. Taking the pictures will be another thing to learn, but I've done some pretty good ones just practicing.

Dang it! I gotta find something important to take a 3-D of. I still think the back of Ace's head would be a good one. At least we would know if he has any hair left :-)

   
       CREATING A 3D PICTURE USING PAINT SHOP PRO

BY VAUGHN - WA3TMS

1. Using a camera, take a left & right image, shifted by approximately
   1/2" per 2 feet of distance from the main object of interest, while
   maintaining horizontal & vertical alignment. The idea is to get 2
   pictures of a scene from 2 slightly different angles. Experimenting
   with the amount of shift between the left & right images, provides
   some interesting results.

Note: Keep in mind that the slight angle between the left & right images
is what gives you the 3D effect.  When I take pictures to make into 3D,
I use one of the corners of the viewfinder as a reference point.  I take
the "left" image and look for a leaf or other object in one of the corners
of the viewfinder.  Then I move to the right slightly and look for that
leaf or other object and put it where it was in the "left" picture, and
snap the "right" picture.  This insures that I am not just moving sideways,
with the camera, but changing the angle between the "left" & "right" images.
This procedure will produce good 3D pictures, provided you maintain
horizontal & vertical alignment when you take the left & right images.

2. Remove the green & blue componants from the left image and the red
   componant from the right image.  In Paint Shop Pro, this done by:

    a. Open your "Left" image.    
    b. From the "Colors" menu, select "Adjust" & "Red/Grn/Blu".
    c. Set the "Red" box to "0", the "Green" box to "-100", & the "Blue
       box to "-100" and click on "OK" (The "Left" image should have turned
       red). Leave the "Left" image open.
    d. Open your "Right" image.
    e. As above, from the "Colors" menu, select "Adjust" & "Red/Grn/Blu".
    f. Set the "Red" box to "-100", the "Green" box to "0", and the
       "Blue" box to "0" and click on "OK" (The "Right" image should have
        turned blue/green).  Leave the "Right" image open.
       
3. Combine the two color adjusted images into one 3D picture.  This is
   done, in Paint Shop Pro, by:

    a. (You should have your "Left" & "Right" color adjusted images on your
       desk top).  In the "Image" menu, select "Arithmetic", and your "Left"
       and "Right" images should appear in the "Source Image #1" & "Source
       Image #2" boxes (it dosen't matter in which box the respective
       images appear).
    b. Set the "Function" box to "Add".
    c. Check "All Channels" in the "Channel" box.
    d. In the "Modifiers" box, set "Divisor" to "1", the "Bias" to "0" &
       check the "Clip Color Values" box.
    e. Click "OK" to create 3D image

Quote from: 44mayg on March 17, 2004, 20:20 hrs
Dang it! I gotta find something important to take a 3-D of. I still think the back of Ace's head would be a good one. At least we would know if he has any hair left :-)

Steve, I thought you were a man of much integrety and sense. No Ace's head would not be a good subject. It would likely break your camera before you got the second shot!

I would suggest shooting something like a fighter jet or a good horse. Now that would be better than Ace assuming you can get the horse to stand still for the second picture.

Mark H

Oh yeah...... suggest horses and jets.

I'll have you know, I have no horses in my back yard.

And I loaned my jet to a friend for this year. Won't be back till next Christmas.

I miss my dear little Lear :-(

As they say, an invisible horse or jet is better than Ace's head. You could take one of a tree or even your backyard.

Mark H

Here's one I did of a Tamiya RC tank. I did this one black and white before I realized you don't have to do them B/W. This is smaller than my original so as not to take too long to load.

For anyone who has the red/blue glasses, this will work. (Like anyone but Mark and I are reading this stuff)

(http://www.televar.com/~stevemr2/z3dtank.jpg)

Cool! I like it. I don't have a scanner anymore and haven't gone digital yet, so I don't have any pictures to poast.

Have you checked out any of the Mars rover pictures? They are pretty cool. I love the fact that we can get such clear pictures transmitted through space to Earth.

Mark H

Do you have the glasses to view it? It's an easier one to do, being able to keep the camera at the exact same level by using the floor for support.

And you ask if I have looked at any of the Mars pics. Well, I'm an information freak, and speaking of hobbies, one of them is information. Especially new technology and stuff like that.

Have I looked at the Mars pics? Well, nearly every day, I check the site for the latest updates. And at this time, I've downloaded over 100 megs of pics and video. In fact, it was the Mars website and it's 3D pics that caused me to search how to do them with PSP.

I haven't saved as many the recent days as they are beginning to look the same. If I was studying everything like the scientists, each and every picture would (and does) hold something new. But since I'm saving these to look at rather than study, it's a little different. I do study and learn from them, but not in the same way as NASA. And I'm a little disappointed they haven't had any new panoramic or color pics for over a month. All the newer ones have been black and white. But I've taken some of those and turned them into 3D too. Look for the same named pic, except for an L or R in the name. Some of these will make a good 3D, but not all. Hey! A way for you to practice making them!

Our daughter is home visiting for 4 days right now, so I'm ashamed to say I haven't checked the site for a couple days. But I think I will later tonight or tomorrow.

Gotta keep tabs on Spirit and Opportunity and them Sols!! :-)

Hey, guys, didn't mean to abandon you - just been too (d-word) busy.  I must say, you two have done a fine job keeping this going.

Jokes are always good to enliven a thread.  Here's one:

One morning soon after getting elected, George Bush and Dick Cheney were having brunch at a restaurant.  The attractive waitress asked Cheney what he would like, and he replied,

"I'll have a bowl of oatmeal and some fruit."

"And what can I get for you, sir?" she asked George W.

He replied, "How about a quickie?"

"Why, Mr. President," the waitress said, "How rude . .. . you're starting to act like Mr. Clinton, and you haven't even been in office for a month yet!"

As the waitress stormed away, Cheney leaned over to Bush and whispered, "It's pronounced "quiche."

How about some blond jokes?  It's been a while since I've heard a new one.

I hadn't even read that pizza poast for a while.  Geez, with all of the pizza pictures in it, anyone with a slow dial-up connection isn't going to bother, so we've got a strategic advantage here.

You need a hook, an eyecatcher.  Jokes.  That'll get 'em poasting.

Hey Jim, thanks for poppin' in :-)

Glad to see you could make it. This thread kinda took on a life of it's own, so we've been trying to set a new record. Most everyone else has abandoned us, be Mark and I have decided to carry the torch toward that end goal.

OK, you want blonde. There are so many blonde jokes out there for quite some time, it's hard to poast one that hasn't been read by someone. But I'll give it a shot here. (An oldie but goodie)

************

One day there was a brunett jogging down the road saying,
"66....66....66..." etc. Later down the road a blonde comes up to her and
asks her what she is doing. The brunett replied "66...66...66" so, the
blonde went to the other side of the road and started jogging down the road
saying "66...66...66". After a while, the brunett hollers over to the blonde
and said "It's alot more fun in the middle of the road." "Ok." replied the
blonde and started jogging down the middle of the road. Just then, a monster
truck comes by and hits the blonde. The brunett still kept jogging down the
road sayin "67...67...67."

Blond Jokes. Gotta love them! I will have to dig some up for this thread as I don't have any new ones right now. I'm glad to see Jim in the conversations! :)

Mark H

Quote from: JimS on March 19, 2004, 12:45 hrs
Hey, guys, didn't mean to abandon you - just been too (d-word) busy.  I must say, you two have done a fine job keeping this going.

All in a good few poasts work. ;D Glad you can join us! :)

Mark H

All for a good cause!

If the following applies, she is blond:

* She thinks a quarterback is a refund.
* She thinks General Motors was in the army.
* She thinks Meow Mix was a CD for cats.
* She thinks Boyz II Men was a day care center.
* At the bottom of an application where it says "Sign here:" she writes "Sagittarius."
* She takes the ruler to bed to see how long she slept.
* She sent a fax with a stamp on it.
* Under "education" on A job application, She puts "Hooked On Phonics."
* She tripped over a cordless phone.
* She spent 20 minutes looking at the orange juice can because it said "Concentrate."
* She told me to meet her at the corner of "WALK" and "DON'T WALK."
* She tried to put M&M's in alphabetical order.
* She studied for a blood test.
* She sold the car for gas money.
* She missed bus #44 so she took bus #22 twice instead.
* When she went to the airport and saw a sign that said, "Airport Left," she turned around and went home.
* When she heard that 90% of all crimes occur around the home, she moved.
* She thought if she spoke her mind, she'd be speechless.
* She thought that she could not use her AM radio in the evening.
* She had a shirt that said "TGIF," which she thought stood for "This Goes In Front."
* She thinks Taco Bell is the Mexican phone company.

OK, so it's blonde day here.

In keeping with the "Today is Blonde Day" tradition established many years ago, here's a few more:

Q: What do you say to a Blonde that won't give in?
A: "Have another beer."

Q: How do you make a blonde's eyes twinkle?
A: Shine a flashlight in their ear.

Q: What does a blond and a beer bottle have in common?
A: They're both empty from the neck up.

Q: How do you get a blond out of a tree?
A: Wave

Q: What does a blonde owl say?
A: What, what?

Q: What's the Blonde's cheer?
A: " I'm blonde, I'm blonde, I'm B.L.O.N....ah, oh well.. I'm blonde, I'm
blonde, yea yea yea..."

Q: Why did the blonde scale the chain-link fence?
A: To see what was on the other side.

Q: Why did the blonde have tire tread marks on her back?
A: From crawling across the street when the sign said "DON'T WALK".

Q: Why did the blonde keep a coat hanger in her back seat?
A: In case she locks the keys in her car.

Q: Why did the blonde tip-toe past the medicine cabinet?
A: So she wouldn't wake up the sleeping pills.

Q: Why did God create blondes?
A: Because sheep can't bring beer from the fridge.
Q: Why did God create brunettes?
A: Neither could the blondes.

Q: Why did the blonde try and steal a police car?
A: She saw "911" on the back and thought it was a Porsche.

Q: What is the difference between a blonde and an inflatable doll?
A: About 2 cans of hair spray

Q: Where do blondes go to meet their relatives?
A: The vegetable garden.

Q: How many blondes does it take to play tag?
A: One.

Q: What do you call four Blondes in a Volkswagon?
A: Far-from-thinkin

Q: What did the blonde say when she looked into a box of Cheerios?
A: "Oh look! Donut seeds!"

Q: What did the blonde name her pet zebra?
A: Spot.

Q: What's a blonds' favourite rock group?
A: Air Supply.

Q: Why can't blondes put in light bulbs?
A: They keep breaking them with the hammers.

Q: Did you hear about the blonde coyote?
A: Got stuck in a trap, chewed off three legs and was still stuck.

Q: Why can't blondes be cattle ranchers?
A: They can't keep their calves together!

Q: What's a blonde's favorite nursery rhyme?
A: Humpme Dumpme.

Q: What did the blonde customer say to the buxom waitress (reading her
nametag) ?
A: "'Debbie'...that's cute. What did you name the other one ?"

Q: What goes VROOM, SCREECH,VROOM, SCREECH,VROOM, SCREECH?
A: A blonde going through a flashing red light.

Q: What does a blonde do if she is not in bed by 10?
A: She picks up her purse and goes home.

Q: To a blonde, what is long and hard?
A: Grade 4.

Q: What is the definition of gross ignorance?
A: 144 blondes.

Q: Did you hear about the blonde couple that were found frozen to death in
their car at a drive-in movie theater?
A: They went to see "Closed for the Winter".

Q: What is the definition of the perfect woman?
A: A deaf and dumb blonde nymphomaniac whose father owns a pub.

Q: A blonde is walking down the street with a pig under her arm. She passes
a person who asks "Where did you get that?"
A: The pig says, "I won her in a raffle!"

Q: A blonde ordered a pizza and the clerk asked if he should cut it in six
or twelve pieces.
A: "Six, please. I could never eat twelve pieces."

Q: What's a blonde's idea of safe sex?
A: Locking the car door.

Q: Why did the blonde keep failing her driver's test?
A: Because every time the door opened, she jumped into the back seat.

Q: What's five miles long and has an IQ of forty?
A: A blonde parade.

Q: Why did the blonde ask her friends to save their burned-out light bulbs?
A: She needed them for the darkroom she was building.

Q: Why did the blonde resolve to have only three children?
A: Because she read that one child out of every four born was Chinese.

Q: What is it when a blonde blows into another blondes ear?
A: Data transfer.

Well, I don't have another blond joke, but I do have a memo to cats and dogs that you may find usefull. Some of these especially fit our two cats:
__________________________________________________

Dear Dog and Cat,

When I say to move, it means go someplace else, not switch positions with each other so there are still two of you in the way.

The dishes with the paw prints are yours and contain your food. The other dishes are mine and contain my food. (Please note, placing a paw print in the middle of my plate & food does not stake a claim for it becoming your food & dish, nor do I find that aesthetically pleasing in the slightest.)

The stairway was not designed by NASCAR and is not a racetrack. Beating me to the bottom is not the object. Tripping me doesn't help because I fall faster than you can run.

I cannot buy anything bigger than a king size bed. I am very sorry about this. Do not think I will continue to sleep on the couch to ensure your comfort. Look at videos of dogs and cats sleeping. They can actually curl up in a ball. It is not necessary to sleep perpendicular to each other stretched out to the fullest extent possible. (I also know that sticking tails straight out and having tongues hanging out the other end to maximize space used is nothing but sarcasm.)

My compact discs are not miniature Frisbees.

For the last time, there is not a secret exit from the bathroom. If by some miracle I beat you there and  manage to get the door shut, it is not necessary to claw, whine meow, try to turn the knob, or get your paw under the edge and try to pull the door open. I must exit through  the same door I entered. (In addition, I have been using the bathroom for years...canine or feline attendance is not mandatory.)

The proper order is kiss me, then go smell the other dogs or cats' butt.

I cannot stress this enough. It would be such a simple change for you.

To pacify you I have posted the following message on our front door:

Rules for Non-pet owners who visit and like to complain about our pets:

1. They live here; you don't.

2. If you don't want their hair on your clothes, stay off the furniture.

3. I like my pet better than I like most people.

4. To you it's an animal. To me he and/or she is an adopted son and/or daughter who is short, hairy, walks on all fours and is speech challenged.

5.Dogs and cats are better than kids. They eat less, don't ask for money all the time, are easier to train, usually come when called, never drive your car, don't hang out with drug using friends, don't drink or smoke, don't worry about buying the latest fashions, don't wear your clothes, don't need a gazillion dollars for college, and if they get pregnant, you can sell the results.

I just thought of something. Since the title of this thread is recent posts (mispelled of course), it has to stay recent, which makes it eternal by default. :)

Mark H

Dang it. I went through this with Dude or Ace or someone else a long time ago.

Recent Posts is correct. It's one of only a couple places here where it's spelled "Post".

Go to the bottom of the forum page, and look at how it's spelled.

"Recent POSTS"

Also, if you reply to anything or start a new thread, when you go to poast it, the button also says POST. And those aren't the only two in the forum. Those are just a couple of examples.

I can't help it if those other things are wrong. It's not my fault. I didn't do the buttons or links.

By the way......... almost there!! :-)

True, I guess I always thought is was a flaw with the software. Your enlightenment has set me straight. Post is in the dictionary, so I guess it is correct.

I wonder where that guy named Ace is at now in days? Even he could contribute to the eternal thread we have here.

Mark H

Post. Post Toasties. Fence post. Soldier at his post. Post Office. Post a notice. Post to your bank account.

Heck yeah! Post is a word. Dictionary is even in the dictionary.

I think Scuzzy and Ace moved in together. Somewhere. Somewhere under a rock. In the desert. They're at their post eating Post Toasties by their fence post down the road from the Post Office trying to fix Ace's bank account.

Scuzzy is doomed if Ace is living with him. Doomed I say!

Even the Federal Government recognized p-o-s-t as the correct spelling for post.

Maybe the word "Poast" was invented due to the presence of Ace messing everything up. He probably sabotaged the site when it first came out to get that "a" in the word post.

Mark H

Well, poast (which isn't in the dictionary) came up about 300 forums ago. Can't remember who exactly had the misfortune to spell the word post wrong, as poast, but it then became the running joke for someone needing a speel chucker. (spell checker)

Guess we know where the word Poast has ended up landing at.

And also, some lucky winner will get the grand prize for tying that long pizza thingy if they happen to poast the next reply.

One more blonde joke.

Two blondes were waiting at the Pearly Gates and struck up a conversation.
First blonde says "How did you die?"
Second says "I froze to death".
First blonde says "Must have been awful."
Second blonde says "How did you die?"
First blonde says "I had a heart attack, I knew my husband was being
unfaithful, so I came home unexpectedly one day and rushed to the bedroom and
found my husband alone reading. I rushed to the basement and nobody was
hiding there, I rushed to the attic and still no one, and after all that
rushing around I had a heart attack and died."
Second blonde says, "If only you'd looked in the freezer we'd both still be
alive."

Pizza and us are now tied!

What do I win?

Mark H

I think I got an email from someone who might be the admins possibly here at Poasters. They might have said something about there maybe being a large sum of what might possibly be cash. Maybe something like a hunnerd thousand and a big trophy, or something similar to that.

Well, maybe a little less. And it might not be cash. You could probably get a trophy if you go to a second hand store and buy one. I'm not really even sure if I heard anything from anyone who might be associated with friends of the admins here. I don't think I have email any more.

I think there's also the slight possibility that someone told me I might have made the whole thing up. Maybe I think I thought it all up.

But that can't be confirmed either.

Open a cold one for yourself tonight Mark. I'll do the same.

I think.

FYI: the forum is called "Poasters."  The explanation has been provided, off the home page.  To tie in with roast, and toast.  We have a Poast Office.  You could look it up.  

Ace; maybe.

There you are Ace, ruining our fun again! What will we do with you? You don't show up until the record is obtained. Steve and I did all the hard work with some assistance from Jim.

Mark H; May move to Indiana.

Hey there Mark. I thank you and share your enthusiasm over finally kicking that pizza thingy into second place. When everyone else split, we hung in there to get the job done. And some last minute help from JimS also helped get us over the top.

We do have to remember that when this thread took on an unexpected life of it's own, there were many others who helped it grow and almost took it to the limit.

*STARRING*
(In order of appearance)

44mayg
Scuzzy
Mark H
Ace
Travis F (Alias Dude)
Neon
JimS
Pat
Wade777
iansl

But alas, we were abandoned at the end. Hung out to dry. At least we hung in, while hung out there, to get the job done.

Good job everyone!

Geez......... give Ace a couple days off and he comes back a panda jam stinking high heavens grouch.

We also got more bang for the number of views. The Pizza poast has almost twice the views, but yet we have more poast. I call that efficiency!

Mark H

Now that this is the biggest, should we start another one? :P

Heck no!

Shoot, we broke the record. So far, anyway.

Why start another one? If we break the back of the now ex-record holder, we need to break the back in nothing but a big way.

Why not continue to build on this one that will hold the record for a long time. The long time. Longest. Forever? Something that nobody would ever try to break the back of.

A monstrosity. Mammoth! Large!! Very large!!! Stupendous!!!! Megatacular!!!!! Spiffy!!!!!!

I agree Steve. Records are meant to be broken, but we will change the rules with this thread. No more breaking records for the longest thread as this thread will always reign supreme.

If someone thinks of something new to talk about in this thread, bring it on!

Mark H

Don't have any ideas atm....
uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Well, for this to work, we need more participants. It seems almost everyone got bored and walked away.

And the poasts have to be legit. We can't just poast for numbers. They have to have a reason. It's no fun breaking a record using questionable methods. That's just cheating.

We did have it going for a while on guns, space, cakes and other interesting stuff. But it doesn't matter the subject if nobody participates.

Maybe some of the others will join in just to see this happen in a big way. Think I'll kinda sit back for a little bit and just watch.

Maybe Ace will even be back. Hopefully in a better mood.

Scuzzy? Who knows.

Dude? He might fly in for a few smilies every now and then and to ask how a fuse works.

Bubba never even stopped in once to leave a joke.

Maybe Neon will light us up with a visit or two.

Could get lucky and hear the little pitter patter of Pats fingers on the keyboard.

Consider me waiting in the wings as well. ;)

Mark H

Hey, guys, congrats on the record.  Good compilation of blonde jokes, too.  I'll have to compare them to what I have and see if there are any I can add.

Man-woman and husband-wife jokes also have legs; we should solicit them, too.

I was going to suggest, at the risk of taking poasts away from here, making a few miscellaneous poasts.  See, no one has added to the "competition" for a while, and if enough poasts are added to the Poast Office, it will be pushed to page two.  The more out of site, the more out of mind.

And then, this thread will retain its rightful place, right near the top.

Hey Jim

Glad to see you made it. I gotta say, it's a noble thought you suggest. To move the competition off the page. But it just wouldn't work.

I like to play fair and we could add twenty threads here. Sure, the competition would be out of sight, but all it would take would be one little poast that said "Hi all", and it's right back up front again. Those twenty new threads would have then been wasted. Know what I mean?

Anyone can poast anywhere they want. Heck, this thread might die soon too. But at least we made an effort, and it paid off. Not something big, like curing cancer or panda jam, but fun to do nonetheless.

I feel bad that interest was lost by others and fell to the last two holdouts, Mark and I.

But now we are three....... maybe four :-)

Heck, I don't know.

Here's a husband-wife one for you.

An elderly gentleman feared his wife was getting hard of hearing. So one day he called her doctor to make an appointment to have her hearing checked. The Doctor made an appointment for a hearing test in two weeks, and meanwhile there's a simple informal test the husband could do to give the doctor some idea of the state of her problem.

"Here's what you do," said the doctor, "start out about 40 feet away from her, and in a normal conversational speaking tone see if she hears you. If not, go to 30 feet, then 20 feet, and so on until you get a response."

That evening, the wife is in the kitchen cooking dinner, and he's in the living room. He says to himself, "I'm about 40 feet away, let's see what happens."

Then in a normal tone he asks, 'Honey, what's for supper?" No response.

So the husband moved to the other end of the room, about 30 feet from his wife and repeats, "Honey, what's for supper?" Still no response.

Next he moves into the dining room where he is about 20 feet from his wife and asks, "Honey, what's for supper?" Again he gets no response.

So he walks up to the kitchen door, only 10 feet away. "Honey, what's for supper?" Again there is no response.

So he walks right up behind her. "Honey, what's for supper?"

"Dang it Earl, for the fifth time, CHICKEN!"

I refuse to participate in this poast.

Ace; that was a good joke.

But you just did :-)

I refuse to wear womens underwear.

Quote from: 44mayg on March 22, 2004, 20:32 hrs
I refuse to wear womens underwear.

I bet Ace has done that too! ;D

Mark H

You know Mark, you try to insult Ace with that remark.

But it might just be a compliment. After all, we really don't know what gender Ace is.

I guess the biggest question would be whether Ace can really write his/her real name in the snow or not.

I refuse to eat yellow snow.

I refuse to wear anyone else's underwear.   And we don't have any snow now, so I'm not going to write my name anywhere.

Ace; that's not my name.

Quote from: 44mayg on March 23, 2004, 00:48 hrs
You know Mark, you try to insult Ace with that remark.

But it might just be a compliment. After all, we really don't know what gender Ace is.

Very true, however, I have the following observations:

1. Ace has his gender sign as a male sign.
2. Ace has gone by the name Bob on this forum.
3. No female can smell as bad as Ace (not even a female skunk).
4. Ace may actually be genderless?

Mark H

I just wanted to say I'm glad no one has poasted to this bloated superfluous chain, thereby keeping it off the top spot and allowing it to die a deserved death, as it has expended whatever energy and momentum it had built.  Thank goodness.

Ace; about time.  Criminy.

Only Ace would change his/her gender sign after I point out it is male. Go figure. ???

Mark H

Changed his/her sign? No change. I think it still reads "Dip in Road".

I tried to tell you Mark, we don't really know whether Billy Bob(ette) Ace stands or sits when........ uhhhh, never mind.

Never seen a pic. Never heard his/her voice. Probably don't want to. For all we know, Poasters might be employing (wageless) a Jesterette.

I refuse to be bloated and/or superfluous. Chained. Expended. Spotted. Dead.

Quote from: 44mayg on March 24, 2004, 16:42 hrs
Changed his/her sign? No change. I think it still reads "Dip in Road".
Never seen a pic. Never heard his/her voice. Probably don't want to.

Now that is a scary thought given what we know about him/her:

1. extremely hairy back
2. ugly feet with Panda Jam between the toes
3. Curled up toes on the ugly feet
4. Jester hat on the head
5. Like to roll on the ground when planes pass overhead

That alone is enough to make me not want to see Ace.

Mark H

why not, it would be fun... dont you think?

:-\\

Ace: you cannot kill this poast, you have so far tried, and failed, give up, n join the fun, i am off to get some beer, who wants some?? :D

Been a little under the weather, but I'm back on my feet again; a little wobbly, but that's normal...

I'm always a big proponent of humor and jokes to inject life into something, such as a poast kept on life support by two stalwarts, 44mayg and Mark H.  My contribution to poast resuscitation; Normism's (Norm Peterson, from "Cheer's"):

"Can I draw you a beer, Norm?"
"No, I know what they look like.  Just pour me one."

"How about a beer, Norm?"
"Hey I'm high on life, Coach.  Of course, beer is my life."

"How's a beer sound, Norm?"
"I dunno.  I usually finish them before they get a word in."

"What's up, Norm?"
"Corners of my mouth, Coach."

"What's shaking, Norm?"
"All four cheeks and a couple of chins, Coach."

"Beer, Normie?"
"Uh, Coach, I dunno, I had one this week.  Eh, why not, I'm still young."

"Normie, Normie, could this be Vera?"
"With a lot of expensive surgery, maybe."

"What's up, Normie?"
"The temperature under my collar, Coach."

"What would you say to a nice beer, Normie?"
"Going down?"

"What's up, Norm?"
"Everything that's supposed to be."

"What's new, Normie?"
"Terrorists, Sam.  They've taken over my stomach.  They're demanding beer."

"What'll it be, Normie?"
"Just the usual Coach.  I'll have a froth of beer and a snorkel."

"What would you say to a beer, Normie?"
"Daddy wuvs you."

"What'd you like, Normie?"
"A reason to live.  Gimme another beer."

"What will you have, Norm?"
"Well, I'm in a gambling mood, Sammy.  I'll take a glass of whatever comes out of that tap."
"Oh, looks like beer, Norm."
"Call me Mister Lucky."

"What do you say, Norm?"
"Any cheap, tawdry thing that'll get me a beer."

"What do you say to a beer, Normie?"
"Hiya, sailor.  New in town?"

"Whaddya say, Norm?"
"Well, I never met a beer I didn't drink.  And down it goes."

"What's your pleasure, Mr. Peterson?"
"Boxer shorts and loose shoes.  But I'll settle for a beer."

"Hey Norm, how's the world been treating you?"
"Like a baby treats a diaper."

"Would you like a beer, Mr. Peterson?"
"No, I'd like a dead cat in a glass."

"How's life treating you?"
"It's not, Sammy, but you can!"

"Can I pour you a draft, Mr. Peterson?"
"A little early, isn't it Woody?"
"For a beer?"
"No, for stupid questions."

"What's the story, Mr. Peterson?"
"The Bobbsey twins go to the brewery.  Let's cut to the happy ending."

"Hey, Mr. Peterson, there's a cold one waiting for you."
"I know, and if she calls, I'm not here."

"Beer, Norm?"
"Have I gotten that predictable?  Good."

"What's going on, Mr. Peterson?"
"A flashing sign in my gut that says, 'Insert beer here.'"

"Hey, Mr. Peterson, Jack Frost nipping at your nose?"
"Yep, now let's get Joe Beer nipping at my liver, huh?"

"What's going on, Mr. Peterson?"
"Another layer for the winter, Wood."

"Whatcha up to Norm?"
"My ideal weight if I were eleven feet tall."

"How's it going, Mr. Peterson?"
"Poor."
"I'm sorry to hear that."
"No, I mean pour."

"How's life treating you, Norm?"
"Like it caught me sleeping with its' wife."

"Women.  Can't live with 'em, pass the beer nuts."

"What's going down, Normie?"
"My butt cheeks on that bar stool."

"How's life in the fast lane?"
"Dunno, can't get on the on-ramp."

"Pour you a beer, Mr. Peterson."
"Alright, but stop me at one...make that one-thirty."

"How's it going Mr. Peterson?"
"It's a dog eat dog world, Woody, and I'm wearing Milk-Bone underwear!"

"What's the story, Norm?"
"Boy meets beer.  Boy drinks beer.  Boy meets another beer."

"How about a beer, Norm?"
"That's that amber sudsy stuff, right?  I've heard good things about it!"

"What's going on, Mr. Peterson?"
"The question is what's going in Mr. Peterson.  A beer please, Woody."

"What's up, Normie?"
"My nipples, it's freezing out there."

"Hey Norm, ready for the big opening?"
"Yeah. It's right here, you can pour beer down it anytime."

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Hey Jim, those are great quotes. All the years I watched Cheers, I enjoyed what the writers did with the show. Funny stuff.

It's different when you see a whole bunch of the one liners from a particular character at one time. Kinda makes you appreciate why the show was such a big hit. And why some of the actors moved on to bigger and better things.

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Sorry about that.

I just want to let everyone know I try to do my part to save Poasters money by turning out the lights after I leave the room.

I'm like a practical kinda guy :-)

Maybe Ace can learn to walk in the dark and not stub his leaking little toes on the furniture. I get tired of cleaning that panda jam offa everything.

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My favorite is:

"What's going down, Normie?"
"My butt cheeks on that bar stool."

And (changing channels...) here's one I've seen before, but not as complete as this:

DEMOCRAT:
You have two cows.  Your neighbor has none.  You feel guilty for being successful.  Barbara Streisand sings for you.

REPUBLICAN:
You have two cows.  Your neighbor has none.  So?

SOCIALIST:
You have two cows.  The government takes one and gives it to your neighbor.  You form a cooperative to tell him how to manage his cow.

COMMUNIST:
You have two cows.  The government seizes both and provides you with milk.  You wait in line for hours to get it.  It is expensive and sour.

CAPITALISM, AMERICAN STYLE:
You have two cows.  You sell one, buy a bull, and build a herd of cows.

DEMOCRACY, AMERICAN STYLE:
You have two cows.  The government taxes you to the point you have to sell both to support a man in a foreign country who has only one cow, which was a gift from your government.

BUREAUCRACY, AMERICAN STYLE:
You have two cows.  The government takes them both, shoots one, milks the other, pays you for the milk, and then pours the milk down the drain.

AMERICAN CORPORATION:
You have two cows.  You sell one, lease it back to yourself and do an IPO on the 2nd one.  You force the two cows to produce the milk of four cows.  You are surprised when one cow drops dead.  You spin an announcement to the analysts stating you have downsized and are reducing expenses.  Your stock goes up.

FRENCH CORPORATION:
You have two cows.  You go on strike because you want three cows.  You go to lunch and drink wine.  Life is good.

JAPANESE CORPORATION:
You have two cows.  You redesign them so they are one-tenth the size of an ordinary cow and produce twenty times the milk.  They learn to travel on unbelievably crowded trains.  Most are at the top of their class at cow school.

GERMAN CORPORATION:
You have two cows.  You engineer them so they are all blond, drink lots of beer, give excellent quality milk, and run a hundred miles an hour.  Unfortunately they also demand 13 weeks of vacation per year.

ITALIAN CORPORATION:
You have two cows but you don't know where they are.  While ambling around, you see a beautiful woman.  You break for lunch.  Life is good.

RUSSIAN CORPORATION:
You have two cows.  You have some vodka.  You count them and learn you have five cows.  You have some more vodka.  You count them again and learn you have 42 cows.  The Mafia shows up and takes over however many cows you really have.

TALIBAN CORPORATION:
You have all the cows in Afghanistan, which are two.  You don't milk them because you cannot touch any creature's private parts.  Then you kill them and claim a US bomb blew them up while they were in the hospital.

FLORIDA CORPORATION:
You have a black cow and a brown cow.  Everyone votes for the best looking one.  Some of the people who like the brown one best, vote for the black one.  Some people vote for both.  Some people vote for neither.  Some people can't figure out how to vote at all.  Finally, a bunch of guys from out-of-state tell you which is the best-looking cow.

CALIFORNIA CORPORATION:
You have millions of cows.  Most are illegals.  Arnold likes the ones with the big teats.

JAPANESE CORPORATION:
You have two cows.  You redesign them so they are one-tenth the size of an ordinary cow and produce twenty times the milk.  They learn to travel on unbelievably crowded trains.  Most are at the top of their class at cow school.

GERMAN CORPORATION:
You have two cows.  You engineer them so they are all blond, drink lots of beer, give excellent quality milk, and run a hundred miles an hour.  Unfortunately they also demand 13 weeks of vacation per year.


thay are my favorites ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

I just LOVE milk and steak myself :-)

Subject: Nice company


Can you imagine working for a company that has a little more than 500
employees AND these following statistics?

* 29 have been accused of spousal abuse
* 7 have been arrested for fraud
* 19 have been accused of writing bad checks
* 117 have directly and indirectly bankrupted at least 2 businesses
* 3 have done time for assault
* 71 cannot get a credit card because of bad credit
* 14 have been arrested for drug related charges
* 8 have been arrested for shoplifting
* 21 are currently defendants in lawsuits
*84 have been arrested for drunk driving in the last year

Can you guess which organization this is?


It is the 535 members of the United States Congress. The same group of people
who crank out hundreds of new laws each year designed to keep the rest of us
in line.

Or, better yet, rather than "keep us in line", think they know what we should and shouldn't do, then pass a law without asking us if we want to do it,  and wonder why people ridicule politics.

For instance, our local county gov'tmt just passed a regulation that smoking in county parks is now illegal. But you can legally smoke in the picnic area-which also happpens to be in the county park where the children gather to eat.  But you can't smoke next ot the swings, where children play!

bill

I'm all for kids being safe and cared for. I really am. But that's a responsibility of parents, not government.

Beware anyone who spouts off that a controversial law or policy is all for the children. It's a ploy used too many times, more so in recent years, to pass something more sinister and citizen controlling in the underlying language or intent.

Never believe what anyone in government tells you up front. You always have to dig deeper. These unethical liars will do anything they can to pull the wool over our eyes and kiss some corporate butt. Even some other country comes before "We the people" any more.

Quote from: 44mayg on March 26, 2004, 02:06 hrs
Even some other country comes before "We the people" any more.

Amen to that! We help everyone in the world, which is admorable, but yet we still have homeless in this country. We should help our own citizens first. While I understand some are homeless because of their own choice, there are some that don't have jobs because of other circumstances. I will be one of those people after May 31st, but thank God that my wife works as a public school teacher.

I get so sick of us poking in the business of everyone else. If it is a true national security threat, then by all means we should do what we can to protect ourself. Too often our poking has nothing to do with true national security in my opinion.

Mark H

gee Mark, You may get to have the summer off, just like your wife.  Take advantage, you're going to be working a long time!
bill

well... at school we apply for arks mark, wich is were we get .5 millon ? for shows, theatre, music etc...

and this is what they plan to build with the money

- Swimming pool
- shower block
- 4 practise rooms (ok this 1 is ok)

and more stupid wacky things, but the equiptment in the hall, wich we use for the shows, the lighting board, lights sound equpitment etc doesnt get a lok in, its all over 309 years old... and what the money is meant for... but it isnt going to get a penny....

why? because somebody on the governement decided that they want to build other things with the .5million :( whats the point, spend it on what its meant for ???

Quote from: bill macdonald on March 26, 2004, 08:12 hrs
gee Mark, You may get to have the summer off, just like your wife.  Take advantage, you're going to be working a long time!
bill

That's my thinking, although a job in hand would be nice given I have two months left. I love the thought of taking the summer off since my severance and unemployment will last a couple of years. I will still be looking and hope to get something that I can start in September if I get something local. If we have to move, I would like to start in early summer so that my wife can have the summer to look for a teaching position.

Mark H

MarHk; if you haven't yet, write a thank you letter to everyone you interviewed with.  There is nothing that takes less time that will have a greater impact in a job search.

And: hope you move to Indiana.  You owe me a dinner, and it would be easier on me if you were in state.

Ace;  15 years of working with dislocated workers.  Remember; you didn't leave the company; the company left you.

Mark, you know you can't trust Ace. He's the one that was laughing at you in your cool plane.

In fact, I think you should write all them ingrates a letter. Write them a whole bunch of letters. But don't thank them. Thanks for what?

Let them know they were lucky you came to see them. That you had them on their possible list of employers was THEIR lucky day. And that you won't suck up to their outrageous demands.

They didn't go out of their way to see you. You flew all over the country to see them. Spent all the money flying around, and for what?

I say stick it to um' buddy!

Better yet, call them people. Say what's REALLY on your mind. At least that way, on the phone, you can answer them right away. Right off the bat. No waiting for snail mail.

Don't forget to scream and holler too. Shout! Show them you won't be taken for granted ever again. Waste your time or money either.

Next time they have a job opening, they'll surely remember you. They'll call begging for your return. That guy who had all the spunk. The stamina to stand up for himself. Guts! Passion!

It's in the bag dude!!

By the way, if you ever need any more advice about anything, be sure to let me know. I got tons!

Just don't trust Ace.

Good advice Ace. I write everyone thank you letters, because you are right about them not taking much time. I didn't get the Mississippi job, because I wasn't a good fit for their area (I didn't want to move there anyway). The Indiana job didn't work out either as I didn't have the experience they were wanting.

I am still waiting to hear from the St. Louis job. No news is good news. :)

I am still working on the job front though. More opportunities improve the chances of landing one that I want.

I will find out March 29th, if I am in the May 31 bunch. If not, then I will assume the June 30 bunch until I know for sure.

Mark H; too bad I won't be able to have Ace over for dinner in Indiana.

Quote from: Mark H on March 27, 2004, 09:11 hrs
Mark H; too bad I won't be able to have Ace over for dinner in Indiana.

I doubt you'll be missing anything since chicken probably tastes better than an old fool. Ace's stinky feet are bound to leave a terrible after-taste no matter how long you boil them.

Scuzzy; he's a seasoned soldier

I promised that I would not say anything ever again about Scuzzy's
horribly tiny miniature frighteningly small yet alarmingly miniscule feet
and I shall keep my promise and not say anything about them.

If I did, I would note that they could only serve as h'ors doeuvres, based on their small serving size.  Which, I would also note, is horridly puny.

Yes, horrid not horribly.  Although really, either would be correct.

Ace; Scuzzy's feet would also be well seasoned, if one thinks of garlic and onions as the seasoning.  With old cheese.

I tried to shake some sense out of Scuzzy's head, and you know what I got?  Baloney!  And it was just plain old balony, not seasoned baloney or salami.  He should just slap a sub bun on each ear and call his noggin a sandwich.

It was only a joke. Just kidding. Didn't mean it. Not meant to be true. Not serious. Don't take it serious. Yahoo Serious. Don't do it. STOP....... in the name of love! Hold on. Hold up. Back off. Halt! Alto!

Ha; I just noticed nobody even poasts to this thing and it's finally died and slipped way down the list and finally ended.  About time.

Ace; I bet he was only kidding on that stuff he said.

Well, you just didn't poast did you, Ace.  No, I didn't think you did.   Must be dead.

somtimes things take on a life of there own, like A.I. or self perpetuating organic robots  or well you get the picture.
bill

Well, dang it, it WAS dying in peace. Now you done gone and woke the sleeping giant up again.

TORA! TORA! TORA!

Now, for intermission:

In the beginning God created the heaven and the Earth. And the Earth was
without form, and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the
Devil said, "It doesn't get any better than this." And God said, "Let there
be light" and there was light. And God said, "Let the earth bring forth
grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit," and God
saw that it was good. And the Devil said, "There goes the neighborhood."

And God said, "Let us make Man in our image, after our likeness, and let
them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air
and over the cattle, and over all the Earth, and over every creeping thing
that creepeth upon the Earth." And so God created Man in his own image; male
and female did He create.

And God looked upon Man and Woman and saw that they were lean and fit. And
the Devil said, "I know how I can get back in this game." And God covered
the earth with broccoli and cauliflower and spinach, green and yellow
vegetables of all kinds, so Man and Woman would live long and healthy lives.

And the Devil created McDonald's. And McDonald's brought forth the 79-cent
double cheeseburger. And the Devil said to Man: "You want fries with that?"
And Man said: "Supersize them." And Man gained 5 pounds. And God created the
healthful yogurt, that woman might keep her figure that man found so fair.
And the Devil brought forth chocolate. And Woman gained 5 pounds.

And God said, "Try my crispy fresh salad." And the Devil brought forth Ben
and Jerry's. And Woman gained 10 pounds.

And God said, "I have sent thee heart-healthy vegetables and olive oil with
which to cook them." And the Devil brought forth chicken-fried steak so big
it needed its own platter. And Man gained 10 pounds and his bad cholesterol
went through the roof.

And God brought forth running shoes and Man resolved to lose those extra
pounds.

And the Devil brought forth cable TV with remote control so Man would not
have to toil to change channels between ESPN and ESPN2. And Man gained
another 20 pounds.

And God said, "You're running up the score, Devil." And God brought forth
the potato, a vegetable naturally low in fat and brimming with nutrition.

And the Devil peeled off the healthful skin and sliced the starchy center
into chips and deep-fat fried them. And the Devil created sour cream dip.

And Man clutched his remote control and ate the potato chips swaddled in
cholesterol. And the Devil saw and said, "It is good." And Man went into
cardiac arrest.

And God sighed and created quadruple bypass surgery. And the Devil canceled
Man's health insurance. Then God showed Woman how to peel the skin off
chicken and cook the nourishing whole grain brown rice. And the Devil
created light beer so Man could poison his body with alcohol while feeling
righteous because he had to drink twice as much of the now-insipid brew to
get the same buzz. And Man gained another ten pounds.

And God created the life-giving tofu.
And Woman ventured forth into the land of Godiva Chocolate and upon
returning asked Man: "Do I look fat?"
And the Devil said, "Always tell the truth."

And Man did. And Woman went out from the presence of man and dwelt in the
land of the divorce lawyer, east of the marriage counselor. And Woman put
aside the seeds of the earth and took unto herself comfort food. And God
brought forth Weight-watchers. It didn't help. And God created exercise
machines with easy payments. And man brought forth his Visa at 21 percent.
And the exercise machine went to dwell in the closet of Nod, east of the
polyester leisure suit. And in the fullness of time, Woman received the
exercise machine from Man in the property settlement.

...where it stands next to the sauna-rusting.

And, God said "You are spelling McDonald wrong"


bill

Well, "Bill", if that's your real name (I'm sure..); now the poast slipped right down the page and you can't hardly even see it, anymore.  

I don't think I'd like an exercise machine in a sauna.  Criminy, you could lose your weight in water that way.

I like to exercise while I eat.  I find that helps keep the calories off although you have to do laundry more often.  Do pushups over that soup, or sandwich.  Try to pump while chewing.  Run with the beer, and try to drink and jog.  Put the chips on your stomach during situps.  Instead of the handles of the Nordic Track grab a hoagie in each.  

So is it "MacDonald's"?  I could look it up, but it doesn't matter to me.  It was a good joke even with a typo.  Like giving a brilliant synopsis of the birth of a nation and its reticent value, while misspelling "constitution."  It really doesn't detract.  

Ace; "macdonald" if that's your real name.. I'm sure.  Yeah, right.

OK Ace, you caught me, you 'ole sly fox.

My real name is Bob McDonald- I just use bill macdonald to hide my true identity. Never a good idea to let 'some' people know who you really are.

And while we're on the subject the Arches are yellow, not "Golden" and they're plastic, to boot!

bill(Bob)

Heh!! Bill said fox.

Which brings us to this:

HEAVEN KNOWS

A man and his dog were walking along a road.

The man was enjoying the scenery, when it suddenly occurred to him that he
was dead. He remembered dying, and that the dog had been dead for years. He
wondered where the road was leading them. After a while, they came to a
high, white stone wall along one side of the road. It looked like fine
marble.

At the top of a long hill, it was broken by a tall arch that glowed in the
sunlight. When he was standing before it, he saw a magnificent gate in the
arch that looked like mother of pearl, and the street that led to the gate
looked like pure gold. He and the dog walked toward the gate, and as he got
closer, he saw a man at a desk to one side. When he was close enough, he
called out, "Excuse me, where are we?"

"This is heaven, sir," the man answered.

"Wow! Would you happen to have some water?" The man asked.

"Of course, sir. Come right in, and I'll have some ice water brought right
up." The man gestured, and the gate began to open.

"Can my friend," gesturing toward his dog, "come in, too?" The traveler
asked.

"I'm sorry; sir, but we don't accept pets."

The man thought a moment and then turned back toward the road and continued
the way he had been going.

After another long walk, and at the top of another long hill, he came to a
dirt road which led through a farm gate that looked as if it had never been
closed. There was no fence. As he approached the gate, he saw a man inside,
leaning against a tree and reading a book.

"Excuse me!" He called to the reader. "Do you have any water?"

"Yeah, sure, there's a pump over there" The man pointed to a place that
couldn't be seen from outside the gate. "Come on in."

"How about my friend here?" The traveler gestured to the dog.

"There should be a bowl by the pump."

They went through the gate, and sure enough, there was an old fashioned hand
pump with a bowl beside it. The traveler filled the bowl and took a long
drink himself, then he gave some to the dog. When they were full, he and the
dog walked back toward the man who was standing by the tree waiting for
them.

"What do you call this place?" The traveler asked.

"This is heaven," was the answer.

"Well, that's confusing," the traveler said. "The man down the road said
that was heaven, too."

"Oh, you mean the place with the Gold Street and pearly gates? Nope. That's
hell."

"Doesn't it make you mad for them to use your name like that?"

"No. I can see how you might think so, but we're just happy that they screen
out the folks who'll leave their best friends behind."

Then the guy, and his dog, went up to a third gate that was golden and glimmering and majestic and had a pump and two glasses, and he asked

"What is this place?"

And the guy at the gate said "This is Heaven."

And the guy asked the guy; do they let in cats here?  

And the gate guy said "No chance."  And the guy and his dog said,

"Cool!"

ace; ok, that wasn't much, but it was short, huh? And a wonderful moral.

Hey! What the heck? I thought when someone put to text what someone said, it was supposed to be in quotes?

For example:

And the guy asked the guy; do they let in cats here?

Shouldn't that read:

And the guy asked the guy; "Do they let in cats here?"

Yeah, OK..... you can go back and change it. You sure can. Sure would make me look like a fool. Not the first time.

But if you change it, you'll get busted by the last modified tattle tale time stamp. If you modify your poast after I press the Post button below, it'll show you changed what I was talking about in the above poast.

Then I won't be the fool any more. Nope.

HAH!

'Moron' is French for 'Jester'
'The Blob' is English for 'Ace's butt'

Quote from: Ace on March 31, 2004, 19:12 hrs
And the guy asked the guy; do they let in cats here?  

Here is the proof for you Steve! Ace can't make you look like a fool now as he is the true fool.

Mark H

HA! Now he can't talk his way out of this one.

Good idea. (I never use those quote thingys)

The teacher got busted. Ace made an Ace out of himself.

'Neener, neener, neener' is Mongolian for 'Ace is a weiner'.

I don't believe that Ace could string enough cohesive words together to accomplish talking his way out of something. That takes some understanding of the English language, which is beyond Ace's capabilities. Just look at his posts to see the proof.

Anyone here have a generic pop tart he can email me?  Better use Winzip first to compress it.  I tried emailing a stray cat once, but the scanner/fax would not do a catscan.

Sorry Wizbang, but I ate the pop tart already. My cat would let me have it if I tried to scan him. :o

No, it shouldn't read

And the guy asked the guy; "Do they let cats in here?"
it would be
And the guy asked the guy, "Do they let cats in here?"

How foolish.

Oh, and Mark; it would be "Sorry, Whizbang" not "Sorry Wizbang."  At least I spelled "Mark" right.

How foolhardy.

Ace; it's easier if you just import jokes, since then the spelling is probably intact.  

Since we?ve been delving into electricity and resistance elsewhere in this room, I was going to add to it with an honest, real electricity/resistance question.  I was going to start a new thread.  But then I realized, hey, we?ve already got a thread going just for this kind of stuff, so here it is.

I have a chandelier in my front hallway with 21 25-watt bulbs.  21 X 25 = 525 watts.  Since 525 watts is a lot of light, even in the large space it?s in, I?ve installed a dimmer switch.  I?ve always though that the further the lights are dimmed, the less power is consumed, but my father-in-law thinks I?m wrong.  He feels that no matter how bright the lights are, 525 watts are being used because the wattage restricted by the dimmer is converted to heat.  I have to admit that this makes some sense.  To take this further, possibly the presence of the dimmer increases the total wattage to something more than 525 watts, since I think the dimmer switch itself consumes some power, even when on full-tilt.

Anyone wanna take a crack at this?  Maybe we can start a new room here to knock This Old House/Fine Homebuilding off of the net?

Quote from: JimS on April 01, 2004, 19:04 hrs
Since we?ve been delving into electricity and resistance elsewhere in this room, I was going to add to it with an honest, real electricity/resistance question.  I was going to start a new thread.  But then I realized, hey, we?ve already got a thread going just for this kind of stuff, so here it is.

I have a chandelier in my front hallway with 21 25-watt bulbs.  21 X 25 = 525 watts.  Since 525 watts is a lot of light, even in the large space it?s in, I?ve installed a dimmer switch.  I?ve always though that the further the lights are dimmed, the less power is consumed, but my father-in-law thinks I?m wrong.  He feels that no matter how bright the lights are, 525 watts are being used because the wattage restricted by the dimmer is converted to heat.  I have to admit that this makes some sense.  To take this further, possibly the presence of the dimmer increases the total wattage to something more than 525 watts, since I think the dimmer switch itself consumes some power, even when on full-tilt.

Anyone wanna take a crack at this?  Maybe we can start a new room here to knock This Old House/Fine Homebuilding off of the net?

A dimmer switch is a current limiting device that causes an increased voltage drop across the resisting switch which reduces the voltage drop across each of the light bulbs, which would be shared equally since they are in parallel.  Since the total voltage drop across the switch and the parallel bulb array is always constant, within the limits of the power company regulation, any increase in the resistance through the switch limiter also decreases the power.  

V(voltage)=I(current) X R(resistance 1) + I(current) X R(resistance 2).  In order for "V" to be constant, the current will drop as the resistance is increased.  Since Power = VI, as the current, "I" decreases, the overall power to the system will drop.

NOTE: Whizbang and I are good. We're on the ball too, as we were both writing our answers to you at the same time. Since I poasted second, I'll still leave it as it was.
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I'll have to disagree with your father-in-law.

Your lights are dimmed by a rheostat. (Ace's lights are dimmed because he's a moron)

A rheostat is basically a voltage regulator which regulates the current. (A resistor for regulating current) It's kinda like the volume control on a radio.

If you put a volt meter on one of the light sockets, then dim the lights, you'll see the voltage drop.

Current used by the light bulbs is turned to heat and light by the resistance of the filament. If the rheostat used just as much current as the bulbs, it would get just as hot as the combination of all the lights you are dimming. In other words, you'd melt the rheostat.

A rheostat doesn't consume electricity the same way a light bulb does. It restricts it by dropping voltage, same as a resistor.

A simple test to show a rheostat drops power use.

Take a battery operated radio and install new batteries. Keep the battery cover off. Turn it on, but keep the volume to a minimum, turned all the way down. With the battery cover off, check the voltage left in the batteries every few hours. Keep notes of time passed and voltage left.

When you've run those batteries down, start all over with new batteries. This time, turn the volume up all the way. Now check the batteries every few hours and see how long they last. Keep notes.

The speaker is going to consume the most energy from the batteries. (The speaker is a power hog) If you cut the volume down, (dimming the speaker) this is the same as dimming the lights.

Less power used.

Can't let the batteries (and Ace says I can't spell)in this eternal poast die.  

'Lectricity really comes from the gnomes in the Hall of the Mountain King playing with big combs and sheep.
bill

Yea! The season for static electricity is going away! It gets old picking up static charges sliding into my truck and then back out. Good thing I discharge when I touch the door, or I could have problems at gas pumps. :o

Thanks, guys.  Although my father-in-law's theory sounded plausible to me, I'll try not to gloat...

Gloat away Jim. Take any chance you can to get one over on your father-in-law.

(But only if you are right, cuz he might fool you on the next one :-)

Right now I'm running a gloss black and chrome Volkswagen Karmen Ghia, a 1972 import. (yes, the speed is in Kilometres. No, I don't understand it. I just follow dutifully behind the next guy). I bought it off a guy for $1000, he imported it from germany for $800, and I've poured a hell of a lot more into the car to transform it into the suburban midnight death machine. Of course, I live a whole state away from it, now, My drivers liscense has expired, and it's more of a 'work in progress' than anything remotely terrifying.

You realize you can't buy beer with an expired driver's license?

and ESD is a myth, anyways.

HA HA HA HA HA HA!

Hey JIM!

How'd your F.I.L. take the answers?

Inquiring minds want to know :-)

I haven't spoken to him yet - he'll be here on 04/09/2004.

He's not a bad guy - I could have done a whole lot worse, as far as in-laws are concerned.  He's from the lower east side of NYC, with the accent to prove it (you sit on the schtoop, not the stoop, "we wuz", not "we were", and "ain't" is an absolutely proper word to use), and he good-naturedly puts up with my incessant teasing about it.

Ace would get a kick out of him (sigh).

I can say that I truly love my mother-in-law. I hit a home run with my wife and her mother, who is widowed. I guess I can say I am blessed as she would do anything for me and visa versa.

Mark H

It goes without saying, I also could have done far worse with a wife.  The road's not always smooth, but it's OUR road, and I wouldn't travel it with anyone else.

Quote from: JimS on April 08, 2004, 20:04 hrs
It goes without saying, I also could have done far worse with a wife.  The road's not always smooth, but it's OUR road, and I wouldn't travel it with anyone else.

Amen to that!

Mark H

Same here. My wife has tolerated me for nearly 30 years.

Why, the other night, I even told her:

"I knew you had good taste. That's why I picked you." :-)

But alas, the new generation is about to take over. Our son-in-law of two years now is a really good kid and we all get along great. Taking the trip this weekend to visit them, they live just outside Seattle.

At the wedding, being the silly kinda guy I am, when I walked my daughter up the aisle, there's a question the preacher asks. Who gives this woman........ ETC.

I said "Her mother and I."

(pause)

With my hand on his shoulder:

"And Jesse, I know there's probably a lot of people here who want to give you away. But that's OK, we'll take you."

There wasn't a person in the church without a laugh or smile on their face.

Something family:

When Little Girls Grow Up (http://cvisions.cat.nyu.edu/museum/folklore/Hagensicker.html)

Very nice, Steve, your daughter has grown into a beautiful young woman.  My wife and I will be married for 13 years this May.  We're also < 50 but > 40; okay, we're both 47.  We met  in our mid-30's; wish we'd met earlier, but I was such a goof, she probably would have laughed me off.  My boys are 10 and 7.  Terrific kids.  Far smarter/cuter/more handsome/funnier than any kids of mine have any right to be.

Thanks Jim

She is a jewel, and Jesse is pretty cool too. (calling him a jewel wouldn't be very manly, cool works)

Looking forward to spending the weekend with them. They get to feed us too. Pay backs are so good :-)

Wishing you met your wife earlier, but didn't, should actually be a positive. While the both of you were getting all that growing up stuff out of your system, unknown forces were making sure you found each other later on. I believe a lot of relationships work better when both parties are mature.

Lord knows, there are too many children who look at marriage today as a "test" to decide whether they might be able to live together or not. An even sadder thing is they often go into it with kids of their own.

I call that kids with kids.

If your boys are smart, cute, handsome and funny, it means you've done your job to pass on some of yourself to your kids. Job well done.

We'll reserve the right to judge the 'goof' thing till later on. Doesn't hurt to pass the goof things onto anyone you can. It makes things interesting.

I guess I unintentionally misled you on the years my wife has tolerated me. I should have said it's been almost 30 MARRIED years. We actually started going out in high school in 70.

Gotta give my wife a 1st place trophy for being so tolerant of this jerk :-)

Quick follow-up: saw my father-in-law, and told him about the dimmer question.  No big deal, since he wasn't sure, either.

A kid up the street was working on an electronic science project, and needed to borrow a soldering iron, so I told him to come over.  My father-in-law, Nick, is retired from Sperry, where he used to work as a field service rep fixing computers (the punch-card reader kind), so he's certainly comfortable around circuit boards.  When Nick saw the science project (and the sloppy soldering), he spent over an hour with the kid, going over the schematic, repairing cold solders, and just looked like he was having a good time.

He's a good guy.

I bet I would get a kick out of him.  

Quote from: Ace on April 21, 2004, 17:57 hrs
I bet I would get a kick out of him.  

And anyone else that gets the chance. ;)

Mark H

Yep

Don't yuh hate that. Put that solder on, flux and all, and it turns out to be too cold.

Cold solders suck. They break!

if you do it carefully and prepare the surface... soldering is easy!!


igloo

Wow, this is a loooooooooooong poast! And it stretches as far as the eye can see! Everyone has made an appearance, even just to tip their hat and say howdy.

O' course, mos' ever'one here is 'in a family way' as the folks back east like to put it, and much calmer than your average run of the mill bachelor. No real place for me. Kids and families are important and probably very, very precious to you all. I can't relate to any of that, except that "Kids are cool! Rough and Tumble time!" because of my personal background, but to all those who proudly display pictures of kids and families, I give a thumbs up.

As to the most recent poast: soldering can be difficult, unless you're well prepared. Pay attention to detail.

I'm pretty new to online internet. Dont know a lot on computers but I have an older one I'm using. I'm learning how to search and found this chat with a search and looked at it for a few days to see what people say and figuring out how to do it. I read a lot of the rooms and wanted to finally say something, but I think I did somthing wrong.

I looked at this title and since its so big, and there are jokes, I hoped it would be a good place to start. I don't know if this one will show. I did one last night and thought it was here, but maybe I hit the wrong button. It's not here.

If this shows, what an I doing wrong? Sorry. Thanks.

Welcome aboard. Your poast is here and in tact. You should be able to start a new poast on your own. I did see that you were successful in poasting to the test forum. Any poast in the test forum do not show up in your total poast number, which is why you are still at "1" instead of "3."

I look forward to seeing your poasts!  :)

Welcome Munki from one noobe to another.

Most everyone here is friendly and helpful.  

Hi you too thanks. Please dont laugh they did somtimes in school, I dont always get my words right or understand. I'm older now and better and I had this thing cased from birth.

What I mean was I read the solder stuff in this title and I have my older brother in Iraq. Hes good and always taught me to try joking with new people so I made a joke about my brother is a solder but not cold it's hot there. I pushed the post icon and checked to be sure is was put with the rest and see if it was there and it was so I checked to see if someone has answered in the morning.

It was there but noone had answered. I checked again later again to see it and it was gone and think that I might have not done it right or somthing. OK I'm new but it was there the same as the night before but not in the middle of day. What did I do or was it me? THanks.

This online is pretty neat.

I've been a technician since October, (really new to the technology stuff, until October I was a *shudder* end-user). One thing I've learned in Online things is that sometimes, things get lost. data gets misplaced. I wouldn't worry too much.

Of course, one of the Admins could have deleted your post because you didn't add enough smileys, too... ;D  ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

HA I know your joking thatguy1079. I see a lot of messages without smiles so I know they don't have to be there. I did try it before to see how they work which was OK.  ;D

It seems a lot to learn on the internet but fun to do. I saw a site a littlewhile ago that shows how to make animals out of paper which is pretty hard but the ones thay had were really good. I don't know who a end user or noobie is but will maybe try to learn how to if it helps me. I always have to do that but it makes it fun.
This place has so many people and titles to know but I looked at a lot before and its like everyone lives close to each other.  but I know you are all over like many chanels on a tv from everywhere in the same place but all have different things to say and show.

Hi Mark I'm trying to figure what a poast is, I've seen the word here a lot but not familiar with it and this place is called poasters. Is that why? thanks.

*waves ace down* no, no... I'll handle this one.

A poast is a post that's been poasted by a poaster. Smile! You're a poaster who poasts without knowledge that they poast, instead of posting.

A n00b, by any other name, wouldn't smell as fresh as a newborn. ...If a newborn could be said to smell fresh.

An end user is a person who operates the computer without knowing what's really inside, or how it works. They may know about processors, RAM, CMOS, and HDD, but they really don't know how it works. They're typically afraid to do any maintainence work themselves, and invariably have 3 or more 'tech' friends.

yar, and the tech friends have about 100 end user friends, and get called out at all stupid times.... ( stupid flexy time :( )

Ace, your wrong about dead in here. Not all here are dead. Your not dead, but here. Otheres arent dead, but here and everywhere still.

And jim was here a lot too and still there a lot. He should put his jokes here in teh big room, he's not dead.

wow, what  a way to bring back a long dead poast......

So much for letting sleeping dogs die.

First thing, JimS are a secret society dedicated to the promotion of humour and a cure for blondness in this lifetime.  They are multitude.

Secondly, those who have passed from this chatroom live on in our memory.  When you've already got multiple personalities in there, it gets a little crowded.  

Ace: p-o-a-s-t.  Geez Loaise.

Poasts don't die, they just slip into a dormant state, like volcanos, only to be reawakened later by some monkey.

The next thing you know, the "Pizza" poast will be back and someone will be wondering about a strange topping -like peanutbutter.

Well, thank you "Mr. Science."  Now we know why Mt. St. Helens (Mt. St. Hl.) was reawakened... a monkey slipped over the edge and plummeted downward into the smoldering abyss.

Unless they threw him in, as a sacrifice.  

You were prophetic on that pizza thing, though.  I'm still wondering if that means you have peanut butter and cheese and tomato sauce...?  Or "jam" as they call it in England.  Pepperoni and peanut butter?  Bleah.

And, no, Snoopy didn't say that.  I did.  Just now.

Ace; you could look it up.

Its "Mr. Wizard" to you, thanks.  But it was a panda, not a monkey; thrown in as an example of how cultured people deal with stinky things.

I don't have peanut butter and cheese, at all.
But I had a friend with an ulcer who ate cheese and jam(jelly, over here) sandwiches, one of the few things he could easily digest.

Pizza is only really good cold, for breakfast.

To quote someone else "Bleah"?  :P  Actually, I think it was Lucy.

The Great Pumpkin is coming.

Panda's warm theyre cold pizzas in StHelens and feed it to the monkeys thrown in.

Ok. Anyway, back to what Ludd was saying: I can't refer to you as "Wiz" because then that'd be confused with Whizbang possibly and as far as I know you don't have an avatar of a cat being confined in a box somewhere in Arkansas.  Not that there's anything wrong with that.

And anyway, you specifically said a monkey reawakened it.  There is no reference to pandas anywhere in your previous message.  

Criminy, everybody knows you don't burn pandas.  That's like pulling up the poison ivy in your yard and piling it up and torching it.  Then standing downwind.  If it hurts to touch it, think of what it's like to inhale it.  It'd be like; "Oh, dear, there's a dead skunk out by the curb in front of the house.  Before it stinks too awfully let's run it through the blender and spread it on the petunias by the walk."

Bleah.  And, yes, Snoopy said that, but so did I.  Sure, Lucy said it.  Charlie Brown said it.  The stupid little yellow bird said it.  As far as I know Charles Schultz said it when he looked over his last strip.  

Ace; they should have left this one dormant, like Mt. St. Hl.Ens.

No, you're right, there was no reference to pandas in the original, but then, stating the obvious is a blatant violation of the spirit of poasting.  
Why do you supppose all those folks are dreading another eruption;could it be panda stink?

My employment of the generic, slang usage of "monkey" clearly was not intended to imply a primate, but rather,  only a fool.  And in this case, not the Jester.  Who  would awaken a dormant "dead" poast full of dead and gone poasters, particularly before the Night of Ghosts and Goblins and Pumpkins?  An open invitatin for a haunting.

So. Now the truth is out.  You tell us you employ a generic monkey.  Criminy, what kind of guy employs a monkey... I don't know if Jacko's even "works"; I thought he just lets it run around.

I suppose an organ grinder would offer employment to a monkey.  You know, it's hard to think of a job more lowly than "jester" but that's getting pretty darn close...

No, not the organ grinder.  The monkey.  

Then, you say you employ a monkey but imply a primate.  I suppose next you'll tell us you apply an orangutang.  Ourangatan.  Hopfrog.  Criminy.

Ace; I've made a career here stating the obvious.  I don't know if I want the spirits of poasting reappearing.  Heck, some of them have guns.

The only thing you can really do with spirits is drink them... a cold one with pizza, for breakfast.

Sounds like a poast for TG and his study group

Organ grinder monkeys at least work cheap..you can usually get one for peanuts...don't start with the fat pantsed SQUIRRELS!!!!!!, again.  Drives me nuts.

Quote from: pat on March 03, 2004, 06:50 hrs
As for real storms, I can remember the Blizzard of 70 something. Snowed in for three days until the big-front end loader came down the road and dug us out. Drifts as high as the tops of the telephone poles. That was fun.

Ah, Blizzard of Oz?


No, not The Wizard Of Oz, Ozzy Osbourne Oz....yes.....thats right...heh....