Friday’s Open Conversation
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First?!
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Dayaam,……..Second!
Mornin’ Gang -
“Click to edit – 3 minutes and 54 seconds.” is back, it’s been gone for years?
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Yikes!
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Did he really mean to activate this Click to Edit thing?
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I’m envisioning twenty comments, all counting down at the same time. Then, boom, the whole place explodes.
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I think he passed out searching for the old Edit button.
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So who is the young waif?
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Good chilly morning Hamsters. Kinda patchy overcast here and there, 41 to start the day. Brisk walk to the barn to feed the mares and then march out to the road to fetch the Chron that unfortunately hasn’t arrived yet. Pink tinted clouds to the west are a pretty sight and bookends for the golden tinted clouds to the east that herald the Sun’s arrival.
It’s the first day of winter and feels like it.
For everybody including me who is sneezing, has itchy eyes, stuffy nose, and clogged ears that crackle every so often, it’s cedar pollen carried in on that stiff north wind. The winter allergy cedar fever season is here full throttle. David Paul on Ch. 11 had the cedar pollen count shown on his weather segment last night and said this is the culprit. Other allergens barely register.
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This countdown thingy is distracting.
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Where’s my edit button??? I want my edit button back!!!
I hate that edit button!!! That edit button sucks!
I’m envisioning twenty comments, all counting down at the same time. Then, boom, the whole place explodes.
You only see the countdown on your comments.
Look, it’s either no edit button or this edit button until I have time to find another. Not real high on my priority list right now.
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Yeah, leave Hammy alone. He’s got last minute Christmas shopping to do, and he needs to strap on his pads and armor before heading out to the stores.
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Hubby and I are going to meet at the bank this morning to get our deeds notarized. Then I have to take two of them to the post office later to certify mail them to El Paso County. The third I hand off to DIL, who will rush to the local office to get it recorded so they can (1) straighten out the tax status/homestead issues, (2) start getting their major renovations underway, and (3) move on with their lives.
You guys have no idea what a relief it is to finally get these deeds done, and done right. I had to reformat a few things last night, as I think that when the paralegal converted them to PDF, some signature lines and line spacing got a little wacky. Fortunately, there’s an online converter site that put it into a Word document and I was able to do the things I needed to do so it didn’t look like a kindergartner put it together.
Best. Christmas. Present. This year.
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#11, What he said, we ought to appreciate the fact that he provides us with the couch.
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The wife did a deep cleaning in the kitchen, emptied drawers, probably doing an inventory of the .38 special rounds she has squirreled away all over the house. She found a roll of Rutherford B Hayes $1 coins. They look legit, never saw one before. We did an issue of $1 coins a few years back but some lady was on that.
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You now have a 5 minute timer to edit your comments. Then they are there forever.
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Cold in Big D this morning. Bucking headwinds wore me out, but rested now. You all have a great one.
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1918 GMC Samson Sieve Grip Tractor.
Yes, GMC was in the farm tractor business for a short time with Samson. The unique sieve grip wheel design was well-suited to California farming valley soils.
The rivalry between Henry Ford and Bill Durant grew in 1918 as Ford’s “Fordson” tractor business was quickly growing and Durant decided that GMC needed to be in the tractor building business too. He purchased Samson 1917 but it was a short lived folly; just six years. They did however make sure they had embossed the GMC logo prominently on the tractors though as evidenced by my photos.
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Yesterday, I was doing two different things requiring good lighting. I just filled a garbage bag with all the halogen work lights I collected over the years. I really hate those things. Anyway, I desperately needed a small, but bright work light. I look online this morning – Home Depot and Lowes have LED 5000 lumen, plug-in work lights for about $60.
Amazon came out one month ago with this one for $37, overnight free shipping. I try not to give Bezos any more business than I have to, but there’s no competition here.
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Well, well, well…we’ve separated the men from the boys here with the edit timer, haven’t we ?
There are those who can take the editing pressure and those who can’t. I kinda like it, myself. It adds some drama to the place.
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We did an issue of $1 coins a few years back but some lady was on that.
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There are those who can take the editing pressure and those who can’t. I kinda like it, myself. It adds some drama to the place.
I type fast and don’t always look at what I’m typing and often stop by hours later and see my horrific spelling/grammar….But we had the 5 minute edit for years and I don’t remember when it went away, but it was a while back.
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My #18, looking at ole Samson, I’d say he was named correctly.
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As seen over yonder on Southern Tragedy’s page; Mad Dog 20-20. 😀
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It’s 45 degrees in Dallas, 52 in Houston and way north it’s muggy, wet and 60 degrees here by Gotham City.
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I was thinking of the Susan B. They were useful when the toll roads were only $1. The Hayes coins don’t have an issue date but he was our 19th president and had a beard small rodents could live in.
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and counting down.. Can’t we pause it for a two minute warning or sumpthin?
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#18 SD
Not obvious to me where the driver of that tractor sits.I mean, sat.
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It’s 45 degrees in Dallas, 52 in Houston and way north it’s muggy, wet and 60 degrees here by Gotham City.
Holy meteorological contortions Batman.
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Honey, the wine rack is empty again. Would you run to the wine store for us ?
Mine is stocked.
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Hamous says:
DECEMBER 21, 2018 AT 7:46 AMWhere’s my edit button??? I want my edit button back!!!
I hate that edit button!!! That edit button sucks!
I’m envisioning twenty comments, all counting down at the same time. Then, boom, the whole place explodes.
You only see the countdown on your comments.
Look, it’s either no edit button or this edit button until I have time to find another. Not real high on my priority list right now.
RETIRED MODERATOR
Life is so good. No WordPress hassles and more importantly I do not have to deal with the hoi poloi. -
Several years ago when you crossed the Trinity River on 59 heading north there was a rusting Fordson tractor off to the right. A great uncle cussed it, parked it in a barn, and said, as I was told, ‘that blankety blank s.o.b. will never run again!’. The barn long since rotted away but the tractor was still there into the 90’s. Gone now.
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#18 SD
Not obvious to me where the driver of that tractor sits.I mean, sat.
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We gots your New Yawk hoi poloi and your trailer trash hoi poloi. We am to please.
I for one feel very fortunate to have the edit button back. Thank you Hamous.
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To edit, or not to edit–that is the question:
Whether ’tis nobler for man to buffer
the grammar spammers,
waiting behind their pc screens
The slings and arrows of semi-colons and outrageous misfortune
Or to take arms against, in a sea of misspellings
And by punctuating and lactating, end them.
To cry, to weep–like a sheep
without little Bo-Peep
baa-baa black sheep,
Robert Conrad,
Pappy Boyington,
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Did the OC model bunch up her skirt to the waist to keep from tripping on it?
(signed) Puzzled
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GJT says:
We gots your New Yawk hoi poloi and your trailer trash hoi poloi. We am to please.
I for one feel very fortunate to have the edit button back. Thank you Hamous.
Oh for sure. I appreciate the edit button. I belong to the no typing fat fingered hoi poloi group. My typing is so bad that the Edit Button Workers of America have put me on their watch list warning blog moderators that allowing me to participate can be detrimental to the EDIT BUTTON function of their blog.
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One never questions the gift horse.
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I kinda like it, myself.
You’re the only one.
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Today’s open comments model looks like a pasty Popsicle stick with fat deposits attached to strategic areas and clothed in granny Hammie’s bed sheets.
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Ok, I gotta run out and buy more popcorn tins!
And a fruitcake if I can find a small one.
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36 mharp
Ours is not to reason why….
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Hey Brother Squawk.
Not hoi polloi.:)🎸 🎸 🎸
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I like the count down EDIT BUTTON. It makes editing my screed exciting. I imagine a Howard Cosell voice giving the play by play as I scramble to beat the clock to correct my mistypes.
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If you panic while editing to beat the clock, backspace everything out and your comment will self delete.
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I’m convinced that every time Lowell George strapped on a guitar he was channeling Delaney and Bonnie.
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I’m convinced that every time Eddie strapped on a guitar he was channeling Eddie.
In his prime Roth was an unbeatable front man.
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Except for Tom Jones, of course.
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This is an interesting story from the BBC about life in the 21st century with cheap, available DNA testing.
The Christmas present that could tear your family apart
Catherine St Clair, a county official from Conroe, Texas, was given a DNA test for her 55th birthday by her older siblings. She too found out her biological father was a man she had never met but – unlike Bill and Jenny – her mother was no longer alive, so there was no way of getting answers to her questions.
She was distraught, and was struggling to accept the test results until she spoke to another woman in the same situation and decided to set up a self-help group. A year-and-a-half later Catherine’s group has almost 4,100 members.
It is called DNA NPE Friends – the last bit stands for Not Parent Expected. Some members were the product of secret affairs, in some cases their mothers were raped, others were never told that they had been adopted as babies or small children.
I am invited to one of the group’s meetings in a Mexican restaurant in Waco, Texas. A dozen people sit around a table at the back of the room eating tacos and having intense conversations. Most have driven hours to get here in pouring rain from all across the state. Catherine encourages the shyer members to speak, makes the odd joke, hands out tissues and tells tearful women not to think of themselves as anybody’s “dirty little secret”.
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Here’s some killer music trivia, via Wiki:
Lowell George’s first band was called The Factory.
The band made an appearance on the 1960s sitcom F Troop as “The Bedbugs”. They were also featured in an episode of Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C., “Lost, the Colonel’s Daughter” (season 3, episode 27). They appeared in the scene inside the A-Go-Go club, with their music heard playing loudly.
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They were also featured in an episode of Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C., “Lost, the Colonel’s Daughter” (season 3, episode 27). They appeared in the scene inside the A-Go-Go club, with their music heard playing loudly.
That episode was on MeTv not too long ago unca Shanny.
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More little-known trivia:
Our own phil was the inspiration for George’s Fat Man in The Bathtub.
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Our own phil was the inspiration for George’s Fat Man in The Bathtub.
What can I say? I’m a very inspirational type dude.
When you got it you got it.
But I can’t take all the credit.
I owe much of it to Kevin Trudeau’s The Magic of Thinking Big.
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RETIRED MODERATOR
Life is so good. No WordPress hassles and more importantly I do not have to deal with the hoi poloi.You have no idea how close you came to conscription last night.
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Maybe Brother Squawk is actually more hoi polloi than he realizes and feels moderating is now a sub-standard *opportunity employment.:-P
*-a Crawford Cowboy-ism
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Hammie
Feel free to give me a shout at anytime. Always glad to help. When you get my age ya appreciate the notice. Ain’t that right Shannon? -
Brother Phil
Maybe Brother Squawk is actually more hoi polloi than he realizes and feels moderating is now a sub-standard *opportunity employment.:-P
Hoi polloi——- oh for sure
Moderating is a noble profession that a select few of us are honored to participate in. However me moderating is proof positive of just how imperfect the system is. -
#50 Texpat
That can be chilling to the depths of one’s soul to discover you are not who you have always thought and been told you are. Kind and charitable folk need to think many, many times before seriously deciding to reveal secrets that have been kept for decades in families. Genetic medical issues would seem to be excepted of course.
But such info in no way blunts the shock.
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My #59 editing worked ok, just different than the old editing format.
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Deeds have been notarized and mailed off or filed locally.
Now, Handsome Son is asking about a site survey that their contractor says he needs to do indoor renovations to the home.
WTH?
Anyone heard this before? Why would an interior renovation require a site survey?
I’m off on a hot date with Hubby, so I’ll check back later.
I guess any grammar errors will be permanent.
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I got back from my run with 2 tins of popcorn and several small fruitcakes.
To find that Hubs had also got a tin of popcorn when he went to Walgreen’s.
So we only pig out like this once a year, get offa my case, will ya?
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Hey, all youse that can’t take the pressure of the edit clock, here’s your solution: Type in your comment in a proper editor that has spellcheck. When it’s all squeaky clean, copy/paste to throw it at The Couch.
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Anyone heard this before? Why would an interior renovation require a site survey?
Is it City of Houston permitting? Maybe they aren’t going to permit any type of construction in certain flood prone areas. Just a guess.
Or it’s some kind of HOA Nazi insanity.
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Before you disappear again SQK,
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Notorious RBG may be on her way out. Cannot wait for the Cony Barrett freak show.
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I am saddened to learn that Harper isn’t satisfied with the hoi polloi fruitcakes here and feels she has to go out and get more.
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Well, there’s more candied fruit in the store-bought ones. The nuts are about the same, though.
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61 Tedtam
Now, Handsome Son is asking about a site survey that their contractor says he needs to do indoor renovations to the home.
There are no “site surveys” for interior renovation construction work. I would speak to this contractor and make sure my son didn’t misunderstand him. If this guy insists on the “site survey”, send him down the road, quickly.
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Here’s a list of the 10 worst busybody, helicopter parent stories of 2018.
Samples…
1 – THE GREAT INDOORS
Penn State announced that its Outing Club can no longer go outside, since hikers may venture beyond the limits of cell phone coverage. “Student safety in any activity is our primary focus,” said a university spokeswoman. The 98-year-old club is still allowed to hold film festivals and host speakers who talk about the outdoors.
and this one from Austin,
8 – 911 CALL: “CHILD SEEN WITH MESSY HAIR AT PARK”
Texas writer May Cobb was returning to the car with her autistic 5-year-old after a day in the park when they were stopped by the cops. Someone had reported a boy with messy hair and too-short pants. Even the cops were embarrassed to be following up on this. But follow up they did.
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Thanks for the reminder Shannon
BTW Just in case i disappear again
Merry Christmas Y’all
May you and your families be richly Blessed by God through the end of this year and all of next year.
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The word helicopter sparked a memory of a story that he me bawling in the car this morning….
KSBJ was asking for “Christmas stories that didn’t end the way you thought they would,” and a man called in with this story (not verbatim, but accurate):
“I work for a life flight service and our team was delivering toys to young patients at local hospitals. A local radio station had donated toys, but they weren’t much: Hot Wheels for the boys, etc. At our first stop, the hospital told us that they’d had a campaign and had a lot of leftover stuffed animals, and did we want them? We agreed to use them and loaded them up.
There was one that we weren’t going to give out: a horrid orange and yellow owl with scraggly legs. It was the ugliest, saddest thing we’d ever seen, and we decided we’d leave it in the ‘copter and throw it away when we got back to the station.
We ended up with exactly the right number of toys for the patients. We were about to leave when a nurse came up and said they had one more patient, and did we have anything left? We went and got that sad looking owl and followed her down the hallway.
She opened the door to a pitch black room and opened the curtains, then woke the patient. He wasn’t a young kid – he was about 18, and he had cerebral palsy but I can’t be sure about that. He was emaciated and looked to be in bad shape. We approached his bed, wished him a merry Christmas, and handed that owl to him.
[pull out the tissues right about now, folks]
He clutched that owl to his chest and said it was the most beautiful gift he’d ever received in his life.
I walked back to the helicopter and strapped in. The pilot asked me over the intercom what had happened. I replied, “Christmas happened.”
At this point the KSBJ veejay asked him what the kid’s face was like when he handed him the owl. “I used to work with the Coast Guard rescue team. When someone’s been in the water a while and then they see that line come down — that’s what he looked like.”
And that, dear folks, is what the Christmas spirit is. Wishing all of you the love and blessings of the season.
/off to get some more tissues
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Our contractor had $500 in permit fees in his original bid, then his office started asking if we had a survey, told us we may possibly have to get one. We talked to the folks at Waller County and none of it was required nor any inspections even for the septic system as we were replacing an existing home of similar size. We did have to do some kind of 911 records deal with a picture of our address marker – $50 and out the door in five minutes. Hate contractors, lovin’ Waller County.
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Define Site Survey
An ominous, official sounding term used to confuse homeowners into coughing up several hundred dollars for a document not required or having any useful application.
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We’ve been eating lots of canned chili at Chez Harp during these cold spells. Hubs is saying he doesn’t want a sammich when it’s cold, wants a warm meal. So I’ve been finding various ways to serve chili to make it seem a bit different. Best by far has been chili over half of a potato. Red potato seems to be the tastiest type for this combo..
Today’s lunch (attn: unca phil) is chili over half of a big jalapeno cornbread muffin, with chopped green onion and a melted slice of pepper-jack cheese over all. Hubs hasn’t had his yet, so I’ll see what he thought of it when I get up from my nap.
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Today’s lunch (attn: unca phil) is chili over half of a big jalapeno cornbread muffin, with chopped green onion and a melted slice of pepper-jack cheese over all.
Whadryuh gonna have for supper?
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Now here’s an interesting suggestion. I found it in this article –https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2018/12/michelle_obamas_horrifying_4000_balenciaga_boots.html
— which commented on the voluminous yellow getup that Mooch wore for an event where her $4K fashion boots got more attention than she did. Toward the end, the author suggested a way that Mooch could recycle all that yellow fabric. -
Well, that didn’t come out quite right. If you want to see the voluminous yellow outfit…
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Alice looked much better in his boots.
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If you’re gonna make fruitcake, the best I’ve found is Free Range Fruitcake by Alton Brown.
I personally think he goes light on the rum he uses to “rehydrate” the dried fruit. I use bourbon and at least double it. I’ve also changed the fruits used and the mix based on what I can find.
It’s definitely not for the young.
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#78 – Wow!
Those old Mopar 225 slant 6xrs were just about unbreakable
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So why does Addie, Goat and Texpat have new weird looking Avatar’s? They are all sort of purple and blue?
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The old slant sixes were great little motors, I don’t have time to watch the video but the engine was 225 CID and was undersquare, that is the stroke was longer than the bore, giving it lots of torque. I don’t remember the exact numbers but it was something like 4 inch stroke and 3 1/2 inch bore. One thing to remember was this was Chryslers first OHV engine in many years. Their old flathead sixes were used in everything from cars and pickups to AC tugs and forklifts. In WW II they even tied five of them together radially for a tank engine. And, I found it on Google; Chrysler A57 Multibank Tank Engine.
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o why does Addie, Goat and Texpat have new weird looking Avatar’s? They are all sort of purple and blue?
I believe that’s Texpat’s alter ego Tapext.
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…? Somebody give Squack the keys to the console?
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You have the right to an avatar. If you cannot afford one, one will be appointed for you.
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82 WB
That one actually sounds pretty good.
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Nice moon rising.
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#82 That does sound pretty good. I know what I hate about the classic fruitcake is all that sickeningly sweet candied fruit.
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One of the plugins I had to disable did a pretty good job of stopping spammer registration. The flood gates have opened now.
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Sorry, boss.
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I turned off new user registration. If y’all want someone to join send me their email and I’ll register them.
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86 phil
Actually, I chose this guy as my alter ego.
Here’s an example of what I’ve been talking about. Since this boy was suckin’ on his mama’s teat, he’s been given everything but discipline.
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Ninety Nine! Teeing her up!
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Ninety Nine! Teeing her up!
Who’ll grab the brass ring?Your second 9 is upside down.
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Watching “Rio Grande”. Dang, didn’t recognize The Duke. He’s a lot younger than what I’m used to seeing
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#95, Texpat, I love that clip, I’ve seen it a few times, but I’ve not seen the movie. I’ll have to see if it’s on Netflex
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The REAL 99. Who’s next?
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Looks like ***I*** am.
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Hunnerd N Two!!!!
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Looks like ***I*** am.
I am Whut? 😀
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We had fruitcake and hot tea (decaf Earl Grey for him, green tea for me) — at the Harper Family Hour/42 Minutes, so I’m not very hungry. But I need to eat something with my suppertime vitamins and supplements. Maybe a corn dog… We’ve gotten pretty fond of those lately.
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I am Whut?
Next.
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An accident.
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Where’s Sarge? He posted a picture of his granddaughter and said he was going to let her pull his mustache and I thought of my granddaughter on Thanksgiving. I was reading to her and she got real interested in my ‘Stache. 😉
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Happy now?
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When I lived in the Valley in the 90’s, this song was on regular rotation there about now.
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Y’all don’t make no dang sense.
House on wheels rollin’ in tomorrow, truckers got the permits today! It was a challenge with the holidays coming. A by golly double wide so two trucks! My family Christmas party is tomorrow so we’ll have to roll out as soon as we see we are not needed, so we won’t really see it until Sunday. They will be putting it together Sunday. Then inside trim out we don’t know about yet.
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Do y’all bourgeois see the “More Options” button?
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You really got me with that recipe, WB.
We had to have a quick class on exactly what a currant is – lesson plan courtesy of the Web.
Even Fay wasn’t sure, but that didn’t stop her from buying quantities of it in Libya and making wine. Anything cheap and fermentable was in high demand by the Western invaders.
In Libya one had to be creative.
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Hey, the old edit button is back! Shannon ain’t ever happy.
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I don’t see any other buttons than normal.
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Bourgeois rhymes with boudoir.
Yeah, that More Options button is looking great, O Great Webmaster!
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“Edit”
“More Options”
“Delete previous Post”just kidding
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The hip commie kids just say “bougie” these days.
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Where’s my “Delete Shannon’s post button”??!!
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We finally get to use our church this weekend, for the first time since Harvey. Repairs became renovations became complete makeover as asbestos and mold were found just about everywhere.
There is frantic wiring still going on, and today was a cleanup day open to the congregation. I showed up with a bucket of some cleaning stuff, including a bottle of lemon oil wood cleaner/conditioner. After doing some dusting and sweeping, I started rubbing that oil on the window frames, doors, baptismal table, etc. I did that for a couple of hours, steadily. That wood has not seen any kind of oil probably since it was installed. The doors and wooden panels nearest the front entrance doors were really bad. Up and down the ladder, bending down, and all the time rubbing and pressing my hand into the panels.
At one point, I was working on the bottom of one of the really bad doors, which is next to the stairs leading to the balcony, I decided it was a good time to rest by laying down on the floor. My back needed the rest. Freaked out one of the workers and one of the students. Once I assured them I had not actually fallen off the ladder, lost consciousness, or otherwise ended on the floor aside from actually deciding that laying there was where I wanted to be, they were able to move away. “No 911? You sure?”
I’m sure I would’ve though the same thing. Especially since there was a passel of kids there whose mothers were doing the absolute minimum, or less, to watch their kids. Those brats were running all around the church, in and out of doors, playing in the confessional (I had to chase ’em out of there 3 times), screaming and yelling, and just in general behaving as bored, high-energy kids would do. For someone on a ladder, it was a little nerve wracking. They were an accident waiting to happen.
And then some lady is laying on the floor. Next to the ladder.
Merry Christmas!
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My arm and back are feeling it. There’s a Jacuzzi tub upstairs calling my name.
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Lowell George, liked him then and even more now. He did not like any single guitar setup and modified his own. Bonnie Raitt has one and played it last concert I saw at the Revention Center. Robbie Robertson did sort of the same but had greater success. Which is why Fender is selling a R.R. issue of a Strat. Had Lowell George not blown up his heart on cocaine there would be a lot of better guitars around, and his singing.
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So said the dancing crab, and the timer is off.
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all that sickeningly sweet candied fruit
Only thing candied in there is the ginger.
btw – from what I understand dried and fresh currants are actually different fruits. As I understand it, the dried ones are actually little grapes and the fresh ones are more like holly berries (but sweet and edible).
I’ve made the recipe several times and it never fails to change peoples’ perspective on fruitcake. It’s good with butter or cream cheese, but WAY GOOD with mascarpone (kind of an Italian cream cheese).
In the fridge the way I make it it keeps forever and gets better with age.
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As I understand it, the dried ones are actually little grapes and the fresh ones are more like holly berries (but sweet and edible).
Are they cut grapes?
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Supremely compromised and stupid Penguin No-Justice Roberts will be a disaster for many years to come.
Way to go Dizz.
Go check on the fish and see if they’re coexisting peacefully,
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RE: #41
squawkbox says:
DECEMBER 21, 2018 AT 10:43 AM EDIT
Today’s open comments model looks like a pasty Popsicle stick with fat deposits attached to strategic areas and clothed in granny Hammie’s bed sheets.
It just wouldn’t be Christmas if Squawk wasn’t here to say nice things about the nice girls whose photos I post here.
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#107 Hammy
Happy now?
No. How can I get one of those zany new avatars like TapExt and Goat have?
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GooPEeCONS and rEgressivecrats party on the patio, pat each other on the back, scratch-n-sniff each other’s chairs and pound their puds in a climatic and orgasmic scene of extreme reacharounds as they celebrate loosing more criminals onto our streets with the “First Step Act” legislation passage.
All the Sh!T@y things the Feds do to us all have such sweet smelling and sounding names.
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128 mharper42
Anyone with a rodent avatar – raccoons, opossums, squirrels – is automatically disqualified. It’s not negotiable.
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123 Wagonburner
I need to post my famous whipped mascarpone with mixed berries recipe here. People go crazy for it. It’s pretty amazing stuff.
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I’ve made the recipe several times and it never fails to change peoples’ perspective on fruitcake. It’s good with butter or cream cheese, but WAY GOOD with mascarpone (kind of an Italian cream cheese).
Conspicuously absent from the ingredients is nutmeg 😉
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No. How can I get one of those zany new avatars like TapExt and Goat have?
Remove your gravatar. As gto sez:
You have the right to an avatar. If you cannot afford one, one will be appointed for you.
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The woman is unstoppable.
It’s actually quite intimidating.
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Thank you, Dancing Crab.
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123 WB
You’re killin’ me.
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Damn. I forgot to tell you.
Government Shutdown Party at Tedtam’s.
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GOING FULL DONALD TRUMP:
Well, that first week without The Weekly Standard was pretty impressive. For the past two years, President Trump has been managed by a lot of people who disagree with him on foreign policy and national security. The presence of John Kelly, James Mattis, John Bolton, and for a time Rex Tillerson has meant that Trump’s 2016 approach to the world – promising troop pullbacks, withdrawal from the Iran deal, and generally a shifted posture toward the world stayed as mere rhetoric, not actual policy.
Trump is fed up with this situation, and he sent a message yesterday that he’s officially done with it. The decision prompted James Mattis to pull a resignation letter he’s probably had in his desk drawer for a year and a half out – which if you think about it, is pretty reckless considering the point of contention is 2,000 troops in Syria, which is hardly enough to make a real difference in that conflict. Now Mattis will be tasked with handling drawdowns from Syria and Afghanistan before departing the administration, to be replaced by someone more in line with Trump’s values.
Overall, not a good look from the perspective of Washington. http://vlt.tc/3i7a “Mr. Mattis told the president he would quit during a White House meeting Thursday afternoon, after expressing concern about the president’s surprise call to rapidly withdraw more than 2,000 U.S. troops from Syria as well as the prospect of beginning to withdraw as many as half of the 14,000 troops now in Afghanistan in a matter of weeks.
“Military officials fear the moves could lead to the re-emergence of Islamic State or like-minded groups in countries where the military has made heavy investments or endanger the U.S.’s on-the-ground partners, U.S. officials said. Mr. Trump said Wednesday ISIS had been defeated in Syria and it is time to bring the troops home. He hasn’t addressed the drawdown in Afghanistan this week.”
But what about from the perspective of the country? The war in Syria is either unknown or unpopular depending on how you ask the question – so is the war in Afghanistan. It’s very possible that Trump viewed both of these wars as levers to pull that would benefit him politically at the right time, and also cast his opponents into a warmongering frame that they do not wear well. Nancy Pelosi can embrace these wars all she wants – it won’t help her with the large portion of Democrats who don’t believe we should be fighting them, including Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. A year ago Trump was willing to go along with what the hawks wanted – no more. If Democrats want to be the party of war, so be it. http://vlt.tc/3i79
Overall this move brings Trump back into the disruptor position at a moment when he seems eager for new foes to battle. He tired of a Washington scene where he was trading barbs with the polite Paul Ryan and the crafty Mitch McConnell. He yearns for the open conflict we saw with Chuck and Nancy in the Oval, and he wants to do that every day, in situations where he sets the rules. Get ready for a year of this.
P.S. – Congratulations to all the media naifs whose buildup of the Jamal Kashoggi murder elevated Erdogan to the point that Trump takes his false promises seriously regarding what will come next for the Kurds. Heckuva job, media! http://vlt.tc/3i7c
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Government Shutdown Party at Tedtam’s.
Does she have any good Cab or Merlot on hand?
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Thank you, Dancing Crab.
Ancient Chinese proverb says…
One dancing crab with two pincers much better than 10 body crab in your bush.
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I don’t care what you say, today’s OC girl has her own wing in the OC Hall of Fame.
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I volunteer to lead up the induction ceremony committee.
Remind me to send SQK some pictures.
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On the road again,…..
Off to Alabama, later.
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