Hi all!

It's Sunday night!

Just looking at EBay for cool things!

I know I shouldn't be, it'll just get me in trouble!


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the plot thickens... somebody mowed my lawn again today. So far nobody has owned up to it. Interesting.

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you may have a goat infestation

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Hi Brech,

Wow! That kind of thing is really stressful!

I'm sorry that it is happening.

I have been through similar and it is NO fun!


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I installed a new air conditioner today. The old one still worked fine but was waking me up at night with the noise. This one is quieter and more energy efficient.

I also need to get a new office chair for my desk. Mine has just about fallen apart.

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Ah, the holiday weekend! We have a busy one next weekend (a wedding and a christening) so we are staying home and focusing on chores and a bit of relaxing on this one!

I work from home on Fridays, so I handled the few things that were going on, then got to some of my spring outside work. It took me from 3pm until dark to get the pool area cleared of leaves and winter muck. Much of that time pulling wet leaves off the cover. That was a lot of work for my old bones and I still feel it today!

So I've been hanging out this morning, and anticipate going back out there and power washing that same area. Wish me luck!

We are expecting rain on Saturday and Sunday so I want to get the outside done. Maybe the rain will leave me some time for hobby stuff!

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There has been off and on rain over this weekend here in NC and southwest VA. We got a few activities (mowing, cleaning gutters) done but not enough.

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Don, you handle your situation with class and humor. God bless!

 
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Yesterday and today, 100 degrees (38C) with full sun. Summer is here.

My office chair broke about a year ago. I went to the Goodwill Outlet (not store), and found a used office chair for $1.99.

Goodwill has opened many outlets in my area. It is great to find many things, if you have the time to do so. You pay for most items by the pound. Large items, like the chair, are usually marked at "move it out of here" prices. Books and videos are 20 cents each, and glassware (I think) is 25 cents each. It is great if you resell at flea markets, antique shops, and hobby shows too. We fill up a couple of shopping carts, then we go through them. We often put back many items that, for various reasons like damage not seen at first, we think is not worth trying to resell. Then we check out. Our average price per item runs around 35 cents to 75 cents.

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I have not seen an Indy race is forever. I do not want that much sports these days.

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Funny you should ask. Played yesterday and had one of the best rounds of my life. Par 71 course. Even par until I got to hole 15 (I call it the Devil hole). Ended up 4 over for a 75. I normally shoot anywhere from high 70s to high 80s. Great exercise, figured if I was any good I would be on TV.

Enjoy the game, but remember that the most important distance is the 6 inches between your ears.

Regards, Mel

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Looks like the WWII weekend at the Reading (PA) Airport is going to be a washout.
Dang.

https://www.maam.org/maamwwii.html

Late Monday afternoon, a C-54 flew right over my house, about 300 feet up, on final. Yes, I'm about 5 miles downwind of runway 31 when the wind is out of the Northwest. That thing sounded like a truck. Made me appreciate its utility in the Berlin Airlift...

Rolled by the airport on Tuesday, and "FIFI" was sitting there.

-Paul

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Grew up a block away from a floatplane base in Northern Ontario. I don't know much about military cargo planes, but I can tell you a Norduyn Norseman will almost rattle the panes out of the window frames when they take off. 5:30 every morning ... sheesh.

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I had the opportunity to get inside a B-24 and a B-17 when there was a fly in a few years ago. I was still amazed how fragile (thin skinned) these planes were. I did not opt for an actual flight that was offered. The B-17 took off but the B-24 aborted the take off.

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Bought a few nice items for my collection at the Auction last night.

A nice collection of Switzerland, Ireland, Japan and all with duplication, so there should be plenty for listing here!!

Prices were high. Boxes estimated at £60 were going for £195. They were good but not that good. It was the last auction there until the end of August.

 
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It's raining out today, the only day this week I could've gotten some of my long overdue yard work done!

The chuckle for the day.. my town just sent out an email:

Tonight's concert at Miller Park featuring the Slippery Band has been canceled due to the inclement weather.

So the Slippery Band was cancelled due to rain!

 
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GROAN!

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Good for you Don, enjoy your postings. phil

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That's terrific news Don! So happy to hear that!

Opdivo is the key product I support in my Reliability Excellence program.

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That is amazing to hear Don. I wish you continued healing.

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Congratulations on your most excellent news. Simply wonderful.

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Absolutely brilliant news, Don!

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Did a little shopping today... notice the lightning speed? Order one was shipped in 1:05 minute and the second order was shipped in 1:35? In reality, all they have to do is click on the "shipped" button, but eBay has sellers on such a short leash with threats of cancellation, it's come to this!




Back in the day when I sold on eBay, prior to Paypal when people would mail you checks, I would have all my auctions end on Sunday evening. Then I would send the invoices (you had to do that yourself then) via email. I'd let them know that if received payment by Friday, it would get mailed on Saturday. If not, it would wait until the next Saturday. None of this mail every day within an hour stuff for me!

 
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Yes! Just today over lunch I was explaining to two young uns what it was like to work in our company in 1986. I described how tasks were done manually, by secretaries (which were actually called secretaries then!) on typewriters with magic carbon paper. How they would type a purchase order on a 5 part form, then you'd sign it, take it to your boss for his signature, then you'd walk the length of the plant down to the purchasing department to hand deliver it!

They sat in awe as if I was describing how Abe Lincoln did his homework on the back of a shovel with a piece of charcoal by the light of the fireplace! I am the department fossil!

Way back when it was described that computerization would be a wonderful thing and in the future we'd all work 20 hrs a week! What they didn't account for was companies eliminating 3 outta 5 employees and working the rest of us to death! It is fast paced today.

Back when a friend got laid off I told him he was the lucky one. The company told him to go home! The rest of us they intended to kill!

 
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Typing is the one skill that has gotten me through life. My father was military and I attended a school for dependents in Germany. Some of our classes were rather advanced as I'd learn later on. For instance in seventh grade I saw "Speech" on my schedule and assumed it was for kids who had difficulty speaking. On the contrary it was really "Public Speaking" and I found I was a natural. I won the Extemporaneous Speaking competition in our region.

The other class they assigned was "Typing 101". I was immediately intrigued. I had no idea why as the rest of the guys sat in the back of the class and refused to participate. Something told me I needed to learn this. We had old IBM manual typewriters that had no letters on the keys. We learned the touch typing system. And I learned to type like the wind.

We relocated to the USA for my freshman year. I saw "Typing 101" on my schedule and protested that I already knew how to type. The school administrator said something like, "Yea right." When I attended the first class I demonstrated my typing skills for the teacher and immediately got excused. She told the class, "You may be able to type like that at the conclusion of this class."

Then computers came into vogue and I was really ahead of the game. While my counterparts struggled finding the letters on the keyboard, I concentrated on the software that we were learning. Back in 1986 when I started in the company, I saw the archaic practice of men hand writing out documents and memos, and handing them to a secretary for typing. Sometimes these documents would go two, three rounds of retyping. I asked for a typewriter. I was scolded that I was a Supervisor and secretaries did the typing for me. I replied that I typed faster than I wrote... and often faster than I think.

 
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I will admit that the single most valuable course I took in high school was typing. Of course, it helped a lot that after college I initially had a career in computer programming (to the tune of about 750,000 lines of code over a 15 year period). I got up to 35 words per minute in typing class and up to 90 word per minute doing Cobol and Fortran programming plus PL/1, various assemblers, APL, various BASIC dialects, and some so-called fourth generation languages. Of course none are in common use today for new development.

 
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I am.

 
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Me too!

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It is hard to believe there was a time when being left handed had a sinister connotation.

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I am “semi-ambidextrous” too. I throw with my left hand, catch with my right hand, and write with my right hand, but so awkwardly that people have often said, “I didn’t know you were left handed.” I hold forks, spoons, knives, cups, glasses in my right hand, bat from my right shoulder, and kick with my right foot. I shoot a pistol with my right hand, but aim a rifle or bow and arrow from my left shoulder. That caused problems in the Navy when we shot the M1 Garand rifle, because when shells were ejected, they and a blast of hot gas would go past my eyes just inches away. Later, when I was transferred to the Marines, it was the same story, but with the M-14 rifle. Major flinch factor!

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To return to the topic of typing:

My father and my wife's father both insisted that we take typing in high school. My dad had been a journalist who had long made his living with a typewriter, and then bought an office supply store which sold and repaired typewriters. Our teacher was Miss Cerney, and we too used typewriters — manual Underwoods with blank keys. I wasn't a very good student, and stopped paying attention after I'd learned the letter keys; to this day, I have to glance at the keyboard when I'm typing anything that resides on the top row of a keyboard. I'm fairly accurate and fast, but Susan is faster and more accurate. We told our son that he had to take typing in high school; he was already a blindingly fast two-finger typist, and now he uses a combination of two-finger and touch typing. Once, when he was taking typing, he got to class early to the great relief of his teacher. "Paul," she said, "I can't get this typewriter to turn on." He took a look at the typewriter in question, and had this suggestion: "You might consider plugging it in." But here's the best story:

Susan and I had started writing to each other when my battalion was still training in Okinawa, and by the time I was wounded in Vietnam, we had decided that we had a pretty good thing going. I was evacuated to San Diego for a long stay at Balboa Naval Hospital, and Susan decided she wanted to move to San Diego after she graduated from college. During her first visit after I arrived in San Diego, we decided we would get married (although we wouldn't actually have a date until I got out of traction!). But she would have to get a job to be able to afford an apartment in San Diego.

A few years before, my dad had started the American Kitefliers Association (AKA), the world's first adult kite club. One of the early members, who became Dad's friend, was Francis Rogallo, a NASA scientist and inventor of the parawing glider, which NASA was considering to use to return the Apollo 11 astronauts to earth. Ryan Aeronautical of San Diego was working on the project (which was eventually rejected in favour of parachutes). Dad asked Francis if he could get Susan a job at Ryan. No problem!

Susan had to take a typing test at Ryan, which she passed with flying colours. When she completed the test, the Ryan employee administering the test asked her if she knew someone at Ryan, because he had been told to pass her even if she couldn't type!

Susan worked the rest of that summer in the typing pool at Ryan, using a Smith-Corona Selectric typewriter. Her primary job was "correcting" engineering documents by whiting out "Lunar Excursion Module" and "LEM," and retyping them as "Lunar Module" and "LM". It seems that some executive or politician with too much time on his hands decided that the use of the word “Excursion" implied that the lunar astronauts were going to be enjoying holiday jaunt rather than carrying out a scientific expedition!

Bob

 
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Yeah I got up to 80WPM typing. Soon after typewriters went out of style. I was sad the day my mom sold our IBM Selectric. It was a marvellous machine.

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My uncle (father's side) had a genetic test. He was listed as mostly 70% English Irish. I know my great grandmother was a Patterson-Rose so I guess that is no surprise. The path given was from Eastern Africa with the original mother from somewhere in Caucasus and then through Europe. Of course, this contributes to half of me.

I have an interest to be tested but not have done it. I wonder how many other have any interesting in a genetic assessment.

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We did the Ancestry thing.

Someone protesting the sharing policy used the logic that if someone in your family was a serial killer, they could use YOUR DNA to catch them. My response was GOOD, I'd want them to catch him!

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Ernie, my friend, I immediately thought about you! I believe the Landing is where we had dinner ?

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I was at an auction last night, best lot in it were two bankers boxes of Japan, described as modern mint and used with minisheets on piece and MNH. Range from 1985 to 1999. Also a stock book of used. Estimate £100.
What the description didn't say was that in the stockbook were a number of "Dragons" and other stamps up to 1875!! OK there were a few forgeries but there were also a number of genuine stamps.
I wasn't the only one that had spotted this page in the accumulation that was two bankers boxes.

The lot sold for £750 plus 10% Buyers Premium!!

 
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Hey Vic. That's a pretty place.

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We're avid gardeners, so this summer has been very mixed. Between July 17 and August 22, I had OVER 24 inches of rain in my gauge. That's more than FOUR times normal for that period. We never had more than 2 days in a row without rain over that period.

So, almost all of our squash drowned - patty pan, acorn, zucchini, pumpkins. The gourds hung on the longest. Tomatoes sucked - they set plenty of fruit, but then drowned, and got no sun. We still put up 10 quarts for the winter. Root vegetables did well. Sweet corn has been excellent. Fruit in the area has been mediocre - just not much flavor.

Our honeybees doing OK (3 hives, all captured swarms). The frequent rains wash nectar from the blooms, so the bees have been on the ragged edge of having enough stores to raise brood. Colony size has slowly increased. We need a strong fall flow for them to build up stores for the winter. Goldenrod peaking now, so we're hopeful. It'll rain today, but it hasn't rained since the 22nd, so there are some dry spots. When it rains that much, most of it runs off, so the ground doesn't stay saturated any longer than it would with normal rains.

The pisser is that this is the second year in a row we've had those conditions. Last year, we had more than 10 inches of rain in August. I intentionally put our squash near a natural seep, guarding against typical summer drought, and the gods have chastised me. Two years in a row. Spit.

-Paul

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I am also in the weed growing business! I have one variety of sticker weed that has overtaken my front garden. I have literally taken it down to dirt, sprayed with weed killer, come back in a week and new weeds are already a foot tall. Three times this summer already! Now if I could sell this crop I’d have stamp money!

Forget growing anything else... that’s just called “feeding the deer”!

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Sheepshanks,

I was just thinking about you today and wondering how your garden was growing. Looks like you have your work cut out for you next season!

I gave up on the giant pumpkins this year. Have lots of flowers instead - only the ones the deer don't like. Our hummingbirds have slowed down eating at the feeders and moved to the flowers, Lots of fun to watch and listen to their chirping at each other; had at least 14 this year.

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Forgot to say, pumpkins can be a lot of work, needing constant moisture and attention.
We still have a few humming birds around but nights are getting cooler so they will be off soon.

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Deer love pumpkins! I lured this guy into my yard for a photo session with our Halloween left over. Unscrupulous hunters will do the same, but it's illegal for them to bait deer this way.

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Looks like a perennial creeping thistle, it will grow from the slightest piece of root, they also go very deep. Just keep using the roundup,(as soon as growth gets to a few inches) it will eventually die out.

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Canada thistle, Tom.

If you pull a few stalks, you'll see that you're not getting the root - it propagates by spreading rhizomes as well as seed.

It can be very difficult to eradicate, not so hard to control. Strategic cutting or mowing provides effective control. You must get it before it goes to seed, and it's particularly vulnerable right when it's blooming, like is shown in your photo. Just cut it back (I'd use a scythe), and forget about it until next year, the same time.

If you want to eradicate, you'll have to spray it in consecutive years with 2-4-D. That's best done in the spring, when it's growing rapidly. Inevitably, you'll miss some each year, so "eradication" is a relative term. Round-Up kills everything, 2-4-D only kills broadleaves, and spares the grasses.

Farmers in the Federal CRP (Cropland Reserve Program) are required to mow those acres by July 1 to qualify for the payments they get under that program. This is with an eye to controlling weeds - before they go to seed. July 1 is a good compromise to effectively control most noxious weeds.

-Paul (Farmer, at heart)

 
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Thanks Folks! I spent the better part of yesterday afternoon pulling up that crop, one plant at a time. Today I'll get out there and turn all the dirt in that garden and spray it profusely. Then I'll keep an eye out every day...

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Probably fine to spray Round-Up in that context, although I'm not sure you'll get much uptake by the roots - it's meant to be a foliar herbicide. You might consider laying some weed barrier over it, and then heaping something on top of that to keep it in place. Just some black 4 mil polyethylene will suffice...

If the plant cannot make carbohydrate (ie, is deprived of sunlight), it will literally, starve to death.

Round-Up (glyphosate) is getting a bad rap in the popular media. Truth is, it's one of the environmentally safest herbicides out there. Because, it has a very short half-life in soil, measured in hours. Within 36 hours, 98% of the active ingredient has been inactivated by soil microbes. Just don't spray it in a rainstorm, and it won't go anywhere that's undesired.

-Paul

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Sheepshanks - looks like you are making progress! I didn't know horseradish grew that tall.

I am sure you will have your garden back in fine form next year.

Do you have many monarch butterflies? We just returned from a trip up to northeast Wisconsin and saw lots and lots of monarchs. One of the Wisconsin natives said they don't usually have that many. Just wondering if they were starting their southern migration, maybe some of these came from Canada.

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For me, the bugaboo among garden weeds is grass. When pulling crab grass, for example, unless the soil is VERY wet, the roots will tear as you pull the mature plant. Each of these little rootlets will then sprout a new aerial part. I always have a trowel in my hand to loosen the soil before I try to pull.

Wife complains about me refusing to use mulch, but when I balance the effort of moving mulch around to get seeds in the soil, and that of fighting slugs (who thrive on the moist conditions in the mulch) I'd rather spend a few hours pulling weeds. There's something satisfying about committing all that petty murder, too. We get enough rain here that I don't really need the moisture retention that mulch provides. And the garden is small enough (a few hundred SF) that a few hours of watering from the well is easy to do.

We got 1.3 inches here on Friday, and I did not get any time to pull weeds over the weekend, so now the soil is too dry again to effectively pull crab grass. I have a small window still open before it drops seed, and if it gets too close, I'll drag the hose over and saturate the ground that way.

Frequent tillage is my MO...

-P

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Had a busy day re-covering the top of the wood store, moving my coal box and the best

bit:-

Taking a sledgehammer to the old coal box, boy did that remove some of the pent up aggression.

and before anybody suggests I imagined it was rrraphy I DID NOT!!

(I had to say it before somebody else did!!)

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AAHHH! Haggis, Neeps and Tatties. I had that for my dinner yesterday.

The taste of haggis differs. It depends on the supplier. The suppliers of haggis are like brewers of beer. Some taste good others taste bloomin' awful.

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You do not see the visiting concept in collecting. The idea of visiting a stamp collector's home to see their collection would be unusual.

 
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We're watching two storms that could make their way into the Gulf of Mexico. The tropical disturbance in the Caribbean is expected to be in the gulf later this week. Hurricane Isaac is expected to head straight to the Caribbean, and then we'll see where it decides to go from there.

September is the peak month for hurricanes. Looks like this year is no exception. While we haven't had any tropical storms yet here this year, we're in the middle of what will be two week's worth of rain. We certainly needed the wet weather to revitalize things outdoors.

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A couple of weeks ago we were near 100 degrees (F). Right now the temperature is 69F, and it's going to go lower with more rain!

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File that under:

People Who See Something for the First Time in Their Lives and Then Declare,
"It MUST Be RARE!"

:-)

-Paul

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When you buy eggs, how can you make sure not to get a chicken embryo in an egg?

(Answer forthcoming unless someone posts it beforehand.)

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Ohhh, you shouldn't have asked a veterinarian.

Answer: There are no roosters on the premises.

(From one who culled two roosters from his adolescent layer flock, just last week.)

-Paul

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When you buy eggs, how can you make sure not to get a chicken embryo in an egg?

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Make sure they are Easter eggs? - Nope


There are no roosters on the premises - Nope. (You're buying the eggs, so they have already been laid.)


candling chicken eggs - Good idea, but I don't think they'll let you do that in the store.


Answer: Buy duck eggs.

 
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At Last, Its Over, Finished, Hip Hip Hip Hooray!!!

What may you ask?

Decorating the bathroom!

I can now get back to my stamps!!

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I shall treat that remark with the utter contempt it deserves!!!!

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That joke format has been used in quite a few different scenarios but always the same punchline.

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According to a 1909 article in the "New York Times", there are only 7 kinds of jokes, and they can all be condensed down into this one joke:

"A snail was mugged by a slug. The police officer asked for a description of the attacker. The snail said "I can't give you one; it all happened so fast."

 
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another St Peter joke... see there are indeed only five jokes!

St Peter is bored sitting as the gate keeper to Heaven so one day he decides he will admit anyone who convinces him they had a very bad day.

A guy approaches and St Peter asks him if he had a bad day. He replies, "A bad day indeed! I knew my wife was cheating on me so I came home early to our 8th floor apartment one afternoon. I stood outside the door and heard cries of passion inside so I burst in only to find my wife naked in bed alone. I knew there was a man here so I looked in all the rooms. I heard a sound out on the balcony and there was the culprit, hanging off the edge of my balcony by his finger tips. He's only wearing gym shorts. So I jump up and down on his fingers until he fell.

He landed in the bushes down below and was just laying there giving me the finger! That infuriated me so I looked for the largest thing I could find.... the refrigerator! And I heaved it over the railing! It landed smack on the guy killing him. That's when I had my heart attack and died!"

Saint Peter was amazed! He agreed the man indeed had a bad day and let him into heaven.

Another man comes along shortly and St Peter asked him the same question. He responded, "Yes I had a very bad day!" There I was on my ninth floor balcony exercising on my mini trampoline. I jumped a bit too high and went right over the balcony railing! I was lucky to catch hold of the balcony below. As I hung there by my finger tips I heard someone coming and thought I was saved. But it was some raving lunatic who jumped on my fingers until I fell. Again I was lucky and landed in soft bushes below. Then the last thing I remember was the lunatic throwing a refrigerator over the balcony hitting me squarely. And here I am!"

St Peter agrees that the man had a very bad day and let him into heaven.

A third man approaches the desk and St Peter asks him the question. The man responds, "I had a horrible day!" Picture this, there I was nude in a refrigerator...

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Hurricane Michael came through...power just came back on after 18 hrs. This was the worst I have seen in 20 years. Florence was nothing here.

Of course, broadband internet takes longer as I am at work. Of course the abilty to do a hot spot with smart phone is good to check roads and basic comms.

Sis in law in SC also lost power and inlaws house lost power as it went by.

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The nice thing about stamp collecting is along as you have light, natural or otherwise, you can play with your stamps without the temptation of thousands of cable channels or the Internet.

(still on hot spot)

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My daughter lives in Lexington, NC. They lost power early on Thursday. Lots of trees down. Still no power.

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My brother in Dothan, AL said power was out there for 30 hours and there were tree limbs down in the yard but otherwise okay.

My father was pastor of the Port St. Joe United Methodist Church just to the east of Mexico Beach, FL in the late 1980's through mid-1990's but I haven't heard any news from there as yet. The church and parsonage were just across the highway from the beach with very little elevation from the water so I am quite concerned for the people there.

The Mexico Beach area from what pictures I have seen was almost flattened with few if any homes not having major damage.

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I didnt want to hijack cougars thread so I moved my post over here. Check out the newest addition to my family! This is Charlie





He is a 7 month old Golden and he is nothing but energy. This is the most affectionate dog I have ever seen. He actually will hug you. We had a family cocker for years but I dont know that much about dogs. People say I need to have him neutered but I hate to have him mutilated and change his personality. Does anyone have any thoughts on that? The vet said he would jump out the window of a car at 75 mph if he detected a female in heat. I'm not sold. Dogs have been doing just fine since time immemorial without this.

 
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https://www.facebook.com/Newsflare/videos/2198702180161106/?t=31


Think I will do this to my leaf blowing fanatic neighbor the next time he wakes me up early blowing leaves at sunrise.

Mike in NC / meostamps

 
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Boy, 10 month old Goldens have a alot of energy.

What a fun dog.

 
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Had a good chuckle seeing this

"It is Thanksgiving, time to count your blessings....

And if you live in Florida, time to recount them..."


PS: I DO NOT mean this to be in anyway political for 1 side for another, just as a commentary of what I have seen happening. Mods may delete if they feel it is political, I would not be offended.

Mike in NC / meostamps

 
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One of my to dos is to get a better to do list...

I would like something that is simple by works on computer and phone.

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I visited my Dad over the holidays. He showed me his stamp collection but he has also been interested coins in years back to the point of being a part time coin dealer. I was behind the table with him for some shows. I never really enjoyed it.

He still subscribes to Coin World, Numismatic News, etc. I did a quick look and highlights the difference between coins and stamps. Coin mags are mostly about values and little about anything else. I never liked coins as hobby since 98% of the talk is like fishing stories - the big one you got or the one that got away. It was all about money.

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Here is an exhibit that ties coin collecting with stamp collecting. It was one of the exhibits on my must see list when I went to Washington 2006.
http://www.rfrajola.com/features/coins/coins.htm

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I find coins less dimensional. There is always a market aspect of any collectible.

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I thought it was interesting. It gives a history lesson and how America handled financial transactions. The eight page summery goes into depth on how business was conducted in The U.S. It must have been quite the task to be able to go from one currency to the other and keep records since the coins of Great Britain, Portugal, France, and Spain were used along with our own coins.

Vince

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Not sure if we should start a new winter diner but having had a few days of cold foggy weather the yard looks a little frosty today.

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Stay safe, warm and let us know you are back when you able.

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Hi Al,
No, the drug is sodium polystyrene sulfonate (polystyrene, the stuff they make coffee cups out of!). It binds and reduces potassium in your blood. Potassium removal is one of the things that functioning kidneys do. I call foul on the them saying a ‘side effect’ is nausea…it is not a side effect, it is a certainty.
Don

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15" and still snowing hard, they say it will continue to snow for the next 24 hours. Lost power for most of the night, back on right now.
Don

 
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Wow! Be careful with the weather folks! It is very chilly here in the Philadelphia suburbs, the skies are full cloud cover but nothing coming down. I don't see any snow in our forecast.

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It snowed again today but temps were rising. The temp drops tonight so now we will have ice tomorrow morning. We lost power several times for a few hours.

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...and think of all the free dental work you'll be getting when she graduates! Will SOR members get a "club" discount?

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