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Just Old Al wrote:

Hansontoons wrote: And I chuckle at the fact my musing diverted the discussion from the daily episode to a conversation about an obscure (?) word in the English language.

And this is different from any other day?

Dave hasn't weaponized it yet. That's different.

... and he's kiped the keys to the whole place... ("Kiped"- there's a word I've not heard in a long while. Probably was long time ago in California where I first heard it.) Ditto - can't definitely recall hearing it since the 70s... I heard it among my cohorts as a boy in Northern Greater Appalachi...

Atomic wrote:

lake_wrangler wrote:... which sent the crowd into a fury.

Hawker, Plymouth, or North American? They'd have to avoid the propellers or jet blast, and the car wouldn't have enough seats.

The car had enough seats in Genesis. Word of God.

AnotherFairportfan wrote:In 1975 - 76, i had been working phone support, so i knew that NCR's new PCs for 1976 had been codenamed "Ren" (desktop) and "Stimpy" (tower)...

Ren and Stimpy predated Kricfalusi's 90s cartoons? Hadn't heard that before.

Now I'll be hearing "Happy Happy Joy Joy" in my head all night . . . .

The way I’d test this is to stick Daylla in a faraday cage with plenty of insulating material between her and the cage. If her metallic properties are responsible for her being able to pick up signals from the other universe, then a faraday cage would block that, and her awareness would be returned...

Same here.

Hansontoons wrote:Oh, but one can make you a natty beer drinker, if only in one's mind's eye...

Started wearing fedoras at about 20. Never turned down a Natty, but we drank a lot more Schaefer and Piels in those days.

lake_wrangler wrote:Hats don't make you a cowboy? Darn! And I thought I had it made...

Why would I think a fedora made me a cowboy?

TazManiac wrote:

laughing at the thongs I shouldn't...

My niece about choked when my brother said he bought dollar-store thongs to wear in the campground shower.

Anyhow, I've been observing (too often, probably) that stretch pants were a bad idea in the 60s, and they're a worse idea today.

Yeah, a lot of family members on both sides wind up with cancer, so I'm probably going to wind up turning into a giant tumor when I'm in my 50s or so. Sweet holy Brigid, I've seen that show too many times myself. (Aunt, grandmother, ex's mother, sister, mother, cousin who shared my given name, et a...

jwhouk wrote:Next big fertilizing isn't until Labor Day or so. I plan to water every weekend for 30 minutes, each tree.

If you plan to do that as a Druidic sacrament, you'll have a real reason to look forward to the weekend. I could never hold out that long.

I have read an interesting argument in Chamberlain's defense: That at the time of his policy of appeasement, Britain was in no state to take on Nazi Germany in any case, and it bought time. I don't find this altogether convincing (France had a massive standing army, for one thing), but it's a differ...

Turmeric smells good, and it makes the rice a pretty color. I like it. My dad was taking turmeric capsules and garlic capsules for I'm not sure what. I asked him a couple of times, why not just cook with it? But that would mean cooking rather than eating crap from the dent store. I don't know squat ...

I get that reference. I had that record. :D "Faster, faster, you fool, you fool!" And "I told you that one, so I could tell you this..." I had that record and could do all the routines. :mrgreen: Once my ex--who has a near-encyclopedic knowledge of popular music, all genres, and owned hundreds of a...

A year or two ago, I read somewhere--maybe here, even--that in the European countries where bicycle transportation has been big all along, vehicle, bicycle, and pedestrian traffic are on different levels . Like, there's a curb up from the street to the bike path, and another curb up to the sidewalk....

Catawampus wrote:Don't have enough 8" diskettes stashed away to store that?

*Snerk* Wha'd those things hold, about 1.5 kb?

I remember using more than one of them to set a single table on the photocomp machines.

Two gun shops in two small towns out in the county have been burgled here within the past few months. Seemed to be fairly well planned smash-and-grabs. In the first one, the goods started turning up on the streets in Baltimore. In the most recent, the burglars apparently were teens, and a couple of ...

Very thoughtful exchange here, folks. Too much to comment on point by point, so I'll just make a few observations. Universal compulsory military training is a defensible policy for a democratic republic, in my view. Much as I love Marxist (i.e., Grouchovian) and anarchist (Nobody for President! Ther...

I'm pretty impressed by our level of discussion of a not-so-easy subject and a noticeable lack of threats & general ugliness towards each other. That's why I like this board so much, though I lurk more than post. Intelligent people, very different life situations and political views, but generally ...

My views on firearm ownership are complicated. I grew up in hunting culture, in a Northern Greater Appalachia county with a current population of about 75,000, which is a substantial increase from when I lived there. I did not enjoy hunting myself, and was not good at it, though I was perfectly happ...