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jwhouk wrote:That's because it wasn't a tractor, it was a threshing machine.

It was the original basket Case.

**Ducks and runs--again**

Pure osmium, coated in osmium/steel alloy, coated in titanium or a steel/titanium alloy for structural integrity. Full jacket, with extra-thick structural layer at the tip. Tapered tip. Extra long length of the slug itself. Osmium is the densest metal I could think of, and the extra long slug would...

Two weeks ago, my brother had a cardiac incident while visiting here, and the local hospital pumped him quite full of nitroglycerin before deciding on angioplasty. Afterward, I pointed out that the doctors were confident in their treatment. Otherwise, they'd have used C4. That cheered him up. :mrgre...

It's almost as much fun as "chemical free". Shortly after my ex was hired at the pit where we met, I noticed some product on her desk, prominently labeled "Contains no chemicals." At the time, it was the kind of place where we all passed notes about the copy we were proofreading...

That tractor may look mighty ancient today, but it was a big advance from the first model.

They wove that one out of cane.

Opus the Poet wrote:

Dr. Otter wrote:How long have you folks been out of high school?

40th reunion coming up this August...

45th . . .

Nah. Why would you have rails in a meth lab? well it's OBVIOUSLY for the mine carts that are down there ferrying the various batches of Meth around the lab, from one process station to the next process station... i mean, really. would YOU want to the haul that stuff around by HAND... or have a CART...

Wouldn't hurt to keep your ears open for alternative possibilities, of course. "Wanted: well-seasoned curmudgeon to sit in bar eight hours a day composing dirty limericks so as to provide quaint atmosphere. Pay is $15/hour plus beer and pretzels." Maybe he could use an apprentice, survivi...

TazManiac wrote:Easy answer; Meth Lab in the Basement blew up...

Nah. Why would you have rails in a meth lab?

Gotta be renegade Corbettites.

*ponders the notion of Hayao Miyazaki's "Princess Monocricket's and Atsali's Delivery Service Visits Castela's Moving Castle"* Heh, heh... (trying to shoehorn ' Porco Rosso ' in there somewhere...) ... Air-Warships indeed... Lest we forget Don Karnage and the Air Pirates! The Royal Navy A...

Dave wrote:

GlytchMeister wrote:Very effective defensively, not so great offensively. It's kinda awkward trying to hit someone with your forearm.

Except yourself. Be careful when saluting.

Indeed. Could cause concussive rebarveration.

eee wrote:I am awed that Atsali is apparently flying upside down in the first panel.

Maybe the wings are just for display, and she really flies via a personal antigrav field.

That would explain certain phenomena . . . .

I did that with an eight-foot rattlesnake . . . I looked at it, it looked at me, flicked its tongue a couple of times and I watched it go about its business. How do I know it was eight feet? It was longer than a railroad tie. --FreeFlier My grandfather once told me a story from his youth, when peop...

GlytchMeister wrote:Her last name didn't happen to be Doolittle by any chance?

Eliza was one of those Doolittles?

Huh. So that's how she could understand Shaw!

Insulation. Bat-like wings are massive thermal radiators. In cold weather, without a proper metabolism and abundant fuel, bat-like wings would be a major problem for thermal regulation. Insulation-only feathers on the wings could solve that problem. They can also help soften the sound of flapping. ...

I see. That sounds like a metal end cap the full diameter of the stick. I was imagining a threaded sleeve rather smaller than the diameter of the stick, and a matching threaded stud in the other half.

I think most, if not all, modern farm tractors have a splined power takeoff shaft to run equipment. About the breakdown walking stick, by the way: Would you mount the ferrule assembly in the pieces and then turn down the shaft? Seems to me the pieces would match better that way than by cutting the t...

Dave wrote:

Hansontoons wrote:So here's a Jasper. Looking noble.

Distinctly Peabody-ish to my eye.

She really is beautiful.

I believe that's Heroic Dog Pose 12, taking advantage of the aerodynamic lines of the nose when facing into the wind.

AmriloJim wrote:I'm sure I'm not the only one who used the 5.25" variety.

*Raises hand* Used them with the old CompEdit photocomp machines, which were just about obsolete when I got started on them.

What did those floppies hold, about 1 kb? Sometimes it took 3 of them to set one table.

In my native county of northern Greater Appalachia, the coal mines traditionally provided the greatest number of nonfarm jobs. By the time I was growing up, the ski resorts had taken the lead. Now it's the prisons. My father often remarks that creating jobs for lowerclass white people by locking up ...