The ultimate thread! (possible NSFW) (#30)

[rachel1027]

Perusing the channel guide a few minutes ago, I stumbled on this gem:

Today on Jerry Springer- Lesbians, a wedding and a Tranny!













Almost sounds entertaining enough to tune in just to see what mess he found. You notice I say almost.

[dieseldog]

Originally Posted by Mickldo

Is it a plastic tank?

Have you heard of the boiling water/compressed air trick?

Oooooo. So you mean I could actually grow my plastic Clarke tank from 3.8 gallons up to something greater?

[rachel1027]

Originally Posted by srplus

I remember a story about one guy who was so big they could not get him down the stairs in his apartment building after he died in his apartment. They hired a crane and took out one of the windows and lowered him down for transport. IIRC he was so huge that he would not fit into a casket and they buried him in a piano crate... that might be a myth but I am pretty sure about the crane thing.

I don't think that is a myth though I don't know where it happened.

Those of you that know who Israel Kamakawiwole is knows how big he was. He could not ride in the regular ambulance let alone any of the stretchers that most of us use. I am sure it took a whole fire company to help move him into the rig. I know the hospital had to weigh him on the freight scale rather than the people scale.

[semlin]

i had my first starbucks in a long time during the trip.

it burned through my colon in no time and caused an unscheduled pit stop putting us 10 minutes off schedule

[dieseldog]

Originally Posted by Jman

Holy Mother of BFE!

[dieseldog]

BTW--I now has both bikes in the same place at the same time. And the dirtehDD gots new shoes on it--they ride pretty well.

[semlin]

nice boat ramp there.

[stinkyfj60]

What?

[dieseldog]

Originally Posted by semlin

ahh. i figured miles and miles of prairie... any fish in the river?

I'm sorry, but you have Iowa confused with Kansas or Nebraska. The eastern 1/3 of Iowa is VERY hilly and undulating. There are even a couple ski areas (albeit small ones) in the vicinity of my home town (Dubuque).

[dieseldog]

Originally Posted by semlin

nice boat ramp there.

Maybe. You go first . . .

[yooper]

Originally Posted by semlin

gud morning tut

maybe apple is a victim of its own success. if the guy in the tv store was telling the truth, only a very few factories manufacture lcd screens with samsung being the biggest. the screens of a given design are graded on response/performance after assembly and tiered. apple traditionally bought the very best testing screens.

of course, the more you sell the less very best screens you can get and the more design compromises need to be made to ensure uniformity.

like starbucks

Apple designed and built the Samsung LCD factory and gave it to Samsung. What they got in return was the right to run their own quality control program in the factory and pick out the best 10% of the displays for themselves.

This was about five years ago.

Something has changed.

[dieseldog]

Originally Posted by WristPin

It's HEC and a skeery Chucky moment!

[yooper]

Originally Posted by Mars

Ok...the notched 2x6 is bolted through the 2x10 fascia board. The fascia board is attached to every roof joist on the opposite side shown with 10 screws in a saddle hurricane tie. On every joist. I'll have to get a pic for approval...believe me its bomber. Then through bolted 3 times, plus I have 3" decking screws coming through in between the hurricane ties, and between all the slots in the 2x6. The roofing overhang can't be more than 18".

The boards running from the house are 2x8 redwood, and are screwed twice with 3-1/2" decking screws into the fascia and ledger at the notches. Screws aren't visible from below.




If I have to in the future, it would be easy to put 2 more posts by the house, and a new beam to remove the roof attachment, but I don't think I'm going to need to. The span from the house to the posts is about 9', and post to post is about 14' for scale. The lowest point of the big beams are 7-8", and the main boards from the house will sit at 8'-2" or so.

{running for cover}

Those pics are blocked for me at wr0k. I have emailed myself a link to the post and will comment later...

[dieseldog]

Originally Posted by Mickldo

I always used to change my own tyres so I could stay on top of the skills needed to fix flats out on the trail.

Only takes 5mins or so once you know how.

True enough. But in this case, the tires were at the dealer to be picked up and I had to go there to pick up my ST1100 anyway, so I combined trips. I'm going to get a second set of wheels and then remount the off-road knobbies. Then I'll get the practice.

[Mars]

Originally Posted by yooper

Those pics are blocked for me at wr0k. I have emailed myself a link to the post and will comment later...

Oh fawk.

[dieseldog]

Originally Posted by DSRTRDR

speaking of trailers:

I have a trailer for the sailboat - said trailer is registered in NE and the registration is just up for renewal

trailer sits in the garage now, with the sailboat on it - the trailer was only used to move the sailboat from the seller to the house (and was stored in the yard for all these years) - there is no reason for me to pull it to another body of water

shall I even renew the trailer registration? or just let it lapse and drive illegally out of NE when the house has sold and we are vacating



cost is the typical annoying $12.85 or so

Claudia, there is no need to register any vehicles or trailers that are not going to be taken upon public roadways. Just leave it where it is and you'll be fine. When you need it again, go to where ever you need to in order to re-register it and then register it for the current year--you won't have to bring it up to date for all the time you missed. They might ask, but you can say it has not been used and now I just want a registration for the current year, thank you very much.

[yooper]

Looks like the beginnings of a '50s monster movie. The Creature from the BFE Stinkhole!

[dieseldog]

Originally Posted by InsanityIsBorn

Any new news on the sinkhole in da*setta?

It's getting almost as big as Junk's Momma's hole . . .

[grrlscout89FJ62]

Meh. I gotta call my doc and give her an update.

[Jman]

Originally Posted by srplus

It might have been a cousin or something. Actually, I think I saw something on the tube and they even showed the crane lowering the corpse to the ground.

Robert Earl Hughes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[yooper]

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