#1 - Impressive bowline tying #2 - Savannah river cooling tower implosion. #4 - Quite a smart rat. #7 - Why you don't get within range of monkeys #8,9 - Oops
2) making way for green energy-powered black outs!!! Germany currently (no pun intended) having a tough time because the wind is not blowing so much. Same wind lullabies happened in 2023 and 1973 or so, so it ain’t because of global warming
I think ZH had an article on this yesterday ir maybe AC
I cornered a 'possum on my very large front porch when I was about 20. The only house I have ever owned I bought it at age 19 due to pissing my money away from the job that I would work at from age 18 for the next 35 years. The possum reared up on it's back legs and made the scariest hissing sound I have ever heard from any animal, before or since. I backed off, propped the door open, and went back inside for the rest of the night. He was gone the next morning. Another time I was awakened in the middle of the night by a huge crash. I went down stairs, looked out the front door and saw a car at the stop sign a bit down the road with another car there looking at the damaged first car. Me and my ex wife went back to bed. The next morning we went down and my ex asked me if I had backed my car in the driveway instead of just driving it in like normal. I said no and looked closer and the car from the night before had hit my 1978 Ford Pinto, flipping it completely in a 180. Then it hit my mint condition 1973 Ford Gran Toronto in the back, smashing it and poking a hole in the gas tank. I called our local town cop, A friend of the family, he came and I showed him a couple of pieces of the car that had hit me. He told me to hang on he thought he knew who it was. About an hour later, the guy showed up, telling me that he was the one who hit my car. Turns out that it was my police officer's BIL. I of course knew who the guy was, my living in a town of about 1,000 people. My oldest brother had actually dated his wife for about a year. The guy was a bum who didn't deserve to have a great wife like he did. Feeling sorry for her, I didn't ask for him to get involved with the court system, so I settled for his insurance company paying for my Pinto and him giving me a new gas tank and the other parts for my Toronto and fixed it myself. The guy later was arrested for giving booze to a minor who then crashed his car while drunk, killing himself. The guy who hit my cars got about a year in jail, got out, and within a year and a half crashed his own car while drunk, killing himself. Lots of drama in such a small town, in the 70's. I hear it is now a meth capital of West Michigan, with even more life and death drama. It seems that you can't go far enough away to get away from the problems of the world.
i was 17, mohave desert raised, before i had ever seen one. i was told that they would sull up and "play possum" when they were whacked with a stick. no no no!!! in all of the encylopedia books, the pictures never showed one with their mouth open. i was shocked. that was when i learned the value of a good .22 rifle.
#1 - Learned that in Sea Scouts. We called it a running bowline. Though it's not really a one in the true sense, it can serve similar purposes. Oh, and the weight on the end of the line is cheating!
I like possums. They come up on my patio every night, looking for the food scraps I leave out. When I first moved here, along with the squirrels and birds, I had tree rats. I you live around ivy, they are pretty much a given. After the possums started showing up, they disappeared. So ever since then I leave my food scraps out. Occasionally I get a small skunk or racoon. They are all very well behaved. We got a "you don't fuck with me, I won't fuck with you" thing going. I love critters.
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#1 - Impressive bowline tying
ReplyDelete#2 - Savannah river cooling tower implosion.
#4 - Quite a smart rat.
#7 - Why you don't get within range of monkeys
#8,9 - Oops
What good is a bowline if it’s not tied around something?
DeleteCommonly called a "Tugboat Bowline." Make it large enough to slip over a piling of small enough to loop and twist on a cleat.
Delete# 1. Quick and easy bow line
ReplyDelete# 3. Hey I need a hug
# 7. Never ever get close to wild monkeys
# 8. Nice legs
# 10. I hate opossums
JD
#8: but consider what they're attached to
Delete#8: I doubt their total age exceeds 30, and their total age in maturity exceeds 11.
Delete#7 One should stay out of SE Dallas.
ReplyDeleteAnd North Tulsa
Delete#7 ..what are you doing step-bros?
ReplyDelete#8 ... The shorter the shorts, the more totally clueless. Change my mind.
ReplyDelete#10 - Customer complains engine makes angry hissing noise.
ReplyDelete10) Customer states screaming noise coming from engine compartment
ReplyDelete2) making way for green energy-powered black outs!!! Germany currently (no pun intended) having a tough time because the wind is not blowing so much. Same wind lullabies happened in 2023 and 1973 or so, so it ain’t because of global warming
ReplyDeleteI think ZH had an article on this yesterday ir maybe AC
#1 He must be so proud of himself...
ReplyDelete#10 That's a screaming K&N air filter...
ReplyDeleteI cornered a 'possum on my very large front porch when I was about 20. The only house I have ever owned I bought it at age 19 due to pissing my money away from the job that I would work at from age 18 for the next 35 years.
ReplyDeleteThe possum reared up on it's back legs and made the scariest hissing sound I have ever heard from any animal, before or since.
I backed off, propped the door open, and went back inside for the rest of the night. He was gone the next morning.
Another time I was awakened in the middle of the night by a huge crash. I went down stairs, looked out the front door and saw a car at the stop sign a bit down the road with another car there looking at the damaged first car. Me and my ex wife went back to bed.
The next morning we went down and my ex asked me if I had backed my car in the driveway instead of just driving it in like normal. I said no and looked closer and the car from the night before had hit my 1978 Ford Pinto, flipping it completely in a 180. Then it hit my mint condition 1973 Ford Gran Toronto in the back, smashing it and poking a hole in the gas tank.
I called our local town cop, A friend of the family, he came and I showed him a couple of pieces of the car that had hit me. He told me to hang on he thought he knew who it was.
About an hour later, the guy showed up, telling me that he was the one who hit my car.
Turns out that it was my police officer's BIL.
I of course knew who the guy was, my living in a town of about 1,000 people. My oldest brother had actually dated his wife for about a year. The guy was a bum who didn't deserve to have a great wife like he did.
Feeling sorry for her, I didn't ask for him to get involved with the court system, so I settled for his insurance company paying for my Pinto and him giving me a new gas tank and the other parts for my Toronto and fixed it myself. The guy later was arrested for giving booze to a minor who then crashed his car while drunk, killing himself.
The guy who hit my cars got about a year in jail, got out, and within a year and a half crashed his own car while drunk, killing himself.
Lots of drama in such a small town, in the 70's. I hear it is now a meth capital of West Michigan, with even more life and death drama. It seems that you can't go far enough away to get away from the problems of the world.
i was 17, mohave desert raised, before i had ever seen one. i was told that they would sull up and "play possum" when they were whacked with a stick. no no no!!!
Deletein all of the encylopedia books, the pictures never showed one with their mouth open.
i was shocked. that was when i learned the value of a good .22 rifle.
#1 - let's see him do that with fishing line. And, my extension cords do that by themselves.
ReplyDelete- jed
#1 - Learned that in Sea Scouts. We called it a running bowline. Though it's not really a one in the true sense, it can serve similar purposes. Oh, and the weight on the end of the line is cheating!
ReplyDelete"Man is the tool-making animal."
ReplyDelete#10: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
ReplyDelete#3 all animals will return love and kindness when given.
ReplyDeleteYou've never met my cat.
DeleteCats are evil demon spawn
DeleteLOL! Tell that to Timothy Treadwell.
Delete#1 not impressed. I can pull clothes out of the washer with that knot.
ReplyDeleteAnd usually wrapped up in the fitted sheet.
DeleteI like possums. They come up on my patio every night, looking for the food scraps I leave out. When I first moved here, along with the squirrels and birds, I had tree rats. I you live around ivy, they are pretty much a given. After the possums started showing up, they disappeared. So ever since then I leave my food scraps out. Occasionally I get a small skunk or racoon. They are all very well behaved. We got a "you don't fuck with me, I won't fuck with you" thing going. I love critters.
ReplyDelete#3-Shoebill Stork; never seen a wild bird ask for affection like that. Cool, thanks
ReplyDeleteShoebill, that's a new one on me. Really cool bird.
Delete#1 the bowline is one of the first things a young deck ape must master. BMCS
ReplyDelete#3: proof that birds descended from dinosaurs. his great grandaddy was a pterodactyl
ReplyDelete#3 for the win
ReplyDelete