Random Thoughts - Part Deux [NO POLITICS]

[Ultramaroon]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

Then...
Did you get IT installed?

Duuuuuuhhh...

Originally Posted by JD001

the supplier only had the left side when I ordered but then they "magiced" up the right side as I was about to go to another supplier..

I'm not sweating it. Figure the one underpaid guy took enough flak from the customer who received only the right side.

[humfrz]

Originally Posted by Ultramaroon

Nobody wanted to get stuck behind Pig Pen.

Nor a "honey wagon" back in the old country. Yep, the animal manure was deposited in a farm barnyard and the nutrients were leached out all during the winter and collected in large wells.

Come spring the farmers would transfer the solution and sludge into "honey wagons" and pull them down the road to their fields where the nutrients were spread out as fertilizer.

Now, getting stuck behind one of those wagons on a warm spring day in a un airconditioned car, was a definite smell to remember -

Anyone except @Tcoat experience that?


humfrz

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by humfrz

Nor a "honey wagon" back in the old country. Yep, the animal manure was deposited in a farm barnyard and the nutrients were leached out all during the winter and collected in large wells.

Come spring the farmers would transfer the solution and sludge into "honey wagons" and pull them down the road to their fields where the nutrients were spread out as fertilizer.

Now, getting stuck behind one of those wagons on a warm spring day in a un airconditioned car, was a definite smell to remember -

Anyone except @Tcoat experience that?


humfrz

I still experience that every spring and fall when traveling to the cottage. The only difference is now the spray is controlled by computer.

[Sapphireho]

Got my Idaho license today. Only took 3 hours. Missed 4 on the test. Passed. Now my hair is listed as grey.

[Sapphireho]

Originally Posted by Ultramaroon

They shipped only the left side.

That's where it lifts.

[Clutch Dog]

Originally Posted by humfrz

I know just the place. A very secluded setting out in the desert, away from all lights and air pollution - great for telescoping.

I spent two weeks at a time for two years at this camp site.

It's about 30 miles NE of Barstow, CA.

It's called Fort Irwin.

Just tell the gate guard that Captain humfrz sent you -

I probably know a coupla saps in that hole in the ground.

[humfrz]

Originally Posted by Clutch Dog

I probably know a coupla saps in that hole in the ground.

Poor guys.

When I was there (1971, 1972) that 1,000 square mile hell hole had been deactivated, so there wasn't much going on. The "PX" consisted of this ugly girl selling shaving cream, cigarettes and candy bars out of a tent. Of course, after a couple of weeks, she wasn't so ugly anymore -

I recall one fine August day, the temperature (air temperature - NOT heat index) got up to 112 degrees F. I ordered my troops to sit in the shade of their tracked vehicles and do NOTHING but drink water. It was even too hot for me to crack open my canteen of vodka -


humfrz

[humfrz]

Originally Posted by Sapphireho

Got my Idaho license today. Only took 3 hours. Missed 4 on the test. Passed. Now my hair is listed as grey.

Only 10 questions on the Idaho drivers test - ?? -




humfrz

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by humfrz

Only 10 questions on the Idaho drivers test - ?? -




humfrz

All consisting of:
Which has the right of way
A) An ambulance
B) A police car
C) A potato truck

[Ultramaroon]

Originally Posted by Sapphireho

That's where it lifts.

[humfrz]

Originally Posted by Ultramaroon

The other side just pushes down, Bubba says all you need on the side that pushes down, is a piece of tire tread wired in place -


humfrz

[Ultramaroon]

Originally Posted by humfrz

The other side just pushes down, Bubba says all you need on the side that pushes down, is a piece of tire tread wired in place -

Oh, I've considered it. I've mulled over a few ideas. In the end, stiffer mounts of OEM form factor won the day.


Now if I could only have a pair...

[soundman98]

Let me tell you, 'having a pair' isn't always the greatest

[Ultramaroon]

Good point