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captmike13 | Wed chat 16 April 2014 | ||
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Interesting tid bit this week I learned. The date is the same when it it written backwards or fowrards. 4/16/14. Not much going on. Word of the Day Wednesday, April 16, 2014 picayune\ pik-ee-YOON, pik-uh- \, adjective; 1. of little value or account; small; trifling: a picayune amount. 2. petty, carping, or prejudiced: I didn't want to seem picayune by criticizing. noun: 1. (formerly, in Louisiana, Florida, etc.) a coin equal to half a Spanish real. 2. any small coin, as a five-cent piece. 3. Informal. an insignificant person or thing. Origin: Picayune is rooted in the Provençal word picaioun which meant "small copper coin." It is likely derivative of an onomatopoetic base pikk- which sounds like the process of beating and coining copper. |
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Woke up to it snowing again
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TommyT-Bone | Re: Wed chat 16 April 2014 | ||
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Heard around the bayou. Quit picayune coonass and get to work. |
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TommyT-Bone | Re: Wed chat 16 April 2014 | ||
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I have a job I dread today. Moving stuff. Have to clear a 10x15 storage unit and store it in it's new location. Do any of you have storage units? My sister has a couple and my FIL has more than a few. They store megatons of stuff that should have been sorted, sold or disposed of long ago. Hundreds of dollars out the door every month just to keep it out of sight, out of mind. If people realized they could get all new stuff and more for the money they're paying to store that junk I don't think they'd be so quick to keep it. I told my stepson when he was paying $75 a month for one of those cubes they put on your property that it was a waste of money. I told him he could have bought a brand new shed he would have owned for the money he gave away on a cube rental. Oh well. Have to get my picayune coonass to work. Later, gurus and gurettes. |
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Matatk | Re: Wed chat 16 April 2014 | ||
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Good Morning CGs!
Yeah, Tommy, those storage units tend to collect a lot of crap. I've had them once or twice, but only short term while I was moving and then got the rest of my stuff out. Now I have a basement and garage for all the crap that I should have sorted, sold, or disposed of a long time ago Wifey is at work again today. Yesterday I was a good cinder-fella and cleaned the whole upstairs including 2 bathrooms. Wife said I did such a good job that my reward is I can clean the downstairs today. Am I lucky or what? I don't think that will happen. I will vacuum because I hate seeing crumbs and dirt on the floor, but I also have a workout planned and I would like to get in the garage and work on the rototiller. It's been sitting unused for 5 years and I am sure it needs a carb. I'd like to get it running. Last night I fed my tool addiction and bought a couple things on ebay I've been looking for. One was a snap on double flaring tool and the other was a gearwrench ratcheting stubby flex set. Looking forward to getting those. Hope everyone has a great day! Matthew |
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Matatk | Re: Wed chat 16 April 2014 | ||
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palindrome pal·in·drome [pal-in-drohm] noun 1.a word, line, verse, number, sentence, etc., reading the same backward as forward, as Madam, I'm Adam or Poor Dan is in a droop. Examples: Meet animals; laminate ‘em. Murder for a jar of red rum. Oh, cameras are macho. Did Hannah see bees? Hannah did. Dog doo? Good God! Wonton? Not now. Lay a wallaby baby ball away, Al. |
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Matatk | Re: Wed chat 16 April 2014 | ||
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pianoguy | Re: Wed chat 16 April 2014 | ||
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Rufie ta hpo!
I overslept this morning, so I'm behinder than usual. I was happy to not see any snowflakes this morning, but supposedly there's an 80% chance we'll get some. Ducky. I saw a blurb on this car in AutoWeek - it brought back a childhood memory: http://www.examiner.com/article/ford- ... acar-flying-on-the-ground When I was 4 or 5, a family friend owned the Ford dealership in town. She (yes, she - probably pretty unusual for a woman to be running such a business back in the late 50's) came over to visit and brought along a promotional model of the Levacar, complete with the little tube you'd blow in to make it fly. I remember playing with it on the kitchen table - it was the coolest thing I'd ever seen. Sadly I didn't get to keep it. |
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teebee | Re: Wed chat 16 April 2014 | ||
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Morning guys...We have a storage unit that we stored all the furniture when our daughter moved back in with us. And now that she's back out on her own we still have it because, well, it's full of sh!t. I need to go through there and and thin it out.
Supposed to be semi-springlike the rest of the week. No school Friday, so we are headed to KC for Easter.I think I decided to take the Corvette. |
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Ultraman | Re: Wed chat 16 April 2014 | ||
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Rufie iz big like ta hypo.....
Morning to all you gentle beings.....its cold and cloudy and maybe snow tomorrow.....I need someone to send me a million bucks so I can move to Phoenix please....money transfer or small bills will work....we will even let you come stay with us for nothing..... More work and no play for me today....got to go make hay...so I can pay.....because Obama say.....mmmmm...ran out of words.... I remember back in the day that they all said we would be flying in air cars by now....I am flying in my Corvette but on the ground.....I think I may have the fastest car on the Guru......uh....street car that is.... Gotta go now prepare for the day.....lets be carefull out there Guru's.... |
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Matatk | Re: Wed chat 16 April 2014 | ||
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If I had Marcus money I'd already be living in AZ. If I had Bill money I'd be at the casino, playing with racecars, and making pizzas.
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GRIS | Re: Wed chat 16 April 2014 | ||
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EVERYBODY SHOULD HAVE A BARN FOR EXCESS CORVETTES, CHOP SAWS, ATV'S, DRILL PRESSES, FURNITURE, PAPERWORK FROM PAST JOBS & PAST LIVES, AND A PLACE FOR BARN CATS TO LIVE. |
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GRIS | Re: Wed chat 16 April 2014 | ||
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Matatk wrote: gearwrench ratcheting stubby flex set. /quote] I THOUGHT THEY WERE A PUNK ROCK GROUP. |
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KPotter | Re: Wed chat 16 April 2014 | ||
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Breaking in a new laptop at work today. We are upgrading from Win XP to Win 7. Yep, we live on the bleeding edge of obsolesence here.
It snowed almost all day yesterday. Today looks a little better. Why am I wearing my winter coat in the middle of April ? Oh I remember why, global warming is in full force. Have a great guru day ! |
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"WE'D LIKE TO KNOW A LITTLE BIT ABOUT YOU FOR A WHILE---" http://www.infowars.com/report-fbi-vi ... ing-about-big-government/ NEVER THOUGHT I'D BE LIVING IN A CROSS BETWEEN A POLICE STATE AND A BANANA REPUBLIC. |
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BillH | Re: Wed chat 16 April 2014 | ||
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With the locking flex head? |
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BillH | Re: Wed chat 16 April 2014 | ||
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You only need money.......when you run out of it, like me. Work stops on the 67 today, I was almost done. I have to clean the shop and find the workbench under all the bodywork tools. A guy is dropping off his 1965 Lotus Formula Ford racecar for me to get track ready on Friday. $40 an hour to play with racecars, kinda DNBFS+ . |
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Ultraman | Re: Wed chat 16 April 2014 | ||
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My storage unit is out in the shop and up in the rafters that we put a floor down in and started stuffing things up there....important things like old sleds and trikes that the kids rode...a set of stock wheels for the XTerra we use to own and other stock wheels that I replaced with cool wheels. All kinds of lumber stuff from the constructions on the house over the years....and on and on and on...
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vetteblondie | Re: Wed chat 16 April 2014 | ||
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My storage unit would be considered my attic. It's not near as full of crap as it used to be. I was really stupid and let my ex haul off three truck loads of stuff from there including a lot of things I should have kept including a metal top Craftsmam work bench with peg board and all. Dumb.
Low work flow today so maybe I can get together some web graphics for the boy that's constructing our new work page. He's a tool and irritating me badly. 4/1/6/14 - mamma's been gone 5 years today - don't seem like that long. Lost two more that same week. If hell don't freeze over I'll go to the gym again tonight take my mind off things. |
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BillH | Re: Wed chat 16 April 2014 | ||
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I have Corvette parts under my bed.
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Matatk | Re: Wed chat 16 April 2014 | ||
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Give it to my kids, they can break anything. |
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Matatk | Re: Wed chat 16 April 2014 | ||
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No the stubbies don't lock. |
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Matatk | Re: Wed chat 16 April 2014 | ||
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Matatk | Re: Wed chat 16 April 2014 | ||
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Probably the best obit I've ever read. I wonder if he wrote his own or someone close to him penned it? |
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BillH | Re: Wed chat 16 April 2014 | ||
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Knuckle busters. |
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BillH | Re: Wed chat 16 April 2014 | ||
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Yea, no one to tell me to paint the bedroom. |
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BillH | Re: Wed chat 16 April 2014 | ||
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If you have to have a storage unit....it should be like Julian's:
No reason to hoard two by fours. Attach file: 2014-03-29 13-31-54_0003.JPG (0.00 KB) |
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bastet44 | Re: Wed chat 16 April 2014 | ||
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Good morning, Gurus!
Snow? That's crazy. Today looks to be a little cooler since we're starting with some morning marine layer. The last couple days have been in the high 70s. I've been here, but lurking. Been out and about running errands, ingredient shopping, and gladly finding a new cookie scoop since my other one finally broke. My conference call that was set for this morning has been cancelled, which also means the time I had set aside for afterwards to write up the meeting notes has cleared up - now what to do with my time? =) |
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Ultraman | Re: Wed chat 16 April 2014 | ||
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That is a great obit....very funny....Letty your Mama will be waiting for you when you get there someday...
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BillH | Re: Wed chat 16 April 2014 | ||
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http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/04/140414172240.htm
So, you're all brain dead. Doesn't apply to me since I quit celebrating birthdays at 23. |
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bastet44 | Re: Wed chat 16 April 2014 | ||
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So their research subjects got to sit around and play games all day? Nice!
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bastet44 | Re: Wed chat 16 April 2014 | ||
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Okay, so I just reread the article, and they used performance records, not new subjects. I guess there goes my cognitive ability of reading comprehension. Bummer.
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TommyT-Bone | Re: Wed chat 16 April 2014 | ||
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That's what I was thinking. Way to go! |
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TommyT-Bone | Re: Wed chat 16 April 2014 | ||
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TommyT-Bone | Re: Wed chat 16 April 2014 | ||
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Sue and I have never rented a storage unit of our own. You can never have enough storage space though. If we have it built we will fill it. It goes back to what BillH was referring to. The more you have the more space you need to store it. Of course hoarders have more stuff than they have space. |
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BillH | Re: Wed chat 16 April 2014 | ||
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All I have left is an 8 x 10, filled to the roof, 3 motorcycles, a 125 shifter kart, a weight bench (yea, there was a worthwhile purchase , a BBQ smoker (used way more that the weight bench), more racing slicks that I forgot to take to the dump. I'd like to have a hoard........of C2's |
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See, stopped countin' at 23, now I just , um, |
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BillH | Re: Wed chat 16 April 2014 | ||
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Hummm, just got a "Get Well" card from the hospital,
Signed by some of the nurses in the operating room, If they wouldn't have had me so loaded from the drugs, I might have remembered a few of them. |
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teebee | Re: Wed chat 16 April 2014 | ||
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I read somewhere, that the guy wrote it himself. It was funny.
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BillH | Re: Wed chat 16 April 2014 | ||
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I lost the 24th toe in the war,
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