Cool, clear, and dry. That would be great. Yesterday was like that and it was glorious. Of course, if you were in the sun, and the breeze wasn’t blowing, it was still pretty hot. I’ve got stuff to do in the yard, and I need some clear weather to do it.
Did my pickups and even a small drop off yesterday. Got a load of patio furniture for the BOL in the back of my truck, for now. I’ve got to off load it so I can use my truck this week. Auctioneer said I could bring a couple of bigger things, along with the flip top bins and black bins, so I need the truck.
Met with my non-prepping hobby friends too. Another small meeting. Of course the day was beautiful, and the eclipse might have kept some people at home. The eclipse was pretty cool. It didn’t get as dark as I expected, but the quality of the light changed dramatically. Spent some time in the street chatting with a couple of the neighbors while we watched. Nice to connect with them.
I missed having the city pick up my tree debris apparently. That was one of the things I learned from the neighbors. City came by, but my pickup was too close to the pile for their comfort. Dang. Now I’ll probably have the pile sitting there on Halloween. Do not want.
Speaking of, I really would like to get the first layer of decor out today. Not the new special yearly display, but the old favs, gravestones, busts on busted columns, skulls and bones… maybe some lighted inflatables…
Wife should be back from her trip later today. I always feel better when the pack is all together. This is an especially worrisome time though, so I am anxious for her return.
I’m still stacking. Part of what I picked up was several shelves of stuff from a garage cabinet. One way to get stuff cheap, buy a box of fluids at a garage or estate sale. It’s mostly car care, plumbing supplies, and garden chemicals. Pennies on the dollar.
Money is tight and getting tighter. Every penny needs to count, especially if you are getting a late start prepping and you still need a bunch of stuff. You can do it, and you should.
Keep stacking my friends,
nick
5-oz cups, I believe. And “calibrated” is possibly not quite the right word. The markings on many carafes are equally spaced even if the carafe is tapered, or the whole series is off so the “4” marking is 18 oz and the “8” marking is 38 oz. In practice it doesn’t usually matter but that kind of sloppiness annoys me.
I’m trying and failing to remember the last time I drank anything alcoholic. Probably two or three ounces of beer within the past year, when I used some of my homebrew in cooking and poured myself a little as long as the bottle was out. (I usually bottle beer in 2L soda bottles and use as needed. It goes flat but I don’t think it’s ever gone bad. This size bottle of beer is also a welcome gift.) (A couple decades ago I made a batch of soda: bottle of syrup, a couple pounds of sugar, water, and yeast for carbonation. I put in grossly too much yeast, not knowing any better, and it happily went to town on the sugar, resulting in rocket fuel. Once I realized what was going on – ie, once I realized why drinking a glass of root beer got me quite tipsy – I gave the rest to an alcoholic musician friend (redundancy alert) and the entire band very much enjoyed the soda bottle of mixed drink. They reportedly ended up passed out halfway through a rehearsal. “Hey, you got any more of that?” For future reference, soda bottles of this stuff also make a very welcome gift.)
I had a splash of scotch sometime within the past two years, maybe a third or half a shot. It was Johnny Walker Red, decent stuff, and I used to like scotch, but it had been years since I’d drunk anything distilled so it didn’t taste good.
I’m not exactly a teetotaler but in practice I almost might as well be.
“Caddyshack” was a train wreck of a movie before the studio stepped in and brought in John Dykstra to expand the Murray vs. gopher storyline as well as some old school editing hands whose names don’t appear in the credits.
Back then, the studio execs weren’t running non-profit institutions advancing an agenda. Hollywood still ran on hookers and blow, but someone had to pay for the party.
“Caddyshack: The Making Of A Hollywood Cinderella Story” covers the gory details if you’re really interested. The book goes way beyond just covering the almost disaster and is a really cool, detailed look at the comedy scene of the 70s behind the film, centered on the Saturday Night Live, Harvard Lampoon, and Second City talent.
“Meatballs” is a must if you want to show the kids the genius of Bill Murray in its rawest form. The “Jerry Aldini” scene is breathaking improvisational genius which has not aged a day beyond the “Henry Kissinger” reference. And, to be fair, Kissinger is still alive and screwing up US foreign policy.
“Foul Play” is, IMHO, the best Chevy Chase film, made before he became “Chevy Chase”. I think it is even PG as originally cut since I watched it endlessly on HBO in the 80s in the afternoon.
Ah, the early 80s comedies. Back when the secret shame of the Disney corporation was “Midnight Madness”, also an HBO afternoon staple.
Minnesota woman who protested Israel’s military incursions into Gaza is killed alongside her husband in their kibbutz moments after texting her daughter to say Hamas terrorists ‘managed to break into the safe room’
– schadenfreude
n
If you can’t be a good example then you will have to be a terrible warning.
Safe rooms are not safe. They will give you minutes more to arm yourself and fight back.
My son saw many houses in Iraq burned down to get to the safe rooms. Even with three foot wide walls, the houses burned easily when you poured gasoline aeound the safe rooms and lit it.
Israel is now arming the Jewish populace. Not the muslim populace.
It is 53 F here on the west side of the Brazos River. Cold. I did a visual sweep of the ¾ acre backyard before I let the varmints out this morning. They thought it was cold too. I forecast that the Siamese will grow two inches of fur this week.
Meanwhile, in modern day Burbank …
https://disneyparks.disney.go.com/blog/2023/10/first-look-at-new-mural-coming-to-tianas-bayou-adventure/
BTW, the Israeli army is about half Russian from the “Jewish” escape of 12 million Jews from Russia in the 1990s. About 80% went to USA, 20% went to Israel. They tend to be merciless.
I had a friend raising money for the escapees. Russia let you go if you had a Jewish mother in the last six generations. Lots of ancestry records were manipulated. He was the accountant of the project, they raised many tens of millions of dollars.
“Look, kids, a log flume ride themed around an abandoned salt mine, ripping off the history of Tobasco sauce. Isn’t that exciting?!? And ‘woke’!”
“Can we go ride Super Mario Kart now?”
At least the new owners of the parks will be able to retheme easily. It isn’t like The Mouse has put a lot of thought … or money … into the attraction.
Of course, the big risk with “Foul Play” is exposing the kids to Manilow. As I’ve pointed out before, even his commercial jingles show up depending on the edit you get.
I just realized that farting in a pew just before getting up has the same effect as farting in a chair at a furniture store. Maybe a little more hilarious as the affected individual that just sat down looks around at others. Life is good again.
Same here. In my younger days, we all drank beer after work and at parties. Sometimes someone had a bottle of something distilled, but it wasn’t the norm. I never really had much desire in a non-social setting. In later years, drinking ended up being a glass of wine a few times a year. Since my son was diagnosed T1D (3 years now), I haven’t had any, though honestly it had likely been a couple years before that, as well. I still have the bottle of wine we bought in the covid lockdown shopping trip. I have no idea why I bought it.
I don’t drink coffee in spite of being in the USAF. Where there was a pot in every office and the huge pot, permanently plumbed, in the mess hall. I was told I would participate in the coffee fund at the office. I firmly said I would not as I did not consume coffee and was not paying for others. One NCO had a bottle of some type of booze that he added to each cup of coffee.
I also don’t smoke. Tried in the USAF as the room I shared with three others that all smoked, a lot. I thought I would try and fit in. A person also got more breaks on details if they smoked. It only lasted two weeks and I gave it up. A good decision.
I don’t drink alcohol except on rare occasions. On the trip to Europe I had wine with the evening meal, but generally only one glass, two at the most. Wine in Europe has more flavor than wine in the U.S. in my untrained taste buds opinion.
I have been drunk twice in my life. Once at a retirement party at the NCO club, my first drinking adventure. I got badly wasted as I had little knowledge of what I was doing.
The second, and last time, was in the Philippines. Me and another chap got wasted in Angeles City. We walked home on a road that was ill advised to travel in daylight, let alone night. We passed hookers raising their skirts offering their wares for $5.00. I think what looked like hair was probably flies.
I also got a snack from a street vendor. Looked like chicken. Nope. It was dog. I lost my guts over that.
The next thing I remember was the cleaning lady hitting me with a broom to get me to move away from the toilet so she could clean. I was covered in vomit and one shoe was missing. That sealed it for me, no more drinking.
Coulda been worse. You could have gotten married while drunk. I knew someone who did that. The legality was questionable even aside from the state of his bloodstream, liver, and brain, and a few days later he was no longer married. I don’t recall, if I ever knew, if it was annulled or if his first sergeant looked into it and found that a marriage conducted by a bartender in a whorehouse was not, in fact, legal and binding.
Several times in Korea I’d go into the town at night in uniform and help get drunken soldiers under control, usually but not always troops from my battalion. Sometimes I’d deescalate by buying a drunk soldier a soda and a bag of fried dumplings and walking him back to the shuttle bus (and if needed accompanying him and his friends back to the BN area where I could hand them off to the sergeant on duty), sometimes I’d just put a hand on his shoulder and talk for a minute and get him calmed down. The MPs seldom if ever appreciated me doing this, when two minutes before a drunken soldier was ready to take on all four of them and half the time had a number of other soldiers ready to back him up. I don’t know if the MPs had a quota system going or if half of them were just bullies looking for an excuse to smack people with their nightsticks. One time I was threatened with arrest myself for interfering. As may be, I had a 100% success rate for resolving incipient brawls nonviolently, significantly better than the MPs’ success rate.
I wonder how long the WV alumni will tolerate the current coach continuing to just keep the seat warm for Jimbo.
https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/watch-houston-stuns-west-virginia-on-hail-mary-right-after-mountaineers-score-insane-fourth-down-td/
Cue The Hoff.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9gb30mGe4k
@JimB
I have a ½” impact flex joint. With the advent of battery impact drivers they may be making smaller ones–I haven’t checked.
I bought a nice set of sockets with built-in universal joints and have seldom found them useful. If a bit of angle is needed I generally use a short extension and seat it in the socket just up to the ball-bearing detent. Works in most cases and saves a trip to the toolbox with the above-mentioned set. The wobble extensions seem to get the most use in longer reach situations, either the 12-in by itself or fitting them together to get an even longer reach.
@SteveF
Correct in the case of my Mr. Coffee. It’s a 60-oz 12-cup carafe, but I generally brew 10 cups, putting a couple extra ounces of water in to wet the grounds so I get 10 cup yield.
putting a couple extra ounces of water in to wet the grounds
– or an amount adjusted to scale for the desired output. Great minds think alike… if I want 16oz of coffee, I want 16oz.
Sunny and cool. Time for my own coffee. I was unable to sleep until very late last night. Don’t know why. Used the time to rip CDs.
I bought a ring binder full of discs for $5 and have ripped about 30-40 so far. Lots of good stuff I didn’t already own. Took the [slight] risk because I could see two albums I already own and really like, that aren’t mainstream at all. Figured our tastes were aligned. I was kinda right. Still, I’m building the music library so even if I don’t personally want 9 Springsteen discs, someone in the family might. I rip them all…
n
It’s 66F and windy.
Wife had an early flight, which was delayed, then moved back up. Still not home, and will undoubtedly be grumpy when she gets here…
n
“I rip them all…”
Movie title there.
I picked up some Lou Reed and Velvet Underground recently. Played a VU disc followed by half a Lou Reed, which got ejected and tossed on the floor as I reached my limit. There’s a VU tune that had a phrase “pretentious bullshit” –that’s Lou in a nutshell over his entire career. VU four albums didn’t sell, but they had a constant odor of sleaziness reinforced by Andy Warhol as the titled producer, and the critics claimed to hear their influence everywhere and deemed them to be “significant”.
Honestly, out of everything the band and it’s members ever did, I’ll probably play John Cale’s “Fear” once in a while and clear the rest from the shelves.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/watch-tensions-mount-london-streets-flooded-pro-palestinian-protesters
That’s a lot of protesters. Wonder how the Mayor of London feels? Has he made any statements?
n
napalm
This is our President:
Joe Biden says America has the ‘capacity and responsibility’ to support Ukraine AND Israel and calls for U.S. to ‘not lose sight’ of Palestinian suffering
We’ll pay for Ukraine…
We’ll pay for Israel…
We’ll pay for student loan forgiveness…
We’ll pay save the planet from climate change…
I’ll do it by taxing the rich…that’s everybody that makes over $25,000/yr.
plugsy McSpongeBrain The Last is a complete idiot.
RFI: Men’s belt (daily wear non-office) recommendation?
My ancient Bianchi’s (late 80’s, mid 90’s) are getting pretty rough and need replacing. I tried department store junk, tired of them disintegrating in a year or two.
The Bianchi are now made in Mexico it seems? Are they any good these days?
p.s. And a good store? I wouldn’t trust Amazon for non counterfeit.
Honda has a tv commercial for their Accord and CR-V.
“No Batteries, No Charging”
Offering 3.9% interest rates.
If the belts tighten enough some people will start doing the math and come to the conclusion that a smaller, more fuel efficient vehicle might make sense for the 50, 60 or 80% of the time that they are running a 5,000 lb pickup with an empty bed that is going to cost twice as much to replace when the time comes. If they can replace it at all.
Ford F-150 ICE owners might start to realize that the $50,000 subsidy for each F-150 EV is coming out of their pockets as obscenely higher prices, and decide that sticking a thumb in Ford’s eye with a new Accord could be very satisfying. Ford has also left the Crown Victoria and Taurus owners with no place to go when their vehicles age out and if Honda mounts an advertising case it could have a big effect.
I’m probably no help, here, but I went cheap on belts last time. I don’t care about counterfeit since I went into it knowing I’m looking for utility, not brand name.
WYuZe 2 Pack Nylon Belts
I cut them down to size with scissors, and carefully flamed the edges to prevent fraying.
No metal at all, and infinitely adjustable.
Daily wear for 5 years. Adequate for my IWB holsters, but not very stiff. If I needed support for a belt holster, I’d probably choose something stiffer. Like something similar to this. I also own that, but haven’t really worn it much.
From SRW in the Fort Bend Journal:
“Per Fulshear PD: Due to a nationwide staffing shortage, any kid dressed like a cop on Halloween night will be required to pick up at least one shift”.
@EdH
I have two dress belts from Structure that are 25+ years old and in good condition. Structure is long gone, so no help there.
I have a belt from Coach of the same vintage marked “made in Costa Rica”–don’t know if their current product is comparable. At $175 and up, seems a bit pricey.
I’d be inclined to look for a leather belt made by a maker of leather boots. When I search, Timberland came up. $20-40 range.
Amazon is still a good place to research. “Men’s leather belt” sorted by rating yields
BullhideBelts.com The Eastwood Mens Leather Belt for Casual, Dress, 1.75″ Wide at $79.99 4.9 stars
No mystery where to shop for their products, and it looks like the mother load, including their Steel Core line for concealed carry, starting at $84.99
Ford has a new generation Mondeo (Fusion) which they produce in China that could easily be built in the Mexico facility currently turning out Mavericks on the same platform.
And I’ve posted before about pictures I have of what looks like a Crown Vic prototype rolling around the streets of Chicago in March 2019. I assume the vehicle used the same platform as the new rear wheel drive Explorer, produced in the factory there, which derived from the last gen Taurus in previous generations.
Ford has two problems with regard to resuming production of cars: (1) Consumer demand beyond police departments and (2) looming CAFE of 58 MPG.
(2) is the deal killer regardless of (1).
I wear this when traveling and when I’m going out at home without my spare mag. It will support an IWB holster, but it’s not “stiff”.
https://www.duluthtrading.com/s/DTC/mens-buckle-less-belt-61024.html?color=BRN
This is as close as Duluth has to what I wear every day, and bought from them 15 years ago.
https://www.duluthtrading.com/s/DTC/mens-akhg-bailout-belt-80315.html?color=BLK
The low ratings emphasize the positive aspects of the belt. It’s stiff. It’s adjustable. It is MEANT as a gunbelt, at least by design, as hinted by the “carry whatever you need” statement in the ad copy.
The version I have was made in USA, and sold as an actual ‘riggers’ belt, this is an import and may just be in the ‘style’ of the original.
Several of the “tactical” brands make “riggers” or “trainer’s” belts in the style.
n
@Greg
(2) is more likely a Democrat killer
Hah, some googlefu and my belt was made by
https://bisondesigns.com/catalog/technical
They don’t show it as current production.
I thought I bought it from Duluth, but maybe it was REI, since they are listed as a retailer for the Bison products.
It LOOKS like this one from another maker…
https://www.tacshield.com/product-page/1-75-tactical-riggers-belt
The velcro on my barely holds anymore, so one of these days I’ll replace the velcro.
n
The agenda is not saving the planet. It is about getting ~ 95% of the population out of cars within the current 20 year fleet turnover which started after the pandemic kabuki ran its course.
The Elite don’t like you driving, creating traffic and mucking about in places they’d like to visit without teeming masses spoiling the natural splendor … or forming long lines at Starbucks.
And it isn’t just Dems. I listened to Glenn Beck kvetch for an hour last September after his less-than-satisfactory trip to Yellowstone dealing with crowds.
For basic wear, I do like the Grip6 stuff made in Utah: https://grip6.com/collections/all-belts
I have their carbon fiber buckle, and I wear that when having to travel by air – one less thing to remove.
For leather belts, I go with Schaefer (https://schaeferoutfitter.com/collections/belts), Allen Edmonds(https://www.allenedmonds.com/accessories/belts?icid=TopNav_Accessories_Belts), or Rockmount (https://rockmount.com/collections/belts). With Schaefer and Rockmount, it is worth checking to see where they are made. It used to be all USA, but that has changed recently.
All of them support my Level 3 holsters (OWB) and other implements without trouble.
Request of anyone who watches TV or sees other video advertisements: Have the US military branches recently started running ads featuring White men?
Even I am aware that recruiting ads for years have overwhelmingly shown women and non-Whites doing PT, crouching in battle rattle, pointing at a computer screen, or standing proud in their dress uniforms. Then just today someone claimed that recent commercials were showing mostly White men doing war things. He takes this as evidence that the US will be rolling troops to war soon.
re belts, my only advice is to always wear them with suspenders.
P.S. Watching a lot of YT videos on how the American diet evolved into a plant-based, processed diet. Who knew 7th Day Adventists, Kellogs, Grahams, Ancel Keys, and masturbation is behind it all. Yeah, masturbation.
Scene: the Confessional
Parishioner: 14 year old boy
Parishioner: “Forgive me Father, I have sinned by pleasuring myself.”
Priest: “You must stop doing that or you will go blind.”
Parishioner: “Can I just wait to stop until I need glasses?”
I’ll close the door on my way out…
Lots of Soy Boys are going to need some kind of real employment now that student loan payments have resumed.
Locally, the ongoing Fort Hood mess continues to make headlines with the most horrific case originating in the Austin Latin community.
Do you mean Fort Cavazos? C’mon, man! Get with the PLT LatinX agenda! Thanks to plugsy McSpongeBrain The Last, our imbecile President, for that. You can’t have anything nice under plugs. Or is that anything at all?
Have I mentioned how glad I am to be retired from the military?
>> My neighborhood is very quiet. I have space for a gun 100 yard range with a nice 50 foot high earth back stop, but I’ll need to buy silencers. I didn’t realize that silencers were so expensive; the lowest price I’ve found it almost $400 each, some are $1200. The paperwork to get one would dauting. Apparently it costs $200 for each silencer and I should form a trust to pass them to my heirs or they will be forfeited. There is an eForm to do this but it requires the serial number so I have to buy it and them apply for the license before it can be shipped. There is no way to see if I like the fit on my gub. None of the above should be consider absolutely correct as the rules are difficult to read. Much worse the any IRS guidance.
@Bob, a few more thoughts…
Do you have a local gub store where you can consolidate the purchase and the paperwork? Might cost a bit more, but always nice to support the locals when you can.
Not sure how current these figures are, but last I heard, for the eform route from purchase to ‘in-hand’ was 4 to 6 months and the paper form route was 6 to 9 months.
Presume you have checked all relevant town/city/county/state statutes as to have an outdoor range on your property?
Have you considered any potential impacts to your HO/umbrella policies?
>> @Ray, presuming the other driver was at fault, did you file a Diminished Value Claim against their insurance company?
His insurance said I was 15% at fault even though he pulled out in front of me. It took a month to get his lowlife insurance company to respond. I had to file under uninsured motorist. My insurance company had to deal with his insurance company. I was informed by my insurance agent that insurance companies do not pay diminished value.
The travelers adjuster took off money for tire wear, seat wear, steering wheel wear. Nickel and dimed everything. Told me if I did not like it I was welcome to take Traveler’s to court. Then the adjuster informed me that Traveler’s would win and file against me for legal fees. Whether he was blowing smoke I don’t know.
Traveler’s insurance company, or their adjusters, are scum.
In this circumstance one should consider engaging a Diminished Value Claim adjuster to intercede on your behalf. Typically they will take a percentage of any additional monies they recover. GIYF to find one in your area.
“I was informed by my insurance agent that insurance companies do not pay diminished value.” They can when you know how to ask (not nicely.) In any case, their verbal assurance is only worth the paper it’s printed on.
Wasn’t clear if Travelers is your company or his, but ‘abusive’ responses from either side are best responded to via a letter to your state insurance commissioner (by name). cc’ed to the presidents of the insurance companies.
If at the end you’re not made whole, take the other driver to small claims court. If your out-of-pocket exceed the maximum allowable claim then file for the maximum. If he retians an attorney, your insurance company is likely to send one as well. IIRC, in your state, each side is responsible for their own attorney costs in small claims court, regardless of the outcome.
If it’s your first time in small claims court, go before your court date and sit in the back of the courtroom and observe the process for a few hours, it will be time well spent, especially if the other party p!sses off the judge and you don’t.
Once you win, we can discuss collecting judgements 🙂
>> Still got your adding machine out? Traveler’s paid us almost $5800 when it was all done. They doubled the premium the next year. For one claim ever.
@Paul, P&C insurance companies are loathe to pay out on claims. Their actuaries (or soon maybe their AI replacements) can make all the predictions with uncanny accuracy. Just be happy they didn’t flat-out not renew you. Note that the details of your claim is available to all other insurers via the CLUE database. You can get a copy of your report from their website. (And while you’re at it, request a copy of your LexisNexis report from their site. And if you’re feeling adventurous, go after a copy of your FBI file. If you don’t have one, you will now. LOL)
>> As may be, I had a 100% success rate for resolving incipient brawls nonviolently, significantly better than the MPs’ success rate.
“…nonviolently…”
Where’s our SteveF and what have you done with him?!
>> Request of anyone who watches TV or sees other video advertisements: Have the US military branches recently started running ads featuring White men?
Sorry, that’s what the FF button is for…
>> Ford has two problems with regard to resuming production of cars: (1) Consumer demand beyond police departments and (2) looming CAFE of 58 MPG.
Marked RMP’s here are aging Vic sedans and newer Explorers. Btw, the light bar on the Explorer is really low profile and looks like the front of a roofrack from a distance in the rearview mirror. Dang them.
Was watching RedZone earlier and got confused when they switched to the Tampa Bay game and the Bucs were wearing their orange jerseys and white pants. Looked like Dolphins throwback day.
Bucs lost to the Lions.
Jets pulled off a stunning upset over the undefeated Eagles.
Pats lost to Raider Nation and Belichick was seen slamming his Surface tablet down to the ground.
Thanks everyone for your comments on belts, very helpful, some I had never heard of, though OC in SoCal is not going to happen .
The Panther platform (Crown Vic, Lincoln Town Car, and Mercury Grand Marquis) could be maintained by complete idiots just changing the oil/filter and still deliver 400,000 miles of service before anything major broke.
The cops initially liked the Explorers, but the vehicle has serious visibility problems and the water pump on the previous front wheel drive generation needs to be replaced every 60-70k miles, a job requring 11-12 hours of labor from competent mechanics since partial disassembly of the engine is required and the resealing inovolves hand applied silicone, not a gasket.
The Panther could not survive 38 MPG CAFE. I imagine any left in running condition will be included in Cash For Clunkers 2.0.
It is easy to forget that many “clunkers” in the first program were vehicles with a lot of life left. The most popular trade-in was the Jeep Grand Cherokee from the early-mid 90s with the inline six cylinder engine which would essentally run forever if properly maintained. Blame p*ss poor 90s paint and trim materials plus 17 MPG highway.
“Warning”
https://areaocho.com/warning-2/
“Lake City cancelled its civilian output for the year
Hornady plant has a fire/ explosion.
Now news comes out that Winchester is also canceling 9mm orders and recalling the ones already in the supply chain.”
Got ammo ?
RIP.
https://pagesix.com/2023/10/15/suzanne-somers-dead-at-76-following-cancer-battle/
You will see obits spotlighting the pay discrepancy issue which got Somers fired from “Three’s Company”. My wife read a couple and got all indignant earlier this evening.
“The girls received a third of what John Ritter received.”
“You mean the John Ritter who was the minister on ‘The Waltons’ for four years before the opportunity came up for his own sitcom? Yeah, he got paid more for the show, but Suzanne Somers made big money from posters almost from day one thanks to the controversy of the situation in the situation comedy – a man, ‘John Boy Walton’s preacher’ no less, living with two women.”
The people who ran my Southern Baptist elementary school thought the apocalypse was nigh that Fall.
They probably watched every disgusting frame of the “Three’s Company” premiere … twice.
The genius of Fred Silverman — he oversaw development of both “The Waltons” and “Three’s Company”.
“I Certainly Wouldn’t Do THAT:”
https://areaocho.com/darwin-award-goes-to/
“This guy becomes our latest Darwin award nominee.”
No freaking way !
Well, certainly not more than once.
Lynn says:
Stand back about 30 feet and throw rocks at it.
The idiot actually STEPPED on it? I hope it killed him, because he doesn’t need to live with a lifetime of regret for doing something that stupid.
It’s not even really a question of stupidity. It’s “Inshallah”. Everything that happens is god’s will. To try to avoid god’s will is a sin. So if allah wants him to die, he will die. If not, he will live.
It’s hell trying to get someone like that to use PPE or follow safety rules.
n
Got the federal tax return efiled and accepted already. No state tax return, thank goodness.
Alan: No HOA, I won’t buy a house with a HOA. I’m in the county. No shooting within 50 yards of a public road or a house.
My gun range will be for myself and my immediate family – son and grandaughter.
I’m a bit surprised by the number of belt sellers. And by the number that are manufacturing in the USA. I shouldn’t be, really. I’ve got a bunch of belts, several in tactical styles, some leather dress belts, and the ones I’ve mentioned… there is clearly a sizable market.
I’m headed to bed. Hoping for a good night’s sleep.
n
Hoping for a good night’s sleep.
– well, not so much. Wide awake for a couple hours.
n