Uncle Sidney ~~ Prison Philosopher Says:

"Don't wolf whistle the female guards in prison or you might spend time in Solitary Confinement! (Hope to be out Monday!)"

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Internet sez chinese plums. $32 a pound.

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I like the feature where the post is excerpted in a popup window when the mouse hovers over the title. Sometimes the titles are cryptic.

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Wham-O made a lot of things. They hit their stride with Hula-hoops, and paydirt with Frisbees. Also Super Balls, and Slip-n-Slides. Practically any American kid who grew up in the 1960s knows about Wham-O

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Is it possible to clean a somewhat corroded F/A tube without disassembly? Maybe some sort of strong solvent like acetone or MEK mixed say, 5% with the fuel itself and operate as normal. I kind of doubt it, but I can't be the first to wonder.

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Sierra_Roadrunner wrote: ↑Tue Mar 28, 2023 12:14 am I'll be tuning into more Gunsmoke episodes hoping to see Festus entertaining the good townsfolk of Dodge City.

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That is a sweet setup at a nice price.

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There's a huge difference between a rural route carrier and a career city carrier. I think the legal designation is the rural route folks are some kind of a contract employee. City carriers on the other hand, enjoy lots of benefits, scheduled days off, health care, investments in 401k, 11 paid feder...

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Yeah, why wouldn't they allow propane? Think it would be the other way around.

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Comb jellyfish. Recorded in 3700 ft. of water in the Indian ocean, watch till the end, it looks much different.

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While they probably aren't "adjustable" as such, if the accuracy is off some careful tweaking of the thermometer spring arm a time or two compared against an accurate standard would get it calibrated well enough.

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Would that 80F be an example of an export model (if there was such a thing) or, was it originally sold in Sweden? Is there an original list price sheet in USD?

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Those belong in a museum, nice to see

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What is an "MIC" knife?

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Rabbit seem pretty good about avoiding roadkill, compared to Squirrel anyhow. That might have been a better selection. What's really remarkable though, there are no bullet holes in that sign.

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I noticed a similar phenomenon in the late 90s and early aughts, eBay was still a picker's delight for selling, motivated people had a pretty good side gig hitting garage sales, estate sales, all sorts of things were suddenly collectible. Antique radios were kind of a similar hobby to lanterns. Nobo...

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Could be fun to rig a low rider system with a motion sensor....drops flat to floor level if there is movement under the car.... And guess what, you would be prosecuted and convicted if any upstanding members of the community were to get hurt or killed. Failing that, some sharpie would sue you in ci...

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Cameras are great, but you have to have someone willing to press charges, among other things. Here's the problem, by way of analogy. Sometimes, people might ask why the government will spend $100,000 to prosecute someone who cheated the government out of $500 on their tax return. How does that make ...

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Here's some young-er folks - they have no idea how to place a phone call from a rotary phone. They were tasked with figuring it out. I won't spoil it for you. Do you think they were successful? Is your money on the guy with the backwards baseball cap?

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If they catch them, it costs money, to arrest, detain, prosecute, incarcerate etc. They don't do that any longer, if you hadn't noticed. Some success has been achieved by making it more difficult to fence. Some states, the scrappers will only pay by check, they need ID and address and the rest of it...

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Somewhere as a kid I learned that one could dial 11911, and then hang up, which would get a "ringback". I used this to great effect to annoy my babysitters, just doing my part. Funny how you remember things like that.

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What does a working grandfather clock from the 80's go for? Still trying to figure out how to get rid of my parents household goods. Can't hardly give it away. It works fine. Ethan Allen. I'd have to look at the receipt, but I think it was over $1,000. Looks like if I can get $100 I'd be doing good....

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Yeah, be careful what ya wish for, might just get it. lol

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Interesting take (heh) on the Svea 123 vs. Taykit. Which one did you find the fussier to get operational? The Taykit is one of those ingenious gee-gaws that will capture the attention of inveterate tinkerers. It looks like a toy at first, but it looks like it really would work as a serious cooker, a...

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That's a lot of mantles

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Didn't she 86 George and abscond with Eric Clapton? Or is that Layla? I don't keep up on celebrity gold diggers like I should, or something.

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I never thought about it too much. Would kerosene carbon up the generator as fast, or even faster, than automotive gasoline?

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Is a Robert Heinlein quote, ain't it?

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"Redolent of Seaweed & Iodine, lovingly strained through campfire ashes." I do love me some Laphroig, and Ardbeg. I never much cared for Rauchbier, though. It was good, just tasted odd.

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OK, finally got that cleared up. One thing that I suggest (or rather don't) is marking items with "Fragile - GLASS" on the box.

Once in a while, people will take that as a challenge.

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Also consider where you install it on the bench. Probably depends whether you are right handed or left handed, but right in the middle of the bench is not likely the best location. Notice in the pic above, the inside jaw face is parallel or probably just slightly proud of the edge of the bench itsel...

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But those are excuses, and per Stovie’s comment it’s the shipper, not the shipping company, who has to be sufficiently careful. Clearly I fell short of the mark in this case, and I regret that. No, I just wanted to clarify to him it doesn't matter who the shipper is , somehow he got the idea I was ...

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As to the broken globe, that is NO FAULT of Ulf's. It is what it is and those Thermos globes are thinner than paper and 5x as fragile. As to pics, Ive got a dozen boxes sitting here that I have received stuff in and figuring out exactly which packing was arranged around which item would be next to ...

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gwillmot wrote: ↑Sun Mar 05, 2023 12:13 pm If you substituted FedEx for UPS .....

Yeah, no. The actual shipper - whether USPS or UPS or FEDEX or DHL or AMAZON has absolutely nothing to do with what I wrote. Sorry if I didn't make that clear.

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FishNChips wrote: ↑Sun Mar 05, 2023 4:19 am Wow!!!! Beautiful stove. I hope to have a kitchen stove some day.

What are you using to cook on now? Buffalo chips, or?

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What makes it a "dual fuel"? Marketing to some degree, and perhaps a larger generator assembly that may require less frequent replacement or cleaning. I think it's pretty easy to slip over the line into silliness about this, I wouldn't worry about unleaded automotive gasoline per se. You're not addi...

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I bought a 200A several years ago, on that auction site. I hadn't been following lanterns at all. I thought they were a little bit expensive, not too bad, and besides there is always a markup for convenience. They've gone up quite a bit since then though. There was a "golden age" for a little while ...

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Lanterns are for sellin', not buyin' at those prices.

Who's the guy with a gazillion lanterns hanging from the rafters of his barn? Nice little chunk of change right there. You've all seen the photo, it's been posted here before.

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You keep calling them RABOONS. I''m not going to try and defend the USPS (nor am I trying to criticize Ulf's packing skills) Instead of just bitching though, let's see if we can determine if there is something constructive we can do to minimize this in the future. Post some photos of the box and shi...

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Ha!

They are loathe to hunt them, so I guess psychiatrists and social workers are the way forward.

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Last 2 stroke I bought was so lean it barely ran. Not only that, they tried to make it tamper proof. I got around all that and with a few turns of the screws my $80 Walmart trimmer ran like a banshee. Mine didn't last long enough for that, unfortunately. It was a hot humid day and died on me or som...

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Wish I could find a source for the alleged "Bear spray used as repellent" incident. It may be an urban legend. Seems to me English wasn't their first language, and if I recall the story they actually deployed it inside a visitors center. So they had to evacuate everybody for a while probably. The pa...

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Can you show a picture or two of the package itself, and all the packing materials? We may be able to help others prevent this from happening to them. Sometimes, of course it won't matter a whit how well it was packaged, if they run over it with a truck, for example.

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One thing they did with making small 2-stroke gasoline appliances confounding before outlawing them basically is they leaned 'em out real bad. Californication.

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I'm not sure if this actually happened, but it sounds plausible. Supposedly a family of tourists ran into trouble at a Park, they thought "Bear Spray" was applied to the skin, in the same way OFF! mosquito repellent would be, hosing down their children and themselves. They were not, as the saying go...

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Has anybody had luck maybe feathering in some Rustoleum green or whatever, on that spot where Coleman stoves always scorch? Doesn't bother me too much, but, if the colors don't match it might look worse, or amateurish anyway.

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There was another one, sort of similar, where a young lass carries a compact .22 cal pistol for bear. "That won't stop a bear!" she is admonished.

"Oh, I'm not going to shoot the bear, I'll just kneecap my boyfriend".

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My dad told me that ordinarily, surfacing a submarine is normally a typical "aye-aye" affair, and everything done by the book, procedural, calm, cool, and professional, naturally. Ordinarily. He said one time the order came to surface, and instead, the boat kept descending.. down .. down .. down.. T...

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Those with long memories can recall a similar or related effect, carburetor icing. The right (or wrong) combination of altitude, humidity, and temperature, and you've got a problem. Especially bad in aircraft, because you can't get out and push.

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I think it actually does maybe make more sense that Dehner auditioned for the part of Marshall Dillon Gunsmoke Radio series, Conrad was the last to try out for it, but I can't find any info on other rivals. Wikipedia does mention Denver Pyle and Raymond Burr and a few others tried out for the Televi...

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That's interesting to hear about Dehner and makes a lot of sense. I suppose television and movies were the same, but one thing I noticed about radio is just how few major radio actors there were, just a small handful that are practically guaranteed to include at least one of them in virtually any ra...

Uncle Sidney ~~ Prison Philosopher Says: "Don't wolf whistle the female guards in prison or you might spend time in Solitary Confinement! (Hope to be out Monday!)"

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Uncle Sidney ~~ Prison Philosopher Says:

"Don't wolf whistle the female guards in prison or you might spend time in Solitary Confinement! (Hope to be out Monday!)"