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Wife?

MD license plates. Butter pats in restaurants. Veterans selling poppies on Memorial and Veteran's Days. Very symbolic, it was... A "Good Morning" greeting. I do it, usually resulting in a gaped mouth with a jaw dropped. Or dead air on the phone.

What you will have when the Red Chinese shoot down the GPS satellites?

"I saw no apology." But that's the problem with this text pecking on this internet, eh? We go off on tangents, with our distance and insulation. The classless douche removes his previous post.

I hear you.

I'd run, too! BTW...was that your son in your posting on the Gallery? His smile reminded me of an old "Dennis the Menace" cartoon...George and Martha Wilson were on their porch watching Dennis frolic. George remarked "Of course he's happy! It's his tax-free years."

Excellent choice. Estate pieces have especial meaning, a sense of continuity. Wearing a ring that came from a previous romance is heartwarming. Who were they? How did their lives evolve? You look at it, and you have reveries about the past. Reveries are important. They soothe, they recollect happy times in one's life. Wondering about the lives of our predecessors is part of humanity.

Sorry, pal. It's a lengthy thing, and I'm sure not going to dance attendance to your snit-fit finger snaps. No doubt, your next reply will be along the childish lines of "HA! You won't answer! I win! I win!"

Good info. That happened with CIN and #6 pick Smith. Moot now, of course.

Take a deep breath, JA. It's obvious that this is a hot button thing for you. Don't bust a gut, my friend. And I'm pretty sure you've captured the pop pop Lecture Prize in this thread. Here are some excerpts of your numerous posts to numerous members: -Assuming you don't have a mental disorder, which is a different category of people, it actually IS simple. If you're a fat !@#$, eat less and exercise more. If your weight doesn't go down, eat even less and exercise even more. -So even if you can't count calories, which is pretty !@#$ing easy, losing weight is not that hard. It's more about self-control than brains. -People like fat and bad-for-them foods sometime. It's their fault if they always eat unhealthy foods or overeat. I love Pizza, chicken wings, and beer but it's my own stupid fault if I eat that crap all the time. It's no one else's fault. -No, it is that simple. When I had no money, I still had plenty of money enough to not eat McDs and frozen foods unless I chose to. Buying a chicken breast and a gallon of 2% is not that hard. Maybe the Fuji apple is expensive but the Macintosh isn't. -Stop making excuses for people. Have faith in them instead. -Bull. sh--. -I work with some of the poorest families in North Philly. Some have no furniture. You make excuses for them but I haven't met one yet who didn't have time to cook a meal. Not one. -But I've met a ton of them who have cable and watch a ton of TV. -I blame the individual. Sorry that I have faith in people like that. -He was giving an example of how you can work to make anything taste good. -You can cook a chicken breast and mix it withjarred sauce in less than 10 minutes. Add a vegetable (even frozen) a chunk of bread and some milk and you have a nice meal. 15 minutes tops. And it's not like all 15 of those minutes require you to stand over the stove. You can get it started and still watch TV. -You people who feel the need to make excuses for fat people should have a little more faith in them. -Me too. Cause I'm so rich that I can afford $10 worth of chicken. -And when I advocate that their kids be removed from the home (which happens occasionally) I always point to that conversation and the luxuries that the mom can afford instead of feeding their kid a good meal. -Buck up and stop making excuses for people. Have some faith in them. They can fix things themselves--outside influences are influences--in the end, they choose their own path. -That's not true except in some disneyfied 1950s TV land. -I know this is part of your world-is-going-to-hell-in-a-handbasket mentality but stop and think about some of these things some time. Just because you see something bad in the world doesn't mean it's always worse than it used to be or that things were once upon a time so much better. -Tieing the death of your fantasyland to Johnson is really a stretch. -So what you're saying is that there was some built-in excuse for awful behavior? Raping, and underage sex were OK because society craved more kids? -In your pre-Johnson glory years (which I guess was about a decade long...before Johnson and after the worst of the industrial revolution), most of the behavior you're complaining about (high skirts and loose morals) was not talked about. You thin Catholic priests just started fiddling with boys in the last 15 years? You think domestic violence is rising because people are worse now? You think DWIs weren't happening? Substance abuse was something solved by a visit from your brother? Negative. We're just not hiding behind your idealized white picket fence anymore.

I only know one Silver Creeker. She was a good friend of my younger sister. Pretty, witty, smart. Italian. IF Beerball happened to marry her, he's a lucky fellow.

We are a community. Of course you can add amphigory to it.

Me too. I'm a big believer in getting the best, smartest center you can find. For some reason, they seem to have long careers, also.

No...a lovely 1/4 carat diamond in a very tasteful setting from a neighborhood shop, 50% down in cash, balance paid off in weekly installments and then I took possession. It was a big obligation for a young man back then, to take on such a financial entailment. Now I see people going together to a shop for a ring and run up 4, 5, 8K or more. People negotiating about this or that style, arguing about whatever. And putting it on the card. Time was, you would ask a family member to help you out. Usually, your mother. I had no idea about rings, so my mom took me around. She well knew my girl, shopped around and made a fine selection. So I had it in hand when I proposed marriage. My opinions about expensive jewelry occurred later...so much money tied up in little baubles...for vanity, things to flaunt that one has money to rub in the faces of those without. Money that could be used for housing, food, education and so forth.

All jewelry is affectatious, IMO.

Uh...hygiene, medical acumen, infant mortality then was not-quite-like the 20th century. Replacement kids were constantly being popped out to support societies that were nearly 100% dependent on manual labor. And infanticide was common, if it meant excess mouths to feed. Sometime in the future, I'll tell you more about 'ol Lyndon and his strategy. So you will have another opportunity to be snide.

In years past, most women didn't hike up their skirts on the first date and men didn't drop their drawers and make kids until a rather lengthy period of engagement, and got married before hatching a kid. Few folks used credit. They weren't ga-ga over material possessions. Lived within their means, and structured their lives accordingly. But in the mid'60's Lyndon Johnson and the welfare state came into being. A cynical thing, designed to tie people to the government umbilical cord, and guarantee votes for his party.

That's insight!

Good post.

It's his knee. CIN has a history of hanging onto injured players, as well as paying out injury money if the player can't come back. As of last season, their '05 #1 David Pollack with the broken neck was still on the books. Surprising, considering their skinflint owner, but there it is. My guess is that Jones is damaged goods. LTs are valuable - I don't think CIN dumped him unless they determined his career was over. He's been on the market for a good while - and no team has bit, beyond a courtesy interview, AFAIK.

Miniscule compared to millions of American boaters with 2-cycle outboard motors...

You eat it most every day. Check out a package ingredient list. When you see "Hydrolyzed animal protein", that's protein chemically processed from offal like eyelids, nails, hoofs, nostrils, gums, ovaries, testicles...and anus. Bon apetite!

You certainly know your enemy. I was going to suggest drain tile, but you've done that. Yes, grading is vital. But from your descriptions, you get bouts of very high hydrostatic pressure. Adding additional concrete to existing surfaces will up that pressure. My house has lousy grading, as well as a "down dip" driveway, with a grate and underground pipe arrangement dumping into a sump well - the garage is next to the basement. Such is banned these days - a couple of driveway oil drips from a vehicle can ruin the planet, you know. I dealt with basement seeps by drilling holes where the basement slab met the foundation block, relieving pressure. Then I constructed an interceptor channel with coated 1x2 pine, to direct the seepage to a low-point drain in my utility room. Which is what you have done, although mine directs water to that floor drain, so it isn't adding water to a french drain system. It works well - it handles all but unusual rain events - only light mopping if I care to do so - nothing like the volumes you describe. Have you considered putting in an additional sump well and pump? Because of my down-dip drive, I have a pump and two battery back-up pumps in my well. And a spare deep-cycle battery that I keep in tip-top charge. If the power goes out, I'm (literally) sunk if my back-ups won't work. Can you pipe your sump discharge to the street instead of back into the sewer system? I would guess that your current pump may not be able to push more water into that (assumedely) filled sewer drain line. I would think that there is some reason why your current pump is being overwhelmed. Some codes prohibit direct street discharge. My MIL in Kenmore had to fork over a couple of grand to tie her discharge into the sewers. If you put in an additional well/pump, disguise the outlet with a spiffy, thick, bush foundation planting. My pumps discharge into piping that outlets on the front curb. The main/battery back-up unit, as well as the 2nd batt. back-up. But I have a valve for the #2 battery device, so I can shunt the outflow to piping that runs to my back yard if the main pipe has some problem.