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stuckincincy

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  1. Are you a tradesman? Are you transporting several people around on a daily basis, or have the need to move cargo about?
  2. Surprising... http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/art...PT02/305190057/
  3. No...I just like to show some attention when he tells us he is working on another page of his coloring book.
  4. I'll give Tucker credit for cashing in while the iron is hot... That E! cable channel could cover the NFL as well as anybody. They just need to hire the same assortment of cute faces/loudmouths/former players/media hacks as the others do.
  5. Unless this is something new..they already did. It was an item of their meetings in March. IIRC, they decided to restrict the hair length, but then they didn't. So the rights of their employees to twirl their hair into something that looks like dried ruminate excrement twirled into lumpy, half inch wide, semi-flexible, pointy twigs...remains intact.
  6. The current SSA maximum expense payment for funeral costs is $255. Please quote your proposed decreasing schedule, as well as your thoughts about rebating all SS payments extracted from an individual, to the estate of that person who died before they were able to collect...my raw umber friend. After all - they did not survive to collect - doesn't your sense of justice and fair play apply here?
  7. My brother was a policeman for 35 years. Hated domestic abuse calls, hated laws that politicians jumping on bandwagons made, to harvest re-election hay - that demand that somebody has to get hauled off. That took away an officer's experience and reliance on same. My brother had to haul to jail, out of all reason, 80 year-olds that never made a peep in the neighborhood for 60 years - but some silly argument over nothing overheard by a self-righteous snot, made him have to cuff and publicly mortify a decent citizen. OTOH, he saw trends. You are a policeman - you see a lot...and you detect trends, you put forth an educated guess as to when it will be the repeat call to the same situation, the same cast of characters. So skepticism is not to be dismissed. I'm not particularly concerned about Hardy. But we will see what happens after a contract gets inked. A pile of new money never dreamed of before, has turned many a decent soul into a POS.
  8. Looking back, I should have learned to plaster. That, or civil service... http://www.opcmia.org/
  9. 9 teams or so were 7 -9 or 8 - 8 last season. Many clubs are close to contending...
  10. His, others, and Marshawn Lynch's hairdos are proof that The Predator procreated here on Earth.
  11. I'm sure there are still laws on the books across the nation about putting a transmission in neutral. They hark from a time when braking systems were much less reliable and effective as today. Shutting off the motor is of course a bad idea. Some of the hybrids do that, but loss of control power is accommodated. Long ago in a galaxy far away, Saab had "freewheeling" on their 2-cycle Type 96 vehicles It also showed up on some of the V4 4-stroke motors. http://www.honestjohn.co.uk/forum/post/index.htm?t=62298 One model year of the mid '80's VW 48 hp Rabbit diesels with automatic transmission had a feature called "E-Mode" (Economy). IIRC, it was also available on the Quantum turbo diesel. When its' gear selector was in "E" rather that "D", the engine would return to idle when the accelerator was released (going downhill, braking, coasting). It saved 3 or 4 MPG on an already high-mileage automatic transmission vehicle. You could move the selector to D if road conditions or personal preference warranted. There was an idiot-proof shroud covering the throttle cable in the engine compartment. Reason being that if you tweaked the throttle, it would run you down. A rough analogy would be a centrifugal clutch as found on mo-peds, some lawn care equipment, and myriad industrial applications.
  12. FWIW, here's a blurb... http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/8146990
  13. A couple of years ago, there was on tv and in print stories here, stories about some of the outlaying suburbs banning the ubiquitious "Good Humor" - type ice cream trucks. I thought: "How petty! How selfish! How nasty! What a bunch of rich rotten Di*ks!". So did the media. They milked it. Well let me tell you - last Summer, one pulled up my street. "Ting-a-ling, ting-a-ling, ting-a-ling-a-ling"? NO!!!! A screaming WA-Wa-WA-Wa-WA-Wa...WAAAA--WA-Wa-WA-Wa -RONK RONK RONK-WA-WA-WA Wa-Wa-Wa -RONKRONKRONK!!!!! It was like an amped-up smoke detector screaming its' 9v out. Evidently this is the new requirement to yank the earholes of the Future Leaders of America away from fondling their Wii's, HDTV, pods and WiFi and make them waddle out and reload . Wait until one of these Banshees shows up on your street. Your scream-a for ice cream will take a turn to the dark side.
  14. No can do. Willis990 never flung a personal hatchet at me, so there is no basis.
  15. True friendship.
  16. Quite rightly...?
  17. I replaced a Toro cordless electric trimmer that finally died after several years, with a B&D cordless electric. I trim a 90x90 frontage...curb and walks, so I guess it's six x 90' x 90' all told. Probably another 100 ft around gardens and trees and bushes. So far, so good. I've almost never run out of charge. The electric powered and gas blowers scream like a jet leaving the gate. If the weather is such that I keep my doors open for fresh air, I have to close them if my good neighbors shatter the peace with those things. I run my mower up and down the walks and the apron, and almost all grass blades get flung back on the lawn and planting strip. What remains is left to the prevailing wind.
  18. I've a 2-stroke Lawn-Boy (two of them - spare parts until I croak), variable rear drive, 65 lb weight. Very maneuverable and easy for my wife when she mows from time to tome. Tune-up is a snap. Check and sharpen the blade, clean and gap the plug, clean and re-oil the air filter, and a shot of lube in each rear wheel's zerk fitting. Set the choke, six pushes on the primer bulb, one easy pull...6.5:1 compression...starts, year after year. 8 so far. I've learned that the 2 cycle Lawn-Boys were popular with the tradesfolk mowing daily - no concern about slope operation starving bearings and upper lubricated parts with the usual 4-cycle splash oil sump. They are no longer sold - emissions. I guess they were dubbed the Bad-Boys...in a nation full of 2-stroke trimmers, blowers, and outboard marine motors.
  19. Any significant slopes? That's important - you want pressurized lubrication for the engine, then. The lower-priced mowers are generally fine for flat areas. Need any tractor-type duties? Hauling, snow plowing, etc.?
  20. Yes - but the consider the irresistible power, of a big wad flashed. Lady's eyes widen; knees buckle a bit. All good.
  21. I guess - for those - that get women - having no money on them - the old term is "skint" - I guess - works - for some. AFAIK, showing up at a venue and saying "Hey, beautiful, how 'bout buying me drinks all night?" - is a rare and treasured event.
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