"Brooklyn1" > wrote in message
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> On Mon, 7 Sep 2015 17:01:07 +0100, "Ophelia" >
> wrote:
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>>
>>
>>"dsi1" > wrote in message
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>>> On 9/6/2015 12:38 PM, John Kuthe wrote:
>>>> On Sun, 6 Sep 2015 16:29:58 -0600, Shalako > wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 9/6/2015 4:19 PM, John Kuthe wrote:
>>>>>> On Sun, 06 Sep 2015 14:53:28 -0400, jmcquown >
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 9/6/2015 2:19 PM, Roy wrote:
>>>>>>>> On Sunday, September 6, 2015 at 12:14:38 PM UTC-6, jmcquown wrote:
>>>>>>>>> On 9/6/2015 1:10 PM, Roy wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> On Sunday, September 6, 2015 at 11:04:20 AM UTC-6, rosie wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>> Returned from an Alaskan Trip to find a funny smell in the
>>>>>>>>>>> house.
>>>>>>>>>>> Not a good smell either. The Refrigarator had died and all was
>>>>>>>>>>> rotten ! Company coming today too ! Have been frantically
>>>>>>>>>>> leaning
>>>>>>>>>>> to get the bad food out, the appliance cleaned and the house
>>>>>>>>>>> smelling better. Ordered a new four door LG and it will be
>>>>>>>>>>> delivered on Thursday. We have an outside Fridge in the Garage,
>>>>>>>>>>> and can make do with that till we get the new one !! Could be
>>>>>>>>>>> worse.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Geez...I thought you were going to write about marijuana. Oh
>>>>>>>>>> well,
>>>>>>>>>> it could have been worse is right.
>>>>>>>>>> ===
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Anyone know where I can get a doobie? (j/k)
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Jill
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> LOL...no, but I still have my old roach clip from days gone by.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Take care...
>>>>>>>> ====
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> LOL I have a story to tell. Anyone who minds can tune out.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I had a roach clip that was given to me. It was welded to a
>>>>>>> sheriff's
>>>>>>> badge. What can I say? It was the '70's.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The Shelby County (Tennessee) sheriff's deputy who found it in my
>>>>>>> purse
>>>>>>> didn't think it was amusing.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Seriously, there were no illegal drugs in my or my friends'
>>>>>>> possession.
>>>>>>> We were just out walking around. It was just after sunset. We
>>>>>>> sat
>>>>>>> down on a curb in an undeveloped subdivision not far from my house.
>>>>>>> There weren't even any houses under construction on that street. It
>>>>>>> was
>>>>>>> just paved streets and curbs.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> We were just walking around, decided to sit down for a minute. The
>>>>>>> cops
>>>>>>> came sneaking over the grassy median from the empty street behind
>>>>>>> us.
>>>>>>> "Don't move!" Uh, we weren't thinking of moving. Thanks for
>>>>>>> scaring
>>>>>>> the crap out of us, though!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> We were just a couple of teenagers sitting on the curb. Talking and
>>>>>>> looking at the stars. It was a lovely clear evening, that much I
>>>>>>> remember.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The deputy grabbed my purse and searched it. He found the (I
>>>>>>> thought
>>>>>>> it
>>>>>>> was funny) roach clip. Where'd you get this? Honestly, I didn't
>>>>>>> know.
>>>>>>> Someone gave it to me. I sure as heck don't remember 40 years
>>>>>>> later.
>>>>>>> The deputy confiscated it.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The cops had absolutely no reason to haul me back to my house in a
>>>>>>> squad
>>>>>>> car but they did.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Jill
>>>>>>
>>>>>> A Jefferson County cop by the name of Buck Berger, who eventially got
>>>>>> to be cheif for a lotta years has a hemostat that I had hanging in
>>>>>> plain sight driving my VW Bug!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> John Kuthe...
>>>>>
>>>>> No doubt you only used it to curtail the flow of blood to your addled
>>>>> brain...
>>>>
>>>> My hobby was electyronic circuirterty, and to solder ICs it was
>>>> advisable to use a heat sink to avoid damaging the expensive
>>>> electyronic instrrumentation!
>>>>
>>>> He confiscated it anyway.
>>>>
>>>> John Kuthe...
>>>>
>>>
>>> Some cops got no common sense! I got me an iron pipe under my car seat.
>>> Obviously, it's because of my love for the art of plumbing.
>>>
>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8Fs2uwLyiQ
>>
>>D keeps a crow bar under his car seat .. only so he can take off the hub
>>caps if there was a puncture you understand ...
>
> Do cars still have hubcaps?

It was a joke to explain away the crow bar

The last car I owned that had hubcaps was
> a 1978 Cadilac Eldorado. Most late model cars I see have Alum/Mag
> wheels, my 1990 Landcruiser has all aluminum wheels. I'll have to
> look at cars more carefully. I keep a 3' crowbar in the cab of my
> tractor, for prying up rocks... works much better than a shovel...
> about two weeks ago I came across a rock that worked itself up just
> enough to ping my mower blade, mostly hear them rather than see them.
> Never know what size it'll be until I begin working on getting rid of
> it, some are about the size of grapefruit but could be a whole lot
> larger, last one was about the size of a large pig, had to weigh about
> 200 pounds. I couldn't lift it because there were no hand grips, so I
> rolled it end over end about fifty feet into the woods.

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