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[hawkeye54]

Sounds like something I must try (An aside from my younger days - do NOT grate horseradish root while wearing contact lenses !)...

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'Double - u [ sounds like W] ' for D , and ' Mnemonic [ sound like starts with N] ' for M , sure sounds like a great possibility for confusion to this...

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I kinda doubt he's read 'The Peter Principle' by Dr. Laurance J. Peter, but he certainly seems to be the poster child for rising to that level of incompetence...

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(Look in SPAM folder or similar (?)) When the 'new' Forum version rolled out, I attempted to sign on, then reset password ( using a Samsung tablet )...

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Good news, John - in my opinion, too much of these type of stuff winds up on the scrapheap - unwanted / unneeded...

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It's looking more than a bit certain that this thread title, perhaps, should have started 'When' - as opposed to 'If'

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Do I understand correctly that the pilot was 47 years old ? - - so much for young fighter pilots with lightning-fast reflexes . . . ....

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Democrats ( per Wikipedia ), were responsible for a 1 day shutdown in 1981, a 4-hour shutdown in 1984 and again in 1986, and a 3 day shutdown in 1990....

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Just caught the story on my local news - It does not sound good . . 46 aboard the bus per the story I heard.

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Paul, I took the entire night last night, and 5 hours this morning to reread the entire 27 pages - thanks for posting the link.


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Walmart, under Sam Walton , was proud of selling ' Made in America' products [ I met him when we opened a new Walmart store in Channelview, Texas,...

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Got to 'know' him when I was lurking here, before joining the Forum - I was a member of the 'Tonkin Gulf Yacht Club' at about the time of his interesting...

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Sorry, folks, the Air Quality Index here in Southwest Charlotte is '15'


Rick

[hawkeye54]

Our son married a local woman and they had 3 children ( our only grandkids ), things went 'swimmingly', until they didn't - they divorced - and we...

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NEVER, NEVER stand behind a laxative laden cow . . . . ....

[hawkeye54]

You, Sir, are indeed blessed ! !...

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Check out TFG's speech this past weekend, he didn't seem sure who he was running against, and warned of 'the start of World War II' , if the US voted...

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As you work, check the nail for the deterioration of 'nail sickness', if, as you say, the nail does not move in the plank as you push the plank against...

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I flew on a flight from Atlanta to Chicago ( back in the mid-1980's) - may have been a 747 (?) - as we neared O'Hare, the weather got bad, real heavy...

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Waaaay back in the mid 1980's, my wife and I spent a week in Nassau, Bahamas. We stayed in a hotel which had a television in the lobby, and no phones...