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zBrown
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Dec 27, 2018 - 03:26pm PT
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OK more fun and games.
Take at look at this 11 year old kid and provide an adjective, phrase or random group of words that you think describe him or his demeanor.
There is no prize, but mfm will provide all participants with an as yet to be determined trifle or truffle.
I'll get the ball rolling with
brown-eyed handsome man
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Bushman
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The state of quantum flux
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Dec 27, 2018 - 04:06pm PT
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mouse from merced
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The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 27, 2018 - 04:19pm PT
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I win. You win. He or she wins.
We woulda won but were a man short. You shoulda won on good looks alone. They will win but not this season; they're short of team spirit.
Woot! We're all winners here.Attaboys all around!
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zBrown
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Dec 27, 2018 - 04:47pm PT
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Good ones mfm and Bushman
BTW Tim I read your poems and recommend some to other folks
I don't comment because they stand on their own
My "older" brother died at 42
Same photo kid a few years later (top right)
Top row left went on to Annapolis
Top row right hung out with a drug deal enforcer and apparently still hanging with bad crowd
Bottom row left - Silicon Valley Executive
Bottom row right - drafted by White Sox - injury ended his career. I just called him Dave.
Dave was a very talented musician although he could not read music and played only by ear. He played in a gospel band for several years called “The Parking Lot Pickers”.
All three of these guys went to my high school (or at least the one Tom Waits and I attended.) The Annapolis guy above is on the right here. Very rare to get three from the same school in one year.
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zBrown
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Dec 27, 2018 - 05:22pm PT
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I have had thyroid disease since 2000
It has given me fits
And put a big dent in my relationship with Michele
I have been trying to understand it
The image shows just how complicated it gets
TSH is thyroid stimulating hormone
T3 and T4 are even more influential than what this quote says
There are no ez answers here
The thyroid produces a hormone called triiodothyronine, known as T3. It also produces a hormone called thyroxine, known as T4. Together, these hormones regulate your body’s temperature, metabolism, and heart rate.
Most of the T3 in your body binds to protein. The T3 that doesn’t bind to protein is called free T3 and circulates unbound in your blood. The most common kind of T3 test, known as the T3 total test, measures both kinds of T3 in your blood.
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hooblie
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from out where the anecdotes roam
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Dec 27, 2018 - 06:03pm PT
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any one of us would find a crossing of path with the mouseter to be beneficial.set a course, the guy's got grit
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 27, 2018 - 06:22pm PT
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DALLAS—What if the country shut down and nobody gave a flip?
Entering day 6 of “The United States Is Closed,” I’m not seeing much evidence of panic or, for that matter, interest.
The most likely citizens to get their panties in a bunch—literally—are families who picked this week to go to Yellowstone or the Grand Canyon, only to find out that (a) the roads are open, but (b) the restrooms are closed. There are just so many times Dad can say, “Just go in the bushes” in subfreezing temperatures before the other occupants in the car start clamoring for the nearest Holiday Inn, which, in some cases, might be 150 miles away.
I haven’t been following that closely, but from what I understand, we need $5 billion to loan to Mexico so they can pay for The Wall, but I’m not quite sure who’s supposed to be ponying up and why we can’t come up with such a measly amount.
Okay, here’s an idea. We’ve ordered 2,663 F-35 fighter planes from Lockheed Martin at $90 million each. How many fighter planes do we really need? You know the last time there was an actual dogfight in the skies? Twenty years ago, when the Yugoslav Air Force made the mistake of sending up five MiG-29s. Score: NATO 5, Yugoslavia 0.
My point is that I think we can figure out how to fight China and Russia with 55 fewer fighters, bring that number down to 2,608 aircraft, and voilà!—draw up the papers, call up President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, give him a 2.25 interest rate over 30 years, put a clause in there that says if he falls behind on payments we can send the Navy down to Yucatán to claim the Cantarell Oil Field in the Gulf. And that’s his collateral.
No boots on the ground.
The Mexican Navy has three boats, we’ve got destroyers equipped with Tomahawk Missiles.
Game over.
Pump the oil till we get our 5 billion repaid, throw a party in Cancún to give the oil field back.
Not that anybody is clamoring for the government to reopen. In fact, I’m starting to think having the government open for business is a vastly overrated state of affairs.
Unfortunately, doing it this way—shutting down the government once or twice a year to see who says “ouch” first—does have its dangers. I know everybody says, “No big deal, whenever they reopen everybody gets paid, doors reopen, everybody handles the backlog, yadda yadda yadda.”
Yeah, but in the meantime we’ve got 800,000 people being told, “Don’t worry, you’ll eventually get paid”—at Christmastime.
Maybe it’s just me, but I’m guessing that doesn’t go over that well in lower-pay-grade government households while the Yule log is burning.
So what we’re not taking into account is the Pissed-Off Bureaucrat Factor.
“I’m starting to think having the government open for business is a vastly overrated state of affairs.”
For example, nobody working for the TSA is getting paid right now. These people have X-ray machines and body wands. Do you really want the person who suspects your anus of contraband coming to work with an attitude?
I think not.
Or air traffic controllers! Let’s say the guy was up all night with his crying newborn baby and he’s barely making enough money for the formula and some pilot is requesting permission to avoid turbulence by ascending from 28,000 feet to 32,000 feet and the controller sees a Lufthansa 747 vectoring in at a weird angle at precisely 32,500 feet and so he decides to say, “Yeah, you can probably do that. I could give you more precise information if I got paid this week.”
Do we really want FBI agents, who go to the gun range twice a month to stay in practice, walking around with no cash in their pockets?
Doctors and nurses in federal hospitals? Really? They have surgical implements and access to lethal drugs. Sure, there’s that whole Hippocratic-oath thing, but need I remind you of…
Doctor Hannibal Lecter in Silence of the Lambs.
Doctor Herbert West (okay, med student) in Re-Animator.
Doctor Seth Brundle in The Fly.
Doctor Christian Szell in Marathon Man.
Doctor Moreau in The Island of Dr. Moreau.
Doctor Jed Hill in Malice.
And, of course, the all-time screen champion, Doctor Jekyll.
Of course, everyone overlooks the shocking portrayal of Nurse Rat Chat by My Sister Marine in Blow My Bugle.
These are all dudes who were being paid. Let’s not encourage surreptitious experimentation down at the clinic, especially since they’re probably already pissed off to be working at the government hospital instead of the private one.
Half of the Pentagon is “furloughed,” which is the fancy word we use when we tell them either “Don’t come to” or “You’re required to come to work but you won’t get diddly-squat at the end of the week.”
The Department of State is closed. No problem if your passport is thrown into the back of a dresser drawer somewhere, but not a good thing if you just got arrested in Turkey.
The Department of Justice is closed. (Take that, Robert Mueller!) Not so terrible if your extortion trial starts Monday. Less desirable if you’re under 24-hour guard because you’re entering the Witness Protection Program after your testimony next week.
Meanwhile, members of Congress get paid.
Of course they do.
And there’s one cause for optimism: The Internal Revenue Service is mostly laid off.
They’ll still take your money, but they probably won’t hunt you down.
Forget refunds, but they probably won’t be showing up to padlock your office safe.
But is all this really necessary? After all, it’s Mexico that’s paying for the wall. I’m telling you, just seize some assets down in Juárez—it’s a one-day invasion—and we’re set.
What am I missing?
Well, I know what I’m missing. These are mere employees we’re dealing with here. Kitchen help. Janitors. Park rangers. Clerks. People who took government jobs so they could have security instead of making a lot of money. People who were told, “You’re a patriot for doing this repetitive work and so we’ll make sure you never have to wonder where your next paycheck is coming from.”
Whoops.
--Joe Bob
https://www.takimag.com/article/closed-no-hurry-ill-come-back/
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Bushman
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The state of quantum flux
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Dec 27, 2018 - 07:15pm PT
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Thanks for the explanation Z, keep on keeping on...
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 27, 2018 - 07:32pm PT
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^^^^
Me, too, sez I.
Speaking of T3, I use a Canon EOS Rebel T3i.
It's the BMW 2002 tii of cameras.
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mouse from merced
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The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 27, 2018 - 07:43pm PT
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For Gypsy, who does doors so well.
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mouse from merced
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The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 27, 2018 - 07:46pm PT
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mouse from merced
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The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 27, 2018 - 07:47pm PT
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mouse from merced
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The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 27, 2018 - 09:00pm PT
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A Public Service
Pay attention!
Hey there, say gearheads, have you got GAS?
[Click to View YouTube Video]
Everybody has it sometime, sooner or later, even Werner--don't let him fool you with his assumed anti-materialistic stance.
I know, "Most of the rack was Bridwell's iron."
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Dec 27, 2018 - 09:16pm PT
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^i saw that
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zBrown
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Dec 28, 2018 - 08:13am PT
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The cutting is kind of rapid, but around 22:00, nice segment. Gives you a good feel for Marvin used to say was "what's going on"
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