warpedskydiver

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  1. I will translate, most guys who serve are used to a great deal of physical activity, when they retire there tends to be a slight cessation in that level of exercise, therefore a few pound get put on in the months following retirement. Couple that with getting injured so you are not mobile and we have to put down the fork I am guilty of this as I have not yet shed the 25lbs I put on while healing, (although I have not tried that hard) I hurt a lot and it is certainly discouraging.
  2. The day after that there was a large BBQ party I bet. If they wasted all the meat on that Bison they should be fired.
  3. There are other women who want a divorce, think they deserve the house and have actually no claim to it because it was owned for many years by the husband. I know a one case where a woman wants the house in a divorce, been married two years, the house was owned since 1989 buy the guy, she thinks she has paid the mortgage for several years because she write the check off a joint checking account even thought the guy spends very little money and puts enough in the bank to cover mortgage and utilities as well. It is not always the woman who gets burned ya know.
  4. So to all the ladies out there, im challenging you to approach one guy that you're interested in and show some interest. Stop making us do all the damn work for once. Quote Yeah, well don't hold your breath, there are very few women who would actually ever take that challenge.
  5. You won't know until you ask him! Remster, the tragedy is that he finds the very idea appalling Oh well.. He has redeeming features Cut out the middle man. post video
  6. My dad raced at midway and meadowdale. he always wore his helmet, gloves, boots harness and had a fire extinguisher on a "dead man" clip connected to his collar. He had seven kids to provide for so he was not taking any unnecessary risks. His last race car was Corvair spyder turbo convertible It was extremely fast for its day. My mom drove us kids around in it, we would stand up and hold onto the rollcage as it went over the hump of the railroad tracks, we would get a little airborne and then it would come down hard on the skid plates. My dad found out and was kinda pissed.
  7. I am glad I don't have hair actually. Women may not find me attractive due to that but oh well... I like not needing to get it cut constantly and pay for all those expensive products. I just wish I did not have alopecia though.
  8. As with most wars, as soon at the last man in in his grave, people forget and allow the world to make the same mistakes. We should never forget...
  9. Last living US WWI vet dies in W. Va. at age 110 FILE -- In a May 26, 2008 file photo Frank Buckles receives an American flag during Memori... By VICKI SMITH, AP Mon Feb 28, 4:35 AM EST He was repeatedly rejected by military recruiters and got into uniform at 16 after lying about his age. But Frank Buckles would later become the last surviving U.S. veteran of World War I. Buckles, who also survived being a civilian POW in the Philippines in World War II, died of natural causes Sunday at his home in Charles Town, biographer and family spokesman David DeJonge said in a statement. He was 110. Buckles had been advocating for a national memorial honoring veterans of the Great War in the nation's capital. When asked in February 2008 how it felt to be the last of his kind, he said simply, "I realized that somebody had to be, and it was me." And he told The Associated Press he would have done it all over again, "without a doubt." On Nov. 11, 2008, the 90th anniversary of the end of the war, Buckles attended a ceremony at the grave of World War I Gen. John Pershing in Arlington National Cemetery. He was back in Washington a year later to endorse a proposal to rededicate the existing World War I memorial on the National Mall as the official National World War I Memorial. He told a Senate panel it was "an excellent idea." The memorial was originally built to honor District of Columbia's war dead. Born in Missouri in 1901 and raised in Oklahoma, Buckles visited a string of military recruiters after the United States entered the "war to end all wars" in April 1917. He was repeatedly rejected before convincing an Army captain he was 18. He was actually 16 1/2. "A boy of (that age), he's not afraid of anything. He wants to get in there," Buckles said. Details for services and arrangements will be announced later this week. The family asks that donations be made to the National World War One Legacy Project. The project is managed by the nonprofit Survivor Quest and will educate students about Buckles and WWI through a documentary and traveling educational exhibition. More than 4.7 million people joined the U.S. military from 1917-18. As of spring 2007, only three were still alive, according to a tally by the Department of Veterans Affairs: Buckles, J. Russell Coffey of Ohio and Harry Richard Landis of Florida. The dwindling roster prompted a flurry of public interest, and Buckles went to Washington in May 2007 to serve as grand marshal of the national Memorial Day parade. Coffey died Dec. 20, 2007, at age 109, while Landis died Feb. 4, 2008, at 108. Unlike Buckles, those two men were still in basic training in the United States when the war ended and did not make it overseas. The last known Canadian veteran of the war, John Babcock of Spokane, Wash., died in February 2010. There are no French or German veterans of the war left alive. Buckles served in England and France, working mainly as a driver and a warehouse clerk. The fact he did not see combat didn't diminish his service, he said: "Didn't I make every effort?" An eager student of culture and language, he used his off-duty hours to learn German, visit cathedrals, museums and tombs, and bicycle in the French countryside. After Armistice Day, Buckles helped return prisoners of war to Germany. He returned to the United States in January 1920. Buckles returned to Oklahoma for a while, then moved to Canada, where he worked a series of jobs before heading for New York City. There, he again took advantage of free museums, worked out at the YMCA, and landed jobs in banking and advertising. But it was the shipping industry that suited him best, and he worked around the world for the White Star Line Steamship Co. and W.R. Grace & Co. In 1941, while on business in the Philippines, Buckles was captured by the Japanese. He spent more than three years in prison camps. "I was never actually looking for adventure," Buckles once said. "It just came to me." He married in 1946 and moved to his farm in West Virginia's Eastern Panhandle in 1954, where he and wife Audrey raised their daughter, Susannah Flanagan. Audrey Buckles died in 1999. In spring 2007, Buckles told the AP of the trouble he went through to get into the military. "I went to the state fair up in Wichita, Kansas, and while there, went to the recruiting station for the Marine Corps," he said. "The nice Marine sergeant said I was too young when I gave my age as 18, said I had to be 21." Buckles returned a week later. "I went back to the recruiting sergeant, and this time I was 21," he said with a grin. "I passed the inspection ... but he told me I just wasn't heavy enough." Then he tried the Navy, whose recruiter told Buckles he was flat-footed. Buckles wouldn't quit. In Oklahoma City, an Army captain demanded a birth certificate. "I told him birth certificates were not made in Missouri when I was born, that the record was in a family Bible. I said, 'You don't want me to bring the family Bible down, do you?'" Buckles said with a laugh. "He said, 'OK, we'll take you.'" He enlisted Aug. 14, 1917, serial number 15577.
  10. If you cut his hair while you are naked the hair will not stick to you ya know. This has been a public service announcement...
  11. engineering specification state that the hydrants shall be no further than 300 feet between them, this is done each time any now main is installed. I think I understand what you mean is that you are off the end of the existing main by a distance up to a mile. In that case I would get some large tank trucks and ferry them to the engines. 10k gallons and larger up to 40k gallon tank trailers are not too expensive. They can be pre-filled and pre-postioned if not in freezing temps
  12. we always seem to focus on the small picture as our world is actually extremely small, that is one of the things that really makes me enjoy physics and astronomy. It is the idea that such vast forces shape all that we know and all that we have not discovered yet. I wonder if someday they will discover what is beyond the edge of the expanding universe. I would love to find out. Hey if someone ever says "you think you are a star" tell them "why yes I am!" and you would be correct. It is that fact that has always made me believe there is life elsewhere, maybe not as we know it, but there has to be.
  13. The coyotes have been very active near my house and our female dog is fixed, it is not just from one cause that they are around. Watch out for your dogs, shoot the coyotes. Don't let your cats outside.
  14. In reality if it were a vacuum and there was a hole like that, you would get perpetual motion. The cool thing is if you could base off a high point you would actually keep clearing the surface by the same amount. Of course in a vacuum your body position would look like shit but oh well.
  15. If the surface at the end of the holes were at the same elevation you would just make it to the other side (given a vacuum and no magma etc.) You would not come up short of the same elevation
  16. That was the problem, I have the 1995 Jeep Grand Cherokee and I too had to fix the same problem. No more worries it will run fine now. Just use some mobil 1 too and save any more troubles, plus you get 7500 miles on an oil change. Just check your oil though, in that amount of time you could be low a little bit. Did you do the extreme cleaning on the intake yet?
  17. Very tasty too! If you don't have marrow you can saute them in olive oil, seasoned with black pepper and sea salt, if canned forget the salt.
  18. They probably beeped their horn at it You would think that people might be bright enough to really give that animal some room, but no, that is not possible is it?
  19. Yep. That is most like likely the only exception with a land mass that large. Conversely China would have the same outcome. We did this a long time ago in class, but without such a visual aid. Surveyors do weird things when they are bored...
  20. Considering the percentage of water covering the Earth, did you expect to hit land?