Wow!

Some ideas are just...well...IDK...stoopid?

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^^^^
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Best Teammate Ever

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Just look at this perfect swing. A pee wee leaguers dream.

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Anyone ever get mail on a Sunday? Yesterday, about the time the mail usually shows up, it was raining. Raining hard. I didn't think much of it, but I didn't check the mail yesterday either. This morning around 8:00am I could hear what sounded like the mail truck coming down the street. They usually do the opposite side of the street first, then turn around and do my side. Sure enough, a couple minutes later he was at our mailbox. I wonder if it was raining hard enough yesterday that he just said f-it, or if he had mechanical issues, or what. A couple times I've received priority mail packages on a Sunday, but never letters.

Nope never on Sunday.

Hoagy Carmichael holds the record for longest song title: "I'm a Cranky Old Yank in a Clanky Old Tank on the Streets of Yokohama with my Honolulu Mama Doing Those Beat-o, Beat-o, Flat on my Seat-o Hirohito Blues".

The more you know.....

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This is terrifying video

https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/massive-tornadoes-touchdown-causing-devastating-damage/vi-AAWR2gN?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=ef90ce424e4c4f139de26cc 0ce95aa89

So nice!
 

https://twitter.com/Yankees/status/1521679375388876800

https://twitter.com/MLB/status/1521978601201090568

The power and ruthlessness of mother nature is impressive.

Tornados and hurricanes and tsunamis and earthquakes are awe inspiring events.

Earthquakes, hurricanes and especially tsunamis make most tornadoes look wimpy. The biggest baddest meanest tornado ever with 300+ MPH winds destroyed a very small part of Norman, OK. Just a few blocks away from the destruction was full civilization. electricity, hospitals, clean water and safety. Compared to the earthquake like Northridge in California, or the tsunami in Japan, or a Hurricane like Katrina that wipes out most a major city. Tornadoes can strike almost anywhere, and cause very localized damage.

Wildfires burn massive areas. Flooding and lightning are the major killers.

Volcanoes are kinda scary, but only for people that live near them.

THis is pretty cool. The PO of my place left a short section of RR in the garage. I'm not likely to go to all of that trouble.

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Jeez that was clever but not worth the effort for me.

2022 SI swimsuit issue has jumped the shark IMO, but I'm kinda shallow. It's not out yet but the advance PR is not encouraging.

I think Redbull has to much money.

A Good Evening.

Played at the Legion last evening. After most of the patrons left, I seemed to be left with a core group of Gordon Lightfoot and Stan Rogers fans. The requests were coming one after another and were right up my alley. They were singing along and tipped well.
A memorable evening.

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Les

I've been through a few Bahamian hurricanes and a couple of big Italian earthquakes

Seen a few water spouts, heard a large avalanche but thankfully not experienced a tsunami or tornado

It was the earthquake that unsettled me the most, think it was because it wasn't stormy weather dependent and happened with no prior warning

What's the story here?

A small town. The local Legion has live music on Friday evenings. I play there maybe 6 to 8 times a year. Friday night there were a couple of guys in the crowd who also play there from time to time and their musical interests overlap with mine. As I said, the requests for particular artists or songs were popping up and with a lot of the songs they were singing along. I grew up learning to play Gordon Lightfoot, came to Stan Rogers later, but have a catalog of Paul Simon, Billy Joel, Cat Stevens and Jim Croce. We finally closed the place

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Les

Nice Les. Were you named in honor of Mr Paul? SmileWavy

Hopefully not Lester Moore! http://forums.pelicanparts.com/support/smileys/chix.gif

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Nope. My competence with the guitar doesn't run that far. I play enough to back up my voice.
Being the 7th son, they were running out of family names, so I got named for one of my father's cousins. ;) Middle name from one of Dad's uncles.

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Les

The child actor with the shark fin (appears at 1:14 in this clip) was just made Police Chief on the island in Martha's Vineyard where Jaws was set. What a great movie!

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https://vineyardgazette.com/news/2022/05/16/oak-bluffs-names-jonathan-searle-new-police-chief

im 3 pages in and dig it. we in the MPF have a random junk thread that the regulars participate in and it rules.

may i participate?

Why not. I started this to cut down on the number of threads that go nowhere. It's like the island of lost topics.

To keep the thread "Island of the tropics" style...

Do you like my new fingernail polish. I like it, but I don't think I'll do the others.

It's not a good look, a grown man nearly crying.

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Bill, I think you have a hit on your hands!

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Les

That's some bad hat, Harry.

You probably saw it coming about a nanosecond before the hammer fell. At least it's better than catching your sack in a zipper.

I remember hitting my thumb with a hammer as a kid. Went to the doctor and he took a very small drill bit and by hand drilled a tiny hole into the top of my nail, over the bloody area. As soon as he pierced the nail it was like a fountain as the blood squirted out. Immediate relief. Put some antibiotic on it and a bandage and I was good to go.

cat helping out with vole eradication....


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still a losing battle currently.

As a kid I smashed my big toe and broke it in 11 places. The nail was black in no time, and it hurt like hell. My mom took me to Tripler Army Hospital. I knew I was in trouble when 4 LARGE orderlies walked in. The doc heated up a needle in a Bunsen burner to glowing red, and the four orderlies split up to hold either a leg or an arm and pin me down to the table and told me not to move. The doc pressed the glowing hot needle into my toe nail, and it squirted blood almost to my knee, and it was almost organismic at the instant relief from throbbing pain.

They put me in a cast up to my knee.

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This is me in my cast receiving a Tortured Toe award in the spring of 1969.

Thanks Cairo and Glenn. A friend told me about the hole in the fingernail trick yesterday. I wish I'd known it at the time. I dropped a big steel beam on it :eek: The bone must be OK or it would be still hurting now.

Every time I have smashed a finger, I use a sharp knife to dig a tiny hole through the nail. Instant relief.

Thanks guys. Good information for next time.

Steve, that looks like a modern day version of medieval torture LOL

Had a similar experience with the bunsen burner thing…finger was throbbing so bad my hand was bouncing off the bed that night so went to ER and got that treatment. As you said, instant relief. The next time the ER guy had a thing that looked like a ball point pen and with a little click it poked a hole in the nail and no more pressure. Finally graduated to using carburetor jet drill bits and doing it myself.

Another way it can be done....
As a kid, the Dr. used a small alcohol lamp and a sewing needle on my toe nail.
Heated the needle up good and it melted thru the nail easily. Felt no heat and it was fast.