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dad911 07-31-2013 05:50 PM

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Originally Posted by SteamWolf (Post 7579019)
Oh yeah, and I put a computer in a fish tank and filled it with oil (back before things like the WD Live media boxes were available).
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Figured if I had to have a PC in my living room, it needed to look cool, and be quiet. As far as I know, I was the only person with one that looked like that lol
It's now in Uncle's single malt man cave.

That is very cool. What kind of oil?

SteamWolf 07-31-2013 06:21 PM

It's a light medical oil called Ondina. Canola or even olive oil can be used, but I know Ondina is used in HV transformers and electric motors so figured it would be safe. Also, it is almost completely transparent unlike vege oils.

Hawktel 07-31-2013 06:46 PM

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Originally Posted by Joe Bob (Post 7577905)

From the creepy article..

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What is the cost of a Human Leather Wallet?
From Euros 9,000 onwards (USD$14,000 approx)

What is the cost of a Human Leather Belt?
From Euros 10,500 onwards (USD$15,750 approx)

What is the cost of a pair of Human Leather Shoes?
From Euros 18,000 onwards (USD$27,000 approx)

All prices quoted above are the historical minimum that we have asked for in the past. They are for guidance only and each piece will be priced individually.

lowyder993s 07-31-2013 06:55 PM

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Originally Posted by Seahawk (Post 7578786)
First one to ever shoot a "war shot" Penguin Missile from an H-60.

Just before, me in the left seat.

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Did you it what you were aiming at?

porsche4life 07-31-2013 06:58 PM

If I told ya... I'd have to kill ya... ;)

LWJ 07-31-2013 08:16 PM

I shut down Black Flag in 1986 at an outdoor show at University of Oregon. I warned the sound man three times that it was too loud. Last time I told him to pull the plug. I was terrified that we would have a riot. Nope. Just a bunch of punks walking away. Didn't even yell.

Larry

PS - Rollins is a dufus.

Joe Bob 07-31-2013 08:19 PM

I saw Rollins and the rest of the band get tossed into the Paddy Wagon outside the old church in Hermosa.....sitting on my balcony with a beer and spleef laughing my ass off.

cstreit 07-31-2013 09:35 PM

I scratched my butt.. No one else has ever scratched my butt, nor ever will I reckon.

LeeH 07-31-2013 10:06 PM

When I was in high school, I asked a friend if I could borrow a pencil. He flung one in my direction at a fairly high rate of speed. I missed it. The pencil bounced off my chest and fell to the floor. Our school was old and had the standard tan, linoleum square tiles of the day. The pencil fell and landed standing straight up and down with its point in the intersection of four of the floor tiles.

We all freaked out a bit. What are the odds of a pencil landing on its point standing straight up and down??? After staring at it for a few minutes I got down in the floor and barely touched the side of the pencil. It immediately fell over. We spent the next 10 minutes trying our best to manually stand a pencil on its end between the floor tiles. We couldn't do it.

Bill Douglas 08-01-2013 12:55 AM

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Originally Posted by Laneco (Post 7578072)
I was escorted off Ft. Lewis military base by armed guards - in my beater 911.

It is my humble opinion that they significantly over-reacted to the issue with my DoD credentials.

angela


Ha, it can be quite a laugh getting escorted off after the even I mean. When I was a teen the thing to do amoung our circle of drinking buddies was to go into large organisation's lunch rooms/cafeterias and buy lunch, sit down and enjoy it pretending you worked there. I'd done it lots of times IBM, Telecom, Railways, the list goes on. BUT when I was in NY I thought I'd go to Pan Am's and enjoy lunch then take a photo out the window down Park Ave and that would have been my big one. Umm, a plain clothes security guy slid in next to me and said "What are you doing here?" I said "meeting my girlfriend for lunch and carried on." Not so good, he said "No you're not, come with me." and saw he me off the premises.

slakjaw 08-01-2013 02:19 AM

Some great stories here.

I once got rufied by a gay dude, figured out what happened and ran to the bar across the street. It was a strip club. I woke up on the floor of the place in the morning. My credit card had 3 grand worth of charges on it... Must have been a fun night. Wish I could remember it.

cruisin 08-01-2013 02:47 AM

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Originally Posted by IROC (Post 7577960)
I work at a place that is one-of-a-kind in the world. We do things every day that no one in the history of mankind has ever done before. Even in my position as a lowly engineer, I have written papers published in scientific journals dealing with how we even replace worn components...

I have a similar job where the armed guards and 20' fences topped with razor wire are there to keep people out, not in. That's all I can say about that.

On a lighter note; I once shook the hand of a man who was 2' taller than me and weighed three times what I did at the time. It was Andre' the Giant. He was 7'4" and weight 450 pounds.

GH85Carrera 08-01-2013 04:50 AM

Well there was tihs time at band camp .....

Never mind.

911SauCy 08-01-2013 05:04 AM

I sell smell to people/businesses and make a dang good living doing so...it ain't easy.

Baz 08-01-2013 07:39 AM

I saved a little girl's life.....

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Laneco 08-01-2013 01:51 PM

Awww.... Baz - who saved who?

angela

sc_rufctr 08-01-2013 02:14 PM

I don't think I've done anything unique... But I've done some extraordinary stuff.

Probably the most special was 9 months in Namibia with the UN.
Helped some locals as a medic and did some risky stuff that scares me now when I think about it... Crazy times :eek:

sc_rufctr 08-01-2013 02:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Zeke (Post 7579004)
I've designed and prototyped several things in my life, none of which have proven to be much success. But, you'll not see any of these anywhere:

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The mini duck never made it past the clay stage.

Honestly Milt. I wish you would produce these. I know I'd buy a set.

2porscheguy 08-01-2013 02:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Baz (Post 7579993)
I saved a little girl's life.....

Beautiful girl Baz!

On our honeymoon in Fiji....way back in '91.....our cruise ship was having a beer chugging contest and I won by outchugging an Auzzi!!!....How many of you can stake that claim!.....OK, well he was a hairdresser!:p

gacook 08-01-2013 02:45 PM

Took my ex-wife's virginity ;)


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