Funny pic/gif thread...
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Even worse than uphill in the snow, walking on shag carpet in the dark since no dad saw any reason to have lights on to watch TV. The sudden scream of pain as you crumple to the floor announced you had found another one of your sister's jacks. Not since the Inquisition had such an infernal device as jacks been invented. Well, maybe lawn darts but how many people did they really kill?
Hu
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I'd take a Lego over a caltrop, I mean jack, any day.
I found some roughly one foot tall jacks. I'm thinking about taking up a collection and send a couple dozen to Ukraine. Best I remember they were only about twenty-five bucks and I figure one should stop anything short of a tank! Twelve ply truck and implement tires wouldn't stand a chance.Yep
Those who think legos are bad are too damn young to know what jacks are!
I have a phantom pain in my right instep just thinking about jacks. One must have nailed me there in the days of my misspent youth!
Hu
Something very close has actually been used to stop tanks and landing craft almost since their inception.
The hedgehog...
boogieman
It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that ping.
Anybody want to explain this to us slow kids?
I very clearly remember the day my family got our first remote control for the TV...
I knew instantly that my life just got a lot better, as I was the remote control up until then
You brought back a childhood memory of a friend's father complaining about the little wooden Fisher-Price people. He was emphatic about the one with the sideways cowboy hat.
Sixteen year cicadas. They are supposed to stay underground for sixteen years before coming up, leaving all those shells behind, mating, and dying. When they say a broad has legs or an ass to die for they aren't just talking.Anybody want to explain this to us slow kids?
Problem is, one big batch is a year late, another batch three years early. We are talking millions blanketing several states, maybe billions! One of those big things will almost peel you off of a motorcycle when you hit it at seventy or so!
Caltraps date back to foot soldiers and horses. They are wickedly effective at stopping a charge and stopping nighttime activities. Protestors, AKA terrorists buy roofing nails by the keg to spread on highways in hunting season. There were dozens of vehicles with all four tires nailed the first day of deer season years ago. Those big nails with the square plate right under the head are most popular to use. I think I would be a wee bit annoyed! A thousand dollars worth of tires gone to hell and the fine print says the insurance doesn't cover acts of terrorism.
Hu
Literally, spent many hours fighting over changing the channel, with my brother. Who's turn is it? I'm not talking about bitching and yaking. I mean fists, elbows, knees, chokeholds on the carpet, within reach of the TV. I love him even now. We did manage to survive the lawn darts, we wanted to win, dropped it right in that hoop.
A week from tomorrow I fly to Chicago to see the newest member of my family. Yes I am finally a Grandpa.
Cicadas are always loud in the burbs of the windy City and they have just started. When I was a kid my father had me climbing trees to catch them, he was involved with a company trying to duplicate their voice box or Tymbals. The idea was to make a speaker that was very small but very loud.
I still catch them when I am in the flats, I have only seen one in all the years I have been at 8,400 feet.
Yeah, the ones that made noise—we called them clickers. My mom had a chunky necklace that would change the channel if she moved too fast.I very clearly remember the day my family got our first remote control for the TV...
I knew instantly that my life just got a lot better, as I was the remote control up until then
We had the first truly remote-control TV in the whole town. Actually, it was my grand parents had it. Circa 1972 or so and G'Pa got it for G'Ma. She had a stroke and broke her hip making her bedridden. TV was a B&W 19" RCA with a "clicker" box the size of a wall stud locator. One click, one channel. G'ma had to watch her daytime soaps! (Dang,.... now I feel O L D !)
boogieman
It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that ping.
So what does that have to do with the drag queen? That's the part that has me confused.