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jimmyco said:
Roundabouts: I take the two laners using both lanes when dragging 53 feet of trailer behind me. Outside steer is kissing the outside curb and trailer tandems are up on the inside island.
Every time, without exception, somebody tries to pass on the outside.
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Driving big trucks is truly an adventure, every day. i've been passed on a narrow road on double yellow , in a school zone, many times, one time even by a freaking deputy sheriff(Phelps , Pike County, Ky that's you, baby!).
 
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ShootingArts said:
Ahhh, pressure. They snatched aholt of me right after lunch. I was "invited" to a conference with all the wheels at the nuke, including the right hand of god and god. Not real usual for a peon contractor. Seems that they had a design issue with a twelve pole electrical switch and had to swap it out with an unauthorized replacement. Two O'clock by the time they explained the problem to me and we had until five PM DC time to get a fax of the issue and new component to the NRC. The meeting had went on past my direct involvement, talking about business issues. Sixty thousand a day fine and a ten percent power reduction. Sixty thousand was about half the daily profit but the power reduction was the big deal. We were near the end of a fueling cycle and the reaction got a little unstable late in the run. Tickling the fuel with the cooling rods used to control the reaction could easily cause it to fail completely.

Nobody had to tell me the reasons the only contractor had been selected for this crisis drawing. I was the fastest on the team turning out drawings but there was also the issue shit flows downhill and if any heads rolled I was first in line! I interrupted the meeting, "this part doesn't pertain to me. I need to grab an engineer and get started." The young engineer looked pretty expendable himself. With a little time to fax it I was down to one hour forty-five minutes to draw the switches. When I saw it fortunately it was a common switch I was familiar with. Still twelve posts and fully exposed wire coil on the outside and wrapping around the top and bottom. I had to show the damage too, a little free hand work on the computer to top off a lot of drawing!

Got the drawings completed with five minutes to spare. No checking except the eyeballing me and the little engineer gave it, cover sheet attached and off to DC. Never got an attaboy of any kind for turning out that drawing under almost impossible conditions, I had to just be glad an oh pooper didn't land on my head! Had I waited around respectfully for a pause instead of interrupting the meeting to get started the project would have probably went from impossible to impossible!

It was a small group and I let my boss know I was aware he had hung my butt out in the breeze to protect his house people. I wasn't upset about it, I would have done the same in his shoes. He could have found himself up to the chin in crapola too. Normally he would have been brown nosing around the gathering of the gods all he could, I knew things would be interesting when he squeezed me through the half open door of the conference room and bolted.

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When we eventually meet I'll tell you a similar story lol

Gotta love Nukes
 
RickLafayette said:
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My favorite James Bond story: Roger Moore was playing James Bond in a movie. His son asked him, "If you got in a fight with the real James Bond who would win?" Roger tried to explain that he was the real James Bond now but his son was at the age he wasn't buying that. He knew Sean Connery was the real James Bond! I suspect he knew that Sean would kick Roger's ass too!

Roger Moore didn't cut it as James Bond for me either. On the other hand, Sean Connery wouldn't have cut it as The Saint! Some people just own some roles. Some of the more recent Bonds haven't been bad but that is partially because people have forgotten Sean Connery a little, the real James Bond. These new Bonds are bleeding all over the place, just not the same level of cool. Sean Connery would save the world, knock a little dust off of his jacket, and go meet a beautiful lady for a martini.

Hu

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ShootingArts said:
My favorite James Bond story: Roger Moore was playing James Bond in a movie. His son asked him, "If you got in a fight with the real James Bond who would win?" Roger tried to explain that he was the real James Bond now but his son was at the age he wasn't buying that. He knew Sean Connery was the real James Bond! I suspect he knew that Sean would kick Roger's ass too!

Roger Moore didn't cut it as James Bond for me either. On the other hand, Sean Connery wouldn't have cut it as The Saint! Some people just own some roles. Some of the more recent Bonds haven't been bad but that is partially because people have forgotten Sean Connery a little, the real James Bond. These new Bonds are bleeding all over the place, just not the same level of cool. Sean Connery would save the world, knock a little dust off of his jacket, and go meet a beautiful lady for a martini.

Hu

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I liked Roger Moore. He seemed to understand how preposterous the idea of a famous spy was and played the roles with a wink. The movies were getting a bit campy in that era and he played the part perfectly. He probably wouldn't have been very good in Goldfinger. And Sean Connery could never invent snowboarding, nor have an iceberg submarine.
 
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