Funny pic/gif thread...
- Thread starter dfweyer
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I finally had to get readers. In the house I could use a small magnifying glass to avoid it but you look like a moron pulling that out places you need to do business.
Rusty in Montana
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I've been wearing these trifocals for quite some time now and it's still challenging to navigate stairs and yes the above picture of the carpet definitely would be the undoing of many people ha ha !
George the Greek
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I turned 15 the summer Jaws came out. Working at a race track in So Cal. We worked the AM, and raced at night. The horses all napped, in the afternoon. Two kids from MN and one from OK. We would drive to Huntington beach every day. For a bunch of flatlanders, it was a blast. One night, after the races, a local kid came running up, all excited. Said the surf was up, had to go. It was awesome. Surf was 6-8’, way more than usual. Waves crashing on the beach, it was loud. We had just seen the movie, at a drive in. Nobody got in the water, not even the local.
You have a point about tougher pitching. On the other hand, when a batter connects with a pitch it should be a little faster than a ball pitched in the old days. Faster in, faster out. Very hard to get a monster hit off of a slow moving ball.
Just as a by the by, a friend tried out for the Houston Astros about forty years ago. When they tested how fast he could throw the ball through some traps which I have to assume were pretty close to where he was throwing from, he threw all three pitches at 99.8 or 99.9MPH. He was displeased he couldn't get a nice round hundred on the readout! They wanted him to come play but almost everyone starts off in the minors. The pay is ridiculously low, I'm not sure if it is any better now other than the basic increases in minimum wage but that is about what they were getting or less. I think the pay offered was about twenty thousand a year or a little less. As a certified welder and pipe welder he made considerably more, several times more. Too his mother was in poor health and he didn't want to leave town and leave her living alone with no family close.
The last I knew minor league was still more hobby than anything else. Different story if you got called up to the majors.
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George the Greek
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The grandkids are taking sailing lessons at the local sailing club here in Nova Scotia and 2 weeks ago a 17ft great white was swimming between some of the little boats and the instructors got all the kids safely back to the sailing club.That would be fkn scaryI turned 15 the summer Jaws came out. Working at a race track in So Cal. We worked the AM, and raced at night. The horses all napped, in the afternoon. Two kids from MN and one from OK. We would drive to Huntington beach every day. For a bunch of flatlanders, it was a blast. One night, after the races, a local kid came running up, all excited. Said the surf was up, had to go. It was awesome. Surf was 6-8’, way more than usual. Waves crashing on the beach, it was loud. We had just seen the movie, at a drive in. Nobody got in the water, not even the local.
DeeDeeCues
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All lies. There is no fried chicken and waffles, fried okra, fried green tomatoes, hush puppies, hoppin' jack, grits, redeye gravy, chitlins...
