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Cannibal
"Jessica B" wrote in message
... snip Actually, it's even better than that. His boss and I are sort of lunch buddies going on a couple of years... it's kind of a long story, but the short version is that I was on this commercial inspection project in full "inspector" regalia (hard hat, gloves, steel-toe boots - all of which were required, but I rarely go on these sites any more).. anyway.. he ran over my foot in the dirt lot (no damage, just some bruising) and he's still feels bad about it. I didn't go on workers comp, which meant I didn't have to fill out a report, so you get it. So, we're having lunch and I mention about stickers on vehicles... isn't that against policy? Well, no, it isn't as long as it's tasteful. So, I said, would it be ok if I put a Support our Troops on the bumper... no problem. It's going on tomorrow. I love it! So, what are you going to say to your boss then he tries to write you up for putting the sticker back on? "You'd better talk to YOUR boss because he told me it was OK." That'll larn him! snipped some more Blinky? I've not heard that term... for a Ham radio?? That's "Binky". You know one of those little fake nipples mothers let their babies suck on so they don't cry. http://www.drugstore.com/products/pr...ELAID=61283337 snip Funny that you mentioned the flat-screened TVs. You'd be surprised at how often a discussion of flat-screened TVs comes up here. It's so ludicrous reading so-called sailors REAL priorities - television. Some of them even have satellite receivers aboard. All the more reason for them to run smelly and noisy generators multiple hours each and every day. Anything but sailing yet they claim to be sailors. Yeah, I just don't get it. There are so many things to see and do... how about some real life! Don't hold your breath . . . They don't call them 'sheeple' for nothing. I didn't even have to say PMS! They just assumed. But, you can only get away with it once a month provided they have halfway decent memories. ;-) We do good things most of the time. The commercial people mostly get it. Don't f*ck with me or your life will be a living hell. (Actually, they seem to listen to me more than the residential customers.) The residential ones think they know everything! I had one a couple of weeks ago.. a diy job. The guy hooked up furness fine, but never attached the ducting that goes from the air intake to the unit... a good inch gap - so it was sucking in air from God knows where, so the chief red-flagged it. I found it, so I got "blamed" by the customer. I said, hey, would you like me to look around for some more things? You should get yourself a nice pair of black, shiney jackboots and a riding crop - really intimidate them. LOL! Three... whoa! It must take a lot to bring up the big ones... even just 10 ft. of chain isn't light. Even with the chain they only weigh about 35 pounds each. That's not much really. Breaking them out of the bottom, if the holding is good, is the most work but usually the boat does all that work. Just snub up the chain until it's straight up and down and let a few waves roll under the hull and the boat pulls the anchor out of the mud or sand. The eyes bigger than their stomach crowd with their forty and fifty foot boats must use anchors bigger and heavier than they can manually weigh - fifty or sixty pound anchors and lots of heavy chain - so they are forced to use windlasses which use electricity to pull up the ground tackle. These use tons of electricity and are very heavy and require heavy wire because of the high amperage loads. So, where does all that electricity come from? You guessed it, it comes from smelly, pollution machine diesels generating electricity at all hours. Overly large sailboats are really stupid, IMO. Any time a boat is so large that one strong man cannot manually work the various systems, it tells me it's an exercise in mental retardation on behalf of the owner. Wilbur Hubbard |