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    Help me find this cosy.

    I drink one or two beers a day. I like them cold.<br /><br />Sometimes it is a Heini in the "keg" can, sometimes a Heini light (long neck), a Heini in a bottle and sometimes a Becks.<br /><br />None of the cosys I have found fit all of them. My grandson brought me one when he came to visit. It...
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    My fellow veterans. . .

    I thank you, my children thank you, my grandchildren thank you and my greatgrandson thanks you for your service to protect and preserve Liberty all over the world.<br />
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    Natural disasters.

    In the past 12 months we have had a tsunami in the southwest Pacific and southeast Asia, several hurricanes in Central America and the US Gulf states, earthquakes in Asia, several tornados in central USA, and other natural disasters in other parts of the world. Hundreds of thousands, if not...
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    Don't feel like I expected to.

    I haven't thought of a birthday as a big deal since I turned 21. This is different.<br /><br />I can't explain what I thought I would feel like, but I do know this isn't it.<br /><br />Old? Well, my body is certainly deteriorating. . . .eyes and ears don't work well anymore and I haven't the...
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    How to (HAHAHA) train your man (BWAAAAAAhahaha) to behave.(Heeeehehehehee).

    Just saw this on CNN.<br /><br />There is a show on BBC teaching women how to "train" men to behave as they wish.<br /><br />They teach women how to behave so their men will treat them as they wish to be treated. They compare it to dog training.<br /><br />The women then behave as a woman should...
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    Philosophy 101

    Truth is.
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    Say, Brit friends. What does PROMS mean?

    Watched a replay of the final 2004 concert last night. Very impressed.<br /><br />PROMS appears to be an acronym. What does it mean?
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    So you think you had a bad night?

    My twice-a-month houskeeper told me this story about another one of her clients and swears it is true.<br /><br />Let's call this young couple John and Marsha.<br /><br />On this night John, who sleeps bare, got up to go to the bathroom.<br /><br />The family cat follows him. She spies his...
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    Historical documentaries. Written by Hollywood?

    Noticed a few simple but important errors recently. As a student of WWII in the Pacific and of US Naval Aviation they really annoyed me.<br /><br />The errors appeared deliberate attempts to heighten the drama of the stories. That is what Hollywood writers always do to history.<br /><br />In a...
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    RATZAKRATZA!! ROWRBAZZLE!! (rant)

    I have one of those big leather recliners with the engineer's nighmare mechanism underneath.<br /><br />Last week, POW!. One of the two springs that "balance" the back snapped.<br /><br />Dug it out of the innards and took it to NAPA, where I found one pretty close. A little time with the big...
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    Facts of life, '40s style.

    Friday and Saturday were date nights.<br /><br />$.25 worth of gas was enough for a double date.<br /><br />You went to the girl's door to pick her up. Lot's of "Yessir and Yesmaam" were required or you left alone.<br /><br />$1.00 per carload got 10 of us into the drive-in.<br />Billy Walker...
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    It's 100 degrees out there, but. . . .

    My tiny friends have left for Mexico.<br /><br />Last week there were about 100 hummers clouding around my feeders. They have been a source of endless entertainment all summer, sucking up about 25lb of sugar.<br /><br />My winter resident flocks of finches wont be here for another month. They...
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    National Biased Company strikes again.

    Last night's "In depth report" on NBC Nightly News. "What is causing all these strong hurricanes?".<br /><br />Environmentalist: The worlds oceans have warmed 1 degree in the last 50 years. Global warming caused by greenhouse gasses is causing these H'canes.<br /><br />What they didn't offer...
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    Now I know what I would do if I won the lottery.

    I have a good but modest life and want for very little. I have been asked "the" lottery question and couldn't answer it because I had no dreams of what I would do with millions of bux.<br /><br />Now I know.<br /><br />Jay Leno must be the ultimate motorhead. He collects and wrenches on...
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    A theory on the Church/State question.

    I give a lot of thought to what the framers of the Constitution had in mind when they wrote it, and the Amendments.<br /><br />One of the things that brought many of our forefathers to this country was religious persecution, if you weren't an Anglican in England your goose was cooked, then fed...
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    They're gonna drill!

    The guy from the gas exploration co. called this afternoon.<br /><br />Wants to lease and easement to drill a water well to serve the gas drilling they are gonna do on the property next door (same lease pool). After they are done, the well will be mine. <br /><br />Word around here is that in 10...
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    How much is 100 Billion dollars?

    Well, if there are 500,000 persons displaced, That is $200,000 per person, to cover recovery of infrastructure, dwellings, care of refugees, etc.<br /><br />If the population of the USA is 300 million, that is $333 per USA citizen.<br /><br />If it is a stack of $100 bills, the stack is about...
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    Thanks for the help II.

    When your problem is resolved, post here who helped you and the outcome.
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    Thanks for the help.

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