Sharks with freakin' laser beams on their heads
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Chris Meech wrote:
you learned very quickly to not look at anybody in the eye.
So, a lot of female coworkers, huh? "No, I wasn't ogling you... I just didn't want to blind you!"
Proud to have finally moved to the A-Ark. Which one are you in?
Author of the Guardians Saga (Sci-Fi/Fantasy novels)Several mines I worked at did not allow women underground at all. :) At a few of the pit operations I worked at though, found that women truck drivers treated their trucks better than the men did and that maintenance was cheaper. Go figure. :)
Chris Meech I am Canadian. [heard in a local bar] In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is. [Yogi Berra]
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So, I'm riding my bike into work this morning. It's a little before 6:00 a.m. and it's still dark, so I've got the light mounted on my handlebars turned on. I had to stop my bike twice and wait for people to go past me. The first guy's light is so bright I could see him coming down the bike path (an old rail bed) almost a mile away. The other guy is a walker with a light mounted on a hat, and the @!@#$@! moron points his head to look at me as he walks past. Is it really necessary to have your phaser set to kill that early in the morning? :sigh:
Software Zen:
delete this;Drive a car. :)
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So, I'm riding my bike into work this morning. It's a little before 6:00 a.m. and it's still dark, so I've got the light mounted on my handlebars turned on. I had to stop my bike twice and wait for people to go past me. The first guy's light is so bright I could see him coming down the bike path (an old rail bed) almost a mile away. The other guy is a walker with a light mounted on a hat, and the @!@#$@! moron points his head to look at me as he walks past. Is it really necessary to have your phaser set to kill that early in the morning? :sigh:
Software Zen:
delete this;Gary Wheeler wrote:
Is it really necessary to have your phaser set to kill that early in the morning?
Just get a couple high power camera flashes and fire back with photon torpedoes! Marc
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Gary Wheeler wrote:
Is it really necessary to have your phaser set to kill that early in the morning?
Just get a couple high power camera flashes and fire back with photon torpedoes! Marc
:cool::thumbsup:
Software Zen:
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My wife's grandfather Oscar was a coal miner, and was familiar with handling dynamite. One day the shift supervisor asked him to remove a tree stump next to the office shack, because the guy wanted a space to park his car. Oscar removed the stump using several sticks of dynamite. He also removed about half of the office shack, which was fortunately unoccupied at the time :omg:.
Software Zen:
delete this;Gary Wheeler wrote:
My wife's grandfather Oscar ... was familiar with handling dynamite.
Gary Wheeler wrote:
He also removed about half of the office shack
Umm....
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Gary Wheeler wrote:
My wife's grandfather Oscar ... was familiar with handling dynamite.
Gary Wheeler wrote:
He also removed about half of the office shack
Umm....
Oscar was also a bit 'over-enthusiastic' at times when he was a young man :-D. At 90, he's still quite a character.
Software Zen:
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So, I'm riding my bike into work this morning. It's a little before 6:00 a.m. and it's still dark, so I've got the light mounted on my handlebars turned on. I had to stop my bike twice and wait for people to go past me. The first guy's light is so bright I could see him coming down the bike path (an old rail bed) almost a mile away. The other guy is a walker with a light mounted on a hat, and the @!@#$@! moron points his head to look at me as he walks past. Is it really necessary to have your phaser set to kill that early in the morning? :sigh:
Software Zen:
delete this;I get that on the interstate. People think that just because the lanes going the other direction are across a small median, that their brights will not blind you coming from the other way.
Yeah, I need to update this. Darn Judge Judy reruns! http://CraptasticNation.blogspot.com/[^]
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KenBonny wrote:
Why wouldn't you look somebody in the eye?
Because he might think you're challenging him to a fight, and underground they carry dynamite it seems
____________________________________________________________ Be brave little warrior, be VERY brave
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Drive a car. :)
Why don't you try a pogo stick? You would be in and out of the beam. Or you could ride a Big Wheel - remeber those, that would put you under the beam. Or maybe get your mom to drive you.
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So, I'm riding my bike into work this morning. It's a little before 6:00 a.m. and it's still dark, so I've got the light mounted on my handlebars turned on. I had to stop my bike twice and wait for people to go past me. The first guy's light is so bright I could see him coming down the bike path (an old rail bed) almost a mile away. The other guy is a walker with a light mounted on a hat, and the @!@#$@! moron points his head to look at me as he walks past. Is it really necessary to have your phaser set to kill that early in the morning? :sigh:
Software Zen:
delete this;I use an air horn. Make sure you wait until they're close. I warm greeting adds a nice touch "Good-(air horn)-Morning".
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So, I'm riding my bike into work this morning. It's a little before 6:00 a.m. and it's still dark, so I've got the light mounted on my handlebars turned on. I had to stop my bike twice and wait for people to go past me. The first guy's light is so bright I could see him coming down the bike path (an old rail bed) almost a mile away. The other guy is a walker with a light mounted on a hat, and the @!@#$@! moron points his head to look at me as he walks past. Is it really necessary to have your phaser set to kill that early in the morning? :sigh:
Software Zen:
delete this;You should fit mirrors and wear one your head. If the walker looks at you then just look back at him! :)
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My wife's grandfather Oscar was a coal miner, and was familiar with handling dynamite. One day the shift supervisor asked him to remove a tree stump next to the office shack, because the guy wanted a space to park his car. Oscar removed the stump using several sticks of dynamite. He also removed about half of the office shack, which was fortunately unoccupied at the time :omg:.
Software Zen:
delete this;Gary Wheeler wrote:
One day the shift supervisor asked him to remove a tree stump next to the office shack, because the guy wanted a space to park his car. Oscar removed the stump using several sticks of dynamite. He also removed about half of the office shack, which was fortunately unoccupied at the time :omg:.
So the guy got TWO parking spaces! Now that's efficiency. ;)
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So, I'm riding my bike into work this morning. It's a little before 6:00 a.m. and it's still dark, so I've got the light mounted on my handlebars turned on. I had to stop my bike twice and wait for people to go past me. The first guy's light is so bright I could see him coming down the bike path (an old rail bed) almost a mile away. The other guy is a walker with a light mounted on a hat, and the @!@#$@! moron points his head to look at me as he walks past. Is it really necessary to have your phaser set to kill that early in the morning? :sigh:
Software Zen:
delete this;Last time I wore a hat with a light was back in the 70's. When I was a teen we hunted raccoon at night, and the goal was to light up his eyes (evil yellow glow), then aim your .22 between them. We always made a point NOT to look directly at each other because then you're stumbling blindly through the woods. Not even remotely on-topic, but it was the only light-on-my-head-at-night story in my repertoire. :laugh:
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Gary Wheeler wrote:
My wife's grandfather Oscar ... was familiar with handling dynamite.
Gary Wheeler wrote:
He also removed about half of the office shack
Umm....
viaducting wrote:
Gary Wheeler wrote: My wife's grandfather Oscar ... was familiar with handling dynamite. Gary Wheeler wrote: He also removed about half of the office shack Umm....
Reminds me of a character on The Red Green Show :laugh:
Laterness... Doug
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My wife's grandfather Oscar was a coal miner, and was familiar with handling dynamite. One day the shift supervisor asked him to remove a tree stump next to the office shack, because the guy wanted a space to park his car. Oscar removed the stump using several sticks of dynamite. He also removed about half of the office shack, which was fortunately unoccupied at the time :omg:.
Software Zen:
delete this;Methinks it was "fortunately unoccupied" because Oscar yelled "Fire in the hole!" three times when he lit the fuse, being "experienced with dynamite." Don't take a genius to know that that's when to haul azz. :-D
"To do is to be." [Descartes] "To be is to do." [Voltaire] "Do be do be do..."[Frank Sinatra]
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So, I'm riding my bike into work this morning. It's a little before 6:00 a.m. and it's still dark, so I've got the light mounted on my handlebars turned on. I had to stop my bike twice and wait for people to go past me. The first guy's light is so bright I could see him coming down the bike path (an old rail bed) almost a mile away. The other guy is a walker with a light mounted on a hat, and the @!@#$@! moron points his head to look at me as he walks past. Is it really necessary to have your phaser set to kill that early in the morning? :sigh:
Software Zen:
delete this;Get a bigger light, brightest wins. I suggest "The Torch" from Wickedlasers, it will force the walkers to have to stop instead.
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So, I'm riding my bike into work this morning. It's a little before 6:00 a.m. and it's still dark, so I've got the light mounted on my handlebars turned on. I had to stop my bike twice and wait for people to go past me. The first guy's light is so bright I could see him coming down the bike path (an old rail bed) almost a mile away. The other guy is a walker with a light mounted on a hat, and the @!@#$@! moron points his head to look at me as he walks past. Is it really necessary to have your phaser set to kill that early in the morning? :sigh:
Software Zen:
delete this;While I understand your complaint, I feel that a bright light is simply a good precaution. I biked approx 11 miles to high school for 2 years in LA. I wore screaming yellow and had a bike light that was equivalent of a 40 watt halogen on its lowest setting. Despite all that, I was still somehow invisible to many cars. I'm not saying that you don't have a valid point, but that there are valid reasons for ridiculously bright lights.
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Several mines I worked at did not allow women underground at all. :) At a few of the pit operations I worked at though, found that women truck drivers treated their trucks better than the men did and that maintenance was cheaper. Go figure. :)
Chris Meech I am Canadian. [heard in a local bar] In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is. [Yogi Berra]
Chris Meech wrote:
Several mines I worked at did not allow women underground at all.
That for the same reason sailors didn't like women on their boats. If a woman would end up doing a guy, the other guys might get jealous and they'd have trouble on their hands. On the other hand, think about 10 or 20 guys, out on sea for a couple of months, and one or two women in their middle. Would those women feel safe?
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While I understand your complaint, I feel that a bright light is simply a good precaution. I biked approx 11 miles to high school for 2 years in LA. I wore screaming yellow and had a bike light that was equivalent of a 40 watt halogen on its lowest setting. Despite all that, I was still somehow invisible to many cars. I'm not saying that you don't have a valid point, but that there are valid reasons for ridiculously bright lights.
Yeah, I wasn't really saying I disapproved of the bright lights. I have the same visibility problem with traffic you did. The walker could have turned away, however, rather than staring me in the face :rolleyes:.
Software Zen:
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Yeah, I wasn't really saying I disapproved of the bright lights. I have the same visibility problem with traffic you did. The walker could have turned away, however, rather than staring me in the face :rolleyes:.
Software Zen:
delete this;