Search results

Unless you're a professional athlete, you're never going to get rich working for somebody else. That applies to airline pilots as much as any other working stiff. You're especially not going to get rich on a government paycheck.

I'm a fan of the ones they sell at Despair, Inc.. I used to have one that had a pic of a very hot chick, skimpily clad chick on it. It said: "REALITY: No matter how fine she looks, somebody, somewhere, is sick of her sh*t."

Bingo. Gustav was the strongest storm to hit Lousy Anna since they've been naming them (which is saying a LOT), and it really screwed this place up. I live a long way from the coast on high ground and I was without power for over a week due to Gustav. The damage around here is worse than...

I've always blamed it on the non-ethanol alcohols, Sterno, and various homemade poisons they were consuming back in Prohibition :rofl:. But anyway, the idea of Popeye making a trip to the underworld, by itself, isn't that weird. All the great mythic heroes in the literature of all cultures...

Glad to see Tex is OK and that his devastation wasn't as bad as it could have been. Hope our other friends there are at least as fortunate. I dunno. The weathermen were constantly saying how much surge was expected where, which is the thing you need to key on. Besides, nobody knew Ike was...

As I heard the story when it happened, that Arab airline's own crew was at the controls and the accident resulted from an unbelievably stupid piece of pilot error. However, this was hushed up to avoid various political problems. But I sure won't fly on that airline....

Ol' Cab sang this song, but so have many other folks, including my humble self back when I was playing blues. The artist most associated with the song for the last couple decades, however, is Bobby "Blue" Bland. There was a very weird B&W "Popeye" cartoon from way back where he goes to the...

When I die I wanna be buried in my alligator boots With my diamond stick pin an' my Stetson hat An' I want a twenty-dollar gold piece in my pocket So the Devil'll know I died standin' pat I want sixteen crapshooters to be my pallbearers An' I wanna beer wagon to be my hearse An' I wanna Texas...

Granted, present trends don't leave room for much hope. OTOH, there's still SOME hope, which is a LOT more than if the Obination wins.

Without knowing what specifically these payments were fore, it's impossible to comment on whether any or all of them were deserved or not. I will say this, however. The above (red) definition of "corporate welfare" is ridiculously broad. Haven't you ever heard of paying people who do your...

Ike's northeast edge is going over me right now. Occasional squalls and constant tornado watches have been the order of the day. My electricity, which is still held together by tape and bailing wire from Gustav, has gone out several times today. And the fun's just beginning. Depending on...

I must be the only person in my area who's put his humming bird feeder back up since Gustav. I did it Tuesday 2 Sep, the 2nd thing I did after putting my squirrel feeder back up. The birds are still acting like they can't eat anywhere else. I'm pouring nearly 1 gallon a day down their...

Damn good idea, AR :cheers:. It's also probably more doable than any of the other asteroid deflection schemes I've read about. Shouldn't the same sort of gravity tugboat thing work with Earth? And isn't it easier to intercept with Earth than some distant projectile? Plus, move Earth 4km away...

You got a purdy mouth, boy. Squeal lak a pig :wub: :rofl::rofl::rofl:

There must be. The left continually accuses the right of being "Nazis" :rofl:. But of course, everybody on both sides there is focusing only the racial issues, not the underlying political/economic part of Naziism..... Now, now, that's a pretty left-biased attitude to come out with there...

"Religious right" is another twisted political term I'm surprised nobody's gotten into in this thread yet.... The "religious" part of this term is facially misleading because the word itself is general but as used here it's fairly specific. However, the specifics vary depending on who's using...

No sense making glib comments on this one. Good luck to everybody in the way of it........:huh: But don't waste time reading this, hit the road. We'll see you all on the other side.

In the past 48 hours or so, I've seen current estimates of Ike's impact swing from Florida to Brownsville and then back to Corpus. The boffins have no clue this time, apparently, unlike with Gustav. So I figure based on the speed of approach, the impact area pendulum will have swung back to...

They really don't know what the Hell Ike's going to do. Over the past few days, it's projected impact point has moved from the Atlantic coast of Florida, to the Gulf coast of Florida, to Mobile, to New Orleans, to Lake Charles, to Houston, to Corpus, to Brownsville, and now back to Corpus as of...

I had 5 gallons of fresh homebrew porter on tap (chosen because it's WAY too strong to be adversely affected by loss of power), 2.5 gallons of assorted whiskey and whisky, 0.5 gallons of both gin and vodka, a fifth of absinthe, 50 gallons of gasoline for my generator (plus more available in...