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Far as I'm concerned, the shows are for glitz. I have not personally had a ghost encounter. However, my wife has seen her sister three times since her untimely death 10 years ago, and has spoken to her one of those times. While I cannot prove that it happened, I know that my wife is not a nut case, nor is she one of those spook believers. She is calm and collected in all circumstances, and she went step by step with me what had happened, very clearly and very vividly. I have no reason to disbelieve that she has an occassional encounter with her sister. I will never dispute her, and she has come to terms that it has, and will happen again.

I think it was fantastic! I applaud his methods. And no, I (he) would probably never do it for real... but I would boot your *** out of my class if you brought and used one after being asked, in any manner, not to do so. Good way to make a point with what can be (some) pretty thick skulled, lousy attitude, doesn't apply to me students.

USAF 1976-1980 C-5 maintenance, Dover airplane patch, Delaware.

Backwoods Funeral As a bagpiper, I play many gigs. Recently I was asked by a funeral director to play at a graveside service for a homeless man. He had no family or friends, so the service was to be at a pauper's cemetery in the Kentucky back-country. As I was not familiar with the backwoods, I got lost; and being a typical man I didn't stop for directions. I finally arrived an hour late and saw the funeral guy had evidently gone and the hearse was nowhere in sight. There were only the diggers and crew left and they were eating lunch. I felt badly and apologized to the men for being late. I went to the side of the grave and looked down and the vault lid was already in place. I didn't know what else to do, so I started to play. The workers put down their lunches and began to gather around. I played out my heart and soul for this man with no family and friends. I played like I've never played before for this homeless man. And as I played 'Amazing Grace,' the workers began to weep. They wept, I wept, we all wept together. When I finished I packed up my bagpipes and started for my car. Though my head hung low my heart was full. As I was opened the door to my car, I heard one of the workers say, "Sweet Mother of Jesus, I never seen nothin' like that before and I've been putting in septic tanks for twenty years."

Electrical Superintendent for an aluminum smelter. Charge of High Voltage Power Crew, General Plant Electrical Maintenance, Overhead Crane PM Crew, Motor Shop.

I hope it doesn't get deleted- it's only an opinion. Football is a game of mistakes. Whomever makes the least number of mistakes goes home a winner. I vehemently disagree that it may be rigged. It's just a very hard game to play.

Man, some of you guys are HARSH! I thought the whole thing was pretty OK. Not perfect, but OK. The 'Who' was a little weak (you would be too at 60 some years old), but the stage and light show were fabulous. Hard to get current artists on something like that- you can't trust them not to do something stupid. The old men are at least safe. Most of the commercials were pretty decent. Maybe some of you guys just don't like humor. The game was a good one. A little scary at times, but good. I didn't really have a favorite (the Browns weren't invited to play!) but Sean Peyton is a he!! of a gutsy coach. I about fell off the couch with the onside kick... it was great! And once he let Drew Brees do what Drew Brees does, it was a walk away. All in all, I thought it was a good evening. Now we can bore ourselves with Nascar for the spring/summer. DayYawna is next weekend (but that is another thread). Cheers, Mark

It is NOT just a game. It is a National pastime. Dispute this if you wish, but that is a fact today. It's also one day in the big scheme of things. Indianapolis kids will not be scarred for life or recieve a lesser education. School lets out for an entire week in some of our local counties for the opening week of deer season. We'll all live.

Hilarious!

I am pondering a satellite radio in the boat. But as M Starr alludes, I will keep volumes low. On the trout streams, nothing in my ears except the rustling of the leaves in the woods and the gurgle of the stream. VERY relaxing, better than any man made music.

I carry mine every time I go out. However, it's has not been for human threat, it's for bear threat. I trout fish in some pretty remote locations here in West Virginia, and I have had bear encounters twice at the stream's edge. Both times I was able to run them off with only the pistol report and a lot of screaming. I have not had to shoot a bear.Glad I had my piece though. As far as seedy guys, I would want to make d**n sure it was a real threat. Some kids just like to puff up their chest in front of their buddies. They mean no real harm, but they want to intimidate. I have had a couple of real encounters with honest to goodness dudes that meant to hurt me or my family... both at home. It ain't cool to shoot a human, whether or not you are forced. Either way, you will unleash feelings you never knew you had. Carry yours. Conceal it. Leave it alone until absolutely no other choice. Actually use it and your life will forever change. The last sentence is a promise.

Your machine has a #2 Morse Taper spindle. This link has the details of your machine. http://www.midwestwoodworkersonline.com/jet/Page44drill.html Go to this site: http://www.cdcotools.com/ Click on "All Kinds Of Die Makers Tools" Click on "Drill Chucks and shanks..." The forth block shows a list of shanks. Choose #2 MT (you have achoice of five shank sizes) Go above to the first or second box and choose your drill chuck. Match the drill chuck taper to the shank taper (look at the taper boxes). If I were buying, I would choose the 25015 keyless drill chuck (1/32"-1/2" drill) w/ J6 taper, $22.00. I'd match it with a 21325, #2MT shank, J6 taper, #5.00 For $27 bucks + shipping, you're in business. Edit- There are some sites whereas you can buy the chuck with a #2 MT mated to it, but this is the easy way. There are also many other tools that fit a #2 MT taper, so you are not limited to just a drill chuck. I use CDCO a lot, and for Chinese, it's good servicable stuff.

This may be old, but it was new to me: A woman goes into a store to buy a fishing rod and reel for her grandson's birthday. She doesn't know which one to get, so she just grabs one and goes over to the counter. The salesman is standing there, wearing dark glasses. She says, Excuse me. Can you tell me anything about this rod and reel?' He says, 'Madam, I'm completely blind; but, if you'll drop it on the counter, I can tell you everything you need to know about it from the sound it makes.' She doesn't believe him but drops it on the counter anyway. He says, 'That's a two metre Shakespeare graphite rod with a Zebco reel and 5-kg. test line. It's a good all around combination and it's on sale this week for £44.' She says, 'It's amazing that you can tell all that just by the sound of it dropping on the counter. I'll take it!' As she opens her purse, her credit card drops on the floor. 'Oh, That sounds like a Visa card, says the salesman. As the lady bends down to pick up the card, she accidentally farts. At first she is really embarrassed but then realises there is no way the blind salesman could tell it was she who had farted. The salesman rings up the sale and says,' That'll be £58.50 please.' The woman is totally confused by this and asks, 'Didn't you tell me it was on sale for £44? How did you get to £58.50?' 'The Duck Caller is £11 and the Fish Bait is £3.50.'

Hope you get the job. There is no substitute for having health care. A great weight would be lifted from your shoulders. Even crappy health care trumps none at all. Fingers crossed for you.

I am a licensed electrician, and your panel, though in pretty ratty old shape, is probably still safe. I would absolutely upgrade if it were mine, but that's your call. I will also not comment on your circuit design. I would not build that design either (underpowered, overworked) But again, that's your call. If you have appropriate fuse protection, the worst that would happen is popped fuses ( a lot of them probably). However, the drawing you have made shows one wire going into the receptacle and one wire coming out (same on each side)- I assume you mean incoming wire under one screw and outgoing wire under the other (same on both sides) This is not the best way to wire a receptacle. Each color wire should always have a short piece of wire attached with a wirenut (a bundle of three wires under a wirenut). This short piece then attaches to the receptacle. That means one black wire under colored screw and one white wire under the silver screw. This method is best for two reasons. First, the little tab between the two colored or silver screws is not meant to carry a full circuit load. See how small the little tab really is? It will get hot if the other receptacles are loaded. It is there so a duplex receptacle can be split into two separate outlets. Example: top outlet switched, bottom outlet hot all the time (with appropriate extra wiring). The other reason is that if a particular receptacle fails, the entire circuit is not compromised, and the branch wiring may not be burned up. Only the short tap wire will fry. If you do it the way it's drawn, you will certainly not be alone. Many people make the mistake, and many people get away with it forever. However, it takes little extra time to tap the branch wires, and it will be correct, and safer, by any account. Easy to do, harder to write.

Darwin lives on.

You all bring back many good memories, and one or two not so great. I can remember a little twist to the Evil Kneaval day ramps and jumps. We had little money, and when Schwinn came out with their banana bike series, we all wanted, but could not have one. Instead, I cut the legs off of an old pair of front forks, removed the tire and rim from my machine, pounded the cut forks onto the existing ones, and then remounted the wheel and tire. It was like having a super extended fork until I got the idea to do the ramp jump. I took off down the hill for all the bike with it's hyper extended front end would go. I hit at the ramp at the perfect angle at the perfect rate of speed. The forks and wheel promptly parted company in the apex of the arc, leaving nothing but two spears and no wheel. The wheel and tire, still firmly mounted to the cutoff set of forks, just kept on going. When the part of the bike I was still on hit the ground, the now bare front forks dug in just like two tomato stakes, the bike came to an instant halt, and I just kept on going. I remember the cool feeling of being airborne, but it was short lived. I landed. Must have rolled and tumbled for twenty feet oh yeah, almost forgot to add- this was all happening on pavement. You surly need no descriptions of how torn up I was. I have blocked the landing from memory anyway. And the bicycle fared little better. The sudden stop bent the forks over double. The bad part is that not only was I torn bloody up, but my grandfather wouldn't replace the bike. I ended up walking most of the rest of that summer. Maybe I learned to fly because of that event.Nah. One of many childhood idiocies I have lived to tell about.

I'll take just about anybody right now that can turn my Browns around, even if just a little bit. Get to work Mikey!

Aside from folks pointing out that 1990's were not of this decade, 9-11 has absolutely NOT been forgotten. A few country bumkins may not keep it in the forefront, but most people have NOT, and will NOT forget that horrific event... and the wars are tieing right into it as well. I was just in NYC, and I assure you, it is not forgotten. Every time an airplane flies overhead, MOST eyes turn to it, even if just for a fleeting moment.

By Gawd, it sure is a single stage machine. Didn't see how fast the compressor is driven, but rule of thumb is to try to keep it down below 1000 rpm. My two stage lumbers along at about 870 RPM. At least it's a cast iron pump, not sleeved aluminum. I would at least still look for a cast iron, low speed, two stage pump. Buy it once, use it for a long, long time. Just another $000,000,000.02 shared.

You sure it's a single stage? I suspect it is actually a two stage machine. Should have two cylinders; one low pressure, the other high. I have a comparable two stage unit with 7.5 HP, and it'll put out the air! If you are a business, it may be a bit underpowered, but for occassional use in the big CFM range, you will do OK with it. If it is really single stage, I'd be leary. About the only way to get that kind of air from a single stage is by overspeeding the compressor (many cheapies run the compressor too fast, wearing them out prematurely, but touting big CFM numbers).

I'm a Brown's fan. Always remember, a team that is as bad as, well, several teams, have NOTHING TO LOSE. They can call goofy trick plays, go for it on fourth down at will, and bust the offensive line without fear of penalty. Who cares on the team. Therefore, all bad teams are very, very dangerous to the big dogs. Proven last night.

My Brownies did me right for once!!!!!

So spinning seems to be the consensus. I think the ol Zebco 33 is maybe a little too "young", although that's what I learned to fish with, and caught a hell of a lot of fish with it. I like all three of those combos RW, but will probably go the cheap route. It'll be shiny anyhow, and I really can't imagine him fishing much- but I guess one never knows. His wife (my daughter)is going to fill a tackle box. She will do better than you may think. She IS, after all, MY offspring. She fished... and hunted... and worked on cars, and on and on. I can't figure how she hooked up with him (hooked! HAH! no pun intended ). Anyway, I got something to go on now. Thanks folks, Mark

My son in law is thirty some years old and has never fished. Come to think of it, he doesn't do much of sh... Sorry, but no guy is good enough for my little girl., although he gave me two wonderful grandsons. So I guess he's Okay---- Nah Anyway, he wants to fish with his sons (go figure. I bought the boys equipment two years ago), so the war department and I are going to get him started. Again, he has never seen a fishing rod up close. We will be at Cabella's in two weeks. What to get that isn't too expensive (in case he throws it in a corner and never touches it again), yet will give good trouble free service and isn't hard to use? Certainly not a level wind (though I may look at new ones while I'm there!). Open face? Spincaster? 6' rod, medium action? Combo? Whaddaya'll think?