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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 20, 2019 • 12:38:34pm
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DangerMan (Neologizer of AssGate)  Oct 20, 2019 • 12:44:43pm
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DangerMan (Neologizer of AssGate)  Oct 20, 2019 • 12:45:16pm
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DangerMan (Neologizer of AssGate)  Oct 20, 2019 • 12:46:23pm

Total coincidence

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 20, 2019 • 12:51:44pm
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HappyWarrior  Oct 20, 2019 • 12:53:52pm

re: #5 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Pompeo is mad because he wanted to use Benghazi and the emails to put HRC in prison but now it’s looking more likely he’ll end up there.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 20, 2019 • 12:57:01pm

re: #3 DangerMan

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Saudi Arabia isn’t “home” either.

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HappyWarrior  Oct 20, 2019 • 1:03:08pm

re: #7 Backwoods_Sleuth

Saudi Arabia isn’t “home” either.

No it’s not. It’s why the narrative that Trump is a dove needs to be debunked.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 20, 2019 • 1:03:46pm

re: #7 Backwoods_Sleuth

Saudi Arabia isn’t “home” either.

Home is where the Trump Tower is.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 20, 2019 • 1:10:43pm
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Jay C  Oct 20, 2019 • 1:18:50pm

re: #8 HappyWarrior

No it’s not. It’s why the narrative that Trump is a dove needs to be debunked.

Really? Who’s still clinging to that narrative?

Besides jarring with his often-bellicose “tough-guy” bluster, Trump’s nominal policies of (i.e. bullshit sloganeering about) “disengagement” and/or “nonintervention” have usually been based mainly on monetary “grounds”, somebody or other not paying us enough, or “getting a free ride” or whatever. And/or coupled with phony I’m-the-only-one-who’s-boosted-the-military blather as well (remember “out of ammunition”?? I know, it was all of 10 days ago(?) ).

Trump is (always has been) less of a dove than a turkey. The look-up-and-drown-in-the-rain sort…

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PhillyPretzel  Oct 20, 2019 • 1:19:32pm

re: #10 Backwoods_Sleuth

That street sign New Life Ln and Dead End underneath it. Perfect.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Oct 20, 2019 • 1:24:49pm

re: #11 Jay C

Really? Who’s still clinging to that narrative?

Maureen Dowd
Susan Sarandon
Tulsi Gabbard
HA Goodman
Michael Tracey
Jimmy Dore

Need I go on?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 20, 2019 • 1:28:53pm
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Joe Bacon 🌹  Oct 20, 2019 • 1:31:30pm

re: #14 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 20, 2019 • 1:32:08pm

re: #14 Backwoods_Sleuth

Not a Russian Spy but number one WITH Russian Spies.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 20, 2019 • 1:36:58pm

talk is cheap, Jeremy.
so is stamping your wee foot and shaking your fist in outrage.

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HappyWarrior  Oct 20, 2019 • 1:39:27pm

re: #14 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Nah just a useful idiot who hates the center left more than a homophobic autocrat.

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HappyWarrior  Oct 20, 2019 • 1:39:56pm

re: #13 Joe Bacon 🌹

Maureen Dowd
Susan Sarandon
Tulsi Gabbard
HA Goodman
Michael Tracey
Jimmy Dore

Need I go on?

That’s what I meant.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 20, 2019 • 1:42:02pm

re: #17 Backwoods_Sleuth

talk is cheap, Jeremy.
so is stamping your wee foot and shaking your fist in outrage.

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absolutely, totally ^^THIS^^

Really, there is nothing about NHS that prevents one from buying private insurance.
NOTHING.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 20, 2019 • 1:43:12pm

re: #20 Backwoods_Sleuth

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absolutely, totally ^^THIS^^

Really, there is nothing about NHS that prevents one from buying private insurance.
NOTHING.

ergo, if you can’t afford private insurance, at least you have NHS available.

That’s more than what we have here in the USA

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GlutenFreeJesus  Oct 20, 2019 • 1:49:52pm

re: #14 Backwoods_Sleuth

She’s not a spy because she’s open about it.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 20, 2019 • 1:55:09pm

I do have first hand experience with NHS in England.
My first husband (RIP) was in end stage Crohn’s Disease and it was his first trip anywhere on a plane.
We were at a B&B in Lancashire and he had an attack at 4 am.
Front desk called in the emergency and an NHS emergency doctor arrived within 20 minutes and got him stabilized.
Next morning we returned to my friend’s vicarage and his neighbor happened to be a physician, who examined hubs and suggested heading to A&E.
We had purchased travel insurance, which covered a private hospital, so we headed off to BMI The Highfield Hospital in Rochdale, where the neighbor physician had admitting privileges.

Total cost of a two-day stay, plus prescriptions, was a fraction of the cost it would have been here in the States.

And by fraction, I mean the total bill at a private hospital before insurance was less than $1,000.

and meals were catered.
on fine china.
with a menu and wine list.

included in the total cost.

I really fail to see where the downside is.

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I Would Prefer Not To  Oct 20, 2019 • 1:57:10pm

re: #23 Backwoods_Sleuth

I do have first hand experience with NHS in England.
My first husband (RIP) was in end stage Crohn’s Disease and it was his first trip anywhere a plane.
We were at a B&B in Lancashire and he had an attack at 4 am.
Front desk called in the emergency and an NHS emergency doctor arrived within 20 minutes and got him stabilized.
Next morning we returned to my friend’s vicarage and his neighbor happened to be a physician, who examined hubs and suggested heading to A&E.
We had purchased travel insurance, which covered a private hospital, so we headed off to BMI The Highfield Hospital in Rochdale, where the neighbor physician had admitting privileges.

Total cost of a two-day stay, plus prescriptions, was a fraction of the cost it would have been here in the States.

And by fraction, I mean the total bill at a private hospital before insurance was less than $1,000.

and meals were catered.
on fine china.
with a menu and wine list.

included in the total cost.

I really fail to see where the downside is.

The downside is that a CEO is not making 20 million a year to run an insurance company.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 20, 2019 • 1:57:54pm

re: #24 I Would Prefer Not To

The downside is that a CEO is not making 20 million a year to run an insurance company.

yeah, my heart bleeds.

Oh wait…

it doesn’t.

never mind…

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Charles Johnson  Oct 20, 2019 • 1:58:25pm
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HappyWarrior  Oct 20, 2019 • 2:00:31pm

re: #26 Charles Johnson

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I like trolling HRC. She’s good.

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The Pie Overlord!  Oct 20, 2019 • 2:00:42pm

re: #26 Charles Johnson

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She is All Out Of Fucks.

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plansbandc  Oct 20, 2019 • 2:01:32pm
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HappyWarrior  Oct 20, 2019 • 2:02:56pm

re: #28 The Pie Overlord!

She is All Out Of Fucks.

I don’t blame her. I’m sick of people blaming her for why we have Trump.

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Eventual Carrion  Oct 20, 2019 • 2:03:48pm

re: #29 plansbandc

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I was looking at purchasing one to make our InstantPot look like R2D2.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 20, 2019 • 2:05:36pm

re: #31 Eventual Carrion

I was looking at purchasing one to make our InstantPot look like R2D2.

I think that’s the one Stonekettle bought

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Oct 20, 2019 • 2:07:05pm
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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Oct 20, 2019 • 2:08:51pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 20, 2019 • 2:11:25pm

re: #34 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

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IT’S JUST BIDNESS!!11!!

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Charles Johnson  Oct 20, 2019 • 2:13:17pm
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Blind Frog Belly White  Oct 20, 2019 • 2:14:19pm

re: #27 HappyWarrior

I like trolling HRC. She’s good.

Trollin’, trollin’, trollin’!
Get Trump’s anger flowin’!
Get his toupee blowin’,
Be snide!!!!

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makeitstop  Oct 20, 2019 • 2:15:38pm
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Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 20, 2019 • 2:17:22pm

re: #36 Charles Johnson

He’s declining faster.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 20, 2019 • 2:17:25pm

re: #36 Charles Johnson

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 20, 2019 • 2:18:33pm

re: #38 makeitstop

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it’s been raining and we know how he manages umbrellas…

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Oct 20, 2019 • 2:25:10pm
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b.d. (Where is Rudy?)  Oct 20, 2019 • 2:25:33pm

re: #41 Backwoods_Sleuth

it’s been raining and we know how he manages umbrellas…

The weather in DC is awful today, not exactly golfing weather.

That has to p*ss him off too, he should have flown to Doral for a round today just as a giant f-u to the world which he seems to enjoy so much.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 20, 2019 • 2:26:33pm

re: #43 b.d. (It’s All True)

The weather in DC is awful today, not exactly golfing weather.

That has to p*ss him off too, he should have flown to Doral for a round today just as a giant f-u to the world which he seems to enjoy so much.

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it’s been raining there because of Tropical Storm Nestor

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plansbandc  Oct 20, 2019 • 2:26:48pm

Charlie unfollowed me on twitter. I hope he’s OK.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 20, 2019 • 2:31:04pm

re: #45 plansbandc

Charlie unfollowed me on twitter. I hope he’s OK.

he unfollowed me ages ago.

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goddamnedfrank  Oct 20, 2019 • 2:35:46pm
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goddamnedfrank  Oct 20, 2019 • 2:41:07pm

I may hate Bernie but Oliver is right here.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 20, 2019 • 2:42:11pm

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Stanley Sea  Oct 20, 2019 • 2:46:45pm
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Stanley Sea  Oct 20, 2019 • 2:47:12pm

Everyday mum is brilliant.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Oct 20, 2019 • 2:47:44pm
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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Oct 20, 2019 • 2:49:28pm

re: #52 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

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Blind Frog Belly White  Oct 20, 2019 • 2:51:59pm

I have 3 road bikes that I switch off riding. I tend to ride one exclusively for a month or more, then bring another one out and ride it for a while. Every time I switch, I remember why I keep that bike, because there’s something I really love about each one. I gave each a name.

“Lots of people name their swords bikes.”
“Lots of c**ts.”

You’ve already seen Dreadnought, my Battaglin built from Columbus MAX tubes, painted Ferrari red, with all polished Aluminum Campy Chorus kit. And you’ve seen Plastic Fantastic, my Carbon fiber Bianchi 928 with Veloce kit.

But my first serious road bike is a Ritchey Road Logic I bought new in 1997, at a discount because it had Shimano’s 7410 8 speed Dura Ace kit, which had just been made obsolete. I’ve been riding it for over 22 years now. I had it repainted about 12 years ago, from white to deep blue, but I keep the 8 speed kit, because it was the smoothest shifting drivetrain I ever experienced - one click of the STI and it was in the next gear - no grind, no “Campy Clank”, no sound but the click of the STI and it was instantly and silently in the next gear.

BUT, I got older and fatter, and 25 teeth in the back got to be not enough. I’ve dithered about upgrading it for at least 10 years. Last month I switched to riding it after a year or so not riding it (I’d saved it as a reward for losing weight, but that wasn’t gonna happen!). I finally decided to bite the bullet, and upgrade my 1994 technology to 2004!!! TEN speeds instead of 8! A 28 tooth cog, instead of 25!

I kept as much of the old 7410 kit as I could, replacing only the cassette, STIs and rear derailleur. New cables, of course. I carefully adjusted it on the workstand till it shifted up and down the cassette smoothly. Then, to get the STI placement on the bars right, I put it on the stationary trainer. The shifting was for shit, especially the front! It wouldn’t shift into the big ring, till I adjusted it so far that half the time it threw the chain off to the outside! Shifting to the small ring meant either dropping the chain into the gap between the rings, or throwing it all the way off the small ring! I was downhearted.

So, I put it back on the workstand and adjusted everything so it worked there, and hoped the road would be more like it than the trainer. I went ahead and wrapped the b bars.

Today, I took it for a shakedown cruise, 28 miles of San Mateo County rolling roads, using ALL the gears. It shifted just like the old 8 speed kit, but with 2 more gears! Sometimes, the only way I was sure it shifted was my cadence went up! And I’m in love again.

So, here it is, “Old Tom”, after Tom Ritchey, who might have even welded the frame up himself, right here in the Bay Area:

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 20, 2019 • 2:52:48pm

re: #52 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

wow.

totally off the rails

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 20, 2019 • 2:53:42pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 20, 2019 • 2:58:00pm

jeebus…this is just nutzo

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Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 20, 2019 • 3:02:31pm

re: #57 Backwoods_Sleuth

jeebus…this is just nutzo

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What in the fucking fuck is he talking about?

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Blind Frog Belly White  Oct 20, 2019 • 3:03:00pm

re: #57 Backwoods_Sleuth

jeebus…this is just nutzo

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Fucker should have gone golfing. It would be better for his health, plus he’d look lazy and self-indulgent, instead of sounding like Hitler in the Bunker Scene from Downfall.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 20, 2019 • 3:08:28pm

re: #58 Eclectic Cyborg

What in the fucking fuck is he talking about?

She has the guts to go to the ME, unlike the moron who can’t even hide out at one of his golf courses

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Dread Pirate  Oct 20, 2019 • 3:09:55pm
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PhillyPretzel  Oct 20, 2019 • 3:10:04pm

re: #60 Backwoods_Sleuth

And Nancy has some knowledge of the Middle East especially when she and her group talk to Abdullah II.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 20, 2019 • 3:10:07pm
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makeitstop  Oct 20, 2019 • 3:10:55pm

re: #59 Blind Frog Belly White

Fucker should have gone golfing. It would be better for his health, plus he’d look lazy and self-indulgent, instead of sounding like Hitler in the Bunker Scene from Downfall.

Nah, let him boil. It’s one of the small consolations I have in return for that son of a bitch destroying this country - that’s he’s absolutely miserable.

I hope it hastens whatever end - political or otherwise - that is coming his way.

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Barefoot Grin  Oct 20, 2019 • 3:14:48pm

re: #54 Blind Frog Belly White

I have 3 road bikes that I switch off riding. I tend to ride one exclusively for a month or more, then bring another one out and ride it for a while. Every time I switch, I remember why I keep that bike, because there’s something I really love about each one. I gave each a name.

You’ve already seen Dreadnought, my Battaglin built from Columbus MAX tubes, painted Ferrari red, with all polished Aluminum Campy Chorus kit. And you’ve seen Plastic Fantastic, my Carbon fiber Bianchi 928 with Veloce kit.

But my first serious road bike is a Ritchey Road Logic I bought new in 1997, at a discount because it had Shimano’s 7410 8 speed Dura Ace kit, which had just been made obsolete. I’ve been riding it for over 22 years now. I had it repainted about 12 years ago, from white to deep blue, but I keep the 8 speed kit, because it was the smoothest shifting drivetrain I ever experienced - one click of the STI and it was in the next gear - no grind, no “Campy Clank”, no sound but the click of the STI and it was instantly and silently in the next gear.

BUT, I got older and fatter, and 25 teeth in the back got to be not enough. I’ve dithered about upgrading it for at least 10 years. Last month I switched to riding it after a year or so not riding it (I’d saved it as a reward for losing weight, but that wasn’t gonna happen!). I finally decided to bite the bullet, and upgrade my 1994 technology to 2004!!! TEN speeds instead of 8! A 28 tooth cog, instead of 25!

I kept as much of the old 7410 kit as I could, replacing only the cassette, STIs and rear derailleur. New cables, of course. I carefully adjusted it on the workstand till it shifted up and down the cassette smoothly. Then, to get the STI placement on the bars right, I put it on the stationary trainer. The shifting was for shit, especially the front! It wouldn’t shift into the big ring, till I adjusted it so far that half the time it threw the chain off to the outside! Shifting to the small ring meant either dropping the chain into the gap between the rings, or throwing it all the way off the small ring! I was downhearted.

So, I put it back on the workstand and adjusted everything so it worked there, and hoped the road would be more like it than the trainer. I went ahead and wrapped the b bars.

Today, I took it for a shakedown cruise, 28 miles of San Mateo County rolling roads, using ALL the gears. It shifted just like the old 8 speed kit, but with 2 more gears! Sometimes, the only way I was sure it shifted was my cadence went up! And I’m in love again.

So, here it is, “Old Tom”, after Tom Ritchey, who might have even welded the frame up himself, right here in the Bay Area:

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Love it. I lived with the Campy clank for many years. Sometimes I could get it well calibrated, but when I moved to southern Indiana and had to contend with super-steep hills I had new gears put in and it never worked well again. So a few years ago my brother swapped a Dura-ace system he was no longer using onto my Bianchi Giro steel frame and it worked great (still shift on the frame, but I don’t mind). Unfortunately, I haven’t used it in a couple of years and it needs a thorough overhaul.

My son inherited my aged father’s pristine carbon frame Trek 5500 (bought in the 1990s through my bro who managed a shop at the time) but he’s been disinclined to use it. It’s slightly too big for me, but I’m thinking of confiscating it because I can indeed ride it. It’s pretty sweet (if also out of date, but the shifters are on the brakes instead of the tube).

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Patricia Kayden  Oct 20, 2019 • 3:15:09pm
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The Pie Overlord!  Oct 20, 2019 • 3:17:25pm

I’m off now for Shemini Atzeret (Gathering of the Eighth Day) and then Simchat Torah (Rejoicing of the Torah). Lots of pie & wine! Cheers!

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PhillyPretzel  Oct 20, 2019 • 3:18:30pm

re: #67 The Pie Overlord!

I hope you and your family have a good holiday. :)

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Jay C  Oct 20, 2019 • 3:19:04pm

re: #60 Backwoods_Sleuth

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She has the guts to go to the ME, unlike the moron who can’t even hide out at one of his golf courses

Not to mention, going to the ME do actually do something remotely diplomacy-related, rather than just trying to work a grift….

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Disloyal Archangel  Oct 20, 2019 • 3:26:00pm
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plansbandc  Oct 20, 2019 • 3:34:41pm

Yep.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 20, 2019 • 3:35:02pm

well oiled machine…

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Disloyal Archangel  Oct 20, 2019 • 3:37:04pm

I always wonder how many sets of quotation marks I need when applying to a title associated with Darth Orange…

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HappyWarrior  Oct 20, 2019 • 3:41:47pm

He is a coward. Always will be.

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b.d. (Where is Rudy?)  Oct 20, 2019 • 3:43:55pm

re: #73 Disloyal Archangel

I always wonder how many sets of quotation marks I need when applying to a title associated with Darth Orange…

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lol, subtle…..

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Jay C  Oct 20, 2019 • 3:45:39pm

re: #73 Disloyal Archangel

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Also: does he expect us to not remember that those “58 missiles” he’s crowing about were a joke: fired at a Russian-backed base several hours after warning the Russians to get their asses (and anybody else’s they cared to save) well out of the way?

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goddamnedfrank  Oct 20, 2019 • 3:52:43pm
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BeachDem  Oct 20, 2019 • 3:54:05pm

Two more weird things about Tulsi that I didn’t know until recently:

1. The Daily Stormer took credit for getting her into the debates:

“We got Tulsi in the debates,” the website’s founder wrote earlier this year. “I kind of didn’t really want to do the whole big push on this site and have her linked to us if she was going to make it without us (both because I don’t want the media attention and I doubt she wants to be considered a nazi [sic] candidate), but as it was clear she wasn’t going to make it without us, I figured it didn’t matter.”

theweek.com

(I thought Anglin was among the missing, hiding out in some foreign location, to avoid various lawsuits and indictments.)

2. Tulsi has some weirdo internet consultant who she pays big bucks (just since January, $259,000), who lives on some remote lake in the Pacific Northwest in a cabin owned by the Science of Identity Foundation. The guy supposedly has no political background.

civilbeat.org

(h/t to DailyKos, where I found the links to this second bit of weirdness)

The more you know…

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goddamnedfrank  Oct 20, 2019 • 3:57:07pm
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HappyWarrior  Oct 20, 2019 • 3:59:28pm

re: #79 goddamnedfrank

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I’ve honestly lost track of how many wtf moments we’ve had.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 20, 2019 • 4:04:44pm

any fans of All Creatures Great and Small?

I introduced MrBWS to the book this past week (he’d never heard about it until now and fell in love).

I just found several full episodes on YouTube, but also found a short (~8 minute) documentary that is just brilliant.

All Creatures Great And Small Documentary Part 1

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Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 20, 2019 • 4:06:50pm

re: #80 HappyWarrior

I’ve honestly lost track of how many wtf moments we’ve had.

We crossed “Too many to count” a long time ago.

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Barefoot Grin  Oct 20, 2019 • 4:07:48pm

re: #81 Backwoods_Sleuth

any fans of All Creatures Great and Small?

I introduced MrBWS to the book this past week (he’d never heard about it until now and fell in love).

I just found several full episodes on YouTube, but also found a short (~8 minute) documentary that is just brilliant.

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That, Upstairs, Downstairs, and Monty Python’s Flying Circus were important PBS shows for me as a teenager. Oh, and the Muppets (were they on PBS?).

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HappyWarrior  Oct 20, 2019 • 4:08:33pm

re: #82 Eclectic Cyborg

We crossed “Too many to count” a long time ago.

Wanting to take over Greenland feels like ages ago. As with everything else.

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goddamnedfrank  Oct 20, 2019 • 4:08:39pm
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jaunte  Oct 20, 2019 • 4:10:16pm
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HappyWarrior  Oct 20, 2019 • 4:11:09pm

re: #86 jaunte

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Yeah maybe that’s because there is no defense.

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jaunte  Oct 20, 2019 • 4:13:12pm

Turns out it’s hard to say a thing while being videotaped and then claim you didn’t say that thing.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 20, 2019 • 4:14:10pm

re: #83 Barefoot Grin

That, Upstairs, Downstairs, and Monty Python’s Flying Circus were important PBS shows for me as a teenager. Oh, and the Muppets (were they on PBS?).

James Herriot - S03E01

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jaunte  Oct 20, 2019 • 4:14:28pm

Well, you can claim it, but only a Trump cultist is going to be far gone enough to believe you.

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Jay C  Oct 20, 2019 • 4:15:18pm

re: #88 jaunte

Turns out it’s hard to say a thing while being videotaped and then claim you didn’t say that thing.

Can’t be THAT hard: most of this Administration - from Trump on down - seem to able to do it with regularity…

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HappyWarrior  Oct 20, 2019 • 4:15:53pm

re: #88 jaunte

Turns out it’s hard to say a thing while being videotaped and then claim you didn’t say that thing.

I saw a clip of Kamala Harris explaining this all from a prosecutor’s perspective. The media wants to make it all more complicated than it is. A crime happened. Trump admitted it.

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jaunte  Oct 20, 2019 • 4:16:23pm

the President is increasingly frustrated with what he sees as his inability to communicate snow the news media on impeachment

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Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 20, 2019 • 4:16:44pm

re: #90 jaunte

Well, you can claim it, but only a Trump cultist is going to be far gone enough to believe you.

That’s just it. Trump has the cult of personality to defend and protect him. His cronies don’t so when they fuck up bad there’s no safety net for them, just a one way ticket to the underside of the nearest bus.

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Belafon  Oct 20, 2019 • 4:18:46pm

re: #92 HappyWarrior

I saw a clip of Kamala Harris explaining this all from a prosecutor’s perspective. The media wants to make it all more complicated than it is. A crime happened. Trump admitted it.

That’s why I think her role should be going after Trump as AG, and while she’s at it, Elaine Chao.

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HappyWarrior  Oct 20, 2019 • 4:19:53pm

re: #95 Belafon

That’s why I think her role should be going after Trump as AG, and while she’s at it, Elaine Chao.

She’d be great at it.

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PhillyPretzel  Oct 20, 2019 • 4:26:16pm

My toaster oven just died. I turned it on to pre heat it for my dinner and it heated up but the light went out and it made no clicking noise when I moved the temperature dial down. So I put my chicken pot pie in the Breville Smart Oven and for the first time and it was very good. Now I have to figure out if I want to leave the Smart oven on the cart I bought for it or put it on my counter.

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Chrysicat  Oct 20, 2019 • 4:26:43pm

Gah. Suspected that the old thread had to be dead, but Auto was turned on and I didn’t see a link to a new one, so I still posted.

In a sane world, I would not have noticed “ultimate solution” trending and then been driven to search “Kurdish Problem”.

But this is the world that’s determined to replay WWII and seems to hope for an outcome where all countries everywhere are made safe for authoritarianism, sooo:

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A hollow voice says, Impeachmoot now!  Oct 20, 2019 • 4:39:02pm

So I tried to turn on my beloved old Mac cube and nothing happened. Now I need to find someone who works on antique machines. Bummer.

I’m hoping it turns out to be something simple like the power supply. I don’t use that computer hardly at all, but I still love it.

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jaunte  Oct 20, 2019 • 4:42:50pm
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jeffreyw  Oct 20, 2019 • 4:43:07pm

re: #98 PhillyPretzel

My toaster oven just died. I turned it on to pre heat it for my dinner and it heated up but the light went out and it made no clicking noise when I moved the temperature dial down. So I put my chicken pot pie in the Breville Smart Oven and for the first time and it was very good. Now I have to figure out if I want to leave the Smart oven on the cart I bought for it or put it on my counter.

We have ours out on the counter and use it all the time.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Oct 20, 2019 • 4:43:23pm
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Chrysicat  Oct 20, 2019 • 4:43:49pm

re: #100 A hollow voice says, Impeachmoot now!

So I tried to turn on my beloved old Mac cube and nothing happened. Now I need to find someone who works on antique machines. Bummer.

I’m hoping it turns out to be something simple like the power supply. I don’t use that computer hardly at all, but I still love it.

So do I. If it’s the board or even “just” the CPU you’re boned because nobody makes bare Power architecture for anything other than integrated units anymore. I take it you have the tools to open the case? I think Apple was using those weird screws that need a six-pointed driver in 2K…

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Semper Fi  Oct 20, 2019 • 4:44:29pm

re: #98 PhillyPretzel

My toaster oven just died. I turned it on to pre heat it for my dinner and it heated up but the light went out and it made no clicking noise when I moved the temperature dial down. So I put my chicken pot pie in the Breville Smart Oven and for the first time and it was very good. Now I have to figure out if I want to leave the Smart oven on the cart I bought for it or put it on my counter.

Cart is good as it allows more counter space unless cart takes up valuable floor space.

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PhillyPretzel  Oct 20, 2019 • 4:44:50pm

re: #102 jeffreyw

That is what I decided to do. The Smart oven will be on the counter where the toaster oven was.

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Patricia Kayden  Oct 20, 2019 • 4:46:02pm
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Dave In Austin  Oct 20, 2019 • 4:46:39pm

re: #100 A hollow voice says, Impeachmoot now!

Check true Power supply and work out from there.

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PhillyPretzel  Oct 20, 2019 • 4:47:15pm

re: #103 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

Smart cat hiding in a decoy. :)

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A hollow voice says, Impeachmoot now!  Oct 20, 2019 • 4:47:43pm

re: #108 Dave In Austin

Check true Power supply and work out from there.

That’s the plan. When I get back from my vacation.

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Kilroy was here  Oct 20, 2019 • 4:47:47pm

re: #100 A hollow voice says, Impeachmoot now!

So I tried to turn on my beloved old Mac cube and nothing happened. Now I need to find someone who works on antique machines. Bummer.

I’m hoping it turns out to be something simple like the power supply. I don’t use that computer hardly at all, but I still love it.

(Suggestion from the web)
There is a “power OK” LED inside the cube. It is green. It can be seen when you peer into the gets from the outside. Disconnect the power supply and it goes out, reconnect and its back.

Electronic stuff always smells dusty/burnt. If you had fried something, there would be nothing vague about the smell. (It will smell awful and means the magic smoke has escaped)


The most likely problem is a dead PRAM battery. The battery is accessible if you pull the “core” out of the acrylic shell. Many problems like this are solved in other Macs by resetting the PRAM. To reset the pRAM in this Mac, the Video card may have to be removed. The first part of the troubleshooting procedure from the service manual is in the next post.

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Eventual Carrion  Oct 20, 2019 • 4:51:11pm

re: #109 PhillyPretzel

Smart cat hiding in a decoy. :)

Hopefully it isn’t a target for archery practice.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Oct 20, 2019 • 4:56:03pm

re: #100 A hollow voice says, Impeachmoot now!

So I tried to turn on my beloved old Mac cube and nothing happened. Now I need to find someone who works on antique machines. Bummer.

I’m hoping it turns out to be something simple like the power supply. I don’t use that computer hardly at all, but I still love it.

Try this!

powerbookmedic.com

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Belafon  Oct 20, 2019 • 5:01:46pm
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Belafon  Oct 20, 2019 • 5:02:19pm
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Charles Johnson  Oct 20, 2019 • 5:03:54pm

Somehow I missed Schitt’s Creek when it originally aired but I’ve been binging it big time on Netflix.

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Dread Pirate  Oct 20, 2019 • 5:05:38pm

If we had only known we ourselves were investigating these guys we would never have helped them commit the crimes.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Oct 20, 2019 • 5:09:15pm

I turn on the TV to see what’s on all the channels my antenna picks up. Channel is showing a My Mother The Car marathon…

Yes this was an actual 60s TV show…

My Mother The Car - 1x09 TV or Not TV

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TedStriker  Oct 20, 2019 • 5:12:38pm

re: #117 Charles Johnson

Somehow I missed Schitt’s Creek when it originally aired but I’ve been binging it big time on Netflix.

It’s still in production, for at least one more season:

The series will air a sixth and final season consisting of 14 episodes beginning on January 7, 2020.[5][6] The show airs on the cable network Pop TV in the United States.

en.wikipedia.org

Great cast…can’t go wrong with Eugene Levy, Catherine O’Hara, and Chris Elliott.

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HappyWarrior  Oct 20, 2019 • 5:13:16pm

re: #120 TedStriker

It’s still in production, for at least one more season:

en.wikipedia.org

Great cast…can’t go wrong with Eugene Levy, Catherine O’Hara, and Chris Elliott.

Chris Elliott. Now there’s a name I haven’t seen I yeafs.

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Charles Johnson  Oct 20, 2019 • 5:14:04pm
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Chrysicat  Oct 20, 2019 • 5:14:24pm

re: #121 HappyWarrior

Chris Elliott. Now there’s a name I haven’t seen I yeafs.

Probably not since “Cabin Boy” was just falling out of theaters for me…

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HappyWarrior  Oct 20, 2019 • 5:15:18pm

re: #123 Chrysicat

Probably not since “Cabin Boy” was just falling out of theaters for me…

He’s better as a supporting cast than the main guy imo.

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TedStriker  Oct 20, 2019 • 5:16:18pm

re: #122 Charles Johnson

Contrary to any unfounded rumors that may have circulated among certain individuals, I categorically deny being possessed by demons.

— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 21, 2019

Do you want to be?

///

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Oct 20, 2019 • 5:17:00pm

re: #123 Chrysicat

Probably not since “Cabin Boy” was just falling out of theaters for me…

and…Get A Life…

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b.d. (Where is Rudy?)  Oct 20, 2019 • 5:17:55pm

re: #122 Charles Johnson

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Claiming that you’re not possessed by demons sounds like something someone possessed by demons would say.

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HappyWarrior  Oct 20, 2019 • 5:18:01pm

Something About Mary for me. I loved that movie. Haven’t seen it in years tho so I don’t know if it ages we’ll.

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Dread Pirate  Oct 20, 2019 • 5:21:13pm

re: #128 HappyWarrior

Something About Mary for me. I loved that movie. Haven’t seen it in years tho so I don’t know if it ages we’ll.

The hair dip and scrotum in the zipper scenes will always be funny.

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HappyWarrior  Oct 20, 2019 • 5:22:51pm

re: #129 Dread Pirate

The hair dip and scrotum in the zipper scenes will always be funny.

Definitely.

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Charles Johnson  Oct 20, 2019 • 5:24:09pm

Some of my best jokes go woefully unappreciated.

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b.d. (Where is Rudy?)  Oct 20, 2019 • 5:24:54pm

re: #131 Charles Johnson

Some of my best jokes go woefully unappreciated.

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I blame the demons.

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HappyWarrior  Oct 20, 2019 • 5:31:52pm

re: #132 b.d. (It’s All True)

I blame the demons.

The Demons do explain Trump. And by demons I mean stupid people.

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b.d. (Where is Rudy?)  Oct 20, 2019 • 5:34:16pm

re: #133 HappyWarrior

The Demons do explain Trump. And by demons I mean stupid people.

I’m on board with that.

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Decatur Deb  Oct 20, 2019 • 5:35:28pm

re: #122 Charles Johnson

Contrary to any unfounded rumors that may have circulated among certain individuals, I categorically deny being possessed by demons.

Leased, maybe? Smart demons know the tax advantages.

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HappyWarrior  Oct 20, 2019 • 5:36:09pm

re: #134 b.d. (It’s All True)

I’m on board with that.

Was really disheartened earlier to see some people I grew up with saying they intended to vote for Trump again. One of my friends called out Trump and anyone who voted for him. I just don’t get it sigh. No one I was close with obviously but it makes me queasy as hell seeing Trump supporters cry about how no one understands them and people should be tolerant of them.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Oct 20, 2019 • 5:39:49pm
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Decatur Deb  Oct 20, 2019 • 5:42:01pm

Hey ww! Whare ya at? We wandered all over the Southwest, and you were vapor.

139
Belafon  Oct 20, 2019 • 5:42:31pm

re: #137 GlutenFreeJesus

Only if I’m in the Psychotic State.

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wrenchwench  Oct 20, 2019 • 5:46:38pm

re: #138 Decatur Deb

Hey WW! Whare ya at? We wandered all over the Southwest, and you were vapor.

I’m up in the vapor of the Northwest. I’m so sorry to have missed you and yours. I have relocated, mostly. Not yet in a real living space, but partially employed. I didn’t really follow your trajectory, but we were probably out of your way, if you had one.

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Decatur Deb  Oct 20, 2019 • 5:50:16pm

re: #140 wrenchwench

I’m up in the vapor of the Northwest. I’m so sorry to have missed you and yours. I have relocated, mostly. Not yet in a real living space, but partially employed. I didn’t really follow your trajectory, but we were probably out of your way, if you had one.

Mostly I40 to Flagstaff with a diversion to Denver, then dropped down to I10 and drove its length from Tucson back to AL.

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TedStriker  Oct 20, 2019 • 5:50:37pm

re: #140 wrenchwench

I’m up in the vapor of the Northwest. I’m so sorry to have missed you and yours. I have relocated, mostly. Not yet in a real living space, but partially employed. I didn’t really follow your trajectory, but we were probably out of your way, if you had one.

HuJZ6dfh4HomUvEJhpg3NTi9U8SoU2EAzKRvfUNi4MN7Ug8/wyKqc+xoQoJN8oVtm9AmcWbVZxwLI5jvnvN6h8n963GuuHAJzPqazispW6smRf9ZZ4Zo/fyyiihY211C2tAGYw5jgf4=

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 20, 2019 • 5:52:03pm
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I Would Prefer Not To  Oct 20, 2019 • 5:52:37pm

re: #140 wrenchwench

I’m up in the vapor of the Northwest. I’m so sorry to have missed you and yours. I have relocated, mostly. Not yet in a real living space, but partially employed. I didn’t really follow your trajectory, but we were probably out of your way, if you had one.

Wow. Someone brought up a discussion of bikes and I thought where’s Wench? And here she is.

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Dizzy  Oct 20, 2019 • 5:53:59pm

Fascinating thread:

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Oct 20, 2019 • 5:54:52pm

re: #144 I Would Prefer Not To

Wow. Someone brought up a discussion of bikes and I thought where’s Wench? And here she is.

The Lizardim have a vague psychic connection to each other.

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Decatur Deb  Oct 20, 2019 • 5:55:24pm

re: #143 Backwoods_Sleuth

Yeah, Cat. But the trick is to make that a victory dance.

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wrenchwench  Oct 20, 2019 • 5:56:21pm

re: #141 Decatur Deb

Mostly I40 to Flagstaff with a diversion to Denver, then dropped down to I10 and drove its length from Tuscon back to AL.

Click to Reveal

If I’dda stayed put, I would have been only an hour each way out of your way. Wouldda been worth it. Mr. w wouldda liked you, and I don’t get to say that very often.

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Decatur Deb  Oct 20, 2019 • 6:00:54pm

re: #148 wrenchwench

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In two years, when Trump is opera buffa and I can walk better, we are going on the road again. We vaguely plan to hit the cardinal points, border-wise.

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sagehen  Oct 20, 2019 • 6:00:57pm

re: #83 Barefoot Grin

That, Upstairs, Downstairs, and Monty Python’s Flying Circus were important PBS shows for me as a teenager. Oh, and the Muppets (were they on PBS?).

What about Brideshead Revisited? That was HUUUUGE for me and my friends.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 20, 2019 • 6:03:48pm

re: #150 sagehen

What about Brideshead Revisited? That was HUUUUGE for me and my friends.

I’ve been to Castle Howard in North Yorkshire. Absolutely gorgeous location.

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goddamnedfrank  Oct 20, 2019 • 6:03:49pm
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wrenchwench  Oct 20, 2019 • 6:05:06pm

re: #142 TedStriker

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b.d. (Where is Rudy?)  Oct 20, 2019 • 6:11:11pm

re: #145 Dizzy

Fascinating thread:

[Embedded content]

that was good

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wrenchwench  Oct 20, 2019 • 6:13:34pm

re: #144 I Would Prefer Not To

Wow. Someone brought up a discussion of bikes and I thought where’s Wench? And here she is.

I got here slightly after GJ/FB’s post, and I was frightened by my lack of interest. Everybody and his or her dog and/or/cat is a bike mechanic here, so I am of a reduced specialness. My partial employment is in a Thai restaurant. I have an interview a block away from that employer a half an hour after my shift there tomorrow. Maybe something better, maybe something additional.


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