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1: Inmate Central, RE: Biggest sports heartbreak. (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-11-20, 09:14:35 (67.163.187.233)
I once heard it said on a sports program that a coach in the NFL has a certain window to be productive. I think it may have been Shottenheimer that said that. I used to hate on Tomlin because he worke .......
2: Inmate Central, RE: Goes way back. (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-11-19, 17:32:58 (67.163.187.233)
'72? Wow. Old grudges die hard. Or more accurately: will probably never die. .......
3: Inmate Central, RE: I'm OK with the Browns. (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-11-19, 15:03:32 (67.163.187.233)
Is that due to the Burfict/Antonio Brown cheap hit, or does it go back further and deeper than that? .......
4: Inmate Central, RE: About xmas or the Steelers' receiving corps? (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-11-19, 14:30:31 (67.163.187.233)
Back in my USAir days, the NFL there was a lot like politics is here. Actually the NFL might have been worse, and for many years I was a hard core hater, and for that reason I kept expecting a comebac .......
5: Inmate Central, But tell us what you REALLY think! (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-11-19, 13:49:50 (67.163.187.233)
. .......
6: Inmate Central, RE: Too many injuries on defense. nt (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-11-19, 13:10:49 (67.163.187.233)
Well, you got that one right as far as win or lose. Gotta give you credit for your Houston pick as well. I couldn't find a immediately current betting line prior to kickoff, I found one that said Brow .......
7: Inmate Central, RE: No, but..... (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-11-19, 09:46:33 (67.163.187.233)
I just tried to respond to that email that you sent me that I didn't open until yesterday morning, but all I get when I hit 'send' is "unknown error occurred," so here is the email that I opened yeste .......
8: Inmate Central, RE: No, but..... (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-11-18, 20:35:56 (67.163.187.233)
Rod, I check my email when I first get on my computer after I get up. I generally do not check it again for the rest of the day, and I unfortunately spend way more time on AA these days than I do anyw .......
9: Inmate Central, RE: Oddly enough, tie rod ends and ball joints aren't really wear items on the Cobalt. (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-11-18, 18:04:34 (67.163.187.233)
. . . I just remembered having an outer actually break on my old '75 LTD. It was right after the great blizzard of '93. I remember because my niece had arrived the day after the blizzard from Montana .......
10: Inmate Central, RE: For the bleeding hearts here (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-11-18, 17:57:11 (67.163.187.233)
Sorry, but just because someone may disagree with you does not make them a "bleeding heart." And just because you say that something is so does not make it so. .......
11: Tubes Asylum, +1! (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-11-18, 15:39:07 (67.163.187.233)
! .......
12: Inmate Central, RE: Kansas City isn't unbeatable but the Chiefs have to be the favorite. (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-11-18, 14:59:45 (67.163.187.233)
I was surfing cannels a while back ago and I think it was KDKA played a clip of Cowher being asked what he thought about the AFC and his quick answer was, "KC, Miami, and Baltimore." Jackson can look .......
13: Inmate Central, RE: We'll see how Lamar Jackson does without Mark Andrews. (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-11-18, 14:35:46 (67.163.187.233)
As I typed previously: I don't see anyone in the AFC as being unbeatable right now. .......
14: Inmate Central, RE: The Vietnam war characterization was NOT the point of this thread (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-11-18, 13:45:31 (67.163.187.233)
Perhaps you have, I don't know. However the question Brian asked you yesterday was not about comparing the wars but comparing the soldiers who fought in the wars. .......
15: Inmate Central, RE: It's a team game. (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-11-18, 13:39:31 (67.163.187.233)
I think that you are going to get your wish. .......
16: Inmate Central, "a poorly executed attempt at making the world better place"? (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-11-18, 13:34:21 (67.163.187.233)
Perhaps. And perhaps it wound up being a well executed attempt at generating a lot of wealth for certain people and corporations. Unless you were one of the ones calling the shots back then, your POV .......
17: Inmate Central, RE: As a 20 yo factory worker from the industrial mid-west... (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-11-18, 13:30:03 (67.163.187.233)
And again to your point, Ivan, if I had been born in 1949 instead of 1959 I might have wound up patrolling in My Lai under Lieutenant Calley in 1968 and I might have been one of the GIs that had witne .......
18: Inmate Central, RE: Oddly enough, tie rod ends and ball joints aren't really wear items on the Cobalt. (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-11-18, 12:57:25 (67.163.187.233)
The reason I changed 'em on my GMC was because it flunked the yearly for an inner tie-rod, and it's like if you are going to pull the inner off you might as well change the outer versus taking the old .......
19: Inmate Central, +1 (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-11-18, 12:52:59 (67.163.187.233)
When I was in we did what we were told to do also. And, as I have typed numerous times before, I am now grateful that when I was in no one was telling us to go somewhere and fight in a war for the wro .......
20: Inmate Central, Now you are attributing words to me that I did not use (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-11-18, 12:51:26 (67.163.187.233)
I never said that I had an issue with your feelings as related to anti-Semitism. You made a comment about calling someone a murderer "for the wrong reason" and I simply said that you probably wouldn' .......
21: Inmate Central, Save your sympathy for someone other than me. (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-11-18, 12:13:25 (67.163.187.233)
However, if someone had the audacity to call someone of the Jewish faith an anti-semitic name "for the wrong reasons", something tells me that you would go way off the deep end. This subject is not se .......
22: Inmate Central, RE: The TTX stuff is supposed to be really good. (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-11-18, 12:04:16 (67.163.187.233)
. . . they will definitely outlast the GMC. And I am thinking that they may outlast the Dakota, which will hopefully outlast me. If I ever have to replace tie-rods on The Old '97 I might go with them .......
23: Inmate Central, Whatever (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-11-18, 11:57:06 (67.163.187.233)
Fifty some years ago there were plenty of people calling American GIs scum and worse. Brian HP asked you a question and I attempted to follow up on it and you won't answer . . . whatever. .......
24: Inmate Central, RE: You got it right... (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-11-18, 11:51:44 (67.163.187.233)
. . . Ivan, I realize that back then you could have just as easily got oders that sent you in the other direction--you have my respect and thanks also. Even though I now believe that our involvement i .......
25: Inmate Central, RE: I was one of the young, dumb, draftees (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-11-18, 11:36:44 (67.163.187.233)
. . . and, Uncle Mike, I respect you and extend my thanks to you for serving in a war (that I believe U.S. participation in was needless) that I was too young for. (And now I feel lucky that I was too .......
26: Inmate Central, RE: Joe Burrow (Bengals) out with a torn wrist ligament. Ouch. (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-11-18, 11:26:58 (67.163.187.233)
The North is wide open right now. .......
27: Inmate Central, I am the one who is diverting? (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-11-18, 11:24:31 (67.163.187.233)
Hardly. I have been pretty clear about how I feel about the GIs who were drafted or volunteered to go to Vietnam. You are the one who will not answer that question. As a matter of fact, you just dive .......
28: Inmate Central, RE: As far as I know, Timken closed its Ohio factory and moved production to China. (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-11-18, 11:17:04 (67.163.187.233)
That's interesting. I just went out to the garage because I have an extra inner & outer set of Timken wheel bearings out there for my Old '97, and NO WHERE on the boxes or the bearings does it say whe .......
29: Inmate Central, RE: They're global. (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-11-18, 10:03:48 (67.163.187.233)
Okay. I once went out of my way to buy Moog wheel bearings for my GMC and it turned out that they were from China and after reading what the guys on the forums were saying thinking that I should have .......
30: Inmate Central, RE: You got it right... (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-11-18, 09:56:35 (67.163.187.233)
"Jimmy joined the Army because he had no place to go There ain't nobody hiring here since all the jobs went down to Mexico Reckon that he'd learn himself a trade, maybe see the world Move to the city .......
31: Inmate Central, RE: You got it right... (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-11-18, 09:38:05 (67.163.187.233)
I have said it before and I will continue to say it: all things considered, the DNA lottery treated me pretty good and I am now grateful that, among other things, I was born too late to go over there. .......
32: Inmate Central, USA Moogs? (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-11-18, 09:28:49 (67.163.187.233)
I thought that they were in China now. .......
33: Inmate Central, RE: Such an idiot you are (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-11-18, 09:22:39 (67.163.187.233)
I imagine that many of the citizens of Vietnam did not have a favorable opinion of the American troops who were stationed there or of the ones who were flying aircraft and dropping bombs and incendiar .......
34: Inmate Central, RE: Did you accuse him of being an antisemite? (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-11-17, 21:20:48 (67.163.187.233)
7 to 42 at halftime--I don't think that I am going to stay up for this one. .......
35: Inmate Central, RE: Not a fair question... (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-11-17, 21:18:02 (67.163.187.233)
I was too young for Vietnam and too old for Desert Storm, but even though nothing bad was happening when I was in (which I am now grateful for), I still have an opinion, and it is that our government .......
36: Inmate Central, RE: Did you accuse him of being an antisemite? (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-11-17, 20:52:25 (67.163.187.233)
Ha ha! Nope--I just commented on the fact that his evening was not starting out well. .......
37: Inmate Central, Did my thread about the Colorado game cross a line (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-11-17, 20:43:14 (67.163.187.233)
that got it deleted? I didn't even call Dieon a "Nazi" or "scum" or anything like that. . . . Just asking. .......
38: Tubes Asylum, RE: Listening to music through tubes is like . . . (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-11-17, 20:20:31 (67.163.187.233)
No, I don't find it that way at all. I find that it is like listening to music that is not reproduced by transistors. .......
39: Inmate Central, Dare I ask (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-11-17, 19:46:06 (67.163.187.233)
how you feel about the B-52 drivers who participated in the carpet bombing of Vietnam or the F-100 and F-4 guys who laid the naplam down back then? .......
40: Inmate Central, RE: "You need to figure out what you stand for. " (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-11-17, 15:56:08 (67.163.187.233)
And these words of wisdom are coming from someone who thinks an insect is "good luck." .......
41: General Asylum, RE: That's some education, sure is. (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-11-17, 14:51:11 (67.163.187.233)
". . . money's just something you throw off the back of a train. . . ." Tom Waits/Long Way Home .......
42: Inmate Central, RE: You are either very brave or very stupid. (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-11-17, 13:37:58 (67.163.187.233)
I cannot speak for Brian H P, but I think that it is worth pointing out that he did put the word 'scum' in quotation marks--possibly/probably meaning that many of the Russian soldiers who were killed .......
43: Inmate Central, RE: It's the wacky NFL. (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-11-17, 13:27:26 (67.163.187.233)
Looking at the latest line that I saw (Browns minus 1), a small majority of the bettors are seeing your picture, not mine. However, one point is almost a pick'em and I will not be surprised if that's .......
44: Inmate Central, RE: Bengals' Joe Burrow done for the year. (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-11-17, 12:32:33 (67.163.187.233)
Wow, they are dropping like flys in The North. If Pickett can stay healthy, this may be the year of the Steeler. I don't see any of the teams, particularly in the AFC, as being unbeatable right now. O .......
45: Inmate Central, . . . and Pitt wins and covers! (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-11-16, 19:34:20 (67.163.187.233)
Who would have thought it? Obviously the handicappers did. .......
46: Inmate Central, RE: I have read many accounts (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-11-16, 18:26:32 (67.163.187.233)
I have read it. Although I have enjoyed a few other short works by Vonnegut, that one didn't have the same effect on me as it apparently has had, over the decades, on an extremely large number of read .......
47: Inmate Central, RE: Deshaun Watson is done for the year. (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-11-16, 16:08:35 (67.163.187.233)
And the Panthers are a 2.5 point favorite tonight??? WTF??? .......
48: Inmate Central, RE: "Some" say Jews drink the Christian babies blood. (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-11-16, 16:07:42 (67.163.187.233)
The question was whether "anyone" ever accused the US of genocide related to the fire-bombing of Dresden.. All I could find, after a a few cursory searches, was that there were "some" historians whe r .......
49: Inmate Central, RE: Did anyone accuse the US of genocide? NT (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-11-16, 15:49:43 (67.163.187.233)
Some have referred to the bombing of Dresden as a war crime. .......
50: Inmate Central, RE: Deshaun Watson is done for the year. (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-11-16, 14:32:23 (67.163.187.233)
I took a look to see what the betting line on that game is, and from the USA Today: "1 day ago ... Browns vs. Steelers odds, moneyline, over/under · Spread: Browns (-4) · Moneyline: Browns (-200); Ste .......
51: Inmate Central, RE: Deshaun Watson is done for the year. (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-11-16, 14:25:00 (67.163.187.233)
. .......
52: Inmate Central, Mopar used to (and probably still does) use MIC as an acronym (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-11-14, 16:05:20 (67.163.187.233)
for 'mechanical instrument cluster.' (Actually, except for the HVAC module, all the modules on whatever era Mopar bus system had/have a three character acronym.) .......
53: Inmate Central, RE: (other than religion and politics) (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-11-13, 11:01:53 (67.163.187.233)
Maybe World Lit essays? .......
54: Inmate Central, RE: this is a labour of love for Dana Bash... (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-11-12, 16:53:41 (67.163.187.233)
Exactly. .......
55: Whiner's Woad, RE: Does anybody really read that crap? (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-11-12, 15:17:16 (67.163.187.233)
I occasionally read some of it. .......
56: Inmate Central, RE: CNN trying to win my heart (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-11-12, 14:29:07 (67.163.187.233)
? To me, it doesn't seem at all out ofcharacter for them. .......
57: Inmate Central, RE: Oh dear, Mike! (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-11-12, 12:03:30 (67.163.187.233)
Nothing to see there . . . just a "peaceful get together." .......
58: Inmate Central, RE: Look in your own back yard (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-11-12, 10:04:23 (67.163.187.233)
You've got that right. .......
59: Inmate Central, RE: The NCAA still has to weigh in... (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-11-10, 13:52:47 (67.163.187.233)
Not that it pertains to the subject matter of the thread, but I get Jim and John Harbaugh mixed up. I can never remember which is which/who is who so I had to do a quick google. I actually liked Jim H .......
60: Inmate Central, It's not whether you win or lose (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-11-10, 13:24:15 (67.163.187.233)
. . . it's how you play the game. Right? .......
61: Inmate Central, RE: Only if you want it to. (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-11-10, 13:22:18 (67.163.187.233)
. .......
62: Inmate Central, RE: GM--jump or wait another week? (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-11-10, 13:07:48 (67.163.187.233)
Buy millions of shares asap. .......
63: Inmate Central, RE: Incredible... (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-11-10, 08:57:09 (67.163.187.233)
Wow. .......
64: Inmate Central, Looks like there are several options available (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-11-09, 17:18:45 (67.163.187.233)
https://www.ebay.com/itm/363984148803?chn=ps&_trkparms=ispr%3D1&amdata=enc%3A1gUwDUIBOQaWUMwuFBJ-ycQ28&norover=1&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-117182-37290-0&mkcid=2&mkscid=101&itemid=363984148803&targetid=164483 .......
65: Inmate Central, RE: Health outcomes in the US suck. (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-11-09, 14:34:49 (67.163.187.233)
You used diabetes prevention versus treatment as an example, and I am not sure that is the best one. Diabetes Mellitus Type 2 is generally related to unhealthy lifestyle choices that everyone knows, o .......
66: Inmate Central, RE: Same here, especially if you're a pedestrian or cyclist. (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-11-09, 10:33:33 (67.163.187.233)
I have NEVER enjoyed driving in Pittsburgh, and the older my eyes and I get, the less and less I like it. Occasionally I have to go to the VA hospital in Oakland as there is a bunch of stuff that the .......
67: Inmate Central, RE: And "if it were up to me, any alcohol in somebody's blood would be considered DUI." (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-11-09, 10:28:17 (67.163.187.233)
You may or may not find this interesting, but I remember from back when I was gainfully employed as an airline mechanic (and since that chapter ended for me in '06, this may have changed) we were subj .......
68: Inmate Central, RE: Typo fixed (nt) (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-11-09, 10:07:56 (67.163.187.233)
The AHA page did open for me this time. I found the information and figures and stats to be interesting but not really mind blowing as I never thought of pot use to be healthy. As I typed previously, .......
69: Inmate Central, RE: Not sure, but the problem might be... (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-11-08, 15:57:35 (67.163.187.233)
I also questioned that myself. I am assuming that if you got pulled over and couldn't pass whatever the field sobriety test consists of, but blew zeroes into the tube, that this would result in a bloo .......
70: Inmate Central, RE: Now we know why Danes are the happiest people ;) (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-11-08, 15:52:14 (67.163.187.233)
I might be misremembering this, but I once watched a documentary on HBO called "Risky Drinking" and I seem to remember it being stated that anything more than two drinks per session was clinically kno .......
71: Inmate Central, RE: It's high time . . . (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-11-08, 15:40:44 (67.163.187.233)
When I click on your link it takes me to an AHA page, but it says "page not found." I wouldn't even try to make the argument that pot is harmless, and I know from a home nursing job I used to have tha .......
72: Inmate Central, RE: likely one of few with both damping and diffusion (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-11-08, 15:26:01 (67.163.187.233)
I was looking at it from a work-shop perspective and I wasn't even looking at it with that in mind, but it does look as if, even minus the huge 'stats and the plushness of what must be your main room, .......
73: Inmate Central, RE: We lost 3 dogs this year. (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-11-08, 14:18:53 (67.163.187.233)
It truly broke my heart when Roscoe, our beloved rescued Rat Terrier mix died in my arms. We had him for going on 13 years. I guess I over compensated for my grief by adopting three more shelter dogs. .......
74: Inmate Central, I've still got mine (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-11-08, 14:11:10 (67.163.187.233)
When I was in the Air Force I bought a demo ('79 Suzuki GS 1000) in 1980. I was in love with that bike. I wrecked it twice (once was one of those true killer wrecks), spent a lot of time riding it hig .......
75: Inmate Central, RE: Both... (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-11-08, 13:58:42 (67.163.187.233)
Nice garage. .......
76: Inmate Central, RE: Very weak argument (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-11-08, 10:35:29 (67.163.187.233)
. . . alcohol, aka ethanol, is actually considered a drug. " Alcohol is a Psychotropic Central Nervous System (CNS) Depressant." .......
77: Inmate Central, RE: It's not against the law. (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-11-08, 10:31:53 (67.163.187.233)
. . . I am curious, however, in states where recreational use of pot is legal, how they have been determining whether or not someone is 'under the influence'. If someone flunks a field sobriety test b .......
78: Inmate Central, RE: Some say if you make pot legal then why not heroin? (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-11-08, 10:04:03 (67.163.187.233)
To say that there is a million miles of difference between pot and heroin is an understatement. A billion miles maybe. Maybe more than that. Comparing heroin to alcohol is a fairer comparison than com .......
79: Inmate Central, RE: And is that good or bad? (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-11-08, 09:58:27 (67.163.187.233)
It is the ultimate upgrade to any audio system. .......
80: Inmate Central, RE: "And you think to yourself "Holy crap, thank goodness nobody does that kind of barbaric shit today!"." (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-11-07, 18:40:15 (67.163.187.233)
I wonder if Khashoggi was even dead before MBS's butchers started using the bone saws on him. .......
81: Inmate Central, It's high time . . . (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-11-07, 18:31:24 (67.163.187.233)
it look as if recreational use of marijuana is going to be legal in Ohio. https://www.aol.com/ohio-votes-legalize-marijuana-recreational-021941420.html .......
82: Inmate Central, RE: Well... (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-11-07, 14:57:12 (67.163.187.233)
I was friends with a guy from Scotland who was always saying he wanted to go to Chop Square to watch the show and he wanted me to go along. (Maybe because I had access to a vehicle.) Knock yourself ou .......
83: Inmate Central, RE: Well... (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-11-07, 14:25:40 (67.163.187.233)
I worked for Lockheed in Ryadh from '85 to '87, which certainly does not give me any leg up on understanding Arab politics (as a matter of fact, we were explicitly instructed to NOT discuss politics o .......
84: Inmate Central, RE: what West? (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-11-07, 12:20:36 (67.163.187.233)
I used to be very apathetic about voting. So I have to give trump credit for one thing--I have not stayed home since him and I do not plan on staying home for any others. I showed up for the one today .......
85: Inmate Central, RE: DakhaBrakha plays in nearby town (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-11-07, 09:04:26 (67.163.187.233)
Did you bring anything that was any good? .......
86: Inmate Central, RE: Shelter dogs need love too. (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-11-07, 08:57:25 (67.163.187.233)
And they seem to be appreciative of getting another chance. .......
87: Inmate Central, "but they can be a lot of fun!" (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-11-06, 21:02:03 (67.163.187.233)
Way back in '81 I bought one of those mushroom growing kits advertised in 'High Times' and that is exactly what I said. .......
88: Inmate Central, RE: I was skeptical of CJ Stroud. (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-11-06, 20:56:02 (67.163.187.233)
I thought he looked good against the Steelers (who do have a pretty good defense). Tonight (mnf) was just another example of why I am glad I gave up gambling. I really liked the Jets on this one. And .......
89: General Asylum, RE: "At what point does Taylor Swift celebrity idolatry become exploitation?" (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-11-06, 20:49:55 (67.163.187.233)
"Unfortunately, the current Taylor Swift celebrity idolatry is exploitative of her fans and to the end of benefiting her financially." Sounds like she is a classic example of capitalism. I would think .......
90: Inmate Central, RE: Congratulations. (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-11-06, 20:44:43 (67.163.187.233)
They are great when they are not destroying stuff. (But they are worth it anyway. I guess.) .......
91: Inmate Central, RE: I suspect (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-29, 18:32:04 (67.163.187.233)
You should be able to relate to that--holding your nuts while f'ed up. .......
92: Inmate Central, RE: Those are not stolen American rifles. Joe Biden gave them those rifles. (nt) (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-29, 18:14:24 (67.163.187.233)
I am pretty sure that the weapons were given to the Afghan security forces and then the Taliban took them. .......
93: Inmate Central, RE: Taliban on the run again with stolen American rifles? (nt) (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-29, 16:51:55 (67.163.187.233)
And all this time I thought that it was one of those MAGA guys at one of those rallies they like to go to. .......
94: Inmate Central, RE: If the Minnesota Vikings were planning on shopping Kirk Cousins... (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-29, 16:37:42 (67.163.187.233)
. . . and Baltimore goes to 6 & 2 as the rest of the North is at 4 & 3. . . . .......
95: Inmate Central, RE: If the Minnesota Vikings were planning on shopping Kirk Cousins... (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-29, 16:24:40 (67.163.187.233)
SF lost their third in a row . . . KC dropped one to Denver . . . what's next? .......
96: Inmate Central, Psycho killer, qu'est-ce que c'est? (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-29, 14:53:03 (67.163.187.233)
. .......
97: Inmate Central, RE: I gotta stop...too many bad flashbacks...nt (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-29, 14:14:23 (67.163.187.233)
A flashback? I think I might enjoy that . . . I would probably say that I can't fight this feeling. Wasn't there a serial killer quite a while ago that left a message at one of his crime scenes that r .......
98: Inmate Central, RE: Fly to the nearest WalMart for a can of Drano... (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-29, 14:07:29 (67.163.187.233)
If I did that, it might keep the fire burning. At least it might feel that way. .......
99: Inmate Central, RE: She doesn't like the rough guys... (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-29, 12:21:26 (67.163.187.233)
. . . which, of course, is better than if you were riding the storm out. .......
100: Inmate Central, RE: She doesn't like the rough guys... (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-29, 12:20:16 (67.163.187.233)
Well, I guess that means that it is time for you to fly. .......
101: Inmate Central, RE: More like blame. nt (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-29, 11:49:46 (67.163.187.233)
You can tune a piano but you can't tuna fish? .......
102: Inmate Central, RE: I saw Bob Seger live here in Pittsburgh during his Night Moves tour. (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-29, 10:25:13 (67.163.187.233)
Going back to the late '70s/early '80s Bob Seger (And The Silver Bullet Band) was one of my favorites. Seeing him & hearing him do "Turn The Page" amde an impression on me when he played under the lig .......
103: General Asylum, RE: I can't name a single song by either of them.... (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-28, 15:24:57 (67.163.187.233)
Either can I. But they aren't losing any sleep over it. .......
104: General Asylum, RE: Taylor Swift now a declared billionairess . . . (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-28, 14:49:30 (67.163.187.233)
Maybe not. Taylor Swift probably didn't obtain her wealth via corruption, graft, and other white collar theft and crime. .......
105: Inmate Central, RE: I never need. to hear "Wheel in the Sky" again. (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-28, 14:26:26 (67.163.187.233)
Yes, REO was extremely popular when I was in the Air Force. So was Boston, Styx and Kansas. At the time I liked the song "Dust In The Wind" so I bought that 8-track and there was a song on the REO "9 .......
106: Inmate Central, RE: Consumer credit is the modern debt slavery (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-28, 14:10:12 (67.163.187.233)
Well, if a so called "billionaire" who used to be potus is too irresponsible to pay his bills, why should anyone else? https://www.yourerie.com/news/pennsylvania-news/erie-county/trumps-upcoming-erie .......
107: Inmate Central, RE: Hey, Rod M.! (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-28, 14:05:18 (67.163.187.233)
Yuk! Double yuk! (However, I am loathe to admit that a long long long time ago I somehow did inherit the Dirty White Boy album, and I did go to a Journey concert.) .......
108: Inmate Central, RE: Had a set of Goodyear Wranglers on one of the Ford Rangers. (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-28, 12:38:11 (67.163.187.233)
These are Yokahamas (15" six plies), and yes, upon inspection with a flashlight, I can see very faint cracking beween the treads. .......
109: Inmate Central, RE: It's a good rule of thumb to replace tires after 7 years or so. (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-28, 11:49:46 (67.163.187.233)
Ohhhhh . . . okay. I had those tires put on in the summer of '15 to get that truck from Montana to Pa. That's probably it. That'a bitch because they only have about 20k, at most, on them. I'll go out .......
110: Inmate Central, RE: ;-] (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-28, 11:42:44 (67.163.187.233)
The grammar nazi is back. .......
111: Inmate Central, RE: Same Armalite frame (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-28, 11:41:27 (67.163.187.233)
. . . I was pretty sure that I had read in a book that I cannot find at the moment (but that link that you provided confirms) that Stoner had developed the AR-10 prior to the '15, but the military did .......
112: Inmate Central, RE: Good post !! I'm a peon (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-28, 11:18:46 (67.163.187.233)
The concept of being in debt when I die does not bother me. But the timing seems like it could be a bit tricky. .......
113: Inmate Central, RE: You might still be able to pass. (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-28, 11:15:11 (67.163.187.233)
. . . and I have previously done literally EVERY metal brake line on her, and most recently was starting on fuel lines. .......
114: Inmate Central, RE: You might still be able to pass. (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-28, 11:13:04 (67.163.187.233)
Well, I got my two "cherry" rust free pickups inspected at a new station in early September, and on the Chevy, the inspector told me I'd need new tires next year due to dry rot. I cannot see any crack .......
115: Inmate Central, RE: They use Schutz. It's a 3M product. (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-28, 08:41:33 (67.163.187.233)
Okay. I remember the guy who was telling me about what GM undercoated with sounded like he wasn't crazy about it and that in his opinion it contributed to GMs of that era rusting out. (This guy also d .......
116: Inmate Central, RE: Sorry (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-28, 08:31:16 (67.163.187.233)
That was my mistake; I remember once seeing a ban era AR (SS nonthreaded barrel) for sale with a 5 round magazine attached, and I just assumed that the magazine capacity was part of the AWB criteria. .......
117: Inmate Central, RE: Perhaps I misunderstood (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-27, 20:00:16 (67.163.187.233)
I guess I wasn't as clear as I thought i was. What I meant was that since the top one doesn't appear to have a threaded barrel, and at the time I mistakenly thought magazine capacity was an AWB factor .......
118: Inmate Central, RE: Back then (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-27, 19:55:25 (67.163.187.233)
Well yeah, I see the resemblance, but I am not crazy about my M1A either, and as far as buying a .223/5.56, imo the AR-15 platform (imo) just has it all over the Mini-14. Super efficient and super mod .......
119: Inmate Central, RE: Same Armalite frame (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-27, 19:48:26 (67.163.187.233)
The reason I bought an AR-10 was because at the time I was spending way too much money and also spending a lot of time at the range, there were a couple of guys I got to know that were apparently maki .......
120: Inmate Central, RE: Had you followed the link I provided (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-27, 18:23:39 (67.163.187.233)
I was just surfing channels, and I guess he was using an AR-10, not a '15. This is actually the first time that I can think of that I have heard of a mass shooter using an AR-10. .......
121: Inmate Central, RE: Like the old Hollies' tune? (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-27, 17:18:43 (67.163.187.233)
I was told that GM actually used the rubberized undercoating for a while (so maybe that was the way he bought it). I am not sure what the time period was for that. Anyway, I think a big part of it is .......
122: General Asylum, Good for her (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-27, 17:09:26 (67.163.187.233)
. .......
123: Inmate Central, RE: Had you followed the link I provided (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-27, 15:26:00 (67.163.187.233)
. . . oh, sorry, I do see the link. My vision seems to get a bit worse by the day and it didn't stand out well in the light I am presently in. .......
124: Inmate Central, It was the lower one with the muzzle brake that was outlawed. (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-27, 15:15:37 (67.163.187.233)
Isn't that what I said? .......
125: Inmate Central, RE: Had you followed the link I provided (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-27, 15:13:44 (67.163.187.233)
I am not seeing a link in that post, but if the high cap magazine was not part of the AWB, my bad. For some reason I must have been misunderstanding that feature of the ban all these years. However, .......
126: Inmate Central, RE: Yes (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-27, 14:55:18 (67.163.187.233)
Well, yeah, as I typed, the OP is probably referring to the semi-automatic feature, the detachable high cap mag, and probably being a centerfire. He is probably less interested in the threaded barrel .......
127: Inmate Central, RE: At the expense of confusing the issue with facts (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-27, 14:10:34 (67.163.187.233)
. . . and since my computer (or whatever) is now in the mode that I don't have an 'edit' button, I'll add: or a high capacity detachable drum style magazine. .......
128: Inmate Central, RE: At the expense of confusing the issue with facts (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-27, 14:02:26 (67.163.187.233)
The term was given specific criteria by the Clinton AWB. However, it is possible that Jay Buridan is referring to semi-automatic centerfire rifles with detachable high capacity box style magazines. T .......
129: General Asylum, RE: The case for integrated audio solutions. (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-27, 11:42:54 (67.163.187.233)
I thought that there was a case to be made for separate power supplies? .......
130: Inmate Central, RE: "IMHO America's love of guns is just nuts, though." (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-27, 11:36:35 (67.163.187.233)
"About the time that Daddy left to fight the big war I saw my first pistol in the general store, In the general store, when I was thirteen, thought it was the finest thing I ever had seen. I asked if .......
131: Inmate Central, RE: A friend/covorker, a former Soviet tank colonel... (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-27, 11:12:47 (67.163.187.233)
I would not have thought that those engines would have been set up to produce thrust to power those tanks. .......
132: Inmate Central, RE: Allow me to correct/clarify... (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-27, 10:42:57 (67.163.187.233)
When someone "drops dead of a heart attack" (I am assuming that you are referring to cardiac arrest) there is an underlying condition, such as narrowed or blocked coronary arteries, or an abnormal rhy .......
133: Inmate Central, RE: Statistically, she said... (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-26, 19:44:25 (67.163.187.233)
This site says that in 2021 there were "about" twenty million rifles that met the criteria of an "assault weapon" in the US. https://abcnews.go.com/US/type-gun-us-homicides-ar-15/story?id=78689504 It .......
134: Inmate Central, Actually I've been saying that I have been thinking of doing that for a few years now (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-26, 18:16:44 (67.163.187.233)
but unfortunately I tend to bond with inaminate objects, including my tools. .......
135: Inmate Central, RE: Statistically, she said... (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-26, 13:38:33 (67.163.187.233)
No, Mike, not me. But my point was: when was the last time someone wacked out and went on a killing rampage with his or her Pit Bulls. Maybe I missed it, but I cannot think of a single instance. (And .......
136: Inmate Central, RE: LOL! (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-26, 12:07:43 (67.163.187.233)
WWW can't help himself. His mom warned him about cooking meth in her basement without wearing a N95 but he wouldn't listen. .......
137: Inmate Central, RE: Statistically, she said... (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-26, 10:24:01 (67.163.187.233)
Statistics may look good on headstone, but the math I would be concerned about is 13 (or 14) people killed by Pit Bulls so far this year versus one guy on one night with an AR killing 18 people. Later .......
138: Inmate Central, RE: I remember the Tate killings very well. (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-26, 10:14:15 (67.163.187.233)
I remember that I used to buy certain cereals because they had "Archies" records that you could remove from the back of the cereal box. As I remember, they didn't sound very good. .......
139: Inmate Central, RE: A German airline pilot sends the plane into a mountain, killing all aboard (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-26, 10:04:35 (67.163.187.233)
I have always considered airline pilots to be assholes. So far, this year, according to Wiki, Pit Bulls and Pit Bull mixes have been involved in 13 fatalities. 14 if a "Bull Terrier" is considered a P .......
140: Inmate Central, RE: I remember the Tate killings very well. (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-26, 09:36:05 (67.163.187.233)
You are older than I am, and I do remember it, but I was ten years old that summer. When Ashley Banfield talks about the effect it had upon her (and she was two years old) I am thinking, "Gimme a brea .......
141: Inmate Central, RE: How about the notion that people can become ill? (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-26, 09:21:13 (67.163.187.233)
Speaking of mentally ill people and weapons: consider who used to have the nuclear code. .......
142: Inmate Central, RE: Speaking of organizing / Tool cabinets / Thoughts on Icon toolbox? (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-26, 09:17:05 (67.163.187.233)
There is an A&P mechanic and an auto mechanic trade school not way too far from me that I may contact one of these days about selling tools to students. .......
143: Inmate Central, RE: Wouldn't want my daughter to date a firearms instructor (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-26, 09:11:17 (67.163.187.233)
There was a thread not too long ago about how bad Pit Bulls are. I think this guy with an AR was/is more dangerous than both of my Pit Bulls put together. .......
144: Inmate Central, RE: The best part of that song? Bryan Adams was only 10 years old... (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-26, 09:05:09 (67.163.187.233)
Maybe he got started young? (I actually got my first B-B gun in the summer of '69.) I don't know if you ever watch 'News Nation' at all (I surf news channels a lot), but on The Ashley Banfield Bottomf .......
145: Inmate Central, RE: Had an ex-gf who insisted on WDVE on the car radio. (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-25, 17:05:35 (67.163.187.233)
For some reason I remember them playing "The Summer Of '69" nn awful lot that first summer I was in Pittsburgh. There are probably a few more they played a bunch, but that one sticks in my mind. I sti .......
146: Inmate Central, RE: David Lindley's version kicks ass... (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-25, 16:55:12 (67.163.187.233)
Yup!! That was it! That was the version I heard at work on 91.3! That is excellent! I cranked it up and my gambling buddy, Bob, who used to HATE WYEP (he was more the DVE type of listener) was tapping .......
147: Inmate Central, RE: Speaking of organizing / Tool cabinets / Thoughts on Icon toolbox? (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-25, 15:45:21 (67.163.187.233)
Awesome garage! .......
148: Inmate Central, RE: Was finally able to escape that miserable radio station. (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-25, 15:02:30 (67.163.187.233)
Ha ha! Yes, I remember when I first bid up to Pittsburgh in '91, 102 was pretty much on someone's radio no matter where you went. I remember when I bid into a little backshop and someone there turned .......
149: Inmate Central, RE: It adds complexity (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-25, 14:51:15 (67.163.187.233)
Speaking of airbags: I was trying out a new inspection station and getting one of my pickups inspected, and from the conversation one of the mechanics was having with a customer over the phone about t .......
150: Inmate Central, Drano in your ears? (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-25, 14:45:52 (67.163.187.233)
I bet that, today, you are glad that you didn't. .......
151: Inmate Central, RE: Speaking of organizing / Tool cabinets / Thoughts on Icon toolbox? (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-25, 14:39:13 (67.163.187.233)
When my metric tool additions outgrew my old old Craftsman 12 drawer roll-away with a Mac sidebox (which was pretty much dedicated to SAE tools in the past) I added on more storage space on the cheap. .......
152: Inmate Central, RE: Mercury Blues (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-25, 14:05:56 (67.163.187.233)
Ah, yes! I remeber that . . . that was on "Fly Like An Eagle," right? I bought that 8-track for "Keep On Rocking Me Baby," but you are right, "Mercury Blues" was on that. That version never stuck with .......
153: Inmate Central, RE: David Lindley's version kicks ass... (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-25, 12:15:41 (67.163.187.233)
I have to screw around with untangling my earphones and getting them hooked up to get sound out of my ancient computer, but I am wondering if that's the version I heard over 30 years ago on 91.3 WYEP .......
154: Inmate Central, "Howlin' At Midnight" (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-25, 11:39:56 (67.163.187.233)
"I ain't got nobody, I'm nobody's girl. Gonna get in my Mercury and drive around the world. Around the world, all around the world. . . ." Lucinda Williams .......
155: Inmate Central, Mercury Blues (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-25, 11:33:35 (67.163.187.233)
"Well if I had money I'd tell you what I'd do I go downtown buy a Mercury or two Crazy about a Mercury Lord I'm crazy 'bout a Mercury I'm going to buy me a Mercury and cruise it up and down the road" .......
156: Inmate Central, RE: That is common, not running up the score. Until ESPN figures out (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-23, 15:37:02 (67.163.187.233)
Thank you, Captain Obvious, but when you take the 'over' you want points, point, points, and you don't care who gets 'em or how they get 'em or why they didn't get 'em. .......
157: Inmate Central, RE: Driving can be fun, but getting places is a pain in the ass. (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-23, 09:55:52 (67.163.187.233)
What drives me a little crazy is when someone puills RIGHT out in front of me, enough so that I have to get on the brakes, and then this person who has pulled out in front of me goes real real real sl .......
158: Inmate Central, RE: WTF does that even mean? (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-22, 20:44:09 (67.163.187.233)
The betting line for the total combined points scored was 52.5 points: if you took the over you needed 53 or more to win and if you took the under you needed 52 or less to win. At 52.5 no push was mat .......
159: Inmate Central, The over/under was 52.5 tonight (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-22, 20:22:45 (67.163.187.233)
and everyone who took the over got to watch Filthadelphia take the knee three times on the Miami 7 yard line while they sat on a 17 to 31 lead for the win and a total combined score of 48. . . . ::: T .......
160: Inmate Central, "which should be like watching fingernails grow" (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-22, 19:10:37 (67.163.187.233)
There was a scene in Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid where they were fired upon and Butch said to Sundance something about it maybe being just one guy that was shooting at them . . . and that was f .......
161: Inmate Central, RE: Sunco 260 gt (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-22, 17:49:39 (67.163.187.233)
I have a long retired Suzuki big bore 4 cylinder with an 11:1 piston kit in it and the head had been milled on two separate occsions; back in '90 when I was working in NC there was a gas station selli .......
162: Inmate Central, RE: Even though I'm from Pittsburgh... (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-22, 17:44:13 (67.163.187.233)
+1 for Filthadelphia Freedom. .......
163: Inmate Central, And Vlad's BFF at that. (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-22, 17:39:26 (67.163.187.233)
. .......
164: Inmate Central, RE: The Eagles' secondary is really banged up. (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-22, 17:36:28 (67.163.187.233)
"Philadelphia is favored by three in the latest Dolphins vs. Eagles odds, while the over-under is 52.5. Before you make any Eagles vs. Dolphins ..." If I was not retired/reformed, I would be inclined .......
165: Inmate Central, +1 (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-22, 13:55:46 (67.163.187.233)
Pictures please. .......
166: Inmate Central, RE: Lots of other browsers available (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-19, 18:01:29 (67.163.187.233)
thanks. How about "google chrome"? Would that be a good one? I tryed to download it before, but for some reason I couldn't complete the download. I'll try again. .......
167: Inmate Central, As I typed before (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-19, 17:11:08 (67.163.187.233)
I cannot even begin to comprehend. .......
168: Inmate Central, RE: This may not apply to you, but. . . (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-19, 14:45:36 (67.163.187.233)
I am thinking that it must be my browser (firefox)? For example, if I come back to this post in 5 or 10 minutes, there may or may not be an edit button available for me. If I continuously go back and .......
169: Inmate Central, RE: Is it just me and my computer, or is it real hard for everybody to edit a post here? (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-19, 14:40:42 (67.163.187.233)
Ha! I didn't do well when I took Spanish or French in HS either. .......
170: Inmate Central, RE: And so many more! (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-18, 20:45:26 (67.163.187.233)
Nope. No such thing as anti-Arabism. .......
171: Inmate Central, RE: "F$$#ING RAG HEADS!" (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-18, 19:19:45 (67.163.187.233)
Maybe like the Muslim Ban? .......
172: Inmate Central, RE: Is it just me and my computer, or is it real hard for everybody to edit a post here? (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-18, 18:29:25 (67.163.187.233)
I bet it's my browser, huh? Every 4 years I have to renew an EMT certification and I have to use internet explorer to load my CEs on because for whatever reason Firefox won't do it. But I hate IE beca .......
173: Inmate Central, "I'm good with cremation if my family wants to save a few bucks." (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-18, 17:21:58 (67.163.187.233)
Those are my instructions to my potential survivors. If they don't want to save the $ (& I have a feeling that they will want to), that's on them because it won't matter to me. And the ashes could be .......
174: Inmate Central, RE: Seems easy enough to edit for me. (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-18, 17:15:52 (67.163.187.233)
"In (more) seriousness: What platform (O/S and device) and what browser are you using?" Oh shoot. I missed that. Windows 7 (I think), Firefox (I know), and the device is an HP desktop I bought in '12. .......
175: Inmate Central, RE: Seems easy enough to edit for me. (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-18, 17:10:16 (67.163.187.233)
It must be my ancient computer then. Most of the time I don't get an 'edit' button when I come back to a post. If I perservere and keep clicking back & forth from the post I want to edit and something .......
176: Inmate Central, Is it just me and my computer, or is it real hard for everybody to edit a post here? (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-18, 16:54:53 (67.163.187.233)
No biggy either way. I only ask because I am a horrible typist and my vision has deteriorated significantly, meaning I have to look at the keyboard (not the screen) when typing and I miss keys frequen .......
177: Inmate Central, RE: Beaver, eh? (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-18, 16:43:11 (67.163.187.233)
Ha ha! I never saw that before. (I actually used to listen to 102 when we first moved up here. Sometime in the mid 90s after I started down the "audiophile" road to destruction and I started gaining a .......
178: Inmate Central, " Not that we were close to being fair to the indigenous people" (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-18, 16:37:12 (67.163.187.233)
A flashbulb memory: I remember a conversation I had with my mom (who was far more cerebral than I was or turned out to be) when I was a teenager growing up in Montana, and the conversation revolved ar .......
179: Inmate Central, " Not that we were close to being fair to the indigenous people" (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-18, 16:29:11 (67.163.187.233)
No, we never were, were we. .......
180: Inmate Central, RE: Sun peeked through for a minute... (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-18, 14:47:40 (67.163.187.233)
Yeah . . . I may have spoke too soon. Up here in The County Of The Beaver it's doing about the same thing. A tad on the cool side as well. However, honestly, sun or no sun, I prefer this (by a lot!) t .......
181: Inmate Central, RE: Killers Of The Flower Moon (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-18, 14:45:04 (67.163.187.233)
I've seen the previews and I thought that they looked interesting so I found the trailer. Looks like a good movie. I like (forgive me for how bad I am about to butcher the spelling) Leonardo DeCaprio .......
182: Inmate Central, RE: I don't think there is a female within 50 miles of this forum. Nt (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-18, 11:22:07 (67.163.187.233)
Ha ha! .......
183: Inmate Central, RE: well... (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-18, 11:16:31 (67.163.187.233)
That should make you happy. .......
184: Inmate Central, RE: Another gloomy day in Pittsburgh, not as cold or wet though. (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-18, 11:15:22 (67.163.187.233)
Gloomy? It's not looking bad up here north of the airport. .......
185: Inmate Central, As soon as I see "Snippet:" (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-18, 11:14:08 (67.163.187.233)
I don't bother with it. .......
186: Inmate Central, RE: We've been intentionally killing civilians ever since Sherman's March to the Sea (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-18, 11:12:24 (67.163.187.233)
Um . . . actually before that. .......
187: Inmate Central, RE: Have you heard of Anti-Arabism? (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-18, 10:25:12 (67.163.187.233)
Not using that exact term, but yes I have. .......
188: Inmate Central, I cannot even begin to comprehend what it must have been like (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-17, 20:01:51 (67.163.187.233)
I was too young for Vietnam and too old for Desert Storm; there was nothing going on when I was in. For what it is worth, all of you guys have my respect--from back then to more recently to now. Salut .......
189: Inmate Central, RE: It Happened... Part 2 (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-17, 18:31:04 (67.163.187.233)
They better make hay while the sun shines. Meaning while Biden is potus. The next Speaker Of The House could be problematic to the cash flow as well. .......
190: Inmate Central, RE: Can welding damage your eyes? (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-17, 16:21:44 (67.163.187.233)
I thought I remembered our HS shop teacher calling it "arc flash" and saying it was only temporary. I think maybe he compared it to a sunburn. Yuk--sunburned eyes. That was a long time ago and I am su .......
191: Inmate Central, RE: Let's stay with that story... (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-17, 13:35:05 (67.163.187.233)
Regardless of whose it was, I guess sooner or later it was inevitable. If it wasn't already ugly enough, it looks like it's going to get a lot uglier soon. If there wasn't "Arab unity" on all this bef .......
192: Inmate Central, RE: Israelis bomb Gaza hospital to welcome Biden... (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-17, 13:10:24 (67.163.187.233)
. . . hmmmm, at the moment, Israel seems to be claiming that it was a Palestinian Islamic Jihad missile gone astray. . . . .......
193: Inmate Central, RE: Israelis bomb Gaza hospital to welcome Biden... (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-17, 13:07:16 (67.163.187.233)
Wow. Did President Biden order that airstrike? .......
194: Inmate Central, RE: I'm sure it is - I don't know much about it except. . . (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-17, 11:25:48 (67.163.187.233)
I think Roethlisberger went there. .......
195: Inmate Central, RE: Welding (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-17, 10:01:50 (67.163.187.233)
I remember the subject of pacers coming up on this site once. For anyone who may have one, I believe some electrical welders are contraindicated by pacers and implanted defibrillators. Or maybe it's .......
196: Inmate Central, RE: HOA's are a necessary evil. Why? Because... (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-17, 09:52:55 (67.163.187.233)
Had to laugh when I read that one. .......
197: Inmate Central, RE: maybe you "freaked out", I did not as I was matter of fact having lived through it long ago (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-17, 09:40:22 (67.163.187.233)
Too bad you cannot change it. "Topper" would be appropriate. .......
198: Inmate Central, RE: I have a clue about bastards in tunnels (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-16, 21:10:32 (67.163.187.233)
I've said it before and I'll say it again--thank you. What years were you there? .......
199: Inmate Central, RE: The man's a brute. (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-16, 19:17:38 (67.163.187.233)
It seems sort of like the reaction when Bill Maher got fired (Politically Incorrect) after 9/11. The suicide hijackers were frequently referred to as cowards, and I think he questioned the cowardice o .......
200: Inmate Central, RE: Jerry-rigging a new microwave.... (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-16, 18:50:51 (67.163.187.233)
You are living large. .......
201: Inmate Central, RE: maybe you "freaked out", I did not as I was matter of fact having lived through it long ago (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-16, 18:16:03 (67.163.187.233)
I was referring to the manner in which you are freaking out right now. But I am sure that no one has ever suffered in comparison to your suffering, up to and including Jesus Christ on The Cross, and f .......
202: Inmate Central, RE: what difference would it make, I just want them to feel the horror /nt (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-16, 15:31:05 (67.163.187.233)
I don't know why you freaked out then. A second-degree burns only involves the epidermis and part of the dermis. Bubbles and blisters, but I guess you know, nothing in the way of pain compared to a 3r .......
203: Inmate Central, RE: The world needs airline mechanics. (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-16, 15:21:47 (67.163.187.233)
. . . and I actually got on the computer this afternoon not to come here, but to renew my RN--I guess I better get started on that. .......
204: Inmate Central, RE: The world needs airline mechanics. (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-16, 15:19:18 (67.163.187.233)
Ha! And I always say how much I do not like to fly. I was being a bit sarcastic. .......
205: Inmate Central, RE: " why wish 2cond degree burns upon someone when full thickness is available " (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-16, 15:14:51 (67.163.187.233)
You were the one who wished only partial thickness burns instead of full thickness burns on them. That wasn't me. .......
206: Inmate Central, RE: I speak from experience from 2nd and 3rd degree at 78 % on my body (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-16, 14:50:19 (67.163.187.233)
Oops! I missed that. My experiences are insignificant compared to yours. However, my point still remains: why wish 2cond degree burns upon someone when full thickness is available. My apologies to the .......
207: Inmate Central, RE: Similar thing here (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-16, 14:40:14 (67.163.187.233)
. .......
208: Inmate Central, RE: My brother's a nurse. (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-16, 14:36:59 (67.163.187.233)
Some people are cut out for it and excel and thrive at it. I was a lot better at being a "lazy overpaid union airline mechanic." .......
209: Inmate Central, That almost sums up my whole act (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-16, 14:34:34 (67.163.187.233)
But I have never played with dynamite (but probably only because I never had access to any) and I have been detained by the polizei. My only experience with home made bomds was taping up an m-80 (one .......
210: Inmate Central, RE: I've crashed motorcycles... (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-16, 14:30:27 (67.163.187.233)
I don't understand luck. But as I typed in a previous thread: I am grateful for it. .......
211: Inmate Central, Yup (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-16, 14:22:55 (67.163.187.233)
. . . but I try to see the positive side of everything (if I can). I quit gambling, but after a big loss on a MNF I started working OT and I stayed at it. That turned into a lot of good money, far mor .......
212: Inmate Central, RE: Holy shit... (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-16, 14:14:38 (67.163.187.233)
. .......
213: Inmate Central, RE: I guess you missed the part about it being an answer to a hypothetical question (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-16, 13:46:57 (67.163.187.233)
In that case: contact Rod and notify him that you object topeople answering hypothetical questions. .......
214: Inmate Central, RE: Just win or lose. (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-16, 13:43:10 (67.163.187.233)
I never won the shop pool, and I don't know that I did a whole lot better than I did when I called the bookie to bet against the spread. Although I know you don't care and have stated that you will n .......
215: Inmate Central, the only way to reduce the suffering is to end is fast. Like the US did in 1945 (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-16, 13:19:22 (67.163.187.233)
There were legitimate arguments against that. .......
216: Speaker Asylum, RE: Hard to know until you've tried them. (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-16, 13:14:10 (67.163.187.233)
Just curious: which amps did you pair with which speakers? .......
217: Inmate Central, RE: Guardian newspaper political cartoonist sacked over a caricature of Netanyahu. (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-16, 13:12:09 (67.163.187.233)
The shrieks of "WOKE!!!" and "CANCEL CULTURE!!" would reverberate if it was the other way around. .......
218: Inmate Central, RE: Gregg Easterbrook, in his old "Tuesday Morning Quarterback" column... (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-16, 13:09:03 (67.163.187.233)
Was that win or lose or against the spread? I am not good at math so I'd have to do the math on that to see how one would come out after paying the 10% juice on the 33% one lost, but it seems to me as .......
219: Inmate Central, I guess you missed the part about it being an answer to a hypothetical question (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-16, 12:59:04 (67.163.187.233)
. .......
220: Inmate Central, Second degree burns? (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-16, 12:55:22 (67.163.187.233)
Speaking from experience, third degree burns (full thickness) would be more painful. .......
221: Inmate Central, RE: Giants at Bills tonight: will the upsets continue? (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-16, 10:19:04 (67.163.187.233)
Although the Giants lost, they did cover. Upset Sunday. .......
222: Inmate Central, RE: Dave - I'm just in awe of you! (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-16, 10:17:27 (67.163.187.233)
Thanks for my first laugh on an overcast somewhat gloomy day. .......
223: Inmate Central, RE: The stuff that happened yesterday... (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-16, 10:15:38 (67.163.187.233)
Another betting theory I never put to the test was: if at about a game over midseason there was an undefeated team and/or a team with no wins, start betting the spread against the undefeated and for t .......
224: Inmate Central, RE: That series that ended with Hurts getting intercepted... (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-16, 10:11:15 (67.163.187.233)
Well, like we used to say up in Utica, "I guess you'll have that." .......
225: Inmate Central, RE: RIP Suzanne Somers... (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-16, 10:09:54 (67.163.187.233)
News Nation had a couple of people on talking about how good she was and how she will be remembered for demanding equal pay on "Three's Company" and her "business minded" husband's assistance in that .......
226: Inmate Central, RE: Sure, but you have to be in the mood. (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-15, 21:50:04 (67.163.187.233)
. . . and actually, I think mood plays a part in enjoyment of all music. Whether it's banging heads in a mosh-pit or dropping acid and listening to Pink Floyd--mood. Not confined to just country or di .......
227: Speaker Asylum, RE: Budget speakers with budget amps (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-15, 18:58:41 (67.163.187.233)
I'd say that by most standards here my ancient B&W 805s are budget speakers. I thought they sounded good with the budget tube hamp & HT preamp I drove them with when I got them, and with amp and pream .......
228: Amp/Preamp Asylum, RE: About the very well known and revered legacy tube amps (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-15, 18:51:31 (67.163.187.233)
Victor. . . ? .......
229: Inmate Central, RE: Giants at Bills tonight: will the upsets continue? (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-15, 18:45:30 (67.163.187.233)
Lots of football left, but I wouldn't feel bad at all if I took the points tonight. Or the Under. However, everything is subject to change. .......
230: Inmate Central, RE: Locking cats within a house just don't seem right to me... (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-15, 18:43:07 (67.163.187.233)
Our cats always seemed content (which, imo, is as good as being happy). After they were converted to indoor-all-the-time I could tell when the indoor/outdoor guys had the itch to get out & roam, but t .......
231: Inmate Central, RE: Kyle Shanahan called too many pass plays. (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-15, 17:02:26 (67.163.187.233)
In the old days, every Tuesday, when it was time to calculate wins and losses and pony up if need be, I used to always say, "Next week I am betting ALL the dogs." Which I still think makes sense, as .......
232: Inmate Central, RE: Our cat Jello is 19. (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-15, 16:56:28 (67.163.187.233)
I take it that Rosie was the outdoor/indoor cat? The cat, Co-Co, who I previously alluded to who died a couple of months ago, must have been at least a couple of years old when we started "cat sitting .......
233: Inmate Central, RE: Giants at Bills tonight: will the upsets continue? (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-15, 16:40:18 (67.163.187.233)
. . . and I'd say probably not, as I'd be inclined to take 15 points, and I used to be wrong quite a lot. .......
234: Inmate Central, Giants at Bills tonight: will the upsets continue? (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-15, 16:37:55 (67.163.187.233)
"10 hours ago ... The Bills are 15-point favorites in Bills vs. Giants odds, while the over/under for total points scored is 44." .......
235: Inmate Central, RE: Filthadelphia Freedom: is the run over? (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-15, 16:36:34 (67.163.187.233)
Yes and yes. The day of the dog. The run is over. No more unbeaten teams. .......
236: Inmate Central, Filthadelphia Freedom: is the run over? (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-15, 16:33:10 (67.163.187.233)
Philadelphia Eagles @ New York Jets -6.5 Upset Sunday? .......
237: Inmate Central, 49ers minus 9.5 points at Browns today (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-15, 16:29:39 (67.163.187.233)
"What have you got to loose?" "22 hours ago . . . The 49ERS -9.5 (-114) opened as 3.5-point favorites earlier in the week, but the money poured in at that price, then jumped dramatically upon . . ." 4 .......
238: Inmate Central, RE: Calpak Luka Duffel, Part 2 (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-15, 16:21:00 (67.163.187.233)
"My name is Luka. . . ." .......
239: Inmate Central, Are those pictures conspicuously absent? (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-15, 14:38:56 (67.163.187.233)
Or do I have it backwards? Are a thousand words worth a picture? .......
240: Inmate Central, RE: Indoor cats live 20 years, outdoor cats live 7. (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-15, 14:29:05 (67.163.187.233)
I had a similar experience with one disappearing back in 1981 when I was much less responsible and compassionate. And I have the similar experience of it bothering me today--of things I would absolute .......
241: Inmate Central, RE: No... (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-15, 14:15:25 (67.163.187.233)
In that case, maybe you should have attended Wharton's School For Girls With Bone Spurs. .......
242: Inmate Central, RE: Possibly best Israel war coverage and analysis (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-15, 14:01:33 (67.163.187.233)
It's looking obvious who is losing. .......
243: Inmate Central, RE: Locking cats within a house just don't seem right to me... (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-15, 14:00:43 (67.163.187.233)
I used to subscribe to that school of thought. But people around here will go out of their way to run over (or other things) a cat. After losing one that way, we converted the rest to house cats from .......
244: Inmate Central, RE: One would think... (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-15, 13:56:49 (67.163.187.233)
The School Of Hard Knocks And Boot Straps seems to have made you triggered and bitter. .......
245: Inmate Central, RE: Sure, but you have to be in the mood. (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-15, 11:56:52 (67.163.187.233)
Possibly, but frequently the mood is darker than beans and cornbread and checkered table cloths on picnic tables. I was replying to "not making sense," and the country music that I am familiar with (w .......
246: Inmate Central, I lost my mind and forgot who I was replying to (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-15, 10:54:00 (67.163.187.233)
We can't all be a multi-millionaire genius. You are forgiven. .......
247: Inmate Central, Do you think everyone other than you is an imbecile? (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-15, 10:49:56 (67.163.187.233)
Isn't that the prevailing attitude here? .......
248: Inmate Central, RE: we should all be out there making new babies (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-15, 10:47:55 (67.163.187.233)
How does that work? How young does the baby have to be? If mom and/or dad are (at least) 62, how young could the baby possibly be? .......
249: Inmate Central, Au con·​traire! (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-15, 10:43:51 (67.163.187.233)
Whether you like it or not (and I don't like all of it) country music is all about telling a story. .......
250: Inmate Central, That sounds like WaPo (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-15, 10:39:06 (67.163.187.233)
those snake loving commies. .......
251: Inmate Central, RE: I imagine his son will need a new Watch to sooth himself after another loss. (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-14, 21:37:39 (67.163.187.233)
Is that just Dieon hate, or does his kid truly have a rep for being lazy? I don't follow college football, so that is a serious question. .......
252: Inmate Central, RE: Pitt has a knack... (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-14, 13:25:27 (67.163.187.233)
Pitt lost to the Cardinals (at the Cardinals) in volleyball 3 sets to none last night. Maybe this will be a revenge type game. .......
253: Inmate Central, RE: in my case, it's my cat... (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-14, 11:16:13 (67.163.187.233)
You never know about that either. We took on a cat sitting job in '03 or '04 that turned permanent and only a couple of months ago he finally let go. Meaning he was in his very early twenties. But I w .......
254: Inmate Central, RE: You don't understand the written word very well -nt (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-14, 11:11:19 (67.163.187.233)
You don't write very well, so maybe that evens things out. .......
255: Inmate Central, Congratulations! (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-14, 10:46:59 (67.163.187.233)
You may be the richest man in your grave yard. .......
256: Inmate Central, Blasphemy!! (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-14, 10:44:50 (67.163.187.233)
They don't want to hear that!! .......
257: Inmate Central, RE: Another report for you sleepy-heads - No joy for Coach Prime (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-14, 10:43:14 (67.163.187.233)
I guess I should have stayed up for the end of it. .......
258: Inmate Central, RE: Of course. The nerve to hold arabs responsible for their choices and actions NT (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-13, 19:04:03 (67.163.187.233)
All Gazans should be held responsible? Should all idiots in the US be held responsible for the stupid crap you come up with? .......
259: Inmate Central, If I had a nickle..... (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-13, 15:48:15 (67.163.187.233)
you too could be wealthy! (Just like 'Stat.) .......
260: Inmate Central, RE: Gaza? What Gaza? (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-13, 14:23:14 (67.163.187.233)
Link? Ha ha. .......
261: Inmate Central, RE: On the plus side.... (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-13, 13:15:58 (67.163.187.233)
Some time in the 2030s? That's kind of what I am counting on also. I'd like to outlive my dogs though. .......
262: Inmate Central, RE: Huffington headlines (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-13, 12:55:19 (67.163.187.233)
And although I do not agree with it, I am not at all surprised by it. .......
263: Inmate Central, RE: once hearing that dentists had a high suicide rate. (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-13, 12:54:01 (67.163.187.233)
I was kind of surprised to hear that about dentists myself. In '05 I was taking classes for a career change that I was making, and it was my sociology professor who brought that up. In my abnormal psy .......
264: Inmate Central, RE: As it should be (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-13, 12:43:09 (67.163.187.233)
I don't think so--not unless social security is deducted from your retirement account pay out. However, I think it would effect the tax calculater when figuring out how much of your social security is .......
265: Inmate Central, RE: WaPo has a long article... (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-13, 12:39:20 (67.163.187.233)
After the attack by Hamas, Israel's response (at least so far) has been predictable. At least nothing they have done and are sying that they are going to do has been a surprise to me. I cannot imagine .......
266: Inmate Central, RE: Watch out what career path you take (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-13, 12:33:48 (67.163.187.233)
I remember once hearing that dentists had a high suicide rate. As far as vets go, I think I'd rather provide health care to animals than to humans. .......
267: Inmate Central, The preacher talked to Mike and he smiled (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-13, 12:29:41 (67.163.187.233)
Said, "Come and walk with me, Mike, come and walk one more mile Now for once in Mike's life he's alone But he ain't got a dime, there's no time for the phone" .......
268: Inmate Central, Blah blah blah (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-13, 12:26:00 (67.163.187.233)
blah blah blah blah. . . . .......
269: Inmate Central, Was Abba disco? (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-13, 10:46:52 (67.163.187.233)
I always kind of sort of like them. But I had diverse tastes in music back then. .......
270: Inmate Central, RE: Gaza? What Gaza? (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-12, 21:36:54 (67.163.187.233)
Well, somebody planned it. An attack like that didn't just happen. .......
271: Inmate Central, RE: Gaza? What Gaza? (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-12, 21:20:49 (67.163.187.233)
Sure. Nobody cares about them, including the Hamas leaders who planned out the attack. But the bloodbath that follows may be exactly what they want. .......
272: Inmate Central, RE: An all-Texas American League championship. My joy has no limits. (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-12, 21:18:01 (67.163.187.233)
Awww, I hurt your feelings. I'm sorry. .......
273: Inmate Central, RE: Gaza? What Gaza? (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-12, 21:06:10 (67.163.187.233)
It doesn't seem plausible that after an attack on that scale which was clearly designed to result in that many horrific civilian casualties that the people who orchestrated the attack did not anticipa .......
274: Inmate Central, RE: An all-Texas American League championship. My joy has no limits. (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-12, 17:45:59 (67.163.187.233)
The 49ers turned Dallas into their bitch last Sunday night and had their way with her. Not being facetious. .......
275: Inmate Central, RE: Big bucks for the old heads... (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-12, 17:25:08 (67.163.187.233)
Not as good as last year. I would think that some of the high-rollers on this site wouldn't even bother to file for social security benefits. .......
276: Inmate Central, RE: Gaza? What Gaza? (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-12, 17:17:57 (67.163.187.233)
It seems as if the leaders of Hamas who orchestrated the attack must have known what the reaction would be. Maybe this is what they want? .......
277: Inmate Central, " I am incredibly angry at our leadership for that and I have no explanation, but this is reality. " (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-12, 17:15:24 (67.163.187.233)
Maybe it will get better if trump gets back in. .......
278: Inmate Central, RE: Hope the Phillies finish them off tonight. (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-12, 17:12:16 (67.163.187.233)
The racist bastards. .......
279: Inmate Central, Chris from Moscow? (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-12, 10:21:07 (67.163.187.233)
. .......
280: Inmate Central, Kind of sort of like The Waltons? (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-12, 09:53:28 (67.163.187.233)
. .......
281: Inmate Central, That would certainly get Putin's attention (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-11, 22:40:44 (67.163.187.233)
I wonder how he would react? .......
282: Inmate Central, Not that it has anything to do with this topic, (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-11, 22:04:23 (67.163.187.233)
but that made me think of some lyrics from an ancient Van Morrison song so I did a search and found the verse . . . Don't you ever go down Down on Curzon Street, it's bad Don't you ever go down Down o .......
283: Inmate Central, Perhaps (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-11, 21:59:48 (67.163.187.233)
I was 15 when my mom and dad took on the care of their first grandchild who, if I have my chronology correct, was not quite a year old at the time. I think they truly enjoyed it to begin with. As I ty .......
284: Inmate Central, RE: I'd love to have a big house... (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-11, 21:50:35 (67.163.187.233)
I can see where that would tug at the heart-strings. Twenty years or so before my dad died I told him he always had a bedroom in our house. And I meant it. But he never took me up on it; I am pretty s .......
285: Inmate Central, RE: I'd love to have a big house... (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-11, 15:57:16 (67.163.187.233)
My mom & dad basically raised one of their grandchildren. I will never know for sure how they felt about it, but to me it didn't look like a barrel of laughs. .......
286: Inmate Central, Awww (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-11, 15:50:39 (67.163.187.233)
what a sweetheart. .......
287: Inmate Central, RE: Define "nobody" (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-11, 14:33:42 (67.163.187.233)
. . . and I meant to ask you, but I forgot--how is your dog doing? .......
288: Inmate Central, RE: Quiet moment (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-11, 14:32:43 (67.163.187.233)
Man's best friend. .......
289: Inmate Central, RE: There never was. Pick a time, I can tell you what turmoil was going on. (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-11, 14:29:52 (67.163.187.233)
I think that maybe the lack of technology back then make it seem simpler now. .......
290: Inmate Central, RE: On 26yo "kids" (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-11, 14:27:43 (67.163.187.233)
I didn't do much right for my mom and dad when I was a kid, but I was out of the house not long after I turned 18 and out of town before I turned 19. .......
291: Inmate Central, RE: Define "nobody" (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-10, 21:01:12 (67.163.187.233)
I can't speak for the days that immediately followed 9/11 (meaning 9/12 and so on . . .), but at a certain time in the aftermath, Ron Paul was widely castigated for talking about US foreign policy as .......
292: Inmate Central, Define "nobody" (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-10, 19:09:45 (67.163.187.233)
. .......
293: Inmate Central, RE: I am not sure about that, but I am starting to think that Audio Asylum falls under the jurisdiction of Fox (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-10, 14:34:06 (67.163.187.233)
NO SMOCKING GUN. .......
294: Inmate Central, RE: I know, this is the Heartbreak Hotel... (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-10, 14:25:27 (67.163.187.233)
Travis Kelce could learn from you. .......
295: Inmate Central, RE: Son of Caligula was just helping his pals in the Kremlin (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-10, 13:26:17 (67.163.187.233)
I tuned in to The Johnny And Sandy Comedy Hour on Fox "News" this afternoon, and those two yuks didn't seem concerned about any casualties at all. Apparently their biggest concern, this afternoon, is .......
296: Inmate Central, RE: I think that was the year... (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-10, 10:11:25 (67.163.187.233)
I remember Rod Woodson was on that Oakland team. As far as coaches, Jimmy Johnson's record was far less impressive in Miami than it was in Dallas. .......
297: Inmate Central, RE: La, la, la, la, la... (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-10, 09:51:18 (67.163.187.233)
I am sure that Plain Jane Swift's heart is breaking because of you, Peppy. .......
298: Inmate Central, RE: None of that made the local media. (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-09, 21:08:16 (67.163.187.233)
Actually, I didn't think Maddox did a real bad job when he was backing up Elway. I am pretty sure I quit betting on the NFL after the '99 or '00 season and I remember very little about the '02 season. .......
299: Inmate Central, Gotcha (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-09, 20:54:41 (67.163.187.233)
. .......
300: General Asylum, RE: Yep, no snake oil there. Real physics at work... (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-09, 20:53:12 (67.163.187.233)
Sorry . . . I read so much that anything and everything is snake-oil that I just couldn't help but get into the spirit. .......
301: Inmate Central, Top Gun? (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-09, 20:46:48 (67.163.187.233)
Ohhhhh . . . okay . . . not drafted into the US Armed Services. .......
302: Inmate Central, involuntary? (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-09, 20:26:14 (67.163.187.233)
For some reason I thought you were younger than that. .......
303: Inmate Central, Blasphemy! (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-09, 20:24:22 (67.163.187.233)
I wonder how long it will take until it is deleted. .......
304: Inmate Central, RE: I thought we all put it in music and audio gear (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-09, 16:21:33 (67.163.187.233)
Do Dark D. and you collaberate with each other on your fantasies? .......
305: Inmate Central, What!? (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-09, 15:28:10 (67.163.187.233)
Do you mean to say that Plain Jane Swift is actually NOT lusting for Peppy? .......
306: Inmate Central, RE: Nah. There was never any doubt who the Steelers were going to draft that year. (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-09, 15:12:44 (67.163.187.233)
Well, I honestly do not pay much attention to the draft, and I definitely did not that year as I had way bigger problems going on in my life, but I just did some cursory searches and the impression I .......
307: Inmate Central, Sorry, fstein, but I have to call bullsht on that (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-09, 14:57:28 (67.163.187.233)
I was on & off CNN from Saturday night throughout quite a bit of Sunday and I never caught any of the slanted news (ignoring Israeli casualties) that you were getting on your alternative version of CN .......
308: Inmate Central, RE: Nope. (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-09, 10:33:15 (67.163.187.233)
I don't have a source so I won't argue the point, but I had heard somewhere that Cowher wanted an O-lineman instead of Ben. (I think it may have been on one of the local sports radio or TV shows.) As .......
309: Inmate Central, RE: Without Tom Brady, Bill Belichick is a losing coach. (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-09, 10:23:35 (67.163.187.233)
Didn't Cowher want to draft an O-lineman instead of Roethlisberger so he could continue to wallow in the forgettable QB HOF? In other news: "How 'bout them Cowboys!" Jerry Jones must have been apoplec .......
310: Inmate Central, RE: It wasn't me. (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-08, 20:23:06 (67.163.187.233)
That's funny. .......
311: General Asylum, RE: Break-in for new speakers (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-08, 17:03:22 (67.163.187.233)
I am sure that the concept is snake-oil. .......
312: Inmate Central, RE: Sells more albums that way... Not that I think she's attractive. (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-08, 16:45:29 (67.163.187.233)
She would be lucky to have you, Peppy. I am sure that she will be shattered if she ever finds out what your opinion is. .......
313: Inmate Central, RE: I am not sure about that, but I am starting to think that Audio Asylum falls under the jurisdiction of Fox (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-08, 16:35:57 (67.163.187.233)
Not at all. That statement was based on all the posts to this thread that Jesse Watters deletes because they do not fit the narrative. .......
314: Inmate Central, RE: CNN reports online (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-08, 15:25:05 (67.163.187.233)
It's a darn good thing you posted about it! CNN execs were probably surfing Audio Asylum so they could see what their competition was doing on this site, and when they saw your post they probably said .......
315: Inmate Central, RE: 700 dead, 350 critically wounded at this point. More rockets flying. nt (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-08, 14:22:35 (67.163.187.233)
But there is NO WAY that reporting came from CNN! .......
316: Inmate Central, RE: CNN reports online (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-08, 14:18:01 (67.163.187.233)
It must be a different CNN website than this one https://www.cnn.com/ because that one is full of reports about Israeli casualties. .......
317: Inmate Central, RE: I am not sure about that, but I am starting to think that Audio Asylum falls under the jurisdiction of Fox (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-08, 12:26:42 (67.163.187.233)
"News." .......
318: Inmate Central, RE: On the other hand only one narrative is allowed (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-07, 20:39:39 (67.163.187.233)
Ha! That applies to more than one subject! .......
319: Inmate Central, RE: Corvettes getting into Ferrari territory? (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-07, 12:47:01 (67.163.187.233)
Let us know how they work out in your numerous entertaining fantasies. .......
320: Inmate Central, RE: What is the difference? (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-06, 14:23:12 (67.163.187.233)
Do winged monkeys have a better vocabulary and fare better on IQ tests? .......
321: Inmate Central, More & more like Fox "News" every day (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-06, 10:11:52 (67.163.187.233)
. .......
322: Inmate Central, RE: Robbie Robertson's Rye (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-06, 09:55:32 (67.163.187.233)
"If you have to ask how much it costs. . . ." .......
323: Speaker Asylum, Could you elaborate on that? (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-04, 19:52:28 (67.163.187.233)
. .......
324: Speaker Asylum, RE: Trying to build a system for my daughter. Will these speakers work? (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-04, 19:51:30 (67.163.187.233)
Are the surrounds for the drivers still in okay shape? .......
325: Inmate Central, RE: Lost a friend of 50 yrs a few weeks ago..... (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-02, 17:50:23 (67.163.187.233)
Sounds a bit like my dad. He was depression era so I am sure that had something to do with it. Don't get me wrong--he was generous. I didn't know how much he actually had until he died. However, he ha .......
326: Inmate Central, RE: I could never bring myself to do that. (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-02, 15:44:12 (67.163.187.233)
There was another guy, John, who worked with us and was in the gambling circle. When he felt real good about a game he called it "a lock." (He also had a theory about doubling up. "Just keep doubling .......
327: Inmate Central, RE: In my mind's eye are dollar bills with wings on them... (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-02, 13:16:24 (67.163.187.233)
It took a few years, but ultimately that is how I came to see it. I did it for entertainment, and after I lost enough money enough times I finally decided that it wasn't quality entertainment. But, as .......
328: Inmate Central, RE: Experience matters more than brain cells. (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-02, 12:09:14 (67.163.187.233)
I am sure that you have more brain cells than all of them put together. However, they get elected and re-elected. Do you? .......
329: Inmate Central, RE: I'd have been sick over losing ten bucks. (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-02, 11:38:45 (67.163.187.233)
My Steelers loving buddy from work who I have alluded to on previous threads was actually quite good at coming out ahead when he bet the spread on football games. I won't even say (for sure) that he w .......
330: Inmate Central, RE: Gambling and sports... (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-01, 21:01:57 (67.163.187.233)
I gave up habitual betting on the NFL over 20 years ago, and the last time I made a bet of any kind on a football game was on the Superbowl played in '06, but if it wasn't for betting, I never would h .......
331: Inmate Central, The Chiefs were giving up 7.5 points tonight (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-01, 20:41:50 (67.163.187.233)
and they won by 3. Mahomes took a slide at about the Jets 1 yard line (instead of going into the end zone) to effectively end the game. Which was the intelligent move. But everyone who gave up the poi .......
332: Inmate Central, RE: That wasn't his rookie year. (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-01, 16:23:44 (67.163.187.233)
I may have missed the first half of that game. Personally, with or without Pickett, I am not going to write them off against Baltimore (I used to watch them win too many games that I was SURE that the .......
333: Inmate Central, Say something nice? (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-01, 15:39:49 (67.163.187.233)
It is probably paid for. .......
334: Inmate Central, RE: His asshole turn. (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-01, 15:38:30 (67.163.187.233)
I do remember his famous first down in the Mn game. But I attributed that to his youth and inexperience and I felt that his physical attributes would make him a receiver to be reckoned with. ::: TOPIC .......
335: Inmate Central, RE: "Evil"? (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-01, 15:34:57 (67.163.187.233)
At least she didn't try to overthrow The Constitution. .......
336: Inmate Central, RE: I met up with my daughter and son-in-law this morning. (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-01, 14:34:46 (67.163.187.233)
I (kind of) expected them to win. But, as I have typed here before, I've watched so much football over the years that I don't find (almost) anything mind blowing anymore. One of the smarter things I e .......
337: Inmate Central, RE: DeShaun Watson out for today's Browns-Ravens tilt. (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-01, 14:28:11 (67.163.187.233)
What did Claypool do to get benched? Unproductivity? I thought he was going to turn into a stud when he was here. .......
338: Inmate Central, RE: Could it get any worse? (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-01, 14:26:05 (67.163.187.233)
Well, as they used to say up in Utica, "I guess you'll have that." I ran out this afternoon before the game started, so I started surfing radio stations to catch the start of the game and for a bit I .......
339: Inmate Central, RE: DeShaun Watson out for today's Browns-Ravens tilt. (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-01, 14:07:57 (67.163.187.233)
In other news: it may be time to get ready for The Mitch Trubisky Show. (If it happens, I don't think that anyone is going to enjoy it.) .......
340: Inmate Central, RE: So much for the 'magic bullet' theory? (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-10-01, 14:05:20 (67.163.187.233)
I know that Oswald had assistance because I heard this: "His father was with Lee Harvey Oswald prior to Oswald's being — you know, shot. I mean, the whole thing is ridiculous. What is this, right prio .......
341: Inmate Central, RE: A true hero (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-09-30, 09:02:39 (67.163.187.233)
You-know-who said (again) that General Milley was "lazy and treasonous." .......
342: Inmate Central, RE: How do you size things up when buying a used car? (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-09-29, 18:29:18 (67.163.187.233)
Until I saw it was a youtube I was going to say not to ask me because I always get screwed. Therefore I learned to work on my mistakes. .......
343: Inmate Central, RE: Home on the Range in Wyoming (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-09-29, 18:26:54 (67.163.187.233)
Flat wind blown prairie. I remember it well. .......
344: Inmate Central, RE: Richmond District (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-09-29, 18:25:10 (67.163.187.233)
You got my curiosity up, so I found a not too bad map of SF, and after some looking I found the "Golden Gate Recreation Area" and to the best of my knowledge I was never there. I also found the Presid .......
345: Inmate Central, RE: Is it a dumb idea if it works? (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-09-29, 14:57:03 (67.163.187.233)
No, I am afraid that any way you look at it, that was a dumb idea. One of many I had back then. When I consider some of the real stupid sht I used to do on a regular basis, I fully realize how fortuna .......
346: Inmate Central, RE: You and I may have crossed paths! (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-09-29, 14:50:52 (67.163.187.233)
What was the Richmond? It comes to me that the name of the pinball place that I was a security gaurd at was named The Amusement Arcade. It was a block or so up the street from a topless place (at leas .......
347: Inmate Central, RE: You didn't ask for it, you probably don't care about it, but... (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-09-29, 14:40:45 (67.163.187.233)
The one where the customer accidentally shot through the floor and bagged his oil filter reminded me of: back in the summer of '81, when I was in the Air Force, I lived in this farm house with two oth .......
348: Inmate Central, RE: "You gotta use your head, kid" (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-09-29, 14:25:23 (67.163.187.233)
That's what Romanowsky said he was telling Kordell when he (Romanowsky) was pointing at his head after the int that Kordell threw. Anyway, I guess we will agree to disagree on how effective O'Donnell .......
349: Inmate Central, RE: I read one of his books, but not that one. (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-09-29, 14:20:53 (67.163.187.233)
I was a bit interested in him for a little while, but after listening to him for a while, it seemed as if his POV was dependant upon which party was calling which shots on a particular issue. Which is .......
350: Inmate Central, RE: Summer of '91 (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-09-29, 14:06:53 (67.163.187.233)
When I got out of the Air Force in '84 we tried living in SF for a little while. I actually liked that city, but it was way too expensive for me at the time. We started out renting a room on Geary Str .......
351: Inmate Central, RE: But was that a good thing? (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-09-29, 12:11:20 (67.163.187.233)
Shortly before 9/11 I read a book by Pat Buchanan that was quite critical of America's interventionist foreign policy. (The impression I got from that book was the that the only two wars he approved o .......
352: Inmate Central, RE: Even when you win... (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-09-29, 10:54:26 (67.163.187.233)
I suppose it depends upon how you look at it. We did emerge as a super power. .......
353: Inmate Central, RE: He was generally careful with the ball. (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-09-29, 10:51:02 (67.163.187.233)
The scuttle-butt I was hearing (so who knows how accurate it was) was that the defense didn't feel that the offense was pulling its weight for a lot of the O'Donnell era. I remember O'Donnell's injury .......
354: Inmate Central, RE: General Milley Retires (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-09-29, 10:41:14 (67.163.187.233)
He may have to go into the witness protection program or protective custody. No joke. .......
355: Inmate Central, RE: "They're freezin' up in Buffalo, stuck in their cars..." (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-09-29, 10:26:55 (67.163.187.233)
I still remember the summer of '91. We got here in April '91 and found a decent unfurnished house in Beechview to rent. I asked the realtor who was handling the rental whether it had air conditioning .......
356: Inmate Central, RE: and I couldn't understand why the Jets wanted O'Donnell (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-09-29, 10:19:02 (67.163.187.233)
How about the other interception that Neil threw in the Super Bowl? (He did have the reputation for being strong. They were saying that he was benching 405 at the time, and I don't know if that was fo .......
357: Inmate Central, RE: ". . . and I'm lying here beneath the sun and the stars . . ." (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-09-29, 10:06:46 (67.163.187.233)
I spent 14 monthens in Utica. Got there in December '88. Cold, cold, cold. Spring came late but it was nice. Fall came early--it was nice but it was short. .......
358: Inmate Central, RE: I've never been close to western PA (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-09-28, 21:40:14 (67.163.187.233)
. . . and I also remember working the night that the Penguins lost the game for the series in the playoffs ('93?) that would have been the three-peat. They had this color guy on the radio, Mike Lange .......
359: Inmate Central, RE: I've never been close to western PA (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-09-28, 21:27:11 (67.163.187.233)
(. . . it sometimes takes an act of congress to edit a post here, but it was Quentin Coryatt from Indy who would have caught that pass from O'Donnell for a pick-six in the '95 season AFC championship. .......
360: Inmate Central, I feel she is exaggerating a bit (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-09-28, 19:09:28 (67.163.187.233)
I am not a native: I've only been here since '91, but I think that May is generally a pretty nice month and I don't complain much about April, and I'd also say that all of September is usually pretty .......
361: Inmate Central, RE: She's not the only one. (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-09-28, 19:02:56 (67.163.187.233)
It kind of reminds me of back in the Neil O'Donnell era when the defense was scoring the majority of the points. I was a big hater back then and I used to go back & forth with one of my work buddies w .......
362: Inmate Central, RE: Oprah Winfrey Special Edition, serial # 0000000000001. (nt (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-09-28, 16:22:29 (67.163.187.233)
Nope--trump special ordered a car to look as much like him as possible. The manufacturer succeeded in granting his wish. .......
363: Inmate Central, RE: "... UAW strike is getting around 75% support" (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-09-27, 12:32:14 (67.163.187.233)
"Only morons fail to realize it." Just ask Stat and Dark (also known, in their fantsies, as Lorenzo and Icahn). .......
364: Inmate Central, RE: Now this is impressive (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-09-26, 14:28:09 (67.163.187.233)
Tweaker!! I am happy to see that you are among tthe living!! (You gotta watch out for those drowns.) .......
365: Inmate Central, RE: More bad car repair porn (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-09-25, 14:28:11 (67.163.187.233)
I cannot even begin to imagine how hot that rotor must have been. Actually, a lot of those videos were testimony to how good cars are . . . just the fact that they were still rolling. Virtually draini .......
366: Inmate Central, RE: Nobody knows for certain (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-09-25, 11:31:51 (67.163.187.233)
Dark and Stat are living in their respective fantasy worlds where they are multimillionaires, but it must be killing them that the UAW strike is getting around 75% support from the rest of the public. .......
367: Inmate Central, RE: What it does prove... (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-09-25, 11:18:17 (67.163.187.233)
+ 1,000!! .......
368: Inmate Central, RE: "thug mentality"? (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-09-25, 11:17:20 (67.163.187.233)
. .......
369: Inmate Central, RE: seriously? (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-09-25, 11:14:45 (67.163.187.233)
You seem to be the king of anti-union sour grapes. (While you live vicariously through your "exoticar" fantasies.) .......
370: Inmate Central, RE: "Probably put in to move it (the Mustang) down the line," (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-09-24, 18:37:46 (67.163.187.233)
That's a possibility That I never would have thought of (as I have never worked on an assembly line or a factory). I originally thought it was a work action (and I still feel that this is possible) th .......
371: Inmate Central, RE: Maybe no second acts for Sean Payton? (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-09-24, 13:42:16 (67.163.187.233)
. . . Baltimore has no one to blame but themselves. I suppose one could make the argument that the ref who didn't call DPI (basically tackling the intended retriever) should take some blame. On the li .......
372: Inmate Central, RE: sometimes I flip to Mecum or Motortrend during a commercial (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-09-24, 11:25:43 (67.163.187.233)
I am surprised you didn't already buy four or five (in your fantasies) today. .......
373: Inmate Central, RE: What it does prove... (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-09-24, 11:18:01 (67.163.187.233)
+100! .......
374: Inmate Central, And in your nonunion job (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-09-24, 11:12:24 (67.163.187.233)
you were promoted because of your ability to suck [fill in the blank]. .......
375: Inmate Central, Mark today on your calendar! (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-09-23, 18:35:49 (67.163.187.233)
Looks like it's going to be the biggest comeback in Bottomfeeder Franchise History! .......
376: Inmate Central, RE: LOL! (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-09-23, 11:00:46 (67.163.187.233)
Ha ha! Maybe plutocracy is a state of mind? .......
377: Inmate Central, RE: Attack-ems (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-09-22, 10:58:28 (67.163.187.233)
I saw the title to this and I wondered, "Why does Geoff want to attack Emergency Medical Service providers?" .......
378: Inmate Central, RE: It's one of those head vs. gut things... (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-09-22, 10:43:11 (67.163.187.233)
I'm with you on that. I sometimes participate on a Dakota forum and a while back ago someone joined to apparently ask one question, the question being what are the opinions about changing oil & filter .......
379: Inmate Central, RE: What kind of dog did they have (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-09-21, 18:20:33 (67.163.187.233)
? .......
380: Inmate Central, RE: Chubb signed a contract extension last year. (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-09-21, 13:29:41 (67.163.187.233)
Don't get me wrong--I am not saying that he is or that he is not overpaid. To me, it all seems like an awful lot of money to play a game, even the highly evolved and high impact game that it is. But t .......
381: Inmate Central, RE: If you want a new car (or even a decent used one) get it NOW... (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-09-21, 13:22:02 (67.163.187.233)
Not interested--my twnty-plus year old fleet will outlast me, or last at least as long as gasoline is still available. I wish the UAW well with their collective bargaining. .......
382: Inmate Central, RE: Death from COVID or death with COVID? (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-09-20, 17:10:02 (67.163.187.233)
It seems quite a coincidence that he would just up & die at the same time he was punched in the head and that the two occurrences are not related. .......
383: Inmate Central, RE: Death from COVID or death with COVID? (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-09-20, 15:54:01 (67.163.187.233)
So is this the question? Would he have died if he had not been punched? Would Herman Cain have died if he had not contracted COVID? .......
384: Inmate Central, My HS auto-shop teacher was a Mopar guy (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-09-20, 13:07:19 (67.163.187.233)
. . . and he once told us that, pound for pound, the 383 was the best engine Mopar ever made. .......
385: Inmate Central, RE: Sounds like what I used to say about Harley Davidsons (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-09-20, 13:04:37 (67.163.187.233)
. .......
386: Inmate Central, RE: I was lucky, I guess... (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-09-20, 09:27:09 (67.163.187.233)
You never know, Ivan; my dad made it to 90 and he had two sisters that were over 100. . . . .......
387: Inmate Central, RE: Chubb signed a contract extension last year. (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-09-20, 09:24:34 (67.163.187.233)
870K a year sounds like okay money to me, but as I typed previously--I guess it's all relative. .......
388: Inmate Central, Patriots fan dies after altercation with Dolphins fan (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-09-19, 16:35:28 (67.163.187.233)
https://nypost.com/2023/09/19/fan-who-died-after-nfl-game-in-mass-had-reportedly-been-punched/ .......
389: Inmate Central, RE: WD-40 not actually banned in Canada (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-09-19, 16:26:31 (67.163.187.233)
Ha ha! I almost knew that you were going to type something to that effect. But how right you are, and I would not be at all surprised if the cancer, from all the chemicals I have exposed myself to ove .......
390: Inmate Central, RE: WD-40 not actually banned in Canada (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-09-19, 16:06:38 (67.163.187.233)
Give me my solvents and my lubricants or give me death! .......
391: Inmate Central, RE: Only if his money is guaranteed. nt (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-09-19, 15:30:13 (67.163.187.233)
What I meant was that after four years as a star in the NFL I would think he would be fairly wealthy. (Of couese I realize that 'wealthy' is a relative term.) .......
392: Inmate Central, RE: However, on the bright side . . . (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-09-19, 14:26:40 (67.163.187.233)
we have bottomfeeder baseball tonight! .......
393: Inmate Central, RE: WD-40 not actually banned in Canada (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-09-19, 14:15:27 (67.163.187.233)
Whew! That's a relief. .......
394: Inmate Central, RE: Chubb getting hurt like that was an argument both for and against paying RBs big money. (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-09-19, 14:14:13 (67.163.187.233)
He may have sustained a crippling injury, but at least he is a (or should be) a multimillionaire. .......
395: Inmate Central, RE: Beginning to think that no QB can succeed in Canada's offense. nt (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-09-19, 14:12:20 (67.163.187.233)
Chris Hoke may be the only one I have heard who out & out defends Matt Canada. .......
396: Inmate Central, RE: I didn't have the game on last night... (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-09-19, 11:10:49 (67.163.187.233)
It was not pretty (the game or the injury that they did not show last night) but the streak lives on. .......
397: Inmate Central, RE: The beginning of the end for Randall... (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-09-18, 16:39:18 (67.163.187.233)
. . . I found it--crucifixion was what I was looking for. "The dark man's cheeks were flushed with jolly color, and his eyes were twinkling with happy good fellowship, and a great hungry voracious gri .......
398: Inmate Central, RE: Bad calls went both ways in that game. (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-09-18, 09:25:20 (67.163.187.233)
I had the Jets/Cowboys game on for a little bit. It must be frustrating to be a linebacker or other defense man and get flagged every time you try to tackle the QB. .......
399: Inmate Central, I bought The Shining in paperback (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-09-17, 18:35:24 (67.163.187.233)
in '78 the winter before I joined the Air Force in the spring. There are parts that stick with me (the passage about the protagonist's alcoholic father in which he and his drinking buddy referred to m .......
400: Inmate Central, RE: It was supposed to... (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-09-17, 16:44:51 (67.163.187.233)
"There are [or were?] worse than [something I cannot remember] there are [or were?] teeth." And then didn't the Walking Dude/Flagg shape shift? It's going on nearly 40 years, maybe I've got that part .......
401: Inmate Central, RE: Seattle at Detroit...Dan Campbell you scrooooooo'ed up. (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-09-17, 16:37:48 (67.163.187.233)
I remember a thread in which the subject of Stephen King came up, and you were (at least) somewhat of a fan. The title of this thread made me think of a line I found memorable from 'The Stand.' ::: TO .......
402: Inmate Central, RE: Seattle at Detroit...Dan Campbell you scrooooooo'ed up. (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-09-17, 13:37:35 (67.163.187.233)
What??? You were not glued to the Bottomfeeders' game this afternoon??? .......
403: General Asylum, RE: I'd call that "Nay-Saying"! (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-09-17, 13:23:53 (67.163.187.233)
Maybe it depends upon (once again) the definition that one uses of 'transparency.' .......
404: Inmate Central, RE: If the movie Lake Placid is correct, (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-09-17, 13:18:55 (67.163.187.233)
I am only repeating what was said on the local news about not surviving a Pa. winter. As far as the Python situation in Fl goes, did you catch any of that a little while back ago where they captured a .......
405: Inmate Central, RE: Are you ready for some... (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-09-17, 12:38:16 (67.163.187.233)
Through the 90s all of my stuff except for one was registered in Montana and therefore didn't need inspections. Some of the stuff I used to do with flex pipe underneath my old LTD was absolutely batsh .......
406: Inmate Central, RE: A highly inbred variety. (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-09-17, 12:14:14 (67.163.187.233)
So are you saying that if Ted Bundy would have produced offspring that they should be treated differently than other children? Asking for Brian Kilmeade's mom because she wants to know. .......
407: Inmate Central, RE: Pet Alligators Invade Western Pennsylvania ! (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-09-17, 12:10:54 (67.163.187.233)
What I heard an expert say on the news is that the winter should knock them out. When they start finding them in the Ohio River I'll start paying more attention. Fortunately we don't have a Python pro .......
408: Inmate Central, RE: "the Stafforshire Terrier LOOKS just like a pit bull" (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-09-17, 12:08:18 (67.163.187.233)
There seems to be quite a debate as to what is & what is not a Pit Bull. I originally understood a Pit Bull to be: the AKC English and American Staffordshires the (not AKC) American Bully and the (not .......
409: Inmate Central, RE: Any tools made in Asia. (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-09-16, 14:56:57 (67.163.187.233)
Well, that prompted me to go to the garage and take a look. My old 1/4" drive click type that does not ratchet was made in the USA, obviously the old Craftsman beam type 3/8 " dr was made in the USA, .......
410: Inmate Central, RE: Only had mine for a couple of years. (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-09-16, 14:17:42 (67.163.187.233)
Big Green and I were together from the summer of '87 to the fall of '99. We shared many intimate sessions in the garage. Sweat, blood and $. That 460 was not exactly easy on gasoline, either. Still, t .......
411: Inmate Central, RE: In the past, yep. (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-09-16, 11:34:11 (67.163.187.233)
The turn of the millennium? You got rid of your '75 Mercury about the time I got rid of my '75 LTD. (However, I actually felt kind of bad about mine. "Big Green", I called her. It was sort like losin .......
412: Inmate Central, RE: I don't understand why anyone would want a pit bull as a pet. (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-09-16, 11:18:14 (67.163.187.233)
Before I came to the website of the shelter down around Cincinatti where we adopted from, I had found a site for a shelter much closer (in Canfield, Oh) and I saw a dog that was listed as "Hound" with .......
413: Inmate Central, RE: Get a Basset (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-09-16, 09:27:33 (67.163.187.233)
I would have jumped at the chance to adopt a basset (or a Beagle) if one would have been available at the time. As it is, one of the three dogs that we did adopt was a 5 year old Beagle/Shepherd mix, .......
414: Inmate Central, RE: The Kobalts are pretty good tools but... (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-09-16, 09:22:58 (67.163.187.233)
The Harbor Freight up here in The County Of The Beaver did not get here until just a few years ago (it is now in the same building that Best Buy used to be in at the dying Mall In The Valley Of The Be .......
415: Inmate Central, RE: FWIW... (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-09-16, 09:01:29 (67.163.187.233)
I will say that the two siblings that we adopted are strong. Muscle covered with fur. If they were mean, they would be scary. What's rather interesting (to me) is how, on the exact same diet, they dev .......
416: Inmate Central, Exactly (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-09-15, 21:14:18 (67.163.187.233)
"Truth to be told it was the last thing on my mind to adopt a Pit-bullish dog . . . I wished it was a small, trouble free doggy but heavens decided otherwise." After Roscoe died what I really wanted w .......
417: Inmate Central, According to this site (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-09-15, 20:49:17 (67.163.187.233)
https://www.valuepenguin.com/homeowners-insurance-restricted-dog-breeds "Insurance companies in states like Michigan, Nevada, New York and Pennsylvania are not allowed to deny you a home insurance pol .......
418: Inmate Central, RE: Check your Homeowners Insurance policy (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-09-15, 20:42:24 (67.163.187.233)
This is an interesting link on the subject. I need to follow up on this and find out more. Apparently there are some states (Vermont is one, and I'd like to know them all) that "do not allow the exclu .......
419: Inmate Central, Awwwww (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-09-15, 20:36:50 (67.163.187.233)
! .......
420: Inmate Central, RE: I agree (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-09-15, 19:45:43 (67.163.187.233)
"You better stay away from him He'll rip your lungs out, Jim" W. Zevon "Werewolves Of London" .......
421: Inmate Central, RE: Yeah, I knew a German Shepherd who was trained to allow a burglar inside the house (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-09-15, 18:27:27 (67.163.187.233)
Hopefully it wouldn't be a well armed burglar. .......
422: Inmate Central, RE: I don't understand why anyone would want a pit bull as a pet. (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-09-15, 18:22:50 (67.163.187.233)
That's the way I felt, and I honestly didn't know that these puppies were Pits at the time we adopted them. But after having them for over two & a half years, they are friendly and loveable and not in .......
423: Inmate Central, RE: Check your Homeowners Insurance policy (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-09-15, 18:07:06 (67.163.187.233)
Thanks; that is interesting. "Prior bite history" means once any dog causes "bodily injury", no future liabilty claims will be honored. I am being serious, not sarcastic, when I ask if this means that .......
424: Inmate Central, RE: My 3/8th ratchet is Craftsman... (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-09-15, 17:45:41 (67.163.187.233)
You gotta love the memories. I bet that I could take almost any tool (and I've accumulated quite a few in my life) in one of my roll-aways, and I could accurately say where and approximately when I go .......
425: Inmate Central, RE: But still, I'd bet that they have killed a lot less people than AR 15s (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-09-15, 17:31:43 (67.163.187.233)
The reason that they are the rifle of choice for mass shooters is because that was what they were designed for. If all one wants is a rifle that "shoot[s] a small cartridge with little recoil and are .......
426: Inmate Central, But still, I'd bet that they have killed a lot less people than AR 15s (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-09-15, 15:37:54 (67.163.187.233)
and/or AK 47 variants. And I am not referring to the rifles being used in military combat situations. .......
427: Inmate Central, RE: Yes, it did. (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-09-15, 14:31:31 (67.163.187.233)
From my glory days of aviation I wound up with a lot of Snap On tools. Snap On's ratchets have the junkiest action of any ratchet I have ever owned, and that includes ratchets from Taiwan. I have a co .......
428: Inmate Central, RE: British are banning an American breed of dog, the American XL Bully. (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-09-15, 14:22:46 (67.163.187.233)
When Roscoe, our beloved rescued Rat Terrier mix, died in March of 2021, I was heartbroken and almost immediately started doing searches on shelters for another rescue. Anyway, we wound up adopting th .......
429: Inmate Central, RE: Been a while since I had to replace parking brake cables. (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-09-15, 09:39:21 (67.163.187.233)
. . . didn't Horrid Freight once have a lawsuit against them for some jackstands that failed? I hope that spring compressor works out. . . . .......
430: Inmate Central, RE: Been a while since I had to replace parking brake cables. (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-09-15, 09:30:20 (67.163.187.233)
This Dakota has rear discs, but they are not the disc brake calipers that incorporate the parking brake. The rotor is shaped like a hat and the inside of the rotor basically is a drum that goes over t .......
431: Inmate Central, RE: Don't be fooled... (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-09-14, 17:57:26 (67.163.187.233)
Ha ha! But Bob Walk and Greg Brown say. . . . .......
432: Inmate Central, RE: "But it's only been a year since the brakes were checked!" (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-09-14, 17:56:21 (67.163.187.233)
What a coincidence. I just finished up installing new e-brakes on my Dakota as both sides self destructed a few years ago, and sadly, this year, I am going to have to get an inspection that is legitim .......
433: Inmate Central, RE: Customer states they put the wrong fluid in coolant. (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-09-13, 18:45:36 (67.163.187.233)
My first airline job was in UCA, and as they used to frequently say up there when someone did something stupid and fcked something up, "Well, I guess you'll have that." I was searching youtubes severa .......
434: Inmate Central, RE: Political correctness? (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-09-13, 11:58:33 (67.163.187.233)
. . . of course it is way more fun to say that they were not using dogs and then to blame it on political correctness that was forced upon the Pa. State Police. .......
435: Inmate Central, RE: Political correctness? (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-09-13, 10:26:17 (67.163.187.233)
Last night they were talking about the dogs (Bloodhound was mentioned) that they had and were using to unsuccessfully track this guy, and this morning they said it was a police dog that actually "subd .......
436: Inmate Central, RE: that manhunt in Pennsylvania (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-09-12, 11:23:00 (67.163.187.233)
. . . and going by what I just heard on the television, "Even the dogs [weren't or aren't] able to pick him up." .......
437: Inmate Central, RE: smoke him (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-09-12, 10:23:02 (67.163.187.233)
Apparently he is now armed with a stolen .22 rifle. .......
438: Inmate Central, RE: Aaron Rodgers makes it 5 plays into the season... (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-09-12, 10:06:29 (67.163.187.233)
On the last football thread I typed that I was looking forward to watching the Bills vs Rodgers and then I typed something about Rodgers that I am now happy that I revised before I posted it. ::: TOPI .......
439: Inmate Central, At a distance of almost a football field away. (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-09-12, 10:03:43 (67.163.187.233)
100 yards is not a real long shot. .......
440: Inmate Central, RE: Logical fallacy alert! (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-09-11, 14:08:15 (67.163.187.233)
I read a couple of interesting books about Oswald--"Marina and Leed" by Priscilla Johnson and "Oswald's Tale" by Norman Mailer in collaboration with Lawrence Schiller. Not that it means anything, but .......
441: Inmate Central, RE: I don't watch the local post game shows... (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-09-11, 14:04:34 (67.163.187.233)
No the only game I watched yesterday was the "Niners/Steelers . . . then I went out to The Garage to work on The Dodge. The Cowboys/Giants game was so bad I didn't even bother with it. But I am lookin .......
442: Inmate Central, RE: Victor Reinz gasket (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-09-11, 13:38:29 (67.163.187.233)
I used to RTV almost everything, and now I try to RTV almost nothing. The thing about that MOPAR T'stat housing on that '03 block (I once had a '78 318 and they were different back then) is it has to .......
443: Inmate Central, RE: Shipping from RA isn't cheap... (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-09-11, 13:27:21 (67.163.187.233)
I mostly agree with you, but I have not priced the gaskets out anywhere else. These particular gaskets that I like so well are $0.52 and the Felpros which I think I remember also liking are $1.17, and .......
444: Inmate Central, RE: As usual... (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-09-10, 21:03:40 (67.163.187.233)
LOL! Yesterday the bastards took our MEK away; tomorrow they will be coming for our actetone & WD40. MEK should have been the hill to die on, but they will have to take the rest of my solvents and pen .......
445: Inmate Central, Victor Reinz gasket (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-09-10, 20:57:49 (67.163.187.233)
I ordered one with a Gates thermostat (which did not come with a gasket) for my 5.9 Dakota. In my opinion this is a flimsy and poorly constructed gasket, and after installation (using a torque wrench) .......
446: Inmate Central, RE: I wasn't surprised. (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-09-10, 18:07:16 (67.163.187.233)
It was the blow out style of the loss that caught me off gaurd. But, as I typed previously, I have seen so many surprising games that I am used to surprises. One of the best things I ever did was quit .......
447: Inmate Central, RE: Well, immatthewj, talking about the NFL pre-season... (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-09-10, 17:10:02 (67.163.187.233)
I was surprised. But then again, I have watched so much football since we got here in '91, nothing is a total surprise anymore. But I was expecting a competitive game. The 'Niners were a two & a half .......
448: Inmate Central, A torch would be handy (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-09-08, 15:29:28 (67.163.187.233)
and I don't have one either. My high speed with a whiz wheel gets a lot of use. Depending upon where the nut/bolt is at it can be tricky. When I was recently working on getting a torsion bar crossmemb .......
449: Inmate Central, RE: Rush right out in a buying frenzy... (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-09-08, 14:34:36 (67.163.187.233)
WD40 is useless as a penetrating oil. I used to swear that Kroil Oil(last time I bought some was a couple of years ago--about $100/1 gallon on Amazon) ("don't spoil it, Kroil it") was the best going, .......
450: Inmate Central, "work well" is an understatement (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-09-08, 08:50:34 (67.163.187.233)
. .......
451: Inmate Central, RE: But starting fluid. Who uses that these days? (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-09-08, 08:40:38 (67.163.187.233)
Amateur anesthesiologists or free-basers? .......
452: Inmate Central, RE: the great funnel (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-09-07, 18:11:31 (67.163.187.233)
I am seriously considering a pre-estate sale pretty soon. .......
453: Inmate Central, RE: Brakekleen, WD-40 and Starting Fluid banned in Canada (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-09-07, 18:08:41 (67.163.187.233)
Ah, ignore my last post. "Savage" is an appropriate word. I always saved MEK for the special jobs. I still have about 12 ounces or so that I am hoarding on to. .......
454: Inmate Central, trichloroethylene (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-09-07, 18:05:47 (67.163.187.233)
In '88 I worked for a short period of time for a commuter (TWE) that kept trichloroethylene (we called it "trike") on hand in spray cans under the trade name "Power Solve." Yes, I always thought it wa .......
455: Inmate Central, RE: Solvent 30... (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-09-07, 17:50:44 (67.163.187.233)
Since I cannot find MEK anymore, actetone is now my go-to solvent. It's not bad, but nothing like that good old MEK. .......
456: Inmate Central, RE: Brakekleen, WD-40 and Starting Fluid banned in Canada (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-09-07, 15:58:54 (67.163.187.233)
Quite a few years ago I was in the chemicals section of Lowes, and I saw that they were selling Methyl-Ethyl-Keytone (aka MEK) in gallon cans. That stuff is not the Cadillac of solvents, it is the Fer .......
457: Inmate Central, RE: Sometimes I feel... (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-09-07, 15:20:15 (67.163.187.233)
In a joking manner, my mom once told me that same thing back in 1990. And in 2016, it was all mine. I am not exaggerating when I say that the dumpster I rented for a week was not a whole lot smaller t .......
458: Inmate Central, RE: smoke him (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-09-07, 15:15:15 (67.163.187.233)
as in they will not hesitate to dump a few magazines into him. I honestly do not believe that PC has anything at all to do with the techniques that they are using or are not using to try to find this .......
459: Inmate Central, RE: This is not a rant (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-09-07, 13:46:55 (67.163.187.233)
How much awareness does it really take to realize that if you park your shopping cart right beside someone else's parked shopping cart that you have then effectively blocked the aisle for everyone els .......
460: Inmate Central, RE: they are trying to decide between beer or baby food :) (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-09-06, 22:42:25 (67.163.187.233)
This is Pa.--no beer at this particular WalMart. .......
461: Inmate Central, RE: The poop and piss on floor in Walmart (and K Mart) has been more of a problem for me. (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-09-06, 16:59:01 (67.163.187.233)
LOL! I remember years ago I was in the local Giant Eagle (Aliquippa) and I had to take a leak real bad, and there was literally a trail of shit leaving the men's room. For whatever reason, that just c .......
462: Inmate Central, RE: It's not just WalMart. (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-09-06, 16:53:01 (67.163.187.233)
I am sure you are correct, but WalMart is the quickest and handiest for me and their prices are generally good, so except for meat buying expeditions at Giant Eagle, I can only really speak for my Wal .......
463: Inmate Central, RE: "Maybe setting expectations a bit high?" (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-09-06, 16:40:54 (67.163.187.233)
No, actually I do not feel that I am. .......
464: Inmate Central, This is not a rant (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-09-06, 15:38:19 (67.163.187.233)
but it amazes me how many people who shop for groceries at WalMart seem completely unaware that there is anyone else, besides themselves, trying to navigate through the aisle with a shopping cart. :: .......
465: Inmate Central, RE: Political correctness? (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-09-06, 15:32:24 (67.163.187.233)
Yes, but I'd bet that there are other reasons and it is not because of PC. They want this guy and when they find him, if he does not give himself up right away, they are going to smoke him. ::: TOPIC: .......
466: Inmate Central, RE: Not a political post... (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-09-05, 18:41:48 (67.163.187.233)
Give it time . . . this can become a political post also. .......
467: Inmate Central, RE: I hate clutter. (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-09-05, 16:43:12 (67.163.187.233)
My life has gotten so much easier after I did the reorganization with the cheap Stanley roll-aways. For the most part I left all my SAE tools and screw drivers in my old Craftsman work tool box (I did .......
468: Inmate Central, RE: You ask me, it's on the owners not the manufacturers. (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-09-05, 16:29:15 (67.163.187.233)
It is too late for Fluid Film on the GMC. Fortunately I do not have to drive much anymore. When I am FORCED to retire her, I will fluid film either the Chevy or the Dodge before I turn one of them int .......
469: Inmate Central, What big bang??? (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-09-05, 14:56:23 (67.163.187.233)
A few thousand years ago it was six days and a talking snake and a lot of inbreeding. .......
470: Inmate Central, RE: I try to do some little thing on the car every day. (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-09-05, 14:39:28 (67.163.187.233)
I brought my old Craftsman 12 drawer and cheapo Sears top box and Mac side box home from the airport for the last time in '05 and if cars were not metric I would probably have never had to buy another .......
471: Inmate Central, RE: You really get to know what's going on with the car by working on it. (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-09-05, 14:23:42 (67.163.187.233)
A while ago (I've lost track of time) I went out to replace a leaf spring shackle on my old GMC that had rusted completely through & finally broke in half, wound up pulling the leaf spring on that sid .......
472: Inmate Central, RE: Similar with the Chevy 305. (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-09-05, 14:02:13 (67.163.187.233)
I took a look in one of my old Petersen (I've been adding an apostrophe and a S that is actually not there) books, and it only goes back to 1970, but it is saying that in 1970, for big blocks, Chevy m .......
473: Inmate Central, RE: Similar with the Chevy 305. (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-09-04, 19:52:18 (67.163.187.233)
My Petersens does show the Chevy 402 as a big block and the Chevy 400 as a small block. When I was in highschool I did know an older guy (he and his twin brother were farm kids and both of them were w .......
474: Inmate Central, I have no doubt that your coronary arteries are happy campers. (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-09-04, 16:32:03 (67.163.187.233)
I feel guilty. .......
475: General Asylum, RE: RIP Jimmy Buffett (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-09-04, 12:33:20 (67.163.187.233)
I never heard of Jimmy Buffett until Margaritaville, which came out the year that I graduated HS. My 'Changes in Latitudes' 8-track got a lot of play time (I thought the title track was pretty neat al .......
476: Inmate Central, RE: Meet Fresh, Part 2 (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-09-04, 12:23:14 (67.163.187.233)
I am disappointed. There are no anecdotes featuring young ladies. .......
477: Inmate Central, RE: Maybe the NFL is good for something after all ... (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-09-02, 20:04:59 (67.163.187.233)
Well, yeah, and I used to care and think I was enlightened, but I learned that nobody gave/gives a shit what I think, so now a days I just try to find the most entertaining show going and I sit back a .......
478: Inmate Central, RE: Jimmy Buffett has sailed on. (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-09-02, 20:00:10 (67.163.187.233)
From all I've heard about him, and video I've seen of him, and the music I've listened to by him, he seemed like someone who enjoyed life. I read a book that consisted of quotes about Hunter Thompson, .......
479: Inmate Central, RE: There aren't any big or small block Buicks or Pontiacs. (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-09-02, 19:51:39 (67.163.187.233)
That, Ghost, is some intense sh!t!! And that explains why Petersens did not differentiate between small & big blocks families. I never would have thought that a 350 block was the same as a 350 block. .......
480: Inmate Central, RE: The Battling Bucs are battling back! (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-09-02, 19:35:44 (67.163.187.233)
Arrrrrr, you scurvy dogs! Raise the Joly Rodger! Could it be coming? Two sweeps back to back??? .......
481: Inmate Central, RE: I was at an auto parts store once... (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-09-02, 11:01:11 (67.163.187.233)
I hate to admit to this, but I thought that my Mustang had a 351C in it until I bought sparkplugs for a 351C to put into it. .......
482: Inmate Central, RE: The Ford 360 was a de-stroked 390. (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-09-02, 10:58:27 (67.163.187.233)
I remember the Ford 360 being a very popular Ford pickup truck engine when I was growing up in Montana. But none of my books had anything at all on it. Like it did not even exist. .......
483: Inmate Central, RE: Similar with the Chevy 305. (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-09-02, 10:55:31 (67.163.187.233)
Off the Ford engines temporarily, Ghost, my Petersens does definitely divide Chevy V-8s into big & small blocks with the 454 being of course a big block. I believe that the discussion of the 454/350 I .......
484: Inmate Central, Uncle Mike: here are some more 351s for you (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-09-01, 20:15:29 (67.163.187.233)
I dug out one of my antique Petersens from my youth, and apparently in '71 Ford made a Boss 351 (330 HP) in 72 a 351 Cobra Jet AND a 351 High Output (248-266 and 275 HP) in '73 & '74 a 351 HO (266 & 2 .......
485: Inmate Central, RE: The Battling Bucs are battling back! (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-09-01, 19:59:57 (67.163.187.233)
Can you spell "four in a row"? Can Craig John Counsell feel Shelties hot breath on his back? .......
486: Inmate Central, RE: There might be a way to build a 454 from a small block... (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-09-01, 17:25:50 (67.163.187.233)
You know your engines. What was the Ford 360? A smaller version of the 390? When I was in the Air Force I had a '75 LeSabre with a 455. That was a classic example of what was wrong with American cars .......
487: Inmate Central, RE: The big block was significantly different from the small block. (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-09-01, 08:00:20 (67.163.187.233)
My understanding is that by putting a GM 400 crank into a 350 turned the 350 into what is known as a "382 stroker." In the discussion I alluded to, it was said that the 350 & 454 were the same basic b .......
488: Inmate Central, RE: Chevrolet had a 400 small block. (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-09-01, 07:44:05 (67.163.187.233)
I was not aware of that either. I had thought that all GM 400s were basically stroked & bored 350s. I had also heard someone say that all Chevy V-8 blocks were bsically the same. No small block/big bl .......
489: Inmate Central, RE: Lean Burn. (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-09-01, 07:41:56 (67.163.187.233)
Yes, I believe that '78 Diplomat I had w/ 318 had Lean Burn. No vacuum advance. I never did figure out how to use a timing light on it so therefore I never did. .......
490: Inmate Central, RE: The 351 M was a smog motor. (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-08-31, 19:02:35 (67.163.187.233)
I suppose a lot of it had to with which era the engine was manufactured in. Thinking about it, I guess nothing that was real good came out of the US from maybe the mid seventies up until (name the dat .......
491: Inmate Central, RE: The 351 M was a smog motor. (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-08-31, 17:12:01 (67.163.187.233)
Thanks, that's interesting. It must not have been a popular engine, as this is only the second time in my life I had heard a reference to it. And actually, as to that conversation I alluded to, the ki .......
492: Inmate Central, RE: Chicago news team reporting on crime... (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-08-31, 14:38:56 (67.163.187.233)
Well, you guys pawned Mitch Trubisky off on us, that oughta be seen as a crime also. .......
493: Inmate Central, 351M? (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-08-31, 14:34:13 (67.163.187.233)
Not to change the subject from the video (but I guess that I am), but a day or two ago you posted about a Montego your dad had with a 351M in it. I am familiar with the 351 W(insdor) as I had one in a .......
494: Inmate Central, RE: The Battling Bucs are battling back! (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-08-30, 19:41:49 (67.163.187.233)
Let's sodomize grandma with a broomstick--it's a sweep!! Get ready, St. Lou; Cinderella is coming to town, and she wants to dance! .......
495: Inmate Central, RE: What would you think of people whose main folk here is an idiot? (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-08-30, 15:25:58 (67.163.187.233)
Ivan The Terrible? .......
496: Inmate Central, Sign me up! (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-08-30, 14:39:04 (67.163.187.233)
I have always wanted to see the South pole! .......
497: Inmate Central, RE: Maybe as it starts hitting them in the pocketbook (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-08-30, 14:01:31 (67.163.187.233)
When it is definitive, no-doubt-about-it, irreversible, then we will take it seriously. But we will all point the blame-finger in different directions. .......
498: Inmate Central, RE: Purchasing a firearm (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-08-30, 13:58:51 (67.163.187.233)
If they went through the meth-belt prosecuting everyone who had ever lied on a 4473. . . . .......
499: Inmate Central, RE: In any event (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-08-30, 13:51:35 (67.163.187.233)
Sure, but on topic, he was not lying on the 4473 about receiving a dishonorable. .......
500: Inmate Central, RE: Maybe this attitude about the Geneva Conventions really took off when we started. . . (0.00)
Posted by immatthewj on 2023-08-30, 13:49:55 (67.163.187.233)
Possibly, but I am pretty sure violations oif the Geneva Conventions had been happening prior to that. .......
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