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CHIEF

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  1. Who should bear the cost? The pipeline company? A pigging station that had been way out in the boonies when it was built? There are several idoits, on this thread that would buy a new house built by a fifty year old airport, and then bitch that the airport needs to spend millions on sound abatement. CHIEF
  2. Mirrors on the ceiling, and just slightly out of the picture is the "pink champagne on ice." The strike is just a "visitor here, of its own devise." CHIEF
  3. The notorious "Red Ryder Bandit"? CHIEF
  4. This one happened about three miles from where I was washing my boat: https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/live-video-explosion-rocks-north-texas/1871302/ They hit a 36" major transmission line. It made the explosions on the Ukraine thread look rather mild. It was a pants shitting moment. CHIEF
  5. Wasn't me. Also I was wrong about her death year, it was probably about 1999-2000. She was born about 1905, and I know it was after 1998 when she died, as I have a picture of her holding CHIEF Jr. as a baby. A picture of her, holding her granddaughter's grandson (daughter's daughter's son's son) when she still lived in her own home. I'm gonna post it when I find it, housecoat and all. CHIEF
  6. I often think about the things my great grandmother saw in her lifetime, she lived to be 94, and died in 1996. Her dad drove the mail by horse and freight wagon from Waco to Dallas, she lost a new shoe on the ride, one time, after her dad told her not to put them on. She was afraid to tell him, so had to wear her old shoes for another year. She didn't see automobiles and planes until adolescence. Wired B-24s at Lockheed as a middle aged woman in WWII. Saw Sputnik, the launch of Vger 1, and men on the Moon. Saw the invention of automatic milkers on their dairy. She was in awe of the first cellphones. All of that happened in less than 90 years. CHIEF
  7. Quinn faked the injury so Arch could get enough playing time to keep him from transferring (Swedish Stopwatch). CHIEF
  8. Fuck, I went to the store, to pick up a couple of steaks at halftime. When I got back, the game was no longer on. I thought Florida refused to come out of the locker room for the second half. CHIEF
  9. I’m not sure which one he will have, a stroke, or a heart attack. I’m thinking stroke. I bet his blood pressure is about 220/180 every game he coaches. I would bet good money that he dies on the sideline one day. CHIEF
  10. One of CHIEF Jr.'s roommates his freshman year at UTD, was a homebody, and a recluse. You could see his house from the dorm room. His parents told him, when they dropped him off, that in no certain terms he was not to show back up at home unless it was for Thanksgiving and Christmas. CHIEF
  11. They obviously got Out-Whataburgered. CHIEF
  12. I wish Walter Mathis' first name was Johnny or Curtis. CHIEF
  13. What about pontoon boats? CHIEF
  14. CHIEF

    Getting old sucks

    I don't know if this would make a good different thread, or if the discussion will be short enough to kinda get everyone's input. I was thinking about James Earl Jones, tonight, dying at age 93. To me, the guy not only had a full life, but even more. I've always kinda viewed death in several categories, by age: 0-30 - Absolutely tragic. The more tragic the earlier it happened. 40-55 - Horrible. Possibly left young children. Not there for college expenses. 56-65 - You got jobbed. Paid in all those years, and SS doesn't even give your spouse $250. 65-78 - You can complain to management about your genetics, but that's about it. You were either low mileage, and garage kept, or a 35k a mile/year commuter that hit the salvage yard in an eighth of the time. 78-86 - You made it. Relish every day. 86-99 - Do you need more relish? 100-100+ - What did you do to have been cursed enough to have to walk this Earth so long. CHIEF
  15. I have to say, 93 years is a good run. CHIEF
  16. Those shoes are definitely "business in the front, party in the back." CHIEF
  17. All three of Jadon, Tre, and Jerrick would be the premier back in at least the top 50% of FBS schools. Tashard and the blessings he has given this team, with the talent, the character, the hard workers, and his hard work is something that is recognized and honored. He is, by far, may favorite position coach, and the second most important person on this staff. CHIEF
  18. I swear Sark called off the Dogs after scoring 31. Not by subbing, or telling guys to give less than 100% effort. But he went conservative and ran clock. If he would have kept his foot on the gas it would have been an embarrassment for Michigan. The score really wasn’t as bad as it could have been. CHIEF
  19. We don’t even eat at the Don Melquias, here, in Granbury. CHIEF
  20. Oh, Good God. Someone has to do it....1,3,2,4,and 5. There. CHIEF
  21. Please tell me they still play, "Turn Up the Radio" at places like the SPJST in Round Rock. CHIEF
  22. That's what I was always told. Gasoline and Tide laundry detergent. A fireball with a chlorine gas chaser, mixed thick so it would stick. CHIEF
  23. That is 100% true. I worked in the Midwest one summer leasing up farmsteads for O&G. The only people able to afford to buy farmland were wealthy people that made their money in something besides farming, and bought a farm for a "hobby." When you would run title, the farms had been in the same family since the Civil War, one had the Deed issued from the sovereign State of Illinois in 1851. The farmers weren't poor by any means, but don't have the capital sitting around to pay $3.6 million in taxes for their half section that has been in their family for over 150 years. I've been looking for farmland to buy for the last 15 years, after putting numbers to it, there isn't anything that will even pay for itself fast enough, much less provide a living. CHIEF
  24. It's a storm shelter, but not for a physical storm, but a fiscal storm. CHIEF
  25. Be sure to order the 68 extra fat, and the 12 dwarf. CHIEF
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