Plane_Computer2205

You are perfectly welcome to give up, while I am perfectly free to nudge against the nibbling away of our own language. "Use it or lose it" here means "use it properly now or regret it later - when it's reduced to a Babel where one person can't understand the next, though both claim to be using the same language.

They were in that much of a hurry to fast? Couldn't they stop eating before they left home?

It looks harder than that to me!

It ain't pink anyway. It's salmon!

And what would that change? The world is packed with assholes; the best we can do is navigate on.

Silica gel packets.

Toilet paper.

A TRACTOR? It's like a big lawn mower! There are tractors 70 years old that still run well. There's not that much that can go wrong. If they've made tractors so complicated they're hard to fix correctly today it's a sign you should be looking to buy some old tractors. And I'm a really old guy, so I could be very wrong. But making machines so complex no one can fix them correctly DEFINITELY indicates people should be circumspect about buying their high-priced, high-maintenance crap! They wouldn't make them if people weren't buying them.

This is just such a common sense approach. It pains me to see such unprepared people. Hope for the best, prepare for the worst. Your life may actually depend upon it.

A friend of mine once lived in Atlanta, and she said she was driving on the freeway one afternoon and it started snowing, and everyone just stopped, got out, locked their vehicles and started walking....

Terrific people. Nearly as terrific as several Bangladeshis I used to work with in the 1980s and 1990s.

Those ARE nice, you're right. But by morning it's all ugly heaps and ruts and I want is for it to go away.

Where I am, if winter goes by HALF as fast as fall has gone, it'll be springtime before we know it!

For advanced skateboarders only! No newbies!

Too bad. We all know where it's going.

Not even a child molester?

A rising tide lifts all boats.

There ya go.

WRONG.

Thank you! When I was living in Taos I called out my electric power co-op for flying a tattered NM flag that wasn't half as bad as that one! And they thanked me and replaced it right away!

Been popping them little white pills for too long without sleep. Speed kills, and it might just wreck your rig.

Time wounds all heels.

Only time a lizard ever bit me me my iguana, Tzena. I wanted to see if I could provoke her to bite me. Yep, she would. very strong jaws, not much else. RIP, sweet girl.....

So sorry! We're BROKE after Joe sent some more billions to his crony in the Ukraine. But the little penis piano dude with be sending plenty back to Joe's 21 offshore shell companies he set up while he was the Veep.

Ahem. Clinton Foundation. cough cough

The great hurricane of 1935 is generally regarded as the absolute unchallenged biggest to ever hit the U.S., but I remember Camille in 1969 that hit the mountains and piedmont of Virginia, the worst of it in the wee hours of the morning. At that time rural, mountainous counties such as Albemarle, Nelson and a couple others received over 19 inches of rain in one single HOUR!! I was in Richmond then, but the horror was widely written about. I am not sure an accurate death toll was ever arrived at, but it was truly awful. Sleeping families had their homes SMASHED off the foundations, and were eventually carried into the James and the Bay, Atlantic and God knows where else. Around the fall line in Richmond one could see parts of homes and cattle carcasses being swept by. The area was without potable water for days when the city water treatment and sewage treatment facilities were both inundated. A couple marinas on the river downtown I was familiar with downtown vanished, along with their swimming pools. As for drinking water, the Virginia National Guard was dispensing potable water at staging points in clear plastic soft bags reading something like WATER, DRINKING blah blah blah. For 4 or 5 days, at least. I kept the empty bags for a couple decades, but I lost track of 'em eventually. Doubtless Helena will soon be taking her place near the top, but I wonder how Katrina will rank? 2005, correct?

Lose their license? They should be tossed out of the door of a helicopter!