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Evel Knieval Cafe

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Dog brings his stuffed animal friends to lunch.

Dog playing volleyball, no big deal.

Watching the sun set with a fren.

Top you off, sir?

Rabbit on a Roomba.

First kiss.

A "romp" of otters chasing a butterfly. Probably river otters, I fear.

Almost too many otters.

Summertime.

This is actually how I remember most Evel Knieval jumps going.

Like the Snake Canyon jump.

Posted by: Ace at 07:30 PM




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1 Yeet!

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 19, 2023 07:32 PM (vyGik)

2 woot

Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 19, 2023 07:33 PM (jzzG8)

3 I use to do that

Posted by: Skip at June 19, 2023 07:33 PM (xhxe8)

4 What kid didn't build ramps to jump off in a yellow Schwann bike with a banana seat? No helmets, no knee pads, just sheer craziness. I had a lot of fun being a kid in the 70s.

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 19, 2023 07:33 PM (vyGik)

5 Crashed often because the ramp was a flimsy as you could make it

Posted by: Skip at June 19, 2023 07:35 PM (xhxe8)

6 Good evening, horde!

This could be the Why I Love Boys thread.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at June 19, 2023 07:35 PM (OX9vb)

7 Just watched The Replacements again last night. (That's where I first heard the chicks dig scares quote)

Posted by: polynikes at June 19, 2023 07:36 PM (l2TUW)

8 Dog is having a tea party, without the tea cups

Posted by: Skip at June 19, 2023 07:36 PM (xhxe8)

9 >>>Dog brings his stuffed animal friends to lunch.

Someone has rewarded Lunon for this behavior and then filmed the results.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at June 19, 2023 07:37 PM (klJTj)

10 Evel Knievel Days in Butte, MT in the 00s were awesome! Huge party. And Evel himself was there!

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 19, 2023 07:38 PM (vyGik)

11 4 What kid didn't build ramps to jump off in a yellow Schwann bike with a banana seat?
Posted by: nurse ratched at June 19, 2023 07:33 PM (vyGik)

Well, I didn't, but we had a very long gravel driveway on a hill, and that was pretty gnarly.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at June 19, 2023 07:38 PM (OX9vb)

12 Reminds me. I need to go to the dentist and have my chip front tooth rebonded. I wore down the last bonding job from 25 years ago.

Yeah bike ramp 50 years ago.

Posted by: polynikes at June 19, 2023 07:39 PM (l2TUW)

13 Today I saw a mother and grandmother with a little boy in a Spider-Man costume.
How many little boys would prefer to be mutilated rather then get a Spider-Man costume?

Posted by: That Northernlurker what lurkd at June 19, 2023 07:40 PM (NPwmg)

14 Oh hell yes, I remember my Evil Knievel stunt cycle along with my SSP Racers that had that rubber wheel that burned the shit out of your finger and took skin off if you grabbed it wrong.

Posted by: JROD at June 19, 2023 07:41 PM (IlL6s)

15 That snake River jump was as disappointing as Al Capone's safe though it was a bit more dangerous. Premature ejaculation

Posted by: polynikes at June 19, 2023 07:41 PM (l2TUW)

16 I remember that Evil Knieval motorcycle toy but was probably after my interest

Posted by: Skip at June 19, 2023 07:42 PM (xhxe8)

17 Evel Knievel Days in Butte, MT in the 00s were awesome! Huge party. And Evel himself was there!
Posted by: nurse ratched
__________

Per Wiki:

Knievel left Butte High School after his sophomore year and got a job in the copper mines as a diamond drill operator with the Anaconda Mining Company... He was promoted to surface duty, where he drove a large earth mover. Knievel was fired when he made the earth mover do a motorcycle-type wheelie and accidentally drove it into Butte's main power line, leaving the city without electricity for several hours.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at June 19, 2023 07:43 PM (i43U9)

18 Yeah teaching the kitty to dispense water sounds like a cool idea, until you hear it splashing on the floor while you're in bed.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 19, 2023 07:44 PM (0hOvj)

19 And then Fonzi had to go and jump the shark

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 19, 2023 07:45 PM (mTo4e)

20 Re: first kiss video -- very sweet, looks like a dachshund, which can be kissy dogs (so watch out, kiddo!)

Posted by: Lizzy at June 19, 2023 07:45 PM (nTi7J)

21 The top pic could be titled, Napoleon Dynamites first sweet jump.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 19, 2023 07:45 PM (up/3i)

22 Excellent selection this evening, Ace!

And the lack of mephitic penguins is clement, as well.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 19, 2023 07:46 PM (a3Q+t)

23 Reminds me. I need to go to the dentist and have my chip front tooth rebonded. I wore down the last bonding job from 25 years ago.

Yeah bike ramp 50 years ago.
Posted by: polynikes

Heh. Beer bottle 50 years ago. Kind of a same ole story kind of story.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 19, 2023 07:46 PM (qoGsy)

24 Well, I didn't, but we had a very long gravel driveway on a hill, and that was pretty gnarly.

Probably still picking gravel out of your knees

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 19, 2023 07:46 PM (0hOvj)

25 I broke my collar bone doing a jump on my Yamaha 250 dirt bike. That's when I gave up any desire to become a motorcross racer. Way too easy to get injured .

Posted by: polynikes at June 19, 2023 07:46 PM (l2TUW)

26 Thank you for the sea otters, ace! There's never such a thing as "too many" sea otters, btw.

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 19, 2023 07:47 PM (mirkZ)

27 No real danger, but a pretty high pucker factor on this one.
https://tinyurl.com/mth6r2xp

Posted by: Archimedes at June 19, 2023 07:47 PM (eOEVl)

28 Was giving the grandsons grief for not having gotten any stitches yet. They couldn't believe I had about 30 when I was at their age. They were then incredulous that my baby brother had about 50 when their age. Growing up in the sixties and early seventies was no picnic.

Posted by: Beartooth at June 19, 2023 07:47 PM (8vzCZ)

29 Pastor Adrian Rogers said Evel told him 'GOD told me I'd had enough near misses and it was time to 'get straightened out'. Supposedly this was near the end of Evel's life. That makes me smile

Posted by: Eromero at June 19, 2023 07:48 PM (Uv0D2)

30 What kid didn't build ramps to jump off in a yellow Schwann bike with a banana seat? No helmets, no knee pads, just sheer craziness. I had a lot of fun being a kid in the 70s.
Posted by: nurse ratched at June 19, 2023 07:33 PM (vyGik)
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Guilty as charged. It's a wonder enough of us survived the horrors of childhood in the 70s and 80s.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 19, 2023 07:48 PM (BpYfr)

31 I broke my collar bone doing a jump on my Yamaha 250 dirt bike.

Well the collar bone is like a shock absorber, protecting other stuff, so it did its job

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 19, 2023 07:48 PM (0hOvj)

32 Brick Suit @Brick_Suit · 5h
No more big stairs for Joe!
They are so afraid of Biden tripping as he boards Air Force One that they are making him take the small stairs into the bottom of the plane.

https://tinyurl.com/yckym96w
14 seconds without a fall.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at June 19, 2023 07:49 PM (Vwz3I)

33 Heh. Beer bottle 50 years ago. Kind of a same ole story kind of story.
Posted by: Tonypete at June 19, 2023 07:46 PM (qoGsy

My poor friend wears a full upper denture today because of 'the beer bottle ' story. The part of the story that sucks is a girl did it to him. ( bitch of the other guy participant)

Posted by: polynikes at June 19, 2023 07:50 PM (l2TUW)

34 Well, I didn't, but we had a very long gravel driveway on a hill, and that was pretty gnarly.

Probably still picking gravel out of your knees
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

Dinah C., 15 yrs old going down 45th street which felt like it was a 45 deg slope. She almost made it - still has a few dark spots on one of her knees where the tiny stones are resting quietly.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 19, 2023 07:50 PM (qoGsy)

35 My brothers were all playing around on their bikes, they set up a jump on the street. Joel zipped down the street, hit the jump, flew off... and his front tire came off. He didn't land well went face first into the pavement. Nothing permanent but one of those stories boys can tell.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 19, 2023 07:50 PM (0hOvj)

36 I needed a tetanus shot every year because barefoot is bit iffy

Posted by: Jamaica NYC at June 19, 2023 07:50 PM (Eeb9P)

37 30 . . . It's a wonder enough of us survived the horrors of childhood in the 70s and 80s.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
__________

I was killed by lawn darts before I was killed by the repeal of net neutrality.

Posted by: Kam Fong as Chin Ho at June 19, 2023 07:51 PM (gf7Ez)

38 LOL!! Love those Evel Knievel vids!!

'Murica!!

Posted by: Puddleglum at June 19, 2023 07:52 PM (sAmhv)

39 I remember playing around on the old rotten frame of a trailer in a field, at one point I learned the facts of being a boy when I slipped and straddle the thing. Ladies, you all think its incredibly hilarious but its awful. We sit like that for a reason.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 19, 2023 07:52 PM (0hOvj)

40 What kid didn't build ramps to jump off in a yellow Schwann bike with a banana seat? No helmets, no knee pads, just sheer craziness. I had a lot of fun being a kid in the 70s.
Posted by: nurse ratched at June 19, 2023 07:33 PM (vyGik)
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Guilty as charged. It's a wonder enough of us survived the horrors of childhood in the 70s and 80s.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 19, 2023 07:48 PM (BpYfr)


Y'all need to get off my fucking lawn.

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at June 19, 2023 07:54 PM (BdMk6)

41 Nobody ever accused a daredevil from Butte of having much in the way of brains.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at June 19, 2023 07:54 PM (fY84s)

42 The Red Bull games and the Jackass movies are there just to confirm WHITE BOYS BE CRAZY.

Posted by: polynikes at June 19, 2023 07:54 PM (l2TUW)

43 36 I needed a tetanus shot every year because barefoot is bit iffy
Posted by: Jamaica NYC at June 19, 2023 07:50 PM (Eeb9P)

Oh, yeah. Barefoot all summer, could run barefoot on that limestone gravel.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at June 19, 2023 07:55 PM (OX9vb)

44 I fractured my collarbone twice and broke it once.
First time going down a hill in a wagon
Second playing back yard football
And don't remember the 3rd cause

Posted by: Skip at June 19, 2023 07:55 PM (xhxe8)

45 I tended to be a climber when I was a wee squirrel. Trees, rocks, whatever. No ropes, helmets, or safety equipment of any kind. Just tree branches that may or may not hold my weight. Of course, I was a pretty scrawny kid...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 19, 2023 07:55 PM (BpYfr)

46 I hope not too political for the Café but...

Jack Poso @JackPosobiec · 1h
Did not expect to see Bret Baier defending Biden storing thousands of classified documents in his garage. Wow

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at June 19, 2023 07:55 PM (Vwz3I)

47 The closest I came to death as a kid was getting hit by a bus and almost jumping off a roof.

There were some other incidents but those were the two that had the potential for joining the Choir Invisible.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 19, 2023 07:55 PM (up/3i)

48 My older brother had the Evel Knievel. His greatest stunts were jumping down the stairwell without breaking a light and leaping Hot Wheels racecar tracks.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at June 19, 2023 07:55 PM (yKPAy)

49 Brick Suit @Brick_Suit · 5h
No more big stairs for Joe!
They are so afraid of Biden tripping as he boards Air Force One that they are making him take the small stairs into the bottom of the plane.

https://tinyurl.com/yckym96w
14 seconds without a fall.
Posted by: andycanuck
______________

Look at the secret service dude coming up behind him and watching with bated breath to make sure he gets all the way up.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at June 19, 2023 07:55 PM (i43U9)

50 I remember playing around on the old rotten frame of a trailer in a field, at one point I learned the facts of being a boy when I slipped and straddle the thing. Ladies, you all think its incredibly hilarious but its awful. We sit like that for a reason.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 19, 2023 07:52 PM (0hOvj)
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*nods sympathetically*

We've all been there...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 19, 2023 07:56 PM (BpYfr)

51 I didn't have the Evel Knievel toy, but I had my Hot Wheels.

And the Johnny Seven O. M. A. (One! Man! Army!).

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at June 19, 2023 07:56 PM (fxrF8)

52 I had a WebCo dirtbike

Posted by: Thesokorus at June 19, 2023 07:56 PM (DlL4B)

53 I remember playing around on the old rotten frame of a trailer in a field, at one point I learned the facts of being a boy when I slipped and straddle the thing. Ladies, you all think its incredibly hilarious but its awful. We sit like that for a reason.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

Someone help me here: Girls' bikes had the frame that you could step through to get on. Boys' bikes had the testicular crushing device incorporated into the frame which one was certain to engage during jumps and other tomfoolery.

Why oh why did the designers of bikes never adopt the girls style for everyone?

Posted by: Tonypete at June 19, 2023 07:56 PM (qoGsy)

54 So when will they use a Bosun's Chair to load and unload Joey?

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 19, 2023 07:56 PM (mTo4e)

55 It's possible doing bike jumps I don't remember

Posted by: Skip at June 19, 2023 07:56 PM (xhxe8)

56 We never had the action figures of anything, but we had lego, blocks, clay, lincoln logs, and hot wheels tracks. Its amazing what you can make combining all that. We had tracks going across furniture and along the wall down the hall etc. We built tinkertoy catapults using rubber bands and lay seige to blocks castles. We built lego cars with clay crash test dummies, we did all kinds of stuff, when we couldn't get outside. I grew up with 3 really creative, smart, and clever older brothers who taught me a ton of stuff just watching them.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 19, 2023 07:57 PM (0hOvj)

57 Pellet gun in hand riding webco bike down the street to set off my m-80s

Posted by: Thesokorus at June 19, 2023 07:58 PM (DlL4B)

58 Why oh why did the designers of bikes never adopt the girls style for everyone?
Posted by: Tonypete at June 19, 2023 07:56 PM (qoGsy)
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As I recall, it was something of a mark of shame to be seen riding a "girl's bike."

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 19, 2023 07:58 PM (BpYfr)

59 I jumped off the second story roof. And yeah, I yelled 'Geronimo!'.

Posted by: Eromero at June 19, 2023 07:58 PM (Uv0D2)

60 So when will they use a Bosun's Chair to load and unload Joey?
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 19, 2023 07:56 PM (mTo4e)
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They'll put in one of those stair elevator chairs.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at June 19, 2023 07:58 PM (fxrF8)

61 I am getting the distinct impression that April was a tomboy

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 19, 2023 07:58 PM (0hOvj)

62 Oh, yeah. Barefoot all summer, could run barefoot on that limestone gravel.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at June 19, 2023 07:55 PM (OX9vb)

Yup. And I still hate wearing shoes.

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at June 19, 2023 07:59 PM (BdMk6)

63 Why oh why did the designers of bikes never adopt the girls style for everyone?
Posted by: Tonypete at June 19, 2023 07:56 PM (qoGsy)

Truly! Because it's no party to hit that bar, whether male or female. Or non-binary, for that matter (it's PRIDE MONTH).

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at June 19, 2023 07:59 PM (OX9vb)

64 Took most of the skin off of my back when I was ten, going down a ridiculously steep hill on a skateboard.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at June 19, 2023 07:59 PM (Xrfse)

65 *reads through these stories and flicks an ear in disbelief*

How did you Yumans ever survive?

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 19, 2023 07:59 PM (mTo4e)

66 Hot summer girls

https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=PI3k_mr3UHA

Posted by: Emmie -- July 15 ArkanOklaMoMe RSVP email link in nic at June 19, 2023 07:59 PM (Emce2)

67 Me and some friends tried to jump one of our buddies mobile home(width wise) by stacking 4x8 plywood sheets we procured from a nearby construction site. While his parents were gone for the weekend we just started leaning pieces against the trailer and staggered them until it made a ramp up one side and then did a ramp on the opposite side. Did some light testing to see how the plywood held up running our bikes up on it. Being it was my buddies home he wanted to take the first shot at the jump. He went up to the end of the court and up a fairly steep dirt hill to get some speed. When he hit the ramp his front forks collapsed and he went face first into the shitty plywood ramp. He was in the hospital for a while having reconstructive surgery on his face n teeth. We got in huge trouble for stealing the wood and being "f'ing idiots".
My friends parents sued Huffy for the forks collapsing and received a settlement that kicked off my friends motocross career.

Posted by: JROD at June 19, 2023 07:59 PM (IlL6s)

68 I am getting the distinct impression that April was a tomboy
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

Ya think? LOL

Posted by: Tonypete at June 19, 2023 07:59 PM (qoGsy)

69 Why oh why did the designers of bikes never adopt the girls style for everyone?

I think the boys bikes needed the reinforcement because we did crazy stuff with them like riding off the roof and off jumps. But yeah, if it was sturdy enough for girls definitely good design for boys, too. I get it: girls wore little dresses so they couldn't have a bar holding their skirt up while riding (damn it) but the nutwracker really seemed cruel to me.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 19, 2023 08:00 PM (0hOvj)

70 Why oh why did the designers of bikes never adopt the girls style for everyone?
Posted by: Tonypete at June 19, 2023 07:56 PM (qoGsy)
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As I recall, it was something of a mark of shame to be seen riding a "girl's bike."
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 19, 2023 07:58 PM (BpYfr)

LOL. It's like a guy riding bitch on a motorcycle today.

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at June 19, 2023 08:01 PM (BdMk6)

71 They'll put in one of those stair elevator chairs.

Replays a certain scene from Gremlins and giggles.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 19, 2023 08:01 PM (mTo4e)

72 I need to hit the hay, long commute is taking a toll
Have a great evening everyone, no dangerous stuff tonight please

Posted by: Skip at June 19, 2023 08:01 PM (xhxe8)

73 Scars? Yes. Lots of holes from all sorts of things. Longest scar is from a poxy fucking switchblade. Deepest one from a stoned \pilled up mad as a cut cat, chick in the kitchen at a party with a chefs knife. My shoulder still aches in the cold. All caused by a list of cars, guns, bikes, motorbike's, HE, gravity, chainsaws, animals, electrical equipment, blunt force trauma, sudden stops at high speed, etc, etc, etc. Just lucky I guess.

Posted by: NZFrank with an M2 at June 19, 2023 08:01 PM (bgJ0E)

74 My friends parents sued Huffy for the forks collapsing and received a settlement that kicked off my friends motocross career.

Dang, that's awful Sounds like you had solid engineering for the ramp, too, that's the tough part.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 19, 2023 08:01 PM (0hOvj)

75 61 I am getting the distinct impression that April was a tomboy
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 19, 2023 07:58 PM (0hOvj)

Haha, good call! Good thing they weren't hot to transition kids back then.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at June 19, 2023 08:02 PM (OX9vb)

76 tended to be a climber when I was a wee squirrel. Trees, rocks, whatever. No ropes, helmets, or safety equipment of any kind. Just tree branches that may or may not hold my weight. Of course, I was a pretty scrawny kid...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 19, 2023 07:55 PM (BpYfr)

Me too. I was a wannabe Tarzan when I was a pre-teen. I would carry a sheathed 6 inch blade buck knife on my hip wearing just shorts. I had fashioned ropes going from tree to tree at a descending angle.

I wish I had learned more in books about friction because sliding down those ropes with a leather belt gave me a real life lesson on friction and heat .

Posted by: polynikes at June 19, 2023 08:02 PM (l2TUW)

77 Posted by: JROD at June 19, 2023 07:59 PM (IlL6s)

Sounds like a Crazy Eddie Muldoon story by outdoors humorous writer Patrick McManus.

Posted by: Beartooth at June 19, 2023 08:02 PM (8vzCZ)

78 Playing sandlot baseball and catching with no mask, I took one in the teeth. Chipped out a little v notch that proved handy for eating spaghetti. Forgot to have them include that feature in the dentures, and now my pasta of choice is rotini.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at June 19, 2023 08:03 PM (rLD7a)

79 Replays a certain scene from Gremlins and giggles.
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 19, 2023 08:01 PM (mTo4e)
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Only scene from Gremlins I remember is "gremlin in the blender." May have to watch it again.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at June 19, 2023 08:03 PM (fxrF8)

80 @53

>>Why oh why did the designers of bikes never adopt the girls style for everyone?

The simple answer is girls wear or used to wear dresses exclusively and having a low slung bar allowed them to wear them while riding bicycles.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 19, 2023 08:03 PM (up/3i)

81 I set a piece of old school plywood up onto t cinder blocks at about a 60degree angle. Hit that thins so fast the board snapped in half. Bricks went nowhere and I charlie horsed both thighs on the handle bars. I flew about 8 feet and landed on my chin, put my bottom teeth through my lower lip. I still have the scar and it really shows now that I'm 29.

The chicks freaked out. My face was hamburger squirting blood. My friends, when they got up from side splitting LOLing carried me home to my mom who promptly fainted. My brother had just been told about 911 in Kindergarten and called 911. 16 stitches and I got my whole face scrubbed out with one of those evil scrubbers they use in ERs to remove gravel and stuff out of wounds.

Good times. Think I learned a damn thing? Of course not.

Posted by: Reforger at June 19, 2023 08:03 PM (B705c)

82 @56 Christopher R Taylor-I remember hiding my Hot Wheels tracks under my bed so they wouldn't be used to whip my ass in case I got in trouble. Them lengths of track were the perfect length and size for pissed off parents to put a hurting on you. Left some serious welts.

Posted by: JROD at June 19, 2023 08:03 PM (IlL6s)

83 >>My friends parents sued Huffy for the forks collapsing and received a settlement that kicked off my friends motocross career.


Happy ending!!

Posted by: Lizzy at June 19, 2023 08:03 PM (nTi7J)

84 Glory.... Forever? I once thought that....

Posted by: Ozymandius at June 19, 2023 08:04 PM (oHd/0)

85 Scars? Yes. Lots of holes from all sorts of things. Longest scar is from a poxy fucking switchblade. Deepest one from a stoned \pilled up mad as a cut cat, chick in the kitchen at a party with a chefs knife. My shoulder still aches in the cold. All caused by a list of cars, guns, bikes, motorbike's, HE, gravity, chainsaws, animals, electrical equipment, blunt force trauma, sudden stops at high speed, etc, etc, etc. Just lucky I guess.
Posted by: NZFrank with an M2 at June 19, 2023 08:01 PM (bgJ0E)
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Damn. That's a pretty rough childhood!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 19, 2023 08:04 PM (BpYfr)

86 Deepest one from a stoned \pilled up mad as a cut cat, chick in the kitchen at a party with a chefs knife. My shoulder still aches in the cold.
Posted by: NZFrank with an M2

Should we ever meet in meatspace, I'm buying until full details of that one are revealed.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 19, 2023 08:04 PM (qoGsy)

87 >>Haha, good call! Good thing they weren't hot to transition kids back then.


OMG, yes!

Posted by: Lizzy at June 19, 2023 08:05 PM (nTi7J)

88 Them lengths of track were the perfect length and size for pissed off parents to put a hurting on you. Left some serious welts.

Mom used a belt or a wooden spoon on us. Dad just used his hand. He was always more gentle, I think he was afraid of hurting us.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 19, 2023 08:05 PM (0hOvj)

89 82 @56 Christopher R Taylor-I remember hiding my Hot Wheels tracks under my bed so they wouldn't be used to whip my ass in case I got in trouble. Them lengths of track were the perfect length and size for pissed off parents to put a hurting on you. Left some serious welts.
Posted by: JROD at June 19, 2023 08:03 PM (IlL6s)

I had a TON of HotWheelz and Track... but could not disarm Mom...

She used her sandals.

Posted by: Ozymandius at June 19, 2023 08:05 PM (oHd/0)

90 64 Took most of the skin off of my back when I was ten, going down a ridiculously steep hill on a skateboard.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at June 19, 2023 07:59 PM (Xrfse)

*death wobble begins*

Posted by: Thesokorus at June 19, 2023 08:05 PM (DlL4B)

91 Truth, NZFrank!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - we are being gaslighted 24/365 at June 19, 2023 08:05 PM (dwh5k)

92 Glory.... Forever? I once thought that....
Posted by: Ozymandius at June 19, 2023 08:04 PM (oHd/0)
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That's the deal I took.

Posted by: Achilles at June 19, 2023 08:06 PM (fxrF8)

93 My older brother had a 5-speed Schwinn with a banana seat in his tender youth. Traded bikes with a neighborhood smartass for a race down the alley. Smartass never told my brother he had no brakes on his 10-speed and rode it into and under a car. My brother won the race and walked away without a scratch. 10-speed pretzel didn't fare too well.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at June 19, 2023 08:06 PM (fY84s)

94 Search for Mrs. Deagle.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 19, 2023 08:06 PM (mTo4e)

95 She used her sandals.
Posted by: Ozymandius

Greek, Italian or Middle Eastern ancestry?

Posted by: Tonypete at June 19, 2023 08:07 PM (qoGsy)

96 There was a radio show a few years back that called Evil to chat at like 0500.

Evil was not happy and let them have it.

Might be on the youboob somewhere….

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at June 19, 2023 08:07 PM (R/m4+)

97 Good thing they weren't hot to transition kids back then

Yeah I was thinking the same thing. Today they'd try pumping you full of chemicals. Evil bastards.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 19, 2023 08:07 PM (0hOvj)

98 Haha, good call! Good thing they weren't hot to transition kids back then.

OMG, yes!
Posted by: Lizzy at June 19, 2023 08:05 PM (nTi7J)
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That's the thing. A lot of girls like to play a bit rough and hang out with the boys. Then, once they reached a certain age, they changed. And boys noticed the changes...and approved!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 19, 2023 08:07 PM (BpYfr)

99 Then there was the time that I stapled my finger to the front desk at a hardware store. My Pop was not amused.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at June 19, 2023 08:09 PM (Xrfse)

100 ...received a settlement that kicked off my friends motocross career.
Posted by: JROD at June 19, 2023 07:59 PM (IlL6s)

So, lessons not learned. Thumbs up!

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at June 19, 2023 08:09 PM (OX9vb)

101 57 Pellet gun in hand riding webco bike down the street to set off my m-80s
Posted by: Thesokorus at June 19, 2023 07:58 PM (DlL4B)

BB gun fights...

And the time we decided to have a Bamboo spear fight... yeah, still got the puncture scar on my leg.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 19, 2023 08:09 PM (oHd/0)

102 The "Smart Set" always thinks it is smarter than Nature.

Time and again Nature proves the folly of Man.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 19, 2023 08:09 PM (mTo4e)

103 Remember getting your trouser cuff caught in a bicycle chain with no chain guard, and what you ran into?

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at June 19, 2023 08:09 PM (rLD7a)

104 I think it's interesting that the Chick Dig Scars quote was done by Keanu in The Replacements and he then played an Evel Knieval toy character in Tog Story 4.

Posted by: polynikes at June 19, 2023 08:09 PM (l2TUW)

105 And boys noticed the changes...and approved!

Tomboys are the best girls

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 19, 2023 08:10 PM (0hOvj)

106 Do you guys have any idea how much an Evel Knievel lunch box is going for? Man, I shoulda kept mine!

Posted by: SFGoth at June 19, 2023 08:12 PM (KAi1n)

107 Mom used a belt or a wooden spoon on us. Dad just used his hand. He was always more gentle, I think he was afraid of hurting us.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 19, 2023 08:05 PM (0hOvj)

My mom used a thick wooden yardstick. My dad used a belt. My grandma used switches fresh-cut from a tree. None were merciful.

BUT, looking back, I deserved every whack. I was a rebellious kid.

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at June 19, 2023 08:12 PM (BdMk6)

108 BB gun fights...

And the time we decided to have a Bamboo spear fight... yeah, still got the puncture scar on my leg.
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 19, 2023 08:09 PM (oHd/0)

How many times can I pump this thing?

Tying various objects to m80s and throwing them in the pool just to see what happens.

Honestly, riding in my buddies dad's AMC Javelin at 100mph was prob most dangerous. Dad was driving after getting loaded at the baseball game.

Posted by: Thesokorus at June 19, 2023 08:12 PM (DlL4B)

109 82 @56 Christopher R Taylor-I remember hiding my Hot Wheels tracks under my bed so they wouldn't be used to whip my ass in case I got in trouble. Them lengths of track were the perfect length and size for pissed off parents to put a hurting on you. Left some serious welts.
Posted by: JROD at June 19, 2023 08:03 PM (IlL6s)

That didn't work around my house. My dad had one of those 1960's vintage thin black leather belts provided by his employer and by golly, that thing slipped out of his belt loops in milliseconds if I got crossways.

Of course, I did and more than once.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at June 19, 2023 08:13 PM (ZSK0i)

110 I stopped riding bikes because that pant in the gears business.
Our town sprayed asphalt and spread gravel to resurface our street. Fortunately, the front lawns made travel easier.

Posted by: Jamaica NYC at June 19, 2023 08:13 PM (Eeb9P)

111 88 Back when a young boy could carry and was expected to carry a pocketknife, I would be sent to the backyard to cut a switch. "I said a switch, young man, not a twig. Now come back with something proper".

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at June 19, 2023 08:13 PM (rLD7a)

112 And then Fonzi had to go and jump the shark
Posted by: Anna Puma

And a meme was born!

Posted by: SFGoth at June 19, 2023 08:13 PM (KAi1n)

113 And the time we decided to have a Bamboo spear fight... yeah, still got the puncture scar on my leg.
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 19, 2023 08:09 PM (oHd/0)

That brings back memories of the awesome kites we made from the hedge row of bamboo we had in our neighborhood.

Posted by: polynikes at June 19, 2023 08:13 PM (l2TUW)

114 m80s and throwing them in the pool just to see what happens

We used to throw them in the lake to catch fish. Heh.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at June 19, 2023 08:14 PM (Xrfse)

115 Also bamboo bow and arrows.

Posted by: polynikes at June 19, 2023 08:14 PM (l2TUW)

116 Reminds me. I need to go to the dentist and have my chip front tooth rebonded. I wore down the last bonding job from 25 years ago.

Yeah bike ramp 50 years ago.
Posted by: polynikes at June 19, 2023 07:39 PM (l2TUW)


I got scars from that kind of 'fun'.

Some of them have faded after about 30-40 years.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at June 19, 2023 08:15 PM (ZSK0i)

117 @100 Dash my lace wigs!-Nope. I was visiting some of those friends a few years back and we were doing the "if we could go back and do it over again" thing about how we'd do things different knowing what we know now.
After a little more conversation we pretty much determined we were still kinda stupid and would probably still do the same dumb shit over again because it was fun.

Posted by: JROD at June 19, 2023 08:15 PM (IlL6s)

118 Posting this as it just came to me and we are past 100 comments.

Can we have a regular Friday contest where we guess what the weekend killed/wounded count will be in Chicago?

Winner is announced on Monday after confirming numbers on Heyjackass.

Posted by: Jolo at June 19, 2023 08:15 PM (WoZ/1)

119 Evel Knievel. I idolized that crazy bastard. We were both from Butte, Montana. My folks had to good sense to move away before the crazy fully set in.

Still, I did a lot of stupid things with my banana seat bike. Jumping ditches on chunks of plywood held up by cinder blocks. Top pic could have been me, but my bike was purple.

Good times.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Gen X Ne'er-Do-Well at June 19, 2023 08:15 PM (T/Lqj)

120 Brother #2 once climbed an old telephone with just his hands, feet and a old belt. At the top of his climb, the belt broke and he slid the rest of the way down. No broken anything but I swear we were still pulling old splinters out of his hands, forearms, shins and the insides of his thighs for a year after that.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 19, 2023 08:15 PM (qoGsy)

121 Damn. That's a pretty rough childhood!
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 19, 2023 08:04 PM (BpYfr)

I'm still on 12 on the inside.

Posted by: NZFrank with an M2 at June 19, 2023 08:15 PM (bgJ0E)

122 Love Frank's timing of "Regrets...I've had a few"

Posted by: t-bird at June 19, 2023 08:15 PM (CaJIi)

123 Tying various objects to m80s and throwing them in the pool just to see what happens.

Posted by: Thesokorus

__________________

We'd go out in the local patch of woods, start a fire and throw in a spray paint can. Then run like hell.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at June 19, 2023 08:16 PM (i43U9)

124 Two seconds ago I found out Evel Knieval is still alive.

Posted by: bluebell at June 19, 2023 08:16 PM (pTb/Z)

125 Mom used whatever was handy until she realized whipping didn't faze me anymore. My dad just let me suffer the consequences, no sympathy.

Posted by: Jamaica NYC at June 19, 2023 08:16 PM (Eeb9P)

126 BB gun fights. I had a Sheridan and was our side's designated sniper. Mutually agreed upon ROE said three pumps only.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at June 19, 2023 08:16 PM (rLD7a)

127 And oh yes, I had the Evel Knievel bike toy. My folks were cool like that.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Gen X Ne'er-Do-Well at June 19, 2023 08:16 PM (T/Lqj)

128 Two seconds ago I found out Evel Knieval is still alive.
Posted by: bluebell at June 19, 2023 08:16 PM (pTb/Z

Unless I missed the snark , 2007 .

Posted by: polynikes at June 19, 2023 08:17 PM (l2TUW)

129 I had a can of EndDust go off like an A Team attack.

Posted by: Jamaica NYC at June 19, 2023 08:17 PM (Eeb9P)

130 I'm still on 12 on the inside.
Posted by: NZFrank

My wife routinely says "What are you, 13?"

Posted by: Tonypete at June 19, 2023 08:18 PM (qoGsy)

131 After decades, kids on bikes - chain drive or electric - are back!

Ever see the city yuts coming down a street like they own it because, at that moment, they do? They're fearless, capable of overwhelming the police & stampeding visitors.

And the way things are going, they'll be coming to a 'burb near you.


Posted by: L - very tired at June 19, 2023 08:18 PM (GshMh)

132 Unless I missed the snark , 2007 .
Posted by: polynikes at June 19, 2023 08:17 PM (l2TUW)
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He's tweeting from the hereafter, I suppose.

Posted by: bluebell at June 19, 2023 08:19 PM (pTb/Z)

133 When I dug a BB sized chunk of Bazooka Joe bubblegum out of my bleeding thigh, I remember hearing, "It was only five pumps."

Dungarees do not much protection from projectiles.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at June 19, 2023 08:19 PM (fY84s)

134 I stopped riding bikes because that pant in the gears business.

Yeah that was always a bad result. Bell bottoms did not match up well with bicycles. It can make you paranoid, because even if it doesn't cause a horrible crash, it destroys the cuff of anything caught in that chain

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 19, 2023 08:19 PM (0hOvj)

135 My wife routinely says "What are you, 13?"

"Yes, and proud of it!".

Posted by: Notorious BFD at June 19, 2023 08:19 PM (Xrfse)

136 @109 Additional Blonde Agent-My old mans belt was provided by United Parcel Service for his uniform

Thanks UPS!!!

Posted by: JROD at June 19, 2023 08:19 PM (IlL6s)

137 Evel Knieval is alive in a Texas nursing home with Elvis and JFK.

Posted by: Count de Monet at June 19, 2023 08:19 PM (4I/2K)

138 I had a can of EndDust go off like an A Team attack.
Posted by: Jamaica NYC at June 19, 2023 08:17 PM (Eeb9
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I would take that as a sign that I shouldn't be cleaning.

Posted by: bluebell at June 19, 2023 08:20 PM (pTb/Z)

139 Evel's son Robbie died this year. I think in January or February. Off to Google,

Posted by: polynikes at June 19, 2023 08:21 PM (l2TUW)

140 Nowadays I see the occasional urban outdoorsman riding his whiskey bike going zoom zoom down the road.

Always makes me point and laugh…

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at June 19, 2023 08:21 PM (R/m4+)

141 There were a few summers spent jumping bikes in my neighborhood. Then Fonzi jumped over the shark tank.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 19, 2023 08:21 PM (RIvkX)

142 "137 Evel Knieval is alive in a Texas nursing home with Elvis and JFK.

Posted by: Count de Monet at June 19, 2023 08:19 PM (4I/2K) "


and they are playing poker with a bunch of dogs even as we speak!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - we are being gaslighted 24/365 at June 19, 2023 08:21 PM (dwh5k)

143 Empty CO2 cartridge bazookas. You cut the tip off an expended CO2 cartridge (battlefield pick ups after the BB gun fights) and stuff it with kitchen match heads. You find a piece of pipe that is just the right fit, place on shoulder, your buddy gives you two pats on the head (seen watching Combat on TV) and lights it.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at June 19, 2023 08:21 PM (rLD7a)

144 136 @109 Additional Blonde Agent-My old mans belt was provided by United Parcel Service for his uniform

Thanks UPS!!!
Posted by: JROD at June 19, 2023 08:19 PM (IlL6s)

My dad's was Gerber Products. Yeah, they made a high quality belt alright (ow).

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at June 19, 2023 08:22 PM (ZSK0i)

145 My childhood was so sad, boring, pathetic and sheltered that I never jumped a bike off a ramp until I was about 30ish. With my oldest kid's ramp and bike.

Posted by: That's really fucking depressing at June 19, 2023 08:22 PM (AJ2DX)

146 OK this is bizarre. I have two items that I ordered from amazon that say the package was delivered to my mailbox by the USPS. I did not get the packages and none of the neighbors had them in their mailboxes like the thing says to check for. So I go on to file a missing package complaint and I get the following answer:


"Wait 48 hours. In rare cases, packages may say delivered up to 48 hours before arrival."


Did the USPS steal Ace's time machine?

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 19, 2023 08:22 PM (ncXxy)

147 Dang it, Critical Drinker was just talking about the Highlander and how it doesn't need a remake. He mentioned the soundtrack and I remember it being great, but its hard to find out there. They want a LOT of money on Amazon, nobody has it on ebay. Its like the Conan soundtrack, which was rough to find for a decent price.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 19, 2023 08:23 PM (0hOvj)

148 Those Huffy forks indeed, suckethed.

Oval tubular fork legs, swaged into three horizontals of 1/8th in. steel, with the steering head tube swaged in from above. All of it mild steel, and would indeed collapse backwards with even a mild bump against a curb or such.

Schwinn had the flat bars for forks. But those were forged, tempered steel, and the steering head tube was welded onto the forks. Same with the gooseneck to hold the handlebars. Huffy, formed 1/8th in. mild steel. Schwinn. Forged, hardened, tempered.

Same comparisons through most of the frame, too. Schwinn had a forged headstock, pedal crank and frame union, and rear axle lugs. Huffy? Mild, pressed steel, throughout.

Getting all '70s techie, we used to find and use exclusively, the Schwinn S-2 pattern wheels. 32 spokes, hand laced into Heavy Duty paperboy bike hubs. The bikes wouldn't break from a jump, but WE did, and often. lol


Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at June 19, 2023 08:23 PM (e6UQI)

149 Evel Knieval is alive in a Texas nursing home with Elvis and JFK.
Posted by: Count de Monet at June 19, 2023 08:19 PM (4I/2K)

So, Bubba Hotep was non-fiction.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at June 19, 2023 08:23 PM (ZSK0i)

150 The boy's style is stronger. There's a bit of a whip to the frame when you ride the girl's style. That's why they did mixties, where it's a step through with frame pieces higher up.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at June 19, 2023 08:24 PM (ouTlx)

151 I once hit an entire roll of caps with a hammer that I had placed on a flat rock. I could see my Dad screaming at me, I mean his mouth was moving and wow, his face was all screwed up into a rage, but all I heard was this high pitched ringing.

Funny that.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 19, 2023 08:24 PM (qoGsy)

152 My wife routinely says "What are you, 13?"

Women are, too. They just usually hide it better.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 19, 2023 08:25 PM (0hOvj)

153 My dad never whipped me but my mom wasn't adverse to corporal punishment. I was a good kid though and really never gave them a reason.

Posted by: polynikes at June 19, 2023 08:25 PM (l2TUW)

154 Our ramps we're next to a cliff.
Because that's where they threw the construction debris.

Posted by: DaveA at June 19, 2023 08:26 PM (FhXTo)

155 147 Dang it, Critical Drinker was just talking about the Highlander and how it doesn't need a remake. He mentioned the soundtrack and I remember it being great, but its hard to find out there. They want a LOT of money on Amazon, nobody has it on ebay. Its like the Conan soundtrack, which was rough to find for a decent price.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor


Not sure an official soundtrack was made. A Queen album, 'A Kind of Magic' was essentially the 'soundtrack. Had a song for the movie 'Iron Eagle' too. Could be wrong. Often am.

Posted by: Puddleglum at June 19, 2023 08:26 PM (sAmhv)

156 I had a toy called Turbo Tower of Power which used a piston type mechanism to blow air onto a gyro which turned the wheels of this car which when released, careened off at high speed. Or something.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 19, 2023 08:26 PM (RIvkX)

157 146 Happens a lot, Mr. Scott. A delivery notice can be generated when UPS hands off the delivery to USPS or vice versa. It was driving me nuts until the mail gal told me. Usually, but not all the time, it'll be noted on delivery tracking.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at June 19, 2023 08:26 PM (rLD7a)

158 TonyPete @ 120-
I cut out 2/3 up on a pole, kicked away from it and landed on my feet. Had a lot of blood flying around and finally realized I degloved my right little finger to the first joint, and was looking at the bloody finger bone. I just slipped the end back on and wrapped my hand with paper towels and drove myself to the ER. 39 years ago.

Posted by: Eromero at June 19, 2023 08:27 PM (Uv0D2)

159 Posted this P.J. O'Rourke quote before, but appropriate for this thread:

Is that any way to have fun? How would your mother feel if she knew you were doing this? She’d cry. She really would. And that’s how you know it’s fun. Anything that makes your mother cry is fun. Sigmund Freud wrote all about this. It’s a well-known fact.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at June 19, 2023 08:27 PM (i43U9)

160 Whoa!!!

Duke Kaboom > Evil Kneivel

Posted by: Diogenes at June 19, 2023 08:27 PM (e4fEA)

161 Not sure an official soundtrack was made

I found one but they want over 60 bucks for it. Strangely, the Highlander 2 soundtrack is 75 bucks. I guess that bagpipe Amazing Grace was expensive to record.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 19, 2023 08:28 PM (0hOvj)

162 This meme had the hub and I laughing so much, I have to share it:

https://tinyurl.com/86bd7vbv

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at June 19, 2023 08:28 PM (P9uwL)

163 Eromero - that just gave me weak knees.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 19, 2023 08:28 PM (qoGsy)

164 After a little more conversation we pretty much determined we were still kinda stupid and would probably still do the same dumb shit over again because it was fun.

Posted by: JROD at June 19, 2023 08:15 PM (IlL6s)

Excepting a few dead friends I wouldn't change a thing.

And damn it. If I had known about the huffy fork money I would have been rich. I had a pile of broken Huffy frames and forks in the yard.
You couldn't break a Schwinn though those things were built like tanks and handled like tanks and sank in mud like tanks and jumped like tanks.

Posted by: Reforger at June 19, 2023 08:28 PM (B705c)

165 I destroyed a fortune in trading cards putting them in my spokes. Mostly football cards so not as valuable but I had a number of Unitas and Namath cards. Also some OJ cards.

Posted by: polynikes at June 19, 2023 08:28 PM (l2TUW)

166 143 Empty CO2 cartridge bazookas...

A brother did something with those, tied them onto arrows, bow shot them into neighbors' open (row house) garages and then the doors would blow off or collapsed down with a bang.

Posted by: L - very tired at June 19, 2023 08:28 PM (GshMh)

167 Count Dante > Duke Kaboom > Evil Kneivel

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 19, 2023 08:29 PM (0hOvj)

168 BB gun wars. 3 pumps max. ;-P

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at June 19, 2023 08:30 PM (YRsIm)

169 Evening.

Posted by: Robert at June 19, 2023 08:30 PM (81zXs)

170 So, Bubba Hotep was non-fiction.
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at June 19, 2023 08:23 PM

You doubted that?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 19, 2023 08:30 PM (a3Q+t)

171 Posted by: SMH at what's coming at June 19, 2023 08:28 PM (P9uwL)

Nice! A meme of a meme .

Posted by: polynikes at June 19, 2023 08:30 PM (l2TUW)

172 86 Deepest one from a stoned \pilled up mad as a cut cat, chick in the kitchen at a party with a chefs knife. My shoulder still aches in the cold.
Posted by: NZFrank with an M2

Should we ever meet in meatspace, I'm buying until full details of that one are revealed.
Posted by: Tonypete at June 19, 2023 08:04 PM (qoGsy)

As a wee teaser, it was the first (but not only) time I had ever one-punched, knocked out a female. Her boyfriend was a 300 pound 6ft 8, biker scumbag, and I thought I would have a issue giving him a beating with only one arm as I still had a chefs knife sticking out of the top of my shoulder. He didn't stick around and ran. I didn't know her from a bar of soap, had not even spoken before she decided to do some attempted butcher practice in a crowed, dark ,noisy space. Wittiness's said later she was going for my throat, but I turned just in time as I sensed something was going down. Good old spider sense. I will tell about getting shot later that night for another time.

Posted by: NZFrank with an M2 at June 19, 2023 08:30 PM (bgJ0E)

173 This meme had the hub and I laughing so much, I have to share it

I don't know if it was the writer or the director but that cast of misfits and just regular slobs on the Nostromo was one of the best and most memorable I've ever seen.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 19, 2023 08:30 PM (0hOvj)

174 @148 Jim-I remember the first good BMX bike forks were made by Tange and the old Tuf-Neck Pro "gooseneck" for the handlebars.

Posted by: JROD at June 19, 2023 08:30 PM (IlL6s)

175 163 Eromero - that just gave me weak knees.
Posted by: Tonypete at June 19, 2023 08:28 PM (qoGsy)

Seriously. I am like jelly.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at June 19, 2023 08:30 PM (OX9vb)

176 And I can't say the numerous times that I fell out of tall trees.

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at June 19, 2023 08:32 PM (BdMk6)

177 This isn't going to help as I've been looking at geezer electric bikes. This would be perfect for biking but my knees don't work that well. I could put on a little trailer for the dog. But the nice ones are around $1500 and that would buy a lot of gas for the car.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at June 19, 2023 08:32 PM (ouTlx)

178 Dang I HAD that bike up top when I was that age! The built in shocks on the front are what let you know it was cool.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 19, 2023 08:32 PM (/JlsP)

179 Posted by: NZFrank with an M2 at June 19, 2023 08:30 PM (bgJ0E)

This happen in NZ ?

Posted by: polynikes at June 19, 2023 08:33 PM (l2TUW)

180 I always wondered about this. What made the Sissybar called that? What about it made you a sissy?

For those who don't know, that's what the kids I grew up with called that long loop of aluminum at the back of a banana seat on a bicycle.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 19, 2023 08:33 PM (0hOvj)

181 Seriously. I am like jelly.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at June 19, 2023 08:30 PM (OX9vb)

Yep. *sips beer*

Posted by: JFK at June 19, 2023 08:33 PM (4I/2K)

182 @164 Reforger-Definitely a few of us from my stomping grounds where I grew up that didn't make it to adulthood.

Posted by: JROD at June 19, 2023 08:33 PM (IlL6s)

183 I should mention the bowl of burning gasoline, the real apple cider colored gasoline, that the can was sitting in.
I love the pitch clock pace of baseball.

Posted by: Jamaica NYC at June 19, 2023 08:34 PM (Eeb9P)

184 Cause the girl riding behind you held onto the bar?

Posted by: Notsothoreau at June 19, 2023 08:34 PM (ouTlx)

185 This isn't going to help as I've been looking at geezer electric bikes.

There are a couple people around that have those gas powered bicycles, with the little 2 stroke engine. They work pretty well but they are really loud and you look like a complete dork riding one. Electric sounds better.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 19, 2023 08:34 PM (0hOvj)

186 Shotgun harpoons was about as crazy as we got ... except for the something something something.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 19, 2023 08:34 PM (jzzG8)

187 I believe I may have saw that Evel Kneveil jump on WWOS when it originally aired. I would’ve been 4 at the time.

I loved WWOS, “the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat”.

That and Mutual Omaha’s Wild Kingdom were both mainstays after Saturday morning cartoons.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at June 19, 2023 08:35 PM (ifdZa)

188
This happen in NZ ?
Posted by: polynikes at June 19, 2023 08:33 PM (l2TUW)

The chick stabbing me? Yep. Other stuff all over the shop.

Posted by: NZFrank with an M2 at June 19, 2023 08:35 PM (bgJ0E)

189 Cause the girl riding behind you held onto the bar?

That has to be it, something like that. Only a sissy needs a bar to keep them from falling off the bike! Onto the rear wheel without a fender.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 19, 2023 08:35 PM (0hOvj)

190 Good evening, horde. Jumping over things is a rite of passage. So is biting it...hard...and getting up to do it again.

Posted by: TRex at June 19, 2023 08:36 PM (IQ6Gq)

191 146 Happens a lot, Mr. Scott. A delivery notice can be generated when UPS hands off the delivery to USPS or vice versa. It was driving me nuts until the mail gal told me. Usually, but not all the time, it'll be noted on delivery tracking.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at June 19, 2023 08:26 PM


Never happened to me before and it was very specific....."Your item was delivered in or at the mailbox at 8:45 am on June 19, 2023."

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 19, 2023 08:36 PM (ncXxy)

192 @180 Christopher R Taylor-Sister Bar=Sissy Bar

LOL. Didn't make you a sissy.

Posted by: JROD at June 19, 2023 08:36 PM (IlL6s)

193
Lawn Darts (Jarts!) tossed blind over the garage at your opponent, first one to catch 5 or prevent 10 from sticking wins.

Best strategy: a quick volley.

Posted by: Auspex at June 19, 2023 08:36 PM (j4U/Z)

194 You doubted that?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 19, 2023 08:30 PM (a3Q+t)


At first, but I've come around.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at June 19, 2023 08:36 PM (ZSK0i)

195 180 I always wondered about this. What made the Sissybar called that? What about it made you a sissy?

For those who don't know, that's what the kids I grew up with called that long loop of aluminum at the back of a banana seat on a bicycle.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 19, 2023 08:33 PM (0hOvj)

It was the bar the girl held onto while you rode like hell to impress her. Nothing sissy about that, as I recall, but then, I was the girl.

Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at June 19, 2023 08:37 PM (LOVUx)

196 Lots of folks here have bikes. I don't want a trike. I've wanted a Dutchy style for ten years now. I even had one but never had time to rebuild it. My husband had electric bikes and enjoyed them but that was before hip replacement.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at June 19, 2023 08:37 PM (ouTlx)

197 That and Mutual Omaha’s Wild Kingdom were both mainstays after Saturday morning cartoons.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at June 19, 2023 08:35 PM (ifdZa)

IIRC, that was when the weekly Disney stuff was a thing as well.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at June 19, 2023 08:38 PM (ZSK0i)

198 Chicken lawn darts as kids was fun.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at June 19, 2023 08:38 PM (Lu0ZI)

199 185 I have thought about an electric bike, mu commute is 3 miles. But I think I would be cuter on a Vespa. 😂

Posted by: Piper at June 19, 2023 08:38 PM (ZdaMQ)

200 Some of us grew up to be parents of free-range kids, too. I recall coming home from work one day in the early oughts, to see my boy and his friends lighting a skateboard on fire and riding it down the street.

I just pretended I didn't see it, and laughed to myself.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at June 19, 2023 08:38 PM (OX9vb)

201 I never did much crazy stuff. As the youngest of four boys I just watched them do all the crazy stuff and get busted up, and learned: don't do that. I still have scars and stuff, but not from doing something really self destructive.

When I was a little boy I kept busting my head open, I'd fall and crack my forehead and have to be patched up. My doctor finally asked me why I didn't catch myself with my hands, and while I do not remember this, he told my mom that I said "because it hurts to land on your hands on ground" Because it does, it hurts like a bastard and you get gravel embedded in your palms.

Evidently he told me to do it anyway because its safer and better to not keep bashing your head on the ground. Apparently I listened because I stopped cracking my noggin.

It might explain why I'm such a dumbass though

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 19, 2023 08:39 PM (0hOvj)

202 I love the pitch clock pace of baseball.
Posted by: Jamaica NYC at June 19, 2023 08:34 PM (Eeb9P)

It cuts into the serving the beer time, though. Getting cut off at the 7th inning is bad enough, but when that comes so early... well, that's UnAmerican.

Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at June 19, 2023 08:39 PM (LOVUx)

203 You're at the busiest intersection downtown, when people used to shop downtown, and the light changes and you decide to pop a wheelie and dump the shiny 250 Sprint in front of what later seemed like every girl in your class. Yep, did it.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at June 19, 2023 08:39 PM (rLD7a)

204 Ah the good old days when you could play Smear The Queer and Rundown

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at June 19, 2023 08:40 PM (ifdZa)

205 I like Vespas too. It's about a mile and a half to the lake. I guess it could be sold if I don't ride enough. And would be good for the burning times.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at June 19, 2023 08:40 PM (ouTlx)

206 In the early-mid seventies Donny Osmond pitched a funky "swing" bike. I saw one of them in perfect condition about ten years ago locked in a bike rack.

They seem really dangerous.

Posted by: 13times at June 19, 2023 08:41 PM (3amy1)

207 Fox31 in Denver- big moose news day

Moose attacks man as he walks his dogs
Local News
2 hours ago

Moose dies after jumping from 2nd-story deck
Local News
6 hours ago

How moose came to live in Colorado
Local News
7 mins ago

Posted by: DB - at June 19, 2023 08:41 PM (geLO8)

208 Christopher R Taylor-Sister Bar=Sissy Bar

I guess that makes sense I didn't have any sisters.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 19, 2023 08:42 PM (0hOvj)

209 "that didn't make it to adulthood."

Posted by: JROD at June 19, 2023 08:33 PM (IlL6s)

That number is... way too damn high.

Posted by: Reforger at June 19, 2023 08:42 PM (B705c)

210 When I was a little boy I kept busting my head open, I'd fall and crack my forehead and have to be patched up. My doctor finally asked me why I didn't catch myself with my hands, and while I do not remember this, he told my mom that I said "because it hurts to land on your hands on ground" Because it does, it hurts like a bastard and you get gravel embedded in your palms.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
________________

That reads like a National Lampoon Letter to the Editor.

Sirs:

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at June 19, 2023 08:43 PM (i43U9)

211 191 Never had anything that specific. Usually just "your package delivered" and the blah blah blah give it 48 hours.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at June 19, 2023 08:43 PM (rLD7a)

212 Salty wanted me to let folks know that he will be away for a bit, on a secret mission. Will try to check back in soon

Posted by: Notsothoreau at June 19, 2023 08:44 PM (ouTlx)

213 I still have a scar on my thumb from an unfortunate lamb stew incident almost twenty-five years ago. Does that make me a legend? Or should I be posting this comment in the weekend food thread? Unwritten rules are confusing sometimes.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at June 19, 2023 08:44 PM (k1Qly)

214 IIRC, that was when the weekly Disney stuff was a thing as well.

The World of Walt Disney or something like that, I vaguely remember.

The show sequence I remember most was Magnum PI, then Simon & Simon, then switch channels for Miami Vice.

I miss Simon & Simon, I wonder if the shows hold up as well as I remember. Magnum is kinda dumb sometimes.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 19, 2023 08:45 PM (0hOvj)

215 If a moose charges you, here’s what CPW said you should do:

Run away

Posted by: DB - at June 19, 2023 08:45 PM (geLO8)

216 That reads like a National Lampoon Letter to the Editor.

Dir sirs
That bear really stinks, there's a good reason we call him Pooh Bear
--Christopher Robin

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 19, 2023 08:46 PM (0hOvj)

217 Unwritten rules are confusing sometimes.
Posted by: Walter Freeman at June 19, 2023 08:44 PM (k1Qly)

Food thread under kitchen accidents. I'll post pictures of the missing skin from the mandolin slicer accident.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at June 19, 2023 08:47 PM (ZSK0i)

218 214

Wonderful World of Disney, which came on right after Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom and Gentle Ben.

Sunday night was the best when I was a kid.

Posted by: Moki at June 19, 2023 08:47 PM (JrN/x)

219 I had quite a few bike accidents when young - remember going down hard on a pea gravel road and picking bits of rock out of my arm for a week. But the one I remember most was one I was riding down my own street, calm day, no problems. I went by some girl I liked and looked over her and even looked behind me - that was when I ran, full speed, into the parked car. The bike stopped instantly, of course- my body shot forward and the primary point of impact was my crotch, on the handlebar fork. I remember slowly crawling out of the street on my hands and knees and collapsing in someone's lawn for a while, moaning.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 19, 2023 08:48 PM (S6gqv)

220 Mutual Of Omaha's Wild Kingdom THEN The World Of Walt Disney every Sunday evening.

Posted by: JROD at June 19, 2023 08:48 PM (IlL6s)

221 I really wasn’t the adventurous one compared to my two brothers but over the years even I flipped over the handle bars of a bike and busted my lip requiring stitches, got shot in the eye with a BB gun from my brother and fell 20 feet out of tree and landed on my back and passed out for a few minutes.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at June 19, 2023 08:48 PM (ifdZa)

222 @218 Moki-lol, beat me to it

Posted by: JROD at June 19, 2023 08:49 PM (IlL6s)

223 I'll post pictures of the missing skin from the mandolin slicer accident.

Yeah it only took me one accident to get some kevlar gloves for that damned thing.

I remember slowly crawling out of the street on my hands and knees and collapsing in someone's lawn for a while, moaning.

Yeah women will do that to you.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 19, 2023 08:49 PM (0hOvj)

224 Moose attacks man as he walks his dogs
Local News
2 hours ago

Posted by: DB - at June 19, 2023 08:41 PM (geLO

The moose out front sure told him!

Posted by: Robert at June 19, 2023 08:49 PM (81zXs)

225 Buddy endlessly bugged his dad to let him get a 10-speed bicycle. He took it out and almost immediately received a speeding ticket, cop clocked him at 32 mph in a school zone.
He was 13 years old, his dad was incredulous.

Posted by: LenNeal at June 19, 2023 08:50 PM (/BBNv)

226 Bicycle spoke zipgun. Open some firecrackers, pour out the powder, put it in the threaded socket of a spoke, stick a # eight lead shot in tight, and here's the tricky part, hold a match under it til it cooks off. Not very accurate but dynamic as hell.

Posted by: Eromero at June 19, 2023 08:50 PM (Uv0D2)

227 Childhood misadventures and accidents build character. There is no pain in video games.

Posted by: fd at June 19, 2023 08:50 PM (iayUP)

228 My lawyer, former landlord's brother is an MD. During his Air Force days he was stationed at Elmendorf, great for him as he's a big time hunter. He told the story of an airman brought in one night that, while changing a flat, had a run in with a moose. He described it as seeing a survivor of a buffalo stampede.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at June 19, 2023 08:50 PM (rLD7a)

229 The World of Walt Disney or something like that, I vaguely remember.

That's it! Thanks to you and Moki.

Seems like every second movie/episode had Jody Whittaker in it.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at June 19, 2023 08:51 PM (ZSK0i)

230 He took it out and almost immediately received a speeding ticket, cop clocked him at 32 mph in a school zone.

What kind of kill joy piece of crap donut munching prick tickets a kid on a bicycle??

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 19, 2023 08:51 PM (0hOvj)

231 I miss Simon & Simon, I wonder if the shows hold up as well as I remember. Magnum is kinda dumb sometimes.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 19, 2023 08:45 PM (0hOvj)

I learned a lot of nefarious shit from Simon and Simon. I think it is banned now. I looked a couple of years ago and can't find it was ever released on VHS or anything.
I think it would hold up great but what I consider great and what the powers that be consider great are 180 degrees apart. Every show I ever like got canceled within 2 or 3 seasons.

Posted by: Reforger at June 19, 2023 08:51 PM (B705c)

232 Rode dirt bikes from about years age 14-50. All of it single track woods riding. No motocross. Worst injury? 2 broken ribs. Lots of minor flesh wounds. Lots of minor arm and leg scars. I was pretty lucky on injury score. owned 125 elsinor, two TT500's, one YZ250, one Huskvarna 350WXE and a trials Montessa Coda 309.

Broke two right ribs going about 2mph on the trials bike.

Posted by: 13times at June 19, 2023 08:51 PM (3amy1)

233 had quite a few bike accidents when young - remember going down hard on a pea gravel road and picking bits of rock out of my arm for a week. But the one I remember most was one I was riding down my own street, calm day, no problems. I went by some girl I liked and looked over her and even looked behind me - that was when I ran, full speed, into the parked car. The bike stopped instantly, of course- my body shot forward and the primary point of impact was my crotch, on the handlebar fork. I remember slowly crawling out of the street on my hands and knees and collapsing in someone's lawn for a while, moaning.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 19, 2023 08:48 PM (S6gqv)

Alas, the poor girl was buried just a few days later for, lo, she did die from laughter.

Posted by: Robert at June 19, 2023 08:52 PM (81zXs)

234 Trying to pop a wheelie to impress people and failing miserably - I had a friend who did that by sneaking his dirt bike on the athletic track during a high school football game, and trying that right in front of the stands which were packed. Damn that was funny! Especially the part where security was all over him fast.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 19, 2023 08:52 PM (S6gqv)

235 I learned a lot of nefarious shit from Simon and Simon. I think it is banned now.

It is seriously hard to find, there aren't even episodes on YouTube like everything else. I can't even find DVD collections. You can get streaming of shows like My Mother the Car, but not Simon & Simon.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 19, 2023 08:53 PM (0hOvj)

236 Heh... I have a huge scar on my elbow (9 inches) from it becoming dislocated while performing a heavy snatch years ago. Everything had to be put back even nerves.
Anyway, I decided long ago when I finally hit 200lbs in weight and had abs, I'd create an Instagram. This absolute dime from FSU grad school DM'd me and said how sexy I was and she said she liked my tattoo. (I have none). When we met weeks later she saw my scar that she thought was "the cool tattoo" and said she only dates men with tattoos. 😭😭😭

Posted by: Eagle Lips at June 19, 2023 08:54 PM (453+A)

237 222 @218 Moki-lol, beat me to it
Posted by: JROD at June 19, 2023 08:49 PM (IlL6s)

Please tell me you had left over Sunday roast for dinner while you watched! My dad made hot beef sandwiches (thinly sliced roast heated up in the gravy and served over toast) with fried mashed potato patties. When he pulled out the TV trays, we knew we were getting ice cream after dinner. Good times!

Posted by: Moki at June 19, 2023 08:54 PM (JrN/x)

238 225 Buddy endlessly bugged his dad to let him get a 10-speed bicycle. He took it out and almost immediately received a speeding ticket, cop clocked him at 32 mph in a school zone.
He was 13 years old, his dad was incredulous.
Posted by: LenNeal at June 19, 2023 08:50 PM (/BBNv)

You can get a speeding ticket on a bicycle?

Posted by: Robert at June 19, 2023 08:54 PM (81zXs)

239 209 "that didn't make it to adulthood."

Posted by: JROD at June 19, 2023 08:33 PM (IlL6s)

That number is... way too damn high.
Posted by: Reforger at June 19, 2023 08:42 PM (B705c)

Adulthood is highly overrated.

Posted by: Sometimes I wish I had checked out at 10 yo at June 19, 2023 08:55 PM (AJ2DX)

240 Posted by: DB - at June 19, 2023 08:41 PM (geLO

Well, every day is moose day around here. Can't shoot 'em in town, but man are they tasty. Need to fill the freezer...

Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at June 19, 2023 08:55 PM (LOVUx)

241 My shows had to have some tech, you know KITT, Automan, and that one show with the helicopter, nerd and robot.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at June 19, 2023 08:55 PM (ifdZa)

242 What kind of kill joy piece of crap donut munching prick tickets a kid on a bicycle??
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 19, 2023 08:51 PM (0hOvj)
====
My cousin and I got stopped by a motorcycle cop for jaywalking across Sepulveda Blvd. it was our first time in California and had never heard that crossing the street was not legal. We were incredulous.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 19, 2023 08:55 PM (RIvkX)

243
What kind of kill joy piece of crap donut munching prick tickets a kid on a bicycle??
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 19, 2023 08:51 PM (0hOvj)

To ask the question is to answer it.

Posted by: Something like at June 19, 2023 08:56 PM (AJ2DX)

244 You can get a speeding ticket on a bicycle?
Posted by: Robert at June 19, 2023 08:54 PM (81zXs)

I know for a fact you can get a DUI. Fellow grad student pulled that one off on her bicycle leaving a White Castle.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at June 19, 2023 08:56 PM (ZSK0i)

245 I destroyed a fortune in trading cards putting them in my spokes. Mostly football cards so not as valuable but I had a number of Unitas and Namath cards. Also some OJ cards.
Posted by: polynikes

My uncle played for, and then was a scout for the Yankees through the 90s. Using the very same method, I destroyed dozens, if not hundreds of Mantle, Maris, Berra, Whitey Ford, etc., etc., etc. cards.

Had I half a brain in my head, I could have retired in the 80's.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 19, 2023 08:56 PM (qoGsy)

246 "You can get a speeding ticket on a bicycle?
Posted by: Robert "

Yes. I saw it on Adam-12.

Posted by: fd at June 19, 2023 08:56 PM (iayUP)

247 Sure, I have lots of scars from my childhood and years of sports. But the deepest scars nobody can see.

I'm a deeply sensitive guy and what she did to me .. well Al said it best when he wrote this for me. Thanks Al.

https://tinyurl.com/kps5mxsy



Posted by: JackStraw at June 19, 2023 08:56 PM (6X1xW)

248 Hmmm Amazon has the show on DVD, full 8 season series. 90 bucks, tho. 59 bucks on Classic Media but I know nothing about that website.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 19, 2023 08:56 PM (0hOvj)

249 Posted by: 13times at June 19, 2023 08:51 PM (3amy1)

Yes your list is way shorter than my motocross friends. Not the worst injury by a friend but the one that stays with me. He was in the second group behind the leaders and there was a tangle up and he ended up with a foot peg going through his cheek.

Posted by: polynikes at June 19, 2023 08:57 PM (l2TUW)

250 234 The incident I was involved in was about 1966, 1967. The two downtown theaters had student Saturdays, with .25 admission. Usually re releases. The Great Escape showed up, and everybody in my age group at the time was blasting around town on some sort of lightweight motorcycle, either doing wheelie attempts or trying to escape into Switzerland.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at June 19, 2023 08:58 PM (rLD7a)

251 What kind of asshole cop gives a speeding ticket to a kid on a bike?

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at June 19, 2023 08:59 PM (XMwZJ)

252 I destroyed dozens, if not hundreds of Mantle, Maris, Berra, Whitey Ford, etc., etc., etc. cards.

Had I half a brain in my head, I could have retired in the 80's.
Posted by: Tonypete at June 19, 2023 08:56 PM (qoGsy

Now those would have been a legitimate fortune.

Posted by: polynikes at June 19, 2023 08:59 PM (l2TUW)

253 ..What kind of kill joy piece of crap donut munching prick tickets a kid on a bicycle?? Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 19, 2023 08:51 PM (0hOvj)


First ticket I ever got, I was in the 8th grade. Rode right past the stop sign where the San Diego cop was directing after school traffic. A 6 ft. 200 lb. cop is one hell of an effective Braking Device when employed on a scrawny kid and bike.

Second ticket I got, was for 51mph, and I *passed* the motorcycle cop in the 45mph zone. Linda Vista Blvd., where it goes steeply downhill just west of the Catholic University. San Diego, CA has many, many steep hills.

Going down them was a blast. Uphill though? Suzanne Sommers' "Thighmaster" had nothing on the effect of powering bikes, from stingrays to 10 speeds, up those bloody hills. And when you grew up enough and got strong enough, yep, you power-blasted to the top.

It hurt, doing that. But the accomplishment was worthy.


Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at June 19, 2023 08:59 PM (e6UQI)

254 @237 Moki-We always ate at TV trays in the living room on Sundays. Tradition!
Mother was a pretty good cook and we always had an assortment, roast and rib-eyes were always on the menu weekly.

Posted by: JROD at June 19, 2023 09:00 PM (IlL6s)

255

Posted by: Sometimes I wish I had checked out at 10 yo

No, you don't.

Posted by: Reforger at June 19, 2023 09:00 PM (B705c)

256 I'm a deeply sensitive guy and what she did to me .. well Al said it best when he wrote this for me. Thanks Al.

https://tinyurl.com/kps5mxsy

Posted by: JackStraw at June 19, 2023 08:56 PM (6X1xW)

GNR has entered the chat.

https://youtu.be/FDIvIb06abI

Posted by: Robert at June 19, 2023 09:00 PM (81zXs)

257 When we met weeks later she saw my scar that she thought was "the cool tattoo" and said she only dates men with tattoos. 😭😭😭
Posted by: Eagle Lips at June 19, 2023 08:54 PM (453+A)

What a bint! Good thing you found out early that she was dumb.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at June 19, 2023 09:01 PM (OX9vb)

258 235 Simon and Simon had great lines. Preppy brother to scruffy brother on carrying a Model 29 .44 magnum "What are you, paranoid?" "Nope, just careful.".

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at June 19, 2023 09:01 PM (rLD7a)

259 France at its finest - wonderful example of the African immigrant's behavior.

https://is.gd/UjxPda

Posted by: Ciampino - Wait till we do masers at June 19, 2023 09:02 PM (qfLjt)

260 >>GNR has entered the chat.

Deeply touching.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 19, 2023 09:02 PM (6X1xW)

261 yeah, in the 70's I got shoved into the median while riding my 750

when the bike hit the curb, it just laid down and I went flying

luckily, I was wearing an orange Bell helmet but not much else

swim suit, terry cloth tee shirt and flip flops

happened on Garland road, in front of the local liquor store, the owner was a good friend of mine (of course) and helped me out

guy that hit me tried to blame it on me but a couple of plain clothes cops we behind him, so he was fucked

lots of lost skin on that one

Posted by: REDACTED at June 19, 2023 09:03 PM (us2H3)

262 Detail on 253. On the speeding ticket, I was a H.S. Jr. then, the bike was a Styer, an Austrian made 10 speed.

Semi-exotic, for it's day and time. Lots of Campi parts on it, but not as much the Icon as it's French or Italian competitors.


Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at June 19, 2023 09:03 PM (e6UQI)

263 Moki-We always ate at TV trays in the living room on Sundays. Tradition!
Mother was a pretty good cook and we always had an assortment, roast and rib-eyes were always on the menu weekly.
Posted by: JROD at June 19, 2023 09:00 PM (IlL6s

That's why I'm a TV guy to this day. Every night we ate on TV trays in front of the tube. But yes Sundays were special. Too much time has now past. What night was Bonanza and Wild Wild West on?

Posted by: polynikes at June 19, 2023 09:03 PM (l2TUW)

264 Oh, just checked - in 1960, Mantle was paid $60,000. Maris was paid $18,000.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 19, 2023 09:03 PM (qoGsy)

265 Good thing you found out early that she was dumb.

Yeah best to find out early.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 19, 2023 09:04 PM (0hOvj)

266 "Wait 48 hours. In rare cases, packages may say delivered up to 48 hours before arrival."

Did the USPS steal Ace's time machine?

Sometimes the carrier just clicks "delivered" on every package right before starting his rounds. This was a lot of fun to discover on my first order from APMEX.

Posted by: Chuck C at June 19, 2023 09:04 PM (xttsV)

267 I've been waiting for Simon and Simon to come out since shows started coming out. I've got fucking BJ and the Bear, it's like 4 seasons and no Simon and Simon which ran for years.

Posted by: Reforger at June 19, 2023 09:06 PM (B705c)

268 My uncle played for, and then was a scout for the Yankees through the 90s. Using the very same method, I destroyed dozens, if not hundreds of Mantle, Maris, Berra, Whitey Ford, etc., etc., etc. cards.

Had I half a brain in my head, I could have retired in the 80's.
Posted by: Tonypete at June 19, 2023 08:56 PM (qoGsy)

You EEDIOT!!!!

Posted by: Ren Hoek voice at June 19, 2023 09:06 PM (AJ2DX)

269 Every night we ate on TV trays in front of the tube. But yes Sundays were special.

Marty: Hey, hey, I've seen this one, I've seen this one. This is a classic, this is where Ralph dresses up as the man from space.

Milton: What do you mean you've seen this, it's brand new.

Marty: Yeah well, I saw it on a rerun.

Milton: What's a rerun?

Marty: You'll find out.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 19, 2023 09:06 PM (0hOvj)

270 MSN headline right now...

Homey going to Prison.

Yes, about Trump, and that is the state of the modern Lame Stream Media.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 19, 2023 09:07 PM (oHd/0)

271 254 @237 Moki-We always ate at TV trays in the living room on Sundays. Tradition!
Mother was a pretty good cook and we always had an assortment, roast and rib-eyes were always on the menu weekly.
Posted by: JROD at June 19, 2023 09:00 PM (IlL6s)

Same for us! But we only got the TV trays on Sunday night - dinner at the table every other night. I think my parents were exhausted by then and just wanted a break, but it was a golden night for a five year old!!

Posted by: Moki at June 19, 2023 09:07 PM (JrN/x)

272 Wi not trei a holiday in Sweeden this yer ?
See the loveli lakes
The wonderful telephone system
And mani interesting furry animals
Including the majestic moose
A moose once bit my sister...
Mynd you, møøse bites Kan be pretty nasti...

Posted by: TRex at June 19, 2023 09:07 PM (IQ6Gq)

273 ok, my error:

Seems like every second movie/episode had Jody Whittaker in it.
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at June 19, 2023 08:51 PM (ZSK0i)

Johnny Whitaker.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at June 19, 2023 09:09 PM (ZSK0i)

274 147: I got Queen “ A Kind of Magic” on CD, fortunately. It kicks ass. My fave? GIMME THE PRIZE, the theme of the Kurgan.

It also features One Vision, a tune off the soundtrack for everyone’s favorite, Iron Eagle.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at June 19, 2023 09:09 PM (tYTox)

275 France at its finest - wonderful example of the African immigrant's behavior.

Diversity is their strength. Right?

Posted by: Notorious BFD at June 19, 2023 09:09 PM (Xrfse)

276 I was out of town the weekend my friend managed to shoot himself in the leg with a fishing speargun. That was maybe the most story-worthy mishap of our collective youth.

Posted by: PabloD at June 19, 2023 09:09 PM (VZKiD)

277 TV trays. The recently divorced guy's friend when furnishing his sad little hovel. And lawn chairs.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at June 19, 2023 09:10 PM (rLD7a)

278 Polynikes, not sure about Wild Wild West, we didn't watch that. Bonanza was Saturdays, but on too late for me since we had church in the morning. I did get to watch Gunsmoke, since it was on early on Monday nights.

Posted by: Moki at June 19, 2023 09:10 PM (JrN/x)

279 @263 polynikes-before I die I'm going to have a pair of custom cowboy boots made with hollowed out heels that swivel out to store stuff in. I don't care how much it costs.
I got in so much trouble tearing off the heels on a pair of cowboy boots my parents bought me when I was a kid trying to turn them into James West boots. Man I loved the Wild Wild West show.

Posted by: JROD at June 19, 2023 09:10 PM (IlL6s)

280 You can get a speeding ticket on a bicycle?
--
I know for a fact you can get a DUI

On a non-motorized bike? That depends on the state. For example, in Illinois you can only get a DUI on a motorized vehicle (which includes a bike with an assist motor.

Probably would end up with a "drunk in public" charge, though.

Posted by: Chuck C at June 19, 2023 09:10 PM (xttsV)

281 272 Wi not trei a holiday in Sweeden this yer ?
See the loveli lakes
The wonderful telephone system
And mani interesting furry animals
Including the majestic moose
A moose once bit my sister...
Mynd you, møøse bites Kan be pretty nasti...

Posted by: TRex at June 19, 2023 09:07 PM (IQ6G)

Took me a minute but damn that's funny.

Posted by: Reforger at June 19, 2023 09:10 PM (B705c)

282 271 Same for us! But we only got the TV trays on Sunday night - dinner at the table every other night. I think my parents were exhausted by then and just wanted a break, but it was a golden night for a five year old!!
Posted by: Moki at June

We do pizza night on Friday where we make our own pizzas and then watch a movie together. Every other night, except rare exceptions, it’s dinner at the table. It’s funny what a treat pizza night seems!

Posted by: Piper at June 19, 2023 09:11 PM (ZdaMQ)

283 231: Hunter was my jam back in the day.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at June 19, 2023 09:12 PM (tYTox)

284 "A Kind of Magic" sadly doesn't have "Hammer to Fall," the song playing in the vigilante's car right before he gets skewered by the Kurgan. Otherwise, it's a great album.

Posted by: PabloD at June 19, 2023 09:12 PM (VZKiD)

285 Bonanza was the first series in color. How many people watched it without realizing they had a black and white TV?

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at June 19, 2023 09:13 PM (rLD7a)

286 On a non-motorized bike? That depends on the state. For example, in Illinois you can only get a DUI on a motorized vehicle (which includes a bike with an assist motor.

Probably would end up with a "drunk in public" charge, though.
Posted by: Chuck C at June 19, 2023 09:10 PM (xttsV)


Ohio.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at June 19, 2023 09:13 PM (ZSK0i)

287 Riding bikes down some hills in NE San Antonio back in the day….it is a wonder I lived to tell the tale. Good times.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at June 19, 2023 09:14 PM (tYTox)

288 Man I loved the Wild Wild West show.

Posted by: JROD at June 19, 2023 09:10 PM (IlL6s)

It's on MeTV every day. It's weird to watch it now.

Posted by: Reforger at June 19, 2023 09:14 PM (B705c)

289 wild wild west had that midget villain

Posted by: DB - at June 19, 2023 09:14 PM (geLO8)

290 @238: "You can get a speeding ticket on a bicycle?"

Slightly unrelated, but I know from personal experience that you can be pulled over by a bike cop, if you have the misfortune of driving too fast by one in a crosswalk, and he doesn't lose sight as you pull into a nearby parking lot.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at June 19, 2023 09:15 PM (k1Qly)

291 @278 Moki- I grew up in the Reno/Sparks(Nevada) area. Our Sunday evening programming was in order Wild Wild West, Mutual Of Omaha Wild Kingdom, Walt Disney.

Posted by: JROD at June 19, 2023 09:15 PM (IlL6s)

292 Between Highlander and Flash Gordon, Queen did some awesome soundftracks.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 19, 2023 09:15 PM (S6gqv)

293 This was a fun cafe. Gotta go to bed, though. Good night, horde!

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at June 19, 2023 09:16 PM (OX9vb)

294 polynikes. I was always pretty careful - which made me the slow poke of all the groups I rode with. Some people have no fear and some of the guys in that group never had really serious injuries.

I've witnessed some nasty injuries - one guy had all the skin flayed off his knee and down his leg. Broken arms, wrists, rocks sprayed into faces. Some amazingly huge bruises.

Posted by: 13times at June 19, 2023 09:16 PM (3amy1)

295 "Wild wild west had that midget villain" yeah wasn't his name Robert Reich?

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 19, 2023 09:17 PM (S6gqv)

296 One thing I liked about The Wild Wild West was Robert Conrad was (is?) a short shit like me and wasn't ashamed about it.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at June 19, 2023 09:17 PM (rLD7a)

297 Many many scars and puncture wounds. Never a broken bone except my nose which is technically not a bone

Then broke a hand bone in football. Then when it healed I broke a hand bone in the other hand. Good times I tell you what.

Posted by: Blutarski at June 19, 2023 09:17 PM (v9YuC)

298 291 @278 Moki- I grew up in the Reno/Sparks(Nevada) area. Our Sunday evening programming was in order Wild Wild West, Mutual Of Omaha Wild Kingdom, Walt Disney.

Posted by: JROD at June 19, 2023 09:15 PM (IlL6s)

I grew up in Carson City.

Posted by: Reforger at June 19, 2023 09:17 PM (B705c)

299
Bonanza was Sunday; WW West was Friday, IIRC

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot Egg-Fried: Proud Member of Clan Fried for ... oh, 'bout Two Weeks Now at June 19, 2023 09:18 PM (pNxlR)

300 Hey all. I'm closing down my Etsy shop. I can't justify keeping it up with barely any sales. It's been a horrid year and last year wasn't great either so I made the decision. If you want anything it's open til Saturday.

https://tinyurl.com/bdfrk4vp

Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at June 19, 2023 09:18 PM (wagHN)

301 no one brings up the obvious

Joe aint leaving until he sure his family and him gets pardons

that is the bottom line

Posted by: REDACTED at June 19, 2023 09:18 PM (us2H3)

302 @298 Reforger-No shit!!! Sparks High School class of 86'.

Small world.

Posted by: JROD at June 19, 2023 09:19 PM (IlL6s)

303 >>>Hey all. I'm closing down my Etsy shop. ...
https://tinyurl.com/bdfrk4vp


Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer


sorry to hear that- we all know how much you enjoyed doing it
Cheers

Posted by: DB - at June 19, 2023 09:21 PM (geLO8)

304 Robert Conrad starred in a low budget western that supposedly had its premier in my small west texas town. I got to meet him and shake his hand. This was at the height of his wild Wild West days which I was wild wild wild about.

Posted by: Blutarski at June 19, 2023 09:21 PM (v9YuC)

305 The one Simon in Simon & Simon drove a sweet Power Wagon.

Rockford Files re-runs were the best though.

Posted by: Thesokorus at June 19, 2023 09:22 PM (UKt8e)

306 Small world.

Posted by: JROD at June 19, 2023 09:19 PM (IlL6s)

Yes it is. Carson 89.

Posted by: Reforger at June 19, 2023 09:23 PM (B705c)

307 wild wild west had that midget villain
Posted by: DB

Dr. Miguelito Loveless

Posted by: Tonypete at June 19, 2023 09:24 PM (qoGsy)

308 Rockford Files re-runs were the best though

"... leave your name and message and I'll get back to you."

Beep.

"Hi Jim. This is Angel. You know how you get one phone call? Well, this is it"


Posted by: Rockford's Answering Machine at June 19, 2023 09:25 PM (xttsV)

309 266 "Wait 48 hours. In rare cases, packages may say delivered up to 48 hours before arrival."

Did the USPS steal Ace's time machine?

Sometimes the carrier just clicks "delivered" on every package right before starting his rounds. This was a lot of fun to discover on my first order from APMEX.
Posted by: Chuck C at June 19, 2023 09:04 PM
Pizza delivered is the same way.

Posted by: Eromero at June 19, 2023 09:25 PM (Uv0D2)

310 Sorry to hear that Jewells. I know what that meant to you.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 19, 2023 09:26 PM (qoGsy)

311 Rockford had that sweet gold firebird, I liked the 74 best

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 19, 2023 09:26 PM (0hOvj)

312 Jewells I'm sorry its not doing as well as you hoped, I know that feeling.

if you have the misfortune of driving too fast by one in a crosswalk, and he doesn't lose sight as you pull into a nearby parking lot.

Was it Lieutenant Dangle?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 19, 2023 09:28 PM (0hOvj)

313 We had a friend in college that would bicycle to Yosemite. He would pass cars on the way down. I prefer to bicycle on flat ground.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at June 19, 2023 09:28 PM (ouTlx)

314 Rockford lived in an Arkansas house trailer on a California beach that would be worth $1.5 million today in spite of Newsome.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at June 19, 2023 09:28 PM (rLD7a)

315 The one Simon in Simon & Simon drove a sweet Power Wagon.
Posted by: Thesokorus at June 19, 2023 09:22 PM (UKt8e)

They also had that awesome H-19 Chickasaw military surplus helicopter.

Posted by: Reforger at June 19, 2023 09:29 PM (B705c)

316 Thanks DB, Tonypete. Yeah I put a lot of effort into it. I will still do craft shows.

Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at June 19, 2023 09:29 PM (wagHN)

317 I'm pretty sure that hair sniffing perv was never a life guard.

Posted by: torabora at June 19, 2023 09:30 PM (FJk1H)

318 AT&T hs announced it will close its flagship store in San Francisco. Pretty soon every store will be gone in every blue city shithole.

Posted by: Montec at June 19, 2023 09:30 PM (lVaTo)

319 there was a series on BBC

Lovejoy, based on an antique dealer's travails

total bullshit

Posted by: REDACTED at June 19, 2023 09:30 PM (us2H3)

320 Seems like at some point in every episode, Rockford got knocked out and had his wallet stolen. At least that's how I remember it.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at June 19, 2023 09:31 PM (i43U9)

321 Jim Rockford was no Sam Spade.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at June 19, 2023 09:32 PM (vg8N1)

322 Seems like at some point in every episode, Rockford got knocked out and had his wallet stolen. At least that's how I remember it.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba

Mannix was the one that received a concussion each and every show.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 19, 2023 09:33 PM (qoGsy)

323 OK this is bizarre. I have two items that I ordered from amazon that say the package was delivered to my mailbox by the USPS. I did not get the packages and none of the neighbors had them in their mailboxes like the thing says to check for. So I go on to file a missing package complaint and I get the following answer:

"Wait 48 hours. In rare cases, packages may say delivered up to 48 hours before arrival."
Posted by: Mister Scott

I would assume that Amazon marks them "delivered" when they're given to USPS, to pad their stats.

Or USPS marks them "delivered" when Amazon hands them over, to pad their stats.

If you have a full timeline, what's the timespan between "given to USPS" and "delivered?" If I'm right, it's under an hour.

Posted by: mikeski at June 19, 2023 09:33 PM (DgGvY)

324 @306 Reforger- Don't know if you'd remember or know of the place but I worked at High Sierra Sports from 87'-90'. It was in a little mall thing where North Carson and Hot Springs Road caddy cornered. Safeway was right across the street. I ran the snowboard and windsurfing department. Also ski and snowboard tech. Lot of fun at that place.

Posted by: JROD at June 19, 2023 09:34 PM (IlL6s)

325 321 Jim Rockford was no Sam Spade.
Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at June 19, 2023 09:32 PM (vg8N1)

at the beginning of TMF, Bogie calls himself "Samuel Spade"

Posted by: REDACTED at June 19, 2023 09:35 PM (us2H3)

326 "Hi Jim. This is Angel. You know how you get one phone call? Well, this is it"

Posted by: Rockford's Answering Machine at June 19, 2023 09:25 PM (xttsV)

Got a call from a girl I didn't know...wrong #...she starts crying, but I calm her down and get her info. Called her bf to bail her out. Passing bad checks.

Posted by: BignJames at June 19, 2023 09:36 PM (AwYPR)

327 I liked that after every break the Wild Wild West would add a panel to the story board.

Posted by: polynikes at June 19, 2023 09:36 PM (l2TUW)

328 307 wild wild west had that midget villain
Posted by: DB

Dr. Miguelito Loveless
Posted by: Tonypete at June 19, 2023 09:24 PM
The lame-ass movie with freshprince made Loveless into a legless Confederate villian. Spit.

Posted by: Eromero at June 19, 2023 09:37 PM (Uv0D2)

329 Sure, I have lots of scars from my childhood and years of sports. But the deepest scars nobody can see.

I'm a deeply sensitive guy and what she did to me
===


damn ,Jack !

*wipes tear

Posted by: runner at June 19, 2023 09:38 PM (V13WU)

330 You can get a speeding ticket on a bicycle?
--
I know for a fact you can get a DUI

On a non-motorized bike? That depends on the state.
Posted by: Chuck C

Growing up in Tiny Farming Town, USA, everyone knew the one drunkard farmer who would be DUI often enough to lose his license, and then show up at the local watering hole in the Allis-Chalmers, because you can drive farm equipment without a license.

Posted by: mikeski at June 19, 2023 09:39 PM (DgGvY)

331 319 there was a series on BBC

Lovejoy, based on an antique dealer's travails

total bullshit
Posted by: REDACTED at June 19, 2023 09:30 PM (us2H3)

Love that damn show.

Swearingen lol.

Posted by: Thesokorus at June 19, 2023 09:39 PM (UKt8e)

332 53 Someone help me here: Girls' bikes had the frame that you could step through to get on. Boys' bikes had the testicular crushing device incorporated into the frame which one was certain to engage during jumps and other tomfoolery.

Why oh why did the designers of bikes never adopt the girls style for everyone?
Posted by: Tonypete
====
Designers were men, i.e., former boys, who have learned performance is worth the risk.

Posted by: From about that Time at June 19, 2023 09:40 PM (4780s)

333 315 The one Simon in Simon & Simon drove a sweet Power Wagon.
Posted by: Thesokorus at June 19, 2023 09:22 PM (UKt8e)

They also had that awesome H-19 Chickasaw military surplus helicopter.
Posted by: Reforger at June 19, 2023 09:29 PM
There was so much inertia left in that rotor system that you could pull it back off the ground after an autorotation.

Posted by: Eromero at June 19, 2023 09:40 PM (Uv0D2)

334 I ran the snowboard and windsurfing department. Also ski and snowboard tech. Lot of fun at that place.

Posted by: JROD at June 19, 2023 09:34 PM (IlL6s)

And the world gets smaller. I'd give it a 90% chance I've met you.

Posted by: Reforger at June 19, 2023 09:41 PM (B705c)

335 Al Swearingen >> Lovejoy

Posted by: Pug Mahon at June 19, 2023 09:41 PM (T/Lqj)

336 If you have a full timeline, what's the timespan between "given to USPS" and "delivered?" If I'm right, it's under an hour.

I live in the hinterlands so USPS is the final mile for Amazon purchases. The usual notification lifecycle includes getting a "delivered" message along with where to expect it. Sometimes it is the mailbox, other times they drive down the long driveway to deposit at the garage or on the porch (depending on driver and WX)

Posted by: Reuben Hick at June 19, 2023 09:42 PM (3hSHB)

337 The reason why old sports cards and comic books are valuable is because they belonged to kids, adults didn't buy them, and the vast majority were tossed when the kids outgrew them. I often see a similar idea typed when people put up pics of masses of WW2 aircraft being scrapped post war. "How could they? Didn't they realize how much they would be worth?".If for some insane reason the people of the time had preserved them, they wouldn't be worth much as supply would far exceed demand.

Posted by: azjaeger at June 19, 2023 09:42 PM (3/XaG)

338 335 Al Swearingen >> Lovejoy
Posted by: Pug Mahon at June 19, 2023 09:41 PM (T/Lqj)

Spurious precision.

Posted by: Thesokorus at June 19, 2023 09:42 PM (UKt8e)

339 there was a series on BBC

Lovejoy, based on an antique dealer's travails


==

I'll check it out !

Posted by: runner at June 19, 2023 09:42 PM (V13WU)

340 Designers were men, i.e., former boys, who have learned performance is worth the risk.
Posted by: From about that Time
----

It also taught a lesson about maintenance, i.e. Keep the chain properly adjusted

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 19, 2023 09:44 PM (21vDQ)

341 Aw, now I gotta look up spurious.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at June 19, 2023 09:44 PM (T/Lqj)

342 And the world gets smaller.

===

I probably ran into JackStraw in PR...there was this bar in Old Town, and there was this character handing around there...I think it was JS. Just how I imagine him...

Posted by: runner at June 19, 2023 09:45 PM (V13WU)

343 Crap. Think my everyday laptop died. Black screen and a message saying the hard drive needs to be connected. I think the fan inside it died. It's been making odd noises for a while. Its really hot. I have an older laptop I can use. I back up stuff anyway, so fine there. I'll boot it up later, save what isn't backed up. Won't be much.

Still, nuts. It's over 5 years old and I've used it a lot. An HP. It was inexpensive when bought. $300, more or less.

Posted by: Puddleglum at June 19, 2023 09:45 PM (sAmhv)

344 And the world gets smaller. I'd give it a 90% chance I've met you.
Posted by: Reforger

See also: Clint Eastwood and John Russell in Pale Rider:

"You!!"

Posted by: Tonypete at June 19, 2023 09:46 PM (qoGsy)

345 Simon & Simon didn’t have the helicopter. That was Riptide.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at June 19, 2023 09:47 PM (u73oe)

346 Bonanza was Sunday; WW West was Friday, IIRC
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot Egg-Fried: Proud Member of Clan Fried for ... oh, 'bout Two Weeks Now at June 19, 2023 09:18 PM

IIRC Bomanza followed Wonderful World of Disney.

Posted by: That Northernlurker what lurkd at June 19, 2023 09:47 PM (BbPjy)

347 Lovejoy, based on an antique dealer's travails

Mr Lovejoy? I heard Martin Wier flipped over it

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 19, 2023 09:48 PM (0hOvj)

348 @53
>>Why oh why did the designers of bikes never adopt the girls style for everyone?

The simple answer is girls wear or used to wear dresses exclusively and having a low slung bar allowed them to wear them while riding bicycles.
Posted by: Thomas Bender

The question was the opposite. Not "why do girl's bikes have the low top bar?" But "why were the boy's bikes not exactly the same, to prevent those nutbuster landings?"

I think it was that the larger triangle frame was more durable, and the boy's bike design was less likely to fold up into a non-bike after a gnarly landing.

That's why boys have two nuts; so we can sacrifice one to the memory Evel Knievel.

Mine seem to both function, despite childhood bike-riding mishaps. I think taking a half-dollar-sized chunk out of my knee was the worst I did to myself. Rode home and slapped hot iron to it dumped some peroxide on it, and called it good.

Posted by: mikeski at June 19, 2023 09:49 PM (DgGvY)

349 IIRC Bomanza followed Wonderful World of Disney.
Posted by: That Northernlurker
_____________

I thought the NBC Mystery Movie followed Disney

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at June 19, 2023 09:50 PM (i43U9)

350 59 bucks on Classic Media but I know nothing about that website.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 19, 2023 08:56 PM (0hOvj)

———-

I think Classic Media handles most old TV shows. Rockford is like $30 for the entire series.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at June 19, 2023 09:50 PM (ifdZa)

351 342 And the world gets smaller.

===

I probably ran into JackStraw in PR...there was this bar in Old Town, and there was this character handing around there...I think it was JS. Just how I imagine him...
Posted by: runner at June 19, 2023 09:45 PM
Every day we walk right past morons, or, potential morons. Every day. You must speak The Word, even just a whisper, 'frist'.

Posted by: Eromero at June 19, 2023 09:50 PM (Uv0D2)

352 Every day we walk right past morons, or, potential morons. Every day. You must speak The Word, even just a whisper, 'frist'.
Posted by: Eromero

This is why I wear the 'AoS Moron Horde' ballcap.

You never know. . .

Posted by: Tonypete at June 19, 2023 09:51 PM (qoGsy)

353 345 Simon & Simon didn’t have the helicopter. That was Riptide.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at June 19, 2023 09:47 PM (u73oe)

———

Riptide, that’s what I remember with the nerd, robot and helicopter.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at June 19, 2023 09:51 PM (ifdZa)

354 Bomanza was a great show.

Posted by: Mayor Pete at June 19, 2023 09:53 PM (Xrfse)

355 Riptide, that’s what I remember with the nerd, robot and helicopter.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken

It was totally boss!

Though Airwolf was the best helicopter show.

Posted by: mikeski at June 19, 2023 09:53 PM (DgGvY)

356 Riptide, that’s what I remember with the nerd, robot and helicopter.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken

There used to be a beach bar in Fort Lauderdale - The Riptide.

They sold tee-shirts that stated: "No muff too tough. We dive at 5."

Mine disappeared after I got married oddly enough.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 19, 2023 09:53 PM (qoGsy)

357 You must speak The Word, even just a whisper, 'frist'.

Ask them about the green banana

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 19, 2023 09:54 PM (0hOvj)

358 I sometimes wear my TXMOME shirt,just to see if I get someone to notice. So far no dice.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at June 19, 2023 09:54 PM (T/Lqj)

359 Every day we walk right past morons, or, potential morons. Every day. You must speak The Word, even just a whisper, 'frist'.
Posted by: Eromero at June 19, 2023 09:50 PM (Uv0D2)

lol

Posted by: runner at June 19, 2023 09:55 PM (V13WU)

360 352 Every day we walk right past morons, or, potential morons. Every day. You must speak The Word, even just a whisper, 'frist'.
Posted by: Eromero

This is why I wear the 'AoS Moron Horde' ballcap.

You never know. . .
Posted by: Tonypete at June 19, 2023 09:51 PM
Went to a 'meeting' with the AoS moron horde teeshirt. One of the guys asked 'What's a Moron Hord?' I said 'Only morons know that.'

Posted by: Eromero at June 19, 2023 09:55 PM (Uv0D2)

361
SALOON PLATOON
No Bar Too Far

Posted by: DB - at June 19, 2023 09:55 PM (geLO8)

362 Rode home and slapped hot iron to it dumped some peroxide on it, and called it good.

Posted by: mikeski at June 19, 2023 09:49 PM (DgGvY)

There was a day sometime around 1979 when I figured out that super glue can stop bleeding. I've been super-gluing myself back together ever since.

Posted by: Reforger at June 19, 2023 09:55 PM (B705c)

363 Ask them about the green banana
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

I found the fed!

(It was a green orange.)

Posted by: mikeski at June 19, 2023 09:56 PM (DgGvY)

364 I sometimes wear my TXMOME shirt,just to see if I get someone to notice. So far no dice.
Posted by: Pug Mahon at June 19, 2023 09:54 PM (T/Lqj)


did you try wearing it outside the house ?

Posted by: runner at June 19, 2023 09:56 PM (V13WU)

365 Bomanza was a great show.
Posted by: Mayor Pete at June 19, 2023 09:53 PM (Xrfse)

Mad Magazine version of Bonanza:

Hoss at the dinner table - Pass the corn, pass the peas, pass the potatoes, pass the...

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at June 19, 2023 09:56 PM (ZSK0i)

366 It was a green orange

I dunno, it was some fruit, who has time to tell which one??

oops

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 19, 2023 09:57 PM (0hOvj)

367 pressure stops bleeding. it really does.

Posted by: runner at June 19, 2023 09:57 PM (V13WU)

368 the ONT cometh

Posted by: DB - at June 19, 2023 09:57 PM (geLO8)

369 Ask them about the green banana
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 19, 2023 09:54 PM (0hOvj)

—————-

Green orange. Nice try, fed!

Posted by: Duke Lowell at June 19, 2023 09:57 PM (u73oe)

370 did you try wearing it outside the house ?
Posted by: runner at June 19, 2023 09:56 PM (V13WU

Huh. That just might work.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at June 19, 2023 09:58 PM (T/Lqj)

371 Horde mind.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at June 19, 2023 09:58 PM (u73oe)

372 There was a day sometime around 1979 when I figured out that super glue can stop bleeding

As I understand it, cyanoacrylate was designed as a field bandage and they discovered it was really good as glue.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 19, 2023 09:58 PM (0hOvj)

373 Blue Thunder

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 19, 2023 09:58 PM (63Dwl)

374 Green orange. Nice try, fed!

Damn it cover blown again! Now I have to come back with a new nick!

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 19, 2023 09:58 PM (0hOvj)

375 353 Simon & Simon didn’t have the helicopter. That was Riptide.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at June 19, 2023 09:47 PM (u73oe)

Damn brain... Renembering things wrong.

Posted by: Reforger at June 19, 2023 09:59 PM (B705c)

376 Hey fellow moruns!

Posted by: Not at all Christopher R Taylor at June 19, 2023 10:00 PM (0hOvj)

377 Boy, I sure hate that

*checks notes*

Bill Kristol! Ahoy!

Posted by: Not at all Christopher R Taylor at June 19, 2023 10:01 PM (0hOvj)

378 I had actually completely forgotten about Riptide... Thank you.

Posted by: Reforger at June 19, 2023 10:01 PM (B705c)

379 Can you share where you found that pic/meme?

I shared it with a few friends, and one of the guys messaged me back that the kid in the yamaha shirt was him in 1978...."June 1978 ... I had just got my YZ 125 (shaggy blond with the strap on leather boots and Yamaha team jersey) and that was the MX track we built between the trailer park and where the Powder Springs Home Depot is now. By the way.. that's a girl on the bike."

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George Bush Slices Don Rumsfeld Like an F*ckin' Hammer
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Democratic Forays into Erotica
New Shows On Gore's DNC/MTV Network
Nicknames for Potatoes, By People Who Really Hate Potatoes
Star Wars Euphemisms for Self-Abuse
Signs You're at an Iraqi "Wedding Party"
Signs Your Clown Has Gone Bad
Signs That You, Geroge Michael, Should Probably Just Give It Up

Signs of Hip-Hop Influence on John Kerry
NYT Headlines Spinning Bush's Jobs Boom
Things People Are More Likely to Say Than "Did You Hear What Al Franken Said Yesterday?"
Signs that Paul Krugman Has Lost His Frickin' Mind
All-Time Best NBA Players, According to Senator Robert Byrd
Other Bad Things About the Jews, According to the Koran
Signs That David Letterman Just Doesn't Care Anymore
Examples of Bob Kerrey's Insufferable Racial Jackassery
Signs Andy Rooney Is Going Senile
Other Judgments Dick Clarke Made About Condi Rice Based on Her Appearance
Collective Names for Groups of People
John Kerry's Other Vietnam Super-Pets
Cool Things About the XM8 Assault Rifle
Media-Approved Facts About the Democrat Spy
Changes to Make Christianity More "Inclusive"
Secret John Kerry Senatorial Accomplishments
John Edwards Campaign Excuses
John Kerry Pick-Up Lines
Changes Liberal Senator George Michell Will Make at Disney
Torments in Dog-Hell
Greatest Hitjobs

The Ace of Spades HQ Sex-for-Money Skankathon
A D&D Guide to the Democratic Candidates
Margaret Cho: Just Not Funny
More Margaret Cho Abuse
Margaret Cho: Still Not Funny
Iraqi Prisoner Claims He Was Raped... By Woman
Wonkette Announces "Morning Zoo" Format
John Kerry's "Plan" Causes Surrender of Moqtada al-Sadr's Militia
World Muslim Leaders Apologize for Nick Berg's Beheading
Michael Moore Goes on Lunchtime Manhattan Death-Spree
Milestone: Oliver Willis Posts 400th "Fake News Article" Referencing Britney Spears
Liberal Economists Rue a "New Decade of Greed"
Artificial Insouciance: Maureen Dowd's Word Processor Revolts Against Her Numbing Imbecility
Intelligence Officials Eye Blogs for Tips
They Done Found Us Out, Cletus: Intrepid Internet Detective Figures Out Our Master Plan
Shock: Josh Marshall Almost Mentions Sarin Discovery in Iraq
Leather-Clad Biker Freaks Terrorize Australian Town
When Clinton Was President, Torture Was Cool
What Wonkette Means When She Explains What Tina Brown Means
Wonkette's Stand-Up Act
Wankette HQ Gay-Rumors Du Jour
Here's What's Bugging Me: Goose and Slider
My Own Micah Wright Style Confession of Dishonesty
Outraged "Conservatives" React to the FMA
An On-Line Impression of Dennis Miller Having Sex with a Kodiak Bear
The Story the Rightwing Media Refuses to Report!
Our Lunch with David "Glengarry Glen Ross" Mamet
The House of Love: Paul Krugman
A Michael Moore Mystery (TM)
The Dowd-O-Matic!
Liberal Consistency and Other Myths
Kepler's Laws of Liberal Media Bias
John Kerry-- The Splunge! Candidate
"Divisive" Politics & "Attacks on Patriotism" (very long)
The Donkey ("The Raven" parody)
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