I found it in the street.....

On Thu, 04 Dec 2003 03:10:36 GMT, Jim Laumann <[email protected]>
wrote:

>So what have you found?

Blacksmith's leg vice - St Pauls, Bristol (which is just about the
most unlikely place to find such a thing)

Pozidrive screwdriver - whilst standing nest to a broken down car,
wondering how to fix the broken water hose without a Pozi screwdriver
to get the hose clip off.

--
Die Gotterspammerung - Junkmail of the Gods

On Thu, 04 Dec 2003 23:03:46 -0500, Silvan
<[email protected]> wrote:

>Steve Turner wrote:
>
>>> bathroom, the other on top of the dryer. With a wife and two girls, I'm
>
>> Hey, you're lucky. I've got a wife and FOUR girls. :-) My stuff gets
>
>Two girls, three girls... No, *I'm* lucky. Just one. One is plenty. I
>don't know how you're going to cope in a few years when you have *five*
>women in the house with PMS. Sucks to be you! :)

I have heard, without proof, that women tend to get synchronized when
there are a number of them living together. That would mean that you
will get it from all of them all at the same time. Good time to be in
the shop, methinks.

Tim Douglass

http://www.DouglassClan.com

Greenlee hydralic powerpac for a huge tubing bender.

10' jon boat

Tom wrote:

> I lost a 14" adjustable wrench and some sockets.

If anybody found any of that stuff in Raleigh, NC, it might well have been
mine. One time my side box flew open while I was making a turn, and it
ejected my toolbox into the street, right in front of a pickup truck that
ran over it. No harm, no foul, no damage, but it was a very busy street,
and I wanted to get the hell out of there before somebody decided to see
how good my company's insurance policy was, so I left a lot of my sockets
and whatnot in the street.

--
Michael McIntyre ---- Silvan <[email protected]>
Linux fanatic, and certified Geek; registered Linux user #243621
http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Rue/5407/

Steve Turner wrote:

>> bathroom, the other on top of the dryer. With a wife and two girls, I'm

> Hey, you're lucky. I've got a wife and FOUR girls. :-) My stuff gets

Two girls, three girls... No, *I'm* lucky. Just one. One is plenty. I
don't know how you're going to cope in a few years when you have *five*
women in the house with PMS. Sucks to be you! :)

--
Michael McIntyre ---- Silvan <[email protected]>
Linux fanatic, and certified Geek; registered Linux user #243621
http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Rue/5407/

I worked on a survey crew and spent a lot of time on the
street - literally - often dodging cars that couldn't
see big orange plastic cones, flagmen with big orange
flags and guys wearing bright orange vests. While we
were risking life and limb our crew chief would be checking
out outside corners of major streets and highways because
that's where things fell off of trucks. He had half a garage
full of found tools, toys, car parts etc. and probably
a half ton of lead tire weights.

Me, I kept one eye on the idiots who kept trying to kill
me with their cars. Figured ending the day with all parts
in working order was far more valuable than anything that
might fall off a passing truck.

charlie b

I had a St. Bernard who was finding all sorts of things and
bring them home to me: Hammers, cresent wrenches, pliers, clothing.

Come to find out he was stealing them from the neighbors so I had to
return them, although there were a couple items no one in the community
claimed. sdh.

Jim Laumann wrote:
> On my way to work on Monday, I came around a corner and
> spotted what looked to be a utility knife. I pulled over, looked -
> sure enough - it was. A little knicked up, but perfectly useable.
>
> This got me to about other stuff I've found....in no particular
> order....
>
> a Craftsman channel lock - which Sears replaced under the lifetime
> warranty - one of the "teeth" was broken off
>
> a 14" adjustable wrench
>
> a 24" Quik Grip clamp - found this in the spring after the snow
> melted - rusted, but some elbow grease and steel wool brought it
> back to life.
>
> assorted sockets
>
> a chain binder
>
> gobs of bungy straps
>
>
> So what have you found?

Silvan wrote:

> Mark & Juanita wrote:
>
> > that when she had her first date pick her up, he was going to be in the
> > living room with a bottle of Jack Daniels on the table and cleaning his
> > rifle.
>
> Sort of my plan, but I want to get one of those Defender shotguns in
>
> > basement and asked him if he wanted a beer. The guy told the father, "I
> > don't drink, I'm not old enough" To which the father answered, "Don't
>
> If that had been me before the age of 18, I wouldn't have been lying.
>
> It's funny how I lost my beer cherry. I was a junior counselor at a foreign
> language camp. On the night before the campers arrived, we all went out to
> some restaurant. When the waitress came around, I had to go to the
> bathroom. I never could have pulled this off if I had been trying, mind
> you, but the timing was perfect. I came back, and there was a glass of
> beer sitting in my spot. All the guys I was with were either foreign or
> college students (I was just out of high school), so they just egged me on.
> The waitress kept them coming. Never did check my ID.
>
> I got drunk as hell, and then I had to pretend I wasn't, because I only had
> two or three. I didn't dare let on to anyone that I had never had a beer
> before. Since I had had far less to drink than everyone else, I got
> elected to drive everyone back, which I stupidly did. No, nothing bad came
> of it. Just sad in retrospect that I experienced underaged drinking and
> drinking and driving on the same night. I definitely do not advocate
> drinking and driving!!!
>
> That year at camp was fun. We stayed up until dawn every night getting
> plastered. Never again at a restaurant though.
>
> --
> Michael McIntyre ---- Silvan <[email protected]>
> Linux fanatic, and certified Geek; registered Linux user #243621
> http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Rue/5407/

Sounds a lot like my wife's stories of Latvian camp.
Every Latvian I've ever met spills more than I drink and they don't
spill much.
ARM

In rec.woodworking
No-good Boyo <nogoodboyo@bespam_no_ta_buttpo.net> wrote:

>
>>So what have you found?

A bench grinder on a stand, a commercial grade wheel barrow, a nice
extension ladder, numerous wrenches, pliers and screwdrivers.

I've also found a decent amount of money in parking lots but nothing beats
the day I found a folded up $10 bill. Inside it was a $100 :-)

Well, I did find about $600 once but I saw the lady drop it and I chased
her down and gave it to her. She was quite grateful, I think it was her
Christmas shopping money because it was this time of year.

I never find anything, but my wife found some good stuff...

a 12V dewalt drill, and a lufkin tape measure.

She spotted both on the side of the road ont the way to our wedding.
I'm very proud to say she made her dad stop the car (they were very
nearly late) so she could pick the stuff up.

-David

Mark Jerde wrote:

>
>> I have no pride when it comes to pawing through neighbors' trash.
>
> P.S. I also return the favors... Space is limited in my one car garage
> shop so when I decide something has to go I put it out by the curb a
> couple
> days before trash pickup and label it with a "Free" poster. It's mostly

Me too. We have a free pickup twice a year where they come and get damn
near anything. People drive around and look at other people's trash, and a
lot of it never actually makes it to the dump.

I guess I'm not the only one who would rather throw something away and/or
give it away for free than have a yard sale. I hate yard sales.

This past time, my most noteworthy giveaway freebie was a perfectly
functional garden tiller that I just don't use, and which was eating too
much precious space in my shed. I even started it before I rolled it out,
just to make sure it still worked. It lasted about two hours.

--
Michael McIntyre ---- Silvan <[email protected]>
Linux fanatic, and certified Geek; registered Linux user #243621
http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Rue/5407/

Mark & Juanita wrote:

>> I don't look down at my feet when I walk, so I've found nothing! :)

> Obviously never spent time on a farm. :-)

Or in Mom's back yard. She has six dogs.

--
Michael McIntyre ---- Silvan <[email protected]>
Linux fanatic, and certified Geek; registered Linux user #243621
http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Rue/5407/

I'm finding tools all the time, around 1 every month or two. My wife
thinks I've the greatest eyes in the world. I've found sockets,
adjustable wrenches, pliers, tape measures, screw drivers, knives, cargo
straps, bungees, plastic milk cartons, hacksaw, all manner of goodies.
Even found a small toolbox once loaded with tools, no names-nada.

Jim Laumann wrote:
> On my way to work on Monday, I came around a corner and
> spotted what looked to be a utility knife. I pulled over, looked -
> sure enough - it was. A little knicked up, but perfectly useable.
>
> This got me to about other stuff I've found....in no particular
> order....
>
> a Craftsman channel lock - which Sears replaced under the lifetime
> warranty - one of the "teeth" was broken off
>
> a 14" adjustable wrench
>
> a 24" Quik Grip clamp - found this in the spring after the snow
> melted - rusted, but some elbow grease and steel wool brought it
> back to life.
>
> assorted sockets
>
> a chain binder
>
> gobs of bungy straps
>
>
> So what have you found?

Jim Laumann wrote:

> So what have you found?

I have no pride when it comes to pawing through neighbors' trash. My shop
cabinets used to be in the next door neighbor's kitchen. The hollow core
door I use for assembly came from the trash 4 houses up the street. An old
claw hammer and a servicable bench brush were liberated from other discard
piles just hours before their internment in the city landfill. The desk in
the downstairs office is in such good shape I knocked on the neighbor's door
to make sure they were throwing it away.

Businesses throw a lot of stuff away in office moves. Two discarded
whiteboards were ripped to fit in the panels of my garage door. Two desks
became my 3' x 5' drafting table, two 4-drawer roll arounds, and a number of
jigs and misc -- including the top of my drill press table.

I've found many sockets & misc hand tools just lying around. The #2
Phillips in my tool belt was left behind by an MDU (Montana - Dakota
Utilities) crew over 25 years ago. ;-)

-- Mark

> So what have you found?

I was on a long drive cross-country and pulled off at a gas station. I
found a worm-drive circular saw between two gas pumps. I left, went to
eat, and came back. I figured at that point it was mine. After lubing
it up and putting a good blade on it, it has served me well. I don't
mind beating on the thing too hard because I didn't have to pay for it
;)

I don't look down at my feet when I walk, so I've found nothing! :)

dave

Jim Laumann wrote:

> On my way to work on Monday, I came around a corner and
> spotted what looked to be a utility knife. I pulled over, looked -
> sure enough - it was. A little knicked up, but perfectly useable.
>
> This got me to about other stuff I've found....in no particular
> order....
>
> a Craftsman channel lock - which Sears replaced under the lifetime
> warranty - one of the "teeth" was broken off
>
> a 14" adjustable wrench
>
> a 24" Quik Grip clamp - found this in the spring after the snow
> melted - rusted, but some elbow grease and steel wool brought it
> back to life.
>
> assorted sockets
>
> a chain binder
>
> gobs of bungy straps
>
>
> So what have you found?

In article <[email protected]>,
[email protected] says...
> On my way to work on Monday, I came around a corner and
> spotted what looked to be a utility knife. I pulled over, looked -
> sure enough - it was. A little knicked up, but perfectly useable.
>
> This got me to about other stuff I've found....in no particular
> order....
>
> a Craftsman channel lock - which Sears replaced under the lifetime
> warranty - one of the "teeth" was broken off
>
> a 14" adjustable wrench
>
> a 24" Quik Grip clamp - found this in the spring after the snow
> melted - rusted, but some elbow grease and steel wool brought it
> back to life.
>
> assorted sockets
>
> a chain binder
>
> gobs of bungy straps
>
>
> So what have you found?
>

My wife found a drill bit, and picked it by driving it into a tire :(
She also found a scratch awl much the same way. It didn't stick in the
tire, but it sure made a noise in the wheel well.

"Jim Laumann" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> On my way to work on Monday, I came around a corner and
> spotted what looked to be a utility knife. I pulled over, looked -
> sure enough - it was. A little knicked up, but perfectly useable.
>
> This got me to about other stuff I've found....in no particular
> order....
>
- found this in the spring after the snow
> melted - rusted, but some elbow grease and steel wool brought it
> back to life.
>
> So what have you found?

Found??? nothing, but have lost:

a Craftsman channel lock with a tooth missing

a 14" adjustable wrench

a 24" Quik Grip

some assorted sockets

a chain binder

several bungy straps

a rusty clamp

& most recently a utility knife

All lost in your area......where did you say you lived?


--
© Jon Down ®
http://www.stores.ebay.com/jdpowertoolcanada

I've found innumerable user tools over the years and have a reasonable tool
kit in my truck assembled for free. I just bought a new car, so I need to
keep my eyes peeled for the "new" tool kit.

One thing I've noticed is that the quality of tools has decreased over the
years; more stuff from China and fewer Snap-On tools. Also, the volume of
automotive tools seems to be decreasing as cars get more reliable and less
repair-friendly.

But I have found two framing hammers in the last couple of months.


--
John Snow
"If I knew what I was doing, I wouldn't be here"

Tim Douglass wrote:
> On Thu, 04 Dec 2003 23:03:46 -0500, Silvan
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>Steve Turner wrote:
>>
>>
>>>>bathroom, the other on top of the dryer. With a wife and two girls, I'm
>>
>>>Hey, you're lucky. I've got a wife and FOUR girls. :-) My stuff gets
>>
>>Two girls, three girls... No, *I'm* lucky. Just one. One is plenty. I
>>don't know how you're going to cope in a few years when you have *five*
>>women in the house with PMS. Sucks to be you! :)
>
>
> I have heard, without proof, that women tend to get synchronized when
> there are a number of them living together. That would mean that you
> will get it from all of them all at the same time. Good time to be in
> the shop, methinks.

You got that right! I don't know about that synchronization stuff, but just
thinking about it gets me all a-skeered.

Yuuup, a wife and four girls. Arryup. I've been trying to decide what kind of
shotgun I'm going to need to fend off the imminent influx of horny tomcats. A
double barrel at least. Maybe a custom jobbie with additional barrels. My
buddy has it nearly as bad; he's got a wife and three girls. Of course, he's
got a woodshop too (that probably goes without saying), so there's always some
important project going on at the other guy's shop when heads start spinning
around in the house! :-)

--
To reply, change the chemical designation to its common name.

I've made out pretty good from store closing. My wife worked at a Goodys
store in town when it closed. I ended up with several large pieces of
display tables, shelves, cabnits, and a bunch of casters. All for hauling
them away.
Jim

"Mark Jerde" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Jim Laumann wrote:
>
> > So what have you found?
>
> I have no pride when it comes to pawing through neighbors' trash. My shop
> cabinets used to be in the next door neighbor's kitchen. The hollow core
> door I use for assembly came from the trash 4 houses up the street. An
old
> claw hammer and a servicable bench brush were liberated from other discard
> piles just hours before their internment in the city landfill. The desk
in
> the downstairs office is in such good shape I knocked on the neighbor's
door
> to make sure they were throwing it away.
>
> Businesses throw a lot of stuff away in office moves. Two discarded
> whiteboards were ripped to fit in the panels of my garage door. Two desks
> became my 3' x 5' drafting table, two 4-drawer roll arounds, and a number
of
> jigs and misc -- including the top of my drill press table.
>
> I've found many sockets & misc hand tools just lying around. The #2
> Phillips in my tool belt was left behind by an MDU (Montana - Dakota
> Utilities) crew over 25 years ago. ;-)
>
> -- Mark
>
>

With a wife and two girls, I'm
> finding my stuff almost everyday.
> --
> Larry C in Auburn, WA

Now my 3 year old son is the best for that. When he "helps" anything can go.

John

"Steve Turner" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...

<snip>

> > I have heard, without proof, that women tend to get synchronized when
> > there are a number of them living together. That would mean that you
> > will get it from all of them all at the same time. Good time to be in
> > the shop, methinks.

Look at it this way . . . . . that means 3 weeks of sanity between times!!!!

NOT!!!!!!

Wife & 3 daughters . . . all cycle a little different, so it's normally
*somebody* on the bandwagon all the time, but they do occasionally fall into
sync about every 1 1/2 or 2 yrs., and then it's time to just *get the H*ll
out of Dodge* until the smoke clears. (DAMHIKT)

Nahmie

"Tim Douglass" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...

<snip>

> Get an old Colt revolving 12 gauge. Or maybe an old 4 bore punt gun,
> that way you can flock shoot them!

Total curcumstance . . . The night my oldest girl got engaged, they walked
in & there I sit cleaning my 20ga., getting ready for deer season to open in
2 days! Don't think the SIL to-be could figure out just what was going on,
and how did I already know about it?
Nahmie

In article <[email protected]>,
[email protected] says...
> I don't look down at my feet when I walk, so I've found nothing! :)
>
> dave
>

Obviously never spent time on a farm. :-)

> I have no pride when it comes to pawing through neighbors' trash.

P.S. I also return the favors... Space is limited in my one car garage
shop so when I decide something has to go I put it out by the curb a couple
days before trash pickup and label it with a "Free" poster. It's mostly
guys in pickups that have taken the shelves, fence posts, partial rolls of
wire, unneeded lawn equipment, etc. When I got tired of the dripping oil &
mess from the almost never used chain saw and grease gun, I took them to the
neighbor 2 doors down who has a weekend tree trimming business & offered
them to him. I walked back empty handed, and now he waves whenever he sees
me. <g>

-- Mark

David Babcock wrote:

> And lastly.......found my SWMBO.....she get's lots of flats, and yes I
> changed it for her. She was impressed with my lug wrench technique.

Uh huh... Saw the lovely lady driving that route to work and threw a bunch
of nails in the street didja? I'll never tell. :)

--
Michael McIntyre ---- Silvan <[email protected]>
Linux fanatic, and certified Geek; registered Linux user #243621
http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Rue/5407/

Or do what my Dad did when the oldest of my three sisters started dating ...
met the young man in the living room, sat him down across the coffee table,
pulled out his army service .45 automatic and laid it on the coffee table
with these words: "Young man, if your intentions towards my daughter aren't
honorable, I'll hunt you down to the end of the earth."

The word spread around our small community and was good for the next two
girls!

I know the guy to this day and he swears that instead of the local drive in
theater they were intending to sneak off to, they decided to go to the
church function where they originally told everyone they were going.

... can't argue with success.

--
www.e-woodshop.net
Last update: 9/21/03


"Denis" wrote in message
> On Sat, 06 Dec 2003 03:28:56 GMT, Steve Turner
> wrote:
>
>
> >Yuuup, a wife and four girls. Arryup. I've been trying to decide what
kind of
> >shotgun I'm going to need to fend off the imminent influx of horny
tomcats. A
> >double barrel at least. Maybe a custom jobbie with additional barrels.
My
> >buddy has it nearly as bad; he's got a wife and three girls. Of course,
he's
> >got a woodshop too (that probably goes without saying), so there's always
some
> >important project going on at the other guy's shop when heads start
spinning
> >around in the house! :-)
> All you need to do is have an office that the young tomcat needs to
> come and meet you in. have some paperwork in front of you and have
> him hang on for a second while you finish this last little bit...
> just above you behind you on a shelf have a sealed jar with a pair of
> testicles in the jar. Have a long knife hanging by the jar. That
> will ensure that the tomcat plays nice until the wedding night! The
> fear of God is nothing compared to the fear of you cutting his nuts
> off and putting them in a jar next to the other ones! LOL!!!

On Sat, 06 Dec 2003 03:28:56 GMT, Steve Turner
<[email protected]> wrote:

>Yuuup, a wife and four girls. Arryup. I've been trying to decide what kind of
>shotgun I'm going to need to fend off the imminent influx of horny tomcats. A
>double barrel at least. Maybe a custom jobbie with additional barrels.

Get an old Colt revolving 12 gauge. Or maybe an old 4 bore punt gun,
that way you can flock shoot them!

I'm on the other end of the spectrum. I have 4 boys. I'm just trying
to teach them decent behavior.

Tim Douglass

http://www.DouglassClan.com

Jim Laumann <[email protected]> wrote in message news:<[email protected]>...
>
> So what have you found?

A hammer, a buck knife, and a large upright piano.

I didn't take the piano though. If you find yourself on 9W in NY look
for it. As you approach Bear Mountain, 9W climbs up the Palisades
then back down to the entrance of Harriman Park. On the downhill
side, it's off to the right about 40 feet from the road. Can't
imagine how it ever got there.

-Chris

In article <[email protected]>,
[email protected] says...
> Ron Magen wrote:
>
> > As a '3-gun' bullseye pistol shooter, I'd just make a pin, necklace, or
> > ornament from one of my .45 targets. Or, in the shape of pistol, itself.
> > "Oh, my dad gave me that, he has a couple of Trophy's, too."
>
> LMAO!!!!
>
> SWMBO was standing right here though, and she's giving me a really nasty
> look. Maybe I'd better continue with the chastity belt idea. :)
>
>

Couple of true stories:
1. Our neighbor in TX had 3 daughters, all of them extremely cute. He is
a marine corp Annapolis grad. He used to tease his oldest telling her
that when she had her first date pick her up, he was going to be in the
living room with a bottle of Jack Daniels on the table and cleaning his
rifle.

2. Guy we know told me about a date he had; went to the house to pick up
his date and was met by the date's father. He took him down to the
basement and asked him if he wanted a beer. The guy told the father, "I
don't drink, I'm not old enough" To which the father answered, "Don't
lie to me son, you're not getting off to a very good start here." This
guy then answered, "OK, a beer sounds fine." The father then went to
the bar, opened the refrigerator, took out a beer, laid it on the bar,
took out a revolver, laid it on the bar, and took out a second beer,
opened it and handed it to the young lad. He told him, as he picked up
the gun and opened the second beer for himself, "Have my daughter back
by 11 pm. If you touch her, I'll kill you. Enjoy the beer." He then
took the gun and his beer and left the room for the boy to wait for his
date. The guy said, "I checked the gas, verified my tires were perfect,
and had her back by 10:15."

An industrial LawnBoy push mower.

I was driving around "the malls" outer access streets. I saw an Old
Codger approaching on a side street and I figured he was going to run
the stop sign. He clipped the GFs Monza in the right rear.

While waiting for the cops the Malls maintenance crew drove by in a pick
up and towing a trailer. They were having such a good time laughing and
pointing at me they didn't notice the mower fall off the trailer. I was
going to get their attention and try to tell them but stopped myself at
1/4 breath and watch them drive on.

On a side note we bought this Monza with a tweaked frame from a junk
yard for $300. Drove it a year or two before the collision, got $350 to
fix the car (didn't), sold it to GFs sister for $350. She drove it quite
a while before someone crashed a light demolishing the right rear.
Insurance paid her $1,200 or $1,500. I could use more cars like that.



--

Mark

N.E. Ohio


Never argue with a fool, a bystander can't tell you apart. (S. Clemens,
A.K.A. Mark Twain)

When in doubt hit the throttle. It may not help but it sure ends the
suspense. (Gaz, r.moto)

Mark & Juanita wrote:

> that when she had her first date pick her up, he was going to be in the
> living room with a bottle of Jack Daniels on the table and cleaning his
> rifle.

Sort of my plan, but I want to get one of those Defender shotguns in

> basement and asked him if he wanted a beer. The guy told the father, "I
> don't drink, I'm not old enough" To which the father answered, "Don't

If that had been me before the age of 18, I wouldn't have been lying.

It's funny how I lost my beer cherry. I was a junior counselor at a foreign
language camp. On the night before the campers arrived, we all went out to
some restaurant. When the waitress came around, I had to go to the
bathroom. I never could have pulled this off if I had been trying, mind
you, but the timing was perfect. I came back, and there was a glass of
beer sitting in my spot. All the guys I was with were either foreign or
college students (I was just out of high school), so they just egged me on.
The waitress kept them coming. Never did check my ID.

I got drunk as hell, and then I had to pretend I wasn't, because I only had
two or three. I didn't dare let on to anyone that I had never had a beer
before. Since I had had far less to drink than everyone else, I got
elected to drive everyone back, which I stupidly did. No, nothing bad came
of it. Just sad in retrospect that I experienced underaged drinking and
drinking and driving on the same night. I definitely do not advocate
drinking and driving!!!

That year at camp was fun. We stayed up until dawn every night getting
plastered. Never again at a restaurant though.

--
Michael McIntyre ---- Silvan <[email protected]>
Linux fanatic, and certified Geek; registered Linux user #243621
http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Rue/5407/

Tim Douglass wrote:

> I have heard, without proof, that women tend to get synchronized when
> there are a number of them living together. That would mean that you
> will get it from all of them all at the same time. Good time to be in
> the shop, methinks.

It's true, I think. Come to think of it, I too have only anecdotal
evidence.

Ask me in five or six years.

Wow, there's a thought.

I need to get busy learning blacksmithing so I can make that chastity belt
in time. :)

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Michael McIntyre ---- Silvan <[email protected]>
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>>>I have heard, without proof, that women tend to get synchronized when
>>>there are a number of them living together. That would mean that you
>>>will get it from all of them all at the same time. Good time to be in
>>>the shop, methinks.




It's true. Twenty something years ago I herd of a study done in
colledge/ university dorms and sorority houses that found females cycles
tend to align.




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Mark

N.E. Ohio


Never argue with a fool, a bystander can't tell you apart. (S. Clemens,
A.K.A. Mark Twain)

When in doubt hit the throttle. It may not help but it sure ends the
suspense. (Gaz, r.moto)

D wrote:

> She spotted both on the side of the road ont the way to our wedding.
> I'm very proud to say she made her dad stop the car (they were very
> nearly late) so she could pick the stuff up.

Wow, that qualifies as a gloat for sure. You suck!

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Man, I can't tell you all the stuff I've found. About ten minutes ago I
found one of my missing screwdrivers, it was in my wife's sewing basket.
Just yesterday I found two missing tape measurers; one in my daughters'
bathroom, the other on top of the dryer. With a wife and two girls, I'm
finding my stuff almost everyday.
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Larry C in Auburn, WA

"Jim Laumann" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> On my way to work on Monday, I came around a corner and
> spotted what looked to be a utility knife. I pulled over, looked -
> sure enough - it was. A little knicked up, but perfectly useable.
>
> This got me to about other stuff I've found....in no particular
> order....
>
> a Craftsman channel lock - which Sears replaced under the lifetime
> warranty - one of the "teeth" was broken off
>
> a 14" adjustable wrench
>
> a 24" Quik Grip clamp - found this in the spring after the snow
> melted - rusted, but some elbow grease and steel wool brought it
> back to life.
>
> assorted sockets
>
> a chain binder
>
> gobs of bungy straps
>
>
> So what have you found?

Those plastic gas cans, so many I think they procreate. Construction
companies, landscrapers lose them.
One of those big cooler jugs, the size of a shop vac, comes in handy at the
high school football game.
Found a boat on the shoulder of the highway once, darn blacktop does a job
on the gelcoat after skidding a couple hundred yards......oh yeah, the owner
came back for it anyway.
Lost a flat tire......my SWMBO didn't think it was any good anymore, "It was
flat!"
Found an entire Craftsman top tool chest, full of tools, right beside
another flat tire. Guess it was too heavy to put back in.
And lastly.......found my SWMBO.....she get's lots of flats, and yes I
changed it for her. She was impressed with my lug wrench technique.

Dave

"Jim Laumann" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> On my way to work on Monday, I came around a corner and
> spotted what looked to be a utility knife. I pulled over, looked -
> sure enough - it was. A little knicked up, but perfectly useable.
>
> This got me to about other stuff I've found....in no particular
> order....
>
> a Craftsman channel lock - which Sears replaced under the lifetime
> warranty - one of the "teeth" was broken off
>
> a 14" adjustable wrench
>
> a 24" Quik Grip clamp - found this in the spring after the snow
> melted - rusted, but some elbow grease and steel wool brought it
> back to life.
>
> assorted sockets
>
> a chain binder
>
> gobs of bungy straps
>
>
> So what have you found?

On Sat, 06 Dec 2003 03:28:56 GMT, Steve Turner
<[email protected]> wrote:


>Yuuup, a wife and four girls. Arryup. I've been trying to decide what kind of
>shotgun I'm going to need to fend off the imminent influx of horny tomcats. A
>double barrel at least. Maybe a custom jobbie with additional barrels. My
>buddy has it nearly as bad; he's got a wife and three girls. Of course, he's
>got a woodshop too (that probably goes without saying), so there's always some
>important project going on at the other guy's shop when heads start spinning
>around in the house! :-)
All you need to do is have an office that the young tomcat needs to
come and meet you in. have some paperwork in front of you and have
him hang on for a second while you finish this last little bit...
just above you behind you on a shelf have a sealed jar with a pair of
testicles in the jar. Have a long knife hanging by the jar. That
will ensure that the tomcat plays nice until the wedding night! The
fear of God is nothing compared to the fear of you cutting his nuts
off and putting them in a jar next to the other ones! LOL!!!

Crossing at the light of a busy downtown street one day, people all around,
I found $40 (2 Folded $20 bills) right smack in the middle the street. Only
reason I see things like that is because since I use a wheelchair, I'm
forced to judge the direction people are walking by their feet, not their
faces that are looking almost everywhere except where they're walking. No
bullshit.

And I've also come to another conclusion. Someone who is walking and using
the cellphone at the same time couldn't find an open manhole if they walked
into it and dropped ten feet.

I watched one guy in a store talking to his girlfriend in the cellphone and
looking for the cash machine at the same time. He walked right by it three
times before he stopped and asked where it was at the front of the store.

"Jim Laumann" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> On my way to work on Monday, I came around a corner and
> spotted what looked to be a utility knife. I pulled over, looked -

> So what have you found?

Screw the additional barrels. I'm not settling for anything less
than a 12ga, fully automatic, water cooled, belt fed shotgun.
Assuming I can't get a Phalanx of course.

Art

"Steve Turner" <[email protected]> wrote
>
> I've been trying to decide what kind of
> shotgun I'm going to need to fend off the imminent influx of horny tomcats. A
> double barrel at least. Maybe a custom jobbie with additional barrels.

Mike,
Don't have any children, just two Malamutes, but I do have an 'inexpensive'
idea . . .

As a '3-gun' bullseye pistol shooter, I'd just make a pin, necklace, or
ornament from one of my .45 targets. Or, in the shape of pistol, itself.
"Oh, my dad gave me that, he has a couple of Trophy's, too."

Regards,
Ron Magen
Backyard Boatshop
PS: I taught my wife to shoot. She now has more Trap Shooting awards then I
do !!

"Silvan" <[email protected]> wrote
SNIP

> I need to get busy learning blacksmithing so I can make that chastity belt
> in time. :)
>
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> Michael McIntyre ---- Silvan <[email protected]>

Ron Magen wrote:

> As a '3-gun' bullseye pistol shooter, I'd just make a pin, necklace, or
> ornament from one of my .45 targets. Or, in the shape of pistol, itself.
> "Oh, my dad gave me that, he has a couple of Trophy's, too."

LMAO!!!!

SWMBO was standing right here though, and she's giving me a really nasty
look. Maybe I'd better continue with the chastity belt idea. :)

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>So what have you found?

Supper

I lost a 14" adjustable wrench and some sockets.

"Jim Laumann" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> On my way to work on Monday, I came around a corner and
> spotted what looked to be a utility knife. I pulled over, looked -
> sure enough - it was. A little knicked up, but perfectly useable.
>
> This got me to about other stuff I've found....in no particular
> order....
>
> a Craftsman channel lock - which Sears replaced under the lifetime
> warranty - one of the "teeth" was broken off
>
> a 14" adjustable wrench
>
> a 24" Quik Grip clamp - found this in the spring after the snow
> melted - rusted, but some elbow grease and steel wool brought it
> back to life.
>
> assorted sockets
>
> a chain binder
>
> gobs of bungy straps
>
>
> So what have you found?

I once lost my spare tire . . . you know, the kind that stores up
underneath the back of a pickup. The cable that holds it in place
rusted, and the tire must have fell off somewhere. That must have had
some scrounger scratching his head.

I also lost my virginity. If anyone has found that, or the tire, let
me know.

tt


On Thu, 04 Dec 2003 03:10:36 GMT, Jim Laumann <[email protected]>
wrote:

>On my way to work on Monday, I came around a corner and
>spotted what looked to be a utility knife. I pulled over, looked -
>sure enough - it was. A little knicked up, but perfectly useable.
>
>This got me to about other stuff I've found....in no particular
>order....
>
>a Craftsman channel lock - which Sears replaced under the lifetime
>warranty - one of the "teeth" was broken off
>
>a 14" adjustable wrench
>
>a 24" Quik Grip clamp - found this in the spring after the snow
>melted - rusted, but some elbow grease and steel wool brought it
>back to life.
>
>assorted sockets
>
>a chain binder
>
>gobs of bungy straps
>
>
>So what have you found?

$250.00 run over by so many cars it was flat. Pealed it apart and it spent
well.
"Jim Laumann" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> On my way to work on Monday, I came around a corner and
> spotted what looked to be a utility knife. I pulled over, looked -
> sure enough - it was. A little knicked up, but perfectly useable.
>
> This got me to about other stuff I've found....in no particular
> order....
>
> a Craftsman channel lock - which Sears replaced under the lifetime
> warranty - one of the "teeth" was broken off
>
> a 14" adjustable wrench
>
> a 24" Quik Grip clamp - found this in the spring after the snow
> melted - rusted, but some elbow grease and steel wool brought it
> back to life.
>
> assorted sockets
>
> a chain binder
>
> gobs of bungy straps
>
>
> So what have you found?

On Fri, 05 Dec 2003 10:26:00 -0500, Steve Hopper wrote:
>
> I had a St. Bernard who was finding all sorts of things and
> bring them home to me: Hammers, cresent wrenches, pliers, clothing.
>
> Come to find out he was stealing them from the neighbors so I had to
> return them, although there were a couple items no one in the community
> claimed. sdh.
>

My friend's father took his dog out for a walk and the dog found a
brand new top-line Makita drill/driver under a bush. His father gave
it to my friend as he's a plumber and he had use for it.

Friend came into the pub that night and gloated mightily about his
good fortune!

As there was no battery or charger with it, the following day he took
it down his local hardware shop in order to buy a battery and charger
for it. Unfortunately, a couple of days earlier a thief had picked up
the drill/driver out of that same shop and done a runner. The shop
thus alerted, phoned up the cops and my friend was arrested.

He was taken to court for receiving stolen goods. The court didn't
believe his (true) story about the dog having found it (despite
testimony from his father) so he ended up being convicted and
receiving a hefty fine - much more than what the drill/driver was
worth :(

Moral of the story: beware of dogs bearing gifts and I guess I'm lucky
because I've never found anything ;)

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Frank

"Test Tickle" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> I once lost my spare tire . . . you know, the kind that stores up
> underneath the back of a pickup. The cable that holds it in place
> rusted, and the tire must have fell off somewhere. That must have had
> some scrounger scratching his head.

Lost my spare once too. The cable holding it under the back of the truck
simply snapped, and the tire fell off. Weird thing was, I was standing at
the kitchen window the next morning (before I realized I had lost the tire)
and saw a tire leaned up against my mailbox post. Figuring someone had
"dumped" it, I was a bit pissed, and went out to get it so I could bring it
to the dump. Discovered it was mine, it had fallen off and rolled into the
ditch, and someone (dunno who) had propped it up against my mailbox.

OBWW: The mailbox post is red cedar and has lasted for almost 30 years,
untreated.


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"Jim Laumann" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
>
> So what have you found?

Hmmm... let's see:

On the road...
1/2" combo wrench
9/16" socket
Craftsman slip-joint pliers
2 1" spring clamps
Large straight blade screw driver
$450 cash
nail set
No 1 Phillips screw driver
stubby Phillips
Stanley ratcheting close-quarters screw driver

In the woods...
rifle
shotgun
typewriter
sword
broken piggy bank
camera
and other assorted stuff that was burglary proceeds--turned over to the
state police.

Mark wrote:

> fix the car (didn't), sold it to GFs sister for $350. She drove it quite
> a while before someone crashed a light demolishing the right rear.
> Insurance paid her $1,200 or $1,500. I could use more cars like that.

Yeah, I had an $800 Chevy Nova like that. Guy backed into me in the parking
lot. He worked for the town. They didn't waste any time paying the claim.
They totaled my car, and let me "buy it back" for $100, so the net result
was I got $800 out of the deal. A little sheet metal, a little Bondo, and
as far as I know it's still on the road. I'm no longer driving it though.
I got rid of it when the flywheel was about to break.

I miss that car. Wow, I had a V8.

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Tim Douglass wrote:

> I'm on the other end of the spectrum. I have 4 boys. I'm just trying
> to teach them decent behavior.

I have one of each, so I get to experience both sides of it. :)

May not be a problem if the boy is a chip off the old block though. I
didn't kiss my first girl until I was 19, and that's SWMBO. I didn't give
my parents much to worry about in the dating deparment.

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Steve Turner wrote:

> tomcats. A
> double barrel at least. Maybe a custom jobbie with additional barrels.

I want a mini gun.

The whole concept is really no laughing matter though. From the first hint
of puberty on to maybe 25 there's only one thing the male of the species is
after.

I just have this vision of my little girl coming home, sporting piercings in
all the places I'm not supposed to see, a nice tattoo in the small of her
back, smoking a Marlboro and telling me "f*ck you, Dad, I'm moving in with
Billy."

When she's 12.

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"Jim Laumann" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...

No word of a lie - a rolling floor jack. Near as I can figure someone
changed a tire and forgot to load the jack. Also "found" a very large (as
in about a foot in a half) screw driver that managed to "attack" me through
the floorpan of a car going down 95. Came about 6" from the important
privates. Scary moment. LOL!

Hey Charlie,
I know where you're coming from there. Before I retired, I worked on my
county's roads for 30 years.
I found a 12 ton hydralic jack, a sheet of plywood, a large ratchet
holddown, etc.
Joe

"charlie b" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> I worked on a survey crew and spent a lot of time on the
> street - literally - often dodging cars that couldn't
> see big orange plastic cones, flagmen with big orange
> flags and guys wearing bright orange vests. While we
> were risking life and limb our crew chief would be checking
> out outside corners of major streets and highways because
> that's where things fell off of trucks. He had half a garage
> full of found tools, toys, car parts etc. and probably
> a half ton of lead tire weights.
>
> Me, I kept one eye on the idiots who kept trying to kill
> me with their cars. Figured ending the day with all parts
> in working order was far more valuable than anything that
> might fall off a passing truck.
>
> charlie b

Larry C in Auburn, WA wrote:

> Man, I can't tell you all the stuff I've found. About ten minutes ago I
> found one of my missing screwdrivers, it was in my wife's sewing basket.
> Just yesterday I found two missing tape measurers; one in my daughters'
> bathroom, the other on top of the dryer. With a wife and two girls, I'm
> finding my stuff almost everyday.

Hey, you're lucky. I've got a wife and FOUR girls. :-) My stuff gets
"lost" and buried under so much of their stuff I can never find
ANYTHING. And if I really want to hear myself talk, I just ask "has
anybody seen my <insert name of ANYTHING here>?"

<twitch twitch>

I also used to think that having three tape measures would be enough to
ensure that I could always find one. <insert five-minute laugh track here>

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