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Steve,

Was your friend, Whitney, using a BB gun? I can't imagine that he was firing a gun in the city limits!

Also, you asked me on that other site if I had noticed that all the positions of the Dems are the exact opposite postions of the Repubs, and the answer is "Yes!" It is pitiful, isn't it? I imagine that our Almighty looks down on their actions and sighs, "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do."

They are taking our country in completely the wrong direction, all for the sake of retaining their power, and regardless of how much harm they are doing to the one place on Earth that is the place everyone else seems to be trying to get to, as a new home. Our freedom is everything! Yet they want to eliminate our freedoms with governmental control on practically every issue. And they scoff at the Almighty as a silly nuisance and former pacifier idea for the 'little people,' the unenlightened. I believe it was Ted Turner who scoffed that way too, once upon a time.

04/26/20 02:16 PM

#17988

Jerry May

One of my favorites from Sheryl:

04/26/20 04:14 PM

#17989

Janalu,

You didn't know Whitney. If it was outrageous, risky and dangerous, it was too tame for him.

04/26/20 05:50 PM

#17990

Wayne Gary

Steve,

When dove season starts will you be looking for someone to hunt with?

04/27/20 12:30 AM

#17991

Wayne

I am not much of a dove guy. I don't like sitting at the edge of a field or waterhole all day and trying to hit a subatomic particle at long distance when you can only calculate the probability that it will be there when the 7 1/2 shot hits. I also like to eat what I shoot and it is always a stretch to get those dark meated doves palatable.

I have found two recipes that are not too bad. One is a Mexican stewed dove and the other is bacon wrapped dove with jalapeno on the grille. I quit eating bacon, so there is that. I am more of a quail guy or pheasant guy. I like to walk up the birds that don't run and shoot them on the flush. Call me in quail season.

Does that dog of yours hunt?

04/27/20 08:45 AM

#17992

Wayne Gary

Steve,

I have only hunted quail a couple of times. If you have a dog I would like to try it in the fall.

She hunts food in her bowl and chases squirrels in the back yard. She is also very good at retrieving balls in the yard.

04/27/20 10:03 AM

#17993

Wayne

My Dad had two good pointers. About four years ago when he went to the Alzheimer's home in Houston, I took the dogs and their travel trailer and gave them to one of his younger friends he used to hunt with in Krum, Texas. I think he taught math and P. E. at the high school. There was no way I needed to be tied down with bird dogs as much traveling as I did.

04/27/20 01:23 PM

#17994

Happy Birthday! Jim Richmond

04/27/20 02:05 PM

#17995

https://twitter.com/RexChapman/status/1254238940917387270

Watched a webinar this afternoon that featured the chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, Jay Clayton. During his comments, he recommended this video concerning financial education. Made me smile.

04/27/20 05:11 PM

#17996

Shared with me by a non-posting reader.

Clearly, these guys aren't practicing social distancing.

04/27/20 07:59 PM

#17997

Lowell Tuttle

The Pike house

04/27/20 11:05 PM

#17998

Hollis Carolyn Heyn

So you can't just let those things dangle on their own over the urinal? Dribble de doo on your trou or the floor if you don't have a grip?

04/27/20 11:34 PM

#17999

Geez, Hollis, do you think a fireman just leaves the hose to its own devices??

Reminds me of an old joke. Two black dudes are walking along the river and decide to take a leak into the river. They whip 'em out.

A few seconds later, one dude says, "Whew, that river's cold!"

The other responds, "Yeah, and deep!"

04/28/20 12:16 AM

#18000

David,

I think that joke was told in the movie "Sling Blade."

I was told by a janitor at an elementary school where I once worked, that there was a special product he ordered to clean the boy's bathroom, because he said that just using Clorox wasn't good enough to get rid of the odors and stains.

Don't know why that info remains in my head to this day. I guess it is because I was staggered with how male urine & its accompanying odor must be pretty darn powerful and clinging, and I thought I might need to remember it for future reference. However, I can't remember what product he ordered, except that it was an emzyme dissolver of some sort, and it can be used on cat urine spots too. So-o-o-o-o, maybe he ordered his special product from Pet Smart, now that I think about it.

Janitors have a plethora of pertinent info, for darn sure!

04/28/20 05:57 AM

#18001

Janalu

The sad truth about getting old is you used to have a good stream that shut off when you were done. Shake off a few drips on the end and you were good to go. Now I think I am done, shake off a few drips. Zip my pants back up, wash my hands and take about three steps, and it decides to release a liittle bit more. Maddening!

04/28/20 08:40 AM

#18002

Wayne Gary

Janalu

You do not put bleach on urine. It will produce a a poison gas. Just like mixing bleach a amonia.

When I worked in the Braniff Airlines headquarters on Lemmon Ave the janitor would use bleach and when I walked down the hall by the mens bathroom I would get a strong wiff of the gas until I mwntioned it to safety and they started using pinesol.

When my mother was workning at the SMU Health Center one of the maids was ordered to clean the basement with bleach and amonia and she was found unconsious on the floor and almost died.

04/28/20 09:59 AM

#18003

I have used a commercial product with enzymes to attack urine smells from my deceased male dogs on a rug in my den. (Don't know if urine smell is also an issue with female dogs.) I was ready to throw out the rug. The product takes a while to work, and the smell of the product isn't too pleasant. Ultimately, it was effective.

04/28/20 01:09 PM

#18004

Steve,

Our family doctor told us to exercise the sphyncter muscle ten times a day! Google it!

It's hell getting old, isn't it?

The prostate is the next thing to go capute, so consider yourself lucky. Just saying......

Be glad you're still waking up each morning. Seize the day! HA!

We're lucky we are still here to raise hell!

04/28/20 01:11 PM

#18005

Hollis Carolyn Heyn

Remember that kinda peppermint smelling powder custodian Mr. Bristol spread over the vomit on the Heights floors? Wonder what that stuff was?

04/28/20 02:25 PM

#18006

Hollis,

That stuff was magical and can be ordered from 'The Wizard of Oz' soundstage.

Actually, my Dad used to concoct products like that at his chem lab. He would mix up ingredients that were absorbent, like cellulose fibers and cedar dust, plus other things I didn't know about, probably some powdered soda, etc., then put in some fragrant oil like wintergreen or peppermint, than some nice coloring, and VOILA! He had a product ready to sell to Love Field or hospitals, etc. Love Field also bought other bottles of mixtures that they used to clean their planes, inside and out. Texas Instruments bought special surfactants used in the manufacture of their tiny computer components, and told about our product to IBM, so IBM started to order from us too. Surprised the heck out of my Dad, but he was glad for the "word of mouth" advertising! 3M also called, as well as Kodak, and then even some German companies! It was kinda funny to Dad about how his products became worldwide products, from Richardson Texas! HA!

Remember how we were frequently told at Heights Elem., that our naughty actions would be recorded in our 'PERMANENT RECORD,' and we would tremble in fear that our PERMANENT RECORD would follow us all the way to the grave! If we heard the words, "PERMANENT RECORD," just the mention of it, we would fall to our knees and plead, "NO please! Forgive me!" Don't write this minor sin down in my PERMANENT RECORD! The shame of it all is too much to bear!"

I halfway expected to get the manila folder with the name, Janalu Jeanes, on the little tab at the top, along with my diploma, as we graduated in May 1969. I mean, why not? I felt it should have been released to me for my perusal! I think I should have had access to it, since I was exiting RISD and travelling to other environs! Shouldn't I have had the privilege of witnessing the kind of leverage they held over me, by golly?

But NO-O-O-O-O! It was meant to stay in permanent storage at RISD to haunt me forever!!!!

04/28/20 06:14 PM

#18007

Mike Marks

David and Steve,

You all have gone to great lengths to sink to new lows.

Does anyone remember the scene in Cool Hand Luke where George Kennedy stood by the side of the ditch and said to the Prison Guard "shaking the bush Boss?" I think he was required to move the bush to show the Guard he was not sneaking off, but it could be interpreted differently.

04/28/20 06:53 PM

#18008