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I'm geeking out on history all week in Pittsburgh. I am completing a master's thesis that focuses on western PA 1750-1774 and I'm doing my research...

No, but I’ve observed people taking calls on speakerphone in restaurants. If I owned a restaurant there would be a sign upon entry stating that this...

Well we do frequent a number of restaurants around here. The table manners range from appalling to nonexistant. Never seen anyone eat with their...

Can you elaborate on this (I’m a bit dull in the head these days). I did spend 5 years in your neighborhood in the 1980’s training at St Luke’s, now...

School (Columbia) has started in my neighborhood again. I had no idea that using a knife and fork is now considered a lost art.

Mike...here's the answer to your crane question. The Link-Belt RTC-8075 Rough Terrain crane has a 75 ton maximum lift capacity and 127 foot,...

San Pedro flowers just as they start to open, I was a day off in my estimation of opening date in my post above, pic is from early evening yesterday

Your wife is absolutely right. But luckily we all end up old and these never wear out. Just explain to her how, factoring in for inflation over...

My wife says these are 'old man' boots.

I think the word you are looking for is drug dealers. Miami Vice is still my all time favorite show.

QUOTE=mnoble485;1121881]RW, Makes my retired superintendent heart go pitter patter! So many questions. Must be 3:30 quitting time? How come I could...

I'm guessing they go through Colombia or something, but I used to the wrong word - probably not dealers. Middlemen is right. Import/export magicians....

You probably have a middleman in there somewhere hiding Vene. It would trigger US OFAC rules, and no US dealer will be able transact with a Bank in...

I've been looking at this one not infrequently. Somehow I started talking Land Cruisers at the Volvo dealership with the shop guy, and he said...

I'm a day early, but I'm in Pittsburgh and had a sandwich and an IC Lite at Primanti's last night. I ate too much and feeling way sluggish this...

We don't really see any Grenadiers in Chelsea Truck circles. It is suppose to be a decent farm vehicle though. All things considered, I...

RW, Makes my retired superintendent heart go pitter patter! So many questions. Must be 3:30 quitting time? How come I could never do that?...

I cheated and posted one photo a day, but taken on essentially the same day starting after graduation in May. Amazing what an ant colony of...

It's a day ending in 'y'. Grumps aren't limited to Thursdays!

On second thought, even though it was the vertical stabilizer that was shorn off, I'd say that the A350 clipped the wings on the CRJ-900 in two...

Yikes, a Delta A350 clips off the tail of a Delta Connection CRJ-900 at ATL

How does it compare to Big Sir Jim's Grenadier, a "knock-off" that borrowed liberally from the design cues of the original Defender?

defspace, since you mentioned that you weren't interested in booze, I hesitated to bring up stoofvlees / carbonade flamande previously, but for the...

Latest excuse not to be riding. On our hotel balcony after the gate agent overrode DHS's request for unspecified information and let me on the...

Don't make me split this off into a separate thread that will go on infinitum. Besides it is Tuesday now.

Go back to the Dickey Amendment from 1996 which does not allow CDC funds to be used to study gun violence because it might lead to gun control. I may...

This supports what I said earlier about politicizing shootings. The major outlets and the democratic party seized upon a portion of his statement...

I agree that we focus too much on the "AR-15" designation. but I think we'd all be better off if ALL semi-automatic long guns and handguns with...

The constitution is pretty arbitrary in its interpretation by the court. I say the current court is making law as it goes along.. We definitely...

Big Bill, I blame the American Revolution on Oliver Cromwell. Wasn't the 2nd Amendment to protect us from standing armies ?, see Oliver Cromwell...

Teachers with guns (remember the single middle-aged substitute cat lady you used to terrorize or the alcoholic civic/shop/gym teacher) - these people...

All good points. The abortion issue is not black and white. States manage healthcare, and the use of the 14th amendment doesn't always apply since 36...

Out of the shop for a few weeks - home repair. - Garro.