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Cobra Commander · 2005-08-18 10:54:17

I never plan to get a contractor if I ever want to do renovations. Just doing it myself would be fun.

I don't know about fun, but definately more economical.

The workmanship and materials end up better as well, I've seen contractors build houses with wood I would reject for film sets. Beware workmen bearing particle board.

Shaun Barrett · 2005-08-18 17:55:09

CC:-

"Plate" I answer. "License plate." After that everything was cool, though I've never heard anyone else refer to it as a "tab."

Yeah, confusing. I've never heard of 'tab' used in that sense either. Here in Oz, we tend to call 'em 'number plates' rather than 'licence plates', but we're so used to American T.V. shows we wouldn't even blink at the American term.
[Note your use of 'license' and my use of 'licence', though. I was brought up with the idea that 'licence' is a noun: "Here's your licence", and that 'license' is a verb: "Passing this test will license you to drive". (In the same vein as 'advice' and 'advise') Ah well, just another local peculiarity! ]

Cindy:-

An example: "I'll be there Wednesday week."

This is a commonly used expression in Australia and it does mean 'a week from this Wednesday', i.e. not this Wednesday coming, but the following one. (Well, at least that's its meaning here!)

Josh:-

Why didn't you guys do the home renovation stuff yourself?

It was a big job, involving turning a weatherboard ('clapboard' in the U.S.?) house into a brick house, extending the ground plan, adding an upstairs room accessed by a spiral staircase, and laying a new patterned concrete driveway sheltered by a new steel carport .. not to mention renovating the kitchen and the bathroom, adding a powder-room and adding a new ensuite bathroom off the master bedroom.
-- With my wife looking after two under-fives and me working full-time, I calculate it would have taken me roughly 7,593 weekends to complete the work myself! :shock:

clark · 2005-08-18 20:28:26

Never hire Amish contractors to do electrical work. Call me a bigot, but just don't do it.

BWhite · 2005-08-19 23:27:11

Never hire Amish contractors to do electrical work. Call me a bigot, but just don't do it.

But I hear they make l33t code monkeys.

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clark · 2005-08-21 21:43:59

I can hear the barn bell now...

Could the Amish go to Mars? Kind of a conundrum, no?

That would be a good story, a *devout* Amish person wanting to travel into and through space.

Or, maybe it is just me. Probably.

jerks.

Josh Cryer · 2005-08-22 00:30:02

I grew up in a county in Virgina where the Amish lived. They had just moved there when we moved there. They traveled there via bus. They don't have this phoboia of technology, and in fact, all Amish are given the choice to "go out into the world" at a certain age, and then are allowed to return if they chose to do so, with the catch that they can never ever leave again. What they prefer is a more naturalist yes sustainable lifestyle.

Quite frankly I can see living as an Amish person as quite satisifying.

I had a crush on an Amish girl once. We went to one of their farms and my dad stopped and asked if we could watch a man and his son plow the field. The man nodded, apprehensively, the son gave a peculiar look, as if "What's so interesting about this?" We watched, under the hot sun, for a good 30 minutes, before we saw one of the Amish girls bring out what I think was lemonaid or maybe it was water. Most beautiful girl I'd ever seen, to this day she was the most beautiful girl I'd ever seen. Bar none. The memory still takes my breath away. I wanted to jump the fence and say "Run away with me!" But I had a girlfriend at the time...

Anyway, she went back inside, we continued watching for a bit, and then my dad decided to turn around and take us home, my last significant memory of that place is turning around in their front driveway underneath some trees, the girl was out front with her mother sewing or something.

Ahh, to live in paradise.

They say the Amish have some of the best sex in the world. But that's just speculation.

I dreamed of that girl for many nights, thinking of ways to meet her and take her away from there, or maybe joining their community. My girlfriend brought me back to my senses though.

Dook · 2005-08-22 04:22:03

Josh, you're going to go blind if you keep thinking about that Amish girl.

Palomar · 2005-08-22 09:42:11

*The Halloween candy and decorations are already appearing on store shelves. Last evening while browsing I noticed "Doctor Scab's Monster Lab" candies: Chocolate molded in the forms of fingers, toes, ears and lips and wrapped in colorful foil which "looked like" dismembered body parts. Oh, and the peanut-butter filled chocolate balls wrapped in "eyeball" foil. Yikes. Then there are the "gummy" dismembered parts...the gummy eyeballs...

York Peppermint Patties have become York Peppermint Batties (shaped like bats)...LOL!

And good ol' M & Ms in black and orange with traditional jack o' lantern faces on them.

This year I'm going to purchase some of the fancier foil-wrapped candies. My husband's a bit of a cheapskate and we've opted for "variety mix" handouts the past couple of Halloweens. The fancier candies cost a lot more of course...but what the heck.

Palmer candies have the best holiday candy mixes; if not the more gruesome stuff, then "cute" foil-wrapped plain chocolate, crispy chocolate and chocolate-peanut butter candies with the Frankenstein monster on them, ghosts, pumpkin faces, etc.

We've got that new big picture window. I'll string up purple, orange and green lights for Halloween. We always decorate the house with all sorts of effects and decorations. More than one child has returned from years prior with, "I was here last year too!"

--Cindy

BWhite · 2005-08-22 16:25:50

Josh, you're going to go blind if you keep thinking about that Amish girl.

Hmmm. . .

I wonder if that's how clark's hobo ended up with only one eye.

clark · 2005-08-22 16:50:45

Nah, she was a Mennonite.

BWhite · 2005-08-22 19:54:01

To blend threads, here.

Hiring a contractor to do home renovations will often prompt folks to want to buy a gun. Been there, seen that, a whole heap of times.

clark · 2005-08-22 20:13:01

I didn't know that remodeling your home to include a firing range was such a prevalent behavior in the mid-west.

BWhite · 2005-08-23 08:27:07

Maybe the human race is merely the tool that will spread the internet everywhere.

clark · 2005-08-23 09:53:01

Who you callin a tool, fool.

BWhite · 2005-08-24 15:33:15

Apropos of nothing, or at least of very little;

Is taking a Gideon Bible from a hotel room really stealing?

Maybe it's the sin of blempherey (try google on that).

Earthfirst · 2005-08-24 19:00:02

We here in the God loving USA just call them shopping carts, or homeless SUVS.
On a different note I just started a new resreach project on paleocene Cycocarya of North America. I spent all day carfully counting the veins and fibers of the fossils so that I coould compare it to extant members of the family carya species. Cyclocarya brownii is very small and has wings so can be spread by wind. Extant members now only live in china. Pecans and walnut trees are related but have large seed for animal dispersal. Are any of you resreaching fun things too please tell about it.
I have just learned most things in paleosceinces are made up so I plane to do the same.
I bet the first fossil on Mars will be fossil algea cells.

Cobra Commander · 2005-08-25 05:18:57

Is taking a Gideon Bible from a hotel room really stealing?

I took one once. Needed it for my sermon on the beach.

They should put that part about not stealing right in the front cover, not page 85.

Incidentally, that Moses guy was on to something. Parting seas never really seemed to work but if you walk out into traffic with arms raised carrying a staff, they stop.

clark · 2005-08-25 05:33:07

A better question would be, is it stealing if you take the little bars of soap and shampoo bottles?

Of course everyone knows the towels are free.

Remember, if it ain't bolted, it ain't theirs.

Palomar · 2005-08-25 08:50:04

*Heard the back door bang, went to check...walk into the kitchen and there's my husband holding our dog by his collar while slowly walking in and towards Trixie. Of course Trixie's back is arched, fur standing straight up, hissing -- you know the cat/dog drill. LOL.

Our dog wanted to come into the house. Trixie squeezed herself into the nearest safest place -- between the 'fridge and the wall. I'm not sure how she manages to duck into that incredibly narrow space AND turn herself around to face the opening. Sometimes I think cat bones are made out of Slinkies.

Prince is old, was simply curious about the kitten. The curiosity isn't mutual.

--Cindy

clark · 2005-08-25 11:32:27

Just read an article about how some fishermen are using puppies and kittens for shark bait.

Cobra Commander · 2005-08-25 14:31:46

Why is it that everyone's company email is 90% full of stupid jokes, pornography, and amusing video clips of people being injured doing stupid things? I just checked mine for the first time in a month or so. Won't be doing that again anytime soon.

The "Mars will appear as big as the Moon" email was in there though.

clark · 2005-08-25 14:41:42

I have not gotten that email.

I had to walk to the train station the other day early in the morning (long story... well, not really, but really mundane). Anyway, it was still twilight and Mars was shining like a giant bright red star in the sky. I cannot remember it being so big. Compared to two years ago, it just seems so much larger.

I am going to try and catch it again tommorrow, as it will be my birthday. Just one of those weird astronomical occurences- weird obssession with Mars, born under it. Go figure.

BWhite · 2005-08-25 19:59:02

Quemadmoeum gladis nemeinum occidit, occidentis telum est.

Malum consilium quod mutari non potest.

or this:

Sona si Latine loqueris.

= = =

Dude, did you go to Catholic school? Where did the Latin come from?

BWhite · 2005-08-25 20:03:16

Try these:

Catapultam habeo. Nisi pecuniam omnem mihi dabis, ad caput tuum saxum immane mittam.

Quantum materiae materietur marmota monax si marmota monax materiam possit materiari?

Palomar · 2005-08-26 04:56:49

*I know current/world events are getting to me when I dream (last night) the Gov't is genetically engineering fire-breathing attack iguanas.

That dream is probably in part "thanks" to a neighbor who has "beware attack iguana" and "beware attack rabbit" signs on the back of a pickup truck.

--Cindy

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