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On 11/2/2019 at 2:39 PM, BigStewMan said:
hey @YK Thom i'm watching a show on The Weather Channel and this plane is making an emergency landing in Yellowknife. Plane has one landing gear down and one is jammed inside the plane.
So did they make it or turn back to balmy Edmonton?
I know It would be a close one to call... but I take my chances on Yellowknife and foam. 🛩
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11 hours ago, BigStewMan said:
when my sister worked in an ER, they played a joke on the cardiologist on call. some guy comes into the ER and they page the cardiologist. he arrives in the ER, goes in to exam the guy and comes out, quite upset and says, “He has a banana stuck up his butt.” ER staff says “bananas are high in potassium and too much potassium is bad for your heart, so we thought this could turn into a cardiology issue."
She also told of this mean doctor that was rather short. He went on a rant one day and my sister held her hand a few inches above his head and said, “You must be at least this tall to work in the ER."
She and I are the only ones left in the family with a healthy sense of humor.
It usually the Urologist’s they love to annoy in the ER and non-urology wards. Other than that ‘all things in moderation’. 🏥
2 hours ago, oldtimer said:I just had some. Ach! Blood pressure rising, feeling lack of potassium, almost...at...death's...door...argggghhh. But it tastes so good, I regret nothing...………………..
I’ll sent you a five lb bag of the good stuff (Dutch Or German licorice) in exchange for a few of your hand writing samples. Only requirement is that you have to consume it all in five contiguous days, or less. Also, you’ve got to wait until I have you heavily insured with me as sole beneficiary.
Double indemnity if you have the big one. I of course, will pay the cost of shipping too.😉
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2 hours ago, HDBRbuilder said:
Not much point in having a car that attracts chicks if you can't do it in the car easily, now is it? I bet that Packard has attracted more than its fair share of chicks over the decades it has been around!
Throw in some Hurst Lightning Rod Shifters and like maybe Linda Vaughn in her heyday?
Which was before my heyday.
Here's an interesting comparison between the 2019 Ford Mustang GT350 and the new 2020 Toyota Celica Supra to get back closer to on-topic: https://www.caranddriver.com/reviews/comparison-test/a28783877/2020-toyota-supra-vs-2019-ford-mustang-shelby-gt350/
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3 hours ago, oldtimer said:
It was never a problem for me but my diet might be part of the reason. I love most all of these:
You can be eating more bananas daily than Magilla Gorilla, and a whole lot of all the other high K foods (baked potatoes, etc.) and still have a problem if you really over indulge on this stuff. I had about eight of the ten, or so, signs of Potassium Deficiency before I finally clued in. Took my BP (became high, in place of optimal) and had the blood work done and figured it out with my physician quickly.
You are probably not over eating black licorice.
I had been eating a few ozs of it per day for a couple of weeks in the desert heat here and thought it was the fact that I was not used to 80 to 100 degree F heat that had caused most of the symptoms.
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3 hours ago, Dr Morbius said:
I'll stick with my Packard, No tickets for meeeeee!
No chance of picking up chick’s either. Well maybe really old chicks.
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2 hours ago, SWL said:
https://blogs.webmd.com/from-our-archives/20111031/black-licorice-dangerous-candy
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2 hours ago, oldtimer said:Ridiculously alarmist. Alcohol is much worse for you. A little goes a long way, the candy they studied is probably worse for you because of the sugar content more than anything else.
2 hours ago, BigStewMan said:i thought Internet = truth. Why did AlGore burden us with this internet thing?
1 hour ago, oldtimer said:Too much will give you the runs. That's the only adverse side effect I have ever experienced from it and I haven't over-indulged in a long time. That's probably for the best since I am over 40.
I don’t think he’s overstating the risk at all.
I love the real deal black licorice (i.e. like the Dutch make, which can be sweet or salty or even both as licorice is naturally very sweet - not the pretend black licorice like Twizzlers). Consumed far too much of it over a few weeks a couple of years back and had to go on first IV K, then 198 mg of Potassium Citrate orally per day to counter act it. No running to the can as a timely warning either. Now, when I get some of the good stuff I restrict consumption to a single small piece a day. Still have to take the oral K supplement daily though.
Sometimes too much of of a good thing really can be a bad thing!
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5 hours ago, dwilawyer said:
Black licorice is my favorite, from all over the world.
If you are talking the real deal made from Glycyrrhizinic acid (i.e.the real McCoy); mine too. Love the damn Dutch made stuff, it's addictive.
Just got to be very careful of the amount of daily consumption. It can cause your Potassium level to plummet and blood pressure to sky-rocket.
Trust me that is not good.
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Good for sleeping on warm nights:
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On 10/18/2019 at 10:12 AM, Coytee said:
So do I have this right? Wolfbane is afraid of Dracula so he's planting garlic?
Sounds like a plan! Instant Dracula protection while at the same time, you can eat the goods when Dracula season is over.
How are the mirrors in your house doing?
Hope I got my boogeymen correct.... with the mention of the full moon, I'm wondering if the Werewolf is also a threat?
The penultimate day to have planted in the north was October 25th but it was freezing and windy with snow that night. Now that I’m south I could plant anytime at night between the full moon and the new moon here this month.
Trouble is my seed garlic is a few thousand miles away and I would not have been able to bring bulbs across the border. Didn’t even want to try to talk C&BS into that one. Also, the soil here is far too crappy.
I’m Werewolf proof as they naturally fear Wolfsbane and Wolfbane. Besides not one showed up here last night. Candy or not.
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3 hours ago, oldtimer said:
Yeah they were sugary great too. Somehow it never led to me developing a tobacco habit.
Here they are called Popeye Candy Sticks now. All white, solid and no number 9 red dye on the end.
Used to be called Popeye Candy Cigarettes. Like even a blind kid would equate them with tobacco!
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9 hours ago, billybob said:
Those popcorn balls home made
were a trip.
So were candied apples. When I started going without my father on Halloween I used to make a mental note of which neighbors provided the homemade stuff and not having an X-ray machine handy decide what I felt safe eating and what didn’t. Some of it consumed between houses.
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8 minutes ago, ClaudeJ1 said:
Working on it.
Good luck!👍
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11 hours ago, BigStewMan said:
hope you enjoy your stay. Sometimes I make the mistake of looking up the weather in my old hometown ... I spent most of my life in Huntington Beach (if you don’t know that is south of Los Angeles). Right this Minute it’s 70 and they had a high of 77. That place has incredible weather most of the year.
Thank - yes, enjoying my stay so far. Weather good, spouse trying to not be too helpful. (She still operates like a walking, talking volume remote regarding my stereo here).
So things are getting done.
I also get to play electrician and plumber for a couple of hours as home maintenance, like rust, never sleeps. I have been to Huntington Beach; having toured through California a number of times.
That said: Mostly before the people running the large cities there decided to stop imposing common sense.
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They’d probably be mine if they were in Phoenix. Nice surprise for the wife too.
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7 hours ago, mustang_flht said:
hi, I live in France close to the Mediterranean in Provence, here we have a lot of fruits: apricots, peaches, melon, cherries, plums, figs, almonds ... so there is traditional confectionery with these fruits.
For example the Calisson d'Aix (Aix-en-Provence: you know the landscapes thanks to the painter Paul Cézanne) made with Melon and crushed almonds, these treats are ancestral:
There are also candied fruits:
the Berlingot of Carpentras:
Provençal pasta:
There are many other traditional confectioneries in France, for example the Anis de Flavigny who come from Bourgogne (the great region of vine), they are monks who made these little candies since the 8th century. It is a seed of anise coated with sugar, it takes 15 days for the drageiste to coat the small seed of anise to make a candy of 1 gram.
If you come to France, you can enjoy good confectionery 😎
Partially explains why the German’s keep coming every 20 to 50 years for extended stays. Of course, Napoleon did not improve the mood. Especially WRT the contingent from the former Prussia.
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On 10/30/2019 at 2:48 PM, Edgar said:
I can eat a whole bag of Candy Corn in one sitting.
Followed by a second sitting on a porcelain throne?
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To win the World Series. In any case it was a good game if you weren’t an Astro’s fan last night.
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On 10/30/2019 at 2:06 PM, BigStewMan said:
Candy Corn. For the life of me, i can’t figure out why anyone would consume it. I don’t eat candy (other than an occasional Chick-O-Stick) but when i wore a younger man’s shoes and ate candy regularly, i didn’t like candy corn then either. I was a Mounds, Junior Mints, or Three Musketeers guy.
My vote: Halloween Kisses. My parents used to throw those filing pullers in the trash. I did the same thing for my girls when they went trick or treating. Of course, I ‘inspected’ everything in their bags for quality control purposes. 😇
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Just now, BigStewMan said:
you must have made your trek to the southwest?
Flew in on Sunday. My arms are still tired!🤡
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3 hours ago, BigStewMan said:
i have a Chinese military Yak coat that weighs 10 pounds; but it is so warm. don’t think i’ll need it where i live now; but it came in handy at my last location. weather in the teens and not a single bit chilly to me.
Chinese Military Yak? Must have got too old to carry ammunition to Hong Kong. Probably dispatched like George Patton did that donkey blocking ‘his bridge’ in Italy then added to cookie’s pot.
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5 hours ago, MC39693 said:
@Wolfbane, I have an Eddie Bauer expedition coat from the late '80s. I think it is ten pounds of down. That's how I stay warm. Actually, I've only worn it about 10 days it's just too hot. Had to wear it in Ft. McMurray when it was -51 C. Ouch. GWN ... and it is snowing in Calgary as I write this.
Look on the bright-side: Snowing means relatively warm if it’s not windy.❄️
Barbecuing Rib Steak here tonight for dinner. Where it’s still Damn 🥵!
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3 hours ago, jimjimbo said:
So this person was NOT local?
BTW, I send checks from my bank all the time.
Making a note of this now. ✍🏻
Let us us know here if you decide to move to Nigeria 🇳🇬? Or any suchother such paradise on earth. 🤑
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23 hours ago, JFHSQT said:
Yeah I want to hear the AL5s before I pull the trigger. I'm assuming a lot, but something tells me if I really love the LS II sound and if the AL5 can do all of that with a bit more refinement with the new model, I'm probably going to be happiest "staying in the family."
Has nothing to do with looks, I made one comment in my original post about the "industrial" look of them, then an addition 10-12 comments about my concerns with going active and working with crossovers and bi-amping and all that stuff. I feel like my journey of exploring that route (and then comparing it with the sacrifices it would require of my current system, which I have built over considerable time and expense), and just deciding that wasn't the route I wanted to go, is pretty well documented in the pages of this thread. Hopefully that's not offensive in any way to current Jubilee owners,, but I'm just traveling down a different path here.
Klipsch is my favorite brand of speakers, I own 3 pairs of them. Came here assuming this was the "Klipsch" community and not the "Jubilee" community, so again, no offense to anyone here if in some way it seems MY preference isn't exactly in alignment with yours. As far as budget and expense, I am well aware of what all lines of the current Klipsch Heritage models cost, and also how much a Jubilee system with a Xilica crossover would cost. Didn't come here to talk budget or price, just exploring all my options. As I mentioned, you guys have been great in steering me in the right direction.
I own upgraded Belles and before that upgraded Cornwall’s. 1982 and 1979 respectively. I preferred the Cornwall’s for Rock and Roll and the Belles for everything else. I have not heard the Jubilee’s that many people recommend.🎼
That said, bringing speakers any larger than the two pairs mentioned above and what I already have for home theatre use would probably result in great sound... until after the household women spot them. The next sound I’d expect to hear after that is the sound of soil hitting the dark box I’ve been dragged into; formerly known as Jubilee’s.
It will be in the back forty on a dark and stormy night.☠️
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22 minutes ago, Dave1290 said:
Rain here with falling temps but I think I'm ready for it, aside for the neighbors leaves blowing my way. Spent Tuesday in the garage movin stuff around getting the snow blower close to the garage door and next to my OLD Cub Cadet and big lawn sweeper. Had to find a place for a 30" Toro twin-blade mower I bought at auction Saturday. Don't ask me why either. Have my Cub, my mom's Honda rider and now this contraption along with a myriad of other lawn stuff. No way was I gonna NOT buy this $1100 mower for $50! Spring is right around the corner. Off it and buy more gear! hahaha
Good deal on the mower! 👍
Forecasted high of 85 Degrees F here in the desert today. Hotter here today than the hottest summer day this year back north.
I can see the residue of snow ❄️ in my home cameras back in the GWN. I fully serviced my snowblower and parked it in the garage awaiting my return. My Canada 🇨🇦 Goose parka in the front closet.
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Four Letter Clown Car or Not?
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Was the 409 the GM engine that had the weird and heavy cylinder heads? Had one come into the garage I worked in for one summer during High School. Seems long ago now but they were pretty rare up here.
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