This is how it grew...




I hope to hell that last one is AI generated.
 

Vacation?
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We lose.

At least that's what we used to call it, they have gotten a little more uppity but still a fantastic school and asset to the community just up the road.
At a time when everyone's kid must go to college and trade high schools have closed in droves.
When we need more trades people than ever to install and service high tech houses.
I spotted this ad, I think on Reddit. Great education, waiting list of jobs due to their reputation, and FREE.
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After 18 months of bullshit I won't bore you with I had surgery in September.
Outpatient surgery. Check in at 6 AM, discharged at about 2:30 PM, home for supper.
The bill was 295,000 one dollar bills, or 14,750 twenty dollar bills.
My insurance provider, who handles my medicare plus, said nope, we'll give you $95,000.
Everyone said OK.
My out of pocket was $400 to fix the hearing aid they broke.
What a country.

Alice Brock... RIP at 83, 11-21-24.
She owned tree restaurants over the years none named Alice's
It was her first restaurant, The Back Room that sparked Guthrie's song.
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Australia


Great Britain

Ireland

Italy




 

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Power to the people... who can afford it...



They look like Mercury Verados at $40,470 each PLUS...
Dealer Engine Prep: $600 Prep Fee. Validates warranty.
Hmm $40,470 + $600 = $41,070 x 6 = $246,420 + tax
Pre tax $102.68 per horsepower... not including the boat of course.

When you get very edumacated or very old, normal conversations leave so many words on the tip of your tongue it wants to hang out like a panting dog.
Here's more...


Note 17.

When you were a kid you got yelled at, and as an adult you have to clean up.
Pouring from a large mouth is almost impossible without a mess... unless...

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You're welcome.
 

They've been prominent in US history, necessary to put food on the table and defend the family from wild animals and Indians wanting their land back.
This ad by Savage Arms in the Saturday Evening Post, November 1919 would not fly today.
Picture of a Rhinoceros and a rifle. The fine print says...
.250-3000 Savage Rifle, take down model, 22 inch tapered round barrel with integral sight base.
Checked extra full pistol grip and forearm, checked trigger. Corrugated steel shot gun butt plate.
Commercial silver bead front and flat-topped wind-gauge sporting rear sights. Weight about 7 lbs.
 
CHARLES COTTAR'S SURPRISE AT THE .250-3000
 
    Is anything much harder to kill than the rhinoceros? His temper is bad, his skin is inches thick, and he weighs close to a ton. He charges on sight, and he will hunt a man as a terrier does a rat.
    Mr. Cottar has killed a number of charging rhino with his little .250-3000 Savage rifle. He has learned to expect it to kill them.
    But when he killed one that ran away-killed it with one shot-striking in the ham and ranging clear forward through the lungs at 175 yards he was really surprised. He didn't think any rifle could do that. 
    Mr. Cottar has been killing leopard, lion, rhino, hippo and elephant with the 250-3000 Savage for four or five years. He has found it the most generally useful rifle for African hunting.
    It is a six-shot, seven-pound, lever-action take-down repeater, with checked extra-full pistol-grip stock and fore- arm and corrugated steel shot-gun butt-plate and trigger. It has the lines, beauty and feel of an expensive shot-gun. And it shoots a vicious little 87-grain Spitzer point bullet 3000 feet a second, straight enough to make possibles on the 800-yard target and hard enough to penetrate 5/8" boiler-plate or Mr. Cottar's rhino. 
    Look at it and later on buy it at your dealer's, and write us for a detailed description.
 
SAVAGE ARMS CORPORATION, UTICA, N. Y., Sharon, Pa., Detroit, Mich

Michigan isn't the only state with a monster... 


Same for Boogeymen...



 

What?  8:03?  8:08?  I'm lost.
Oh shit, didn't realize I repeated that post... duh