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Post by walnut on Mar 12, 2021 5:04:15 GMT
Thanks to the damaging winter of 20-21, the very consistent Texas money machine has mostly stopped paying me a living. Maybe we're waiting on the insurance checks to arrive.
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Post by missouriboy on Mar 12, 2021 16:12:06 GMT
Thanks to the damaging winter of 20-21, the very consistent Texas money machine has mostly stopped paying me a living. Maybe we're waiting on the insurance checks to arrive. Maybe they have finally left the stone age. Hope the insurance and decorative demand retuirn. What happened to the business during the 2007-10 residential bust? You got any "perched-elevated" played out sandstone quarries with a view?
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Post by sigurdur on Mar 12, 2021 17:18:07 GMT
Thanks to the damaging winter of 20-21, the very consistent Texas money machine has mostly stopped paying me a living. Maybe we're waiting on the insurance checks to arrive. The benchmark is.... Is your wide still living as she has become accustomed to??
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Post by nonentropic on Mar 12, 2021 17:21:15 GMT
A Freudian slip I suggest Sig. It would not travel well in this household.
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Post by missouriboy on Mar 12, 2021 18:20:12 GMT
Thanks to the damaging winter of 20-21, the very consistent Texas money machine has mostly stopped paying me a living. Maybe we're waiting on the insurance checks to arrive. The benchmark is.... Is your wide still living as she has become accustomed to?? Very true Sig. I find it is important to assure that they do not become accustomed to a more expensive style of living.
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Post by missouriboy on Mar 12, 2021 18:27:54 GMT
Police station, Wee Waa in central Western New South Wales where it never snows: Description from Waymarking.com: Can't be too careful you know. Boy Scout motto and all. Need a careful accounting of all fingers/hands accessing the pot ... with consequences.
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Post by phydeaux2363 on Mar 12, 2021 18:29:52 GMT
Precautionary principle at work.
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Post by missouriboy on Mar 12, 2021 20:54:24 GMT
Still technically winter. Nice graphic of last week. I want one of them live every day (or once per week) for major areas of the world.
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Post by walnut on Mar 13, 2021 4:19:21 GMT
Rancher friend of mine told me today that they are all afraid that their bulls literally had their balls froze off. Some are testing now with veterinarians.
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Post by nonentropic on Mar 13, 2021 6:53:18 GMT
Brass Monkey not Bulls,
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Post by nautonnier on Mar 13, 2021 15:10:06 GMT
That is why the Nordic countries have steeply pitched roofs everywhere the snow gets itself off the roof. Police station, Wee Waa in central Western New South Wales where it never snows: Description from Waymarking.com: Alternatively, the architects wanted to make a name for themselves (I am sure there is a simple aussie expression that could be used) I remember a brand new purpose built school in London - the only room in the building that was not all glass walled was the green house in the laboratories. The Chemistry laboratory had to have fully opening windows to vent anything that was dangerous. They were not the normal hinged windows they were 8ft long sliding windows. When as part of the acceptance tests the opening of the windows was attempted the large foot long handles 'came off' - comment from the builder QA on being shown the handle no longer attached - "you must've pulled it."
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Post by nautonnier on Mar 13, 2021 15:49:40 GMT
A "brass monkey" was a brass frame alongside each gun on gun decks of the old RN ships so the gun would be pulled back cleaned, reloaded and the cannon ball lifted out of the rack. It was said that if it was cold the brass would contract to the degree that the balls would fall off the 'monkey'. There are all sorts of refutations of this story from media studies majors who have never been in the services. As it happens almost anything could have the suffix 'monkey' added in front of it in the RN and USN. So a tight jacket that the air force tends to call a 'bomber jacket' in the navies would be called a 'monkey jacket'. A small tender that does the runs ashore the RN would call a 'Tilley' the USN would call a monkey boat. The 'boy' who would run for more gunpowder for the guns was called the 'powder monkey'. Etc etc A lot of UK slang comes from the Navy much of it never written down with a detailed etymology. - Swinging the lead - No room to swing a cat - Queen's/King's shilling - Shanghaied / pressed /press gang Explanations available for anyone that wants them
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Post by missouriboy on Mar 13, 2021 16:54:05 GMT
A "brass monkey" was a brass frame alongside each gun on gun decks of the old RN ships so the gun would be pulled back cleaned, reloaded and the cannon ball lifted out of the rack. It was said that if it was cold the brass would contract to the degree that the balls would fall off the 'monkey'. There are all sorts of refutations of this story from media studies majors who have never been in the services. As it happens almost anything could have the suffix 'monkey' added in front of it in the RN and USN. So a tight jacket that the air force tends to call a 'bomber jacket' in the navies would be called a 'monkey jacket'. A small tender that does the runs ashore the RN would call a 'Tilley' the USN would call a monkey boat. The 'boy' who would run for more gunpowder for the guns was called the 'powder monkey'. Etc etc A lot of UK slang comes from the Navy much of it never written down with a detailed etymology. - Swinging the lead - No room to swing a cat - Queen's/King's shilling - Shanghaied / pressed /press gang Explanations available for anyone that wants them Powder monkey at least carried over into American slang. Widely used in the Civil War. I'm sure there are others.
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Post by nonentropic on Mar 13, 2021 20:15:49 GMT
Yes, Naut. that was the version I also had understood.
The visceral relationship with death ever-present on a Naval vessel brings this out.
Every moment of any day a sub can kill all. Plus the air and the surface many do it and I give complete respect.
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Post by sigurdur on Mar 13, 2021 20:18:27 GMT
Rancher friend of mine told me today that they are all afraid that their bulls literally had their balls froze off. Some are testing now with veterinarians. Overhyped. If balls got froze, ND wouldn't have beef. We do.
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