how about a meme generator thread...

[balrog]

 

[scrap iron]

My Dad had a Nash convertible when I was a teenager. I learned how to drive in it with a three on the tree manual trans. cool car.

 

[3 Dawg Night]

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This one goes out to all my homies in the upper Midwest this week.

A buddy of mine took a job in Minnesota. During his first winter there, he sent me a picture of his thermostat showing a 100-degree difference between the indoor and outdoor temperatures with the caption "I don't think we're in Kansas (or Mississippi) anymore, Toto."

 

[Kent88]

Terrific place to live, though.

 

[Kent88]

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This one goes out to all my homies in the upper Midwest this week.

Hold up, why is Watertown "000"???

I'm concerned.

 

[Ki-ri-n]

Because meteorologists always get something wrong in the forecast

 

[Kharnynb]

 

[GrogNerd]

first winter I lived in Minnesota, it got down to like 20 below with a 20 mile an hour wind & I learned the phrase "too cold to snow" & learned you gotta have an oil heater or your winter beater ain't gonna start.

 

[Kent88]

At least our sneks and spiders don't kill people.

Well, I've seen people react poorly to Minnesota spider bites, but it didn't kill them. I guess there's a chance that ones system doesn't tolerate spider venom well it might kill them, but it shouldn't.

 

[Broothru]

Orfirst winter I lived in Minnesota, it got down to like 20 below with a 20 mile an hour wind & I learned the phrase "too cold to snow" & learned you gotta have lan oil heater or your winter beater ain't gonna start.

Same as Maine. I spent three years in the Navy based in Coastal Maine. PCS’d in late September. Our house didn’t have a garage or fenced-in yard for our German Shepherd. But we did have oil heat and a fireplace, and I had a shop install a block heater for our one car.

Somewhere around mid-January with OAT -20F, even the dog, who loved cold weather and snow, was learning how to hold his bladder. With no fence, we had to walk him whenever nature called. That required me to suit-up in my best L.L. Bean’s winter gear. Day or late at night.

The block heater meant the engine would always crank, and car heat would be available with only a few minutes’ drive time. Roads were always clear by the time to head to work, since every fisherman or construction worker with a pickup truck had a plow and a county contract to clear a certain stretch of hghiway.

Winters lasted a long time, but the summers were well worth the wait… as long as you didn’t have the duty that day.

 

[Kharnynb]

i could copy that word for word for finland

we have a block heater and cabin heater that plugs into the wall with a 2 hour timer so we can just step in the pre-heated car that has clean windscreen

 

[scrap iron]

The Dude

 

[Kent88]

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Well that's a relief.

 

[Broothru]

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The Dude

The Dude abides.

 

[Sailingeric]

 

[Broothru]

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Looks like we’re on parallel tracks.

 

[camonick]

 

[Broothru]

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Bad case of beer goggles.

 

[Jayjay1976]

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I barely remember the bars and clubs of my youth. Your photo filled in so many blanks, thank you.

 

[GrogNerd]

<-- drunken sailor enters the chat

 

[Broothru]

<-- drunken sailor enters the chat

Who you calling’ a ‘drunken sailor’, Sailor? I resemble that remark! Often, in fact. In many a foreign port of call. Some, I even remember.

 

[GrogNerd]

 

[Broothru]

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Hey, how’d you find that picture of me on liberty in Olongapo? Man, I miss those ‘Cracker Jacks.’

 

[GrogNerd]

I think it was first up in a google image search for "drunken sailors"

speaking of...

got a bug up my... decided to see if I can find places I've visited overseas.

easy enough to find the Great Pyramids, but I wanted to find the Royal Marines recruiting office in Inverness that wouldn't let bloody Yanks join. (the result of a pub crawl)

well, there's only 1 recruiting station in Inverness, so I guess I found it. if it ain't moved in 32 years.

then I notice a store across the street. Scottish-themed store called "Thistle Do Nicely"

I got a giggle out of it

 

[GrogNerd]

although, just noticing they missed the opportunity to call it "Thistle Do Ness-ly"

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

 

[Jayjay1976]

 

[pshankstar]

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

 

[day_trippr]

Seems like the end of an era...

AnandTech, mainstay of computer hardware reviews, closes after 27 years

 

[tracer bullet]

I've all but forgotten about AT. Great site, reviews, and forum. I have a ton of posts there for sure. I suppose after my kiddo was born I built a PC to rule them all, and since it hasn't broken and I'm still using it I haven't cared to keep up with the tech for a long while now.

 

[balrog]

Seems like the end of an era...

AnandTech, mainstay of computer hardware reviews, closes after 27 years

Man.
I spent many an hour reading them over the years.
Tom's Hardware also; did not know they were owned by the same company.

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

 

[balrog]

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Truth

 

[Kent88]

 

[balrog]

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If it's one of those Thai Spot Billed Pelicans and the translation was bad, maybe.

 

[Snuffy]

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Just wait till the Stork Union hears about this...

 

[Jayjay1976]

Just wait till the Stork Union hears about this...

Conspiracy to commit nom nom.

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

 

[Kent88]

Have a cursed thing. I'm making this your problem, too.