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[General Malaise]

Got a summons for grand jury duty yesterday. One week a month for three months. Neat.

It got me thinking, I'm not sure I even know what a grand jury does. Just giving prosecution the go-ahead to indict?

Yeah, I don't know what a grand jury is either. I wasn't a very strong civics student.

Dean's list FOUR times, chooot.

 

[El Floppo]

proninja or anyone else..

I have a Cannondale that I bought at a garage sale 8 years ago and I haven't ridden in about 4 years. Pulled it out of the garage the other day because I need some type of exercise.

Both wheels/tubes need replaced. Neither of the brakes work either. How do I determine if I just need to replace the brake cables, or should I just replace the entire brakes.

Is this possible to do for about $50 on my own?

in what way do the brakes not work? when you press the brake levers, does the cable cause the pads on the wheels to compress onto the rims? are the pads visibly worn?

you had to replace your wheels? or just the innertubes?

 

[General Malaise]

proninja or anyone else..

I have a Cannondale that I bought at a garage sale 8 years ago and I haven't ridden in about 4 years. Pulled it out of the garage the other day because I need some type of exercise.

Both wheels/tubes need replaced. Neither of the brakes work either. How do I determine if I just need to replace the brake cables, or should I just replace the entire brakes.

Is this possible to do for about $50 on my own?

Replacing something as unimportant as brakes on your own seems like a tremendous idea, Shuke. Hell, spend as little on it as you can, IMO.

 

[Annyong]

I sometimes will dip my popcorn in BBQ sauce.

 

[General Malaise]

OMG I LIKE POPCORN TOO!

 

[Annyong]

That reminds me of a story where we were getting all drunk at bar and watching football. We bet a guy that he couldn't eat a whole jar of Pennsylvania before halftime.

 

[Dan Lambskin]

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

Who gets rid of their microwave? Seriously.

 

[General Malaise]

Beaverton Farmer's Market is a delightful way to spend a Saturday morning. Ran across a new vendor for this year who sells fresh roasted peanuts out of two machines that are over 100 years old and that he restored. Guy was retired and dressed like an old timey peanut vendor. Very pleasant guy. Told my boys the best job he ever had in his entire life was selling peanuts at baseball games, which may suck, but according to him, was the greatest place in the world to meet hot ladies. Man, this guy has it made. Peanuts were awesome too.

 

[Mr.Pack]

So we got rid of our microwave some time ago at home. Just decided we only use it to badly reheat things, and it's not worth replacing when our old one burned out. I have since discovered there is exactly one thing I use the microwave for that I miss: popcorn.

I bought Jiffy Pop this weekend. It's as horrible as I remembered.

Make it the old fashioned way, a little oil in a pot, add kernels cover and let er rip.

best popcorn you can make

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

Beaverton Farmer's Market is a delightful way to spend a Saturday morning. Ran across a new vendor for this year who sells fresh roasted peanuts out of two machines that are over 100 years old and that he restored. Guy was retired and dressed like an old timey peanut vendor. Very pleasant guy. Told my boys the best job he ever had in his entire life was selling peanuts at baseball games, which may suck, but according to him, was the greatest place in the world to meet hot ladies. Man, this guy has it made. Peanuts were awesome too.

I'm sure ball park vendors are just swimming in vag.

 

[Annyong]

We met a guy in Riviera Maya who retired down there and opened a bar called Gringo Dave's.

 

[Annyong]

Beaverton Farmer's Market is a delightful way to spend a Saturday morning. Ran across a new vendor for this year who sells fresh roasted peanuts out of two machines that are over 100 years old and that he restored. Guy was retired and dressed like an old timey peanut vendor. Very pleasant guy. Told my boys the best job he ever had in his entire life was selling peanuts at baseball games, which may suck, but according to him, was the greatest place in the world to meet hot ladies. Man, this guy has it made. Peanuts were awesome too.

I'm sure ball park vendors are just swimming in vag.

They usually look like a slimy hot mess

 

[RedmondLonghorn]

We met a guy in Riviera Maya who retired down there and opened a bar called Gringo Dave's.

Fantastic vacation spot. Wish it wasn't such a long flight from here.

 

[General Malaise]

Beaverton Farmer's Market is a delightful way to spend a Saturday morning. Ran across a new vendor for this year who sells fresh roasted peanuts out of two machines that are over 100 years old and that he restored. Guy was retired and dressed like an old timey peanut vendor. Very pleasant guy. Told my boys the best job he ever had in his entire life was selling peanuts at baseball games, which may suck, but according to him, was the greatest place in the world to meet hot ladies. Man, this guy has it made. Peanuts were awesome too.

I'm sure ball park vendors are just swimming in vag.

Oh my god, it's HIM!

I want this guy's job. I'm tired of the rat race. I bet this guy can support 5 kids on his massive peanut income.

 

[5-ish Finkle]

Beaverton Farmer's Market is a delightful way to spend a Saturday morning. Ran across a new vendor for this year who sells fresh roasted peanuts out of two machines that are over 100 years old and that he restored. Guy was retired and dressed like an old timey peanut vendor. Very pleasant guy. Told my boys the best job he ever had in his entire life was selling peanuts at baseball games, which may suck, but according to him, was the greatest place in the world to meet hot ladies. Man, this guy has it made. Peanuts were awesome too.

I'm sure ball park vendors are just swimming in vag.

There was a vendor at Three Rivers Stadium that my buddy and I sort of befriended(sat in his section at games a ton and just got to know his name, really. Does the qualify as "befriendment?" I digress.) who looked exactly like Ravishing Rick Rude. Dude probably worked there for damn near 20 years before it closed up. I have no idea how much vag he was dog-paddling around in, but he did way more dialoguing of chicks than selling of Coke/Beer. Claimed he was never lonely, buuut....he was just some ARA worker named Ian that looked like a minor WWF personality, so I took it with a pretty big grain of salt.

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

Beaverton Farmer's Market is a delightful way to spend a Saturday morning. Ran across a new vendor for this year who sells fresh roasted peanuts out of two machines that are over 100 years old and that he restored. Guy was retired and dressed like an old timey peanut vendor. Very pleasant guy. Told my boys the best job he ever had in his entire life was selling peanuts at baseball games, which may suck, but according to him, was the greatest place in the world to meet hot ladies. Man, this guy has it made. Peanuts were awesome too.

I'm sure ball park vendors are just swimming in vag.

Oh my god, it's HIM!

I want this guy's job. I'm tired of the rat race. I bet this guy can support 5 kids on his massive peanut income.

Looks like a kid-toucher IMO.

 

[Sammy3469]

Beaverton Farmer's Market is a delightful way to spend a Saturday morning. Ran across a new vendor for this year who sells fresh roasted peanuts out of two machines that are over 100 years old and that he restored. Guy was retired and dressed like an old timey peanut vendor. Very pleasant guy. Told my boys the best job he ever had in his entire life was selling peanuts at baseball games, which may suck, but according to him, was the greatest place in the world to meet hot ladies. Man, this guy has it made. Peanuts were awesome too.

I'm sure ball park vendors are just swimming in vag.

Oh my god, it's HIM!

I want this guy's job. I'm tired of the rat race. I bet this guy can support 5 kids on his massive peanut income.

Nuts, Hot Nuts, You get them from the peanut man...Nuts, Hot Nuts, Get'em anyway you can....

 

[Captain Quinoa]

Beaverton Farmer's Market is a delightful way to spend a Saturday morning. Ran across a new vendor for this year who sells fresh roasted peanuts out of two machines that are over 100 years old and that he restored. Guy was retired and dressed like an old timey peanut vendor. Very pleasant guy. Told my boys the best job he ever had in his entire life was selling peanuts at baseball games, which may suck, but according to him, was the greatest place in the world to meet hot ladies. Man, this guy has it made. Peanuts were awesome too.

I'm sure ball park vendors are just swimming in vag.

Their stale Coors Light cologne really drops teh panties.

 

[shuke]

proninja or anyone else..

I have a Cannondale that I bought at a garage sale 8 years ago and I haven't ridden in about 4 years. Pulled it out of the garage the other day because I need some type of exercise.

Both wheels/tubes need replaced. Neither of the brakes work either. How do I determine if I just need to replace the brake cables, or should I just replace the entire brakes.

Is this possible to do for about $50 on my own?

Replacing something as unimportant as brakes on your own seems like a tremendous idea, Shuke. Hell, spend as little on it as you can, IMO.

It's not rocket science.

 

[shuke]

proninja or anyone else..

I have a Cannondale that I bought at a garage sale 8 years ago and I haven't ridden in about 4 years. Pulled it out of the garage the other day because I need some type of exercise.

Both wheels/tubes need replaced. Neither of the brakes work either. How do I determine if I just need to replace the brake cables, or should I just replace the entire brakes.

Is this possible to do for about $50 on my own?

in what way do the brakes not work? when you press the brake levers, does the cable cause the pads on the wheels to compress onto the rims? are the pads visibly worn?

you had to replace your wheels? or just the innertubes?

Front brakes, lever pulled nothing happens, looks like one of the cables broke. Back brakes, pull the lever and the pads don't move.

Innertubes definitely need replaced. I think the tires do too because they look deformed from sitting in the same spot for 4 years. I'll take some pics.

 

[shuke]

Beaverton Farmer's Market is a delightful way to spend a Saturday morning. Ran across a new vendor for this year who sells fresh roasted peanuts out of two machines that are over 100 years old and that he restored. Guy was retired and dressed like an old timey peanut vendor. Very pleasant guy. Told my boys the best job he ever had in his entire life was selling peanuts at baseball games, which may suck, but according to him, was the greatest place in the world to meet hot ladies. Man, this guy has it made. Peanuts were awesome too.

I'm sure ball park vendors are just swimming in vag.

He said "met".

When I sold beer for Reds/Bengals, I met plenty of hot chicks.

 

[Dan Lambskin]

Beaverton Farmer's Market is a delightful way to spend a Saturday morning. Ran across a new vendor for this year who sells fresh roasted peanuts out of two machines that are over 100 years old and that he restored. Guy was retired and dressed like an old timey peanut vendor. Very pleasant guy. Told my boys the best job he ever had in his entire life was selling peanuts at baseball games, which may suck, but according to him, was the greatest place in the world to meet hot ladies. Man, this guy has it made. Peanuts were awesome too.

I'm sure ball park vendors are just swimming in vag.

He said "met".

When I sold beer for Reds/Bengals, I met plenty of hot chicks.

From the visiting teams I presume

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

Beaverton Farmer's Market is a delightful way to spend a Saturday morning. Ran across a new vendor for this year who sells fresh roasted peanuts out of two machines that are over 100 years old and that he restored. Guy was retired and dressed like an old timey peanut vendor. Very pleasant guy. Told my boys the best job he ever had in his entire life was selling peanuts at baseball games, which may suck, but according to him, was the greatest place in the world to meet hot ladies. Man, this guy has it made. Peanuts were awesome too.

I'm sure ball park vendors are just swimming in vag.

He said "met".

When I sold beer for Reds/Bengals, I met plenty of hot chicks.

Thanks for clearing that up, Det. Freamon.

 

[urbanhack]

proninja or anyone else..

I have a Cannondale that I bought at a garage sale 8 years ago and I haven't ridden in about 4 years. Pulled it out of the garage the other day because I need some type of exercise.

Both wheels/tubes need replaced. Neither of the brakes work either. How do I determine if I just need to replace the brake cables, or should I just replace the entire brakes.

Is this possible to do for about $50 on my own?

in what way do the brakes not work? when you press the brake levers, does the cable cause the pads on the wheels to compress onto the rims? are the pads visibly worn?

you had to replace your wheels? or just the innertubes?

Front brakes, lever pulled nothing happens, looks like one of the cables broke. Back brakes, pull the lever and the pads don't move.

Innertubes definitely need replaced. I think the tires do too because they look deformed from sitting in the same spot for 4 years. I'll take some pics.

might just need to tighten the cables. make sure to send close up pics of the pads.

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

Beaverton Farmer's Market is a delightful way to spend a Saturday morning. Ran across a new vendor for this year who sells fresh roasted peanuts out of two machines that are over 100 years old and that he restored. Guy was retired and dressed like an old timey peanut vendor. Very pleasant guy. Told my boys the best job he ever had in his entire life was selling peanuts at baseball games, which may suck, but according to him, was the greatest place in the world to meet hot ladies. Man, this guy has it made. Peanuts were awesome too.

I'm sure ball park vendors are just swimming in vag.

He said "met".

When I sold beer for Reds/Bengals, I met plenty of hot chicks.

Thanks for clearing that up, Det. Freamon.

No problem, ####head ###face.

ANYTIME CRAPMOUTH MCJIZZFINGERS.

 

[St. Louis Bob]

My allergies are like, really, really bad this morning.

High school QB fulfills 4th-grade vow to take girl with Down syndrome to prom

Now that's a cool guy.

 

[St. Louis Bob]

For Tanner

Saturday night I was out on the patio having a drink and my dog somehow flushed out a fox, chased him into the front yard, around the house, and right back to me. Needless to say I was a bit freaked the #### out when all of a sudden, in my very buzzed state, a large mammal that is designed to kill, ran right to me. He was a little unnerved too that my fast dog, generally a coward but loves to hunt, was on his ###. I ran in the house and went back out a few minutes later to retrieve my drink and the fox was gone. The dog was all proud of himself though and wanted a treat for his fine work.

How large was this "large mammal"?

It was pretty dark but I would guess 20-25 pounfs.

 

[General Malaise]

proninja or anyone else..

I have a Cannondale that I bought at a garage sale 8 years ago and I haven't ridden in about 4 years. Pulled it out of the garage the other day because I need some type of exercise.

Both wheels/tubes need replaced. Neither of the brakes work either. How do I determine if I just need to replace the brake cables, or should I just replace the entire brakes.

Is this possible to do for about $50 on my own?

Replacing something as unimportant as brakes on your own seems like a tremendous idea, Shuke. Hell, spend as little on it as you can, IMO.

It's not rocket science.

To me, anything that requires tools is some sort of science outside of my purview.

Tell you what's NOT out of my wheelhouse....BitGold baby!

 

[Notorious T.R.E.]

proninja or anyone else..

I have a Cannondale that I bought at a garage sale 8 years ago and I haven't ridden in about 4 years. Pulled it out of the garage the other day because I need some type of exercise.

Both wheels/tubes need replaced. Neither of the brakes work either. How do I determine if I just need to replace the brake cables, or should I just replace the entire brakes.

Is this possible to do for about $50 on my own?

Replacing something as unimportant as brakes on your own seems like a tremendous idea, Shuke. Hell, spend as little on it as you can, IMO.

It's not rocket science.

Cannon science?

:confetti:

 

[General Malaise]

Beaverton Farmer's Market is a delightful way to spend a Saturday morning. Ran across a new vendor for this year who sells fresh roasted peanuts out of two machines that are over 100 years old and that he restored. Guy was retired and dressed like an old timey peanut vendor. Very pleasant guy. Told my boys the best job he ever had in his entire life was selling peanuts at baseball games, which may suck, but according to him, was the greatest place in the world to meet hot ladies. Man, this guy has it made. Peanuts were awesome too.

I'm sure ball park vendors are just swimming in vag.

He said "met".

When I sold beer for Reds/Bengals, I met plenty of hot chicks.

Thanks for clearing that up, Det. Freamon.

 

[St. Louis Bob]

Got a summons for grand jury duty yesterday. One week a month for three months. Neat.

It got me thinking, I'm not sure I even know what a grand jury does. Just giving prosecution the go-ahead to indict?

Yeah, I don't know what a grand jury is either. I wasn't a very strong civics student.

Dean's list FOUR times, chooot.

I was on the Dean's list too. Probably something different though.

 

[Notorious T.R.E.]

For Tanner

Saturday night I was out on the patio having a drink and my dog somehow flushed out a fox, chased him into the front yard, around the house, and right back to me. Needless to say I was a bit freaked the #### out when all of a sudden, in my very buzzed state, a large mammal that is designed to kill, ran right to me. He was a little unnerved too that my fast dog, generally a coward but loves to hunt, was on his ###. I ran in the house and went back out a few minutes later to retrieve my drink and the fox was gone. The dog was all proud of himself though and wanted a treat for his fine work.

How large was this "large mammal"?

It was pretty dark but I would guess 20-25 pounfs.

There's a pretty good size fox that runs around Madeline Island not giving a ####. He'll just run alongside my truck down the street in broad daylight. Much respect.

 

[St. Louis Bob]

proninja or anyone else..

I have a Cannondale that I bought at a garage sale 8 years ago and I haven't ridden in about 4 years. Pulled it out of the garage the other day because I need some type of exercise.

Both wheels/tubes need replaced. Neither of the brakes work either. How do I determine if I just need to replace the brake cables, or should I just replace the entire brakes.

Is this possible to do for about $50 on my own?

Replacing something as unimportant as brakes on your own seems like a tremendous idea, Shuke. Hell, spend as little on it as you can, IMO.

It's not rocket science.

To me, anything that requires tools is some sort of science outside of my purview.

Tell you what's NOT out of my wheelhouse....BitGold baby!

 

[General Malaise]

Are foxes dangerous? They seem pretty cool. I had one follow me around a golf course in Montana one time. Craziest experience I've had with Ma Nature since getting attacked by a wild turkey in Arkansas as a kid. I wasn't afraid of the fox (I'm forever terrified of turkeys) and seemed pretty chill. Can you have a pet fox?

 

[General Malaise]

Got a summons for grand jury duty yesterday. One week a month for three months. Neat.

It got me thinking, I'm not sure I even know what a grand jury does. Just giving prosecution the go-ahead to indict?

Yeah, I don't know what a grand jury is either. I wasn't a very strong civics student.

Dean's list FOUR times, chooot.

I was on the Dean's list too. Probably something different though.

I made that one too.

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

For Tanner

Saturday night I was out on the patio having a drink and my dog somehow flushed out a fox, chased him into the front yard, around the house, and right back to me. Needless to say I was a bit freaked the #### out when all of a sudden, in my very buzzed state, a large mammal that is designed to kill, ran right to me. He was a little unnerved too that my fast dog, generally a coward but loves to hunt, was on his ###. I ran in the house and went back out a few minutes later to retrieve my drink and the fox was gone. The dog was all proud of himself though and wanted a treat for his fine work.

How large was this "large mammal"?

It was pretty dark but I would guess 20-25 pounfs.

Must have been quite a rush looking death in the face like that.

 

[General Malaise]

proninja or anyone else..

I have a Cannondale that I bought at a garage sale 8 years ago and I haven't ridden in about 4 years. Pulled it out of the garage the other day because I need some type of exercise.

Both wheels/tubes need replaced. Neither of the brakes work either. How do I determine if I just need to replace the brake cables, or should I just replace the entire brakes.

Is this possible to do for about $50 on my own?

Replacing something as unimportant as brakes on your own seems like a tremendous idea, Shuke. Hell, spend as little on it as you can, IMO.

It's not rocket science.

To me, anything that requires tools is some sort of science outside of my purview.

Tell you what's NOT out of my wheelhouse....BitGold baby!

Dude, this is nuts. $6.55

 

[5-ish Finkle]

Are foxes dangerous? They seem pretty cool. I had one follow me around a golf course in Montana one time. Craziest experience I've had with Ma Nature since getting attacked by a wild turkey in Arkansas as a kid. I wasn't afraid of the fox (I'm forever terrified of turkeys) and seemed pretty chill. Can you have a pet fox?

Unless rabid, not very dangerous(unless you're, like, a vole, or a chipmunk, or something. Then it's probably on.)

Some people make foxes into pets. Of course, there are also nutjobs that let full grown bison have the run of their domicile. YMMV.

 

[General Malaise]

Think I'd rather have a fox than a bison for a pet. I'd rather eat the bison, however.

 

[5-ish Finkle]

Think I'd rather have a fox than a bison for a pet. I'd rather eat the bison, however.

Probably a good call on both counts.

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

If only there was some sort of canine type animal that could be domesticated.

 

[UOFI_316]

We put up a bird feeder on our front porch for the girls to hopefully see different birds out the window. The thing has turned into a duck feeder now. A pair of ducks come by every day and eat all the bird seed that falls on the ground. On saturday we had a birthday party for #3, and as my BIL is getting ready the leave he mentions the ducks as they were walking back into the yard. Two minutes later he goes to open the door and there is a fox standing 10 feet from the front door. Thing just walked around a little, up on the front porch, then left to walk down the street in the middle of the afternoon.

I fully welcome my new fox pet hoping that it will deal with my chipmunk and skunk problem so that I don't have to.

 

[Dan Lambskin]

If you want a good fox story read the Arizona Ron thread

 

[Notorious T.R.E.]

foxpic sent to GM

 

[5-ish Finkle]

If you want a good fox story read the Arizona Ron thread

Spitballing here, but....4-way with his wife, side dish and a fox?

I fully welcome my new fox pet hoping that it will deal with my chipmunk and skunk problem so that I don't have to.

It will eat the HELL out of those chipmunks. You should name your fox "David Seville." It'll lull the little bastards into a false sense of security.

I think the skunk will probably trump Dave though.

 

[General Malaise]

If only there was some sort of canine type animal that could be domesticated.

What about a coyote? They seem cute.

 

[5-ish Finkle]

If only there was some sort of canine type animal that could be domesticated.

What about a coyote? They seem cute.

Coyote or a jackal would both be pretty good. They'd eat your garbage so would prolly be super cheap to feed.

What could go wrong?

 

[General Malaise]

foxpic sent to GM

He needs a name.

 

[Dan Lambskin]

If you want a good fox story read the Arizona Ron thread

Spitballing here, but....4-way with his wife, side dish and a fox?

I fully welcome my new fox pet hoping that it will deal with my chipmunk and skunk problem so that I don't have to.

It will eat the HELL out of those chipmunks. You should name your fox "David Seville." It'll lull the little bastards into a false sense of security.

I think the skunk will probably trump Dave though.

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