General Malaise
Footballguy
You know who else was found outside of Bakersfield in a metal barrel? Tanner. Actually true.
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Hawks64
Footballguy
I'm so sorry, losing a furry family member is so hard.
-fish-
Footballguy
Sorry, Dickies. When my newfoundland passed I found a company that makes figurines from photos of your pet. It may seem stupid, but 15 years later I still have his figurine on the counter between my kitchen and living room. I see it every day and about once a week I find myself remembering how much joy he brought me and what a sweet boy he was.
-fish-
Footballguy
Headed to bay area for the weekend to play golf and go halibut fishing with a friend I've known since we were 14. Meeting up with his family tomorrow night for dinner. So grateful to have people like this in my life. We see each other maybe once a year, but it's always like no time has passed. Except now we're old and have kids in college doing the dumb stuff we used to.
DA RAIDERS
Footballguy
Replaced my garage door today. Technology has come a long way. Camera/remote control of everything/timers/I can put a code on my amazon packages, that they scan, and the freakin garage will open for them. And then close itself. The list goes on. It’s pretty freaking cool.
mr. furley
Footballguy
link?
El Floppo
Footballguy
Had my mom's memorial last weekend in Marin. Mostly geezer colleagues and family, but a small posse of my old HS friends showed up... And yeah, as if we were still 16, despite it being years and life since I've seen them.
GB
Rustoleum
Footballguy
Text from Mom: Do you have a protractor?
Me: Hold on let me look. (For the next 10 minutes I proceed to ransack the junk drawer, several cabinets, and a desk before unearthing a set of drafting triangles, a French curve, and 2 protractors from a tote of ancient college era stuff.]
Me: Found one (sends picture)
Mom: No, I mean the thing with a point that you put a pencil in and draw a circle.
Me:………(sigh)………. (goes back to junk drawer where I found it in the first 5 seconds of the search and manage to refrain from stabbing myself with it)
Me: Yes, mom. I have a COMPASS.
Anyway, if anybody needs a ****ty circle drawn with the potential for bloodshed, I’m your guy until she picks it up.
Or, just use the bottom of a beer can like a normal person.
Me: Hold on let me look. (For the next 10 minutes I proceed to ransack the junk drawer, several cabinets, and a desk before unearthing a set of drafting triangles, a French curve, and 2 protractors from a tote of ancient college era stuff.]
Me: Found one (sends picture)
Mom: No, I mean the thing with a point that you put a pencil in and draw a circle.
Me:………(sigh)………. (goes back to junk drawer where I found it in the first 5 seconds of the search and manage to refrain from stabbing myself with it)
Me: Yes, mom. I have a COMPASS.
Anyway, if anybody needs a ****ty circle drawn with the potential for bloodshed, I’m your guy until she picks it up.
Or, just use the bottom of a beer can like a normal person.
Rustoleum
Footballguy
Don’t you draw lines and circles for a living??
El Floppo
Footballguy
Yes. But the compass keeps scratching the screen.
Leroy Hoard
Footballguy
My protractor story from high school: Substitute teacher leaves room for a few minutes and kids start throwing paper around the room. Guy in the back of the class throws a plastic protractor (https://www.kroger.com/p/officework...7nSkdOnf9LrLlATSka4aAtnQEALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds) that whizzes right past my ear. Thing lodges into the roll down video screen. A few seconds later teacher walks in and immediately sees this big hole in the screen with a protractor sticking out of it. A girl in the back shouts out the name of the kid sitting next to her. Teacher takes him to the principal's office and we immediately go back to throwing paper around.
Rustoleum
Footballguy
To be honest, in my head all advancement in architecture is frozen in time at the peak of Mr. Brady’s career.
Lomez
Footballguy
Mom always said don't throw protractors in the house.
General Malaise
Footballguy
Oh, SWCer.....never change, brohan.
DA RAIDERS
Footballguy
SWC
Bromigo
just having some brotato chips and wathing a movie about broseiden king of the brocean take that to the bank
Happy Kickoff Day to all
-fish-
Footballguy
reminds me of when my mom bought electric pencil sharpeners for my brother and me. we sharpened a bunch of pencils immediately and threw them at each other. I still have the greenish dot in my leg from him winning the game of who could stick one in the other person first.
El Floppo
Footballguy
What variety?
Sword fighting? Throwing them at each other ala javelins? Taking turns flicking them at your opponents prone, perpendicular pencil to see who's breaks first? Up the butt?
3/4
Uruk-Hai
Footballguy
This
El Floppo
Footballguy
Yep. We wasted a lot of pencils. There was one brand... Choice? ... That was the best combo of flexibility and strength and would always win.
SWC
Bromigo
we mostly just threw them and got them stuck in the ceiling tiles take that to the bank brochacho
5-ish Finkle
Footballguy
With the Amazon guy still inside? Sounds sorta kidnappy, tbh.
Uruk-Hai
Footballguy
We mostly did it on bus rides to & from school. Found out one guy had his father put a steel rod in his pencil specifically for these battles
But, mostly, it was on the up-and-up.
General Malaise
Footballguy
Greatest gift I ever received was the NFL Pencils and man, what I wouldn't give to have another set of those bad boys.
BeTheMatch
Footballguy
You've apparently gotten some pretty horrible gifts in your life
DA RAIDERS
Footballguy
Same
DA RAIDERS
Footballguy
So….he actually had lead In his pencil?We mostly did it on bus rides to & from school. Found out one guy had his father put a steel rod in his pencil specifically for these battles
El Floppo
Footballguy
Remember gummy erasers? Those came out when we were thick into this. Some people added the gummy to the pencil thinking it would help. Didn't really. At least until I added a marble inside the gummy.So….he actually had lead In his pencil?We mostly did it on bus rides to & from school. Found out one guy had his father put a steel rod in his pencil specifically for these battles
Uruk-Hai
Footballguy
Guys would take the erasers out and bend the eraser frame into a point. Really short pencils were the best defense.Remember gummy erasers? Those came out when we were thick into this. Some people added the gummy to the pencil thinking it would help. Didn't really. At least until I added a marble inside the gummy.So….he actually had lead In his pencil?We mostly did it on bus rides to & from school. Found out one guy had his father put a steel rod in his pencil specifically for these battles
DA RAIDERS
Footballguy
I used to crimp and sharpen that metal into something that would be feared in the yard at San Quentin.Guys would take the erasers out and bend the eraser frame into a point. Really short pencils were the best defense.Remember gummy erasers? Those came out when we were thick into this. Some people added the gummy to the pencil thinking it would help. Didn't really. At least until I added a marble inside the gummy.So….he actually had lead In his pencil?We mostly did it on bus rides to & from school. Found out one guy had his father put a steel rod in his pencil specifically for these battles
El Floppo
Footballguy
We were (long) walking distance to San Quentin, but never thought of doing this.I used to crimp and sharpen that metal into something that would be feared in the yard at San Quentin.Guys would take the erasers out and bend the eraser frame into a point. Really short pencils were the best defense.Remember gummy erasers? Those came out when we were thick into this. Some people added the gummy to the pencil thinking it would help. Didn't really. At least until I added a marble inside the gummy.So….he actually had lead In his pencil?We mostly did it on bus rides to & from school. Found out one guy had his father put a steel rod in his pencil specifically for these battles
Uruk-Hai
Footballguy
Guys that couldn't - you know - WRITE actual words were deadly in a pencil fight.I used to crimp and sharpen that metal into something that would be feared in the yard at San Quentin.Guys would take the erasers out and bend the eraser frame into a point. Really short pencils were the best defense.Remember gummy erasers? Those came out when we were thick into this. Some people added the gummy to the pencil thinking it would help. Didn't really. At least until I added a marble inside the gummy.So….he actually had lead In his pencil?We mostly did it on bus rides to & from school. Found out one guy had his father put a steel rod in his pencil specifically for these battles
General Malaise
Footballguy
While true, I can't tell you how much I loved those back in the day. I would save the Cowboys for last, would give away the 49ers one, threw the Washington pencil in the trash.....LOVED the Tampa orange.
General Malaise
Footballguy
We used to take paper clips, unwind them and fashion them into like a fish-hook type shape, then put a rubber band between our thumbs and index finger, lace the loop of the paper clip on the stretched out band, pull back like a sling-shot and let her rip! I once did this in 7th grade math class and hit my buddy Johnathan Holt right in the nose across the way. He had no idea what hit him, but he looked up and the back of the paper clip was lodged in his nose so it was sticking out of the tip of his nose as he yelped out loud. Mrs. Newman sent me to the principal's office for that.
Worth it.
Worth it.
Scoresman
Footballguy
There was something we used to do with pens too. Those pens with the little spring that help it retract but also open in the back. It's hard to describe, but if you opened the pen and reversed the ink tube and tip with the spring still on, you could pull on the ink tube and the tip of the pen would go flying because of the pressure from the spring. Made for a cool makeshift projectile weapon.
Best results if you drain the ink from the pen first though.
Best results if you drain the ink from the pen first though.
General Malaise
Footballguy
LOL @ pencil fighting with the NFL logo pencils. This is bringing me back to 1987 real fast.
'87? Dang man, you're a baby! I think UH was on marriage number two by then.
J/K GB.
Uruk-Hai
Footballguy
Not quiteLOL @ pencil fighting with the NFL logo pencils. This is bringing me back to 1987 real fast.
'87? Dang man, you're a baby! I think UH was on marriage number two by then.
I was only 25 in '87 and not as stupid as I would be in later years.
Uruk-Hai
Footballguy
The main water feed into my house has broken. It's not spraying water, but it's soaking the blocks of my foundation and leaving water on the concrete floor of my (unfinished) basement. I put in a claim with my insurance carrier and they basically told me to go **** myself. I have not imbibed whiskey for a long time until yesterday, but I am still hoarse from yelling at various levels of management working at State Farm. I don't think I'll be getting Christmas cards from any of them
Cowboysfan8
Footballguy
Orange&Blue
Footballguy
what happened to the stock thread?
