GM's Thread About Everything/GM's Thread About Nothing (24 Viewers)

[St. Louis Bob]

Guster is in good shape but I think the rest of us should just go ahead and start panicking.

Link

 

[Dan Lambskin]

Guster is in good shape but I think the rest of us should just go ahead and start panicking.

Link

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

Completely forgot about

Does this link still work? Hitler Finds Out Otis is Engaged

 

[St. Louis Bob]

"to look at leaves" still kills me

 

[Bob Sacamano]

I'm amazed by how much people seem to care about the Simmons stuff.

 

[General Malaise]

I'm amazed by how much people seem to care about the Simmons stuff.

Yeah, me too. I remember reading his stuff years ago and thought his travelogs and live blogging games were pretty good, but the more coverage he got, the less I paid attention. Not sure what the hubabaloo is now...people get fired all the time. He's not dead. He'll write or talk on TV.

 

[RedmondLonghorn]

I'm amazed by how much people seem to care about the Simmons stuff.

Yeah, me too. I remember reading his stuff years ago and thought his travelogs and live blogging games were pretty good, but the more coverage he got, the less I paid attention. Not sure what the hubabaloo is now...people get fired all the time. He's not dead. He'll write or talk on TV.

It isn't KitchenCabinetChat, that's for sure.

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

I'm amazed by how much people seem to care about the Simmons stuff.

Who?

Seriously

 

[General Malaise]

I'm amazed by how much people seem to care about the Simmons stuff.

Yeah, me too. I remember reading his stuff years ago and thought his travelogs and live blogging games were pretty good, but the more coverage he got, the less I paid attention. Not sure what the hubabaloo is now...people get fired all the time. He's not dead. He'll write or talk on TV.

It isn't KitchenCabinetChat, that's for sure.

Pretty pleased with my new cabinets. The built in garbage can feature makes me feel successful.

 

[Captain Quinoa]

I'm amazed by how much people seem to care about the Simmons stuff.

Who?

Seriously

Him

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

I'm amazed by how much people seem to care about the Simmons stuff.

Who?

Seriously

Him

I don't believe you.

 

[El Floppo]

I'm amazed by how much people seem to care about the Simmons stuff.

Who?

Seriously

Him

I don't believe you.

goodposting.

no way in hell he gets fired.

 

[heckmanm]

I'm amazed by how much people seem to care about the Simmons stuff.

Yeah, me too. I remember reading his stuff years ago and thought his travelogs and live blogging games were pretty good, but the more coverage he got, the less I paid attention. Not sure what the hubabaloo is now...people get fired all the time. He's not dead. He'll write or talk on TV.

nice

 

[RedmondLonghorn]

I'm amazed by how much people seem to care about the Simmons stuff.

Yeah, me too. I remember reading his stuff years ago and thought his travelogs and live blogging games were pretty good, but the more coverage he got, the less I paid attention. Not sure what the hubabaloo is now...people get fired all the time. He's not dead. He'll write or talk on TV.

It isn't KitchenCabinetChat, that's for sure.

Pretty pleased with my new cabinets. The built in garbage can feature makes me feel successful.

Excellent. I take it you managed this without discovering the treasure from a Spanish galleon...

 

[General Malaise]

I'm amazed by how much people seem to care about the Simmons stuff.

Yeah, me too. I remember reading his stuff years ago and thought his travelogs and live blogging games were pretty good, but the more coverage he got, the less I paid attention. Not sure what the hubabaloo is now...people get fired all the time. He's not dead. He'll write or talk on TV.

It isn't KitchenCabinetChat, that's for sure.

Pretty pleased with my new cabinets. The built in garbage can feature makes me feel successful.

Excellent. I take it you managed this without discovering the treasure from a Spanish galleon...

No treasure found, but I DID discover a bunch of old pennants from the 70s, some model airplanes and a Houston Astros orange batting helmet.

Also, I have soft closing drawers now. I bet this is how Trump lives.

 

[Captain Quinoa]

I'm amazed by how much people seem to care about the Simmons stuff.

Yeah, me too. I remember reading his stuff years ago and thought his travelogs and live blogging games were pretty good, but the more coverage he got, the less I paid attention. Not sure what the hubabaloo is now...people get fired all the time. He's not dead. He'll write or talk on TV.

It isn't KitchenCabinetChat, that's for sure.

Pretty pleased with my new cabinets. The built in garbage can feature makes me feel successful.

Excellent. I take it you managed this without discovering the treasure from a Spanish galleon...

No treasure found, but I DID discover a bunch of old pennants from the 70s, some model airplanes and a Houston Astros orange batting helmet.

Also, I have soft closing drawers now. I bet this is how Trump lives.

Daaaanggg is that where you keep your raisins?

 

[Frostillicus]

I just checked and datonn hasn't been to this forum since early February. That's a bummer.

 

[General Malaise]

I'm amazed by how much people seem to care about the Simmons stuff.

Yeah, me too. I remember reading his stuff years ago and thought his travelogs and live blogging games were pretty good, but the more coverage he got, the less I paid attention. Not sure what the hubabaloo is now...people get fired all the time. He's not dead. He'll write or talk on TV.

It isn't KitchenCabinetChat, that's for sure.

Pretty pleased with my new cabinets. The built in garbage can feature makes me feel successful.

Excellent. I take it you managed this without discovering the treasure from a Spanish galleon...

No treasure found, but I DID discover a bunch of old pennants from the 70s, some model airplanes and a Houston Astros orange batting helmet.

Also, I have soft closing drawers now. I bet this is how Trump lives.

Daaaanggg is that where you keep your raisins?

Are you crazy? Those are in the safe behind my gold, guns and nude pics of Sacamano.

 

[RedmondLonghorn]

nude pics of Sacamano.

Those really are more coffee table material.

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

I just checked and datonn hasn't been to this forum since early February. That's a bummer.

Killed by a ghost? Broad-jumping accident?

 

[Sammy3469]

I just checked and datonn hasn't been to this forum since early February. That's a bummer.

Jack White?

 

[Bob Sacamano]

I'm amazed by how much people seem to care about the Simmons stuff.

Yeah, me too. I remember reading his stuff years ago and thought his travelogs and live blogging games were pretty good, but the more coverage he got, the less I paid attention. Not sure what the hubabaloo is now...people get fired all the time. He's not dead. He'll write or talk on TV.

It isn't KitchenCabinetChat, that's for sure.

Pretty pleased with my new cabinets. The built in garbage can feature makes me feel successful.

Excellent. I take it you managed this without discovering the treasure from a Spanish galleon...

No treasure found, but I DID discover a bunch of old pennants from the 70s, some model airplanes and a Houston Astros orange batting helmet.

Also, I have soft closing drawers now. I bet this is how Trump lives.

Daaaanggg is that where you keep your raisins?

Are you crazy? Those are in the safe behind my gold, guns and nude pics of Sacamano.

Effin Wet Dream

 

[General Malaise]

I just checked and datonn hasn't been to this forum since early February. That's a bummer.

Killed by a ghost? Broad-jumping accident?

Who is datonn again? What's his thing?

 

[WetDream]

I'm amazed by how much people seem to care about the Simmons stuff.

Yeah, me too. I remember reading his stuff years ago and thought his travelogs and live blogging games were pretty good, but the more coverage he got, the less I paid attention. Not sure what the hubabaloo is now...people get fired all the time. He's not dead. He'll write or talk on TV.

It isn't KitchenCabinetChat, that's for sure.

Pretty pleased with my new cabinets. The built in garbage can feature makes me feel successful.

Excellent. I take it you managed this without discovering the treasure from a Spanish galleon...

No treasure found, but I DID discover a bunch of old pennants from the 70s, some model airplanes and a Houston Astros orange batting helmet.

Also, I have soft closing drawers now. I bet this is how Trump lives.

Daaaanggg is that where you keep your raisins?

Are you crazy? Those are in the safe behind my gold, guns and nude pics of Sacamano.

Effin Wet Dream

Pretty sure the pics show it the other way around, Bobby.

 

[Bob Sacamano]

Stupid headboard.

 

[El Floppo]

I just checked and datonn hasn't been to this forum since early February. That's a bummer.

Killed by a ghost? Broad-jumping accident?

Who is datonn again? What's his thing?

ghosts.

 

[Thorn]

I just checked and datonn hasn't been to this forum since early February. That's a bummer.

Killed by a ghost? Broad-jumping accident?

Who is datonn again? What's his thing?

ghosts.

and being TOTALLY COOL with not having sex with his wife

ETA: or with anyone other than his wife, either

 

[Aaron Rudnicki]

guy also loves disc golf more than just about anything.

I'm friends with him on facebook. He's doing pretty well it seems.

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

guy also loves disc golf more than just about anything.

Gay

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

Special

 

[Bob Sacamano]

Don't know if he still checks in here periodically, but thoprawishes Fuller. Very sorry for your loss, gb.

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

According to the test they took yesterday, about10% of my students think Hull House was founded by Brett Hull.

 

[Aaron Rudnicki]

According to the test they took yesterday, about10% of my students think Hull House was founded by Brett Hull.

extra credit if they wrote in 'NO GOAL'

 

[Bob Sacamano]

I'd be surprised if 10% of them could tell you who Brett Hull is.

 

[Bob Sacamano]

Seems a lot like guessing Texas City is the capital of Texas.

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

According to the test they took yesterday, about10% of my students think Hull House was founded by Brett Hull.

extra credit if they wrote in 'NO GOAL'

This is the last test of the year. Their choices were "Brett Hull....Jane Addams.....Wednesday Addams"

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

I'd be surprised if 10% of them could tell you who Brett Hull is.

I'd say it was more like 5%. Not really a hotbed of hockey.

 

[Captain Quinoa]

According to the test they took yesterday, about10% of my students think Hull House was founded by Brett Hull.

How many thought it was an 80s sitcom starring Bob Saget?

 

[Captain Quinoa]

According to the test they took yesterday, about10% of my students think Hull House was founded by Brett Hull.

extra credit if they wrote in 'NO GOAL'

This is the last test of the year. Their choices were "Brett Hull....Jane Addams.....Wednesday Addams"

Man even the illegals should have gotten that one right.

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

One kid did think that Paul Pennzoil proved that oil could be pumped from the ground.

I'm proud to say that not one student thought the process that made steel easier and cheaper to produce was "the Steely Dan process".

 

[El Floppo]

According to the test they took yesterday, about10% of my students think Hull House was founded by Brett Hull.

How many thought it was an 80s sitcom starring Bob Saget?

nice.

 

[RedmondLonghorn]

One kid did think that Paul Pennzoil proved that oil could be pumped from the ground.

I'm proud to say that not one student thought the process that made steel easier and cheaper to produce was "the Steely Dan process".

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

Just noticed that TWO kids thought the telephone was patented by Collette Coll. JFC

 

[El Floppo]

Just noticed that TWO kids thought the telephone was patented by Collette Coll. JFC

you have to put this test up somewhere for us to see.

 

[Ignoramus]

"Collette Coll"

 

[St. Louis Bob]

One kid did think that Paul Pennzoil proved that oil could be pumped from the ground.

I'm proud to say that not one student thought the process that made steel easier and cheaper to produce was "the Steely Dan process".

Um, Homer?

 

[El Floppo]

One kid did think that Paul Pennzoil proved that oil could be pumped from the ground.

I'm proud to say that not one student thought the process that made steel easier and cheaper to produce was "the Steely Dan process".

better than the Alan Parsons Project for sure.

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

Just noticed that TWO kids thought the telephone was patented by Collette Coll. JFC

you have to put this test up somewhere for us to see.

I can cut/paste from the word doc.

Spoiler

[SIZE=10pt]1. What was the name of the process that made steel easier and cheaper to produce?[/SIZE]

[SIZE=10pt]a. Bessemer Process b. Pittsburgh Process c. Steely Dan Process[/SIZE]

[SIZE=10pt]2. Who proved that crude oil could be pumped from the ground?[/SIZE]

[SIZE=10pt]a. Jack Dragna b. Edwin Drake c. Paul Pennzoil[/SIZE]

[SIZE=10pt]3. How many patents did Thomas Edison hold?[/SIZE]

[SIZE=10pt]a. 3 b. 4 million c. over 1000[/SIZE]

[SIZE=10pt]4. Who patented the telephone?[/SIZE]

[SIZE=10pt]a. Alexander Graham Bell b. Elijah McCoy c. Collette Coll[/SIZE]

[SIZE=10pt]5. What did Henry Ford introduce in 1908?[/SIZE]

[SIZE=10pt]a. The Mustang b. Model T c. The Thunderbolt Greaseslapper[/SIZE]

[SIZE=10pt]6. Where and when did the Wright brothers make the first powered flight?[/SIZE]

[SIZE=10pt]a. 1895, Ohio b. 1918, Bakersfield c. 1903, North Carolina[/SIZE]

[SIZE=10pt]7. Who was Andrew Carnegie?[/SIZE]

[SIZE=10pt]a. Steel millionaire b. Invented Monopoly c. Discovered oil in Pennsylvania [/SIZE]

[SIZE=10pt]8. What is ‘vertical integration’?[/SIZE]

[SIZE=10pt]a. a steel making process b. owning businesses in each step of a process c. a civil right[/SIZE]

[SIZE=10pt]9. What business was John D. Rockefeller in?[/SIZE]

[SIZE=10pt]a. shipping b. break dancing c. oil[/SIZE]

[SIZE=10pt]10. What is ‘horizontal integration’?[/SIZE]

[SIZE=10pt]a. owning all businesses in a certain field b. an oil drilling process c. an oil company[/SIZE]

[SIZE=10pt]11. What is a monopoly?[/SIZE]

[SIZE=10pt]a. owning only one company b. total ownership of a product or service c. a large city[/SIZE]

[SIZE=10pt]12. Why was the Sherman Anti-Trust Act difficult to enforce?[/SIZE]

[SIZE=10pt]a. people liked trusts b. nobody knew who Sherman was c. it did not clearly define what a trust was[/SIZE]

[SIZE=10pt]13. How did Frederick W. Taylor suggest managers view workers?[/SIZE]

[SIZE=10pt]a. as interchangeable parts b. as their best friends c. as animals[/SIZE]

[SIZE=10pt]14. What was the first national labor union?[/SIZE]

[SIZE=10pt]a. the Teamsters b. Knights of Labor c. Workin’ Dudes of America[/SIZE]

[SIZE=10pt]15. Who led the AFL?[/SIZE]

[SIZE=10pt]a. Rockefeller b. Namath c. Gompers[/SIZE]

[SIZE=10pt]16. What is collective bargaining?[/SIZE]

[SIZE=10pt]a. workers that acted collectively b. a union of beggars c. when one person goes on strike[/SIZE]

[SIZE=10pt]17. How was membership in the Knights of Labor affected by the Haymarket Riot?[/SIZE]

[SIZE=10pt]a. membership rose b. membership fell quickly c. they started to admit women[/SIZE]

[SIZE=10pt]18. How did the Pullman Strike effect railroad lines?[/SIZE]

[SIZE=10pt]a. it made them faster b. it formed the transcontinental railroad c. it stopped traffic[/SIZE]

[SIZE=10pt]19. What countries did the ‘old immigrants’ come from?[/SIZE]

[SIZE=10pt]a. Germany & Ireland b. Canada & Russia c. Wyoming & East Wyoming[/SIZE]

[SIZE=10pt]20. Where did the ‘new immigrants’ come from?[/SIZE]

[SIZE=10pt]a. England b. southern and eastern Europe c. Australia [/SIZE]

[SIZE=10pt]21. What is ‘steerage’?[/SIZE]

[SIZE=10pt]a. a way to direct a car b. a large number of cows c. an area below a ship’s deck [/SIZE]

[SIZE=10pt]22. What was Ellis Island?[/SIZE]

[SIZE=10pt]a. an immigrant processing center b. where the Statue of Liberty is c. an amusement park[/SIZE]

[SIZE=10pt]23. Who was Amadeo Peter Giannini?[/SIZE]

[SIZE=10pt]a. famous writer b. founded the Bank of America(Italy) c. invented pizza[/SIZE]

[SIZE=10pt]24. What is a benevolent society?[/SIZE]

[SIZE=10pt]a. immigrant aid organization b. a group of workers c. an anti-immigration league[/SIZE]

[SIZE=10pt]25. What is a ‘sweatshop’?[/SIZE]

[SIZE=10pt]a. a place where they make sweat b. small shops in the clothing industry c. where they make sweets[/SIZE]

[SIZE=10pt]26. Where did most Mexican immigrants settle?[/SIZE]

[SIZE=10pt]a. Spain b. the Northeast US c. the Southwest US[/SIZE]

[SIZE=10pt]27. What kinds of beliefs did many Nativists hold?[/SIZE]

[SIZE=10pt]a. the native kind b. pro-immigration beliefs c. anti-immigration beliefs[/SIZE]

[SIZE=10pt]28. What was the Chinese Exclusion Act?[/SIZE]

[SIZE=10pt]a. it allowed Chinese immigrants b. it banned Chinese immigration c. it banned Irish immigrants[/SIZE]

[SIZE=10pt]29. How many U.S. cities were there in 1850 with a population greater than 100,000?[/SIZE]

[SIZE=10pt]a. six b. 35 c. 11 1/2[/SIZE]

[SIZE=10pt]30. How big were typical downtown buildings in the mid-1800s?[/SIZE]

[SIZE=10pt]a. 5 stories b. 30 stories c. negative 5 stories [/SIZE]

[SIZE=10pt]31. What did skyscrapers use to support their weight?[/SIZE]

[SIZE=10pt]a. lots of bricks b. metal frames c. kryptonite beams[/SIZE]

[SIZE=10pt]32. What did Elisha Otis invent?[/SIZE]

[SIZE=10pt]a. water b. gasoline engine c. safety elevator[/SIZE]

[SIZE=10pt]33. What are ‘suburbs’?[/SIZE]

[SIZE=10pt]a. underground tunnels b. elevated trains c. neighborhoods outside of downtown areas[/SIZE]

[SIZE=10pt]34. By 1900 what did the daily newspaper become?[/SIZE]

[SIZE=10pt]a. a weekly paper b. full of comic strips c. a powerful cultural force[/SIZE]

[SIZE=10pt]35. What were the Philadelphia Exposition of 1876 and the Chicago Exposition of 1893?[/SIZE]

[SIZE=10pt]a. minor league baseball teams b. World’s Fairs c. models of cars[/SIZE]

[SIZE=10pt]36. What did population increases in cities often lead to?[/SIZE]

[SIZE=10pt]a. shortages of affordable housing b. bigger parties c. sidewalks caving in[/SIZE]

[SIZE=10pt]37. Who founded Hull House?[/SIZE]

[SIZE=10pt]a. Brett Hull b. Wednesday Adams c. Jane Addams [/SIZE]

[SIZE=10pt]38. What did the staff of Hull House focus on? (just mark “C”. I ran out of room) [/SIZE]

[SIZE=10pt][/SIZE]

 

[El Floppo]

so good

John D 2 electric boogaloo was pretty good on the cardboard.

 

[kevzilla]

It's getting harder and harder to find a Thunderbolt Greaseslapper in good condition.