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1- Hey everyone watch this.... Hello, Mr. President? Is your refrigerator running? Better go catch it! Ha ha, gets him every time. 3 - Yep, as suspected, the patient has no detectable pulse. 4 -What!?! They've got How to be a Vice President for Dummies. I need three! 5 - As soon as I'm done here I'm gonna have Mr. Grumpy, behind me over there, take all this crap back.

It's great of the lender if the borrower asks for forgiveness and they give it. There is no shame or ethical problem in asking. But if you ask and the lender says "sorry, we'd like our money", then she should have to pay it back. The ironic part is, if they did forgive her debt, the government considers that "income", almost as if the lender gave her the money to pay it back. So, she'll owe income tax on that amount. $10k = roughly $2.5k she'll still owe the government in tax, and I don't think the IRS would be so generous. When my son was young, he wanted to buy a car, and I cosigned for him. He was very responsible and made his payments on time, so no problems for me. However, the finance guy at the dealership made it VERY clear I would be responsible for paying this off if there was any reason my son didn't. You'd have to be foolish to not understand what you are getting into by cosigning.

A friend had some fun with some knukleheads that were parking illegally at work a few years ago. He printed up some very authentic looking fake parking tickets. I think he even put on there that there was a $20 or so fine that they could pay by mail by sending a money order to a certain address. The address was some charity. They stopped parking there.

http://artofmanliness.com/2012/11/26/stocking-stuffers-for-men/?utm_source=Daily+Subscribers&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=4ec07affff-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN Here is a timely article from one of my favorite websites.

I still think the TSA should sell those Post Office "If it fits, it ships" boxes to passengers and let them mail it back home. Now, they collect the items and take them to the dumpster, with my idea they collect the boxes and take them to the airport mail drop. It would go a long way to fostering good feelings with the TSA.

Oops, didn't realize there was already a thread about this one: [url="http://www.tngunowners.com/forums/topic/55486-hcp-black-friday-rage/"]http://www.tngunowne...ck-friday-rage/[/url] Apologies for the double post.

[quote name='seawolf138' timestamp='1354037361' post='851385'] 42 Million dead in bloodiest black friday weekend. [url="http://www.theonion.com/articles/42-million-dead-in-bloodiest-black-friday-weekend,30517/"]http://www.theonion....-weekend,30517/[/url] The Onion always manages to crack me up. [/quote] Off topic, but did anyone see that North Korea quoted the Onion in an article where they claimed leader Kim Jong Un was the sexiest man alive? Apparently the North Korean's don't understand satire or sarcasm.

[url="http://oakridgetoday.com/2012/11/27/wysh-black-friday-meets-road-rage/#more-12978"]http://oakridgetoday.com/2012/11/27/wysh-black-friday-meets-road-rage/#more-12978[/url] And he has (had) a HCP, which is doubly stupid. This guy needs to go to jail for a while. The poetic justice of the story is the victims' husband was driving behind the shooter and witnessed the whole thing. I'm sure he had great restraint after witnessing someone shooting at his wife. If it was me, there would likely be two people going to jail.

http://www.amazon.com/Gerber-22-01769-Shard-Keychain-Tool/dp/B002ZK45IQ I bought one of these a while back and love it. I'm going to get one for each of my kids. It fits easily with my keys, and a biner fits perfectly through the hole.

[quote name='Erik88' timestamp='1353800353' post='850179'] I have a hard time believing any of this. All of the things you mentioned seem like they would add more work to product by making them "different", which should raise the price. [/quote] Well you know "My Sister's Boyfriend's Friend" is nearly as reliable a source as "I read it on the Internet" But, consider clothing, where you are just substituting a lesser quality fabric into the existing process, which would not make it any more difficult for the workers. Or in the case of a computer, using refurbished drives instead of brand new ones does not add any more complexity to the process other than the person purchasing the components. I don't know if the story is true or not, I just heard it over a turkey and beer induced conversation and it seemed plausible.

My sister's boyfriend has a friend in the retail business as a merchandiser, He says that most of the stuff that stores have on sale at extraordinary discounts are manufactured specially for the sale and are usually inferior quality as compared to the same item sold a month ago. He says that name brand clothes are made with cheaper material, electronics are skimped on quality components or parts are missing altogether, such as ports on a laptop or refurbished hard drives. He also said if you compare model numbers on some merchandise, you'll see that they vary slightly, like an extra letter or number at the end. This means it was made specifically for the retailer for the sale.

If you've ever looked at the properties of an email you've received in a client like Outlook, you'll see that the email has passed through several servers on its' way from the sender to you. Any one of them could potentially capture your message and store it. It's also not unthinkable that Big Brother could at some time require all emails to pass through one of their servers, and they can capture and store it themselves.

A couple of our big box stores in town had Christmas stuff out at the beginning of October. If you figure in the after Christmas liquidation sales that go on thru Janurary, that is 4 months, or 1/3 of the year selling Christmas. Disgusting.

My favorite holiday is New Years, Not because of the partying, I usually stay home, but because the Christmas season is officially over.

I think Norris is $30 per person. Since my wife and I go shoot together frequently, that put us at $60. And, since I live in Oak RIdge, I figured I'd come close to spending the balance in gas. Plus, since it's so close, I can just swing by any evening after work and pick up all the free brass that may be laying around. It really is a nice place. Not sure if it was mentioned, but they have a great archery range there too. Two trails with several stations on them that you can shoot from stands or on the ground at all kinds of lifelike targets.

Of them all, Roger Moore was my least favorite. It always seemed like he tried to be a funny guy Bond, and it just came of as weak to me. Sean Connery was definitely my favorite, but I think he has been replaced by Craig. Seems like Craig is just a bad-ass.

A free Google Voice number is the best thing to use with Craig's list. You get an actual phone number from Google, then configure the account to forward any calls to your real phone. Give out the Google number on Craigslist, and nobody ever knows your real number. You can then block any spammers if they start calling. You can create groups of contacts, like friends, family, business, etc. then configure each of those groups to either ring your phone, go to directly to voice mail, be blocked completely, or make the caller state their name and Google will call you with the recording and let you decide to answer it, etc. You can set the account to go to voice mail for everyone after the item sells and your phone will never ring if people keep calling.. You can use the account to make free long distance calls too.

If the holes are small, say an inch or so in diameter, you can get this repair kit that looks like a piece of screen. The stuff is sticky, and you just stick a piece over the hole and work some mud into it. Works pretty easy. If the holes are bigger, but not huge, you can cut a piece of 1x2 or similar scrap of wood. Cut it about 4" longer than the hole is wide. Put the wood inside the hole and use drywall screws to secure it on either side of the hole. Now you have something to screw a patch of drywall into. Sometimes, I will put a screw in the middle of the wood to use to hold on to as I'm positioning it behind the old drywall, then remove it once it is screwed in place. For larger holes, gut the existing drywall back to the center of two studs and attach the patch to the studs directly.

I love whitewater kayaking. I've been doing it since I was a kid. In fact it's one of the reasons I moved from FL to TN, so I could do it more often. This is me at Bald River Falls over by the Tellico River, [img]https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-lFHnAEbJHkc/T_uNTWgJcmI/AAAAAAAAAzY/BFmzXifU0QQ/s604/David_BaldRiverFalls.jpg[/img]

This will be all over the mainstream media news cycle this week. Oddly, Fox News will not cover it at all.

I would think without a set of lungs providing oxygen, the brain would die pretty quick. Maybe the tanks and the electrical equipment provide the oxygen somehow. Still, Michonne's pets' heads were there too and I'm sure they didn't get into the tank right away.

I thought the episode was a little on the boring side, but I think it was necessary to set up future episodes. It seems like the story is moving away from centering on Zombies and more toward coping in a new world. Everyone is kind of casual around the Walkers now. The real drama is going to be between the living. I did find it interesting the different words the Woodbury group use for the Walkers. They call them Biters, and say they "Turned" once a person dies and comes back. I also heard Andrea mention a "herd" and saw a brief contemplation of the word from Merle. The Gov is definintely a strange one. Not sure why he NEVER says his name. I found that odd. I also liked the discussion about Michionne's pets. The scientist guy said that take away their ability to eat by removing their arms and jaws, and they lose interest in feeding. I never bought that they didn't still try to attack people. I guess this explains it. It was also interesting to learn that keeping the pets disguised the smell of the living and Walkers would go right past. Another thing I'm a little confused about is the heads in the tank with the eyes still moving around. I thought once you cut the head off the Walker was done. Maybe it has to to be a destroyed brain to officially do them in. If so, there are going to be a lot of zombie heads all over the place. I noticed the big generator thing in the room with the tanks of heads. Maybe he's got some kind of thing keeping them artificially alive.

Well I was going to post about the Minister's Treehouse in Crossville, but while searching for a link (http://www.roadsideamerica.com/tip/13746) it turns out the Fire Marshall has shut them down. We went there this summer and it was pretty neat. It is a HUGE tree house, forget how many stories and rooms it has, but it is measured in tens of thousands of square feet. The owner built a treehouse one day and has just kept adding on ever since. If it ever opens back up, it is well worth the visit. It is (was) free, but they have a donations box outside.

Wow! They are actually planning on wearing them again?

Did anyone see those awful uniforms the Pittsburgh Steelers were wearing yesterday? Holy cow, they looked like bees that escaped prom prison. Not sure who thought that was going to be a good look. They need a new fashion designer. Or just go back to what works.