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Two Legged Pest Control, Blast from the past.

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Sunday, May 19, 2013

Two Legged Pest Control

Heh, I found a good way to keep the wimmins out of my Man Cave today.
My wife and her two sisters were out in my garage yammering away while I was working on the transmission for my Sprite.
I had been enjoying the peace and quiet because they had all gone to the movies earlier so I was just in my own little world and enjoying the shit out of it too.

I didn’t even have the squawk box on.
Pretty soon here they come. Sounded like someone moved a fucking chicken tractor into the joint.
Yack yack yack yack.
We don’t smoke in the house so we have a little kiddy table out there and a couple ashtrays.
Jeeze, pretty soon I am kinda gritting my teeth.
While I am wrenching on this little gearbox, I reach over and grabbed a can of Carb Cleaner to do some spot cleaning of some parts.

Let me tell ya, that shit is powerful stuff, especially in an enclosed space.

Shit doesn’t bother me because I am used to it to the point I almost like the smell.

It’s a guy thing I am certain.

Anyways, pretty soon I hear one of ’em pipe up with something along then lines of “What is that smell, are those fumes?”

I turned around and growled at her, Whattaya fucking think? Yer in my Goddamn garage.
If ya don’t like it go outside and smoke.

Oh the trauma. It’s too cold, bitch bitch bitch.
So of course I lay it on with the fucking carb cleaner now.

Amazingly enough, it didn’t take very long and they all suddenly decided they needed to be somewhere else , pronto.

Perfect.

I recommend this stuff, it works real good for cleaning grease and varnish on parts and as an added bonus it has a powerful stink to it.

It’s like bug spray for people too.

Conscience of the Office.

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Mostly Cajun, All American and Opinionated

https://mostlycajun.com/wordpress

One of the hats I wore before I retired was that of resident conscience. I had a whiteboard. I started recording bits of wisdom when I started the job. I took a photo when I left. My boss used to bring people in to read the wisdom contained thereon.

I have taken the time to transcribe the contents in case the picture is hard to read:

All of the carefully thought out and intelligent plans in the world from the beginning of time to the present day tremble in the presence of ONE motivated idiot.

There are three kinds of people in the world, those wh can count and those who can’t.

“You should really do some research instead of just listening to the voices in your head.

BOGSAT (Bunch of guys sitting around a table

In a just universe, stupid should hurt. IT often does, and it hurts the wrong people)

Exhaustipated – too tired to give a shit.

Silence is golden. Duct tape is silver.

We have enough ‘youth’. How about a fountain of ‘smart’?

Roman Engineer’s Law: The engineer must sleep under the bridge he designed.

I’ve got to stop saying “How stupid can you be?”. Too many people are taking it as a challenge.

“Arrogant” is the term that the mediocre use to describe people better than themselves.

Life is like a box of morons.

One man’s magic is another man’s engineering (Common sense)

“It ain’t fair!” (‘Fair’ is where you buy funnel cakes)

If you don’t know, don’t speak.

The tallest nail gets the hammer.

Guano-psychotic – bat-shit crazy.

Adam and Eve didn’t have belly buttons. Think about it.

Try not. Do, or do not. There is no “try”.

I don’t know much about electricity, but compared to HIM I feel like freakin’ TESLA! (Quote by Bobby Pinch – RIP)

Teamwork is a lot of people doing what **I* say. (Donald Trump)

Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men.

Proud member of the National Sarcasm Society (Like we need YOUR support)

Indumnification.

The opposite of failed experts isn NOT incompetent amateurs.

Idiot-proof systems are no match for system-proof idiots.

There is no “I” in team. There ARE in “group of idiots”.

Stupid kills (But not enough to really help)

The opportunity to excel often rides in on the coattails of idiots.

There is NO amount of technology that can overcome the limits of human incompetence.

Covered Bridges

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Contributed by Don’t mind me.

  1. First ten pictures are in Maine.

2) Porter-Parsonsfield Covered Bridge.

3) Hemlock Bridge.

4) Babbs Bridge (oldest in Maine; used to pardy-hardy up there.)

5) Bennett Bridge.

6) Lovejoy Bridge.

7) Lowes Bridge.

8) Robyville Bridge.

9) Sunday River Bridge.

9A) Sunday River Bridge Interior.

10) Watson Settlement Bridge.

10A) Watson Settlement Bridge Interior.

11) Smoot, Wyoming.

12) Unknown.

13) Carlton Bridge, built in 1789 in Swanzey, New Hampshire. Purported to be the oldest in the country.

13A) Carlton Bridge Interior.

14) Thompson Bridge, W. Swanzey New Hampshire.