IIRC it means sunk to da bottom... on purpose.

The USS Sterett (CG-31) was my first ship... disposal or torn apart and recycled.
USS McKee (AS-41) was my second ship... disposal or torn apart and recycled.
USS Ogden (LPD-5) was my third ship... she was foundered off the coast of Hawaii to make an artificial reef.
USS Mobile Bay (CG-53) was my fourth and final ship... still in service, since 1987.

Thank you, sailor.

Garage Springs.

When you open and then close the garage door, it is called a Cycle.
Because springs are now made of recycled metal, they don't last nearly as long.

The average garage springs have a lifespan of 10,000 cycles. 22,000 and 33,000 are also options.

Knowledge brought to you by a guy and his wife who had their vehicles trapped in the garage for five hours on Saturday.

Speaking from experience... you don't want to be near the spring when it snaps. Lot's of energy stored in there. Most of them have a cable threaded through the middle so if it snaps it doesn't go ballistic.

Was trying fix a garage door at my ex father-in-law's house many years ago. Older version of garage doors. The spring snapped (dislodged from the pin/bolt) at one end... franking A... if there were any fingers or appendages near the area there would have been some 911 calls.

yup.
typically a handle at the bottom of the rope hanging in front of the opener on the ceiling when the door is closed, give a tug and it disengages the thingy from the whatchit and the door reverts back to it's manual birth state.

Y’all shaming 8TRACK???

Speaking from experience... even light, aluminum garage doors, like most are nowadays, are difficult to lift without the help of that stupid spring.

Had one bust in the CA home after 17 years or so... and had to muscle the door open and hold it in place with a screwdriver through one of the track holes. I wasn't trapped for 5 hours, because, well... I'm wicked smaht.

Can't remember what it cost me to have 2 of the effers replaced, but there was one on each side. Couple hundy, IIRC.

Not a two stall, single opener system set up when the garage door is also fully insulated for Wisconsin winters.

Lift with the legs. Not the back

So hard to get a grip on stuff with my knees, though. I usually just lift with my hands.

better balance with a tripod

Elon was supposed to deliver it...

Likely why stock is very limited at every vendor I know of... and why the price is 3+ times what it was pre-covid.

Sucks to be Cuba, for more reasons than just communism now. Ain't a lot of people gonna buy those cigars for those prices.

I'm learning to like NC's now that they're cheaper than Cubans. If ya can't afford what you like... learn to like what you can afford.

Covid ravaged rolling production.

Covid increased cigar demand such that they ran out of stored tobacco for production.

Oil price spiked.

Supply chain function was grossly impaired for a long time- and then the hurricane completely ruined it all, making the prices even higher.







MACS, I am down to my last 25 or so single Havanas. No idea what my next move will be.

Ravaged production due to sick workers and closed factories.

Increased demand from everyone staying home and/or receiving stimulus and having more disposable income due to decreased expenses and Covid stimulus (paid by many countries).

The speed of light has never been measured in one direction. We use a mirror and measure the there and back speed.

It is only assumed that light travel the same speed in all direction - but never proven.

Some would say faster....

It was always harder to determine ugly in the early a.m. on the weekends. At least during the second half of the 80s.

Does that include football linemen ?

I've heard of switch hitters in baseball (can bat either right or left handed). Never heard of a switch pitcher.

Venditte was a switch pitcher, capable of pitching proficiently with both arms. He was recognized as the only professional pitcher who was able to do this. Venditte's rare ability to pitch with either arm required both Major and Minor League Baseball to create a rule for ambidextrous pitchers, known colloquially as the "Pat Venditte Rule". This rule essentially requires any ambidextrous pitcher to declare which hand he will use to pitch to a batter before the at-bat starts and to throw with that hand through the entire at-bat (unless he is injured during the at-bat).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRqnRLu5RBo

Cows can be used to sniff out bad guys

http://www.cigarbid.com/...ed-stitches-#post4719863

Maybe they changed detergent to wash the uniforms with.

Apparently Celebration now has a Columbia location.

There is a scene in the movie "The Last Emperor," that shows the former king's post royalty "re-educator" being paraded through town when the former king, who had become a commoner, objects to the newest regime punishing his old "re-educator" by saying something like: I know this man. He is a good man...

Haven't watched that movie in years- but would again in a heartbeat.

Prior to the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, various locations were considered as potential Jewish homelands. Here are a few notable examples:

Uganda (East Africa Scheme): In the early 1900s, the British offered a proposal known as the Uganda Plan, suggesting the establishment of a Jewish homeland in what is now Uganda. However, this plan was met with mixed reactions and ultimately rejected by the Zionist movement in favor of a homeland in the historic land of Israel.

Argentina: During the early 20th century, discussions emerged around the idea of establishing a Jewish homeland in Argentina. The Argentine government even offered land for Jewish settlement in the province of Entre Rios. However, this proposal did not gain widespread support within the Jewish community.

Cyprus: In the years leading up to Israel's establishment, Cyprus was considered as a temporary haven for Jewish refugees escaping Nazi persecution during World War II. British authorities established detention camps for Jewish refugees on the island, which later became a staging point for Jewish emigration to Palestine.

It's important to note that while these alternative locations were considered, the primary focus of the Zionist movement, led by figures like Theodor Herzl, was to establish a Jewish homeland in the historic land of Israel, which had significant historical and religious significance to the Jewish people.