Blunt Trauma

So we've got one participant who sees no difference between rednecks an "white trash". I do understand having an issue with the PWT's of the world. Especially when they're next door. I've got a couple of trash strewing beer bottle tossing neighbors myself. I was trying to keep it light and let those of us so maligned as to be lumped together with them to acknowledge our redneckedness with pride. Second favorite redneck joke: Famous redneck last words, "Hey y'all.....watch this!"

I've seen the word thrown around here, most often as a pejorative. What strikes me as being the most ironic thing is that it's most often used this way by folks who's past postings would seem to include them in the group they are disparaging. Now right up front I'd like to admit to being a redneck. Knowing were the word comes from, I wear it with pride. How about y'all? Are you willing to stand up and be counted as part of the redneck nation? Now try not to let the tobacco juice dribble into the keyboard as you type! And since you've got to be able to laugh at yourself, please include

I've been through this recently with an Escalade. Experience tells me that what you get from a junkyard, especially on older vehicles, is just that, junk. You might luck up and get one that'll last forever, but that is the exception and not the rule. The bottom line is are you wanting to keep this truck another 3 to 5 years or are there other problems that would cost to much to allow that? If your figuring on keeping it go with the rebuild. If you do, make sure the carrier gear is addressed too.

Done the bartending thing, but mostly many years as a bouncer. Both as second jobs. The primary employment was over three decades of dealing with the public, from pauper to prince. All of which leads me to agree with the inclusion of two words in your post. Those being people and ticks.

Update: Friends just got back from the hospital, it's bad but not as bad as first reported. Both legs have multiple breaks, rib cage on one side broken, spleen ruptured. They were able to reattach the foot, but it's not out of the woods. Believed that the respirator may be removed in several days. Swelling is extensive everywhere on his body. He's awake but unable to speak. The current estimate is 3 months in the hospital followed by 6 months of rehab. Both said to be best case scenarios. As bad as it is, it beats the alternative by a fair sight. original post: Possum's real n

Dude, where's my drawers/

Went to the Den last night for the first time in this incarnation. The catfish is passable, but not exceptional. The hushpuppies were something slightly less than passable. The problem with both being that they tasted like the frying oil was way past needing to be changed and the cooking times needed to be cut back considerably. Both had a borderline burnt taste. On the other side of the table my conpanion ordered the shrimp. They were said to be good and looked to be so. They were battered as opposed to breaded like the catfish. It looked and smelled like they were cooked in a different f

Can't remember the name, but in the auto care strip mall across from Harley of Atlanta on Thornton Rd. The glass shop is in the corner where the building turns 90 degrees. I did business with them once and they weren't out to get rich. Friendly and fast.

Sorry to say that the money fell through on the Del Taco you mention. On the upside, there still in business out west and apparently looking to sell franchises here again.

I have no idea what it is, but it's been going on for a couple days or so. Twice in one day on one ocaasion. The first was closer and way louder, shook the house even. The second seemed a good bit further away. That's from Nebo near the golf course.

Don't know what section you live in, but I can tell you that about midnight last night there were a series of power outages and surges. Happened about midnight over here near Nebo and Dallas-Nebo. Off and on at least a half dozen times over about 10 minutes. There's probably a few folks around here with some pretty bad electronics issues this morning.

Since the bubble burst, a great many folks have taken advantage of property swapping. I believe it's called a "1031 Swap". There are plenty of places on the net set up for this. Plug in what you have and what you want and maybe there's some folks out there that have something the numbers will work on. They get the downsized house they want, like so many of the replies here, and you get more room for your family.

Subby, would you happen to have a line on a pull behind mower cart?

...and Paulding County Government, oft times go...well...sideways. From the Douglas County Sentinel: "College campus closing by Winston Jones/Sentinel1 day 19 hrs ago | 687 views | 0 | 13 | | Facing additional state financial cuts of $2.4 million, Georgia Highlands College announced Friday it plans to close its Douglasville and Paulding County campuses by June 30. The cuts represent close to a quarter of the college’s budget for Fiscal Year 2011, Georgia Highlands President Randy Pierce said, according to a story by Doug Walker in the Rome News-Tribune. Pierce told a Frid

Extra rooms just cost extra, if you have them install it. There are two tuner boxes that you can get and run the 2nd off of yourself. The tuner will be a few bucks extra and its not as convenient as two seperate boxes, or in your case, repeat as necessary. There's a couple down sides to sattelite. Trees are one. I live in a grove of trees and found out the hard way. If you want HD its even worse, its a seperate point in the sky and its lower on the horizon. For both companies! You'll have temporary outages during heavy storms. Most of the time you'll get refurbished equipment. (Kinda l

A beiever, no. Willing to accept that there are things we don't know, yes. I've never understood the universal assumption that if there is a BF it has to be an unknown species. A human mutation could explain so many of the points most commonly thrown at this. Intelligence to avoid as much contact as possible. Self enforced isolation could cause remains to be scattered in extreme locations. The BF weakens as it nears death and seeks as much seperation as possible from what it percieves as danger. ie: Other Humans If discovered, any skeletal remains would be those of a malformed human

Either way they may lean, it's all become talk radio on TV. If you want to have pundit's spouting spin, then label it that, just like Sunday morning has been for decade's. It's even worse when the spouting is done by the anchors. Again, it's not limited to one side or the other. They're all guilty of this. CNN, FOX, MSNBC, all the network news shows....everybody. If it's a news progrwm, give me the news. I don't want or need them to tell me what to think. Give me facts and I'll manage to form my own opinion!

...do other folks have gremlins in their pipes? I admit when it comes to gettin' water into and out of the house I'm plumb ignorant [pauses for groans]. But what the water does around my house just makes no sense to me. The kitchen I "kinda" understand. Depending on the time of day, you turn the water on and sometimes there will be a thump and water pressure to beat the band. After a few on up to many seconds the flow will back off to a respectable but weak stream. Works the same way on both sides of the fawcet. Of course during the time of day most folks are home and using water it j

For every snow storm, ice storm, and sometimes just at the threat of flurries for the last 30 years I've had to start 12 on and 12 off shifts. Sometimes for days on end clearing the highways in metro. Including the original snowjam back in the early 80's and the blizzard in 93. This year I'm retired for the first time so of course I'm hopin' for about 3 feet. Yep....just about 3 feet and 2 fifthes. Oh!... storm stories?.....oh yeah....I gots your storm stories!

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OK, I'll give it a shot. First, the good news, this intersection is included in two seperate projects currently on the STIP (State Transportation Improvement Program}either of which would add a signal. The bad news is that they are both listed as long range projects. Anyone can view these projects by going to the GDOT website and clicking on the link for Transportation Explorer. The anacronym for this is TREX. You can Google and navigate or just plug this link into your browser http://app5-trex-web.dot.state.ga.us/trex_external/viewer.htm . The database is searchable by county and lists al

If you really want to know, I'll tell you. Apparently I've already made the mistake of offering the facts as i know them when it was really just a vent instead of a question.

Didn't make any excuses, I simply responded to "OK, explain this one to me". Here's a scenario for you. You are in charge of the maintenance program that includes traffic signals. You have a piece or pieces of equipment that are sub-standard and/or are regularly malfunctioning, and as a result of that equipment someone loses there life or is permanently maimed. Now it is discovered that you made the call to not go forward with an already funded project that would have corrected the problem in anticipation of a project that is expected to go forward in a couple of years. Maybe that project

I can help with this one. If Federal dollars are involved in any project, then Federal Design Guidelines must be followed. In practical terms, if a traffic light is sub-standard (still using incandecent bulbs, requires frequent repair, etc.) and needs to be replaced, and is then included in a project either by itself or along with the same or similar work at additional intersections with Federal participation, then full blown hadicapped pedestrian facilities must be included in the work. This is as a result of the Americans with Disabilities Act, the same law that brought us braille butto

The link won't work for me, but I wasn't really figurin' that you'd be the one that would put us over. psst....that ain't me in the picture. It's my bike, but that old boy was looking up the whole time he was explaining the dyno results to me.