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    what would you do?

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    2 hours ago, Alpo said:

     

    Do y'all believe in the tooth fairy too?

     

    One fine Friday evening about 7:00 I came home and discovered I had no water. I figured water line was broken somewhere. No big deal. They would get it fixed quickly. I store water, so I had water to make coffee, I had water to flush the toilet, I had water to wash my hands.

     

    The next morning when I discovered I still did not have water I went out and looked at my meter. It was locked.

     

    So all weekend long I had no water. Monday morning I called down and asked why I had no water. They told me I had paid with a rubber check. I told them that was not so.

     

    There are two people in my town with my name. It's not like my name is Smith or Brown or Jones. And the other guys paid with a rubber check.

     

    I was slightly annoyed. I explained to the people on the other end of the telephone how slightly annoyed I was. I asked them, if my name had been Jones and somebody named Jones had not paid his bill would they just arbitrarily turn mine off because my name was Jones? Or would they make sure they had the correct Jones??

     

    I got kicked up to the guy in charge of the water department. He apologized profusely. They would have my water turned back on as quick as possible.

     

    If your water gets disconnected for non-payment, and you want it turned back on, there's a $25 fee. The headman decided what's good for the goose is good for the gander, and on my next water bill there was a $25 credit. Instead of me having to pay the city $25 to turn it back on, the city paid me $25 as an apology. That was nice.

     

    But --- they turned me off with no notice, and with no grace period.

     

    They might not have been supposed to, but they did.

    It’s not possible or legal to shut off the water without a shut off notice at least here where I live. I know a few people that got shut off notices for different reasons and I’ve never heard of anyone getting their water or any utilities shut off without a notice. I do believe it’s illegal!
     

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    M. Monroe in a potato sack

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    2 hours ago, Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 said:

    In 1951, Marilyn Monroe attended a party at the Beverly Hills Hotel wearing a red dress. The "provocative", low cut dress, drew the ire of a female journalist, who called her ‘cheap and vulgar’. She even went on to say that Monroe would have looked better wearing a potato sack. A few days later, Twentieth Century Fox took advantage of the situation and organised a photo shoot that saw Monroe posing in a potato sack dress, that was designed especially for her. The pictures featured in newspapers across the country.

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    Sweet potato !:wub:

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    what would you do?

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    1 hour ago, Alpo said:

    I got my water bill yesterday. It said I did not owe any money. It said that last month I paid $250 more than I needed to, so I had a credit, so my charge this month was zero.

     

    When I saw that I quickly checked my bank statement to see if somehow I had made a stupid and had sent too much money to them people. That had not happened.

     

    I know how much money I owe them this month - $88. So I'm wondering if I should pay them the $88 while they figure out what the hell is going on. Or if I should accept the bill as face value, and don't pay them anything, and risk them turning my water off for non-payment.

     

    What would you do?

    You would get a shut off notice and have time to pay it. I wouldn’t do anything right now.

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    "Speed Loaders"

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    4 hours ago, Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967 said:

    I have a bunch o' revolvers... and most of 'em are single action.  Load 'em up one sausage at a time.

     

    But I do have a couple of Ruger DA's ~ a GP100 (.357) and an LCRx (.38).  And so I'm hoping for some opinions on speed loaders.  Preferably some sort of "push button" types; the ones I have require twisting a knob - kinda tricky sometimes, since the cylinder wants to spin right along with the loader.  

     

    Suggestions?  :)

     

    Oh ~ might make good stocking stuffers for the Kid, come Christmas.  He "outranks" me in the DA department.  :rolleyes:

    I have the push ones for my SW 617 but I don’t know of any for other revolvers.

     

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    Made A Young Lady Cry Today

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    9 hours ago, Yul Lose said:

    I went down to one of the local feed stores to pick up a couple of horse shoes that I put onto the front of the carriage on the gun carts that I build. I went to the aisle where the horse shoes were and picked out a couple of them and took them up to the counter. I laid them down and the young lady, probably just out of high school asks me if I was just buying 2 of them. I told her , yes, just 2 of them for my 2 legged horse. She said she’d never heard of a 2 legged horse before and I told her that back in the 1970’s they even wrote a song about riding across the desert on a 2 legged  horse. She was incredulous, I guess I should have stopped there but I then told her that my 2 legged horse trots around in a circle all day and the reason it wears out it’s shoes so fast is that it pivots on its front leg and uses it’s one back leg to trot around in a circle all day. She didn’t say anything but then I noticed a tear running down her cheek and realized that she thought I really had a poor 2 legged horse.

     

    Well I felt pretty bad and her boss had just finished up with another customer and told her not to believe a word that I said and that I didn’t have a 2 legged horse. I apologized and her boss helped her finish up the sale and handed me the 2 horse shoes and said “Left front and left rear, right?’“ I’ve done that at that store probably 15-20 times over the last 4-5 years and this was the first time that the cashier reacted like that. 

    You’re terrible! I love it!:lol:

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    You May Have the Wrong Sign!

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    23 minutes ago, Pat Riot said:

    We need a nerd club.
    You know, a place where nerds can meet. A place where they can pick up a club and use it on someone to feel better and get on with their day. A Nerd Club. :D
     

    I am kidding…:rolleyes:

     

    My wife, relatives and friends call me a “Weather Nerd”. :lol:

    That's funny, I was never interested in the weather until a few years ago now it's the first thing I look for in the morning! I guess I'm a weather nerd too!

    We already have a "nerd club", it's right here in the SALOON!!:lol:

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    You May Have the Wrong Sign!

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    18 hours ago, Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770 said:

    I'm not sure WHERE I am. The website won't even let me read the article! But as long as they don't mess with my Biorhythms, I'm okay. 

    Click back a few comments and Joe has the new signs listed!

    More on Costner's latest Western

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    11 minutes ago, Blackwater 53393 said:

    Just got back from dinner and the movie!!

     

    IT WAS EXCELLENT!!

     

    The plots were straight forward. There ARE  several, but you can see where some of them will meld soon. Others will take a while!

     

    There’s plenty of action, but I didn’t think it was overboard and it was very believable.

     

    Costner himself didn’t appear until well into the first hour and, to this point, he didn’t dominate the screen time.

     

    I’m not really certain about the time line.  There are a lot of cartridge guns for the middle of the Civil War.  It’s by no means a detractor for the movie, but it is there.  One shot shows a gunbelt with the cartridge loops full of center fire primed cartridges.

     

    Some of the actors are long time western regulars that you might not recognize at first. 
     

    The cinematography is fabulous!!  I’ve been to several of the locations, but some of the aerial shots are utterly spectacular! This is one that really SHOULD BE seen on the big screen and I don’t mean you 85” flat screen TV!!  
     

    The sound is great too! I didn’t have to readjust my hearing aids to catch any of the lower voice conversations, nor for the really loud explosion and gunfire scenes.  That’s always a plus!!

     

    I thoroughly enjoyed the show! The three hours seemed more like an hour and a half to me.  I’m really looking forward to the next episode.

     

    As far as the box office, our theater was sold out for our show and I saw no empty seats. The box office at the theater complex added another screeing between ours and the later showing in a second theater!  The late show was sold out and the added one was selling out quickly.

    Thanks for the review and you didn’t give away the plot! Good job!!;)

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    More on Costner's latest Western

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    2 hours ago, Blackwater 53393 said:

    I’m with Rye on this one!

     

    I like complicated plot lines, unless it’s cartoons.  Trying to keep them all straight is entertaining to me.

     

    I like longer movies!!  They have room in the script to provide more depth and detail!  Usually more for the money as well.

     

    It’s a WESTERN!!  Ya’ gotta be happy that somebody is keeping that part of our heritage alive for everyone to see and hopefully enjoy!

     

    It’s a serial!!  That gives the folks who enjoy it something to look forward to and to speculate on what happens next!

     

    I hope that it’s as good as all the publicity has made it out to be. It’ll be great to have more to look forward to in the coming months!!

     

    Me ‘n’ Schoolmarm have a lunch date with another couple, cowboy shooters like us, and we have reservations to see the movie after lunch!!  That makes it even better!!

    Awesome.let us know what ya think. I won't be able to see it until sometime next week! 

    You May Have the Wrong Sign!

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    8 hours ago, Subdeacon Joe said:

    According to NASA

    https://www.today.com/popculture/your-life-lie-zodiac-has-changed-here-s-your-new-t103295

     

    "In other words: astrological chaos. And the science nerds at NASA don't even care that they've upended our lives. They released a statement last week explaining, "Here at NASA, we study astronomy, not astrology. We didn’t change any zodiac signs, we just did the math.”"

     

    But the real question is,  "How does this impact NASA's main concerns of Global Warming and DEI?

    Oh no the horror of it, I’m not an Aries anymore I’m a Pisces!!! What will I do now?? :o

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    This One's For Pat Riot

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    On 6/28/2024 at 7:31 PM, Loophole LaRue, SASS #51438 said:

    And most T riders would gladly forgo googly eyes in exchange for trains that ran even occasionally on time.....

     

    LL  

    I bet they would like more security too!

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