Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967

Go for it! I think I might start warming up with a nap right now!

Well, that's peculiar! On my tablet, I see the same thing YOU see, but on my laptop I see THIS: (I re-saved the original .PNG as a .JPEG, then copied to the thread)

That gal has BIG FEET~!! ^^^^ At least, one of 'em~!

Sassparilla Kid and I built this one a bunch of years ago for an American Cancer Society Relay For Life event. I submit that mine is more true to the original.

Oh, YUM~!

Naw... Norton died a hunnert 'n' forty years ago. Gavin is still strutting about in Sacramento. Unfortunately.

An Emperor Penguin~! Is his name Gavin the First...?

Of course. Hieronymus Bosch was easily an eleven~!!

Joe, ya left out Bosch.

Wanna bet...?

Reza Aslan. What a piece of work. Reza

Dude.... you would be well advised to duck.

Do you recall what year this was...? And I wonder if it'd still be legal in a Subaru Brat~?

Shoooot.... when I was a kid, there would've been a bunch of furniture in the back o' the pickup and the order would've been "Hang on to that stuff and DON'T let anything bounce out! And make DAMNED sure the mirror on the back o' that dresser don't get busted!!"

That reminds me of the time someone tried calling "Farb!" on me for using Worcestershire Sauce in a batch of jerky my son and I made for a Civil War event. Nope... Lea & Perrins has been imported since 1839.

He did. But the kid grew up and moved to Ukraine for a while.

Did somebody actually say that???

The state's been pushing hard for years to develop the electric car market, with all sorts of incentives to manufacture, sell, buy and use 'em. Hell... a few years ago, when he was Attorney General, Jerry Brown was pushing for electric bulldozers for road construction. But you're right - almost one third of the electricity used in California is imported from other states. We cannot build nukes, we cannot build dams for hydroelectric, coal is outlawed... that doesn't leave much. Natural gas, wind, and solar. Also note that the state is attempting to build a "high speed railway system." The plan is for the thing to be powered by electricity. How to pay for it? I suspect by increasing the already absurdly high taxes on motor vehicles and fuel. Oh - and Gov Gav's requirement that all new housing must be constructed with solar generating systems. I liked what my old pard Palouse once said, many years ago: "If those people were serious they'd be eating boiled lawn clippings and only wearing clothes woven from their own hair!"