[are you often shocked when laws change?]

Oh, insurance. When I was a young man car shopping, a 3-speed column shift - three on the tree - did not matter one way or the other for your insurance. But if your car had a floor shift - especially if it had a 4-speed floor shift - that was a hot rod and your insurance went up. That was in 1972. In 1975, during the oil crisis, the four on the floor was advertised as "an economical 4-speed transmission", because a standard got better mileage than an automatic, and the more gears it had the better mileage standard got.

 

And suddenly a four on the floor was not a hot rod.

[I wonder if there is a formula for baking different sizes?]

Looking back over my math I think I screwed the pooch there. But I'm not sure how I should have done it correctly.

[I wonder if there is a formula for baking different sizes?]

I have a recipe for a cake that makes two 8-inch layer cake pans. I can make that and make a two layer cake.

 

Or I can take a piece of thread and slice the two 8" layers in half, and stack them with more frosting and make a four layer cake. But the layers will be 1" high, and it's still only 8 inches.

 

Now let's suppose I wanted to make a 12 inch cake with the same recipe.

 

I wish to make a large multi-layer cake. 12 inches in diameter, 8 layers high.

 

If x amount of batter in an 8" pan makes a layer 2" high, that is approximately 100 cubic inches of cake. (Pi r square - 3.14 * 4² is approximately 50, times 2 inches high equals 100 cubic inches)

 

If I use a 12" cake pan with the same amount of batter, I end up with a layer of approximately 7/8" thick (3.14 * 6² is 113. 100 cubic inches divided by 113 is 88. 7/8 is .875).

 

So now I'm going to end up with a cake that is 12" in diameter but only 7/8 of an inch thick. How will I know how long to bake it so that it comes out just like the 8" diameter 2" high layer? Is there a formula somewhere for doing something like that, or do you just have to guess at it and keep records?

[Ba-Dump Tissssh - Memes]

[Jeep Universal]

When I was in high school my patrol leader - his father had a Jeep wagoneer and he wished to sell it, so Mike and I drove the truck to another town. His father had not gotten a good enough offer here in our town so he was hoping that they would get a better deal somewhere else. Coming back home the universal joint let go and dropped the drive shaft (this was maybe 10:00 at night). And Mike thought a while, and dug through all the crap in the back of the Jeep, and came out with a wire coat hanger. Crawled underneath the truck and tied the drive shaft to the frame using the coat hanger.

 

Then he locked the front hubs, threw it in four-wheel drive and we drove the 50 or so miles back home on the front wheels.

 

I wonder what kind of gas mileage he got?

[Not the Brightest Crayon On the Knife Rack]

Interesting thought.

 

You have to be in the courthouse on a certain day at a certain time. You're a witness that's been subpoenaed, or you're out on bail - does not matter. But you have to be there at a certain time.

 

You show up, and the police arrest you for something, and they take you off to jail.

 

Would that be considered a good enough excuse that the judge would not issue a warrant for failure to appear?

[Ba-Dump Tissssh - Memes]

 

I was pulling sheep sorrel couple three days ago, and when I stood up with a handful, I almost fell over.

 

It is such fun to get old

[saw this and it reminded me of that Vincent Price thread the other week]

 

[Frogs in the toilet]

Seems like the snakes would solve that little frog problem.

[Ba-Dump Tissssh - Memes]

[Different hats for different seasons]

I have three hats. Two are 50% beaver. One is 100% South American hare.

 

I have no straw hat. Personally, I think straw hats look pretty stupid, but that's simply my opinion. I would not wear one, however.

 

FFA? Future Farmers of America? Where is this place that has a rule against wearing felt in the summer?

[Back to the Future -nudity??]

23 hours ago, WD Farren said:

I run a Movie Night at my lodge.
This event is co-ed, so I look for PG ratings, no nookie, no urination, no F-bombs, no gay crap, no woke, etc

Add to this requirement, the movie has to be in high-res 4k with a good surround sound track.

How new does it have to be?

 

There are some very good movies, from the 30s and the 40s. My grandchildren won't watch them because they're black and white. I understand that - I used to wouldn't watch silent movies because they didn't have any sound, but I grew out of that idiocy.

[hypothetical police question]

You have just arrested a criminal. And for any reason whatsoever - it does not matter why he says he is doing this - he squats down. Would you shoot him?

 

The Adventures of Superman, and the criminal is going to prove that Clark Kent is Superman. So he dropped something, mumbled something about being clumsy and squatted down to pick it up. Grabs a gun from an ankle holster and shot Clark.

 

Fortunately Clark had a lucky silver dollar in his inside breast pocket, and the bullet hit it and bounced off. See the dent it made?

 

Modern cop shows, the police are always screaming SHOW ME YOUR HANDS!!!, and if the suspect reaches for something that is waste, or for something in his inside jacket pocket the cop is about to shoot him, until the suspect says "I'm just reaching for my badge!"

 

So it was quite strange saying the three cops completely not reacting to the criminal squatting down and reaching for his ankle.

 

Of course in 1952 ankle holsters might have been something new and exciting and the cops didn't know about them.

[Ba-Dump Tissssh - Memes]

[are you often shocked when laws change?]

On another board a guy is talking about his great-granddaughter. How she is 16 and is now licensed to drive as long as she has another driver at least 21 with her.

 

Really? Is that some stupid Texas law?

 

So I look up Florida.

 

Back when dinosaurs still roamed the Earth, and I got my license, you had to be 15. And if you had your license you could drive, in the daytime, with someone 18 or older. Starting 2 months before your 16th birthday you could drive after dark. And when you turned 16 you could get an operator's license.

 

Now that 18-year-old in the other seat has to be 21. Does not matter how old you are - you have to have had the restricted for a year. So, hypothetically, my birthday is in December and I get my restricted in February. Back then I could get my operators in December when I turned 16, but now I've got to go to February.

 

I don't understand why they would change these laws. Except for the thing that lawmakers have to make laws to justify their jobs. But I was just shocked to see the difference in now and 55 years ago.

 

My granddaughter had told me that she had to have her restricted for a full year before she could try for the operators, but that was Georgia. And Georgia's got a bunch of stupid laws anyhow. Not good intelligent laws like we have here in Florida.

 

But it was just - 21?? You got to have a 21-year-old?? Why?

[If you had a baby that you suspected of smoking and gambling would you confront the baby or wait until you had proof?]

It still looks like a rhinoceros. Or possibly a warthog. Also, nothing except the word Falstaff is legible on that can. Scribbles?

 

Then the boy is not holding on to the pipe - it is sitting on top of his hand. But it is not in his mouth. So it couldn't be there.

 

I believe that to be a fake picture. Ai, photoshop, I don't care, it ain't real.

[Lets see some dogs]

[If you had a baby that you suspected of smoking and gambling would you confront the baby or wait until you had proof?]

If there is supposed to be a picture underneath that picture I posted, there is not. It says it's a picture, but it's not a picture.

[The Aussie Humour Thread]

So what does the last one really say?

 

All of the others are in black print, and the one that says catastrophic is in white so I'm thinking it's a Photoshop.

[If you had a baby that you suspected of smoking and gambling would you confront the baby or wait until you had proof?]

I don't know what the heck that blue can with the - rhinoceros? - on it is.

 

Falstaff has a shield, with what appears to be a large bullet hole in the upper right side. Maybe it's a shot from a cannon.

 

 

 

[If you had a baby that you suspected of smoking and gambling would you confront the baby or wait until you had proof?]

There is a close resemblance, but ---

 

I don't know where I would have got a cigarette at that age. Daddy quit cigarettes before I was born. He smoked a pipe and cigars.

 

And as for that Budweiser horse urine, we had Falstaff in my house.

 

 

According to Mama, I drank both Falstaff and Dr Pepper out of my baby bottle.

[how could you tell if a newborn baby was blind?]

Just like the "little bitty white cane", I knew that your comment was humor. So was mine.

[how could you tell if a newborn baby was blind?]

1 hour ago, WD Farren said:

newborn is using the wrong keys when they type.

So you are saying there are many many people on this forum that are blind newborns?

[on the subject of bathrooms]

This question is basically for people that live by themselves. And have more than one bathroom.

 

I thought of this because my house has two bathrooms and I'm by myself, and I normally use the master bath. I do not use the main bathroom because whoever built this house put it too close to the wall. If I'm sitting on the toilet, I pretty much have to be pointed to 11:00, otherwise my right leg is pressed up tight against the wall. I don't like that.

 

Anyway. I was out in the kitchen one day and I suddenly had to go pee and the main bathroom was much closer and I went and did it and everything was fine, but I noticed that the water level in the bowl was about 4 inches low.

 

This made sense when I thought about it a moment. Even if you have the lid down, the seat sets up on little caulks, so there is a quarter to 3/8 inch Gap between the bottom of the seat and the top of the bowl. And the water evaporates.

 

People use the toilet all the time, and they flush, the bowl refills and no one notices it. But if it doesn't get used ...

 

So I try to remind myself to at least once a month go use the hall bathroom, so that the water level in the bowl stays up. If it all evaporates, then sewage gas comes up into the house. Not good.

 

So my question - finally. Do you periodically check on other toilets to make sure the water level stays up in the bowl? If you use one routinely, do you every once in awhile go use the other one?

[have a question about outhouse]

Got to agree with that.

 

Five of us - Mama, Daddy,  us three boys. One bathroom.

 

Then once we were all grown and they had kicked us out of the house, they put in another bathroom.