Please Hijack This Thread...

[Landshark]

Originally Posted by OTRA15

"All good things come to an end . . . "

NNNOOOOOO!!!!

Or maybe it just isn't a good enough thing to end?

[OTRA15]

BTW that was a hot link to this interesting thread:

https://www.airforums.com/forums/f42...nd-211542.html

[kpfate]

Originally Posted by Foiled Again

Boy Scouts are just Brownies with nuts.

Love this thread! I just spit a big gulp of cold water at my computer screen.....cleans up nicely.

On another note...."this one time, at band camp..."

[GettinAway]

Can I pull a 25 footer with this TV? It might be under powered as it’s my right ankle in the cast. If it was my left, I’d only be worrying about braking. (Pun intended). Actually had ankle rebuilt from long ago break, and subsequent failed reconstruction. This time better work. It’s my last attempt.
Ended up with a very very minor stroke as a result of anesthesia. Just ticked me off because they admitted me to the hospital, from outpatient surgery center. Hopefully I’m still negative for Covid, but isolating just the same. In retrospect, we should have stayed in WY and cancelled the surgery.
Stuck here on the couch (ankle elevated) for another five weeks.. Expect high participation in all threads that I have no knowledge or experience, but strong opinions.

Edit,, wait a minute! I already do that! Haha!

[Gene]

Originally Posted by GettinAway

Can I pull a 25 footer with this TV?

Expect high participation in all threads that I have no knowledge or experience, but strong opinions.

Looks like a two footer to me. I think a small dog could pull it, but the question is whose dog? The Ford, GM, Dodge or Toyota dog? Of course, some will say their favorite does not make dogs.

As for lack of expertise, fear not. Without such limited expertise, the Forum would have half the posts it usually gets.

Hope your reconstructed foot soon travels far and wide. I'm sure you have plans afoot and will stride confidently into the future. For now, rather than standing tall, hop tall.

[GettinAway]

I’m looking at hitches for the cart. First stop will be by the scales of course.
We’ve got three nights coming up with temps in the 50s. I’ll take that for Missouri in August any day. My bird dog (English Setter) could pull me on the cart, while I pulled the AS. With her out front I’d have more power that some 3/4 ton diesels. But still no braking. I’ve read somewhere once or twice or maybe 10,000 times, it’s more about stopping. The tires on the cart are Marathons. 10 yrs old. I’ll rub some armor All on them, they’ll be fine.

[Landshark]

Originally Posted by Gene

Looks like a two footer to me. I think a small dog could pull it, but the question is whose dog? The Ford, GM, Dodge or Toyota dog? Of course, some will say their favorite does not make dogs.

If that bicyclist in the AS ad could pull it, then my medium-sized dog* could pull it.

Vivian

*80-lb male Doberman--pulls stronger than a bloomin' diesel train engine.

[Gene]

I'm sure a medium sized dog could pull it, but we have to go BIG! No puny little 40 lb. dogs, a Great Dane or maybe a Newfie would be best for safety and then we could put more stuff in the cart and trailer such as a 5,000 watt generator, five extra Marathons and a flour wheeler as well.

[Landshark]

BTW, in the interests of a good hijack, has anyone started a thread discussing the philosophy of Airstream Corp in changing the naming of ASs from

1) a model name that indicates the length of the trailer (i.e., Safari=22/23', Bambi=16', Caravel=17', Sovereign=31', etc), to

2) the present system that uses the vintage names but they bear no connection to the size of the trailer and instead indicate (I think) an interior package??

Does anyone know why? Is there a reason that a normal person would call reasonable?

I searched, but couldn't find such a topic discussed.

Vivian

[Gene]

...and you still won't.

But what about tablecloths? If you put them over your head, will you suffocate? I have never seen a warning label about tablecloth suffocation, but what if some poor misguided individual (maybe a grandmother) just for fun puts the tablecloth over her head and then ties a rope around it so it is air sealed. Is that dangerous? If it is dangerous, is it as dangerous as ladders to clean out gutters? How do you air seal a tablecloth? Is there an Airstream tablecloth?

[Bruce B]

I cooked some really wonderful Wagyu fillets the other evening...
Oak hardwood baby!
OK, maybe I didn’t understand the purpose of this thread???

[Limnocnida]

"I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve" - there must be a formula to that equation!

[nvestysly]

Originally Posted by Bruce B

I cooked some really wonderful Wagyu fillets the other evening...
Oak hardwood baby!
OK, maybe I didn’t understand the purpose of this thread???

Originally Posted by Limnocnida

"I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve" - there must be a formula to that equation!

I don't know if there is a purpose to this thread but I like both of your posts!

[OTRA15]

Originally Posted by nvestysly

I don't know if there is a purpose to this thread . . .

"Udder confusion" may be one of the goals here?



UC is one of the side dishes at the "Last Gasp Cafe" during "The Brunch Covidian" segment of this eon.



The menu also includes "Fear Fries" and "Contra Diction" . . .

[Gene]

The purpose is either to give old men somewhere to muse upon their wasted lives, to have a thread that cannot be closed because someone thinks it is “off topic”, or maybe the product of an asylum for the criminally insane. You pick while I fire up my chain saw.

[OTRA15]

. . . an asylum without walls or doors perhaps?



Here U R . . .

Or to quote the asylum residents previously referenced in Post #382:

Originally Posted by OTRA15

. . .
"Just us nuts here . . . "
. . .

[Gene]

[QUOTE=OTRA15;2396587]. . . an asylum without walls or doors perhaps?

[QUOTE]

The walls are going up in the south and perhaps to the north later, but no one wants us anywhere else anymore. Maybe Dorothy can help us find the escape route. Bring your own yellow bricks.

[OTRA15]

Great new column, Gene, although they did not post your name visibly on the Columns page:

https://www.gjsentinel.com/opinion/c...f36a89d11.html
https://www.gjsentinel.com/opinion/columns/

"Memories, however strange, seem comforting compared to today’s uncertainties."

Well said, all around. Some of your memories from playing bridge with the family down the street, however, are not so comforting . . . !

Thanks,

[Gene]

Thanks Peter. Watching the Pine Gulch fire across the Grand Valley—75,000 acres. Wind shifted and smoke is coming to us and has been in Grand Jct. for days. Most has gone east to Denver and all points between. After a couple of weeks , 7% containment. The Grizzly fire just east of Glenwood Springs has closed I-70 for about five days. There aren’t many ways to get across Colorado and none of the others are all four lane. The Grizzly one has no containment and is around 20,000 acres. If the wind stays out of the northwest, it may push it over and down the Book Cliffs into the desert north of the city.

Our side of the valley, we are actually higher than the Bookcliffs, is just as or more dry than where the fire is. More people live and come through here, making a fire more likely. The Pine Gulch one was caused by lightning and we get a lot of storms without rain, but with lightning during a drought. We haven’t had more than a trace or .01” several times in months and it has been extra hot setting records over 100. These fires may go on until it snows, but will it? If it does, when?

Been thinking for days to hitch up the trailer and be ready to evacuate. Our fear is that we will be in town and a fire will come, they will close the road and we lose house and trailer and get to live in a motel room. Three years ago there were a lot of lightning caused fires and it took almost a day for any to be noticed. Two were fairly large and they got them out quickly. We raced home and no roads were closed. I did hitch up the trailer and we started to figure out what to take. But when we got clear info, we found the smokiest one was 4 miles away and under control quickly and the larger one was probably 10+ miles away. Hard to figure out distance in the hills. They got that one controlled fast too. The ten or so other fires were all small—a tree or two I guess. We’ve lived in forests for more than 30 years and wonder if our luck runs out.

Back to whatever.

[OTRA15]

Thanks Gene . . . wildfires are tough to plan for, needless to say. We have hurricanes to anticipate, but they are somewhat more predictable once they start coming up the east coast. I-70 being closed is not at all helpful.

Best wishes,