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On Sun, 26 Oct 2008 09:41:56 -0500, Pat Durkin wrote:
Glenn has already wondered about the sneakers and whose legs they are
on. I wonder, in addition, how you will guarantee those are their last
legs.


If he meant last as in final, they could be on *his* legs, if he kept his
own legs in the trunk. That would be another complication altogether.
No, my reading was last as in immediately previous. They could go on any
number of legs in the future.

¬R "MY FLIEGENDE HOLLÄNDER WON'T STOP BLEEEEEEING!" --Poot
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On Mon, 27 Oct 2008 09:25:20 -0500, "Pat Durkin"
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(That's stretching it. I'll likely not live past 90,
adn she'll only be 75, and probably very healthy and active. She
still weighs what she did in junior high school, and her mother and
aunt are still slim too, and very active.


Sounds like you really pick 'em.
Get on this now!


If health were the only thing that mattered, she'd be perfect. Except
I don't think she'd marry me anymore, if she ever would have.

But if she's still working, say she's 64 and I'm 79, she really won't
have enough time, so I'm trying to find a category of person, like a
mother from a thrifty family who needs a part-time job, that my friend
can hire to do the work. I guess I would give her the authority to
pick that person's salary. (My brother will trust her if say she's
ok.)


Yeah? But how much younger than you is Brother? Is he likely to be
around in a time of need? Get on this now!


Actually he's 7 years older. And lives thousands of miles away, and
was on vacation thousands of miles farther away when I was admitted to
the hospital the first of this past September. They told me I needed
surgery, and I wanted his opinion (He's a radiologist.) and after
ringing long enough, his phone machine answered and said it was not
on. (They never remember to turn the machine on when they leave the
house. Though for several months they had two machines, one that they
never turned off, so it depended when one called which machine
answered. The other machine was in my sil's son's room, and he didn't
live there anymore, so no one ever played those messages, until I got
there. One was from the school teacher saying that she wanted my
nephew's parents to come to a meeting with her to discuss my nephew's
behaviour in class, but they didn't get the message for 3 months!

When one couple took me home from the hospital, the wife, who is a
pediatrician, offered to accept my medical power of attorney. They
live in my city and she's in town about 49 weeks a year. I better fill
out that form.

i havent done it yet, but i intend to compile a list of friends who
get first crack at my stuff/

And then I'm going to leave instructions on what sort of person to
hire to advertise my antique radios and other things people might
want, and to have yard sales for the junk, and what to give away free
because only someone like me or the people on ahr would want it,
because I don't want anything going to the dump if I can avoid it.

I mean, if I saw my stuff, I would want almost all of it**, so someone
else must want it too.


Donate it online now to freecycle and meet wonderful new people.

Get on this now!

**I got to get rid of the broken tvs to make room for all the tv's
that will be in the trash next February. If I hadn't broken my arm,
I'd be further along on this.


Oh, yeah! You gotta get on this. (Before the Reaper gives you the
come-along treatment!)


I can't give away my stuff yet. I might have 35 more years left.
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A stretch as far as you describe seems a bit excessive


Maybe it was just what he had?

Auto parts stores often have something known generically as a
"recovery strap." Usually it's a flat woven belt but some light duty
ones are braided round ropes, like a water ski tow rope for Paul
Bunyan. I wouldn't think that a bungee, capable of ~ 3x stretch,
would be my first choice. Definitely they have some "give" for just
the reasons you mentioned, though, and also so that spring action can
give you a little more oomph. (Presumably to pull the stuck vehicle
forward, not to pull the tow vehicle back!) Some websites seem to
indicate that 20% stretch is about it.

Here are some examples and instructions:
http://www.keepercorp.com/prod/vrs1.htm
See also, for instance, http://asa4wdc.org/content/safety/recovery.html

How does that old saying go -- four-wheel-drive lets you get a lot
further from help before you get stuck?

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On Tue, 28 Oct 2008 19:47:21 -0700 (PDT), Ad absurdum per aspera
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A stretch as far as you describe seems a bit excessive


Maybe it was just what he had?

Auto parts stores often have something known generically as a
"recovery strap." Usually it's a flat woven belt but some light duty
ones are braided round ropes, like a water ski tow rope for Paul
Bunyan. I wouldn't think that a bungee, capable of ~ 3x stretch,
would be my first choice. Definitely they have some "give" for just
the reasons you mentioned, though, and also so that spring action can
give you a little more oomph. (Presumably to pull the stuck vehicle
forward, not to pull the tow vehicle back!)


Yeah, that's another reason I would be scared to use one. I've seen
too many cartoons, and I know what is likely to happen. Kazoom!!

Some websites seem to
indicate that 20% stretch is about it.

Here are some examples and instructions:
http://www.keepercorp.com/prod/vrs1.htm
See also, for instance, http://asa4wdc.org/content/safety/recovery.html


Well, it looks good, but clearly they haven't seen enough cartoons.

How does that old saying go -- four-wheel-drive lets you get a lot
further from help before you get stuck?


LOL. Absolutely. I've driven up some very rocky roads in my 67
full-size Pontiac Catalina (made when there were no compact cars, and
a rented Fiat Panda.

But if two wheels can spin in the mud, so can four. Some people don't
seem to understand that.

--Joe


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