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by gonzo914
Wed Apr 21, 2010 9:17 am
Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Poststructural Pub
Topic: Fuel Tank Orientation Question
Replies: 24
Views: 3248

Re: Fuel Tank Orientation Question

mutepointe wrote:I want full service gas stations back.
New Jersey and Oregon still have full-service gas stations. Self-serve is illegal in both states.
by gonzo914
Wed Mar 17, 2010 2:46 pm
Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Poststructural Pub
Topic: How is this trick done?
Replies: 9
Views: 1308

Re: How is this trick done?

This kind of thing is greatly facilitated by the use of a stripper deck. A monkey can unshuffle a deck if it's a stripper.
by gonzo914
Tue Mar 09, 2010 2:50 pm
Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Poststructural Pub
Topic: What are they teaching my kids???
Replies: 69
Views: 3961

Re: What are they teaching my kids???

It is not only communications coming from schools and businesses. The level of writing has declined in much of the written media. I see errors regularly in print -- local paper, CNN, Slate, and MSNBC all come to mind -- that would have cost someone a letter grade when I was grading copy editing stud...
by gonzo914
Tue Mar 02, 2010 2:03 pm
Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Poststructural Pub
Topic: Name your poet(s)
Replies: 56
Views: 4051

Re: Name your poet(s)

...and I like to sing Emily Dickenson to the the tune of "The Yellow Rose of Texas." Yes, and thank you for that. Not so long ago an Irishman was glowingly telling me of his discovery of Dickinson, and I mentioned that; you know, just in passing, like. He paused, thought a bit, got a blac...
by gonzo914
Tue Mar 02, 2010 9:07 am
Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Poststructural Pub
Topic: Name your poet(s)
Replies: 56
Views: 4051

Re: Name your poet(s)

e.e. cummings and Robert W. Service, and I like to sing Emily Dickenson to the the tune of "The Yellow Rose of Texas." I also like to sing "The Cremation of Sam Mcgee" to the tune of "Star of the County Down." And I once tried to sing "The Waste Land" to the t...
by gonzo914
Fri Feb 26, 2010 4:37 pm
Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Poststructural Pub
Topic: Hackintoshing
Replies: 13
Views: 1415

Re: Hackintoshing

I just got this notion a couple days ago, while admiring the netbooks a couple of the kids in my Japanese class were toting. If those are college kids, then just pay attention because sooner or later, one of them will walk off and leave their backpack unattended long enough for you to replace that ...
by gonzo914
Sat Feb 13, 2010 3:57 pm
Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Poststructural Pub
Topic: Mayday!
Replies: 18
Views: 1413

Re: Mayday!

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by gonzo914
Tue Feb 09, 2010 10:16 pm
Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Poststructural Pub
Topic: I didn't move south for this
Replies: 56
Views: 3645

Re: I didn't move south for this

My work takes me all over the country, and there is a substantial probability it will take me to Baltimore in a couple of weeks.

I'm trusting you people to have this cleaned up by then.
by gonzo914
Wed Jan 20, 2010 10:13 am
Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Poststructural Pub
Topic: Folk Tale Films ?
Replies: 14
Views: 1544

Re: Folk Tale Films ?

weedie wrote:Gonzo..you're a naughty boy,you'll be in trouble . . .
Nah . . More likely just chewed out, and I been chewed out before.
by gonzo914
Tue Jan 19, 2010 11:44 am
Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Poststructural Pub
Topic: Folk Tale Films ?
Replies: 14
Views: 1544

Re: Folk Tale Films ?

More films based on folk tales --

The Ten Commandments

The Greatest Story Ever Told

You can look up the rest yourself here.
by gonzo914
Fri Jan 15, 2010 10:37 pm
Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Poststructural Pub
Topic: Books that you'll never read
Replies: 39
Views: 4316

Re: Books that you'll never read

I still haven't finished Atlas Shrugged, which I started in 1952. I shall also most likely pass on the Twilight books, the LOTR trilogy, and anything by Nietzsche or Ann Coulter, as I have heard they are both fundamentally unsound.
by gonzo914
Thu Jan 14, 2010 8:45 am
Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Poststructural Pub
Topic: In Search of: A Middle Name
Replies: 46
Views: 2918

Re: In Search of: A Middle Name

I don't understand the concern about whether its a boy's name or a girl's name, or why it makes a difference what people think she is. A fellow reprobate from college who frequented the samed bar I did had a girl dog named "Russell." (Russell was also a bandana dog.) People would ask him &...
by gonzo914
Sun Jan 10, 2010 10:07 pm
Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Poststructural Pub
Topic: I hate the cold
Replies: 67
Views: 5572

Re: I hate the cold

I live in Birmingham, Alabama. Deep south. At this writing, it is 16 degrees F with winds at about 12 MPH. Let me tell you about my week. Forecasters here were predicting an inch of snow on Thursday. Some predictions were that we could get as much as 2 inches of snow. As a result, some school syste...
by gonzo914
Sun Jan 10, 2010 9:46 pm
Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Poststructural Pub
Topic: The great biscuits and gravy bust.
Replies: 10
Views: 1105

Re: The great biscuits and gravy bust.

I have done extensive research on all the local fast food places that serve biscuits and sausage gravy. I am very sad to report that McDonald's IMHO has the best tasting and the best deal. Saying that McDonald's has the best fast food biscuits and gravy is kind of like picking which hemorrhoid you ...