Confess that i fucking hate pluvers. I didn't always, but the last 4 years since i moved into my shed there's a bunch of the cunts living on the roof.
It's 5am and there has been one yelling up there and stomping around for an hour.
Quoted from punkin:Confess that i fucking hate pluvers. I didn't always, but the last 4 years since i moved into my shed there's a bunch of the cunts living on the roof.
It's 5am and there has been one yelling up there and stomping around for an hour.
I confess that I don't know what a pluver is. And before I go look it up, I'm going to imagine funny scenarios of what it could be. My current favorite is that pluvers is an Australian term for people of short stature.
Amusing you are, but coastal bird. They don't care what kind of time of night or day it is. it's bad enough with kookaburra's cackling here before dawn, without the plovers carrying on too.
Lucky i'm up by 4 most mornings anyway, but still a racket.
Quoted from punkin:Amusing you are, but coastal bird. They don't care what kind of time of night or day it is. it's bad enough with kookaburra's cackling here before dawn, without the plovers carrying on too.
Lucky i'm up by 4 most mornings anyway, but still a racket.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plover
I actually tried to say what u said in my ‘Aussie accent’ although I don’t have 1. I tried to imitate the golfer Jason Day speaking mate..
So I go to Youtube and do a search for "pinball movies". #4 has me baffled:
Pinball Expo 2018 - Official All-Access Movie
The Life of a "Pinhead" -A Pinball Documentary
Tilt, The Battle to Save Pinball }{ FULL DOCUMENTARY! }{
Squeal Like a Pig - Deliverance (3/9) Movie CLIP (1972) HD
When people say “I love Tron more than lamp”, I don’t know what lamp is.
I also confess that I kinda don’t ever wanna know...
Quoted from Blitzburgh99:When people say “I love Tron more than lamp”, I don’t know what lamp is.
I also confess that I kinda don’t ever wanna know...
I confess I do still post a little, just did a long one in the know you are old, but just not in a mood to post here much and try to be funny like I used to yet.
I am still in shock about Terry, (Who-Dey).
I missed O-din when he was in time out, I wish Who-Dey was only in time out also.
I can not think of anything funny right now, hopefully LTG has another awesome story to share?
And I wish all of you the best always! And I hope all of you have a awesome and safe Holiday Season!
Quoted from JohnnyPinball007:hopefully LTG has another awesome story to share?
Not necessarily awesome.
I had a car in the 1970's with really good air conditioning. So I always had the windows rolled up. My friend "T" always gave me a hard time about that. One day we just pulled into the parking lot where my business was and he said he didn't care, he was going to open his window. Which he did and stuck his elbow out to rest on the open window ledge. A bird flying by pooped on his bare arm.
I pointed out that that was why I kept my windows rolled up. He wasn't real happy.
Some friends were fishing on Lake Mille Lacs many years ago. Out in a boat. Doing more drinking than fishing. One man is looking up with his mouth wide open. A seagull flying by shoots out a poop right into his wide open mouth. He closed his mouth and gulped. And said, "thank God my mouth was open or that bird would have sh*t all over my face.
LTG : )
Quoted from LTG:Not necessarily awesome.
I had a car in the 1970's with really good air conditioning. So I always had the windows rolled up. My friend "T" always gave me a hard time about that. One day we just pulled into the parking lot where my business was and he said he didn't care, he was going to open his window. Which he did and stuck his elbow out to rest on the open window ledge. A bird flying by pooped on his bare arm.
I pointed out that that was why I kept my windows rolled up. He wasn't real happy.
Some friends were fishing on Lake Mille Lacs many years ago. Out in a boat. Doing more drinking than fishing. One man is looking up with his mouth wide open. A seagull flying by shoots out a poop right into his wide open mouth. He closed his mouth and gulped. And said, "thank God my mouth was open or that bird would have sh*t all over my face.
LTG : )
You know....It seems we always look up at a flock of geese when they fly over.
If we are always saying (or thinking) "I hope they dont poop" .... then why DO we seem to always look up??? 
Quoted from pacmanretro:You know....It seems we always look up at a flock of geese when they fly over.
If we are always saying (or thinking) "I hope they dont poop" .... then why DO we seem to always look up???
If you watch a flock of geese taking off. They usually drop a load at take off. So you might be safe.
Now flying pigs. Too much risk.
LTG : )
Confess that i ahcheived a milestone today. For the first time in decades of using shaving cream in a can, i managed to get the xact right amount in my hand instead of 2-2.5 times as much as i need.
Usually it doesn't matter if i put half as much in my hand, i still have twice as much as i need. It defies the laws of physics, like being able to eat more than twice as much as will fit in your stomach at a Chinese smorgasbord.
Quoted from Blitzburgh99:“Do They Know It’s Christmas” by Band Aid is a holiday party buzzkill for me.
Is that the POS song they sing at the end of Daddy’s Home 2? If it is, I agree with you 1000%
I am still all over the place in my head, and stuff I am dealing with.
Amazing how slow the recovery from this Zeta storm has been here.
I just ordered a gas stove for the man cave, 2 reasons:
1. the next time I lose power I will still be able to use the gas to cook.
2. my knees are so shot now it is hard to go upstairs anymore to cook on the electric unit.
I was thinking about getting my old generator fixed, or buying a new one, BUT, I just remembered that I already know how to get power back fast: (I just learned this the hard way)
If you have a chainsaw, and know how to use it, and a tree falls over your power lines, just call the power company and tell them "yeah, a tree is down across my street, and knocked down your lines, I am going to go ahead and cut it so I can get ice for my beer, and it will help you to get your trucks in here easier when you have time to fix the lines".
THE POWER COMPANY DOES NOT WANT TO HEAR THAT!
They do not want you to take any work away from them!
I WAS ONLY supposed to be without power for 12 hours.
That did not happen, the time changed to 5 days.
After my girlfriend tipped them off that I was ready to clear the road myself, they had a spy sitting there, that immediately left and then a whole lot of trucks showed up at the crack of dawn the 3rd day.
Now that I know how they are, I will never lose power that long again.
By the way, HAPPY THANKSGIVING EVERYONE!
This is 11/26/20, still no AT&T service here since the storm hit 10/28/20. (that service is being cancelled, they lie every week and claim it will be back in 3 days).
While ago a boom truck did show up, and I thought COOL! Finally AT&T is going to fix the lines!
Nope, it was whatever company that installs street lights putting a new street light on the new power pole.
Anyway except for the utility companies bullcrap I was lucky at my house.
BUT one of my rental houses was hit hard.
The insurance company added more stress on me wanting me to do everything "virtual", while I had no power or internet to do a damn thing.
Anyway, the insurance stuff is all done now, and just waiting on one more contractor to make repairs, and that turned out ok, after I finally had internet again.
At first the insurance company was a major stress, then it went well with the fact that they do direct deposit to my bank.
And I confess that it is nice to have a good relationship with your repair guys, they helped a whole lot in all this mess.
Anyway, with all this mess I am dealing with already, a friend I do a lot of work for(operating a excavator, or working the ditch for a pipeline) begged me to help him with a out of town job on a military base, that the pipe to be installed was 16 feet deep.
I get back home from that, my damn fridge has done went out and my beer was hot and I was pissed.
AND, the new fridge came while ago, and beer is still too warm for me, AND I AM NOT HAPPY RIGHT NOW!
Anyway I will be glad when I can just goof off here again and be funny.
I hope LTG has another funny story!
Quoted from JohnnyPinball007:By the way, HAPPY THANKSGIVING EVERYONE!
Happy thanksgiving everyone!
The table seems to get smaller every year and this year is no exception, but, I’m still here and in some ways that feels like an accomplishment.
Hopefully we’ll all be here to wish everyone well next year.
Quoted from punkin:Confess that i ahcheived a milestone today. For the first time in decades of using shaving cream in a can, i managed to get the xact right amount in my hand instead of 2-2.5 times as much as i need.
Usually it doesn't matter if i put half as much in my hand, i still have twice as much as i need. It defies the laws of physics, like being able to eat more than twice as much as will fit in your stomach at a Chinese smorgasbord.
You made me google! I thought, wtf is a chinese smorgasbord, feeling alittle agitated. 
Then I found out its a chain of restaurants. Clever name!
Quoted from JohnnyPinball007:I hope LTG has another funny story!
Should be Thanksgiving oriented.
In the early days at SS Billiards. Many young couples had to go to her parents. Then to his parents. Then a grandparent or aunt or something. Being the young couple, every stop they'd send you home with a box of food. After your third or fourth meal and the car full. You are sick of Thanksgiving and wondered what to do with all the food.
In those days I opened at 4pm. So people would stop by and ask if I wanted any food ? Sure, why not. Turned into a lot of fun. People that were traveling, or didn't have a Thanksgiving to go to, would stop in. Or people would come in and trade a food item for another.
It was a good day business wise, and a lot of fun with all the turkey, potatoes, pies, dressing, and often unique dishes of goodies you don't normally run into.
Then in 1987 it crashed. This was five or so years after the video fad died. No one stopped by with food. No good customers showed up. And every a**hole I ever kicked out showed up because they had no where else to go.
That was enough. I close on Thanksgiving ever since then.
I moved the Thanksgiving feast to my house. About 12:30pm until late at night. Main meal was at 12:30pm, but anytime during the day there would be food to be had.
I baked turkey drumsticks pin a brown paper bag, until they were golden brown and juicy and sweet. Baked potatoes, homemade apple pies with homemade cinnamon ice cream. Homemade pumpkin pies with fresh whipped whip cream. Stuffing. A big bowl of whipped cream with diced fruit. Plenty of gravy. Coffee, milk, all kinds of pop, hot water for anyone bringing tea. I gave up on salads after a couple years, nobody ate them and I hated throwing them out. I had a bread maker and always made a loaf of bread so it was ready about 11am. Between the turkey, stuffing, and bread, the house smelled so good.
The first 6 got real silverware, Lennox Autumn pattern china, antique crystal goblets. After that you got every day dishes and glasses. I had plenty of food on hand and frozen turkey roasts to keep food going if needed.
This all took preparation after I closed my business on Monday night, Tuesday night, Wednesday night, and up at 8am on Thanksgiving to get the turkey in the oven.
Great times until 1996. Then in 1996 that came to a screeching halt. The initial attendees came an hour early. Bitched about everything. Cut me out of any conversations. I was glad when they finally left. Except for my buddy Tim.
Thankfully in 1997 the Rolling Stones were at the Metrodome Tuesday night before Thanksgiving. I never miss a Rolling Stones concert. I told everyone I wasn't doing it that year. I couldn't do all the prep work losing one whole night. They all pissed and moaned. Wanted me to kill myself and do it anyway. Funny how they all forgot the last one. And not one person stepped up and offered to help so I could continue the tradition.
1997 me and Tim hit the Treasure Island Casino buffet, then the Grand Casino Hinkley buffet, we got so stuffed there we didn't make it to the Mystic Lake casino buffet, we were trying for the trifecta of the buffets.
1998 to 2002 my married years I made a nice feast for me and the wife. 2003 on I usually hit Grand Casino buffet then some years after the Mystic Lake casino buffet later in the evening.
This year buffets are out. So at work keeping an eye on tech support stuff. I already made a pan of stuffing in my toaster oven. A white and dark meat turkey roast is in the toaster oven along with a potato. About 3pm me and Prada will have our Thanksgiving. I'll add in some rolls, jellied cranberry sauce, and pumpkin pie with whip cream.
Seems no matter what. Thanksgiving seems to keep getting better besides the ups and downs.
Happy Thanksgiving everyone one. To you and your loved ones. Treasure the day and what you have.
LTG : )
Quoted from mtn-:You made me google! I thought, wtf is a chinese smorgasbord, feeling alittle agitated.
Then I found out its a chain of restaurants. Clever name!
Not that i've ever heard of. It's an all you can eat buffet at any ol Chinese restaraunt.
2020 continues to suck.
A week ago my next door neighbor and best friend Dwayne texted me that AT&T did not show up again as they had said. This has been going on for a month. (I was working out of town at the time).
So last Monday I was getting up leaves and burning them for the next door neighbor on the other side of the street, when here comes the damn fire department.
They stopped at Dwayne's house along with a ambulance.
A few minutes later they came over to me and said I had to put out the fire. I said why, is it too windy, they said no, it is too big and smoking too much.
I argued with those assholes for 20 minutes before they left, and I continued to burn.
Anyway, I thought I kept seeing Dwayne on his driveway(we are next door neighbors, but 1/8 of a mile away with a lake in between), but it turned out to be Dwayne's brother Eric. I had not seen Eric in years, and now he looks like Dwayne.
Anyway, Dwayne has been sick all year, he was being treated for the virus even though he kept testing negative. He has not been able to keep food down in a long time, says he has not been able to sleep in a long time, and it hurt to breathe.
He is self employed, and still was working a little.
Anyway, after Dwayne did not answer the phone Monday, or call his brother back, his brother came to check on him. He was found to be in bad shape, thus the ambulance and asshole fireman.
When I sat down for lunch today Eric called me, he had just talked to the doctor at the hospital.
Dwayne is not in good shape at all, he makes sounds but can not talk, and they have found that he has stage 4 pancreatic cancer. They are talking hospice.
Dwayne is 62 or 63, big and tall, always active. Hell, he did the Peachtree Road Race not too many years ago.
I just one week it has went from a text from Dwayne saying f'n AT&T lied again, to a call from his brother with this horrible news.
Damn I hope there is some way Dwayne can beat this. If anything happens to him not only do I lose a best friend, I also lose tons of help. He is in all kinds of stuff, as far as his real estate stuff he sold me all 3 of my rental houses, and found me awesome tenants for all of them. I have the same model jacuzzi that he used to have, and when a pump would go out he would have it fixed in 20 minutes and I would buy dinner.
My girlfriend is very torn up. Recently Dwayne had helped her to get rid of a nightmare house that she was still making payments on and thought she would be stuck with forever.
Quoted from EJS:Hopefully we’ll all be here to wish everyone well next year.
AMEN to that!
The last favor Dwayne helped me with was bringing his hand trucks down here to help me get the Big Buck Hunter arcade in. Recently I had cut up a tree that fell in his yard and got it out of the way, and I bought his dinner and dropped it off a couple weeks ago.
Dwayne said he wanted to play Big Buck, but had never felt like coming over.
Quoted from LTG:The first 6 got real silverware, Lennox Autumn pattern china, antique crystal goblets. After that you got every day dishes and glasses. I had plenty of food on hand and frozen turkey roasts to keep food going if needed.
For years Dwayne threw a big Thanksgiving cookout. I only went 2 times, because so many people showed up, and I did not know any of them. I have always been a bit of a hermit. Some people would say oh, Dwayne has been my plumber for 30 years, some would say oh, Dwayne has been my electrician for 30 years, and some would say oh, Dwayne has been my heating and air guy for 30 years.
Anyway, sorry for the long rant, 2020 just continues to suck.
I hope all of you had a AWESOME THANKSGIVING!
And I confess that I really hope very soon I can just come here and be funny(or try to be funny) again soon.
Quoted from JohnnyPinball007:I hope LTG has another funny story!
This might lift your spirits. Fits in my don't plan of not dying of old age category.
One night 20 years ago at a casino playing blackjack. A couple other people on the table, lady dealer. We were doing good and having fun.
A couple women from the hood came and sat down. Immediately started talking and every other word was a swear word or filth. Even I was taken aback.
I felt sorry for the lady dealer. So finally I piped up and said, "you know, there is a lady present".
One of the hood rats immediately said in a very loud voice, "what in the hell do you think we are?".
I looked at her and said, "I knew what you were the moment you opened your mouth".
It worked. They got mad and left.
LTG : )
I confess I already miss my space mission I sold earlier today. Only reason I sold it was for “rescuing” another one late last month.
It sounds like it’s going to a great home. I put a lot of time into it last winter getting everything rebuild and it plays really tight and fast.
This confirms I won’t sell the one I have now. I also confess I’m not the biggest fan of WMS EMs (I still want a Grand Prix) but I really like Kordek’s designs and have great memories talking to him way back in the days I sometimes struggle to remember as clearly as I used to.
Quoted from JohnnyPinball007:Dwayne is not in good shape at all
He passed Sunday night, 2020 sucks.
I wish all of you the best!
Quoted from JohnnyPinball007:He passed Sunday night, 2020 sucks.
I wish all of you the best!
So sorry to hear about your friend Dwayne.
I confess that I've been on Pinside for 7 years and I just noticed the Pinside logo has 2 flippers in it.
Yes, I figured the orb on the left hand side was a pinball, but never noticed the "flippers". 
Quoted from punkin:Confess that i haven't turned the television on in over 5 months.
I confess I don't have a television
Quoted from snowy_owl:I confess I don't have a television
Well i don't have an aerial, so can only watch netflix, but there's nothing there that interests me enough to turn it on. Should really cancel it and save the $12.
Quoted from punkin:Confess that i haven't turned the television on in over 5 months.
Confess that I am watching Gold Rush on tv right now.
Tomorrow we will watch the Alabama game, and that is about it for the next 26 hours.
Quoted from punkin:Well i don't have an aerial, so can only watch netflix, but there's nothing there that interests me enough to turn it on. Should really cancel it and save the $12.
I would already have cancelled.. but my Grandaughter has a favorite show so I'm stuck. Netflix is really bogus, NOTHING good offered and their classic Shows/Movies were garbage when they came out and even worse now.
Quoted from punkin:Confess that i haven't turned the television on in over 5 months.
You aren't missing anything.
I confess that I really miss goofing off and writing books here, and I hope soon things will get better and I can do that again.
I am fine.
I lost my best friend a week ago. (my best friend, my next door neighbor, my real estate agent, my handyman, and I was looking to retire from crap that I do, and work for him more also with the backhoe he had recently purchased to expand his business).
Still waiting on storm damage to be fixed at a rental house.
Still waiting on AT&T to restore service here.
Girlfriend loses or misplaces stuff all the time, spent 2 hours while ago trying to help find the ring I bought her a year ago.
Hopefully LTG has another good story?
I wish all of you the BEST!
Quoted from JohnnyPinball007:Hopefully LTG has another good story?
Back in the mid 1990's my distributor had a joint vending and game show at the Thunderbird complex in Bloomington MN.
I was there early. And having bought a vending machine from them, I could attend both. Vending part was great because they gave out candy bars and snacks. I was inside the entrance talking to other ops and helping sell Sega's big screen Harley Davdison ride on game.
My rep "SZ" told me to come back later in the afternoon. The sales reps flying out would be dumping a lot of candy.
So later in the day a friend of mine stopped in. We'll call him "M". We've been known to get in trouble and his wife won't let us out of town together. No one else was in my business so I put a back in an hour sign in the door and we headed to the show.
Down in the lobby I saw plenty of game guys with multiple bags stuffed with candy. We went upstairs. We each got a bag. And started walking around the vending part.
Now I stopped at each display. Talked to the sales rep. Asked if I could have a candy bar. Some said no and I moved on. Some said yes so I only took one. At this point we maybe had 6 or 8 candy bars between us.
Then we heard some of the vending people complaining to a man we'll call "GW". That gaming guys that had no business in there were scarfing up all the candy. GW asked who and a person pointed to me.
GW complained to my sales rep SZ. SZ came over to me and told me I had to leave. I'm thinking, "what the F! ?". M and I left. M hung his head in shame. He said he didn't know how he'd ever tell his wife we got kicked out of a vending show. She expected more out of us like dead or in jail.
The next show of theirs I skipped. Awhile later I was at the distributor and SZ asked why I didn't come to the show ? He knew being the test operator I helped sell stuff.
I told him hell you through me out of the last one. You told me to come back late in the day when they were dumping candy and I had 3 or 4 candy bars in a bag and you threw me out. You and GW didn't say a word to the game guys that had 5 or 6 bags stuffed full.
He claimed he didn't remember that.
A later show was held at Canterbury Downs. My wife went with me. She wanted to see the vending side. I told her don't go over there. So of course she did. She found me about an hour later with 3 or 4 bags stuffed full of candy. I guess being young and pretty gets candy shoved at you. And no one complains.
LTG : )
Someone contacted me a month after buying 2 games. Threatens to punch me out in the opening message. He bought a project game and an atlantis that a buddy of mine had just gone through.
Calls me a thief. Says the atlantis has been nothing but problems. Says i ripped him off because the project game is only worth 600.
I confess I have zero sympathy. He came to my place. Was given every opportunity to look over the machines. Was free to play to his hearts content. The atlantis was fully working when he paid for it. I had no issues with the game. Had video and photos before coming out. Transports the games six hours away and never contacts me again. Then threatens me over a month later.
Confess i woke this morning after a 1 am finish with more than the usual bumps and scratches. Aside from a nasal passage injury, i have a big sore above the bridge of my nose where i walked into a taut rope, some bark off one leg and what feels suspiciously like a broken thumb after drunkenly trying to work the heavy bag.
My real confession is that it was only a fucking Tuesday.
I confess that I wish a established pinball machine manufacture would make a pitch and bat game, and keep it simple like they were back in the day, and it be low cost.
I loved those when I was a kid, and I would love to have a NIB one for some more variety now.
I see some for sale here sometimes, but they are old, and I am not sure if parts are available, and I am not good at all on working on games anyway.
And I wish I could have a few more Natties and make a long post, but I have to be up at 4am to help a friend do some work out of town.
Confessing that hearing “Werewolves of London” and “Lawyers, Guns & Money” on my turntable is making me pretty happy right now. I’m missing ya Warren Zevon (‘47-‘03), RIP.
I confess that after 2 days of getting up super early to help a friend do a out of town job anything that can make noise is turned off so I can get some sleep shortly.
(and the man cave has a bed, no outside noise, not even a siren in front of my house will wake my ass up).
I love sleeping in the man cave, my girlfriend prefers the master, I win tonight!
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