Saddle Brook, NJ
Quoted from cdnpinbacon:No doubt those Nuns have him building a church somewhere!
"Lilies of the Field"; GREAT film!
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Alcona, ON
Going to play sports lottery ,,not looking too classy...anyhow...I’m leaving and my wife says you forgot the bag. I said what bag? The one to put over your face! Damn I laughed
Quoted from curban:...you know you are old ...
I went bowling on Saturday for first time in a while. I'm still sore. bowling. seriously. bowling
Hey it takes energy to get that 12lb rock down the lane!
Quoted from rollitover:Hey it takes energy to get that 12lb rock down the lane!
Twelve pounds? That's a little girl's ball!
A big mistake people make when bowling is that they bend their backs rather than their knees.
So, if your back is sore, next time take my advice. Then you'll have sore knees instead! 
I never bowl because, oddly, it invariably brings on an attack of tendinitis in my feet.
I probably just need to stretch more, but I find I don't have time to stretch my feet every day just in case I ever decide to go bowling!
Probably been 15 years since I even tried to bowl. No doubt other things would hurt too afterward nowadays. I'm looking at you, shoulders. (I can't even lean on a pin I'm playing for very long.)
Growing old is just a process of finding more reasons not to do more things, I think.
Quoted from jrpinball:Twelve pounds? That's a little girl's ball!
A big mistake people make when bowling is that they bend their backs rather than their knees.
So, if your back is sore, next time take my advice. Then you'll have sore knees instead!
But we all spend our idle time lifting 300 pound plywood boxes full of electrical components, then countless hours bending over repairing them.
Quoted from jrpinball:Twelve pounds? That's a little girl's ball!
A big mistake people make when bowling is that they bend their backs rather than their knees.
So, if your back is sore, next time take my advice. Then you'll have sore knees instead!
Actually, I've used a 16lb ball my entire life...except last Saturday when I went for the 15lb ball. Almost everything hurts...back, shoulders, knees, and hips...either I was bending everything or I was bending nothing...not sure which.
Quoted from poppapin:Remember doing this in grade school? Would have saved our asses huh?
Make it easier to do a body count by the shadows left behind.
LTG : )
Quoted from poppapin:Remember doing this in grade school? Would have saved our asses huh?[quoted image]
My GF grew up in Ponca City OK and had to do the crawling under the desk thing. In my small Kansas town, I think we moved into the hallway and put our hands over the back of our necks. It was one time only. We never did any faux nuclear prep again.
Quoted from poppapin:Remember doing this in grade school? Would have saved our asses huh?[quoted image]
I remember always seeing those "Fallout Shelter" signs inside and outside of my school building, and most public buildings, and not really knowing what the heck they meant. I started going to school in the late 60s, and by that time, those drills had pretty much stopped.
Just for fun, I found one of those signs and it now is on the wall in my game room.
Quoted from cdnpinbacon:Timber sports Canadian under review for illegal cookie chop. Refs are clearly out to lunch the cookie was flawed before it hit the floor..
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"Spanning the globe with a constant variety of sports...." The agony of an illegal cookie!
The truck I bought from the family business (where I drove it when new) is eligible for historical vehicle plates this year.
I'll probably go that route as it only makes the occasional trip when something needs to be hauled. Everything else -- a pin included -- fits in the Jeep.
Quoted from Scotty_K:Just for fun, I found one of those signs and it now is on the wall in my game room.
There is all kinds of that Civil Defense crap we grew up with during the 50s and 60s. Some was quite laughable. I recall reading one that said in event of nuclear "whatever" you should get on the highway and leave town. Hell, a city under siege with a hurricane can't keep the highways from clogging up.
My pride and joy is this parody poster that I found several years ago.
Make no mistake. The threat was real, but a policy of Mutually Assured Destruction kept both the U.S. and the Soviets real. Or at least, we were convinced it was real. Some built bomb shelters in their back yard, but most everybody kept going to work everyday and just shrugged our shoulders and joked that in case of nuclear attack, ground Zero was the place to be.
And yes, that is a nice looking game room.
Quoted from cottonm4:There is all kinds of that Civil Defense crap we grew up with during the 50s and 60s. Some was quite laughable. I recall reading one that said in event of nuclear "whatever" you should get on the highway and leave town. Hell, a city under siege with a hurricane can't keep the highways from clogging up.
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My pride and joy is this parody poster that I found several years ago.
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Make no mistake. The threat was real, but a policy of Mutually Assured Destruction kept both the U.S. and the Soviets real. Or at least, we were convinced it was real. Some built bomb shelters in their back yard, but most everybody kept going to work everyday and just shrugged our shoulders and joked that in case of nuclear attack, ground Zero was the place to be.
And yes, that is a nice looking game room.
I’m 100% convinced that human error or insanity are finally going to catch up with us, and a nuclear catastrophe will happen sometime in the next 50 years. The fear of nuclear war is completely gone, and that’s a bad thing.
Quoted from swampfire:I’m 100% convinced that human error or insanity are finally going to catch up with us, and a nuclear catastrophe will happen sometime in the next 50 years. The fear of nuclear war is completely gone, and that’s a bad thing.
Bombs and bullets are obsolete, my friend. We're right now living through 21st century warfare!
Quoted from swampfire:I’m 100% convinced that human error or insanity are finally going to catch up with us, and a nuclear catastrophe will happen sometime in the next 50 years. The fear of nuclear war is completely gone, and that’s a bad thing.
I'd go with insanity. So idiot launches one, takes out someone else's major city. And then others take sides and join in.
Look at WW1. A little nobody got assassinated and all hell broke loose. At a time when most of the heads of Europe were related.
LTG : (
Quoted from cottonm4:My pride and joy is this parody poster that I found several years ago.
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Yes! I had one of those, too, back in the day.
Thanks for the compliments on the game room, guys. I'm going to be posting some updated photos of the whole room on the game room thread within the next few days.
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I had one of those same remotes for grabbing me another beer from the fridge. Very handy!
Quoted from Atari_Daze:I had one of those same remotes for grabbing me another beer from the fridge. Very handy!
Remote control? I thought that was a dishwasher.
Quoted from electricsquirrel:You know you are old, if you know what this is:[quoted image]
Is that a time machine from 1948?
QSS
Quoted from swampfire:I’m 100% convinced that human error or insanity are finally going to catch up with us, and a nuclear catastrophe will happen sometime in the next 50 years. The fear of nuclear war is completely gone, and that’s a bad thing.
The fear from the common man is gone. But the top military brass are under no such illusions.
Quoted from jrpinball:Bombs and bullets are obsolete, my friend. We're right now living through 21st century warfare!
That BS with Reagan 35 years ago was a lot of smoke an mirrors. The U.S. and Russia both still armed to the teeth. Sure, we have less nuclear bombs laying around, but there is still enough stockpile to destroy the globe.
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https://www.state.gov/transparency-in-the-u-s-nuclear-weapons-stockpile/
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Let's not stop with the U.S. and Russia.
Here are the nine sisters that can blow everybody up.
Quoted from electricsquirrel:You know you are old, if you know what this is:[quoted image]
Hog oiler. Never seen one in operation but know what it is from years of antiquing.
Quoted from cottonm4:Let's not stop with the U.S. and Russia.
Here are the nine sisters that can blow everybody up.
Pretty crazy that Ukraine etc. didn't keep a handful after the breakup.
Quoted from QuickSilverShelby:Is that a time machine from 1948?
QSS
Uh...sort of, I guess.
Quoted from AlexF:Hog oiler. Never seen one in operation but know what it is from years of antiquing.
But, Alex wins!
I have never seen one in operation either.
Quoted from electricsquirrel:I have never seen one in operation either.
I have questions!
How do you use it? Do you fill it with oil and make the hogs go through it?
Why is it antique, that I would need to be old to recognize it? Are they no longer used? Has hog oiling technology advanced beyond our wildest dreams?
Why would one need to oil their hogs in the first place? When they get too squeaky?
Quoted from cottonm4:Remote control? I thought that was a dishwasher.
We did double duty back then. And collected the trash too.
Quoted from DanQverymuch:How do you use it? Do you fill it with oil and make the hogs go through it?
Bolt it down. Fill with oil for hogs. Hogs waller on it to keep lice down, etc. Think oil massage like humans get.
Quoted from DanQverymuch:Why would one need to oil their hogs in the first place? When they get too squeaky?
Hogs like it, keeps bugs down, and prevents squeaks. ( I really like that last one )
LTG : )
Quoted from DanQverymuch:I have questions!
How do you use it? Do you fill it with oil and make the hogs go through it?
Why is it antique, that I would need to be old to recognize it? Are they no longer used? Has hog oiling technology advanced beyond our wildest dreams?
Why would one need to oil their hogs in the first place? When they get too squeaky?
Drain the old Farmall and put the oil in the device. I assume the hogs will rub against it.
apparently, they like oiling themselves, or so I have been told.
I guess their skin doesn't perspire and they find the oiler refreshing? (the stereotypical pig in the mud hole)
In doing a brief search on YouTube, It seems that hog oiling has advanced a bit over the years.
I guess you would actually need to be an old farmer to recognize this device. Sorry, I didn't think of that.
I think I'm right, for the most part. If anyone else can shed some of their knowledge here (Alex, Lloyd?) please do so!
Eric
hog_oiler2 (resized).jpgQuoted from DanQverymuch:I have questions!
How do you use it? Do you fill it with oil and make the hogs go through it?
Why is it antique, that I would need to be old to recognize it? Are they no longer used? Has hog oiling technology advanced beyond our wildest dreams?
Why would one need to oil their hogs in the first place? When they get too squeaky?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hog_oiler
The farmer across the road from my grandpa had cattle oiler that looks like this one. But this guy and his cattle don't know how to use it. Yet. They will figure it out.
Here is one where the cow is giving herself a back scratch.
I never saw a hog oiler. Gramps hogs wallowed in the dirt and mud for relief from the heat and insects. Mainly flies.
Oh, they rub on the outside. I wondered how they'd fit through the middle.
I presume we're not talking motor oil (especially used!)? I guess they would like mineral oil, there are "models" on the Internet who like to rub it all over themselves, or so I've heard.
Quoted from DanQverymuch:Oh, they rub on the outside. I wondered how they'd fit through the middle.
I presume we're not talking motor oil (especially used!)? I guess they would like mineral oil, there are "models" on the Internet who like to rub it all over themselves, or so I've heard.
Actually, yes. I was told motor oil!
Hey.....they're pigs.
(Not internet models......well not the nice ones, anyway)
Quoted from electricsquirrel:Actually, yes. I was told motor oil!
Hey.....they're pigs.
(Not internet models......well not the nice ones, anyway)
I thought my bacon tasted a little funky lately!
Quoted from jrpinball:I thought my bacon tasted a little funky lately!
And.... why I could never bring myself to eat fried pork rinds!
"Meat Loaf, 'Bat Out of Hell' singer, has died at 74"
https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/21/entertainment/meat-loaf-obit/index.html
When another musical/rock titan has died.
Quoted from cottonm4:"Meat Loaf, 'Bat Out of Hell' singer, has died at 74"
https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/21/entertainment/meat-loaf-obit/index.html
When another musical/rock titan has died.
Lot's of Boomer's biting the dust. 
Quoted from DCP:You know you are old when...you are old.
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If you make a sound getting out of bed in the morning.
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