Hmmm. Can't cook, burns food, uses too much paper towel...trophy wife or a strategic thinker?

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Never a dull moment at Berry Hill Farm.

Whaddya gonna do, throw it at them when it stovepipes?

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Never a dull moment at Berry Hill Farm.

Neither of the above.

I tell Her She is not a Perfect Wife; just the Perfect Wife for Me.

Perhaps it just falls into the "Crazy Love" category.

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84 300D, 82 Volvo 244Gl Diesel

I read that the French Foreign Legion issues a Kit that has Amphetamines in it; for emergency use to keep them awake.

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84 300D, 82 Volvo 244Gl Diesel

My 1911s don't stovepipe. The ones that do fall into two categories:
1. Ancient GI pistols that are loose and poorly cared for.
2. Cheap knockoffs. Good luck with a 400 dollar brand spanking new 1911

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84 Euro 240D 4spd. 220.5k sold
04 Honda Element AWD
1985 F150 XLT 4x4, 351W with 270k miles, hay hauler
1997 Suzuki Sidekick 4x4
1993 Toyota 4wd Pickup 226K and counting

Try finding a gas station who will front you a gas can these days. If you're lucky, they'll sell you one for about double retail.

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1986 300SDL, 362K
1984 300D, 138K

Did you carry a bacon stretcher and a smoke shifter?

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On some nights I still believe that a car with the fuel gauge on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. - HST

1983 300SD - 305000
1984 Toyota Landcruiser - 190000
1994 GMC Jimmy - 203000

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Ya, they tried to pull the Bacon Stretcher one on Me. Before I was a Boy Scout I was a Cub Scout and someone had already told Me about that.

The other one was a Snipe Hunt. You were supposed to bring a Cloth Bag and a Flashlight and they would send Kids off somewhere at night and they were supposed to bring a Snipe back in their Bag.

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84 300D, 82 Volvo 244Gl Diesel

Another good reason for having a FULL gas can when venturing out in a snowstorm ........

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Palangi

2004 C240 Wagon 203.261 Baby Benz
2008 ML320 CDI Highway Cruiser
2006 Toyota Prius, Saving the Planet @ 48 mpg
2000 F-150, Destroying the Planet @ 20 mpg



TRUMP .......... WHITEHOUSE
HILLARY .........JAILHOUSE
BERNIE .......... NUTHOUSE
0BAMA .......... OUTHOUSE

We would bring the kids out with the bags, tell them they were the catchers and we were the beaters. Us beaters would go out in the woods and beat the brush and drive the snipe back to them....
Then we would make a little noise in the woods and head back to camp...

I had older brothers, so I got the low down before it happened to me.


Smoke shifter worked great on jamborees... most everyone knew the gag, and would send the new scouts to a different campsite, as they had just loaned theirs out. Some determined kids would go to a dozen or more camps before coming back.
Was actually a great way for new kids to get to meet other scouts.

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On some nights I still believe that a car with the fuel gauge on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. - HST

1983 300SD - 305000
1984 Toyota Landcruiser - 190000
1994 GMC Jimmy - 203000

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Have you ever carried a full gas can in the trunk? I did. Once. Seems they all leak or have a vent or something but the gas stink gave me a headache.

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1986 300SDL, 362K
1984 300D, 138K

One of the carpenters at a big company I worked for was a real character. He would practically haze young guys trying to break into the trade. Once we had two different jobs about a block apart in SF's Pacific Heights, and he sent a young guy over to the other job to borrow some toe nails and a board stretcher.

The supe told the guy, "Oops, I'm sorry, you've been had."

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1986 300SDL, 362K
1984 300D, 138K

I forgot about that part.

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84 300D, 82 Volvo 244Gl Diesel

Yeppers, I have, in years gone by.

That said, I would not even consider using one of the Ralph Nader nanny style plastic gas containers that seem to be all that is available these days. Those things are a hazard, and I would not have one in my car, garage, or storage building. I have a couple of proper metal gas cans which were purchased at antique stores. About all I use them for these days is for lawn mower gas. Back when I lived up at Frostbite Falls and traveled the north woods in all sorts of winter weather, I always carried two or three gallons of gas. Lots of people did.

Remember, we're talking about a snowstorm kit here. Something you probably will never need out there in sunny Berkeleygradsk.

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Palangi

2004 C240 Wagon 203.261 Baby Benz
2008 ML320 CDI Highway Cruiser
2006 Toyota Prius, Saving the Planet @ 48 mpg
2000 F-150, Destroying the Planet @ 20 mpg



TRUMP .......... WHITEHOUSE
HILLARY .........JAILHOUSE
BERNIE .......... NUTHOUSE
0BAMA .......... OUTHOUSE

But what you don't know comrade, is that I take regular trips to the motherland as part of our crusade to re-establish the glorious union of Soviet Russia, and it gets cold in some of those parts.

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1986 300SDL, 362K
1984 300D, 138K