Alan46
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You go up on a 10/12?
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You talk about your stuff, past projects and junk more than you actually use, fix, or build something, and you could careless about past and current questionable decisions and make humor of them. I'm grudgingly guilty of all of the above.
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I've walked on my 10/12 many times. Of course, turning 50 this year, I think it's about time to retire from that. I can still do it with no trouble, but healing from a second-story fall probably takes a lot longer now, than when I was 30!
I also have 12/12 raised seam metal, and go up on that routinely, but with a chicken ladder. No way to stay on it, otherwise.
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When I was about 35 I wanted to put a wood stove and chimney in the 2 story house I was renting, but only had a short ladder. I used it to climb up onto the 1 story attached shed, then pulled it up and leaned it against the 2nd floor roof, with one ladder leg on each side of the shed peak.
I then proceeded to get up on the 2nd floor roof. I had one leg in it and the other on a rung when the ladder kicked out, and I landed spread eagled, facing down. As I picked up speed I desperately tried to get twisted around so that I would land on my feet but no luck. I came off that roof head first and landed on the frozen driveway. All that I remember was laying there thinking "Holy F@@@, I'm alive!!!!
I don't like heights.
I then proceeded to get up on the 2nd floor roof. I had one leg in it and the other on a rung when the ladder kicked out, and I landed spread eagled, facing down. As I picked up speed I desperately tried to get twisted around so that I would land on my feet but no luck. I came off that roof head first and landed on the frozen driveway. All that I remember was laying there thinking "Holy F@@@, I'm alive!!!!
I don't like heights.
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It's easier just to drop something. Recently I dropped my keys and two people started to get them for me.
Never happened 20 years ago unless it was money.
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Occasionally on my son's cape but eye dormers help with climbing to get to the other dormered side which I believe is a 4 or 6/12 to clean out gutters that are unreachable by extension ladder. Like I said, it bothers me more now than it ever did.
I used to have a standing seam metal roof with few screws. That was always hairy. Warm day with sneakers is where I felt "safe". That was the only way to stain a few spots.
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Great test! I knew every one, which only means I spent way too much time in front of the television in the 1980's.
Now's when someone posts all the answers, and ruins it for everyone.
Now's when someone posts all the answers, and ruins it for everyone.
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….in perfect harmony…..
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It's kinda funny the way the memory works, sometimes. No.6 may be one of the most popular jingles of the bunch. Trust me... you know the brand!
Although if you remember this commercial...
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So, I tested this on my 14 year old, and he knew very few. They don't watch TV today, so television commercial jingles seem to be mostly a thing of the past... except insurance commercials! He knew every insurance company jingle I could manage to remember and sing.
Ablut 20 years ago I bought a double whopper at a BK in Gorham NH. When I got back to my room I found it only had one patty. I returned, showed them the error and they went out back to get me another sandwich. (All that I needed was the second piece of meat)
I had a hard time not asking that famous question.
Trivia which everyone probably knows; she got fired for doing this commercial.
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You did bring up a great point which is "clones and tributes". Most all new for sale anything are top of the line red cars!
Some more than the factory ever made!
I hate seeing that.
My 40s neighbor paid too much for this "SS" which it's not. A '71 just a mix of much newer small block low compression heads, HEI ign., etc. Loud mufflers.
I got it running for him then said "nail it"...he said "what does that mean?".
I drove it & the quadrajet said "mooooo!".
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We all know where we were when 9/11 happened, and probably Challenger... maybe even Columbia. Same with Waco, and at least for those of us anywhere near Philly, The Move. Many here are old enough to remember the assassinations of Kennedy and MLK Jr.
My earliest memory of a major news event was the death of Elvis in 1977, mostly because that breaking news interrupted whatever cartoon I was watching, and I remember my mother (prime age to be an Elvis fan) shushing me to hear the news on the TV.
I guess I should remember the John Lennon assassination, but since my parents were too old to be into the Beatles, that one didn't even get honorable mention in our house. The Ronald Reagan assassination attempt was much bigger news, at least in our house.
What's the earliest major news event you remember experiencing, live? Anyone here old enough to remember FDR dying in office? Harding? VE or VJ day?
My earliest memory of a major news event was the death of Elvis in 1977, mostly because that breaking news interrupted whatever cartoon I was watching, and I remember my mother (prime age to be an Elvis fan) shushing me to hear the news on the TV.
I guess I should remember the John Lennon assassination, but since my parents were too old to be into the Beatles, that one didn't even get honorable mention in our house. The Ronald Reagan assassination attempt was much bigger news, at least in our house.
What's the earliest major news event you remember experiencing, live? Anyone here old enough to remember FDR dying in office? Harding? VE or VJ day?
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