@Zouave1864 WTF? Who would want garlic and hot sauce lips all day? Carrot and Celery might be somewhat benign, but still? Maybe you are supposed to put the Ranch on upper lip, and carrot or celery on the lower lip?? Still kinda messed up. I’m surprised there isn’t some chicken strip/nugget to go with the Buffalo Sauce?
Who remembers testing tubes with their father? This guy🙂. My father used his GI Bill after serving in the army in WWII to do a mail order electronics repair course. He never became an electronics repairman, instead, he decided to work for the railroad…..for 37 years. This tube tester and getting to use a soldering iron and wire cutters on old radios is what got me wanting to become an electronics engineer/technician. I still have the wire cutters, and the huge old soldering iron is around too. It’s been way too big to be useable since I started doing repair work on electronics 40+ years ago. Heck, even the smaller soldering irons I started with are pretty much useless nowadays. The iron I use now is half the size of the ones I started with, and a lot of rework is done with hot air pencils these days.
I have used this tube tester as recently as about 5 years ago. A friend needed some high end audio tubes tested.
@RockyMountainBriar when my father retired from the fire dept after 40 years he started making tube amps for electric guitars. I find myself always looking for old radios and television sets to pull the tubes from for him.
My dad’s collection of tubes was in my mom’s basement…I think one of my sisters found somebody to take them (for free). There were at least 100 of them, probably more. I’m not an audiophile, being partially deaf, crisp clean sound is not that important to me. Some of those old tubes can be quite pricey.
@Zouave1864 Nope. Not me. I may applaud what he is doing because the people who stake out what is public property are wrong but what he is doing could also be considered theft. In New Orleans it could also get you shot.
The biggest and most famous parades are in New Orleans but I don't go into New Orleans unless I have a very good reason.
I prefer the more family friendly parades in the small town where we live.
@RockyMountainBriar if I can quote Obi Wan Kenobi "you will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy" that being said, the Davidoff store on Madison Ave. Is still one of my favorite places to grab pipe tobacco. I have never been a man of means, but the staff there is always welcoming and kind. I'm sure they have tons of high rollers that stop in there and buy WAY more than my 2-3 tins of Danish blend, but I have never felt uncomfortable there.
It was 60F+ yesterday, today it was 58F…….. Until……..ahh, hell no. I guess we need it though. That patio furniture didn’t have any frosty white stuff on it at 4PM, about an hour and a half ago. It’s supposed to get back down around 5F tonight🥶. Do you think the roads may be icy tomorrow morning🤔 Ahh, maybe not….because they will be covered in 6” of snow again😬
A man brings some very fine material to a tailor and asks him to make a pair of pants. When he comes back a week later, the pants are not ready. Two weeks later, they still are not ready. Finally, after six weeks, the pants are ready. The man tries them on. They fit perfectly. Nonetheless, when it comes time to pay, he can’t resist a jibe at the tailor.
“You know,” he says, “it took God only six days to make the world. And it took you six weeks to make just one pair of pants.”
“Ah,” the tailor says. “But look at this pair of pants, and look at the world!”
“A suspicion of mine is that there are too many preachy females” dominating the culture of his party. “‘Don’t drink beer. Don’t watch football. Don’t eat hamburgers. This is not good for you.’ The message is too feminine: ‘Everything you’re doing is destroying the planet. You’ve got to eat your peas.’
“If you listen to Democratic elites—NPR is my go-to place for that—the whole talk is about how women, and women of color, are going to decide this election. I’m like: ‘Well, 48 percent of the people that vote are males. Do you mind if they have some consideration?’”
That’s Democratic strategist James Carville talking to The New York Times’ Maureen Dowd in a Saturday interview. He said it, not me.
For the 3rd time in a row, I have gone into the local brick and morter smoke shop, and for for the 3rd time in a row they are out of any and every tin I ask for. The owner finally showed me his empty shelf and said everything he tries to reorder tin tobacco, it is bought out and sold by online retailers before he can get any. I don't know if that's true or not but I would always prefer to give the local guy a few bucks. Even if his shop mostly caters to the pot crowd now. At one point he actually sold tobacco and pipes believe it or not.
@Zouave1864 There may be some validity to what your B&M is saying. The one I go to in New Orleans is constantly having trouble getting what they order also. There are a lot of blends they have ordered that have been back ordered. And then, they finally get a delivery and its tins that were ordered two years ago. Those tins sell out within 48 hours. Less if they receive the tobacco on the day before a pipe club meeting.
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Moonshine generally means corn liquor…or use to, nowadays it’s just made from refined sugar by a lot of distilleries.
Yeah that's true. I just Ike saying Corn Liquor.
Anyhow, about those French fries 🍟
WTF? Who would want garlic and hot sauce lips all day?
Carrot and Celery might be somewhat benign, but still? Maybe you are supposed to put the Ranch on upper lip, and carrot or celery on the lower lip?? Still kinda messed up. I’m surprised there isn’t some chicken strip/nugget to go with the Buffalo Sauce?
My father used his GI Bill after serving in the army in WWII to do a mail order electronics repair course. He never became an electronics repairman, instead, he decided to work for the railroad…..for 37 years. This tube tester and getting to use a soldering iron and wire cutters on old radios is what got me wanting to become an electronics engineer/technician. I still have the wire cutters, and the huge old soldering iron is around too. It’s been way too big to be useable since I started doing repair work on electronics 40+ years ago. Heck, even the smaller soldering irons I started with are pretty much useless nowadays. The iron I use now is half the size of the ones I started with, and a lot of rework is done with hot air pencils these days.
https://www.nola.com/gambit/news/the_latest/vigilante-dad-seizes-tarps-along-the-uptown-new-orleans-parade-route/article_5a67025c-c3c7-11ee-bec6-4bd88aeb82ca.html
@Zouave1864
Nope. Not me.
I may applaud what he is doing because the people who stake out what is public property are wrong but what he is doing could also be considered theft.
In New Orleans it could also get you shot.
The biggest and most famous parades are in New Orleans but I don't go into New Orleans unless I have a very good reason.
I prefer the more family friendly parades in the small town where we live.
https://nypost.com/2024/02/09/real-estate/nycs-iconic-102-year-old-village-cigars-store-has-closed/
Was there ever a reason to go to NYC? Me thinks not.😬
That is a cool shop front though👍🏻
Soo, all the team consists of are Tight ends?
Maybe.
It popped up on my Facebook timeline.
Until……..ahh, hell no. I guess we need it though.
That patio furniture didn’t have any frosty white stuff on it at 4PM, about an hour and a half ago.
It’s supposed to get back down around 5F tonight🥶.
Do you think the roads may be icy tomorrow morning🤔
Ahh, maybe not….because they will be covered in 6” of snow again😬
Whenever I look out the window and see that kind of a site, the first thing I say is F***. But, that's just me.
Ditto my friend
A man brings some very fine material to a tailor and asks him to make a pair of pants. When he comes back a week later, the pants are not ready. Two weeks later, they still are not ready. Finally, after six weeks, the pants are ready. The man tries them on. They fit perfectly. Nonetheless, when it comes time to pay, he can’t resist a jibe at the tailor.
“You know,” he says, “it took God only six days to make the world. And it took you six weeks to make just one pair of pants.”
“Ah,” the tailor says. “But look at this pair of pants, and look at the world!”
That’s Democratic strategist James Carville talking to The New York Times’ Maureen Dowd in a Saturday interview. He said it, not me.
For example, what tobacco’s are you looking for? I’m curious if they are the same ones that I look for🙂
There may be some validity to what your B&M is saying. The one I go to in New Orleans is constantly having trouble getting what they order also. There are a lot of blends they have ordered that have been back ordered. And then, they finally get a delivery and its tins that were ordered two years ago. Those tins sell out within 48 hours. Less if they receive the tobacco on the day before a pipe club meeting.