Off Topic Post

Why don't you just push the envelope a bit?

Tried to, but the coke bottle has limited how far we can push the envelope in.

OUCH! Don't forget the gerbils...

at least on a good day

this may become a guru thread yet

We do.

http://cr4.globalspec.com/faq#faq14a

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I'll take your mothers arse for $400 Trebeck

heeeeheeeeeeeee _{What Would Breesus Do}

SPLARF!

Geaux Saints!

Are you going to Mardi Gras? I have never been, always wanted to go, and THIS year should be monumental!

Had some friends who would go to NO every couple of years for MG, but would go to Louisiana every year just to eat for a week! They said the food is like nowhere else...<drool>

Some friends and my son are flying up next week; they'll spend Mardi Gras in the frozen tundra, which to them is very exotic.

I enjoyed Carnival season, but the 2 weeks of traffic jams and crowds (huge parades on major thoroughfares every night leading up to Fat Tuesday) wore thin on me after a while. I even rode in a parade as a member of a krewe for four or five years, which was great.

I can't tell you how much I miss NO, how my heart breaks when I go back and see what's happened to it. Slowly but surely some areas are returning but as a whole, it will probably never be like it was pre-K.

It's a total mystery to me how I never doubled my weight or cholesterol in all my years of living there. Hands down, the best food anywhere. People live to eat and love to eat in NO. Now I'm hungry. Damn tapeworm.

you lived on Meteraie road didn't you?

which would suck, just the traffic post parade if nothing else...

Yar, you have to know the back roads to get out quickly. Or have a friend who lives on the parade route so you have a place to hang out while the traffic dies down.

But living on Metairie Road was sure handy for the St. Patrick's Day Parade! Flying cabbages for everybody.

Oh, HERE you all are....More escapees, I see. Come back in time for meds....

How can you be off topic when the topic is off topic? Is being ON topic then off topic? Or by being off topic you are actually on off topic...ow. my head.....

Must be a pic of my mom driving..."Someone planted that tree there...it wasn't there last week!" "Mom, it has been there for FORTY YEARS!" "Well, I've certainly never seen it."

SPLARF!

Didn't get as much snow as was threatened.

"Honey, are you SURE you closed the sun roof last night?"

"(grunt)."

I pledge allegiance to the Saints, and to the great city of New Orleans, and to the Super Bowl for which we will win, one city, below sea level, with Mardi Gras and alcohol for all. AMEN!

We will be watching every splendorious move....Geaux Say-aint's!

You became a Guru when we weren't looking! Congrats, and welcome to the club of...of...I dunno.....here, have a cigar AND a drink!

Geaux Saints! Who Dat!

I would say my boy's post is very off topic in that photo, John. Good show.

One of my favorite jokes of all time! Will you be here all week? Should I try the veal? Should I remember to tip my waiter?

Yes, I would really like it if you tried the veal.

Dammit Dragon, watch the hard deck.

Dragon, check your six!!!

Bogey at 3 o'clock---oosik's got your back

did you know you have a loony on your butt [arse]

what are we going to do without Haitian in a can?

the main objective to raise awareness - Check

start stepping on executive dick & hilarious hyjinks will ensue

rebar & 3/4" pipe make decent hinges.

I'm rather curious as to just how many more "theatrical extrapolations" like 12" hole are in the "official proposal" - How many "Oh? it's corrugated?" are missing. Them GA's are tricky little suckers.

yeah, when that dick, I think it was stuey, said somehing to the effect , we'll tell them what they want and they better like it, then compares them to children, what an ass hole.

maybe we should soften them up with an airstrike first to make them more receptive to our help?

and let me use my 12" hand powered "chassis" punch on this 3mm steel, lotsa luck.

I just want to punch stuey in the vagina, but I'm holding back because of the good intention of most of the posters, but , with a few exceptions, they seem like well meaning dumb asses. I'm having trouble controlling my humor trigger finger.

Do you think this has any chance? Seems like a BIG leap from fantasy brainstorming to actual funded action.

But if there is any chance of it happenin', I think you and I should go there and do the "Man who Would Be King". You can be the king and I'll be what's his name,uh, Micheal Caine. Turn that sucker out.

What's your call sign?

Lt. sphincter out

Last I looked - Lyzine "Kharsi" Khyber - was gaining 'votes'

But - Hey - Better than Kyz "K". K. for a Haiti gig - ay

yeah, tri- kay alliteration, maybe wrong for venue,

still we could work with King Kharsi, sounds kinda mysterious and regal.

remind me to take a box of wooden kitchen matches, wow 'em with our magic.

cherry bendover?

all ready happened prolly

a nice photo op

billy already od'd on hookers & blow

gonna get some award

as trans pointed out fuqked up place

I observed somewhere back there, the haitians have been treated like dirt since the spanish wiped out most of the natives & imported africans to fill in

few cans ain't gonna fix that

Well, let me know when it would be appropriate to unleash a large humor wad on the canned heat forum.

Odour sphincter out.

ps.

billy od'd on hookers & blow, took me re-read to catch that, poor guy can't help

hisself,

better "head " back to Harlem.

yeah ran a bunch of knock outs over the years

talking about drilling a 5/8" hole through 2mm of steel as if it's no big deal the hole by the way needs to be more like 3/4" to keep from ruining the screw..

even with lube maybe 50 2" holes

gotta be old low tech propane oxy

who cares about holes anyway

more to the point

a bunch of presses for CEB blocks to make foundations, retaining walls...

some stick welders & some big ass spot welders to make anchors out of whatever scrap.

as much cable, uclamps, chain...

wouldn't really sweat all that

more important a roof & water & food would be better.

My concern isn't the doing of it - cause you can just ignore or weed out the "not applicable"on the day - it the "not getting a shot due to some un-workable concept" collapsing the whole CR4 engineering credibility.

Number 7 has taken on a huge task of 'sorting', but meantime I'm seeing the 'not thought through' being quoted as fact, to any who will listen.

--------------------

"Hey Guys, big news - the 12'' punch sets are now approved and on their way!"

(us) Huh? - what about the Mag drills and tips? and gensets and fuel?

"What? I thought we were trying to avoid all that with this idea"

(from Haiti crew) "these don't work - you idiots!"

"Hey Guys - you seem to have got the punch idea wrong! - there goes the budget!"

---------------

I.e. I guess we just hope nothing comes back to bite.

I think i understand what your getting at, there are a lot of different concepts being discussed, some of the ones that appear workable if they have a concerted organizational effort put behind them are getting not much attention.

Other ideas that I guess are more exciting are getting more attention, but I'm not yet convinced they are more valid.They might be workable but the return Vs. effort , or ultimate cost might not be attractive.

Then there are the ones in a third category, which are obviously crackpot or too far from mainstream existing practices; fleets of non existing,seaplanes, blimp/hovercraft/sky trains, crazy people suggesting jumbo jets fly there to be converted into 300% scale trailer park,,, oh, wait that ones mine,,, but it's still crackpot.

I mean one can make almost anything work if you throw enough money at it.

I'll be interested where this leads but i'm guessing there is going to be a few demonstration units installed and then it's going to disappear.

Stupid call sign generator

Roger. Welcome to the club,

Lt. sphincter 'Odour' Blasterr

Don't forget your call sign!

F-ck it ,I'm so embarrassed by my call sign I'm going to _ejaculate eject.

Packrat,

lost battle with self, couldn't resist ,

finally asked C'rapn Mousse about his homoerotic sky diving fantasy.

May not be funny,

but I feel better.

Kharzei needs to 'splain to Chris in ShppConhousing, the dewey decimal system again or taxonomy.

Deadly bleu pencil wielder,

If you are in Haiti, mebbe you could try some of you fav recipes utilizing the local mountain chick-kahn.

King Oscar in a can,

no I don't know that fruit in a can, Prince Albert,

He's a big liar,

and he has cold feet.

n

This is so confusing. Repeating Islands? Is that like radishes?

Mountain chicken frog? So what does it taste like? People? And where are my bonbons....

Alls quiet on haitian in a can

squidholes, as if posting makes them humanitarians

Not one new post on any of the 3 new threads I started [& sacrificed my right to start new threads} they'd been bitching [oh no is that a cuss?] for 500 posts that the thin was too hard to read & been to lazy or stupid to start new threads...

they need more fuqking mad smilies on this thing

No idea why chris 288 thought moderation was in order, snivilling snatch, but the boy can sure make some purtty pics though

Shiest oprah's people might see we're human, can't have that

look geoff has a legacy spam in a can yea

pinche [all purpose mexican cuss] thread is in MFHO the reason for all this moderation..

Not one new post on any of the 3 new threads I started What threads?

No idea why chris 288 thought moderation was in order Teacher's pet wannabe,

I agree he does draw right purty. And a purty mouth

look geoff has a legacy spam in a can yea, hm?

http://cr4.globalspec.com/thread/50525/Drainage-Sanitation-Other-Issues-Related-to-Shipping-Container-Housing

and there's 2 more on the home page.

You gotta get out more, Rasputin, know wut I'm sayin'?

http://cr4.globalspec.com/comment/525259/Re-Shipping-Container-Housing

the link from squibble whyclef jean is interesting, I'm sure the mumblings of a rich ex pat hold more relevance than mine...

I can speculate on what the average homeless haitian wants, with some level of certainty:

To be out of the rain & have a meal

Just suggesting 'opinion leverage' opportunities. Seemed to finish on a project compatible note - might help to "start something".

Give the new threads time.

I imagine there is some 'reflecting' going on, given the "just facts" rider.

Might be a few waiting to see what CW7 is 'compiling'

^{_{I'd say his PM will be bursting with "pick me!, pick me!" (none by my hand)}}

But if I can get my head around the ream of site and resources variables and formulate a "set of assumed circumstances" - I'll have a go at kicking them off.

I just added one more [thread] on potable water.

I actually did the 2nd draft of part one not sure there's any need for a white paper I'm sure I'll be in that part of the loop, though I'm not sure to what end?

not much will probably happen [new threads] until monday morning

In 1889, Burma - now Myanmar - opens railroad from Rangoon to Mandalay.

Feb 27 is such a magical day. Hope everyone is celebrating appropriately and responsibly.

Hey Suez,

Girl playing a banjo, smoking a cheroot,

gets me to thinking,

maybe there's some shovelin'

of snow

out of a nook , in Penn ,

to be done.

heddly

We need to start be defining a topical post.

I nominate the marvelous UK's Royal Mail, who recently 'lost' an important item I sent via their excellent service. Great job guys, give yourselves a pat on the back as you lurch toward being out of a job.

(to be fair, I have great admiration for the chap/chapess who sits inside the thing and sorts all the incoming. It must be jolly cold in winter. Still, all those birthday cards you open, looking for money/gift vouchers must compensate a little)

Maybe if these:

... were painted this colour ...

... things would all work out fine.

"Arks & Spencer" ? Do we all get discount on Dan Brown's next book ? If that's not the case, I wanna play Indy - yah, give me that whip...........................ERrrrrr.......coo-eeee.......

Oh look, it's green.

Wooo Hoooo!

"... – we're talking an increase from 9 mpg to 14 mpg ..."

I want one!

Bread crumb for BenBenBanned

UniqueRabbitsDesigns@Gmail.com

I'm so lost

Sorry Benben, that was a bit cheap of me. You seem to have upset a few folk, I'm just pulling your leg. No agenda on my part, though I get the impression you might do better if you re-phrased stuff. Take it form an old hand at getting told off, it's all in how you say it. No intent to offend, just have a chuckle and rethink how you post stuff. Posting when admin have asked you not to is a bad way to go. Just trying to keep the peace.

Who could possibly resist a headline like this?

Shark-Bitten Crocodile Poop Fossils Found (No, Really)

So does this mean you're switching careers after your fuel rods are buffed?

Can't define it, but I can provide alternatives.

The first of April
is the day we remember
what we are the other 364 days of the year

Bugsy (stealing from Mark Twain)

In an effort to keep this thread going...

A U.S. Marine Colonel was about to start the

morning briefing to his staff.
While waiting for the coffee machine to finish its brewing,
the colonel decided to pose a question to all assembled.
He explained that his wife had been a bit frisky the night
before and he failed to get his usual amount of sound
sleep.
He posed the question of just how much of sex was
"work" and how much of it was
"pleasure?"
A Major chimed in with 75-25% in favor of work.
A Captain said it was 50-50%.
A lieutenant responded with 25-75% in favor of pleasure,
depending upon his state of inebriation at the time.
There being no consensus, the colonel turned to the PFC who
was in charge of making the coffee. What was HIS opinion?
Without any hesitation, the young PFC responded,
"Sir,
it has to be 100% pleasure."
The colonel was surprised and, as you might guess, asked
why?
"Well, sir, if there was any work involved, the
officers would have me doing it for them."

The room fell silent.

This was a good one.

The ayn rand reference is a nice touch

in the old days sparking up a Dubai mean time for fun

in this context it would mean the the Haitians have thrown off their yokes & it's time for the end of days

My post was a nod to our new friend in the south....

Today's bright spot.

Gee obo should probably watch over here too

you never know where truth may break out

anyone have any idea

why creatures from the woods of NY

should get preferential treatment?

EyeWitlessNews Reporter, Dirk Diggler, reports: Scientists are unsure if this recent discovery ever had a pair, or whether they were removed in the course of a full contact siege knitting re-enactment.

Film at Eleven

Then I guess it's not a breeder reactor.

anybody know where I can find a rimshot key fob?

DAYUM

that was funny, and quick.

And for my Edge Bro, FOB

no

I mean an actual one that I can use in public for effect

Oh, what, your Linux/Cray/HAL/Ubuntu setup doesn't have Google?

http://ask.metafilter.com/92047/Programmable-keychain-for-spontaneous-Willhelms

http://news.cnet.com/crave/?keyword=tools

I just want a toy I don't want to start a company

sorry

or this

I see the Admiral stomped off in a huff

He won't keep his word will he?

I really did try to ignore him

How much Bullying are we supposed to take?

but I suppose we should be grateful to the creator of the universe as we know it...

Nope he didn't.

Dear Garthh,

Get yourself a coupla chopsticks and an empty coke can.

Chill, or you'll burn yourself out. They ain't worth it.

Love & kisses from John

DG.

At least now I know what a quoll is.

Can't get into the online system I need for work. Must be the volcano. Right.

I've just had notification of a post to a thread I'm subscribed to - 4½ hours after the post was posted (pussed?). Must call in a good vulcanologist.

Ah, well, just got into the system, so work I must. So much for eating bonbons and staring out the window.

Ya know, at one point I considered attending the University of Maine and studying volcanology. Went elsewhere and studied paleontology instead. What a long strange trip it's been. _{no singing, pleez...}

Hey John, other than slow posting and lack of planes overhead, are there any other obvious effects of the ash cloud for you?

Nothing definite. The car's a bit dusty, but that could be anything - we get dust blown up from the Sahara sometimes.

One of Small's great uncles is s'posed to be coming over from your side of the pond tomorrow - can't see it happening. Bit of a pain, 'cos he could've kept Small's Grandpa occupied for a while. He's getting pretty bad - accused me of stealing the Alfa from him last night - it got quite nasty for a while.

Just been checking into dusty cars - there are loads to be seen around Reading, and a bit of googling brings up reports from all over the country. Some people have been complaining of worstening asthma. I'm not asthmatic, but I have been coughing more than usual (I smoke).

Dust on car (before it rained on Monday), lots of tickly throat coughing and sore tonsils and a runny nose...it was like having a cold when I got up this morning...I find eating helps mask the symptoms!

I haven't had sore tonsils for ages. About 45 years, in fact .

That's coz you're olderer than I; they'd decided whippin' 'em out wasn't the way to go when I got tonsilititis for the 3rd time...but it sure is a good weight loss programme when it really kicks in, as then mine meet in the middle.

All of my last 4 doctors (I move around a lot) said, on checking out my throat for the first time "Your tonsils are swollen". <All together> Oh no they're not, quoth I, they're always like that. I'll spare you the rest of the pointless argument where I describe exactly what my tonsils look like when I do have the dreaded ~itis. On closer inspection, they each realised that I had infected post-nasal drip.

I wonder why my GPs don't like me.

Dust on the company pick-up:

Close-up (vernier calipers set to 10mm):

Just spotted an obvious effect. There's a locum on extended stay in the post office over the road, on account of the real postmistress being stuck in China.

....to Tripperary......

Lucky you. I've not been getting all the notifications due for over a week now....