OT: Darwin was on vacation this weekend

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Dale Bright® <dalebright@yahoo.com> wrote in
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> On 1 Jun 2004 16:21:54 GMT, "Ms.Goodwrench"
> <msgoodwrench29DEL@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>>Heard a comedian on the radio not long ago who nailed it - he said the
>>scariest, most heartstopping words to ever come out of any child's
>>mouth, of which no good can ever come, are "let's build a ramp".
>
> <G>
>
> Do you *know* how many times my buddies and I probably said this?
>
> Probably not.
>
>>> And lastly from this trip down memory lane, I once scaled the
>>> "telephone" pole in out front yard as about a 6 year old. Mom said
not
>>> to do this as the pole was full of splinters (and tar and creosote
as
>>> best I can tell today). Well, about the time I lost my grip and slid
>>> down the pole like a fireman would to get to the lower level of a
fire
>>> house, I was eat up with splinters, in all sorts of painful areas.
>>> Took hours in the emergency room to get them all out. Thinking about
>>> it now, I should've just let go and taken the broken leg or ankle
the
>>> fall would've produced at worst.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>Deer lowered... LOL... I climbed to the top of one of my Grandma's
>>pinetrees and slipped... what broke the fall was a branch underbeath
the
>>armpit... OUCH! Took the branch off, but didn't break my arm (just
>>bunged it up for a few weeks).
>
> I have several broken bones. Most of them, due to ATV's and basic
> stupidity.
>
> HTH
>
> But, there wasn't that much I wouldn't try at the time.
>
>



I somehow managed to survive childhood and a klutzy adulthood without a
single broken bone. Numerous sprains, stitches, and several severe
burns, but no broken bones.




--
Ms.Goodwrench

It's always funny until someone gets hurt. Then it's just hilarious.
- Bill Hicks

{88Keys} <nospam@fakeaddress.com> wrote in
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> On 1 Jun 2004 15:53:24 GMT, thus spake "Ms.Goodwrench"
> <msgoodwrench29DEL@hotmail.com> :
>
>>In my lifetime, I've:
>>
>>Put my finger into the end of a car cigarette lighter to see if it was
>>working (it was).
>
> Something fell into the hole where the lighter goes in my car. I
> tried using a key to get it out.
>
>>Ran my finger over a razor blade to see if it was as sharp as my mom
>>warned (it was).
>
> I've done that. I don't think I was trying to see if it was sharp,
> though; it had gunk in it I was trying to scrape out.
>
>
>>Reached out and grabbed the tyne of a pitchfork that had just come out
>>of a fire.
>
> Took our pizza stone out of the oven once (flat stone, sets on a metal
> rack, you grab the rack to pick it up). Set it on the counter and
> took of the oven mitts to check the pizza. Decided it wasn't done,
> grabbed the rack to put it back in the oven...without my oven mitts.
> My dad was sitting at the counter, and he just looked at me. I was
> like, "I don't know why I thought that wouldn't still be hot."
>
>

LOL - reminds me of the old Martin Short Ed Grimmly bit - he does the
same thing, but with a cookie sheet, remarking "now there's a pain
that's gonna linger."




--
Ms.Goodwrench

It's always funny until someone gets hurt. Then it's just hilarious.
- Bill Hicks

> My Dad never had any car ramps. But he left a big pile of dirt behind
> our house, left over from putting a fuel oil tank in the ground. Me and
> the neighbor boy spent an entire summer pretending we were Evel Kneival.
>
> Summer before last, my husband and son got the bright idea to wait until
> my dad drove up the drive to the "back forty" just past our house and
> Junior would jump Grandad's truck with his YZ125. It worked great, but
> my dad was NOT AMUSED. And let it be known if it happened again, he'd
> hire a dozer to knock the bank/ramp down.


parents suck.

"Daniel" <sabot120mm@diespammersdie.com> wrote in news:uclvc.48809
$lY2.33802@fe1.texas.rr.com:

>
>> My Dad never had any car ramps. But he left a big pile of dirt
behind
>> our house, left over from putting a fuel oil tank in the ground. Me
and
>> the neighbor boy spent an entire summer pretending we were Evel
Kneival.
>>
>> Summer before last, my husband and son got the bright idea to wait
until
>> my dad drove up the drive to the "back forty" just past our house and
>> Junior would jump Grandad's truck with his YZ125. It worked great,
but
>> my dad was NOT AMUSED. And let it be known if it happened again,
he'd
>> hire a dozer to knock the bank/ramp down.
>
>
> parents suck.
>


My Dad got me an RM125 when I was 15. I rode it for months one spring
and summer.. one Sunday, after spending a day moving fields then kicking
back with a buddy and a 12 pack, he decided to take it for a ride... in
a field that hadn't been mown. He hit a fallen tree concealed in the
weeds and nearly broke a leg... then sold the bike, saying it was too
dangerous for ME!!


--
Ms.Goodwrench

It's always funny until someone gets hurt. Then it's just hilarious.
- Bill Hicks

"Ms.Goodwrench" <msgoodwrench29DEL@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:Xns94FC6A36CC3CFmsgoodwrench29@130.133.1.4...
> My Dad got me an RM125 when I was 15. I rode it for months one spring
> and summer.. one Sunday, after spending a day moving fields... <SNIP>

How do you move a field?

Lee

"Lee Aanderud" <aanderud@alltel.net> wrote in
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> "Ms.Goodwrench" <msgoodwrench29DEL@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:Xns94FC6A36CC3CFmsgoodwrench29@130.133.1.4...
>> My Dad got me an RM125 when I was 15. I rode it for months one
spring
>> and summer.. one Sunday, after spending a day moving fields... <SNIP>
>
> How do you move a field?
>


You use a very large deisel-powered spellchekr.



--
Ms.Goodwrench

It's always funny until someone gets hurt. Then it's just hilarious.
- Bill Hicks