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4 years ago

A recent grad from Kurt's School of Christmas Tree Decorating for Men...but hurry, membership is limited.

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Claude Whitacre 4 years ago

Originally Posted by Kurt

A recent grad from Kurt's School of Christmas Tree Decorating for Men...but hurry, membership is limited.

I bet this guy is just drowning in girls.
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Princess Balestra

4 years ago

Like Dickens said ...

"May fulsomeness of festive baubles
dangle sweet from evergreen tradish."

Figure THAT as a strapline for easy-on easy-off panties
an' nowan ain't steppin' out into the fyooture in a straight line, tellya.

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Kay King

4 years ago

yep - thought the same - life of the party...

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Kurt

4 years ago

Originally Posted by Claude Whitacre

I bet this guy is just drowning in girls.

Originally Posted by Kay King

yep - thought the same - life of the party...

It's a guy thing...I wouldn't expect either of you two to get it.

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Claude Whitacre

4 years ago

Originally Posted by Kurt

It's a guy thing...I wouldn't expect either of you two to get it.

You are wrong. I am the official spokesman for "Guys who never got girls, and loved geeky stuff that a four year old would be amazed by"

One of my most desired objects is a Daredevil billy club that will actually shoot out a cord, that I could swing on...from building to building....the Spider-Man web shooters, and exploding arrow, and a grappling hook that would work.

I considered spending $5,000 for a Captain America shield made from Titanium. I'm not joking.

I almost bought a near complete Superman suit from the 1950s series. My wife talked me out of it.

Magnetic boots? A levitating disk to stand on? I'm there.

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4 years ago

Originally Posted by Claude Whitacre

You are wrong. I am the official spokesman for "Guys who never got girls, and loved geeky stuff that a four year old would be amazed by"

One of my most desired objects is a Daredevil billy club that will actually shoot out a cord, that I could swing on...from building to building....the Spider-Man web shooters, and exploding arrow, and a grappling hook that would work.

I considered spending $5,000 for a Captain America shield made from Titanium. I'm not joking.

I almost bought a near complete Superman suit from the 1950s series. My wife talked me out of it.

Magnetic boots? A levitating disk to stand on? I'm there.

Levitating discs all across the planet are letting out loud screams of shear terror.

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Claude Whitacre 4 years ago

Originally Posted by Kurt

Levitating discs all across the planet are letting out loud screams of shear terror.

Let them scream. Their testimony is not admissible in court.
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- Kurt 4 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Claude Whitacre
  
  Let them scream. Their testimony is not admissible in court.
  
  "Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I still couldn't budge Claude's chubby ass." - Archimedes
  
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  Originally Posted by Kurt
  
  "Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I still couldn't budge Claude's chubby ass." - Archimedes
  
  Archimedes was in the bath with Claudius Whiticaris. Suddenly Claudius let rip with the biggest, smelliest burst of wind in recorded history.
  
  Archimedes leapt out of the bath and ran away as fast as he could shouting You Reeker, You Reeker. And so, another whimsical scientific discovery story is totally debunked.
  
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4 years ago

Originally Posted by Claude Whitacre

You are wrong. I am the official spokesman for "Guys who never got girls, and loved geeky stuff that a four year old would be amazed by"

One of my most desired objects is a Daredevil billy club that will actually shoot out a cord, that I could swing on...from building to building....the Spider-Man web shooters, and exploding arrow, and a grappling hook that would work.

I considered spending $5,000 for a Captain America shield made from Titanium. I'm not joking.

I almost bought a near complete Superman suit from the 1950s series. My wife talked me out of it.

Magnetic boots? A levitating disk to stand on? I'm there.

What, no time travel machine?

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Dan Riffle 4 years ago

Originally Posted by whateverpedia

What, no time travel machine?

Why, so he could go back in time and keep re-eating lunch?

He already does that.
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- Claude Whitacre 4 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Dan Riffle
  
  Why, so he could go back in time and keep re-eating lunch?
  
  He already does that.
  
  What I do when I'm alone in my room, sobbing because nobody loves me...is my own business.
  
  Originally Posted by whateverpedia
  
  What, no time travel machine?
  
  Time travel machines are imaginative nonsense. A burning bush told me that.
  
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  Originally Posted by Claude Whitacre
  
  A burning bush told me that.
  
  You can get ointment for that.
  
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  You can get ointment for that.
  
  Yeah but gettin' it to grow back takes forevah.
  
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Kurt

4 years ago

"Yo! Merry Christmas you filthy animals!"

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rashmi44 4 years ago

aww...he is looking too cute...well photoshopped lol
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Kay King

4 years ago

My brother would find that 'tree decorating trick' fascinating - he's one of the nicest guys on the planet...but 'exciting' has never been used to describe him. As a kid he was one of those who could take apart a radio or clock - put it back together so it worked better - and have parts left over.

Not surprisingly, he's an engineer.

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Claude Whitacre

4 years ago

Originally Posted by Kay King

My brother would find that 'tree decorating trick' fascinating - he's one of the nicest guys on the planet...but 'exciting' has never been used to describe him. As a kid he was one of those who could take apart a radio or clock - put it back together so it worked better - and have parts left over.

Not surprisingly, he's an engineer.

I love engineers. My default thinking mode is like an engineer.

But you are right, exciting isn't the word to describe them (us).

I once made the mistake of speaking to a group of engineers. Wonderful people, but not easily sold, or convinced, or made to laugh.

My wife's twin brother is an engineer. Sometimes he stays at our house for a few days, visiting relatives. Mr. Excitement, he is not. But left unsupervised, he fixes every leaky faucet, changes every bulb. He checks all our clocks to make sure they are right.

He also has the strange habit of narrating his every move....

For example; "I'm going to the hardware store, Yup, getting in the car, checking the mirror, starting her up. I'll change the oil in 500 miles.......pulling into the hardware store parking lot."

The first time I heard it, I thought he was joking. Nope.

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Kurt

4 years ago

Originally Posted by Claude Whitacre

I love engineers. My default thinking mode is like an engineer.

But you are right, exciting isn't the word to describe them (us).

I once made the mistake of speaking to a group of engineers. Wonderful people, but not easily sold, or convinced, or made to laugh.

My wife's twin brother is an engineer. Sometimes he stays at our house for a few days, visiting relatives. Mr. Excitement, he is not. But left unsupervised, he fixes every leaky faucet, changes every bulb. He checks all our clocks to make sure they are right.

He also has the strange habit of narrating his every move....

For example; "I'm going to the hardware store, Yup, getting in the car, checking the mirror, starting her up. I'll change the oil in 500 miles.......pulling into the hardware store parking lot."

The first time I heard it, I thought he was joking. Nope.

I think I'm going to throw up...I was a Coast Guard certified apprentice marine engineer (and marine firefighting and lifeboat) many years ago and speaking for marine engineers everywhere, we don't love Claude for anything other than his extreme buoyancy in life saving situations. Where was he when the Titanic needed him?

PS. I bet the guy in the video spent more time setting that up than it would take to decorate the tree the "regular" way.

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Claude Whitacre 4 years ago

Originally Posted by Kurt

I think I'm going to throw up...I was a Coast Guard certified apprentice marine engineer

Can you still fit into your little sailor outfit?

A friend wants to know.
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- Kurt 4 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Claude Whitacre
  
  Can you still fit into your little sailor outfit?
  
  A friend wants to know.
  
  On a serious point it amazes me how little people know about the Merchant Marines. "Marine" means water, not military and merchant marines are private citizens not military personnel that are regulated and certified by the Coast Guard and under Coast Guard control during war time.
  
  Merchant ships can't carry weapons to defend themselves (See "Captain Phillips") due to International treaties because countries don't want other countries to have weapons in their ports and national waters.
  
  Merchant ships carry food and supplies to the military. During WWII Kaiser Shipping was building ships as fast as they could to create a supply line to the UK. Nazi uboats sat right off our East Coast and sunk the merchant ships almost as fast as they were built.
  
  FDR wouldn't turn off the lights of the cities at night because he didn't want Americans to panic with the German uboats being just off our E Coast. This caused our ships to create silhouettes against the night cityscape making them sitting ducks for the Nazi uboats with no weapons to defend themselves.
  
  During WWII US Marines had by far the highest casualty rate of any of our military. Merchant Marines had literally 10x the casualty rate of the military Marines. These men never got a medal, don't have a national holiday and I've never heard any military or politician thanking the Merchant Marines for their service, even though they delivered the military their meals and medical supplies at a higher casualty rate than any of them. Not every hero wore a uniform and they are truly forgotten heroes.
  
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Kay King

4 years ago

So many engineers I've known (not my brother) seem to have OCD tendencies - so know what you mean. I always thought it was the way they think - linear/logical.

An exception is a young friend of mine - one of the most fun loving young women I know - just graduated from the AF Academy as an Engineer - and wants to 'run around the world building bridges'. I doubt anything will stop her.

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4 years ago

My engineering OCD is things like calculating parking space distances. Most people only consider the distance from the parking space to the store's door. But this is incomplete if you use a shopping cart and actually return them. The correct calculation should also include the distance from the cart return to your car. When including the total walking distance it's amazing how many parking spaces are exactly the same total distance. (It depends on whether the cart return is closer or farther from the front door than your car.)

This same thought process happens every time I cook. I "must" figure out the most efficient order of getting everything I need and if I miscalculate I get irritated with myself. "I should have done that first!"

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tagiscom

4 years ago

Originally Posted by Kurt

My engineering OCD is things like calculating parking space distances. Most people only consider the distance from the parking space to the store's door. But this is incomplete if you use a shopping cart and actually return them. The correct calculation should also include the distance from the cart return to your car. When including the total walking distance it's amazing how many parking spaces are exactly the same total distance. (It depends on whether the cart return is closer or farther from the front door than your car.)

This same thought process happens every time I cook. I "must" figure out the most efficient order of getting everything I need and if I miscalculate I get irritated with myself. "I should have done that first!"

Claude is an engineer at heart, you just need to inspect his poster on his shop wall, showing the number of steps required to reach the local Polly - Waffle - Pollyana and editable Soap on a Rope store to realize that. And this takes into account wearing a full bodied Batman outfit, the number of children who run away, the number of parents with small arms and stray dogs, and the occasional car pileup.

This doesn't include tears in space/time as he doesn't fall over that much.

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Kay King

4 years ago

Most people only consider the distance from the parking space to the store's door. But this is incomplete if you use a shopping cart and actually return them. The correct calculation should also include the distance from the cart return to your car.

Do you find that by the time you have done your calculation - someone else moves ahead of you into that parking spot? ...and you have to start over?

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Kurt 4 years ago

Originally Posted by Kay King

Do you find that by the time you have done your calculation - someone else moves ahead of you into that parking spot? ...and you have to start over?

No calculation needed, it's instant, as it only took a single calculation, not a calculation every time I park.

As I explained above if the cart return is farther away from the door than your car, all the parking spots are the same total distance from the front door, assuming you are returning your cart. People are short sighted and only take into account their walk to the front door and not the distance from the cart return to their vehicle, which is also a factor.

Because I know this, I don't waste my time looking for a "better" parking spot realizing they really are all the same and I find parking places faster than others, not slower.

If you don't have a cart or the cart return is closer to the front door than your vehicle, then pick the closest parking spot to the front door. It really isn't a major calculation.

Added Later: I can see why you thought I did a calculation every time by my wording in my earlier post...I didn't make my point very well.
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Kurt

4 years ago

BTW Kay...engineers typically don't think of ways to make things harder, just the opposite. Here's a pic looking out my front door a few minutes before I posted this.

Know how I "shovel" snow? I use a leaf blower. I suggest others in snow country do the same, it's lot easier. A leaf blower doesn't work on deep wet snow but a good one will handle 3-5 inches really well, just have to do it a few times a day to keep up.

Unfortunately the snow plows love to push the snow along side the road.

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Jeffery 4 years ago

Originally Posted by Kurt

Unfortunately the snow plows love to push the snow along side the road.

I park my truck crossways in the entrance of the driveway.
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  I park my truck crossways in the entrance of the driveway.
  
  I prefer not having to walk to the bottom of the hill to get to mine after the plow drags it.
  
  Actually, my truck is parked parallel to the snow plow "ridge line". Since I'm on a steep hill I just blow through it and let gravity take over.
  
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Kurt

4 years ago

You need a good leaf blower, the cheapest ones don't work. I have a good battery operated one with over 500 CFM.

Satisfying Snow Removal with Leaf Blower - YouTube

And here's another engineering mind showing how to deal with snow and it really works well too when you absolutely must shovel snow:

No more aching back rope trick - YouTube

Another snow/ice tip that I've actually used and it works is if your vehicle gets stuck in snow or ice put a floor mat in front of the tire to get traction.

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4 years ago

What is snow?

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4 years ago

Undercover footage of Blitzen protesting being forced to haul Santa Claude's excessively chubby butt...

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Kay King

4 years ago

Our drive is flat but long - so in late Fall off comes the mower deck on the Grasshopper - and on with the snow plow.

You had to mention snow - yesterday clear, sunny, ...this morning 4 inches of snow.....

Thankfully temps are slightly above freezing so roads/drive are clear...
till tomorrow when it's supposed to happen again!

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4 years ago

Graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the Claude Academy of Paint Balls.

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4 years ago

Home movie of a young Claude boogie boarding in Lake Wooster.

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tagiscom 4 years ago

Originally Posted by Kurt

Home movie of a young Claude boogie boarding in Lake Wooster.

Lake Wooster, nonsense l don't see any Wooster Mineral Water and Treatment Plant nearby, or at least the change in water color!
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4 years ago

Same to you. It was a great holiday season, but I am glad it is over. 2020 is going to be a great year. 2019 was my big breakthrough and 2020 will be life changing. I hope everyone reading this comment has the best year ever in 2020.

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4 years ago

We rest from the 1st to the 9th and honestly, this does not affect my liver in the best way)), it would be faster to work already)

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tagiscom

4 years ago

I may still go on holidays, but with finances being tight it will either be Wooster, via Creaky Airlines, or l may go to New Jersey, and see the street parade, or go to town, same thing!

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DWolfe 4 years ago

Originally Posted by tagiscom

l may go to New Jersey, and see the street parade, or go to town, same thing!

What street parade is worth seeing in this state ? But you can head down to South Jersey and may see a BMW with Frank passing by
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