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Re: The Sidelines (04.12.11 - 09.10.15)
« Reply #1035 on: July 09, 2012, 11:54:35 am »
Glad you all made it out of that alive.

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Re: The Sidelines (04.12.11 - 09.10.15)
« Reply #1036 on: July 09, 2012, 12:37:33 pm »
What have you done, sinner?

He will try again you know...

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Re: The Sidelines (04.12.11 - 09.10.15)
« Reply #1037 on: July 09, 2012, 03:43:06 pm »
One day a man decided to retire...




He booked himself on a Caribbean
cruise and proceeded to have the
time of his life, that is, until the ship sank.




He soon found himself on an island with no other people, no supplies, nothing, only bananas and coconuts.




After about four months, he is lying on the beach one day when the most gorgeous woman he has ever seen rows up to the shore.



In disbelief, he asks,"Where did you
come from? How did you get here?"

She replies,"I rowed over from the other side of the island where I landed when my cruise ship sank."

"Amazing," he notes."You were really lucky to
have a row boat wash up with you."

"Oh, this thing?" explains the woman."I made
the boat out of some raw material I found
on the island. The oars were whittled from gum tree branches. I wove the bottom from palm tree branches, and the sides and stern came from a
Eucalyptus tree."

"But, where did you get the tools?"

"Oh, that was no problem," replied the woman.
"On the south side of the island, a very
unusual stratum of alluvial rock is exposed.
I found that if I fired it to a certain temperature in my kiln, it melted into ductile iron and I used that
to make tools and used the tools to
make the hardware."

The guy is stunned.

"Let's row over to my place," she says "and I'll give you a tour." So, after a short time of rowing, she soon docks the boat at a small wharf. As the man
looks to shore, he nearly falls off the boat.
Before him is a long stone walk leading to a
cabin and tree house.



While the woman ties up the row boat with an expertly woven hemp rope, the man can only stare ahead, dumb struck. As they walk into the house, she says casually, "It's not much, but I call it home. Please sit down."

"Would you like a drink?"
"No! No thank you," the man blurts out, still dazed.
"I can't take another drop of coconut juice."

"Oh it's not coconut juice," winks the woman.
"I have a still. How would you like a Tropical Spritz?"




Trying to hide his continued amazement,
the man accepts, and they sit down on her couch to talk. After they exchange their individual survival stories, the woman announces,
"I'm going to slip into something more comfortable. Would you like to take a shower and shave? There's a razor in the bathroom cabinet upstairs."

No longer questioning anything, the man goes upstairs into the bathroom. There, in the cabinet is a razor made from a piece of tortoise bone. Two shells honed to a hollow ground edge are fastened on to its end inside a swivel mechanism.

"This woman is amazing," he muses."What's next?"
When he returns, she greets him wearing nothing
but some small flowers on tiny vines, each strategically positioned, she smelled faintly of
gardenias. She then beckons for him to sit down
next to her.

"Tell me," she begins suggestively, slithering closer to him,"We've both been out here for many months.
You must have been lonely. When was the
last time you played around? She stares into his eyes.

He can't believe what he's hearing."You mean..." he swallows excitedly as tears start to form in his eyes,
!
!
!
!
"You've built a Golf Course?"



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Re: The Sidelines (04.12.11 - 09.10.15)
« Reply #1038 on: July 09, 2012, 03:49:58 pm »
LOL

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Re: The Sidelines (04.12.11 - 09.10.15)
« Reply #1039 on: July 09, 2012, 04:11:00 pm »
Your age is showing again.

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Re: The Sidelines (04.12.11 - 09.10.15)
« Reply #1040 on: July 09, 2012, 07:12:09 pm »
Glad to see you're ok, WM! Wow....

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Re: The Sidelines (04.12.11 - 09.10.15)
« Reply #1042 on: July 09, 2012, 10:29:13 pm »
Can anyone guess which truck is mine?


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Re: The Sidelines (04.12.11 - 09.10.15)
« Reply #1043 on: July 09, 2012, 10:39:56 pm »
you had me going there for a minute pack, it really is amazing what they can do these days with cgi.  That can't be real.

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« Reply #1044 on: July 09, 2012, 10:58:57 pm »
Nice Bill but buy a Ford and bigger Bears items for your truck.

I just ordered a shit ton of Bears stuff for my truck.  Bears decals for the front and back window plus some magnetic Bears stuff to put on the tail gate.  Also chrome Bears license plate holders. 
 

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Re: The Sidelines (04.12.11 - 09.10.15)
« Reply #1045 on: July 10, 2012, 12:11:16 am »
I got the Cubs plate holder on the back and the Bears holder on the front.

I had a Cubs magnet for the tailgate but it got blown away in the wind along with the baseball that was back there.  They were getting old and faded anyway.

I just uploaded and album of all kinds of pictures from today's recovery...

Here are all the pictures of the day after the big storm. I want to say thanks to the Spotsylvania Sheriff's office for digging through the rubble and recovering the personal items for the kids and parents. It made their day today as you can see on some of their faces as they get their items back!

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Re: The Sidelines (04.12.11 - 09.10.15)
« Reply #1046 on: July 10, 2012, 12:29:20 am »
Some arieal shots of the building and area..







OMG this link has a video from the building survailance cameras right in front of us.  This is what was recorded at ground zero of our building blowing up around us.

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Re: The Sidelines (04.12.11 - 09.10.15)
« Reply #1047 on: July 10, 2012, 12:53:05 am »
OK.  I was trying to avoid this all day yesterday and today.  The Richmond guy got me and Mandi put him up to it.  I am sure of it.  I kept refusing interview after interview and they kept trying to get me to do one and I wouldn't.

This Richmond guy was cool but sneaky it seems.

The National Weather Service just announced that yesterday’s destruction in Spotsylvania, just south of Fredericksburg was due to a microburst, not a tornado.
CBS 6 News Richmond WTVR · wtvr.com


I had to click the video and then click around in the bottom right corner till I got a full screen and then you could see it.

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Re: The Sidelines (04.12.11 - 09.10.15)
« Reply #1048 on: July 10, 2012, 01:12:38 am »
OMG!  She totally sold me out in both of these interviews!



Two people remain hospitalized, one day after powerful storms collapsed the walls and ripped the roof off of a Spotsylvania gym.
CBS 6 News Richmond WTVR · wtvr.com

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Re: The Sidelines (04.12.11 - 09.10.15)
« Reply #1049 on: July 10, 2012, 05:05:15 am »
Wow!! Glad to hear everyone is OK!!