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Subject: BS: What get's you torqued??? From: Bobert Date: 08 Nov 10 - 08:27 PM I mean, like I'm tryin' to buy a box truck and so I go to Craigslist and folks advertise stuff as "runs great" and then you call on it and they tell you that it's been sittin' fir a couple years... (Well, Boberdz... It ran great the last time it ran great... Don't that count fir nuthin'???) No, it doesn't... Man, that get's this ol' hillbilly torqued... But other than the P-Vine hiding my pot from me and stupid wars that's about it... How 'bout ya'll??? I mean, I don't care if yer comatose there's got to be something that just get's you torqued... B~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued??? From: Ed T Date: 08 Nov 10 - 08:45 PM Women gets me torqued. Ya can't trust 'em. Why, ya ask? Well, they steak ur smokes. Ya leave ur smokes on the table at the tavern, to go to the can, Ya ask a woman to watch 'em. Ya come back from the can and ur miss'n a smoke from ur package. Tis all the proof you need that you can't trust women. That's why, women gets me torqued. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued??? From: Severn Date: 08 Nov 10 - 08:48 PM Torquemada |
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Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued??? From: frogprince Date: 08 Nov 10 - 08:50 PM Not really torqued about it just now, but I had one interesting vehicle-shopping experience of my own a couple of weeks back. I crunched my little Ford Focus just enough to get it declared totalled, and wanted another one about like it to putt around with (We have a late model Fusion in my wife's name for serious travel). So one ad describes an '06 with only about 50k, super clean, private party selling only because he needed a bigger family vehicle. I drove about 60 miles to see it. Arrive at a house number, no one in sight. Guy rolls up with the car in a few minutes. Dealer plate. Paint looks immaculate. Interior looks immaculate. Felt good going around a few blocks at street speed. Looked it over a little more. The front fenders and door edges were so far out of line it was pitiful. They had hung new front tin on a piece of crap that had to have been knocked completely out of shape, and slapped on a new coat of paint. I wondered how many other "private seller" gems they had been trying to unload like that. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued??? From: Jack the Sailor Date: 08 Nov 10 - 08:50 PM steak ur smokes. That sounds disgusting. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued??? From: Ed T Date: 08 Nov 10 - 08:55 PM A few months ago I got a radar speeding ticket. I may have been speeding, but I don't think so. I tried to fight it in court, before a judge who had no sympathy with my case...that dis not surprise me. But, what did get me torqued is the cop testified and clearly lied. I was surprised by that. Just a reminder to Canadian catters...because winter is near...it is torques, not toqued. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued??? From: Rapparee Date: 08 Nov 10 - 09:06 PM One torque over the line, sweet Jesus, one torque over the line.... |
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Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued??? From: Bobert Date: 08 Nov 10 - 09:50 PM Man I hates it when cops lie, Ed-teee... Had one lie his butt off one time back in Wes Ginny 'cause I bothered to give him a "naughty naughty" finger wave when I encountered him driving wrecklessly on a back road where kids used to ride their bikes... Sumabich turned around and pulled me over and wrote me for not having my friggin' insurance card... Went to court and told what happened then he said that I flipped him off??? Should have... Cost me $25 plus $78 court charges... Liein' sack of.... But nevermind that... Never saw him back in our holler... Guess the word got out that I busted him in court... B~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued??? From: Slag Date: 08 Nov 10 - 09:57 PM You ever work on an oil rig? Well, a 36" pipe wrench is what a sissy uses. Roughnecks use 48" "Rigid" pipe wrenches and just about everyone of them ('cept the new ones) the handle is bent. Now that's torque and the sissies and the 36's don't last too long on the rig. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued??? From: Bobert Date: 08 Nov 10 - 10:18 PM Take a pass on that, Slagster, but you do know that it's easier to bend a 36 inch "Rigid" than an 18 inch one... Especially when you put a 6 foot 2 inch galvanized pipe over the end of it... I used to rebuild air-cooled Volkswagen engines and had to put a 4 foot breaker bar on the end of my 3/4 inch drive torque wrench to get the 240 ft.lbs. needed on the flywheel gland nut... Yeah, that would get me torqued... Motor, too... B~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued??? From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 08 Nov 10 - 10:44 PM Ya need a box truck? Newspapers are gettin' rid of 'em left and right. Everybody's readin' the paper online so they don't need as many cubes an' step-vans to get the handful of genuine paper papers they still sell distributed. They'll all fit in the trunk of a Mini Cooper. As for what really torques me... People who randomly hack up a block of cheddar cheese instead of slicing it neatly. That's it. I can forgive anything else, but don't fuck up my cheese. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued??? From: Little Hawk Date: 08 Nov 10 - 10:56 PM Winona Ryder gets me torqued. But in a good way, I mean. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued??? From: Mrrzy Date: 08 Nov 10 - 10:57 PM Not to mention misused apostrophes... |
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Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued??? From: GUEST,Chongo Chimp Date: 08 Nov 10 - 11:08 PM Yeah. Its' really irritatin' to see them misuse'd apostrophe's all over. Drives me bananas. - Chongo |
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Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued??? From: Slag Date: 09 Nov 10 - 12:24 AM Ah, dogonnit' Bob'ert! Ya busted me! yu'p! That's why them sucker's is all ben't outt'a shape. You haf'ta put a ten foot cheater on it ta' do any good! That stem stock is t'uff st'uff. I don' know whar' all these here 'posterfee's is coming from but muh' com'pewter seems infect'd with 'em. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued??? From: akenaton Date: 09 Nov 10 - 02:57 AM Seems to be rather a lot of testosterone flowing around this thead? |
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Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued??? From: Slag Date: 09 Nov 10 - 03:48 AM Ah, get bent! |
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Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued??? From: JohnInKansas Date: 09 Nov 10 - 04:13 AM Some decades ago I was in charge of a "remote location high altitude mobility test" on a prototype 8x8 truck on the ski slope at Flagstaff AZ, and the driver accidentally hooked one of the independent suspension axles on a tree stump and ripped the lower control arm clean off. After some negotiations and maneuvers, the mfr sent us a new control arm and a new lower ball joint that "just screwed in it." Well the hole in the control arm didn't have any threads in it, and the threads on the ball joint looked kinda funny, but they told us "it's a self tapping thread, just screw it in." The "hex" on the ball joint was about 4 5/8 inches across the flats, but the railroad shop at the Navajo Depot came up with a wrench to fit it. We put the control arm in a vise with about 11' wide jaws, bolted to a 5 ft x 20 ft bench with solid 4" thick wooden top and figured that would hold it down. With a cheater about 8 ft long, and four husky enlisted volunteers on the wrench, we got it about half way in before the bench moved a couple of feet. So we sat the sargeant on the other end of the bench, and after about 6 hours of grunts & groans we got the screw screwed to where it looked "good enough." 'Course by then none of was seein' much of anything too clearly. When we got back to home base at Yuma I collared the "rep" and asked him what the torque spec for that installation was. He made a call to the factory and came back with "They don't have a spec. They have a machine that screws it in." After some additional expressions of my "need to know" along with some backing by a couple of the herniated enlistees, he called again and came back with "They say the machine can run up to 3,600 Ft Lb, but they usually stop at about 2,400 FT LB - if it looks like it's seated pretty good. I was so over-torqued I sent one of the boys with a "token" sufficient for a couple or three rounds for the crew at the EM club. The mfr could'a John |
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Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued??? From: GUEST,FierceCravin'Bob Date: 09 Nov 10 - 04:18 AM The seemingly overabundance of morons. They are everywhere, illiterate nitwits - plus they think they are brilliant. I am talking about those under 40, not all but most have not read a book, they have no humor, and the world revolves around their sex organs... |
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Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued??? From: John MacKenzie Date: 09 Nov 10 - 05:44 AM I knew a guy, who named his boat 'Shy Torque' |
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Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued??? From: Ed T Date: 09 Nov 10 - 06:13 AM I always get torques when I get charged $5 for the remote TV control when stay'in at a roadside motel. I know, they will give it back when I check out. But, why won't they trust me? It frequently happens when I stay at the Bates Motel chain. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued??? From: GUEST,kendall Date: 09 Nov 10 - 06:15 AM Aspen Dental. Their ads clearly say, initial exam is free. Sure, then when you decide their work is too expensive you get a bill for that free exam. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued??? From: JohnInKansas Date: 09 Nov 10 - 06:55 AM A current TV (and radio and newpaper) ad that torques me is by Waste Management, one of the largest nationwide trash collection corporations. They provide franchised trash service in my area. They have resisted any kind of recycling plan in this area for years, but finally "relented" and came up with a wonderful deal: "Get your trash collection for only Nine Dollars per month." In the fine print (or at lower volume in media versions) they explain that "we'll give you coupons based on the amount of recyclables you put in the bin, and when you subtract the value of the coupons you've only paid nine dollars per month." Reality: 1. You pay the regular $39 per month. 2. The businesses that are supposed to "redeem" the coupons pay Waste Management to hand them out. 3. NONE OF THE COUPONS are for anything the majority of people are going to want. 4. EVERY COUPON that I've seen is for a "discount" and requires you to buy something else - or in some cases to sign up for something you're obligated to buy later - in order to redeem it. A look at their "coupons" when they announced the program led me to the conclusion that in order to redeem enough coupons to reach the "face value" of $30 per month you would have to spend an additional $280 plus the $39 trash fee, each and every month. (We have a very low rate of participation in recycling here, and it isn't even because very many people here know how to spell FRAWD.) John |
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Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued??? From: GUEST,Patsy Date: 09 Nov 10 - 07:12 AM What get's me torqued are the newscasters who give out all the doom and gloom news warnings about what 'could' happen with certain drugs, cancer threatening foods, mobile phone usage, wind turbines, pylons, anti-depressants, energy drinks you name it. Information is a good thing but as far as I am concerned if it is 'could' it's not a fact. Anything like that should be shown as a documentary programme but only as speculation until there is proof that it is actual fact instead of driving us out in the morning full of doom and gloom with things that might not necessarily be so. It can be confusing when told coffee is bad for you and then the following week it has been decided that coffee is good for the heart, give us a break. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued??? From: frogprince Date: 09 Nov 10 - 10:23 AM Our credit union provides decent service so far as anything that really matters, but keeps comming up with incidental stuff that's pitiful. We took out a home improvement loan a few years back, and they gave us a steak knife set. Never even unwrapped it until a couple of months ago. You could say it wasn't of the highest quality; you could say it consisted of a very rough block of wood that looked like it had been dipped in the varnish, with so-called knives that weren't really even usable. Absolute bottom-of-the-barrel Chinese crap. Our account statements regularly come with "bargain" offers for assorted gadgets that are commonly available for substantially less. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued??? From: Rapparee Date: 09 Nov 10 - 10:35 AM The spin put on the so-called "news" gets me torqued. Quite dizzy, in fact. For example, a modified AP lead would read something like this: A one-car crash on Smith Road last evening around 10 p.m. killed the driver. Two of children were flung free of the vehicle and are being treated at St. Euthanasia Hospital. You've got the who, what, where, and when in the the first paragraph. It should go on: The car skidded out of control on the icy road surface, flipped over twice, and came apart when it landed in a field. Police believe that the driver was distracted by the children in the backseat. Now you've got the why and how and can go on to flesh out the details. But the news today, wanting to put a more human face to things (I guess), would write it something like this: Two injured children weep for their deceased aunt after the car in which they were riding went out of control and landed in a field. The crash happened on Smith Road, long notorious for its icy conditions and well known for the lack of county maintenance. Police do not think alcohol was involved. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued??? From: GUEST,Patsy Date: 09 Nov 10 - 10:46 AM Adverts for slimming products aimed directly at women immediately after the Christmas holiday. Are men immune to too much Christmas pud? |
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Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued??? From: John MacKenzie Date: 09 Nov 10 - 10:48 AM I hope not Patsy :) |
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Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued??? From: Jack the Sailor Date: 09 Nov 10 - 11:25 AM Apparently they are immune to such ads. Advertisers do know how to spend their dough. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued??? From: jacqui.c Date: 09 Nov 10 - 12:18 PM Today - the tiny brain in the big car who blocked traffic moving away from the lights by sitting, waiting to do a left turn in spite of the clear sign saying no left turn and the quite obvious left turn lane a few yards further on. My car horn got a lot of exercise this morning! Idiot women who get all fluttery and giggly at the slightest bit of humour from a man and who disapprove of any woman who dares to show the least sign of feminism. 'Jobsworths' like the one who, in spite of our giving written instructions that my daughter can deal with my financial affairs, insists that she can't sort out a problem for me and that the only way to deal with this is for me to make a (free) call to the UK. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued??? From: Amos Date: 09 Nov 10 - 12:39 PM Patsy: Men don't believe there's such a thing as too much pud, regardless of the season. A |
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Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued??? From: Gurney Date: 09 Nov 10 - 03:33 PM Over-protective programs. I was in a Jaguar that the driver had parked with the tyres 'curbed.' The bloody thing wouldn't let him drive away! "The transmission is overloaded." He said it had happened before, too. The mechanic just pulled it away from the curb/kerb with a trolley-jack and away we went. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued??? From: Ed T Date: 09 Nov 10 - 04:19 PM This tourques me |
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Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued??? From: kendall Date: 09 Nov 10 - 07:34 PM Animals in cages does it to me. Condemned without trial. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued??? From: Bobert Date: 09 Nov 10 - 08:00 PM But, at least, the poor feller has cigarettes... |
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Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued??? From: Bill D Date: 09 Nov 10 - 09:04 PM Me? I got a long list of torques... One is the 99 syndrome. Do those offering steak for 8.99 per pound REALLY think we won't realize that almost $9? Or that a vehicle for $29,999 is sorta close to $30,000? I have considered refusing to buy something unless they charge me that extra 1 cent! more later |
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Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued??? From: Bobert Date: 09 Nov 10 - 09:48 PM Yeah, Bill, that one has me baffled.... |
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Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued??? From: katlaughing Date: 09 Nov 10 - 10:48 PM JohninKS, reading your saga it took me a minute to realise "mfr" meant manufacturer and NOT motherfucker!**bg** In that instance perhaps they were interchangeable? LOL! |
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Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued??? From: JohnInKansas Date: 10 Nov 10 - 04:14 AM kat - I didn't think of interchangeability, but I probably would have put some sort of emphasis to suggest it if I had. I like the way you think. John |
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Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued??? From: Ed T Date: 10 Nov 10 - 06:40 AM Putting up Christmas lights up and finding a bulb out, eben after you tested them all earlier really torques me. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued??? From: Bobert Date: 10 Nov 10 - 07:42 AM Havin' to take the sumabichin' Christmas tree down torques me... I mean, it's always so much fun puttin' it up and decoratin' it and drenkin' a little shine-spike eggnog and things smell wonderful and then come 'round the middle of March the tree is brown and ya' got needles all over the house and the cats have knocked down most of the ornaments and ya' can't find the boxes that they came outtra and yer afraid ya' mighta burned 'um up and, and... That's what I call the post-Xmas torquin'... B:~( |
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Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued??? From: Ed T Date: 10 Nov 10 - 07:57 AM Ya park in a far empty space in a parking lot, because you dont want other cars near you for some reason. You come back and there are cars next to you. Ta go to a restraunt, or coffee shop and find a quiet spot, far away from people. Someone comes and sits next to ya. What's up with that? It real torquer. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued??? From: Ed T Date: 10 Nov 10 - 08:02 AM Ya go out to eat with friends. Ya order fish and chips. Everyone gets their food but you. Ya ask the server where ur food is. She says, Oops, we gave it to another customer by mistake,we will have to put another order on. Ya look over and someone is eat'in Ur fish. Ur food comes when everyone is ready to leave. torque worthy, or not? |
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Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued??? From: GUEST,Patsy Date: 10 Nov 10 - 08:07 AM Not being able to access all links here because of a 'firewall' that includes crosswords for goodness sakes!!! Reason? Enjoyment for Pete's sake! |
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Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued??? From: kendall Date: 10 Nov 10 - 09:24 AM That godamn Canadian pharmacy selling cheap viagra. Ads are bad enough but when they popup and cover what I'm trying to do, that torques me! |
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Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued??? From: Midchuck Date: 10 Nov 10 - 10:22 AM Our local paper just made its web page pay-only. I can't really complain about that - they're in business to make a buck. But you can still log in for free if you're a subscriber. I have bought that paper every day that I was home for well over 40 years, but I'm not a subscriber; I get it from the local store next to the post office. So I would have to pay. BUT I can get the world and national news from any number of web pages, mostly Google news. I can get the Vermont statewide news from the Burlington paper's, or the TV stations', web pages. What I need our local paper for now, is the local area news (about 1 page of the paper), the local classifieds, particularly yard sale ads (more and more of which are on Craigslist as time goes on), and the obituaries, to make sure I'm not in there. For this I pay a dollar a day, day in and day out. And they want me to pay more for web access. They're going down. It's just a matter of time. Peter |
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Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued??? From: Bill D Date: 10 Nov 10 - 11:18 AM I am retired and receive Social Security. For the 2nd year in a row, there was no cost of living increase, as they say prices have remained relatively 'stable'. Now last night I went to the store and noted two more items where the price was the same, but the quantity had been reduced! THAT, to me, is an increase. I KNOW that sale prices (reduced prices in ads) have gotten 'less reduced' and generally fewer, and that more & more products have raised their prices in order to offer 'sale prices' that are as high as the former standard prices. So...what torques ME is the sneakiness and deceit. All the while, stores are spending millions to 'remodel' in a manner calculated to look as gaudy and tawdry as Walmart and K-Mart. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued??? From: olddude Date: 10 Nov 10 - 11:32 AM My name, I mean in this computerized world I guess it is too much to ask for the old Irish apostrophe in the O. Ya see in programming that means start of a string ... but needle heads don't bother with such things as that, They figure any Irishman doesn't need his ' after the O ... no sireee ... nor the French folks with there thingies in their names ... no lets not program to handle that ... It is a simple parse but NO ... All my official documents .. yup leave it out ... or simply add three N's to my name like they did on my drivers license and I could not use it to get on an airplane cause my name has two n's not three so the spelling wasn't exact ... needle head TSA wouldn't accept it ... Gave the needle head my conceal carry gun permit with the correct spelling ... yup got me a body search but they had to accept it |
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Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued??? From: olddude Date: 10 Nov 10 - 11:43 AM Did I mention needle head neighbors! Like the guy next door that I let drive over my back property when he was putting an addition on his house. Tried to help needle head- he turned around and tried to claim "adverse possession" Lost bigtime!, after I had a survey done, turns out I owned also one third of his front yard! yup he lost that one also! He now has a postage stamp for his junk cars all stack up. Can barely get out of his own driveway .. why ... cause he is a needle head that pissed me off, and all I did was be kinda and help him . karma is a beautiful thing isn't it |
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Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued??? From: olddude Date: 10 Nov 10 - 11:48 AM and don't get me started on JELL-O What the HELL is that all about anyway ... with or without the FRUIT all stuff up inside of it !! |
