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    Thursday Brainteaser: Bassy's blooms

    Bassy has three vases in her living room. Each has the same number of blossoms.<br /><br />Bassy adds three fresh flowers to one vase, which now has two more that the average.<br /><br />How many were in each vase before she did that?<br /><br />(242)
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    Brainteaser for Wed: heycods goes shopping

    heycods made the long trip to Cabelas. <br /><br />He spent half of what he had plus $8 for lures.<br /><br />He spent half of what was left plus $2 for a new reel.<br /><br />He spent half of what was left plus $1 for hooks.<br /><br />He had $4 left.<br /><br />How much did he start with?<br...
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    Biggest non-story of 2006

    Is there some law that requires the Administration to have a press conference to announce that the VP, on private recreation, private property, had an accident?<br /><br />The media are outraged that they didn't get the word before a small city newspaper.<br /><br />NBC is treating the "who knew...
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    Easy brain teaser.

    For Valentines Day, there was a contest to see who could guess the number of candy hearts in a jar.<br /><br />OBJ guessed 129, SBN guessed 138, Bassy guessed 133 and LF guessed 135.<br /><br />One was off by 6, one was off by 2 and one was off by 3.<br /><br />Who won, and how many hearts were...
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    How do you navigate?

    In a Service Station today I overheard a young couple trying to give directions to an elderly couple.<br /><br />The wife said, "Go down this road here until you pass the Baptist Church, then you will come to an intersection with a big tree by it and a big white house across the street. Turn...
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    Grumman semi-Vee?

    I've been offered an '88 Grumman 16' semi-vee with a bad deck. Suzi DT55 that hasn't been run in about 10 years but starts on premix sprayed into the carbs. Around $1100.<br /><br />Really want to find a Boaton Whaler project boat, but everything I have looked at is waaaaay overpriced.<br /><br...
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    I hate 'puters. RATZAKRATZA!!!

    AOL: About once in ten logoffs I get a message that I can't delete a protected item. Gotta reboot.<br /><br />AOL: Incoming Email from any hotmail account is refused with a variety of excuses.<br /><br />Cursor (from mouse): If I happen to hit a particular pixel the arrow icon stops and wont...
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    Challenger/Columbia

    Twenty years ago this morning I took my Robotics class to the parking lot of Total Technical Institute in Ft. Lauderdale to watch the Challenger launch. Though it was 200 miles south of Cape Kennedy we could see launches after they climbed maybe 5,000'. They seemed quite close.<br /><br />We...
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    Do I pay up or fight this?

    Be patient, folks. This will take a bit.<br /><br />9:00 AM Monday. I am returning to The Hideout from my son's house, cruising in and with traffic (about 100 cars/ minute) on I-30 in west Ft. Worth. My speedo reads 70, my GPS says 68. I am on cruise control, which in my ML means the set speed...
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    Hey, Texas Nate. You okay?

    Another big fire. About 8 miles east of me near Pooleville, where Nate lives.<br /><br />Been watching the whirlycopters shuttling back and forth with water all afternoon.<br /><br />Hey, Nate! Let us know that you are okay, mate.
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    Range fire and locked gates.

    Yesterday I had smoke columns north, east and west of The Hideout. Northwest wind. Scary.<br /><br />Some gossip at the Post Office was that the Jacksboro fire (north of here) got away because firefighters were locked out of threatened pastures by padlocked gates. Don't know if that is true, but...
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    Catzilla update

    Quick update. Catzilla began eating small amounts of exotic food today (first food in about a week).<br /><br />She is also showing some of her infamous personality again. She shredded my hand as reward for administering her meds. Didn't have the strength or will to do that just 3 days ago.<br...
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    Patience requested.

    I know I have been more curmudgeonly than usual lately. I am asking for a little extra slack.<br /><br />Why? Well, in the last two weeks. . . .<br /><br />Garage door opener blew up and stuck door half open. $235. :( <br /><br />TV antenna in-coax went bad and blew the booster. $220. :mad...
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    Patience requested.

    I know I have been more curmudgeonly than usual lately. I am asking for a little extra slack.<br /><br />Why? Well, in the last two weeks. . . .<br /><br />Garage door opener blew up and stuck door half open. $235. :( <br /><br />TV antenna in-coax went bad and blew the booster. $220. :mad...
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    Cat "toilet training".

    Catzilla is driving me nuts.<br /><br />She is going through a bag and a half of litter a week and still stinks my house up.<br /><br />I once had a cat (Sam) that decided on his own to use the toilet. He was an inside/outside cat and if he didn't get let out when he wanted out he went and used...
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    Paging Paul Moir

    Would you take a look at this and see if you can give this man a year on his Gale built Sea King?<br /><br /> http://forums.iboats.com/cgi-bin/ubb/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=31;t=001490 <br /><br />Thanks. :)
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    Wildfires in N. Texas

    There are at least a half dozen seperate wildfires burning as I write in communities south and west of Arlington, TX.<br /><br />At 5:00 PM at least a dozen homes and many other structures have been destroyed.<br /><br />The fires are aided by a severe drought and high winds.<br /><br />We have...
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    Restoring humidifier "filters"

    I have dry eye syndrome. If the air is too dry They tear and burn terribly. Both the furnace and the AC dry the air too much.<br /><br />I have a countertop humidifier that uses filter like pads placed in a fan airstream.<br /><br />When the pad is fresh it works very well, but our water is so...
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    Update on Airman Neilsen

    re: http://www.iboats.com/cgi-bin/ubb/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=20;t=012302#000000 <br /><br />The operation on Charles' left eye was successful. Three pieces of shrapnel were removed and he will regain full use of his eye.<br /><br />All five bones in his right hand will be...
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    Of "all time" ??

    A recent thread asked about the greatest musical artist of "all time".<br /><br />My GDaughter was watching a show this morning about the 50 greatest child actors of "all time".<br /><br />When did "all time" begin, 1980? 1990?<br /><br />In 200 years the music of Ludwig Van Beethoven will still...
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