The Original Old Farts Club

[ROSTERMAN]

 

[Tattered Old Graywolf]

My younger son, Puck (AKA: Todd) has a black belt in Kendo. Boogers! He was fast!

I loved to watch. Two guys looking like prehistoric Darth Vaders.

What a lotta folks dunno is that you haveta "call your shots" when you strike. And your targets were head, arm, belly. No call, no point.

Men, Doe (guts) Kote (wrist) IIRC...

Also Yokomen (side head) and Tsuki (throat).

Besides calling your strikes, you have to deliver them boldly and cleanly, because if they only partially block them, it doesn't count.

 

[ROSTERMAN]

Now I just Heard on news Louie Anderson pass away too

 

[Unca Walt]

GOTCHA, BASTAGES!!

 

[ROSTERMAN]

Why thank You

 

[Bubba]

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Rest assured my friend.

Bubba

 

[Hippie420]

The Sad part is They all know how bad and addictive smoking tobacco with the additives used yet due to the Big Tobacco Lobbyists paying the Gov Officials off to keep their Coffin Nails avail to the public all the time knowing how deadly they are.
Friggin CROOKS all of the *******s.

Yep. They should make it illegal. That way, a new Mafia can spring up and make smugglers rich.
Nobody ever held a gun to my head to make me smoke a cigarette. I did so of my own free will.

 

[Hippie420]

Yabbut, while a plumb bob will get you within a small area when surveying (*IF* you are really good), the system used today (watch it on Oak Island) will give you your location data to the dot in position AND height. In less than a second, ONE guy can do a better job than a team of surveyors could do in a full week of chaining.

LATE ADD: And the guy with the magic pole would be far more accurate than the best survey team's skillful efforts even when he was staggering, stinking drunk and up to his hairline in weed smoke.

I would have sold my sister into a Turkish brothel for what that guy uses. Us surveyors had to cut hundreds of yards through poison ivy to get a sight line for the transit (the guy with the fargin plumb bob.) BTDT came down with boils.

I never was a peg pounder. I used plum bobs to build buildings.

 

[Unca Walt]

I never was a peg pounder. I used plum bobs to build buildings.

One thing you never ever see depicted: Surveyors out in the fargin cold, double-jacking.

Relax, Rosty -- it means one very trusting guy using both hands holding a car axle vertical in the frozen dirt while the other guy uses both hands to swing a 35-lb maul overhead and down on the steel. Not a misprint: 35 pound maul.

If he misses long, or left or right, he'll either bust fingers or whole hands of his partner.

Surveying apparently -- even for thousand-house construction layouts -- seems only to take place in the summer. (*sigh*) Somehow I missed that boat.

The purpose of the above described operation is to drive a hole in the frozen ground so that an oak marker stake 2" square could be driven in. I drove 555 stakes one day. TINS.

Never busted anybody's hand.

 

[Hippie420]

It always seemed like they planned steel work for January/February. Come August, you'd be in the bowels of a building's dungeon where you didn't see daylight 'til quitting time. Always backasswards.

You aren't any relation to John Henry, are ya?

 

[ROSTERMAN]

One thing you never ever see depicted: Surveyors out in the fargin cold, double-jacking.

Relax, Rosty -- it means one very trusting guy using both hands holding a car axle vertical in the frozen dirt while the other guy uses both hands to swing a 35-lb maul overhead and down on the steel. Not a misprint: 35 pound maul.

If he misses long, or left or right, he'll either bust fingers or whole hands of his partner.

Surveying apparently -- even for thousand-house construction layouts -- seems only to take place in the summer. (*sigh*) Somehow I missed that boat.

The purpose of the above described operation is to drive a hole in the frozen ground so that an oak marker stake 2" square could be driven in. I drove 555 stakes one day. TINS.

Never busted anybody's hand.

Ya No Sheit I have done my fair share of gut busting work But Thks Appreciate that once again
But you must be very Proud of yourself for sure

 

[ROSTERMAN]

It always seemed like they planned steel work for January/February. Come August, you'd be in the bowels of a building's dungeon where you didn't see daylight 'til quitting time. Always backasswards.

You aren't any relation to John Henry, are ya?

 

[ROSTERMAN]

They called him One Swing

Or was it two swings

 

[pute]

Checking in. Couple of friends stopped by today and got a hair cut. Pretty uneventful day. Been snowing all day so pretty much sitting by the fire kind of day. Wish I had something exciting to share but alas....no.

Nothing to do so I think I will get stoned. Little early for me but O'l farts can get away with anything. Did I say I love the feeling of being stoned.

 

[Hippie420]

I ventured out today after a 21 day hiatus. One big beer and one small beer. It was all I felt like drinking, but it did taste good. Nice to see my friends again.

 

[ROSTERMAN]

I ventured out today after a 21 day hiatus. One big beer and one small beer. It was all I felt like drinking, but it did taste good. Nice to see my friends again.

Hope you are finally feeling better

 

[pute]

Yup, this crap sure does do a number on some. Take it easy my friend and don't over do it. What is the latest on yoop?

 

[ROSTERMAN]

I pound stakes real good in Soviet Union

 

[ROSTERMAN]

Don't want hippie feeling left out

 

[ROSTERMAN]