THE Random Chat Thread - AKA "The RCT" - No shirt or shoes required - Open 24 / 7

[oldmxrat]

Good morning crew!

 

[Evan in CA]

Good morning and happy Friday everyone

 

[releventchair]

Good morning and happy Friday everyone

Mornin Evan!

 

[DizzyDigger]

Mornin' folks!

 

[newnan man]

Painted the shed all morning now I'm starting the weekend. Hot wings on the way.

 

[pepperj]

No more issues of not seeing my calculator.
$1.00 investment 👌

 

[robertk]

No more issues of not seeing my calculator.
$1.00 investment 👌

Yep. If you stand on your deck and face it south, I can probably read it from here!

 

[Oregon Viking]

 

[Chilli]

No more issues of not seeing my calculator.
$1.00 investment 👌

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[pepperj]

Yep. If you stand on your deck and face it south, I can probably read it from here!

Going into my refinery set up that I'm putting together. No need to take the gloves off or squinting.

 

[pepperj]

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Hell Ya! @ 50 meters

 

[pepperj]

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1st year or an annual event?

 

[pepperj]

Freezing rain from 10am till 3:30pm. Then it turned into a big flake snow.

 

[WHADIFIND]

My late father-in-law swore by using a hammer. He kept one in the boot, your trunk, for such occasions as you mention when he drove an old holden sedan. He said you just hit the engine with the hammer and your good to go. 😂

I use that hammer more often than not for fixing things other than driving a nail, back when all cars still had carburetors it was the tool of choice to "unstick the float" that was causing the engine to flood out, but I always tell people who are having trouble with anything, a computer, a cash register, bar code scanner, their car, etc., "I'll go get my hammer, it will fix anything!!"

All this talk reminded me of a story.

There was this company that had a very large central processing unit. It controlled everything in the whole plant!

As one would expect, one day, it stopped working. The maintenance dept worked round the clock to get it back on line. But to no avail. Finally, they called in an expert on the machine.

The expert showed up and went right to work. The little man with a mustache walked around and around checking things. With the president of the company watching everything he did.

Finally, the little man opened up a large toolbox and pulled out a tiny ball peen hammer. Walked a bit more, looking for something. Finding the spot, he took the hammer and tapped the machine.

It roared back to life and production was back in business! Back slaps, atta boys, handshakes! Everybody's happy, happy, happy!

The lil man packed up and left.

At the end of the month the treasurer came running into the president's office, with a bill.

All that was on it was a bill for professional services rendered: 100,000 dollars!!

The president called the expert and demanded an explanation and a completely itemized bill!!

He got back another bill that stated:

$1.00 - For tapping on the machine

$99, 999 - For knowing where to tap. 😌

 

[Chilli]

Hell Ya! @ 50 meters

I actually have a pair of those as a joke. When I worked in a detector shop and a likely victim came in id be filling out the sales slip or detector warranty for them and pretend to be struggling to see properly. Then id say "oh look sorry about that I think im still in I need to wear my glasses denial stage" and id put them on and go "ahh that's better" and continue like it was all good. Then look up at them and smile.
Not one person jerried it was a joke. They'd look at me kind of strange, per usual for me, and give a sheepish grin. I'd tell them in the end and we'd laugh. Typically it would be along the lines of "oh thank goodness I was struggling not to laugh at you when you put them on, I don't feel so bad now". 😄 With a few expletives of course being prospectors.
Was the best 5 bucks I ever spent.

 

[Chilli]

All this talk reminded me of a story.

There was this company that a very large central processing unit. It controlled everything in the whole plant!

As one would expect, one day, it stopped working. The maintenance dept worked round the clock to get it back on line. But to no avail. Finally, they called in an expert on the machine.

The expert showed up and went right to work. The little man with a mustache walked around and around checking things. With the president of the company watching everything he did.

Finally, the little man opened up a large toolbox and pulled out a tiny ball peen hammer. Walked a bit more, looking for something. Finding the spot, he took the hammer and tapped the machine.

It roared back to life and production was back in business! Back slaps, atta boys, handshakes! Everybody's happy, happy, happy!

The lil man packed up and left.

At the end of the month the treasurer came running into the president's office, with a bill.

All that was on it was a bill for professional services rendered: 100,000 dollars!!

The president called the expert and demanded an explanation and a completely itemized bill!!

He got back another bill that stated:

$1.00 - For tapping on the machine

$99, 999 - For knowing where to tap. 😌

Classic 😂

 

[Oregon Viking]

A few summers ago i was at my first gold claim (20 acres) on the Sixes river. A bear got a bit close and seemed a little too interested.... I fired my .44 mag into the river and scared the crap out of the bear and my friend !

 

[Oregon Viking]

Good afternoon !!!

 

[Oregon Viking]

 

[Oregon Viking]