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You're right! An oversight, no doubt. But I was out of my teens and well on my way to dirty-old-manhood by the time he came along. http://www.boytoy.com/forums/public/style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif http://image.way2enjoy.com/pic/53/12/42/600full-my-profile.jpg

Since gold weighs nearly three times as much as cast iron, I sure hope they buttressed the sub-flooring. So to speak. http://www.boytoy.com/forums/public/style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif And move me back to second in line, as that seat is going to be cold first thing in the morning. http://www.millan.net/minimations/smileys/freezinsmile1.gif

(If I may quote myself from another site. http://www.boytoy.com/forums/public/style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif) A guy is driving around the back woods of Montana and he sees a sign in front of a broken down shanty-style house: 'Talking Dog For Sale' He rings the bell and the owner appears and tells him the dog is in the back yard. The guy goes into the backyard and sees a nice looking Labrador Retriever sitting there. 'You talk?' he asks. 'Yep,' the Lab replies. After the guy recovers from the shock of hearing a dog talk, he says 'So, what's your story?' The Lab looks up and says, 'Well, I discovered that I could talk when I was pretty young. I wanted to help the government, so I told the CIA. 'In no time at all they had me jetting from country to country, sitting in rooms with spies and world leaders, because no one figured a dog would be eavesdropping. 'I was one of their most valuable spies for eight years running. 'But the jetting around really tired me out, and I knew I wasn't getting any younger so I decided to settle down. I signed up for a job at the airport to do some undercover security, wandering near suspicious characters and listening in. I uncovered some incredible dealings and was awarded a batch of medals. 'I got married, had a mess of puppies, and now I'm just retired.' The guy is amazed. He goes back in and asks the owner what he wants for the dog. 'Ten dollars,' the owner says. 'Ten dollars? This dog is amazing! Why on earth are you selling him so cheap?' 'Because he's a bullshitter. He's never been out of the yard.'

Looks like they're pretty well bolted down, so hopefully not. http://www.boytoy.com/forums/public/style_emoticons/default/unsure.gif

For me, 'dramatic' is anything more than five pounds and 'short amount of time' is anything less than a year. I've done those yo-yo diets and always ended up gaining it all back, plus some. Fifteen years ago, I peaked at 217 pounds (BMI of 31 - obese). I was working twelve hours a day at a desk, commuting another two hours, and falling into bed with a pint of Häagen-Dazs five days a week. On weekends, I sat around resting until the cycle began all over on Monday. Unhealthiest period of my life. The one and only thing that worked for me was quitting my job and starting to move around on a regular basis. Without the need for daily 'treats' to offset the stress of work, my diet got better, but I did not obsess over it. If I wanted something, I ate it, and I made sure I enjoyed it. And maybe I hiked a little farther the next time. If I felt like it. I was not flogging myself to 'atone' for anything. Losing weight never again became a contest, and the only changes I was interested in were those I could make for the rest of my life without feeling burdened or deprived. The scale came out maybe once a month. I'm now stable at 170 pounds (BMI of 24 - normal). A lifelong change for me is something I do at least five days a week, and can stick to without waiting for the day I've 'succeeded' and can stop doing it. Feeling 'deprived' was the thing that caused all my previous attempts at losing weight to fail. As soon as I hit my target, I went right back to the behaviors that got me overweight in the first place. And 'beating myself up' is also a thing of the past. For me, that only compounds the problem. If I'm going to eat a bag of chips, I'm going to make sure I enjoy the hell out of it. It's a lose-lose situation if I combine a poor nutritional choice with guilt. A friend of mine is forever complaining about how 'round' she is. She thinks it comes from sitting on her ass and drinking wine. So she feels bad about her choices. I keep telling her that she looks good as she is and that, if she's going to relax with a glass of wine, she should at least enjoy it. As long as I'm up here on the soap box, I'll also share the opinion that way too much emphasis is placed on what we eat and not nearly enough on how we burn it off. When I was a kid, I could not wait to be excused from the dinner table so I could go outside and run around with my friends. During the summer, I kept my shorts by the bed so I could jump into them first thing, get down to breakfast, and out the front door. If anybody thinks kids are not going to get fat sitting around playing video games, they're nuts. http://vladsokolovsky.com/forums/public/style_emoticons/aaa/nuts-smiley.gif http://www.lonely-rooyang.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/10chillov4.jpg And, yes, I'm aware of the irony of sitting here posting about my need for exercise. Off I go. http://www.mycharm.ru/data/cache/2015mar/11/06/43940_81153-48x48x.jpg

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OK, I'll try to keep it off the Forum. http://www.boytoy.com/forums/public/style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif http://www.occhiaperti.net/thumbs/560_old-man-driver_620x400.jpg I'm just one chimichanga outta Chattanooga!

As we don't yet have an Automotive Forum, I'll post this here. http://www.boytoy.com/forums/public/style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0_tJjWHZOo

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Sitting here laughing at the image of Bigvalboy's skinning his neighbors for a luxe dinner last night and then roasting them by the pool the next afternoon by way of saying thanks. http://bilder.hifi-forum.de/small/699334/lol_153196.gif I find it pretty easy to poke fun at how dense bigots usually are, but it never occurred to me to cadge a free filet while I'm doing it. Until now. http://www.boytoy.com/forums/public/style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif http://www.ianthompsoninteriors.com/wp-content/uploads/tumblr_mdow20CqyG1rvva76o1_500.jpg

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Bittersweet that the Bijou is closing today. I walked in there forty-plus years ago and sat in the fifth row. Before long, a guy came in and sat next to me. After rubbing his leg against mine, his hands got busy. Which was fine. Until he picked up my hand and put it in his lap. Where I felt the solid outline of a gun. No Mae West jokes either. http://www.boytoy.com/forums/public/style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif It was a gun in his pants! Told him I needed a quick bathroom break, and was out the door in ten seconds flat. Never went back and, to this day, I have no idea what would have possessed somebody to bring a gun into a gay movie house. This was way before the current wave of theater shootings, though it was in the days of John Wayne Gacy. http://www.webegtodiffer.com/images/smilies/unsure.gif Sorry to highjack your thread, Strafe13, for that little stroll down memory lane. http://www.dayonepatch.com/public/style_emoticons/default/face_daydream.gif Plenty of great food in the ethnic neighborhoods, if I recall, and the best deep dish pizza anywhere. It's a meat town! http://yoursmiles.org/tsmile/want/t2805.gif

Not so handy for taking a client to lunch. http://www.boytoy.com/forums/public/style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif http://im.ft-static.com/content/images/60a7ebdb-cf89-414d-9cba-73962fdd9611.img

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http://news.bme.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/black-ass.jpg Bikini Atoll After The Bomb - ink on skin, unmounted . . . . . .

With an occasional boost from the odd bootlicker . . .

As AdamSmith said, I think their greatest contribution is in lifting the conversation. My Safeway didn't have many organics before Whole Foods came to town, and they just started carrying a really good local dairy brand that Whole Foods had for years. Better options will come along for more knowledgeable shoppers and perhaps Whole Foods will also get better as they try to win over customers like you. I'm glad more attention is being paid to our food these days, and further hope that more of what we eat will come from small local farms. . http://www.boytoy.com/forums/public/style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif

And a welcome sight it was, no doubt. . http://wapkaimage.com/3009/3009670_689ee82a25.gif

Their cashiers are definitely a breed apart. I stopped in for some ice cream on my way home one evening and found an open line which I made a beeline to. The cashier was next door talking to another cashier and it took me a little while to coax her back to her register. She finally rang me up for $3.99 and I handed her a fiver, thinking I was pretty close to being on my way. The penny came out of the change machine OK and the receipt popped out and I didn't need a bag, so the only thing left was to get a dollar out of her. I put my hand out, but it remained empty for the next few minutes while she fiddled with the dollar bill. She eventually explained that she'd had a couple of dollar bills stick together earlier in the day and she didn't want to take any chances. She spent another minute or so on it and I finally asked her if she could just reach in the drawer and give me a different dollar bill and work on that one after I was gone. Or maybe turn it over to the night crew and see what they could do with it. She finally convinced herself it was really just a single bill and handed it over along with the ice cream. Which, needless to say, was pretty soupy by the time I got it home. . http://www.boytoy.com/forums/public/style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif

Glad things are better today! . http://www.boytoy.com/forums/public/style_emoticons/default/thumbsup.png I wouldn't be embarrassed at all. Much better, in my opinion, to think about the worst case and be pleasantly surprised than to do the opposite. It doesn't sound like you weren't fully functional during all of this. You were just tossing around some hypotheses. Heaven knows, all the info available on the internet makes that easy to do. And you sure didn't act like a hypochondriac. Those folks, so I hear, still believe they're sick even after they get the all-clear. I doubt you'll be doing anything like that! http://thefunnyplace.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/When-you-lose-your-phone-in-the-bed.gif

Yes, BVB, her lack of integrity bothers me, but not so much that I'll ignore the good things she's done. Honestly, when it gets right down to it, I'm a little sad that racial identity is as big an issue as it is. It would be nice if one day those lines were a little more blurred than they are today and folks could have a bit more flexibility in their self-identity. A pipe dream, I know. http://cdn.teen.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/alice-in-wonderland-caterpillar-smoking.gif

Seems most of the media bandwidth is about her identity issues, rather than the actual work she did. But there are at least a couple of articles that say she accomplished some pretty good stuff on behalf of her causes, and that's enough for me. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: Let Rachel Dolezal Be as Black as She Wants to Be New York Times article In fact, if her effectiveness is now going to be torpedoed by the fuss about her racial identity, it makes me wonder if some folks might have their priorities misplaced.

As this was my doctor's primary technique in my recent annual physical, I expect the plane is in about as good a shape as I am. So I would take my chances, and eagerly after seeing AZDR's video from the Paris Air Show. That thing really scoots around the skies! http://www.boytoy.com/forums/public/style_emoticons/default/thumbsup.png (Except, of course, when it loses an engine but let us not be pickers of nits. http://www.boytoy.com/forums/public/style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif ) This article says that the Dreamliner took eight years and $32 billion to develop. Boeing had originally forecast half the time and five times cheaper. I wonder if they would have gone ahead had they known the actual numbers. http://www.vb.is/media/cache/2e/40/2e40e536e9d0a882b1f38b8d075834fa.jpg

Last year, I believe, and to limited box office, possibly reflecting a preponderance of senior matinee ticket sales. http://happy-coding.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/oliver@2x.png