The Things Which Could Be Worse Need Cats To Make Them Better Complaint Thread

atticanne

LeatherGryphon said:

If you think you have a complaint, consider the winner of the Darwin Awards this year:

THE WINNER! (Arkansas Democrat Gazette):

Two local men were injured when their pickup truck left the road and struck a tree near Cotton Patch on State Highway 38 early Monday. Woodruff County deputy Dovey Snyder reported the accident shortly after midnight Monday. Thurston Poole, 33, of Des Arc, and Billy Ray Wallis, 38, of Little Rock, were returning to Des Arc after a frog-catching trip. On an overcast Sunday night, Poole's pickup truck headlights malfunctioned.

The two men concluded that the headlight fuse on the older-model truck had burned out. As a replacement fuse was not available, Wallis noticed that the .22 caliber bullets from his pistol fit perfectly into the fuse box next to the steering-wheel column. Upon inserting a bullet, the headlights again began to operate properly and the two men proceeded on eastbound toward the White River Bridge.

After traveling approximately 20 miles and just before crossing the river, the bullet apparently overheated, discharged and struck Poole in the testicles. The vehicle swerved sharply right, exited the pavement and struck a tree. Poole suffered only minor cuts and abrasions from the accident but will require extensive surgery to repair the damage to his testicles, which will never operate as intended.

Wallis sustained a broken clavicle and was treated and released. "Thank God we weren't on that bridge when Thurston shot his balls off, or we might be dead," stated Wallis.

"I've been a trooper for 10 years in this part of the world, but this is a first for me. I can't believe that those two would admit how this accident happened," said Snyder.

Upon being notified of the wreck, Lavinia (Poole 's wife) asked how many frogs the boys had caught and i f anyone got them from the truck?

Though Poole and Wallis did not die as a result of their misadventure as normally required by Darwin Award Official Rules, it can be argued that Poole did in fact effectively remove himself from the gene pool.

Runners up for the prize include:

Nominee No. 1 (San Jose Mercury News):

An unidentified man, using a shotgun like a club to break a former girlfriend’s windshield, accidentally shot himself to death when the gun discharged, blowing a hole in his gut.

Nominee No. 2 (Kalamazoo Gazette):

James Burns, 34, a mechanic from Alamo MI, was killed in March as he was trying to repair what police describe as a "farm-type truck." Burns got a friend to drive the truck on a highway while Burns hung underneath so that he could ascertain the source of a troubling noise. Burns' clothes caught on something, however, and the other man found Burns "wrapped in the drive shaft".

Nominee No. 3 (Hickory Daily Record):

Ken Charles Barger, 47, accidentally shot himself to death in December in Newton NC. Awakening to the sound of a ringing telephone beside his bed, he reached for the phone but instead grabbed a Smith & Wesson 38 Special, which discharged when he drew it to his ear.

Nominee No. 4 (UPI, Toronto):

Police said a lawyer demonstrating the safety of windows in a downtown Toronto skyscraper crashed through a pane with his shoulder and plunged 24 floors to his death. A police spokesman said Garry Hoy, 39, fell into the courtyard of the Toronto Dominion Bank Tower early Friday evening as he was explaining the strength of the buildings windows to visiting law students. Hoy previously has conducted demonstrations of window strength according to police reports. Peter Lawson, managing partner of the firm Holden Day Wilson, told the Toronto Sun newspaper that Hoy was "one of the best and brightest members of the 200-man association."

Nominee No. 5 (The News of the Weird):

Michael Anderson Godwin made News of the Weird posthumously. He had spent several years awaiting execution in South Carolina's electric chair on a murder conviction before having his sentence reduced to life in prison. While sitting on a metal toilet in his cell attempting to fix his small TV set, he bit into a wire and was electrocuted.

Nominee No. 6 (The Indianapolis Star):

A cigarette lighter may have triggered a fatal explosion in Dunkirk, IN. A Jay County man, using a cigarette lighter to check the barrel of a muzzle loader, was killed Monday night when the weapon discharged in his face, sheriff's investigators said. Gregory David Pryor, 19, died in his parents' rural Dunkirk home at about 11:30 PM. Investigators said Pryor was cleaning a 54-caliber muzzle-loader that had not been firing properly. He was using the lighter to look into the barrel when the gunpowder ignited.

Nominee No. 7 (Reuters - Mississauga, Ontario):

A man cleaning a bird feeder on the balcony of his condominium apartment in this Toronto suburb slipped and fell 23 stories to his death. "Stefan Macko, 55, was standing on a wheelchair when the accident occurred," said Inspector Darcy Honer of the Peel Regional Police. "It appears that the chair moved, and he went over the balcony."

Thanks LG.  I really needed this.  I finally decided to get all my DAZ programs and content installed on this newest computer.  It's not going well.  I seem to have forgotten everything I knew.  This time I'm not going to spend 6 months crying.  If it gets bad again, I'm just going to delete everything and say bye, bye.

 

atticanne

Chohole said:

Mystarra said:

Youtube thimb not showing. Forum dont work right on i phone. Do the daz powers know!

 

sinesd o conner on the muzak at spuntino

It was so much easier when one used a computer, now people browse the internet on all sorts of devices,  desktops, laptops, notepads, eyepads, notebooks, ebook readers, kindles,  iphones, smart phones, not so smart phones and even down right stupid phones and people still expect things to work perfectly on all of them from one simple set of forum software.  Ask Alexa to fix it  

I'm just an old fogey.  My computer (laptop) is for most things, including email.  My phone is to make and receive calls.  My camera is to take photographs.  My Kindle is to read books.  The TV is for watching programs.

Amalthea

atticanne said:

LeatherGryphon said:

If you think you have a complaint, consider the winner of the Darwin Awards this year:

THE WINNER! (Arkansas Democrat Gazette):

Two local men were injured when their pickup truck left the road and struck a tree near Cotton Patch on State Highway 38 early Monday. Woodruff County deputy Dovey Snyder reported the accident shortly after midnight Monday. Thurston Poole, 33, of Des Arc, and Billy Ray Wallis, 38, of Little Rock, were returning to Des Arc after a frog-catching trip. On an overcast Sunday night, Poole's pickup truck headlights malfunctioned.

The two men concluded that the headlight fuse on the older-model truck had burned out. As a replacement fuse was not available, Wallis noticed that the .22 caliber bullets from his pistol fit perfectly into the fuse box next to the steering-wheel column. Upon inserting a bullet, the headlights again began to operate properly and the two men proceeded on eastbound toward the White River Bridge.

After traveling approximately 20 miles and just before crossing the river, the bullet apparently overheated, discharged and struck Poole in the testicles. The vehicle swerved sharply right, exited the pavement and struck a tree. Poole suffered only minor cuts and abrasions from the accident but will require extensive surgery to repair the damage to his testicles, which will never operate as intended.

Wallis sustained a broken clavicle and was treated and released. "Thank God we weren't on that bridge when Thurston shot his balls off, or we might be dead," stated Wallis.

"I've been a trooper for 10 years in this part of the world, but this is a first for me. I can't believe that those two would admit how this accident happened," said Snyder.

Upon being notified of the wreck, Lavinia (Poole 's wife) asked how many frogs the boys had caught and i f anyone got them from the truck?

Though Poole and Wallis did not die as a result of their misadventure as normally required by Darwin Award Official Rules, it can be argued that Poole did in fact effectively remove himself from the gene pool.

Runners up for the prize include:

Nominee No. 1 (San Jose Mercury News):

An unidentified man, using a shotgun like a club to break a former girlfriend’s windshield, accidentally shot himself to death when the gun discharged, blowing a hole in his gut.

Nominee No. 2 (Kalamazoo Gazette):

James Burns, 34, a mechanic from Alamo MI, was killed in March as he was trying to repair what police describe as a "farm-type truck." Burns got a friend to drive the truck on a highway while Burns hung underneath so that he could ascertain the source of a troubling noise. Burns' clothes caught on something, however, and the other man found Burns "wrapped in the drive shaft".

Nominee No. 3 (Hickory Daily Record):

Ken Charles Barger, 47, accidentally shot himself to death in December in Newton NC. Awakening to the sound of a ringing telephone beside his bed, he reached for the phone but instead grabbed a Smith & Wesson 38 Special, which discharged when he drew it to his ear.

Nominee No. 4 (UPI, Toronto):

Police said a lawyer demonstrating the safety of windows in a downtown Toronto skyscraper crashed through a pane with his shoulder and plunged 24 floors to his death. A police spokesman said Garry Hoy, 39, fell into the courtyard of the Toronto Dominion Bank Tower early Friday evening as he was explaining the strength of the buildings windows to visiting law students. Hoy previously has conducted demonstrations of window strength according to police reports. Peter Lawson, managing partner of the firm Holden Day Wilson, told the Toronto Sun newspaper that Hoy was "one of the best and brightest members of the 200-man association."

Nominee No. 5 (The News of the Weird):

Michael Anderson Godwin made News of the Weird posthumously. He had spent several years awaiting execution in South Carolina's electric chair on a murder conviction before having his sentence reduced to life in prison. While sitting on a metal toilet in his cell attempting to fix his small TV set, he bit into a wire and was electrocuted.

Nominee No. 6 (The Indianapolis Star):

A cigarette lighter may have triggered a fatal explosion in Dunkirk, IN. A Jay County man, using a cigarette lighter to check the barrel of a muzzle loader, was killed Monday night when the weapon discharged in his face, sheriff's investigators said. Gregory David Pryor, 19, died in his parents' rural Dunkirk home at about 11:30 PM. Investigators said Pryor was cleaning a 54-caliber muzzle-loader that had not been firing properly. He was using the lighter to look into the barrel when the gunpowder ignited.

Nominee No. 7 (Reuters - Mississauga, Ontario):

A man cleaning a bird feeder on the balcony of his condominium apartment in this Toronto suburb slipped and fell 23 stories to his death. "Stefan Macko, 55, was standing on a wheelchair when the accident occurred," said Inspector Darcy Honer of the Peel Regional Police. "It appears that the chair moved, and he went over the balcony."

Thanks LG.  I really needed this.  I finally decided to get all my DAZ programs and content installed on this newest computer.  It's not going well.  I seem to have forgotten everything I knew.  This time I'm not going to spend 6 months crying.  If it gets bad again, I'm just going to delete everything and say bye, bye.

 

I hope it doesn't reach that point. Even if it does you don't need to use a 3D program to hang out here. It's been several years since I opened Poser but I still enjoy seeing what others are doing and communicating wiht them.

Chohole

atticanne said:

Chohole said:

Mystarra said:

Youtube thimb not showing. Forum dont work right on i phone. Do the daz powers know!

 

sinesd o conner on the muzak at spuntino

It was so much easier when one used a computer, now people browse the internet on all sorts of devices,  desktops, laptops, notepads, eyepads, notebooks, ebook readers, kindles,  iphones, smart phones, not so smart phones and even down right stupid phones and people still expect things to work perfectly on all of them from one simple set of forum software.  Ask Alexa to fix it  

I'm just an old fogey.  My computer (laptop) is for most things, including email.  My phone is to make and receive calls.  My camera is to take photographs.  My Kindle is to read books.  The TV is for watching programs.

I don't even have a kindle. I have hundreds of books,  real books.   My phone still needs For the base station to be plugged into a socket on the wall although the handset is wireless. I do have a true old fashioned analogue phone as well, for those times when the power is out.  And I don't actually have a TV because basically I don't watch TV.

Etrigan

kyoto kid said:

...'plaint.  I love peanut butter, great on toast for an afternoon snack.  However, considering all the advances we have made over the decades, I still find it odd and annoying that natural/organic brands always have that half to three quarter's inch of oil on the top requiring one to stir it in before using and hopefully not make a mess in the process having it goop out over the sides of the jar and onto the kitchen counter (also difficult and painful to do with my stiff arthritic hands)?   Yeah I know there are "no stir" versions, but they use palm oil and there seems to be a major issue these days related to its production.   I most definitely won't touch the popular name or house brand PBs (even though they cost less) as they also add a lot of salt, sugar, and other ingredients (including some which are "questionable" for human consumption).

I even had the jar stored upside down for several days to get the oil to flow to the bottom before opening it up as some recommend, and that didn't even work.

Crikey we can land a probe on a comet but we still can't come up with a simple solution to that layer of oil on top of peanut butter without resorting to environmentally bad or unhealthy means to do it.

"The no-stir convenience of these butters is due to the hydrogenated or partially hydrogenated oils, or trans fats, you'll find listed on the ingredients label. ... While palm fruit oil contains some saturated fats, which help solidify the nut butter, it's free of harmful trans fats."

Unfortunately, you need a (partially) hydrogenated oil to keep the stuff from separating. But, if you think PB is hard to re-mix, try tahini! You almost need a paint mixer to stir that stuff. 

 

TSasha Smith

I am hungry.  I am also at this adult day center because I do not work today.  I am having salad soon but I am hungry now.

kyoto kid

Chohole said:

atticanne said:

Chohole said:

Mystarra said:

Youtube thimb not showing. Forum dont work right on i phone. Do the daz powers know!

 

sinesd o conner on the muzak at spuntino

It was so much easier when one used a computer, now people browse the internet on all sorts of devices,  desktops, laptops, notepads, eyepads, notebooks, ebook readers, kindles,  iphones, smart phones, not so smart phones and even down right stupid phones and people still expect things to work perfectly on all of them from one simple set of forum software.  Ask Alexa to fix it  

I'm just an old fogey.  My computer (laptop) is for most things, including email.  My phone is to make and receive calls.  My camera is to take photographs.  My Kindle is to read books.  The TV is for watching programs.

I don't even have a kindle. I have hundreds of books,  real books.   My phone still needs For the base station to be plugged into a socket on the wall although the handset is wireless. I do have a true old fashioned analogue phone as well, for those times when the power is out.  And I don't actually have a TV because basically I don't watch TV.

...save for the phone (landlines are going the way of the dinosaurs here in the states) pretty much the same here. I even have a large collection of LPs,10"/12"" reel tapes.and a 35mm camera that still takes film.

About the only places I see a pay telephone anymore is at the LRT stations, the airport, the train/bus station, and hotel lobbies.  Long gone are the once ubiquitous telephone boxes we had on just about every other street corner. Poor Superman needs to find someplace else to duck into to change (like maybe one of those auto photo booths that are becoming popular again).  Furthermore, a call at a pay telephone is no longer a dime or even a quarter but 1$ or more and you get a limited number of minutes before having to insert more coins, even for a local call. 

kyoto kid

Etrigan said:

kyoto kid said:

...'plaint.  I love peanut butter, great on toast for an afternoon snack.  However, considering all the advances we have made over the decades, I still find it odd and annoying that natural/organic brands always have that half to three quarter's inch of oil on the top requiring one to stir it in before using and hopefully not make a mess in the process having it goop out over the sides of the jar and onto the kitchen counter (also difficult and painful to do with my stiff arthritic hands)?   Yeah I know there are "no stir" versions, but they use palm oil and there seems to be a major issue these days related to its production.   I most definitely won't touch the popular name or house brand PBs (even though they cost less) as they also add a lot of salt, sugar, and other ingredients (including some which are "questionable" for human consumption).

I even had the jar stored upside down for several days to get the oil to flow to the bottom before opening it up as some recommend, and that didn't even work.

Crikey we can land a probe on a comet but we still can't come up with a simple solution to that layer of oil on top of peanut butter without resorting to environmentally bad or unhealthy means to do it.

"The no-stir convenience of these butters is due to the hydrogenated or partially hydrogenated oils, or trans fats, you'll find listed on the ingredients label. ... While palm fruit oil contains some saturated fats, which help solidify the nut butter, it's free of harmful trans fats."

Unfortunately, you need a (partially) hydrogenated oil to keep the stuff from separating. But, if you think PB is hard to re-mix, try tahini! You almost need a paint mixer to stir that 

...the one trouble with palm oil is that many companies which harvest it tend to mow down forests in the process.  The hydrogenated stuff is bad because of the trans fats

Maybe I need a countertop version of this:

Chohole

kyoto kid said:

Chohole said:

atticanne said:

Chohole said:

Mystarra said:

Youtube thimb not showing. Forum dont work right on i phone. Do the daz powers know!

 

sinesd o conner on the muzak at spuntino

It was so much easier when one used a computer, now people browse the internet on all sorts of devices,  desktops, laptops, notepads, eyepads, notebooks, ebook readers, kindles,  iphones, smart phones, not so smart phones and even down right stupid phones and people still expect things to work perfectly on all of them from one simple set of forum software.  Ask Alexa to fix it  

I'm just an old fogey.  My computer (laptop) is for most things, including email.  My phone is to make and receive calls.  My camera is to take photographs.  My Kindle is to read books.  The TV is for watching programs.

I don't even have a kindle. I have hundreds of books,  real books.   My phone still needs For the base station to be plugged into a socket on the wall although the handset is wireless. I do have a true old fashioned analogue phone as well, for those times when the power is out.  And I don't actually have a TV because basically I don't watch TV.

...save for the phone (landlines are going the way of the dinosaurs here in the states) pretty much the same here. I even have a large collection of LPs,10"/12"" reel tapes.and a 35mm camera that still takes film.

About the only places I see a pay telephone anymore is at the LRT stations, the airport, the train/bus station, and hotel lobbies.  Long gone are the once ubiquitous telephone boxes we had on just about every other street corner. Poor Superman needs to find someplace else to duck into to change (like maybe one of those auto photo booths that are becoming popular again).  Furthermore, a call at a pay telephone is no longer a dime or even a quarter but 1$ or more and you get a limited number of minutes before having to insert more coins, even for a local call. 

I forgot the LPs stored upstairs, and even some 45s.   We actually have quite a few telephone boxes around the country,  especially in the more isolated parts. It is becoming a losing battle to keep some of them though. Climbers and climbing groups are fighting hard to keep them in areas where mobile phone signals are not stable.

kyoto kid

...love the postal box as well.

carrie58

Hmmmm I have incredibly bad cell service seems the only calls I get are sales ,but today was special got a cal from  ...... 000-000-0000  .......I didn't even know that was a phone number ,I didn't answer but still that's a number ? I am confused

TJohn

carrie58 said:

Hmmmm I have incredibly bad cell service seems the only calls I get are sales ,but today was special got a cal from  ...... 000-000-0000  .......I didn't even know that was a phone number ,I didn't answer but still that's a number ? I am confused

That's Claude Rains's number.

kyoto kid

...brrr, so glad I don't live in Wisconsin anymore.  Going to get down to -18° tomorrow night and -20° (F) Wednesday night in Milwaukee with 20 - 25 mph winds.  Snowing currently there.

Up North der hey in Stevens Point they are expecting -24° and -29° (F) on those same nights with winds 15 - 20 mph.

Those "real feels" will be nasty, between -45° and -50° (F)

Here it is partly sunny with much less wind, currently +52° today and will be +51° (F) tomorrow.

fred9803

kyoto kid said:

...brrr, so glad I don't live in Wisconsin anymore.  Going to get down to -18° tomorrow night and -20° (F) Wednesday night in Milwaukee with 20 - 25 mph winds.  Snowing currently there.

Up North der hey in Stevens Point they are expecting -24° and -29° (F) on those same nights with winds 15 - 20 mph.

Those "real feels" will be nasty, between -45° and -50° (F)

Here it is partly sunny with much less wind, currently +52° today and will be +51° (F) tomorrow.

Oh my heart bleeds for you. It's been >35C here for the past month, and the "real feel" is >40C because of the 98%+ humidity.

You give me some of your cold and I'll give you some of my hot. It's a pity we can't share.... our heating and cooling bills would love that.

kyoto kid

...well, I'm fine with the low to mid 50s in the last week of January like we are experiencing here in Portland.  Need to contact someone in Wisconsin about the trade. 

I moved from there nearly 40 years ago because the winters were beginning to become rough on me, and I was still somewhat young (though arthritis runs in the family as well as I have always been more sensitive to the cold).  

LeatherGryphon

kyoto kid said:

...well, I'm fine with the low to mid 50s in the last week of January like we are experiencing here in Portland.  Need to contact someone in Wisconsin about the trade. 

I moved from there nearly 40 years ago because the winters were beginning to become rough on me, and I was still somewhat young (though arthritis runs in the family as well as I have always been more sensitive to the cold).  

How terrible!   Having the runs is bad enough, I don't want to imagine "arthritic runs".

Temperatures here have been relatively steady 20-32F for several days but that cold wave hits tonight and I have to remember to open the sink cabinet doors and keep a trickle of water running all night to avoid frozen pipes.

TJohn

Snowing here now. Supposed to be less than an inch.

McGyver

kyoto kid said:

Etrigan said:

kyoto kid said:

...'plaint.  I love peanut butter, great on toast for an afternoon snack.  However, considering all the advances we have made over the decades, I still find it odd and annoying that natural/organic brands always have that half to three quarter's inch of oil on the top requiring one to stir it in before using and hopefully not make a mess in the process having it goop out over the sides of the jar and onto the kitchen counter (also difficult and painful to do with my stiff arthritic hands)?   Yeah I know there are "no stir" versions, but they use palm oil and there seems to be a major issue these days related to its production.   I most definitely won't touch the popular name or house brand PBs (even though they cost less) as they also add a lot of salt, sugar, and other ingredients (including some which are "questionable" for human consumption).

I even had the jar stored upside down for several days to get the oil to flow to the bottom before opening it up as some recommend, and that didn't even work.

Crikey we can land a probe on a comet but we still can't come up with a simple solution to that layer of oil on top of peanut butter without resorting to environmentally bad or unhealthy means to do it.

"The no-stir convenience of these butters is due to the hydrogenated or partially hydrogenated oils, or trans fats, you'll find listed on the ingredients label. ... While palm fruit oil contains some saturated fats, which help solidify the nut butter, it's free of harmful trans fats."

Unfortunately, you need a (partially) hydrogenated oil to keep the stuff from separating. But, if you think PB is hard to re-mix, try tahini! You almost need a paint mixer to stir that 

...the one trouble with palm oil is that many companies which harvest it tend to mow down forests in the process.  The hydrogenated stuff is bad because of the trans fats

Maybe I need a countertop version of this:

I’ve got one... it’s called a “Hula Girl”... it’s a small pneumatic version of the things you see in paint stores... I use it about once every two years... which is just long enough to make me forget why I hate using it.

Besides the fact that the field mice which inhabit my shop in the winter seem to enjoy pooping all over it (either they hate it or they read the label and they “hula until they poop”), it’s operational noise is just one decibel shy of a TF34-GE-100 turbofan... imagine placing three medium size electric jackhammers (with their triggers clamped in the on position) in each of two 55 gallon steel drums, suspending the drums from the ceiling (about two feet apart) and then plugging them in and placing your head between them... that’s almost the effect. Though I think the jackhammers are less traumatic.

I imagine you could clamp this thing onto your countertop... it would probably disintegrate it, fall on the floor and tear through the floorboards and work it’s way downward until it tore out the air hose or hit concrete... actually it would probably drag the compressor along with it until the compressor got unplugged or tore out the wall outlet and eventually ripped out enough of the electrical line until something got disconnected or the ensuing fire burned enough of the building down to shut it off.

Did I mention I bought it used from one of those shops that sells cursed objects like monkey paws and eyeglasses that help you see the future?

Taoz

kyoto kid said:

...'plaint.  I love peanut butter, great on toast for an afternoon snack.  However, considering all the advances we have made over the decades, I still find it odd and annoying that natural/organic brands always have that half to three quarter's inch of oil on the top requiring one to stir it in before using and hopefully not make a mess in the process having it goop out over the sides of the jar and onto the kitchen counter (also difficult and painful to do with my stiff arthritic hands)?   Yeah I know there are "no stir" versions, but they use palm oil and there seems to be a major issue these days related to its production.   I most definitely won't touch the popular name or house brand PBs (even though they cost less) as they also add a lot of salt, sugar, and other ingredients (including some which are "questionable" for human consumption).

I even had the jar stored upside down for several days to get the oil to flow to the bottom before opening it up as some recommend, and that didn't even work.

Crikey we can land a probe on a comet but we still can't come up with a simple solution to that layer of oil on top of peanut butter without resorting to environmentally bad or unhealthy means to do it.

You can get peanut butter mixers:

https://www.amazon.com/peanut-butter-mixer/s?page=1&rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3Apeanut%20butter%20mixer

But you can also use a hand mixer with dough hooks, works pretty well. The width of the glass and the distance between the hooks on different mixers may vary though so you may have to use one hook only, but that still works resonable well. Then use a spoon to check that everything on bottom and sides has been mixed thoroughly.

Some hand blenders may work too, haven't tried.

 

 

atticanne

Amalthea said:

atticanne said:

LeatherGryphon said:

If you think you have a complaint, consider the winner of the Darwin Awards this year:

THE WINNER! (Arkansas Democrat Gazette):

Two local men were injured when their pickup truck left the road and struck a tree near Cotton Patch on State Highway 38 early Monday. Woodruff County deputy Dovey Snyder reported the accident shortly after midnight Monday. Thurston Poole, 33, of Des Arc, and Billy Ray Wallis, 38, of Little Rock, were returning to Des Arc after a frog-catching trip. On an overcast Sunday night, Poole's pickup truck headlights malfunctioned.

The two men concluded that the headlight fuse on the older-model truck had burned out. As a replacement fuse was not available, Wallis noticed that the .22 caliber bullets from his pistol fit perfectly into the fuse box next to the steering-wheel column. Upon inserting a bullet, the headlights again began to operate properly and the two men proceeded on eastbound toward the White River Bridge.

After traveling approximately 20 miles and just before crossing the river, the bullet apparently overheated, discharged and struck Poole in the testicles. The vehicle swerved sharply right, exited the pavement and struck a tree. Poole suffered only minor cuts and abrasions from the accident but will require extensive surgery to repair the damage to his testicles, which will never operate as intended.

Wallis sustained a broken clavicle and was treated and released. "Thank God we weren't on that bridge when Thurston shot his balls off, or we might be dead," stated Wallis.

"I've been a trooper for 10 years in this part of the world, but this is a first for me. I can't believe that those two would admit how this accident happened," said Snyder.

Upon being notified of the wreck, Lavinia (Poole 's wife) asked how many frogs the boys had caught and i f anyone got them from the truck?

Though Poole and Wallis did not die as a result of their misadventure as normally required by Darwin Award Official Rules, it can be argued that Poole did in fact effectively remove himself from the gene pool.

Runners up for the prize include:

Nominee No. 1 (San Jose Mercury News):

An unidentified man, using a shotgun like a club to break a former girlfriend’s windshield, accidentally shot himself to death when the gun discharged, blowing a hole in his gut.

Nominee No. 2 (Kalamazoo Gazette):

James Burns, 34, a mechanic from Alamo MI, was killed in March as he was trying to repair what police describe as a "farm-type truck." Burns got a friend to drive the truck on a highway while Burns hung underneath so that he could ascertain the source of a troubling noise. Burns' clothes caught on something, however, and the other man found Burns "wrapped in the drive shaft".

Nominee No. 3 (Hickory Daily Record):

Ken Charles Barger, 47, accidentally shot himself to death in December in Newton NC. Awakening to the sound of a ringing telephone beside his bed, he reached for the phone but instead grabbed a Smith & Wesson 38 Special, which discharged when he drew it to his ear.

Nominee No. 4 (UPI, Toronto):

Police said a lawyer demonstrating the safety of windows in a downtown Toronto skyscraper crashed through a pane with his shoulder and plunged 24 floors to his death. A police spokesman said Garry Hoy, 39, fell into the courtyard of the Toronto Dominion Bank Tower early Friday evening as he was explaining the strength of the buildings windows to visiting law students. Hoy previously has conducted demonstrations of window strength according to police reports. Peter Lawson, managing partner of the firm Holden Day Wilson, told the Toronto Sun newspaper that Hoy was "one of the best and brightest members of the 200-man association."

Nominee No. 5 (The News of the Weird):

Michael Anderson Godwin made News of the Weird posthumously. He had spent several years awaiting execution in South Carolina's electric chair on a murder conviction before having his sentence reduced to life in prison. While sitting on a metal toilet in his cell attempting to fix his small TV set, he bit into a wire and was electrocuted.

Nominee No. 6 (The Indianapolis Star):

A cigarette lighter may have triggered a fatal explosion in Dunkirk, IN. A Jay County man, using a cigarette lighter to check the barrel of a muzzle loader, was killed Monday night when the weapon discharged in his face, sheriff's investigators said. Gregory David Pryor, 19, died in his parents' rural Dunkirk home at about 11:30 PM. Investigators said Pryor was cleaning a 54-caliber muzzle-loader that had not been firing properly. He was using the lighter to look into the barrel when the gunpowder ignited.

Nominee No. 7 (Reuters - Mississauga, Ontario):

A man cleaning a bird feeder on the balcony of his condominium apartment in this Toronto suburb slipped and fell 23 stories to his death. "Stefan Macko, 55, was standing on a wheelchair when the accident occurred," said Inspector Darcy Honer of the Peel Regional Police. "It appears that the chair moved, and he went over the balcony."

Thanks LG.  I really needed this.  I finally decided to get all my DAZ programs and content installed on this newest computer.  It's not going well.  I seem to have forgotten everything I knew.  This time I'm not going to spend 6 months crying.  If it gets bad again, I'm just going to delete everything and say bye, bye.

 

I hope it doesn't reach that point. Even if it does you don't need to use a 3D program to hang out here. It's been several years since I opened Poser but I still enjoy seeing what others are doing and communicating wiht them.

It's been over 2 years since I opened any of my many graphics programs.  I guess it started after my grandsons trashed My Passport where my libraries were store.  Being stupid, I didn't have a backup.  The 1st item showing in My Product Library is DAZ Studio 4.5.1.56 on 14 Sep 2011.  I thought I used DS3, but maybe I waited until Genesis came out.

atticanne

Chohole said:

atticanne said:

Chohole said:

Mystarra said:

Youtube thimb not showing. Forum dont work right on i phone. Do the daz powers know!

 

sinesd o conner on the muzak at spuntino

It was so much easier when one used a computer, now people browse the internet on all sorts of devices,  desktops, laptops, notepads, eyepads, notebooks, ebook readers, kindles,  iphones, smart phones, not so smart phones and even down right stupid phones and people still expect things to work perfectly on all of them from one simple set of forum software.  Ask Alexa to fix it  

I'm just an old fogey.  My computer (laptop) is for most things, including email.  My phone is to make and receive calls.  My camera is to take photographs.  My Kindle is to read books.  The TV is for watching programs.

I don't even have a kindle. I have hundreds of books,  real books.   My phone still needs For the base station to be plugged into a socket on the wall although the handset is wireless. I do have a true old fashioned analogue phone as well, for those times when the power is out.  And I don't actually have a TV because basically I don't watch TV.

Is it our age, Chohole? I too have many real books.  Reading on Kindle is just not as satisfying.  I'm ready to cancel my cable TV.  I have at least 5 TVs, but only watch 3 shows a week.  It's a waste of money.  Getting rid of 4 TVs would free up space for more books.  I still have a couple of touchtone phones hanging around, possibly even a dial.  They are stored in boxes somewhere in the attic or garage.

atticanne

kyoto kid said:

Chohole said:

atticanne said:

Chohole said:

Mystarra said:

Youtube thimb not showing. Forum dont work right on i phone. Do the daz powers know!

 

sinesd o conner on the muzak at spuntino

It was so much easier when one used a computer, now people browse the internet on all sorts of devices,  desktops, laptops, notepads, eyepads, notebooks, ebook readers, kindles,  iphones, smart phones, not so smart phones and even down right stupid phones and people still expect things to work perfectly on all of them from one simple set of forum software.  Ask Alexa to fix it  

I'm just an old fogey.  My computer (laptop) is for most things, including email.  My phone is to make and receive calls.  My camera is to take photographs.  My Kindle is to read books.  The TV is for watching programs.

I don't even have a kindle. I have hundreds of books,  real books.   My phone still needs For the base station to be plugged into a socket on the wall although the handset is wireless. I do have a true old fashioned analogue phone as well, for those times when the power is out.  And I don't actually have a TV because basically I don't watch TV.

...save for the phone (landlines are going the way of the dinosaurs here in the states) pretty much the same here. I even have a large collection of LPs,10"/12"" reel tapes.and a 35mm camera that still takes film.

About the only places I see a pay telephone anymore is at the LRT stations, the airport, the train/bus station, and hotel lobbies.  Long gone are the once ubiquitous telephone boxes we had on just about every other street corner. Poor Superman needs to find someplace else to duck into to change (like maybe one of those auto photo booths that are becoming popular again).  Furthermore, a call at a pay telephone is no longer a dime or even a quarter but 1$ or more and you get a limited number of minutes before having to insert more coins, even for a local call. 

I noticed a pay phone at my main bus stop a couple of weeks ago.  I don't know if it works or not.  Most of the homeless who hang there have cellphones.  I wonder if I can call my house a museum and get a tax break.  I have not only my 76 years accumulation, but I inherited all of my father's, including 50+  years of newspaper clippings.  Several manual typewriters reside here also.  You should have come to visit while Ed was still renting a room from me.  You are still welcome to come any time though.

 

Chohole

atticanne said:

Chohole said:

atticanne said:

Chohole said:

Mystarra said:

Youtube thimb not showing. Forum dont work right on i phone. Do the daz powers know!

 

sinesd o conner on the muzak at spuntino

It was so much easier when one used a computer, now people browse the internet on all sorts of devices,  desktops, laptops, notepads, eyepads, notebooks, ebook readers, kindles,  iphones, smart phones, not so smart phones and even down right stupid phones and people still expect things to work perfectly on all of them from one simple set of forum software.  Ask Alexa to fix it  

I'm just an old fogey.  My computer (laptop) is for most things, including email.  My phone is to make and receive calls.  My camera is to take photographs.  My Kindle is to read books.  The TV is for watching programs.

I don't even have a kindle. I have hundreds of books,  real books.   My phone still needs For the base station to be plugged into a socket on the wall although the handset is wireless. I do have a true old fashioned analogue phone as well, for those times when the power is out.  And I don't actually have a TV because basically I don't watch TV.

Is it our age, Chohole? I too have many real books.  Reading on Kindle is just not as satisfying.  I'm ready to cancel my cable TV.  I have at least 5 TVs, but only watch 3 shows a week.  It's a waste of money.  Getting rid of 4 TVs would free up space for more books.  I still have a couple of touchtone phones hanging around, possibly even a dial.  They are stored in boxes somewhere in the attic or garage.

I have always loved books. I inherited my big brothers first books, and he taught me to read, so when I actually started school I was already able to read. My younger son also loves books, although his daughter (my youngest grandaughter) does tend to buy books for the kindle now,  but did love the set of books I bought here for christmas. My elder son found computers at an early age rather than reading. I find that picking up a book to read, turning the pages etc, is a good way of winding down after spending the best part of the day tapping away at this keyboard. Gives my eyes a break as well reading a book instead of a screen. And the cats like it as they can sit on me when I am reading a book.

TSasha Smith

It feels cold but it is 50 some degrees.  It feels ten or twenty below that.

Mistara

Chohole said:

Mystarra said:

would Wales let me live there?

i dont have a job waiting for me.  seems to be the theme for adopting to another country.  feeling unwanted.

i'm a mut of 4 different nationalities, cant even repatriate to a motherland.

only 4   I am 3, Scots, Irish and ENglish With some remnants of older Gael.  My first husband, father of my sons is English/Italian and Romany, so my sons have Scots,Irish,English, Italian. Romany and some more English.  Then my younger son picked a Dutch girl, so my youngest Grandaughter has Dutch added to the list.  My eldest Son married an Irish girl.

Not many jobs avaliable in Wales really.  We retired to Wales when we gave up working.

 

no one needs excel spreadsheets or access database front ends?

awww

Mistara

Chohole said:

kyoto kid said:

Chohole said:

atticanne said:

Chohole said:

Mystarra said:

Youtube thimb not showing. Forum dont work right on i phone. Do the daz powers know!

 

sinesd o conner on the muzak at spuntino

It was so much easier when one used a computer, now people browse the internet on all sorts of devices,  desktops, laptops, notepads, eyepads, notebooks, ebook readers, kindles,  iphones, smart phones, not so smart phones and even down right stupid phones and people still expect things to work perfectly on all of them from one simple set of forum software.  Ask Alexa to fix it  

I'm just an old fogey.  My computer (laptop) is for most things, including email.  My phone is to make and receive calls.  My camera is to take photographs.  My Kindle is to read books.  The TV is for watching programs.

I don't even have a kindle. I have hundreds of books,  real books.   My phone still needs For the base station to be plugged into a socket on the wall although the handset is wireless. I do have a true old fashioned analogue phone as well, for those times when the power is out.  And I don't actually have a TV because basically I don't watch TV.

...save for the phone (landlines are going the way of the dinosaurs here in the states) pretty much the same here. I even have a large collection of LPs,10"/12"" reel tapes.and a 35mm camera that still takes film.

About the only places I see a pay telephone anymore is at the LRT stations, the airport, the train/bus station, and hotel lobbies.  Long gone are the once ubiquitous telephone boxes we had on just about every other street corner. Poor Superman needs to find someplace else to duck into to change (like maybe one of those auto photo booths that are becoming popular again).  Furthermore, a call at a pay telephone is no longer a dime or even a quarter but 1$ or more and you get a limited number of minutes before having to insert more coins, even for a local call. 

I forgot the LPs stored upstairs, and even some 45s.   We actually have quite a few telephone boxes around the country,  especially in the more isolated parts. It is becoming a losing battle to keep some of them though. Climbers and climbing groups are fighting hard to keep them in areas where mobile phone signals are not stable.

hopefully daleks have trouble on grassy knolls, thats not a tardis, but superman will have a place to change 

Mistara

complaiinnt  today's bank fees

opened a new checking account dedicated to only paying rent

ordered check book and deposit tix  came to TOTAL: $61.63

the monthly fee stipulation is direct deposit or 1,000 minimum bal, my direct deposit kicked in a day after they took a 12 $ monthly fee.  i called them to bitch about it they refunded the 12.  it was a shock.  The last time i ordered checks and deposit tix came to like 30. >.< took almost 20 years to use half the checks.  they closing my current bank branch, made me nervous to be too far away to push my walker to a bank branch.  3 banks in walking distance closed.  all empty branches.  eeek  people dont want to visit where their money is?

 

another horror story against the elderly.  my sister drives for the paratransit bus company.  she was telling me about a lady in one of those assisted living places, the horrors of the sliding scale,  they took absolutely everything she had, now they give her an allowance of 40 dollars a month, 8 of that goes to the cost of the bus trip if she goes anywhere, whiskey tango foxtrot, what is wrong with this country?

your work all your life for the comforts of home, work all your life to save for retirement so you can live in some comfort, then when you're the most vulnerable and helpless, the system that supposed to help you just leeches it away.

during my disability application, they wanted a copy of my life insurance. whick is nothing fantastic, its just what my employer gives.  i was like keep your grubby leech hands off my life insurance.  nother form they sent me is all questions about my income.  i dont understand that, social security already knows what our retirement and disability amount is??  why do they need my hourly shith is?

kyoto kid

atticanne said:

kyoto kid said:

Chohole said:

atticanne said:

Chohole said:

Mystarra said:

Youtube thimb not showing. Forum dont work right on i phone. Do the daz powers know!

 

sinesd o conner on the muzak at spuntino

It was so much easier when one used a computer, now people browse the internet on all sorts of devices,  desktops, laptops, notepads, eyepads, notebooks, ebook readers, kindles,  iphones, smart phones, not so smart phones and even down right stupid phones and people still expect things to work perfectly on all of them from one simple set of forum software.  Ask Alexa to fix it  

I'm just an old fogey.  My computer (laptop) is for most things, including email.  My phone is to make and receive calls.  My camera is to take photographs.  My Kindle is to read books.  The TV is for watching programs.

I don't even have a kindle. I have hundreds of books,  real books.   My phone still needs For the base station to be plugged into a socket on the wall although the handset is wireless. I do have a true old fashioned analogue phone as well, for those times when the power is out.  And I don't actually have a TV because basically I don't watch TV.

...save for the phone (landlines are going the way of the dinosaurs here in the states) pretty much the same here. I even have a large collection of LPs,10"/12"" reel tapes.and a 35mm camera that still takes film.

About the only places I see a pay telephone anymore is at the LRT stations, the airport, the train/bus station, and hotel lobbies.  Long gone are the once ubiquitous telephone boxes we had on just about every other street corner. Poor Superman needs to find someplace else to duck into to change (like maybe one of those auto photo booths that are becoming popular again).  Furthermore, a call at a pay telephone is no longer a dime or even a quarter but 1$ or more and you get a limited number of minutes before having to insert more coins, even for a local call. 

I noticed a pay phone at my main bus stop a couple of weeks ago.  I don't know if it works or not.  Most of the homeless who hang there have cellphones.  I wonder if I can call my house a museum and get a tax break.  I have not only my 76 years accumulation, but I inherited all of my father's, including 50+  years of newspaper clippings.  Several manual typewriters reside here also.  You should have come to visit while Ed was still renting a room from me.  You are still welcome to come any time though.

 

...thank you for the offer.  

My SS disability claim has gone into the second phase which is the retroactive appeal.  The attorneys I am working with have a very very good record of success and even after their cut I should have a sizable pile of cash.  One of the plans I have is for a "round the country" trip by train stopping in several locations.  The Texas Eagle stops in Austin. 

I don't fly very much anymore mainly because it is pretty much impossible to wedge my tall stiff arthritic frame in a Steerage Class seat.  Also, with my circulation issues, being pinned in such tight quarters for several hours is not good. Airlines also keep increasing luggage fees (remember when luggage went free unless you had a 150# streamer trunk?) so "premium coach" is not much of a savings from going First Class (well actually "Business") as in First, luggage fees are waived.

...and how is Ed doing?  Took a lot of shopping around to get a decent phone plan without being pulled into some multi year contract and/or not having to purchase a new phone.  Then a Hard Drive meltdown took several years of work with it as well as my custom content runtimes and Library (which I an currently in the process of rebuilding).  Finally I took a fall just over a month ago and whacked my head pretty good.  Was in the hospital for a day as they did numerous test and scans.  Last thing I remember was tripping on a curb and the next was being strapped to a gurney and loaded into an EMT van. No concussion fortunately but some bruising  of he brain and hairline fractures. So lots of RL stuff giving me the old "one -two" work over.  I'll PM my new phone number.

kyoto kid

Miss Bad Wolf said:

It feels cold but it is 50 some degrees.  It feels ten or twenty below that.

...windy perhaps?  That Polar Vortex heading on down is packing some fairly stiff winds with it.

TSasha Smith

kyoto kid said:

Miss Bad Wolf said:

It feels cold but it is 50 some degrees.  It feels ten or twenty below that.

...windy perhaps?  That Polar Vortex heading on down is packing some fairly stiff winds with it.

I am home now.  Tired so I am trying to put the charger for my Android phone into my iPad and wondering why it was not working.