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  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 110,628

    I suspect the handcuffs may originally be left over from a member-retention experiment.

  • acbacb Posts: 775
    edited May 4

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  • barbultbarbult Posts: 27,082

    acb said:

    At second glance, Jack's probably just innocently carpentering to help a friend, smiling absently about barbult's latest renders. And the "handcuffs" are just a pair of strange-looking safety glasses.

    (or just not the direction anyone would want this story to go)

    We don't have any serial killers here, just a pair of hapless pals, getting into trouble without much effort whatsoever. It's just getting out of said trouble that requires all their energy. But in the end, they always survive to have another adventure on another day. Their (mostly) innocent entourage gets sucked into these adventures in various ways.

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 110,628

    barbult said:

    acb said:

    At second glance, Jack's probably just innocently carpentering to help a friend, smiling absently about barbult's latest renders. And the "handcuffs" are just a pair of strange-looking safety glasses.

    (or just not the direction anyone would want this story to go)

    We don't have any serial killers here, just a pair of hapless pals, getting into trouble without much effort whatsoever. It's just getting out of said trouble that requires all their energy. But in the end, they always survive to have another adventure on another day. Their (mostly) innocent entourage gets sucked into these adventures in various ways.

    The poor horse may not entirely agree. Just hope it doesn't have lawyers.

  • barbultbarbult Posts: 27,082

    Richard Haseltine said:

    barbult said:

    acb said:

    At second glance, Jack's probably just innocently carpentering to help a friend, smiling absently about barbult's latest renders. And the "handcuffs" are just a pair of strange-looking safety glasses.

    (or just not the direction anyone would want this story to go)

    We don't have any serial killers here, just a pair of hapless pals, getting into trouble without much effort whatsoever. It's just getting out of said trouble that requires all their energy. But in the end, they always survive to have another adventure on another day. Their (mostly) innocent entourage gets sucked into these adventures in various ways.

    The poor horse may not entirely agree. Just hope it doesn't have lawyers.

    I said no serial killers! Oh, you said lawyers Same thing, None of them here. Jack is safe from litigation in this instance. I think the struggles he went through to fix your horse are punishment enough for any perceived slight to any being, living or not living. He did sort of wish he could try out the jackhammer, though. After all, it has his name on it.

  • barbultbarbult Posts: 27,082
    edited August 2025

    I looked at the render of Milly and the horse, and I thought, "She kind of looks like me, when I was young.".

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  • richardandtracyrichardandtracy Posts: 7,778
    By any chance was your dad called Jack? Bearing in mind that John, Johnathan, Jon and other variants used to be 'shortened' to 'Jack' too. Also 'Jack' could be used as an 'Oi, you' type call. This is getting creepy. Regards, Richard
  • barbultbarbult Posts: 27,082

    richardandtracy said:

    By any chance was your dad called Jack? Bearing in mind that John, Johnathan, Jon and other variants used to be 'shortened' to 'Jack' too. Also 'Jack' could be used as an 'Oi, you' type call. This is getting creepy. Regards, Richard

    No, my father's name was Ralph, and he had no middle name. None of his siblings were Jack either. Resemblance is all a coincidence, like the way Miss Kitty's kittens look just like Richard Haseltine. Richard is thinking that if people don't stop accusing him of fathering those kittens, he may have to go on one of those paternity test TV shows to prove his innocence:

    In the case of Miss Kitty's litter of boys, the test proves that Richard Haseltine IS.......NOT the father!

  • acbacb Posts: 775
    edited May 4

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  • barbultbarbult Posts: 27,082
    edited August 2025
    Hyacinth Macaw. Edit: It takes decades.
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  • memcneil70memcneil70 Posts: 5,912

    @barbult you were and are a kid after my own heart. I used to dumpster dive in the insurance agency's dumpster for their discarded typing paper for clean paper to draw on. Free materials. When one's allowance is only $.25 a week, you have to be creative. I still donate art supplies for Christmas collections for kids every year.

  • memcneil70memcneil70 Posts: 5,912

    Richard, it is all about 'time-share'. I have that regarding my pillows and Simon's usage vs my sleeping time.

  • memcneil70memcneil70 Posts: 5,912

    ROLF

  • barbultbarbult Posts: 27,082

    memcneil70 said:

    ROLF

    ROFL?

  • richardandtracyrichardandtracy Posts: 7,778
    barbult said:

    memcneil70 said:

    ROLF

    ROFL?

    Smell Checker?

  • memcneil70memcneil70 Posts: 5,912

    barbult said:

    memcneil70 said:

    ROLF

    ROFL?

    Roll on floor laughing. Old text message quick reference thingie. 

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 110,628

    memcneil70 said:

    barbult said:

    memcneil70 said:

    ROLF

    ROFL?

    Roll on floor laughing. Old text message quick reference thingie. 

    She was pointing out you had written roll on lino, flailing.

  • barbultbarbult Posts: 27,082

    Richard Haseltine said:

    memcneil70 said:

    barbult said:

    memcneil70 said:

    ROLF

    ROFL?

    Roll on floor laughing. Old text message quick reference thingie. 

    She was pointing out you had written roll on lino, flailing.

    laugh I was wondering what ROLF might be. Now I know. My bad, for not being up on the latest slang. laugh

  • SimonJMSimonJM Posts: 6,097

    barbult said:

    Richard Haseltine said:

    memcneil70 said:

    barbult said:

    memcneil70 said:

    ROLF

    ROFL?

    Roll on floor laughing. Old text message quick reference thingie. 

    She was pointing out you had written roll on lino, flailing.

    laugh I was wondering what ROLF might be. Now I know. My bad, for not being up on the latest slang. laugh

    I thought ROLF meant Ridiculing Old Leonine Failing ^_^ 

  • barbultbarbult Posts: 27,082

    SimonJM said:

    barbult said:

    Richard Haseltine said:

    memcneil70 said:

    barbult said:

    memcneil70 said:

    ROLF

    ROFL?

    Roll on floor laughing. Old text message quick reference thingie. 

    She was pointing out you had written roll on lino, flailing.

    laugh I was wondering what ROLF might be. Now I know. My bad, for not being up on the latest slang. laugh

    I thought ROLF meant Ridiculing Old Leonine Failing ^_^ 

    Could be. Some acronyms have multiple meanings. Both seem plausible in this case. I think Mary was onto something. We were just slower to pick up on it. 

  • barbultbarbult Posts: 27,082

    WendyLuvsCatz said:

    I thought it was something to do with a discraced Aussie expatriate singer/painter in  the UK who sang a song about 2 little boys who had 2 little toys...

    each had a wooden horse blush

    Cloudflare like clockwork hit me again in this thread, I almost bailed because of something that happened last time, it is telling me something I swear

    This forum software can be a real pain. Whatever you do, don't type a long message and then select  "Check Spelling". For me it totally locks up and all my typing is eternally lost. "Enable SCAYT" seems pretty safe, though. Gateway Error is a big pain, too. I think that is what you are suffering from. It seems particularly bad around this time.

  • backgroundbackground Posts: 905
    edited August 2025

    If you wanted to continue with the Western theme you could do a remake of 'The Good, The Bad. and the Unlikely', but you might need a cannon.

    Think if Richard running around the graveyard while the orchestra plays "The Ecstasy of Catnip".

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  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 110,628
    edited August 2025

    barbult said:

    vwrangler said:

    barbult said:

    ROLF!

    Inspiration comes from many places. Thank you, Mary, Richard, and Simon.
    Richard can't stop twitching after riding the jackhammer "Pogo stick" all the way home.

    Well, after that, now he really needs to be rolfed. 

    He might be a bit concerned about the statement "Rolfing is classified as a pseudoscience, and is generally seen as quackery." But then again, he is pretty adventurous and not overly influenced by human opinions.

    Well, I liked the sound of

    Rolfing is typically delivered as a series of ten hands-on physical manipulation sessions sometimes called "the recipe". Practitioners combine superficial and deep manual therapy with movement prompts

    thinking strokes and ear-scratches, but then it got to 

    The process is sometimes painful.

    so pass, I think. Edit: though I suppose that does depend on who feels the pain.

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  • barbultbarbult Posts: 27,082

    In Celebration of Richard's 100,000th Forum Post

    I am simply linking this other thread here, since it is not behind a Daz+ Member paywall. I see no reason to copy and paste everything, including reader comments, here. That is a lot of work, and I'm worn out from all the posse renders and horse repair renders! (Although I relish every minute of it.)
    Keep up the good work posting, helping and inspiring, Richard. Maybe you'll hit 200,000 some day. I hope to be here to document it in my usual ridiculous way.

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 110,628

    Heh, 200,000 would be a lot of gabbing.

  • richardandtracyrichardandtracy Posts: 7,778

    And 106,308 isn't?

    Regards,

    Richard

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 110,628

    a lot more gabbing. It did take about thirteen years.

  • barbultbarbult Posts: 27,082

    This thread has deviated far away from Jack and Richard's adventures and turned into an eyesight discussion.

    Richard, can you split our eyesight/cataract posts off into a different OT thread, please?

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 110,628

    barbult said:

    This thread has deviated far away from Jack and Richard's adventures and turned into an eyesight discussion.

    Richard, can you split our eyesight/cataract posts off into a different OT thread, please?

    Sure, it was drifting a lot (though an intersting topic for a lot of us, I think) https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/742456/torrents-of-cataracts

  • barbultbarbult Posts: 27,082

    Richard Haseltine said:

    barbult said:

    This thread has deviated far away from Jack and Richard's adventures and turned into an eyesight discussion.

    Richard, can you split our eyesight/cataract posts off into a different OT thread, please?

    Sure, it was drifting a lot (though an intersting topic for a lot of us, I think) https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/742456/torrents-of-cataracts

    Thank you. Yes, I was a participant in the eye discussions, too. Many of us, it seems, are at that point in life now. I want to get back to posting about Jack and Richard here now.

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