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The Coffee Shop / The Florida Mosquito
« on: August 27, 2013, 10:03:57 am »
You have heard about them now see one real close up. 
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The Coffee Shop / In a world full of wrong, it's nice to see a little right.
« on: August 01, 2013, 08:55:45 am »
Take a few minutes to watch and you will understand. It might just put a smile on your face. 
Mick The Puppy
Mick The Puppy
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The Coffee Shop / You never know, it could be you.
« on: June 09, 2013, 11:38:55 am »
Just had to.
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Pattern Requests. / To Our Pattern Makers
« on: June 08, 2013, 12:08:58 pm »
I would personally like to take this time to say a Great Big Thank You to all our pattern makers that help the members of our forum. I have also had to ask for help and immediately had a response that gave me a fantastic pattern. You all, each and everyone of you help make this forum a great place to be. So again Thank You.
Anyone else who would like to chime in feel welcome.
Anyone else who would like to chime in feel welcome.
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The Coffee Shop / The IRS is everywhere. PG-13
« on: June 08, 2013, 11:37:24 am »
A father walks into a restaurant with his young son. He gives the young boy 3 nickels to play with to keep him occupied.
Suddenly, the boy starts choking, going blue in the face. The father realizes the boy has swallowed the nickels and starts slapping him on the back. The boy coughs up 2 of the nickels, but keeps choking. Looking at his son, the father is panicking, shouting for help.
A well-dressed, attractive, and serious looking woman in a blue business suit is sitting at the coffee bar reading a newspaper and sipping a cup of coffee. At the sound of the commotion, she looks up, puts her coffee cup down, neatly folds the newspaper and places it on it on the counter, gets up from her seat and makes her way, unhurried, across the restaurant.
Reaching the boy, the woman carefully drops his pants; takes hold of the boy's testicles and starts to squeeze and twist, gently at first and then ever so firmly. After a few seconds the boy convulses violently and coughs up the last nickel, which the woman deftly catches in her free hand.
Releasing the boy's testicles, the woman hands the nickel to the father and walks back to her seat at the coffee bar without saying a word.
As soon as he is sure that his son has suffered no ill effects, the father rushes over to the woman and starts thanking her saying, "I've never seen anybody do anything like that before, it was fantastic. Are you a doctor? "
"No," the woman replied, "I'm with the Internal Revenue Service."
Suddenly, the boy starts choking, going blue in the face. The father realizes the boy has swallowed the nickels and starts slapping him on the back. The boy coughs up 2 of the nickels, but keeps choking. Looking at his son, the father is panicking, shouting for help.
A well-dressed, attractive, and serious looking woman in a blue business suit is sitting at the coffee bar reading a newspaper and sipping a cup of coffee. At the sound of the commotion, she looks up, puts her coffee cup down, neatly folds the newspaper and places it on it on the counter, gets up from her seat and makes her way, unhurried, across the restaurant.
Reaching the boy, the woman carefully drops his pants; takes hold of the boy's testicles and starts to squeeze and twist, gently at first and then ever so firmly. After a few seconds the boy convulses violently and coughs up the last nickel, which the woman deftly catches in her free hand.
Releasing the boy's testicles, the woman hands the nickel to the father and walks back to her seat at the coffee bar without saying a word.
As soon as he is sure that his son has suffered no ill effects, the father rushes over to the woman and starts thanking her saying, "I've never seen anybody do anything like that before, it was fantastic. Are you a doctor? "
"No," the woman replied, "I'm with the Internal Revenue Service."
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The Coffee Shop / The Green Thing
« on: June 07, 2013, 07:59:38 pm »
Found this and just had to share because it is so true.
Checking out at the store, the young cashier suggested to the older woman, that she should bring her own grocery bags because plastic bags weren't good for the environment.
The woman apologized and explained, "We didn't have this green thing back in my earlier days." The young clerk responded, "That's our problem today. Your generation did not care enough to save our environment for future generations."
She was right -- our generation didn't have the green thing in its day.
Back then, we returned milk bottles, soda bottles and beer bottles to the store. The store sent them back to the plant to be washed and sterilized and refilled, so it could use the same bottles over and over. So they really were truly recycled. But we didn't have the green thing back in our day.
Grocery stores bagged our groceries in brown paper bags, that we reused for numerous things, most memorable besides household garbage bags, was the use of brown paper bags as book covers for our schoolbooks. This was to ensure that public property, (the books provided for our use by the school) was not defaced by our scribbling's. Then we were able to personalize our books on the brown paper bags. But too bad we didn't do the green thing back then.
We walked up stairs, because we didn't have an escalator in every store and office building. We walked to the grocery store and didn't climb into a 300-horsepower machine every time we had to go two blocks. But she was right. We didn't have the green thing in our day.
Back then, we washed the baby's diapers because we didn't have the throwaway kind. We dried clothes on a line, not in an energy-gobbling machine burning up 220 volts -- wind and solar power really did dry our clothes back in our early days. Kids got hand-me-down clothes from their brothers or sisters, not always brand-new clothing. But that young lady is right; we didn't have the green thing back in our day.
Back then, we had one TV, or radio, in the house -- not a TV in every room. And the TV had a small screen the size of a handkerchief (remember them?), not a screen the size of the state of Montana.
In the kitchen, we blended and stirred by hand because we didn't have electric machines to do everything for us. When we packaged a fragile item to send in the mail, we used wadded up old newspapers to cushion it, not Styrofoam or plastic bubble wrap.
Back then, we didn't fire up an engine and burn gasoline just to cut the lawn. We used a push mower that ran on human power. We exercised by working so we didn't need to go to a health club to run on treadmills that operate on electricity. But she's right; we didn't have the green thing back then.
We drank from a fountain when we were thirsty instead of using a cup or a plastic bottle every time we had a drink of water. We refilled writing pens with ink instead of buying a new pen, and we replaced the razor blades in a razor instead of throwing away the whole razor just because the blade got dull. But we didn't have the green thing back then.
Back then, people took the streetcar or a bus and kids rode their bikes to school or walked instead of turning their moms into a 24-hour taxi service. We had one electrical outlet in a room, not an entire bank of sockets to power a dozen appliances. And we didn't need a computerized gadget to receive a signal beamed from satellites 23,000 miles out in space in order to find the nearest burger joint.
But isn't it sad the current generation laments how wasteful we old folks were just because we didn't have the green thing back then?
Please forward this on to another selfish old person who needs a lesson in conservation from a smart-ass young person.
Checking out at the store, the young cashier suggested to the older woman, that she should bring her own grocery bags because plastic bags weren't good for the environment.
The woman apologized and explained, "We didn't have this green thing back in my earlier days." The young clerk responded, "That's our problem today. Your generation did not care enough to save our environment for future generations."
She was right -- our generation didn't have the green thing in its day.
Back then, we returned milk bottles, soda bottles and beer bottles to the store. The store sent them back to the plant to be washed and sterilized and refilled, so it could use the same bottles over and over. So they really were truly recycled. But we didn't have the green thing back in our day.
Grocery stores bagged our groceries in brown paper bags, that we reused for numerous things, most memorable besides household garbage bags, was the use of brown paper bags as book covers for our schoolbooks. This was to ensure that public property, (the books provided for our use by the school) was not defaced by our scribbling's. Then we were able to personalize our books on the brown paper bags. But too bad we didn't do the green thing back then.
We walked up stairs, because we didn't have an escalator in every store and office building. We walked to the grocery store and didn't climb into a 300-horsepower machine every time we had to go two blocks. But she was right. We didn't have the green thing in our day.
Back then, we washed the baby's diapers because we didn't have the throwaway kind. We dried clothes on a line, not in an energy-gobbling machine burning up 220 volts -- wind and solar power really did dry our clothes back in our early days. Kids got hand-me-down clothes from their brothers or sisters, not always brand-new clothing. But that young lady is right; we didn't have the green thing back in our day.
Back then, we had one TV, or radio, in the house -- not a TV in every room. And the TV had a small screen the size of a handkerchief (remember them?), not a screen the size of the state of Montana.
In the kitchen, we blended and stirred by hand because we didn't have electric machines to do everything for us. When we packaged a fragile item to send in the mail, we used wadded up old newspapers to cushion it, not Styrofoam or plastic bubble wrap.
Back then, we didn't fire up an engine and burn gasoline just to cut the lawn. We used a push mower that ran on human power. We exercised by working so we didn't need to go to a health club to run on treadmills that operate on electricity. But she's right; we didn't have the green thing back then.
We drank from a fountain when we were thirsty instead of using a cup or a plastic bottle every time we had a drink of water. We refilled writing pens with ink instead of buying a new pen, and we replaced the razor blades in a razor instead of throwing away the whole razor just because the blade got dull. But we didn't have the green thing back then.
Back then, people took the streetcar or a bus and kids rode their bikes to school or walked instead of turning their moms into a 24-hour taxi service. We had one electrical outlet in a room, not an entire bank of sockets to power a dozen appliances. And we didn't need a computerized gadget to receive a signal beamed from satellites 23,000 miles out in space in order to find the nearest burger joint.
But isn't it sad the current generation laments how wasteful we old folks were just because we didn't have the green thing back then?
Please forward this on to another selfish old person who needs a lesson in conservation from a smart-ass young person.
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The Coffee Shop / California Here We Come
« on: May 15, 2013, 05:01:55 pm »
My wife and I are flying out today to see my son a Marine who has been deployed for nine months. Can't wait to see him.
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The Coffee Shop / Finally back in the shop...
« on: April 09, 2013, 08:28:40 am »
Well I am finally able and feel like getting back in the shop. Started on 3/9/2013 with allergies then a cold that turned into a really bad sinus infection. I have never been this sick for this long in my life and have never had a sinus infection. Doctor said the weird weather patterns have caused it to be a record breaking year for allergies and sinus infections here in Florida. Hope I never get another one in my life time.
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The Coffee Shop / Sick, very sick.
« on: March 13, 2013, 12:31:25 pm »
Started with a cold over the weekend that has turned into a sinus infection. Feel like a$$ 
. Dr gave me some good med's, an antibiotic and cough medicine with codeine. Night, night.
. Dr gave me some good med's, an antibiotic and cough medicine with codeine. Night, night.
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Brag Forum / Another 1st Place Float
« on: March 10, 2013, 11:57:34 am »
So for the third (3) year in a row we entered a float with my Grandson Gage in the 2013 Florida Strawberry Festival Baby Parade. I am very proud to say that we have taken 1st Place again this year. It was a combined effort of about four family members from design to actual building the float.
Also 90% of the float was built from recycled materials. We spent a whole $50 on the float. There is a wanted poster on the front for the Strawberry Queen. It reads, Wanted for stealing my heart. $2500 reward.
If you type in strawberrys in the search field on the forum you should see my post from last year on the other 1st place float we built.
Also 90% of the float was built from recycled materials. We spent a whole $50 on the float. There is a wanted poster on the front for the Strawberry Queen. It reads, Wanted for stealing my heart. $2500 reward.
If you type in strawberrys in the search field on the forum you should see my post from last year on the other 1st place float we built.
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The Coffee Shop / Thoughts and prayers please.
« on: January 29, 2013, 01:53:58 pm »
Please keep my son in law Justin and his family in your thoughts and prayers. His father passed Sunday very unexpectedly. He was at work when he had a massive heart attack. We will be attend the funeral this afternoon. Thanks everyone.
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Pattern Requests. / FYI Purchasing Patterns
« on: January 29, 2013, 11:31:24 am »
It has come to my attention that some companies are selling patterns of our members who design and sell patterns for a living that may not be complete and may not have permission any longer to sell them. If you have any questions contact the pattern designers before purchasing. Many or most of the pattern designers have there own web sites that you can purchase from to insure you receive the quality and quantity of the patterns you are purchasing.
Thanks Russ
Thanks Russ
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General Scroll Saw Talk / FYI Purchasing Patterns
« on: January 29, 2013, 11:29:52 am »
It has come to my attention that some companies are selling patterns of our members who design and sell patterns for a living that may not be complete and may not have permission any longer to sell them. If you have any questions contact the pattern designers before purchasing. Many or most of the pattern designers have there own web sites that you can purchase from to insure you receive the quality and quantity of the patterns you are purchasing.
Thanks Russ
Thanks Russ
