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I remember seeing gopher mounds in the fields that were popping up in our direction every year, but that came to a halt 30 meters from our garden when we got our cat.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
She likes to gift us one or two of these buggers every year. :bigyello:
That is one of the issues. The woodchucks we had were larger than any normal cat (there are some massively fat ones that would outweigh a woodchuck). We have a few varieties of gophers out here, some of which are quite tiny. They live pretty similar lives, and are related, but not the same thing.
How much wood can a woodchucker chuck?
How far up can an upchucker chuck?
We had a guy named Chuck who worked with us decades ago - could not hold his liquor...
I believe the song morphed into "How much chuck could Chuck up-chuck if Chuck could up-chuck chuck".
It's sad that we cannot purge a memory like that and free up some space for better stuff!
Sounds like there WAS some purging, just not of the right stuff.
Finally! I was waiting for someone to post that!Quote:
Originally Posted by Bonker Gudd
So you sang about how much Chuck could Chuck up-chuck? So throwing himself up?Quote:
Originally Posted by szlamany
Yes - get a bunch of 20-something-year-old programmers in an office and it's easy to memorialize someones bad night in song! I can recall losing the office drinking contest one Christmas - actually recall is not the right word - I can vividly still see the photo's they took of my passed out body with various blow up doll toys!Quote:
Originally Posted by RobDog888
We would throw pennies at people who came up with bad ideas during development meetings! Oh the 80's!
We all had VAX-programmer hats made. Also had a VAX-a##hole hat that we gave to the programmer with the most bugs!
No one liked Keith - so we re-arranged the keys on his keyboard to say "Keith Sucks!" - lol!
You guys were wild! lolQuote:
Originally Posted by szlamany
I alphabetized a keyboard, one time. Makes it easier to find the keys.
Guess you found the key for success
Better yet, I had a guy working for me who was a dedicated hunt-and-peck typist with an "a" and "s" in his name. I swapped the A and S keys, which is a change so simple that most people wouldn't necessarily notice it....but he couldn't log in anymore.
Happy Friday! I have a weekend full of yardwork in the 95 degree weather :(
Yeah, 100 degrees in Modesto but that's normal for mid July. Thank God for A/C, always 75 in my house during the summer months. I was just thinking about when I was growing up, we lived in lots of houses without any type of A/C except maybe one fan in the living room. Don't know how we did it, I do remember it wasn't fun, I'd have a stroke now a days.
You are probably too far but I assume you didnt feel the earthquake last week?
I have AC, but haven't needed to turn it on, yet. The downstairs (where the computer is) stays pretty comfortable as long as the temperatures stay below 100. Might be turning it on this weekend, though.
We have 27 solar panels so usually we dont get more than a $10 electric bill during the summer when we run the central AC all day and well into the night
Yeah, I was in my kitchen fixing dinner and had stopped to check something on TV, then I felt my wheelchair rock slightly and my balance was affected a little. It wasn't normal and I wondered if there had been a quake but I thought I'd had probably just twitched without realizing it. You were a lot closer, hope you didn't get any damage.Quote:
Originally Posted by RobDog888
I'm about 110 miles from the epicenter and definitely felt it. I was at my desk at home and everything started shaking, rolling motion and then I got disoriented. It kept going and I was thinking I should get up and either get cover or go outside. Probably about 20-30 seconds. No damage as just wasnt strong enough but man those people in Ridgecrest got it bad!