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Apr 16th, 2021, 01:52 PM
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Anything to save a buck
I hope there is not a paywall to this link:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifes...e-1965-robson/
Back in 1965 this guy tried to ship himself from Australia to Wales and it didn't work out well. He just wrote a book about it partially to find the people that helped him.
If there is a paywall his name is Brian Robson and Google has links.
Please remember next time...elections matter!
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Apr 16th, 2021, 04:30 PM
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Re: Anything to save a buck
I heard about this on some radio show. It sounded like a pretty brutal experience.
Could have gone worse, though. I just got something mailed from St. Paul, MN to Idaho. It first went to Nashua, NH, which it did in a day, or so, which means it was flown there. It then vanished for darn near two weeks, until it showed up in my mailbox. So, after flying half way across the country in the wrong direction, it appears to have been put on a truck and driven all the way out without ever being scanned along the way. That guy would show up as human jerky, had he taken THAT ride.
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Apr 17th, 2021, 01:59 AM
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Re: Anything to save a buck
And I thought riding in a car trunk at the drive in movie theater was bad
Wi-fi went down for five minutes, so I had to talk to my family....They seem like nice people.
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Apr 17th, 2021, 02:24 AM
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Re: Anything to save a buck
Originally Posted by Steve R Jones
And I thought riding in a car trunk at the drive in movie theater was bad
I might ask what the hell you were talking about, grandpa, if I wasn't old enough to remember such shenanigans myself.
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Apr 18th, 2021, 03:02 AM
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Re: Anything to save a buck
Originally Posted by jmcilhinney
I might ask what the hell you were talking about, grandpa, if I wasn't old enough to remember such shenanigans myself.
Did you have electricity down under back then
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Apr 18th, 2021, 03:48 AM
#6
Re: Anything to save a buck
Originally Posted by Steve R Jones
Did you have electricity down under back then
Yes, but we had kangaroos riding bikes to generate it.
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Apr 18th, 2021, 12:57 PM
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Re: Anything to save a buck
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