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Konrad

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  1. Yeah, baby... Diggin' them tighty-whities..!! :-P
  2. Now that's funny.. <--- Even funnier than a dog butt.
  3. ... TO LET LOOSE CARROT JUICE LIKE A CHINESE GOOSE!!
  4. Loose abuse by Bruce is no excuse to be... um... To be... Crap. Hang on, I'm trying to find another word. (Frank, help me out here)
  5. The facial expression that Jim Henson put on Kermit at 3:25 is a scream. Famous people named Bruce: Jenner, Bruce Lee, Bruce Springsteen,Bruce Willis, Bruce Words that rhyme with Bruce: Spruce Goose Moose Loose Abuse Chartruese Obtuse Nonuse Excuse And you can mix and match them, check it out: *ahem* "The loose moose became obtuse due to excessive abuse." LMAO, I could go on all night... :-D
  6. I knew I knew him from somewhere...
  7. Konrad

    Meow-ish

    I hope you have a backup plan for the aforementioned breakup. :-D
  8. I promise, I'll stop this thread after this post, because it feels wrong to be political here. But this just stinks to high heaven: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090909/ap_on_bi_ge/us_tarp_oversight_panel OK, no more. Back to boat building and sailing...
  9. Yes, I'm a bit partial to the green as well (it looks very much like the Interlux Sea Green that's on my Vacationer). Don't sweat the touch-ups. After the construction of a complete working boat, fixing a few scratches in the paint is child's play.
  10. Bud: NO design firms out there right now are going to add to their payroll any time soon. In the commercial market, it will continue through 2011. This downturn was an excuse for design firms to clean house and lose the excess baggage (the less productive, more mistake-prone designers). There are a lot of professionals on the street. The two biggest downturns forcast for the next year are Industrial and Hotel/Resort. Luckily, Healthcare/Hospitals (our company's niche) aren't projected to have as bad of a decline, but it's still a decline. My post is mostly about the clear manipulation going on to create statistics, even if those "jobs" are only on paper, and not "real". "Fill in this line on the form, and write down the right thing so you'll be considered for the project." That's not truth. That's not anything CLOSE to the truth. Maybe I'm just naive about government. As a collective whole, are we the public really that uninformed that we fall for that? Apparently we are. :sad:
  11. That is a really nice looking boat.
  12. Or north KANSANS. (Those people in Kansas are known robot-stealers...)
  13. This post is completely political, yes. But the conversation I had with a colleague the other day bothers me quite a bit, and people need to hear this. First off, I work for an architecture firm that does almost exclusively health care facilities. We have no engineers on board: We use outside engineering consultants for all of our mech, elect, and most of our civil. The president of one of our consultants told me how they were preparing a proposal about 6 weeks ago for a project that had stimulus money attached to it. And he was given a form to fill out that he was to sign that stated "how many jobs this project would create" in his firm. Well, of course it wouldn't create ANY new jobs for his firm because they could do the project with the people they currently employ. So he put "zero" on that part of the form, and submitted it. And you know what he was told by the primary design firm that he prepared this for? They said "if you don't put something on there besides zero, we're not going to be considered for the project." In other words, to be considered for the project, they have to lie about the "number of jobs it will create." That smacks of manipulation to me, friends and neighbors. No matter what this administration proclaims about jobs being created, I have serious doubts. Now, before you reply... I'm not trying to stir everyone up here. This forum is usually a nice refuge from topics such as this. So for that, I apologize for breaching that unspoken rule. I don't want to start an ugly thread. But this number manipulation thing really bothers me.
  14. That right there is probably the best post in this thread.
  15. I posted it over on BYYB also. Maybe you saw it there.
  16. No one else, huh? I like being different. :silly:
  17. http://www.thecannonstore.com/details.asp?prodID=W98BLK If money were no object...
  18. Me = 1. Started in '99, complete in 2000. Anyone else?
  19. Back in 2001 when I had my Vaca in Sarasota, Florida with me, I loved sailing the intercoastal waterway singlehanded. And I'd always get to the drawbridge and look out at the big open Gulf of Mexico. And I never had the courage to take it out there. Or perhaps it was more a matter of good judgement? Someone else can decide that. I can't say that turning it down has been a regret of mine, personally.
  20. Did I mentioin that the sun rotates around the earth? That's what causes the tides, you know..
  21. Well I've only owned one Merc outboard, so take that into account here... I've loved mine for the last 8 years. Now granted, it's a little baby 3.3 hp, and my total running time on it since new is probably a whopping 10 hours total. (I only use it to get in and out of the marina). But it starts on the second pull every spring, and it pushes my Vaca with authority, so I have no complaints.
  22. That's a sweet boat. Not totally sure I'd stand in it, swinging fishing hooks aroud in the air about my head. But it's sweet.
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