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Department of Defense to "encourage" its vendors to speed up purchases of lamb, pork and beef and freeze it for later use
One of the more bizzaro pieces of news regarding how your US gov't operates. What a crock of shit your US economy has become. "The president will also direct the Department of Defense to "encourage"...
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HUMOR: Repairing front-loader's door catch
Pic https://i.chzbgr.com/completestore/12/8/3/BNVsHflEUkqFO0D-ilnC7w2.jpg
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DIY: Build a Onager Catapult
It's really toy-sized, but it could be scaled up to fling, oh, say, a Volkswagen. From Popular Mechanics
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OT vacation advice
I thought this was (is) profound. Christopher A. Young Learn more about Jesus . Lesson one, you'll always forget something Lesson two, sunburn hurts Lesson three, there is a lot of wood in a tree...
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OT: Tadpoles
I have a 400 gal 'pond' for a waterhole for the critters on my property. I can't keep the damn frogs from fornicating in it and loading the pond with hundreds of tadpoles. With them comes nasty pond...
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What is this tool?
SWMBO and I stopped at a farm market yesterday and they had the following tool displayed as part of the decorations. The current owner didn't know what is was, he said he found it in the barn and just...
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OT WW2 pix.
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Pool Chemicals and Huge Price Variations
That's so they can charge more for it. Once you figure out what Alkalinity UP, Balance Pack 300, etc are, you can buy it for a fraction of the cost. Another example is Calcium Chloride. It's available...
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Fences - Cats - DIY
A friend of mine has one of these fences that's about 178cm (5'10") tall: wants to stop her cats getting out, and other cats getting in. I know full well that there are numerous commercially available...
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OT, When I Was A Kid
When I was a kid we little vermin, scourge of the neighborhood, would attach playing cards to our bicycles to flap against the spokes making an obnoxious racket. Well, technology has now improved how...
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Chainsaw Screw Order?
I have a 42cc 18" Craftsman chainsaw I disassembled out of curiosity when it was deemed unfixable by Sears, and didn't bother to note the order of the screws. Turns out, I fixed it, but want to know...
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Estate Gas Dryer - Intermittently Stops, Then Won't Start
Estate Gas Dryer by Whirlpool, Model TGDS740PQ1 Dryer runs fine 95% of the time. Dried 6 loads, one right after the other, with no problems today. The problem is that on rare occasions, it will stop...
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OT: Did You Know?
Letters 'a', 'b', 'c' and 'd' do not appear if you spell any of the numbers between 1 and 99 [Funnily enough, letter 'd' comes for the first time in Hundred] In addition, letters 'a', 'b' and 'c' do...
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Microwave odor
My Kenmore Elite 1200 watt model 721.6339011 has started producing an awful odor. It's like burning hair. Thorough cleaning has not solved this problem. What do you suggest? Bill
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REFERAL NEEDED: lawn and garden USENET group?
I have really appreciated being a part of this group for a few years now. S= ure, you get the occasional troll but I have gotten such great advice and g= uidance from so many that I've come to respect...
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