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| Crusty old curmudgeon  |
Wow, 3 million dollars for no cost to him except the cost of cleaning up the mess they'll leave behind. That's impressive if true. Jim ________________________ "If you can't be a good example, then you'll have to be a horrible warning" -Catherine Aird | |||
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Serenity now! |
My neighbor paid $100 for his own 10x10 piece of land in some guys yard. But it includes a brunch, so, it's all good. Ladies and gentlemen, take my advice - pull down your pants and slide on the ice. ʘ ͜ʖ ʘ | |||
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| Leatherneck |
I got me a pretty nice spot picked out on my back deck. Not in the path of totality but close enough for my interests. I do hope it is a sunny day. No need to shit on everyone else's fun just because it isn't your thing. For every one person packing up and driving there are probably ten or more families chilling at home with the kids hoping to show them a pretty rare celestial event. “Everybody wants a Sig in the sheets but a Glock on the streets.” -bionic218 04-02-2014 | |||
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Tinker Sailor Soldier Pie |
Good for him! ~Alan Acta Non Verba NRA Life Member (Patron) God, Family, Guns, Country Men will fight and die to protect women... because women protect everything else. ~Andrew Klavan "Once there was only dark. If you ask me, light is winning." ~Rust Cohle | |||
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| No ethanol! |
I wonder if we explained..... it'll be on TV.... from somewhere without cloud cover, for your viewing pleasure snacks-in-hand, DVR ready,.....would there then be a run on new TV's? .. will there be brownouts from everyone turning on the TV's to watch, and all the septic systems will overflow when the event is over and everyone runs to the bathroom at same time...GEEZ! ------------------ The plural of anecdote is not data. -Frank Kotsonis | |||
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| Conveniently located directly above the center of the Earth  |
...just as totality approaches & Baileys Beads begin to appear.... ...."but first this word from Our Sponsors"..... **************~~~~~~~~~~ "I've been on this rock too long to bother with these liars any more." ~SIGforum advisor~ "When the pain of staying the same outweighs the pain of change, then change will come."~~sigmonkey | |||
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I hope there's some wind blowing, the past few days the sun has been red from smoke originating from Canada's wild fires. _________________________ NRA Patron Life Member | |||
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| Muzzle flash aficionado  |
I have a first cousin with a big open farm in the northwest corner of Missouri (on the upper edge of totality), and I'd love to give him a visit to view the eclipse. However, it's a 3-day drive from Dallas, Texas to his farm and I'm scheduled to make that trip just 2 weeks later for other purposes so don't want to do it again. (Exigencies prevent me from just combining the events involved.) I will be watching it on the TV. flashguy Texan by choice, not accident of birth | |||
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| Muzzle flash aficionado |
Hey--don't discount the Y2K situation. The potential situation was very real, and the only reason bad stuff didn't happen is that thousands (millions?) of folks worked for several years to fix what was wrong in the software. Just because the country didn't grind to a halt is not a reason to think Y2K was over hyped--it was a definite problem with possible very dire consequences. Fortunately, enough attention (and hype) was applied to it that the problems were addressed (successfully). flashguy Texan by choice, not accident of birth | |||
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| Muzzle flash aficionado |
OK, just how does Wyoming "cancel" a solar eclipse? Is it something like when one of the Southern states decreed that Pi would be exactly 3.0000... (and all the wheels changed into hexagons)? flashguy Texan by choice, not accident of birth | |||
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Lost |
These are actual, serious social media posts: "Most kids go back to school that day. Can it be done on the weekend?" "The sun is so bright during this time of the day. Can we please do this during the evening hours instead?" "Does anyone know if there's a rain date?" "I work during the day, could you re-schedule it for the evening maybe around tenish?" "I live on the other side of earth, does that make it a moonar eclipse for me?" "Please reschedule. My cat's quinceañera is that day." (Quinceañera is the celebration of a girl's fifteenth birthday.) | |||
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Not really from Vienna |
Effing Canucks | |||
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My SIL and her daughter are flying to KY for this. Living in UT, you could easily just drive to WY or ID. Apparently, my niece rented a spot 8 years ago in KY because Hopkinsville was where the aliens were the last time in 1955.  I said, "Yep, the aliens have FTL ability, but they're no match for a few rednecks with a wash tub full of Pabst Blue Ribbon and a couple of Remington 870's. Probably thought they'd better wait for the next eclipse." However, now that I think about it, with FLT travel, they could've just taken a little jaunt into space to reload and then right back again. With relativity and all, it might be the same fight for the little green men. Hmmmm.... Demand not that events should happen as you wish; but wish them to happen as they do happen, and you will go on well. -Epictetus | |||
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I'll stay put and take my 62%. That was a passing grade when I was in school. Truth: The New Hate Speech | |||
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Well, I am in Utah and planning to go. I was hoping to camp in an obscure mountain location to avoid any crowds. I am from Idaho, so I am comfortable poking around the wilderness areas. We'll see! "Crom is strong! If I die, I have to go before him, and he will ask me, 'What is the riddle of steel?' If I don't know it, he will cast me out of Valhalla and laugh at me." | |||
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SIG's 'n Surefires |
We're getting about 2 min of totality, so I'll put in a half day and come home. If it's cloudy there's TV and it'll still get darker. And I'll be home when all the idiots hit the roads to go back where they came from. "Common sense is wisdom with its sleeves rolled up." -Kyle Farnsworth "Freedom of Speech does not guarantee freedom from consequences." -Mike Rowe "Democracies aren't overthrown, they're given away." -George Lucas | |||
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Our house is in the path of totality as it was for the total eclipse in 1979. Back then, I was driving down the street and pulled over for a minute or so. There was no 24 hour news media hype or internet back then, so no crowds. U.S. Army, Retired | |||
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| I kneel for my God, and I stand for my flag |
I plan to watch from my patio. Really surprised we haven't had anyone ask to come stay with us. I keep hearing estimates of upwards of 250k visitors to the county. | |||
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Essayons |
I live about 90 miles south of the dead-center line of totality. We'll have three adult daughters, a SIL, and a couple of granddaughters arriving mid-week. We plan to drive north to Rigby (on the center line of the path of totality) early Monday morning, hang around for the event, then filter home in however long it takes to cover those 90 miles, over 60 of them on I-15. As to all of you who'd rather watch it on TV: guess you never go to a live game, or a live concert? Why would you stay home when it's so close, so rare, so unique? My young granddaughters will remember this for all their lives! Get out there and live a little! Thanks, Sap | |||
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| Muzzle flash aficionado |
Gives one a good impression (confirmation) of the poor quality of education these days. Such ignorance is simply abysmal. No one today should be that uninformed. No one should be that incapable of clear thinking. (No one that stupid should have survived infancy.) flashguy Texan by choice, not accident of birth | |||
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