let's get a poker game going tonight

ucantdoitdoggieSTyle2 · Fri Jul 06, 2007 5:44 pm

Friday... night? Summer time. No advanced notice. Good fucking luck, dude...

I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess that many of us are NOT going to be hanging out at the house in front of a PC.

L8.

Dinsdale · Post by **Dinsdale** » Fri Jul 06, 2007 5:44 pm

It's a friday, so hopefully I'll be knee-deep in punani, rather than playing poker with you losers.

Hopefully not the ex GF that finally hunted me down yesterday, after about 10 years of successfully dodging her. She started asking around about me right after her divorce. We know a lot of the same people, yet I've managed to stay elusive for years. Then, the peace was shattered. Hopefully I don't get all drunk and decided a "grudger" is a good idea. It's strange, but I find as I grow older, my pateince for psycho bitches dwindles.

But anyhoo, what were we talking about?

Oh...I'll take your money another time. Actually, I sold off all the cash I had on Full Tilt. Never made a deposit there, just cashed in their freerolls, and parlayed that into a miniature small fortune(most of which I gave back). So anyway, my account is now about empty(but someone waved cash in my face, so I took it...donks grow on trees on those sites, so it's not like I won't be back).

So, that said -- it gives you some time to practice. See, I KNOW what I can do -- make money off those chump-laden sites(sup JSC).

Another time.

Goober McTuber · Post by **Goober McTuber** » Fri Jul 06, 2007 5:58 pm

Dinsdale wrote:It's a friday, so hopefully I'll be knee-deep in punani

Knee-deep? You’ll be looking for something like the one on the right. Don’t forget to stock up on Lotrimin or Lamisil.

Dinsdale · Post by **Dinsdale** » Fri Jul 06, 2007 6:05 pm

You play online, yet have never bothered trying your hand at the free money?

Yeha, buddy...you are a HARDCORE online player. I'm sceeeeered, now.

I had about 99% confidence, but now I'm up to 100%. In case you haven't noticed, the online game is completely different from a real life table game. And if you haven't done your time learning those strategies playing with money, which is a much more valuable commodity that frre play-chips, then you're in for a very rude awakening.

I'm laughing...AT you.

If I'm going to worry about anyone here, I'm thinking it's SunCoastSooner, since he's parlayed a freeroll into a $4000 cash payday, in a few hours work. I'd put that resume up against any play-chip player on earth...rightfully so. Not that I don't treat all opponents the same -- never underestimate an opponent, and you tend to keep your money longer.

But we'll set this up for down the road. I'll juice up my account. Strange how the chips go into the pot a little different when they represent real money. From what I understand, you kind of have to jump through some hoops to make a deposit to a poker site these days, although I've never tried it(since us superstuds don't have to), and have no firsthand experience. Someone was telling me that since "the ban," you can buy credit on Full Tilt with long distance minutes, or some such "payment by proxy." Plus, I know enough people with active FT accounts that I can probably just make a phone call and score a few bucks to play with, if I don't win some freebie money before that(although on FT, the labor-rate for winning a freeroll doesn't work out to a good wage for the time spent).

But maybe not on the friday of a holiday weekender, eh?

Dinsdale · Post by **Dinsdale** » Fri Jul 06, 2007 6:07 pm

Goobs -- it's a holiday weekend...don't underestimate my ability to "drink 'em pretty."

The again, you can drink 'em pretty -- but you can't drink 'em thin.

SunCoastSooner · Post by **SunCoastSooner** » Fri Jul 06, 2007 6:19 pm

I have a poker game tonight. It is with real people, faces I can see rather than a liquid crystal image on a comp screen and I am sure the stakes are higher...

My exs former friend should be at my house around midnight after she gets off work as well and to say the least I won'r be on a computer after that occurs.

SunCoastSooner · Post by **SunCoastSooner** » Fri Jul 06, 2007 6:22 pm

Dinsdale wrote:You play online, yet have never bothered trying your hand at the free money?

Yeha, buddy...you are a HARDCORE online player. I'm sceeeeered, now.

I hate online play. Real poker is played face to face.

Online play is about just learning betting patterns and you have no oppertunity to pick up on peoples tells which is a big part of my game.

PSUFAN · Post by **PSUFAN** » Fri Jul 06, 2007 7:49 pm

My exs former friend should be at my house around midnight after she gets off work as well and to say the least I won'r be on a computer after that occurs.

You're banging your ex-wife's friend? You're one smooth operator.

Jay in Phoenix · Post by **Jay in Phoenix** » Fri Jul 06, 2007 10:27 pm

Dinsdale wrote:Goobs -- it's a holiday weekend...don't underestimate my ability to "drink 'em pretty."

The again, you can drink 'em pretty -- but you can't drink 'em thin.

Every time I drink a beer
It makes your lazy eye disappear
Every time I do a shot
I think you're hot, but I know you're not
Oh, I'm just trying to drink you pretty--

--Stephen Lynch

Louis Cyphre · Post by **Louis Cyphre** » Fri Jul 06, 2007 10:46 pm

I never knew Stephen Lynch had the hots for AP.

Shlomart Ben Yisrael · Fri Jul 06, 2007 11:30 pm

SunCoastSooner wrote:I have a poker game tonight. It is with real people, faces I can see rather than a liquid crystal image on a comp screen and I am sure the stakes are higher...

My exs former friend should be at my house around midnight after she gets off work as well and to say the least I won'r be on a computer after that occurs.

Skip the poker game and go straight for the idling car in the closed garage you fucking loser.

You know what a good hand is? The one pulling the plastic sheet over your cold cadaver.

Mister Bushice · Post by **Mister Bushice** » Sat Jul 07, 2007 6:33 pm

But I placed high enough to remind myself that yes, I am good, and will beat the guys at T1B.

unless they don't show up to play. :)

Luther · Post by **Luther** » Sat Jul 07, 2007 6:36 pm

We don't want to do that, Jsc. To be blunt, we are looking after your health. Over the years we've heard all the stories of medical malfunctions that your body has graced you with. Your insides are older than me, and I'm old.

We don't want you to have a blockage in your intestines because Dins beat your pair of kings with his three 4's. Even though you're an attorney, which thankfully is one or two slots above the Used car salesman as the most detested occupation known to man. Don't give me shit about cops either. I'm not a cop. I'm a private civilian that gets a pension check from the city.

At my monthly poker game with other retired civil servants, we have a saying about a bad poker hand. You need to "Fold like a fat dog in the heat."

:D

Rip City

SG's Son · Post by **SG's Son** » Sat Jul 07, 2007 7:06 pm

Dinsdale wrote:You play online, yet have never bothered trying your hand at the free money?

Yeha, buddy...you are a HARDCORE online player. I'm sceeeeered, now.

I had about 99% confidence, but now I'm up to 100%. In case you haven't noticed, the online game is completely different from a real life table game. And if you haven't done your time learning those strategies playing with money, which is a much more valuable commodity that frre play-chips, then you're in for a very rude awakening.

I'm laughing...AT you.

If I'm going to worry about anyone here, I'm thinking it's SunCoastSooner, since he's parlayed a freeroll into a $4000 cash payday, in a few hours work. I'd put that resume up against any play-chip player on earth...rightfully so. Not that I don't treat all opponents the same -- never underestimate an opponent, and you tend to keep your money longer.

But we'll set this up for down the road. I'll juice up my account. Strange how the chips go into the pot a little different when they represent real money. From what I understand, you kind of have to jump through some hoops to make a deposit to a poker site these days, although I've never tried it(since us superstuds don't have to), and have no firsthand experience. Someone was telling me that since "the ban," you can buy credit on Full Tilt with long distance minutes, or some such "payment by proxy." Plus, I know enough people with active FT accounts that I can probably just make a phone call and score a few bucks to play with, if I don't win some freebie money before that(although on FT, the labor-rate for winning a freeroll doesn't work out to a good wage for the time spent).

But maybe not on the friday of a holiday weekender, eh?

You sound like a dumbfuck.

SunCoastSooner · Post by **SunCoastSooner** » Sun Jul 08, 2007 4:03 pm

PSUFAN wrote:
My exs former friend should be at my house around midnight after she gets off work as well and to say the least I won'r be on a computer after that occurs.
You're banging your ex-wife's friend? You're one smooth operator.

Not really a friend. They just used to work together when we first moved out here. The two of them actually didn't get along very well but they had the same group of friends. Her best friend used to be wife's best friend and at one time lived with us for a couple of months when she was going through her divorce.

We ran into each other at my watering hole a couple of months ago, she got pretty plastered and just dropped it on me that she had wanted "to fuck the hell out of me" for years. I figured I might as well make a good lookin' woman's dreams come true. ;) Told me a couple of weeks ago that said friend told her that was were I hung out and that my ex and are divorced now...

Not to sound to side track the thread or anything... but when my ex first left I had just found out I was ill and I was a complete and utter wreck. Since then I am recovering rather nicely. I don't wat to sound like an internet tough guy, conceited, or one of those assholes at the local bar that nails everything that spreads there legs but in the last six months I've come to the realization that the vast majority of women find me attractive, personable, and a genuinly nice guy ( :twisted: ). I'm successful, busines savy, and a great father which only adds to my resale value. I've gotten laid more the last six months than I did the previous six years!

SunCoastSooner · Post by **SunCoastSooner** » Sun Jul 08, 2007 4:05 pm

Martyred wrote:
SunCoastSooner wrote:I have a poker game tonight. It is with real people, faces I can see rather than a liquid crystal image on a comp screen and I am sure the stakes are higher...

My exs former friend should be at my house around midnight after she gets off work as well and to say the least I won'r be on a computer after that occurs.
Skip the poker game and go straight for the idling car in the closed garage you fucking loser.

You know what a good hand is? The one pulling the plastic sheet over your cold cadaver.

I don't have room in my garage for a car...

Thanks for your support but wy the hell would I do that?

Becuse I am bangin' a former associate of my ex wife's? Fuck her, fuck you, and fuck anyone who has a problem with it. I tried to make our marriage work and I caved on damn near eery issue in the divorce except for child custody to her. She lives with her mommy and daddy while I have lived on my own since I was 15, paid my own way, and most of hers while she laid on our couch for 5 years in sweatpants and tee shirts. I'm making up for lost time. Should have been nailing this girl 5 years ago...

Waz · Post by **Waz** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 3:12 am

PSUFAN · Post by **PSUFAN** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 12:42 pm

Line 'em up and knock 'em down, SCS.

*blink*

ucantdoitdoggieSTyle2 · Tue Jul 10, 2007 1:41 pm

SunCoastSooner wrote:I don't have room in my garage for a car...

I never understood this.

Of course, being from the Northeast... I refuse to wipe a foot of snow off of my sled and/or scrape a shitload of ice from the windshield during the winter months.

A shed is for the lawn mower and other stuff needed to keep your yard looking neato.
A basement is a place for all your expensive tools, safely tucked away from thieves (not in your garage.)
A garage... is for a car. If there's extra room for rakes, hoses, sprinklers and other shit not worth stealing... great. A garage... is for a car.

Headhunter · Post by **Headhunter** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 2:11 pm

SunCoastSooner wrote: I've come to the realization that the vast majority of women find me attractive, personable, and a genuinly nice guy

Werd up, my homey!

sin,

Luther · Post by **Luther** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 2:19 pm

The garage is solely for the car? That is total bullshit. I would venture to guess in my neighborhood that every garage is being used to store a car and also used to store golf clubs, bikes, rakes, shovels, tents, riding lawn mowers, tillers, ski gear, xmas tree lights and whatever. EVERY fucking two car garage in the entire US has this shit. The most vacant and space free garage that I know of is my buddy who lives in Bend (second home). He could park two good sized cars in his garage. however, he also has a dart board, several sets of golf clubs and three mountain bikes.

For almost 3 decades I got sent to peoples homes...I went to these home all day long...all week long...several decades along. People store all kinds of shit in their garage. Ucant, you make your garage solely for your car and keep all the toys and household extras out of the garage and I'd put you in the 1% of the people that do it. You factored in the caveat that "well, if you've got any cheap rakes or tools that are willing to be lost in sosme theft, is ok?" Any family with kids and a pack rat wife would have told you that for free. See, you are a different type of guy.

Rip City

MgoBlue-LightSpecial · Tue Jul 10, 2007 2:27 pm

Try again, Luth. He didn't say garages are "solely" for cars. He said they're for cars, and if there's any room leftover for your kegerator and your secret stash of 70s porn rags, then great.

Goober McTuber · Post by **Goober McTuber** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 2:32 pm

OK, I know I told this story not that long ago. A half mile from my house is a duplex. Out front is parked a late model BMW MZ3 roadster. It’s out there year round. It’s never parked in the one-car garage because the dude decided the garage was much more valuable as a screened porch. He built a frame into the garage door frame, and screened it in, along with a screen door.

You can drive by there this time of year and see this couple sitting in there drinking Bud Lites and watching the traffic go by about 30 feet in front of them. They’re sitting at street level on a fairly busy street. White trash at their leisure.

I have a two-car garage. I keep two cars in there, along with the mower, snow blower, tools, and a lot of other junk. I’m putting up a 10’ by 10’ shed out back this summer.

Luther · Post by **Luther** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 2:39 pm

I know at least 10 people who don't put their car in their garage at ALL. They got the car in the car port. Or maybe on a pored concrete pad next to the driveway...or more than likely they just park it on the street in front of their house. The garage gets finished like a play room, carpets, lights, TV, a refer. Yeah, sure. I'd say if you polled Americans and asked them what they used their garage for and they'd laugh and probably say, "I got all my shit stored in there...half the time I can get one car in there, but definitely not two."

A two car garage is a laughable term. About the only people who could get two cars in a garage are young couples, probably with little or no toys and probably don't have kids.

Bwahahaha

Rip City

SunCoastSooner · Post by **SunCoastSooner** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 2:40 pm

Headhunter wrote:
SunCoastSooner wrote: I've come to the realization that the vast majority of women find me attractive, personable, and a genuinly nice guy
Werd up, my homey!

sin,

Hey I know him.... ;)

SunCoastSooner · Post by **SunCoastSooner** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 2:44 pm

Of all the statements I made it was the garage one that got everyone's attention? I oughta drop a few F bombs around here more often...

Derron · Post by **Derron** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 2:46 pm

SunCoastSooner wrote:
PSUFAN wrote:
My exs former friend should be at my house around midnight after she gets off work as well and to say the least I won'r be on a computer after that occurs.
You're banging your ex-wife's friend? You're one smooth operator.
Not really a friend. They just used to work together when we first moved out here. The two of them actually didn't get along very well but they had the same group of friends. Her best friend used to be wife's best friend and at one time lived with us for a couple of months when she was going through her divorce.

We ran into each other at my watering hole a couple of months ago, she got pretty plastered and just dropped it on me that she had wanted "to fuck the hell out of me" for years. I figured I might as well make a good lookin' woman's dreams come true. ;) Told me a couple of weeks ago that said friend told her that was were I hung out and that my ex and are divorced now...

Not to sound to side track the thread or anything... but when my ex first left I had just found out I was ill and I was a complete and utter wreck. Since then I am recovering rather nicely. I don't wat to sound like an internet tough guy, conceited, or one of those assholes at the local bar that nails everything that spreads there legs but in the last six months I've come to the realization that the vast majority of women find me attractive, personable, and a genuinly nice guy ( :twisted: ). I'm successful, busines savy, and a great father which only adds to my resale value. I've gotten laid more the last six months than I did the previous six years!

Translation:

I am a fucking COCKMASTER. I will fuck any slunt who spreads her legs and opens her clap dripping cunt to me. I got royaly fucked in the ass in my divorce, and I am the only dude in the USA who got fucked in a divorce this way. My cunt ex wife was fucking the gardner, the mechanic, the postman and the 12 year old boy next door, who she said was hung twice as well as me.

My kids hate my fucking guts, because I called their fat mamma a slut, whore, bitch and cunt. I beat her weekly. I ammm an Internet tough guy, who gets over every time I jack off on the keyboard, which is several times a day, since I really am not pulling any pussy, just telling you losers I am. I had AIDS , but am in remission now and continue to have unprotected sex with farm animals weekly.

I am now working at a new local start up busines in business devlopment. I work the counter at Cash Connection on Friday and Saturday nights, loaning tweakers money against stolen goods.

Untranslation.

Now that being said, back off dude for dropping the hammer on the exes friend... If none of you losers have done that, you are missing out, and probably let some really goooood pussy go right past you.

ucantdoitdoggieSTyle2 · Tue Jul 10, 2007 2:46 pm

Luther wrote:The garage is solely for the car? That is total bullshit. I would venture to guess in my neighborhood that every garage is being used to store a car and also used to store golf clubs, bikes, rakes, shovels, tents, riding lawn mowers, tillers, ski gear, xmas tree lights and whatever. EVERY fucking two car garage in the entire US has this shit. The most vacant and space free garage that I know of is my buddy who lives in Bend (second home). He could park two good sized cars in his garage. however, he also has a dart board, several sets of golf clubs and three mountain bikes.

Like MGO already said, I never stated it's solely for a car. Sure... just about everything you mentioned should also fit in a garage. Most garages I've seen that can't fit cars are filled with useless junk saved by "pack rats" referenced later on in your post. That's all I was getting at.

A garage full of shit and a car buried beneath a foot of snow just doesn't compute. Also... I'd just never leave anything easily stolen and worth stealing (like a sweet set of clubs or an expensive mountain bike) in a garage.

But that's just me.

BSmack · Post by **BSmack** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 2:56 pm

Luther wrote:The garage is solely for the car? That is total bullshit. I would venture to guess in my neighborhood that every garage is being used to store a car and also used to store golf clubs, bikes, rakes, shovels, tents, riding lawn mowers, tillers, ski gear, xmas tree lights and whatever. EVERY fucking two car garage in the entire US has this shit. The most vacant and space free garage that I know of is my buddy who lives in Bend (second home). He could park two good sized cars in his garage. however, he also has a dart board, several sets of golf clubs and three mountain bikes.

For almost 3 decades I got sent to peoples homes...I went to these home all day long...all week long...several decades along. People store all kinds of shit in their garage. Ucant, you make your garage solely for your car and keep all the toys and household extras out of the garage and I'd put you in the 1% of the people that do it. You factored in the caveat that "well, if you've got any cheap rakes or tools that are willing to be lost in sosme theft, is ok?" Any family with kids and a pack rat wife would have told you that for free. See, you are a different type of guy.

Rip City

Luther,

Did any of those neighborhoods you patrolled ever receive more than 30 inches of snow in a year?

Here in Rochester we average around 100 inches of a snow a year. Damn straight the garage is for cars first and whatever else might fit in afterwards.

Derron · Post by **Derron** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 3:11 pm

BSmack wrote:
Luther wrote:The garage is solely for the car? That is total bullshit. I would venture to guess in my neighborhood that every garage is being used to store a car and also used to store golf clubs, bikes, rakes, shovels, tents, riding lawn mowers, tillers, ski gear, xmas tree lights and whatever. EVERY fucking two car garage in the entire US has this shit. The most vacant and space free garage that I know of is my buddy who lives in Bend (second home). He could park two good sized cars in his garage. however, he also has a dart board, several sets of golf clubs and three mountain bikes.

For almost 3 decades I got sent to peoples homes...I went to these home all day long...all week long...several decades along. People store all kinds of shit in their garage. Ucant, you make your garage solely for your car and keep all the toys and household extras out of the garage and I'd put you in the 1% of the people that do it. You factored in the caveat that "well, if you've got any cheap rakes or tools that are willing to be lost in sosme theft, is ok?" Any family with kids and a pack rat wife would have told you that for free. See, you are a different type of guy.

Rip City
Luther,

Did any of those neighborhoods you patrolled ever receive more than 30 inches of snow in a year?

Here in Rochester we average around 100 inches of a snow a year. Damn straight the garage is for cars first and whatever else might fit in afterwards.

Those of us with a brain prefer to live places where:

1. It does not snow 100 inches a year.
2. A tornado will not kill you while you sleep.
3. A hurricane will not wipe you out 3 years out of 6.
4. The temp seldom rises abover 90 degrees.
5. Where every Italian wop guinea bastard is not drivning around in a 78 Trans Am.

What the fuck do you people do all winter when there is 100 inches of snow ??

Goober McTuber · Post by **Goober McTuber** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 3:13 pm

Derron wrote:Those of us with a brain

I laughed.

Derron · Post by **Derron** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 3:17 pm

Goober McTuber wrote:
Derron wrote:Those of us with a brain
I laughed.

Worked again,

Sincerely,

Bait for another one of Gobble My Cocks legendary one liners.

ucantdoitdoggieSTyle2 · Tue Jul 10, 2007 3:25 pm

Derron wrote:What the fuck do you people do all winter when there is 100 inches of snow ??

Ski... snowboard... I travel to these places, called mountains, in my SUV. Sure... it cost me about as half as much as Special Agent FU's... but, ironically, came equipped with this groovy invention known as four wheel drive.

BSmack · Post by **BSmack** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 3:28 pm

Derron wrote:Those of us with a brain prefer to live places where:

1. It does not snow 100 inches a year.
2. A tornado will not kill you while you sleep.
3. A hurricane will not wipe you out 3 years out of 6.
4. The temp seldom rises abover 90 degrees.
5. Where every Italian wop guinea bastard is not drivning around in a 78 Trans Am.

I guess 4 out of 5 ain't bad for Rochester. Though today is one of those rare days when the temp is going to climb over 90. But, by nightfall tommorow, things should be back to the usual high 70s-low 80's high temps.

What the fuck do you people do all winter when there is 100 inches of snow ??

Ice skate
Play hockey
Ski
Play indoor sports like volleyball or basketball
Drink beer
Watch football
Laugh at people who live in Watertown

Goober McTuber · Post by **Goober McTuber** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 3:29 pm

Derron wrote:
Goober McTuber wrote:
Derron wrote:Those of us with a brain
I laughed.
Worked again,

Sincerely,

Bait for another one of Gobble My Cocks legendary one liners.

I appreciate your efforts at playing the “straight man”, considering how at odds it is with your life style.

Luther · Post by **Luther** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 3:31 pm

100 inches of snow in Portland? I doubt we've had 100 inches in all the years I've lived here. Basically what I'm saying is everything west of your frozen tundra basically (majority) has turned their 2 car garages into a 1 car garage and the rest is a storage shed.

Even though we don't get the snow...we get frozen rain. You can motor around in a foot of snow but if you get an inch or more of frozen rain on your car in the street/driveway etc., then you are fooked. You come out in the morning and you see your car through the ice, but you can't open the doors unless you chip through or use some de-Icer. I'm a de-Icer type of guy. If you get your car unglazed then it is going to be a tough gig to get anywhere, especially any type of hills. Kind of like driving your car like a Zamboni.

And Bri, you could drive around any neighborhood out here on the weekends and you'll see tons of signs that say, "GARAGE SALE". And guess where the shit is when you get there. It's all over the yard, driveway and all the way into the garage. Typical comments from weekend Garage Salers is, "We had so much crap in the garage that we couldn't find any of our equipment."

Bri, you being back east and all, with a liberal bent, I thought for sure you'd had cut your carbon imprint to almost zero. You jogging down from your place and grabbing public transportation and all.

Rip City

p.s. I've been on my sofa for 3 days now. Mrs. Luth put a sheet on the cushions to make it softer for me. Over the last 3 days I've been barfing to beat the band. Must be some type of summer flu. I woke up at 0230 today and I had about 22 gallons of stomach acid built up in my gut. I got into the bathroom and looked at the Rolaids jug...but realized that 2 tablets wouldn't do much for me. I hit my knees and hurled for about a half hour, waking the family up. The weather is supposed to hit 102, and I've got the AC on alert. Old Luth feels like pootie.

BSmack · Post by **BSmack** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 4:44 pm

Luther wrote:100 inches of snow in Portland? I doubt we've had 100 inches in all the years I've lived here. Basically what I'm saying is everything west of your frozen tundra basically (majority) has turned their 2 car garages into a 1 car garage and the rest is a storage shed.

To which I have to say I don't get it. Even if you don't get snow, your car functions better over the long run if you shelter it from the elements and from sun.

I know by the end of this fall the garage of my newly purchased house will be completely cleaned out and my old Blazer will look damn cozy inside the garage and protected from the elements.

Even though we don't get the snow...we get frozen rain. You can motor around in a foot of snow but if you get an inch or more of frozen rain on your car in the street/driveway etc., then you are fooked. You come out in the morning and you see your car through the ice, but you can't open the doors unless you chip through or use some de-Icer. I'm a de-Icer type of guy. If you get your car unglazed then it is going to be a tough gig to get anywhere, especially any type of hills. Kind of like driving your car like a Zamboni.

Here in Rochester we have these things called salt spreaders that do a real nice job clearing frozen roads. What you are describing sounds more like an ice storm. We get a major one about once every 10-15 years. Trees explode, power lines go down and people make a beeline for any store with a generator for sale.

BTW: I'd recommend a remote starter if you're getting persistent ice buildup. Turn that sucker over and let it idle for 10 minutes and you'll have a much easier time getting in the rig. And you'll have the added benefit of increasing your carbon footprint.

And Bri, you could drive around any neighborhood out here on the weekends and you'll see tons of signs that say, "GARAGE SALE". And guess where the shit is when you get there. It's all over the yard, driveway and all the way into the garage. Typical comments from weekend Garage Salers is, "We had so much crap in the garage that we couldn't find any of our equipment."

Bri, you being back east and all, with a liberal bent, I thought for sure you'd had cut your carbon imprint to almost zero. You jogging down from your place and grabbing public transportation and all.

Rip City

You must have the Rochester metro area confused with a city that has decent public transportation. Monroe County is run by a bunch of Republicans who's only mission in life to to make sure taxes don't go up ever again. RTS is OK from the burbs if you just want to go to midtown. But God help you if you want to go anywhere else. To paraphrase Reggie White, they are gifted in turning a 30 minute trip into a 3 hour trip. I work on the other side of the city from where I live. So I drive about 30 miles a day every day.

p.s. I've been on my sofa for 3 days now. Mrs. Luth put a sheet on the cushions to make it softer for me. Over the last 3 days I've been barfing to beat the band. Must be some type of summer flu. I woke up at 0230 today and I had about 22 gallons of stomach acid built up in my gut. I got into the bathroom and looked at the Rolaids jug...but realized that 2 tablets wouldn't do much for me. I hit my knees and hurled for about a half hour, waking the family up. The weather is supposed to hit 102, and I've got the AC on alert. Old Luth feels like pootie.

You should have opened up a can of Beast Light and poured it all over yourself before yaking. The looks you would have gotten from the wife would have been priceless.

Dinsdale · Post by **Dinsdale** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 5:29 pm

BSmack wrote:BTW: I'd recommend a remote starter if you're getting persistent ice buildup.

To battle that half inch of freezing rain we see every few years?

'Round these parts, an "ice storm" and "freezing rain" are two different, but similar things. An ice storm is when we get that couplefew inches of snow every few years(it very rarely snows here), it's usually hovering right around freezing(the type of weather pattern that makes it cold doesn't gel with the weather patterns that make it rain, so the only time it snows is when there's a shift, and the two patterns collide briefly). At some point, the temp rises above freezing, making slush out of the snow, and then the temp drops and refreezes the snow to chunky ice. This is an "ice storm." "Freezing rain" is when the moisture above falls through cooler air below it, which supercools the water(to temps below freezing, but due to the movement of the water droplet, it doesn't solidify). When the supercooled water hits a solid surface(like a car or a road) -- bingo, sheet of ice. Much more common occurance on the northeastern corner of town, as opposed to the rain/weather shadowed western burbs(sup Dins).

The end result is pretty much the same -- you ain't driving anywhere. And we don't use salt on the roads, since we actually give a shit about preserving the environment here(we're kind of famous for it, actually). Salt is devastating to streams... and there's one of those running next to almost every road you'll ever drive down. They do have this super-enviro-friendly anti-icer shit they use these days. But it has to be put on before the icing starts, and it's only good for light accumulations. But, once it's exposed to moisture, it becomes some allegedly-inert shit in a matter of minutes/hours, and doesn't wash down into the river.

Mountains, people... M-O-U-N-T-A-I-N-S. Those are those places that are sopposed to have snow. You're supposed to live within driving distance of the snow, not in it, you silly tards. Right up the highway, there's a place that gets 200-300 inches of snow every winter. As opposed to where I live, and easy drive away, where it averages something slightly above... zero. YUK. It's not supposed to drop below 32 degrees F for more than 2 hours per morning, and that's only permissable for 2-3 months out of the year.

You people are nuts... but I strongly advise that you continue living right where you are.

MgoBlue-LightSpecial · Tue Jul 10, 2007 6:33 pm

Derron wrote: Those of us with a brain prefer to live places where:

1. It does not snow 100 inches a year.
2. A tornado will not kill you while you sleep.
3. A hurricane will not wipe you out 3 years out of 6.
4. The temp seldom rises abover 90 degrees.
5. Where every Italian wop guinea bastard is not drivning around in a 78 Trans Am.

Shut the fuck up, jackass. Seriously. When your slovenly sasquatch of a mother shat you out of her meatlips, you weren't immediately given a choice on where to reside. There was no brain power involved whatsoever. You get exactly ZERO props for living in an environment in which you were born and raised.

The fact you continued to maintain a life there after she booted you out of the double wide at age 18 doesn't grant you any intellectual credit either. The vast majority of us live where we live because...this is where we were raised. It's what we know. It's what we're familiar and comfortable with. We've cemented lifestyles and careers here. This shouldn't have to be explained.

Now, if you were born and raised in say...Gary, Indiana, and did your research on a more desireable place to live, then set a plan of action in place to move there, and found a nice home and a good job, and then accomplished the task, well then, BODE be unto you. That I'd give you credit for. But simply being a product of the only environment you've ever known earns you ZERO bode.

Derron · Post by **Derron** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 6:37 pm

Though today is one of those rare days when the temp is going to climb over 90. But, by nightfall tommorow, things should be back to the usual high 70s-low 80's high temps.

Go ahead and drop the humidity percentage and heat index on us on those oh so nice days.

I have 92 degrees at 11 am, and humidity of about 20%, sure to drop to 18% to 16% before sundown.