ever notice how some folks have to get the last word in?

[R J]

Hayhauler, I still like that paint job on your ride.

I see ya got your pipes set up to be weed burners.   LOL.

I had mine set that way for awhile, then I turned them down.

Shortly after that I got my Vikings.

[R J]

We are up to page #43 now and on the first page also.

[flcjr]

just checking in anyone miss me ? I doubt it. forrest fires horrible here. smells like camp fire 24/7

[HayHauler]

Well we did miss ya.....can't ya tell?

Hay
Jimmyt

[R J]

Yeah we missed ya.

Now what forest fires are you talking about?

[tank_post142]

[R J]

tank_post, is that you in the baseball cap?

Good picture of both of them.

[tank_post142]

i confused?

[R J]

i confused?

Don't feel like the Lone Stranger.

It happens to all of us at various times.

Have a good day.

[HayHauler]

Looks like I will be doing a clutch job in the next couple of weeks.... rode the Wing to werk today, becuse I was feeling a vibration taking off from a stop....  oh, well, 92k + on her, time fer a new clutch.. 
I have heard that it isn't as hard as I am making it out to be, but not looking forward to it...

P.S.  I get confused sometimes too.

Hay 
Jimmyt

[R J]

If you have home made or factory built tools it is not a real tough job.

I have changed out the clutch in MGM twice.

[GreenLantern57]

Whew! Managed to be in Charlotte this week and not run into one DNC person. Now I can get up to some of my favorite lunch places.

[Monkymate]

Try the "Tilted Kilt"

With my Catholic School upbringing the girls there always do something for me. 

[flcjr]

I am in sw montana. There are several fires burning near me. I think small one is about 4000 acres and larger ones around 20,000 acres. There was one in eastern Mt this summer over 200,000 not a typo. Closest one too me is 20 miles south about 10,000 and one 35 miles west about the same size.

[R J]

Only thing I will say is keep your garden hose close by.   LOL   

I never had to fight any of our fires in CA, but I had to do a lot of traffic control.

Sometimes it got pretty warm before we cut out.

Here in IA we don't get all of that excitement as our fire fighters can get pretty close to the heart and can put it out.   Our fires are limited to a bean field or corn field burning.

[GreenLantern57]

Try the "Tilted Kilt"

With my Catholic School upbringing the girls there always do something for me. 

We got to wear regular clothes in our Catholic School, I don't have those kind of memories.  So that has never been in my bag-o-fantasies.  Not that they don't look good. But damn, I am old enough to be their grandfather, getting old enough to be great-grandfather.  SIGH.  Nice eye candy.

[R J]

GreenLantern, if I may ask, how old are you..............

I'm very very close to 80, lack 8 days, and our Catholic School had to wear black pants and white button shirt, the girls had to wear white blouses that buttoned down the front and black skirts that came BELOW the knee.

Boys didn't wear their pants where there shorts showed or were ready to fall down.    I'm afraid if they did the Nuns would have a hay day with them.

Oh, forgot 1 item, white socks and black shoes.

[GreenLantern57]

Turned 55 this year RJ. There is a world of difference of when I went to Catholic school and you.  We stopped wearing uniforms around 1965.  Heck in 6th grade, 1968, I was wearing hip huggers and french cuffed shirts. You know, 4 in cuffs, blousy at the cuff, huge collars.  I am glad those shirts have never come back in style, unless you count pirates. And no I don't count disco.

[R J]

Yupper, a lot of tings have changed since 1949, but watch the horizon, it will be making a come back before too long.

[GreenLantern57]

Don't have to wait.  Almost all parochial <sp> in the larger population areas are going back to school uniforms. Several private schools in the Texas Panhandle have been requiring uniforms for the last 10 or so years. Trying to get rid of peer pressure.  Some adults have forgotten how it was a teenager.

[R J]

I think the only ones who have forgotten are the ones WITHOUT a teenager in the household.     

I know I'm seeing it again in my grandkids children.........

God it's hell to be old.      19th I get the BIG 8 OH.

Back in my hell raising days, I never figured I make it this far.

I figured live fast,
Die young and have
a good looking corpse

Well 1 out of 3 isn't bad.
 

[GreenLantern57]

Who was it that said.... "If I knew I would live this long, I would have taken better care of myself!"

[R J]

I don't recall me saying it, but I know I read it here on the board somewhere.

[Moonshot_1]

Who was it that said.... "If I knew I would live this long, I would have taken better care of myself!"

Looked it up. Mickey Mantle. Died in '95 at age 63. Liver cancer.

[R J]

Thanks for looking it up Mike, you is good people.

[GreenLantern57]

Wow, love the rides to and from work now.  Wear jacket in the morning, put it in the saddlebags for ride home. Not only that, I paid to be able to wear jeans all this month.  Charity we support at work.  We pay for the right to wear jeans, the charity gets the money.  Sure better than slacks and khakis.

[HayHauler]

We started doing that for United Way by purchasing arm bands.  If you are careful, you can slip it off and wear it again.....but,I wouldn't know anything about that....

Hay
Jimmyt

[R J]

Wow, love the rides to and from work now.  Wear jacket in the morning, put it in the saddlebags for ride home. Not only that, I paid to be able to wear jeans all this month.  Charity we support at work.  We pay for the right to wear jeans, the charity gets the money.  Sure better than slacks and khakis.

Good on ya GreenLantern57.

Anytime something goes to charity I'm all for it except giving to the American Red Cross.

Don't bother asking why, it happened in Korea in 1952.   I swore I'd never give them another dime.   And I haven't.

I haven't stoped giving to Charities, but the ARC will never get another dime from me if I can help it.

[GreenLantern57]

Unfortunatly RJ, you are not the first Korean Vet that has told me that.

I am not giving to United Way anymore. I found out I can give the same amount to any charity that has the non-profit tax exempt status. Once I found out how much of my dollar actually goes to charities and what the United Way CEO makes a year, I decided to give to other local charities.  When in Amarillo, I gave to the Rainbow Bridge, who gives support to abused children. Now just have to find a local charity to support.

[Jess from VA]

Wow, love the rides to and from work now.  Wear jacket in the morning, put it in the saddlebags for ride home. Not only that, I paid to be able to wear jeans all this month.  Charity we support at work.  We pay for the right to wear jeans, the charity gets the money.  Sure better than slacks and khakis.

Good on ya GreenLantern57.

Anytime something goes to charity I'm all for it except giving to the American Red Cross.

Don't bother asking why, it happened in Korea in 1952.   I swore I'd never give them another dime.   And I haven't.

I haven't stoped giving to Charities, but the ARC will never get another dime from me if I can help it.

Similar experience with the ARC myself.  Had a young enlisted guy facing a serious court martial for bad checks (not much money total, but a lot of $10s and $20s) over in Turkey.  He had paid much of it back, but needed a couple hundred more, and the ARC turned him down for a loan, which he could easily have paid back according to their terms, and he wasn't going anywhere, and restricted to base. I got him a good pretrial agreement (plea bargain), but I'm sure his jail sentence would have been lower if everything had been paid back before trial.

First term junior enlisted in financial trouble needing a few hundred dollar loan (exactly what their charter said they were in business for), and turned him down flat.  He was 18 and could pass for 14, don't think he even needed to shave yet. 

Another thing about charities in general is to always look at how much of the donations they keep for "administrative expense", ARC has always been among the highest. 

[flcjr]

Not tryong to bust up the conversation. just saying Hello and now I am winning again untill R J chimes in.

[HayHauler]

Or not.   

Hay
Jimmyt

[R J]

flcjr, wishing you luck lad.

That's all I'll say right now.

[solo1]

Hello

I don't have much to say these days

[Oss]

dang I knew that was Mantle said that quote  remember going to a Yankee game with
my dad as a little Oss and watching whitey ford pitch and Maris and Mantle both hitting homers  

The Yankees won   Ate lots of hot dogs   Wasnt allowed to drink any beer tho maybe cause I was 5

a dozen more responses and we are bigger than the never ending rode to work thread and in 3 less years as well

not too shabby  

oh and I am winning the last word till I log off again

Off to temple to pray for all you valk riders  

[R J]

Good to hear from ya solo1.

Don't be bashful, come back anytime.

[R J]

Oss, that was back when I used to like the Yankees.

Ole George and his tantrums blew me off of the Yankees after that.

They also were winning a lot of World Series over the years then.

[R J]

Wow, love the rides to and from work now.  Wear jacket in the morning, put it in the saddlebags for ride home. Not only that, I paid to be able to wear jeans all this month.  Charity we support at work.  We pay for the right to wear jeans, the charity gets the money.  Sure better than slacks and khakis.

Good on ya GreenLantern57.

Anytime something goes to charity I'm all for it except giving to the American Red Cross.

Don't bother asking why, it happened in Korea in 1952.   I swore I'd never give them another dime.   And I haven't.

I haven't stoped giving to Charities, but the ARC will never get another dime from me if I can help it.

Similar experience with the ARC myself.  Had a young enlisted guy facing a serious court martial for bad checks (not much money total, but a lot of $10s and $20s) over in Turkey.  He had paid much of it back, but needed a couple hundred more, and the ARC turned him down for a loan, which he could easily have paid back according to their terms, and he wasn't going anywhere, and restricted to base. I got him a good pretrial agreement (plea bargain), but I'm sure his jail sentence would have been lower if everything had been paid back before trial.

First term junior enlisted in financial trouble needing a few hundred dollar loan (exactly what their charter said they were in business for), and turned him down flat.  He was 18 and could pass for 14, don't think he even needed to shave yet. 

Another thing about charities in general is to always look at how much of the donations they keep for "administrative expense", ARC has always been among the highest. 

The thing that did it in on me with them, was I was in Korea, they had a van type setup in Seoul and next door was a bakery run by them.     I wanted a coffee and a donut, but all they took was American $$$$$.    I went over and asked them if they would change this Korean $$$$ to American for me.   The exchange at the Bank didn't open for another 15 minutes and we were pulling out.   Hadn't had anything to eat except 'C' rations and most of them were the Korean Trio.    That was BEANS in every damn can in the daily ration.    I finally got some other Marine to take my Yen for some American $$$ so as to get my coffee and etc.

[R J]

Hey Moonshot_1, were you be lad?    We miss ya around.

[R J]

Mike aka Moonshot_1, I just looked on your profile and you registered on my Birthday 3 years ago.

We goin to need to do a dinner somewhere.

I'll buy.........

Bet that is the best offer you have had today.