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  1. HudsonHawk

    Your Most Disturbing Realizations

    The one thing I've found that bosses hate worse than being told the truth is not delivering the goods. To that end, I've found it much more useful to be honest and upfront. If I tell the boss something can't be done, I might get chewed out. But if I tell them it can, when I know it can't...
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    My neighbor put his horse down that way not long ago. The vet wanted $120 to come out and put down via injection. A round from a 30-06 is much more cost effective. The only problem was, he shot the horse just outside the back door them had to use his tractor to drag the horse back into the...
  3. HudsonHawk

    GMO's - Scientific and Economic 'realities'???

    Everything advertisement is a marketing ploy. My point was that what's on the package is not related to the ingredients. "Carbonfree" is not the same as "gluten free". One refers to food composition, the other to corporate governance. Apples and chainsaws.
  4. HudsonHawk

    Your Most Disturbing Realizations

    As we day down South...you don't have to shovel sunshine.
  5. HudsonHawk

    GMO's - Scientific and Economic 'realities'???

    The "carbonfree" in the label does not mean that the product does not contain carbon atoms. It's a certification of the manufacturer based on their use of fossil fuels and environmental footprint management in the manufacturing process. It's not meant to suggest a molecularly alternate form of...
  7. HudsonHawk

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Sounds like a job I once had at an aluminum can factory. My job was to stand and watch cans go by on a conveyor belt. When one fell over, I sat it back upright. 12 hour shifts. At night. In the heat. And really greasy bad odor. In fact, if you've ever seen a can being made, you might not...
  8. HudsonHawk

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    So I can make my wife put a quarter in the kitty every time she talks on the phone? Awesome...hello retirement...
  9. HudsonHawk

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Interestingly, the lack of sidetone is what I dislike most about digital and cell phones. There's something reassuring about hearing your own voice on the call, plus it keeps down the "cell yell" from the yahoo.
  10. HudsonHawk

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I think this is what my wife likes about the old rotary phones...the weight of the handset. It just feels more substantial and like you're talking on the phone. She hates any sort of headset or earpiece, she likes the feeling of holding the receiver. I think I'm going to get her on of these:
  11. HudsonHawk

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    As you probably already know, dial phones are pulse, not touch tone, so if you have tone-only dialing, such as you get with fiber optic or what you likely get from the cable company, you will not be able to dial without some sort of pulse-to-tone adaptor. The phone will ring, and you can talk...
  13. HudsonHawk

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Teaching cursive writing has been formally discontinued in most schools around here for a number of years. Basically, if you're under the age of 12 now, you almost certainly did not learn to write in cursive, and likely never will. The locals have decided that it's a skill that is just no...
  14. HudsonHawk

    GMO's - Scientific and Economic 'realities'???

    I think we'd talked about this before. You need to find a new watermelon supplier.
  15. HudsonHawk

    GMO's - Scientific and Economic 'realities'???

    Exactly. Hybrids or selectively bred organisms are not GMOs. Seedless watermelons and orange carrots are no more dangerous to eat than their ancestral varieties.
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    GMO's - Scientific and Economic 'realities'???

    Just a point of order...but there are people with legitimate maladies that make gluten-free necessary. My sisters both are celiacs, legitimately diagnosed by physicians using gastric tissue biopsies, not self-diagnosed from watching Dr. Oz. They could not function on a "normal" gluten diet, in...
  17. HudsonHawk

    Opinions on small SUVs

    I don't have much experience with SUVs, as I'm a pickup man. Also, living in the South, I prefer light colored cars and interiors, as the dark gets blazingly hot in the summer. I know that's probably not very useful information.
  19. HudsonHawk

    Your Most Disturbing Realizations

    I have been shocked by the sheer number of these young women. They are everywhere, and being a cigar/pipe smoker is like a magnet. But it works the other way too. When I was about 25-30ish, I was overwhelmed with the 40-something divorcee crowd. We didn't use the term "cougar" then, but I...
  20. HudsonHawk

    DEATHS ; Notable Passings; The Thread to Pay Last Respects

    I didn't care for Go Set A Watchman, but not because you learned that Atticus Finch was really a racist. I thought it was disjointed, inconsistent and incomplete. That's one reason that some critics out there think it may have been part of the same original draft as To Kill A Mockingbird, but...
  21. HudsonHawk

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    When I was in college, I was 6'1", 200 lbs and wore a 32 waist. 30 years later, I'm still 6'1". But that's about all that hasn't changed. Even my shoe size has increased two sizes in those years.
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    DEATHS ; Notable Passings; The Thread to Pay Last Respects

    Harper Lee, noted author of To Kill A Mockingbird, has died at age 89. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/20/arts/harper-lee-dies.html?_r=0
  23. HudsonHawk

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Too late for that. This read is going right down the ol' johnny flusher.

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