Says the lady who unstopped boat heads for a living. There have to be stories there that would put us into stitches.I'm envious!
Says the lady who unstopped boat heads for a living. There have to be stories there that would put us into stitches.I'm envious!
There are...but none of 'em are gotchas...not that I haven't occasionally been tempted.Says the lady who unstopped boat heads for a living. There have to be stories there that would put us into stitches.
Are they planning to deliver?Starbucks Announces Eastern Maine Store to be Located on Remote Island As you can probably deduce Matinicus Island is way out there.....
I'm trying to make the name into something funny, but I don't get it. It it just a weird name, or does it sound like something else, like the law firm of Duey Cheatem and Howe?... The Dr's Name?
Dr Sloof L Irpa
Or... Ewoh dna Metaehc Yeudlaw firm of Duey Cheatem and Howe?
This dredged up the memory of what may have been the funniest thread ever on the old CompuServe Sailing Forum. It was spawned by conversation about potato launchers--a short -lived fad in the '90s: a PVC pipe was the cannon, hairspray was the propellant. Here are the directions for making a simple one:Are they planning to deliver?
Short lived? Short lived you say? I think not! Just ask @Meriachee !This dredged up the memory of what may have been the funniest thread ever on the old CompuServe Sailing Forum. It was spawned by conversation about potato launchers--a short -lived fad in the '90s: a PVC pipe was the cannon, hairspray was the propellant. Here are the directions for making a simple one:
https://www.doityourself.com/stry/how-to-build-a-potato-cannon
To launch a potato put it in the pipe and ignite it. The resulting explosion launches the spud.
It was a couple of weeks before Thanksgiving that one of us had an inspiration: Go to any popular cruising grounds in the Caribbean and start a dock-to-deck roast turkey delivery service...our business plan was simple: Radio your order to us while you were still a couple of days out...and then send us your coordinates when you were no more than 2 miles out--we guesstimated that would be about the max distance possible without the need for enough fuel (we'd ruled out hairspray as not being powerful enough) to blow up our kitchen and us in it)--and then STAND BY FOR INCOMING GOBBLER! We had visions of flying fowl by the dozen....toyed with the idea of adding sides to the orders, but decided the special handling they'd need to prevent splattering 'em all over customer's boat would cost way more than it would be worth to 'em.
I still think the Dock-to-Deck delivery idea has merit....
--Peggie
I had forgotten that. Thanks for the memory!The April Fools I remember best was maybe 15 years ago. The guys that make the cartoons for the comic pages "conspired" to swap personas between characters. It was a riot! The one I remember was Mister Dithers became The Sarge from Beetle Bailey. Dagwood became Beetle. In the last frame, Mr Dithers was stomping all over Dagwood, like the real Sarge does to the real Beetle Bailey. I wish they would do it again- or just repeat those original classics.
Bravo! Bravo!Potato gun. Be afraid
Potato gun. Be afraid