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  • You may have spent an easily measurable fraction of your life in tents.  You may have put up pup tents, dome tents, cabin tents, and a bunch of other variations.  You may know that an arch made out of 1/2 inch PVC pipe is more likely to be stable when you use a 45 degree elbow rather than a 90 degree elbow.  But when your loving wife has a vision for how the frost shelter she wants for her fruit trees is going to look and she wants to use 90 degree elbows, YOU. MAKE. THE. 90. DEGREE. ELBOWS. WORK.
  • I’m not a physicist or an engineer, but I’m pretty sure that a hatchback has to be absolutely hauling ass to knock a minivan over on its side upon impact.
  • To the jackass who decided to steal a semi and run from the police on I-64  today: I am going to momentarily suspend my general distaste for police brutality.  The extra 45 minutes I spent with a couple thousand of my new freeway friends put a wonderful cap on my week.
    • Seriously?  Did you not think that someone was going to notice that the blood great truck was missing and not identify it going down the road?
  • Apparently spring has sprung.  Irish Woman has begun digging holes in the yard, and mentioned a pressure washer at dinner tonight.
    • Oh, frabulous joy.
    • I’m still not putting away the snow shovels.  Kentucky is the land of bipolar weather patterns.
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  1. Lazy Bike Commuter's avatar

    Lazy Bike Commuter

     /  March 21, 2014

    I guess it depends how the minivan was oriented at the time. Once saw a small sedan knock an SUV making a left turn completely over and back onto its wheels.

    I won’t forget that night, I got the girls blood all over my hands trying to keep her calm (she was mostly just shaken, but those head woulds sure bleed a lot).

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    • daddybear71's avatar

      There’s a small dip as you make the turn the minivan was in, so it’s likely that the other car hit it an odd angle.

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  2. hollychism's avatar

    SW MO has a 30% chance of yet more snow late Saturday night/early Sunday morning. Y’all ain’t the only ones with bipolar weather, if that makes you feel better.

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  3. oldnfo's avatar

    oldnfo

     /  March 22, 2014

    Sigh, and when those 90degree elbows break, it will be YOUR fault… 🙂

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  4. Frank the Wanderer's avatar

    Frank the Wanderer

     /  March 24, 2014

    Wyoming must have infected KY, or the other way around. People around here are begging to go back to griping about the heat…

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