Re: [MBZ] OT - GEORGE TALES - DESKS, GREMLINS AND BARRICADES

2015-10-27 Thread M. Mitchell Marmel via Mercedes
On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 10:55 PM, WILTON via Mercedes wrote: > I designed S-shaped steel plates on each side of the pivoting/mounting > points to allow a short balancing arm with weights to be installed on the > opposite side of the post from the main part of the barricade itself and > allowed t

Re: [MBZ] OT - GEORGE TALES - DESKS, GREMLINS AND BARRICADES

2015-10-27 Thread WILTON via Mercedes
'Never had another problem with it and never found any one point source of the problem - lotsa suspicious points. Wilton - Original Message - From: "Curly McLain via Mercedes" To: "Mercedes Discussion List" Cc: "Curly McLain" <126die...@gmail.com> Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2015 12:

Re: [MBZ] Morning beckons

2015-10-27 Thread Rich Thomas via Mercedes
That is Yousef Lateef Islam to you boy. --R On 10/26/15 11:11 PM, Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes wrote: Those are very similar to lyrics from a famous Cat Stevens 1970-era song "Morning has broken, just like the good...") On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 6:51 PM, archer75--- via Mercedes < mercedes@oki

Re: [MBZ] OT - GEORGE TALES - DESKS, GREMLINS AND BARRICADES

2015-10-27 Thread WILTON via Mercedes
Well, in fact, I got my "inspiration" for the barricade from a railroad crossing gate. Late on the afternoon that I learned about the problem at our front gate, I drove across the desert and into the San Gabriel Mountains to our "cabin" 35 miles from base. I had to stop at a rail crossing to

Re: [MBZ] OT - GEORGE TALES - DESKS, GREMLINS AND BARRICADES

2015-10-27 Thread Rich Thomas via Mercedes
My first house was in the Dorchester (dawchestuh, or "dawt") area of Boston, it had a few leaks on the water line in the basement. Plumber came and fixed it, explained that a lot of the houses in the neighborhood had similar issues. Apparently, years ago the T (that would be the subway/train s

Re: [MBZ] Secret message to Curt

2015-10-27 Thread Curt Raymond via Mercedes
Looking good! I may layout the base for one at camp in a couple weeks. We've got lots of old bricks there from my great grandfather's forge, it'd be nice to reuse them. Curt Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android From:"OK Don via Mercedes" Date:Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 9:47 PM Subject:Re: [MBZ] Secret

Re: [MBZ] Secret message to Curt with pics

2015-10-27 Thread Rich Thomas via Mercedes
That is very cool, I'm gonna have to keep that design in mind... --R On 10/27/15 12:46 AM, OK Don via Mercedes wrote: If that last link only lead to one photo, this one might show the rest of them . . . http://1drv.ms/1GFn3bL OK Don NSA: The only branch of government that actually listens

Re: [MBZ] OT - GEORGE TALES - DESKS, GREMLINS AND BARRICADES

2015-10-27 Thread Rich Thomas via Mercedes
*/“But how can it be like that?…Nobody knows how it can be like that.”/ – Richard Feynman --R * On 10/26/15 11:55 PM, WILTON via Mercedes wrote: As I walked up, he exclaimed, "That just can't be!" I replied, "But it is." ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To

Re: [MBZ] Secret message to Curt

2015-10-27 Thread Rich Thomas via Mercedes
You need firebrick for the firebox but regular brick will work for the stand and outside --R On 10/27/15 9:54 AM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes wrote: Looking good! I may layout the base for one at camp in a couple weeks. We've got lots of old bricks there from my great grandfather's forge, it'd

Re: [MBZ] Secret message to Curt

2015-10-27 Thread Rich Thomas via Mercedes
Plus this is wayy beyond your usual Exclusive Gated Resort Community, it is a zoo for rich white people with a corrupt town gummint, rules about almost everything and a bunch of really pissy stuck-up old white people. He moved there back before it really got that way, and pretty much hates

Re: [MBZ] OT - GEORGE TALES - DESKS, GREMLINS AND BARRICADES

2015-10-27 Thread M. Mitchell Marmel via Mercedes
On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 8:48 AM, Rich Thomas via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: My first house was in the Dorchester (dawchestuh, or "dawt") area of > Boston, it had a few leaks on the water line in the basement. Plumber came > and fixed it, explained that a lot of the houses in the neig

Re: [MBZ] Secret message to Curt

2015-10-27 Thread Meade Dillon via Mercedes
Noisy neighbors / HOA's / Gated Communities I was recently talking with some folks who live in one of the many local "communities" operating under a Home Owner's Association with all the rules/regulations that go along with that. One fellow told the story of walking in the neighborhood and meetin

Re: [MBZ] OT - GEORGE TALES - DESKS, GREMLINS AND BARRICADES

2015-10-27 Thread Meade Dillon via Mercedes
I like this one, Al Gore probably would not: "There is *one* feature I notice that is generally missing in cargo cult science . … It's a kind of scientific integrity , a principle of scientific thought that

Re: [MBZ] Morning beckons

2015-10-27 Thread Curly McLain via Mercedes
That is Yourself Islam to you boy. --R Nope, slimeball to me ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.

Re: [MBZ] Secret message to Curt

2015-10-27 Thread Randy Bennell via Mercedes
On 26/10/2015 10:15 PM, Curly McLain via Mercedes wrote: I really like that design. I was telling a buddy about it, he wants me to build one like that since he lives in an Exclusive Gated Resort Community and they have limits on fun stuff. --R He just needs to build a courtyard and put the

Re: [MBZ] Secret message to Curt

2015-10-27 Thread OK Don via Mercedes
Yes, the floor of the oven where the fire is built is made of fire brick. The base is cheep stone like concrete bricks from one of the big box home stores. A few extra fire bricks are useful for a gas welding table as well . . . On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 9:07 AM, Rich Thomas via Mercedes < mercedes@

Re: [MBZ] Morning beckons

2015-10-27 Thread Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes
He has many wives - how bad is that? On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 11:05 AM, Curly McLain via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > That is Yourself Islam to you boy. >> >> --R >> > > Nope, slimeball to me > > > ___ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list

Re: [MBZ] Secret message to Curt

2015-10-27 Thread Craig via Mercedes
On Tue, 27 Oct 2015 10:24:04 -0400 Meade Dillon via Mercedes wrote: > Noisy neighbors / HOA's / Gated Communities > > I was recently talking with some folks who live in one of the many local > "communities" operating under a Home Owner's Association with all the > rules/regulations that go along

Re: [MBZ] Secret message to Curt

2015-10-27 Thread Dan Penoff via Mercedes
Methinks that guy better read and know his bylaws, as I can’t imagine they give him power to trespass on an owner’s property. In Florida, where HOAs are endemic, board members have to be certified through a training class or sign a statement that they have (completely) read and understand their

Re: [MBZ] Morning beckons

2015-10-27 Thread Rich Thomas via Mercedes
He also has many mothers-in-law, that is REALLY bad. --R On 10/27/15 5:03 PM, Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes wrote: He has many wives - how bad is that? On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 11:05 AM, Curly McLain via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: That is Yourself Islam to you boy. --R Nope

Re: [MBZ] Morning beckons

2015-10-27 Thread Mountain Man via Mercedes
Andrew wrote: > [attributed to Paul Harvey] Paul Havey attended church where I did. mao ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/list

Re: [MBZ] Secret message to Curt

2015-10-27 Thread Max Dillon via Mercedes
Craig, that's what most of us agreed, but not before at least one person offered that the "trespasser" probably should be shot next time. Offensive neighbours: ideally my next house will be on a piece of land large enough so that they'd have to be REALLY offensive to bother us. -- Max Dillon Ch

Re: [MBZ] Secret message to Curt

2015-10-27 Thread Curly McLain via Mercedes
Offensive neighbours: ideally my next house will be on a piece of land large enough so that they'd have to be REALLY offensive to bother us. -- Max Dillon Charleston SC '87 300TD '95 E300 Shades of Dan'l Boone!Max is a real "Mercun! Sweet clean air from East to West And room to come a

Re: [MBZ] w124 dash

2015-10-27 Thread Karl Wittnebel via Mercedes
Will have to give this another try. I get a page full of various codes that seem like they would take forever to copy and paste into google, like 30 of them. On Oct 26, 2015 6:04 PM, "Max Dillon via Mercedes" wrote: > If you establish an account for online EPC access, then you plug in the > vin,

Re: [MBZ] Morning beckons

2015-10-27 Thread Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes
Which is where? On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 6:25 PM, Mountain Man via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > Andrew wrote: > > [attributed to Paul Harvey] > > Paul Havey attended church where I did. > mao > > ___ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list arc