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| "Dumb" questions; Afraid to ask? I'm not! | |
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| Sunshine | Apr 8 2007, 07:28 AM Post #281 |
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LOLs . I have heard this and it is even funnier coming from you . 
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| Duke | Apr 10 2007, 02:16 AM Post #282 |
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When is up down and down, up ? One answer is when your standing on your head. |
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| Duke | Apr 10 2007, 02:19 AM Post #283 |
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I have physically proved several times in my younger years that some folks "don't know their butts from a hole in the ground". Some know how I did it, so tell it. |
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| Sunshine | Apr 14 2007, 09:55 AM Post #284 |
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Why don't men ask for directions? |
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| bsb006 | Apr 14 2007, 12:43 PM Post #285 |
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not a stupid question, sunshine!!! good question :lol: |
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| legitlinda | Apr 14 2007, 07:22 PM Post #286 |
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Cause they don't like people tellin'em where to go! :lol: Thank goodness for cell phones. The city I lived in as a teenager (my old stomping grounds) has expanded like crazy all of a sudden, urban sprawl everywhere, so now I don't know how to get anywhere! If I'm out and about it's usually like this....if I think I have to turn right, I turn left, why, because my sense of direction is always backwards. So if I think I should turn right that really means I should turn left, but when I do, I realize I should have gone with my first instinct of turning right! So the next turn I come to, if my first instinct is to turn left and I decide to follow it, it was the darn right I should have taken!  So I grab my cell phone and call my son  and tell him, okay I'm trying to get to such and such a place and I'm coming up to this street, which way do I go...quick answer me! He knows the drill and luckily he's got this built in compass in his head and quickly answers...right or left or whatever it is. 
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| Condor | Apr 14 2007, 10:40 PM Post #287 |
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Garmin Street Pilot FTW! |
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| Ali | Apr 14 2007, 11:37 PM Post #288 |
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I don't know why men don't like to ask for directions, but I never minded getting lost, as long as I had a quarter tank of gas! The hand my wedding band is on, is left! |
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| Condor | Apr 15 2007, 11:28 AM Post #289 |
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Most men know that if you really want to find interesting, get lost. I was in Havana on a TDY one summer. On our way from the Hemingway Marina (after having lobster tails with catsup on them - ugh) we got lost. It is easy to do. First we found ourselves on a Cuban military installation of some sort. We talked our way out of that (keep in mind that this is near midnight) then we floundered onto a street where girls in baby dolls were hanging out. Beautiful, Cuban girls! There were others there and my collegue wanted to ask one of the guys directions. I said something like "Don't be silly, I will ask a semi-nude woman". We did ask one of the very friendly girls. Turns out that we had discovered one of Cuba's larger english language schools. Seems they taught only beautiful women. They learned by listening to Miami radio stations. Never would have known that if we hadn't gotten lost. |
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| Hick | Apr 15 2007, 12:33 PM Post #290 |
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Interesting! |
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| legitlinda | Apr 15 2007, 12:34 PM Post #291 |
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Now that's what I'm talking about! :lol: 
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| Condor | Apr 15 2007, 02:40 PM Post #292 |
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We just got a couple of navigators. One is a FineDrive and the other is a Garmin C330. These were Unclaimmed Baggage buys, of course. They were pretty cheap but I had to order stuff for the Garmin. We have test flown both and we can't see how we survived without one all these years. My wife would be the designated navigator. She did a pretty good job for years and finally in 1998, I discovered that she couldn't read a map! I gave her a couple of lessons (she had no trouble hearing them!) and the getting lost stuff was minimized - she had always done a pretty fair job and could actually read a map a little. Well, we would still waste gas and drive extra miles when traveling, in particular if we were looking for an address in the more congested part of a city. Well folks, the car navigator is an almost perfect answer to wasted miles, wasted fuel, high tempers and is the true road to a more perfect union. I added this reply for those who haven't used one of those new fangled things. The ones who already have them already know. If you don't have one and do any traveling by highway at all, I recommend one. We go to yard and estate sales (with emphasis on estate sales) and it is amazing how much easier our life has gotten with a navigator! An offshoot is that we can now take all of those maps and atlases out of the car. We will have room for more estate sale stuff now! |
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| Sunshine | Apr 15 2007, 02:44 PM Post #293 |
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Please explain why Bigfoot looks like a human with a lot of hair. Did a person mate with a monkey and that caused him or her to look this way. I'm curious . |
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| Condor | Apr 15 2007, 02:47 PM Post #294 |
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Some pretty serious scientist have been seeking that very answer for a long time. |
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| Toothless Dawg | Apr 15 2007, 04:59 PM Post #295 |
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RIGHT ON!!!! I'll have to investigate these thangs ... although the places I normally go, I already know how to get but it may come in handy since my boss already believes I have Alzheimers ... |
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| Condor | Apr 15 2007, 05:36 PM Post #296 |
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They would have bee a godsend when we lived on the beltway. We enjoyed estate sales while there and some of them were hard to find. With the navigators, you just enter the address and they take you there. I tried using Palm PDA's with mapping software and bluetooth GPS recievers and they didn't even come close. When we lived up in northern Virginia, we carried the DC map set, the Baltimore atlas and the northern VA atlas as well as a really thick DC atlas. One navigator would have replaced all of those. |
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| Toothless Dawg | Apr 15 2007, 05:57 PM Post #297 |
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So do you have to purchase 'Maps' for different areas? I'm pretty good around NoVa and Central VA but jI'm thinking of when I go on business trips to different states??? Plus I'm wondering if I want to purchase one for my wife ... I mean what if she got lost and couldn't find her way home (being blonde and all) ... waitaminit, what the heck am I thinking!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!?!?!??!!? 
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| Condor | Apr 15 2007, 10:50 PM Post #298 |
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Both of the ones I have came with the US and Canada. The cities even seem complete down to the smallest street. |
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| Toothless Dawg | Apr 16 2007, 07:32 AM Post #299 |
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very cool ... thanks for the info |
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| Sunshine | Apr 16 2007, 09:13 AM Post #300 |
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Why does it seem like it takes forever to get where you're going but quicker to get home. |
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| Condor | Apr 16 2007, 09:33 AM Post #301 |
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I find the opposite to be true. With me, the trip out goes faster because of the anticipation and the return drags. |
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| Condor | Apr 16 2007, 09:43 AM Post #302 |
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If anyone is looking for a bargin, WOOT usually has one. One item every 24 hours. A lot of useless stuff, but the occassional gem. Guess what the WOOT is today: Timely for some? This WOOT falls right into our discussion and I have found that most of the navigators are pretty much equal. You can pay more for the esoteric, but mostly, the baseline unit does what is needed. I just went back and read the description for this one and it has some good features. That speed limit warning seems pretty worthwhile. |
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| Sunshine | Apr 16 2007, 09:44 AM Post #303 |
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Why is it that when you are in a store and you really need help no one can be found but when you don't need help people are everywhere to be found.? |
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| Condor | Apr 16 2007, 09:49 AM Post #304 |
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Sunshine, that brings to mind one of my pet peeves. Car dealerships that sell cars all day on Saturday and sometimes on Sunday, but service stops at noon on Saturday. When I shop for an automobile, I go on Saturday afternoon. The first thing I ask the salesman who ambushes me on the way in is if the shop is open. if he/she says no, I leave. Car sales peple are taught to get you to commit to a color first. I don't really know why that is. Anyone out there want to educate an old man? |
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| Sunshine | Apr 16 2007, 04:37 PM Post #305 |
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We have a friend in Colorado who is in his mid 70s and he always goes and looks at cars on Sunday's because he doesn't want to be hassled. He doesn't buy them he just likes to look at them. |
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| Herb | Apr 17 2007, 03:49 PM Post #306 |
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Because if they ask a woman, she is probably as lost as they are. At the very least she probably couldn't give coherent directions (my wife is a perefct example of this). If they ask another man he will probably give them directions to timbuctoo, just to screw with them (I have been known to ....... uh oh). So you see there really is no reason for a man to ask for directions. As for me, I never get lost. <_< 
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| Toothless Dawg | Apr 17 2007, 05:16 PM Post #307 |
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Question --- If libs were successful in bringing socialism to this country, would they demonstrate for democracy? ... Would they wear t-shirts emblazoned with pictures of GW Bush? Well this IS the 'Dumb Question' thread ... |
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| Almtnman | Apr 17 2007, 06:14 PM Post #308 |
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Where's those low gas prices that the dimwits told us about if they got in control? |
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| Sunshine | Apr 22 2007, 07:05 PM Post #309 |
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If you are born exactly at midnight is your birthday on both of those days? |
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| NuthinFancy91 | Apr 30 2007, 03:46 PM Post #310 |
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, if your 31 seconds in the Minute you are born on the scond 29 Seconds You are born The 1st But w/e the day is... Why is it that when I yell at strangers I get funny looks? 
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| legitlinda | May 18 2007, 11:04 AM Post #311 |
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Why is it that people are so concerned with Mitt Romney's religion, and that his great grandfather had more than one wife, when he is the only one of the so called "front runners" who has only been married once???? 
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| Herb | May 18 2007, 11:40 AM Post #312 |
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Why is it that we allow the LSM to decide who are the "front runners". Vote Duncan Hunter!!!!!! http://www.smartvoter.org/2006/11/07/ca/st...nter_d/bio.html |
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| Sunshine | May 29 2007, 11:51 AM Post #313 |
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Why is it when I get in the shower or on the potty the phone rings? |
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| Herb | May 29 2007, 01:51 PM Post #314 |
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Or Dad or Mom calls right at the 25 laps to go in the race? |
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| Toothless Dawg | May 29 2007, 02:07 PM Post #315 |
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my wife ALREADY learned that I don't answer the phone in the last 50 laps of any race. She also is smart enough to stay out of my office during the race. Goood one that's close to home!!! |
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| Sunshine | May 29 2007, 02:27 PM Post #316 |
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You are a kick in the pants. 
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| Sunshine | Jun 10 2007, 08:41 AM Post #317 |
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My left foot is bigger than my right foot. Why is that ? |
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| Toothless Dawg | Jun 10 2007, 09:31 AM Post #318 |
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Because you chew your food on the left side of your mouth so the left gets more nutrients ... |
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| bsb006 | Jun 10 2007, 09:38 AM Post #319 |
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that esplains it....... 
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| Sunshine | Jun 10 2007, 09:50 AM Post #320 |
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