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| Sunshine | Mar 24 2007, 02:26 PM Post #1 |
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POST THEM HERE !!!! "The eyes are the windows to the soul; if you look into them long enough, one's true self is revealed." - Nicole Dawson I have more but will post them later. |
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| bsb006 | Mar 24 2007, 05:13 PM Post #2 |
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“Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do.” —Benjamin Franklin |
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| Ali | Mar 24 2007, 09:31 PM Post #3 |
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"Be courteous to all, but intimate with a few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation." - George Washington |
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| legitlinda | Mar 24 2007, 09:42 PM Post #4 |
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Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost. ....John Quincy Adams Good Topic Sunshine.... 
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| AbidinHim | Mar 25 2007, 01:23 AM Post #5 |
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“It is an equally awful truth that four and four makes eight, whether you reckon the thing out in eight onions or eight angels, eight bricks or eight bishops, eight minor poets or eight pigs.” —G.K. Chesterton |
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| Sunshine | Mar 25 2007, 11:29 AM Post #6 |
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Here are some more I like: Success is how you bounce when you hit bottom. ---General George Patton I've learned that people you care about most in life are taken from you too soon. I've learned that credentials on the wall do not make you a decent human being. I've learned that sometimes the people you expect to kick you when you're down will be the ones to help you get back up. I've learned that some members of your family may not always be there for you . It may seem funny , but people you aren't related to can take care of you and love you and teach you to trust people again. Do not go where the path may lead: go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. ===Ralph Waldo Emerson Never, Never , Never , Never give up! ---Sir Winston Churchill |
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| AbidinHim | Mar 25 2007, 02:24 PM Post #7 |
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“It isn’t actually our ‘system’ of government that is broken. The Constitution established an excellent system from which contemporary leaders regularly seem to depart. The Founders gave us the parchment equivalent of a GPS system that, if followed, gets us where we ought to go, but if ignored, causes us to become lost.” —Cal Thomas “How could this great land of plenty produce too few people in the last 30 years? Here is the brutal truth that no one dares to mention: We’re too few because too many of our babies have been killed. Over 45 million since Roe v. Wade in 1973. If those 45 million children had lived, today they would be defending our country, they would be filling our jobs, they would be paying into Social Security. Still, we watch as 3,700 babies are killed every single day in America. It is unbelievable that a nation under God would allow this.” —former Senator Zell Miller “All people are born alike—except Republicans and Democrats.” —Groucho Marx |
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| bsb006 | Mar 26 2007, 10:18 AM Post #8 |
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“If men of wisdom and knowledge, of moderation and temperance, of patience, fortitude and perseverance, of sobriety and true republican simplicity of manners, of zeal for the honour of the Supreme Being and the welfare of the commonwealth; if men possessed of these other excellent qualities are chosen to fill the seats of government, we may expect that our affairs will rest on a solid and permanent foundation.” — Samuel Adams |
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| StringBass | Mar 26 2007, 09:13 PM Post #9 |
Jesus Christ Rules : BlueGrass Gospel plays the music.
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Eschew obfuscation! -- Spiro Agnew, V.P. USA |
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| AbidinHim | Apr 6 2007, 12:10 AM Post #10 |
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“It costs God nothing, so far as we know, to create nice things: but to convert rebellious wills cost him crucifixion... You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse... You can shut him up for fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon; or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God.” —C.S. Lewis |
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| AbidinHim | Apr 7 2007, 11:07 AM Post #11 |
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"It's time to take the bull by the tail and face the situation." -- W.C. Fields |
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| AbidinHim | Apr 7 2007, 12:46 PM Post #12 |
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“Debates rage over the redefining of what marriage is despite centuries of the norm that it constitutes the bonding of a man and a woman. Communities try to eliminate the word Christmas or Easter from the celebration of holidays that reach back hundreds of years. The killing of the unborn, decades after a Supreme Court ruling, still enrages those for whom the sanctity of life lies at the heart of their beliefs. I submit that the day this nation abandons these debates and eliminates the prohibitions that represent our common definition of moral behavior is the day this nation will truly begin to lose its hold on our own and the world’s respect. So, Americans must continue to grapple with issues of moral decline and must decry the soft decay of our mutually held values. It is a good thing we debate these things. A completely secular society is one in which ‘everything goes’ and, when that occurs, the first thing to go will be the United States of America.” —Alan Caruba |
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| Wild Bill | Apr 9 2007, 10:12 PM Post #13 |
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"It appears we have appointed our worst generals to command forces, and our most gifted and brilliant to edit newspapers! In fact, I discovered by reading newspapers that these editor/geniuses plainly saw all my strategic defects from the start, yet failed to inform me until it was too late. Accordingly, I'm readily willing to yield my command to these obviously superior intellects, and I'll, in turn, do my best for the Cause by writing editorials - after the fact." -- General Robert E. Lee in 1863 |
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| Wild Bill | Apr 9 2007, 10:19 PM Post #14 |
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"We just can't trust the American people to make those types of choices.... Government has to make those choices for people" (From the book "I've Always Been A Yankee Fan" by Thomas D. Kuiper, p. 20 - Hillary to Rep. Dennis Hastert in 1993 discussing her expensive, disastrous taxpayer-funded health care plan) |
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| Wild Bill | Apr 9 2007, 10:53 PM Post #15 |
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US District Court Judge William Young made the following statement in sentencing "shoe bomber" Richard Reid to prison. It is noteworthy, and deserves to be remembered far longer than he predicts. January 30, 2003, United States vs. Reid. Judge Young: Mr. Richard C. Reid, hearken now to the sentence the Court imposes upon you. On counts 1, 5 and 6 the Court sentences you to life in prison in the custody of the United States Attorney General. On counts 2, 3, 4 and 7, the Court sentences you to 20 years in prison on each count, the sentence on each count to run consecutive with the other. That's 80 years. On count 8 the Court sentences you to the mandatory 30 years consecutive to the 80 years just imposed. The Court imposes upon you each of the eight counts a fine of $250,000 for the aggregate fine of $2 million. The Court accepts the government's recommendation with respect to restitution and orders restitution in the amount of $298.17 to Andre Bousquet and $5,784 to American Airlines. The Court imposes upon you the $800 special assessment. The Court imposes upon you five years supervised release simply because the law requires it. But the life sentences are real life sentences so I need go no further. This is the sentence that is provided for by our statutes. It is a fair and just sentence. It is a righteous sentence. Let me explain this to you. We are not afraid of any of your terrorist coconspirators, Mr. Reid. We are Americans. We have been through the fire before. There is all too much war talk here. And I say that to everyone with the utmost respect. Here in this court, where we deal with individuals as individuals, and care for individuals as individuals, as human beings we reach out for justice, you are not an enemy combatant. You are a terrorist. You are not a soldier in any war. You are a terrorist. To give you that reference, to call you a soldier gives you far too much stature. Whether it is the officers of government who do it or your attorney who does it, or that happens to be your view, you are a terrorist. And we do not negotiate with terrorists. We do not sign documents with terrorists. We hunt them down one by one and bring them to justice. So war talk is way out of line in this court. You are a big fellow. But you are not that big. You're no warrior. I know warriors. You are a terrorist. A species of criminal guilty of multiple attempted murders. In a very real sense Trooper Santiago had it right when you first were taken off that plane and into custody and you wondered where the press and where the TV crews were and he said you're no big deal. You're no big deal. What your counsel, what your able counsel and what the equally able United States attorneys have grappled with and what I have as honestly as I know how tried to grapple with, is why you did something so horrific. What was it that led you here to this courtroom today? I have listened respectfully to what you have to say. And I ask you to search your heart and ask yourself what sort of unfathomable hate led you to do what you are guilty and admit you are guilty of doing. And I have an answer for you. It may not satisfy you. But as I search this entire record it comes as close to understanding as I know. It seems to me you hate the one thing that is most precious. You hate our freedom. Our individual freedom. Our individual freedom to live as we choose, to come and go as we choose, and to believe or not believe as we individually choose. Here, in this society, the very winds carry freedom. They carry it everywhere from sea to shining sea. It is because we prize individual freedom so much that you are here in this beautiful courtroom. So that everyone can see, truly see that justice is administered fairly, individually, and discretely. It is for freedom's sake that your lawyers are striving so vigorously on your behalf and have filed appeals, will go on in their, their representation of you before other judges. We are about it. Because we all know that the way we treat you, Mr.Reid, is the measure of our own liberties. Make no mistake though. It is yet true that we will bear any burden, pay any price, to preserve our freedoms. Look around this courtroom. Mark it well. The world is not going to long remember what you or I say here. Day after tomorrow it will be forgotten. But this, however, will long endure. Here in this courtroom and courtrooms all across America, the American people will gather to see that justice, individual justice, justice, not war, individual justice is in fact being done. The very President of the United States through his officers will have to come into courtrooms and lay out evidence on which specific matters can be judged, and juries of citizens will gather to sit and judge that evidence democratically, to mold and shape and refine our sense of justice. See that flag Mr. Reid? That's the flag of the United States of America. That flag will fly there long after this is all forgotten. That flag stands for freedom. You know it always will. Custody, Mr. Officer. Stand him down. |
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| Wild Bill | Apr 9 2007, 11:24 PM Post #16 |
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The new enemies of Reason are not the enraged democrats who executed Socrates, the Christian zealots who persecuted philosophers of heliocentricity, or the Nazis who burned books. No, they are a pampered and scared Western public that caves to barbarism — dwarves who sit on the shoulders of dead giants, and believe that their present exalted position is somehow related to their own cowardly sense of accommodation. Victor Davis Hanson |
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| Duke | Apr 10 2007, 02:24 AM Post #17 |
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"The more I learn, the more I realize there is still more to learn." (don't know who said it-sorry) |
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| Duke | Apr 10 2007, 02:30 AM Post #18 |
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"The way some folks give directions, you can't get THERE from here"-Duke |
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| Toothless Dawg | Apr 10 2007, 09:18 AM Post #19 |
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| Toothless Dawg | Apr 10 2007, 09:50 AM Post #20 |
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... and for this political season
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| AbidinHim | Apr 13 2007, 12:32 AM Post #21 |
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"There is a lot us who don't think that we come from a monkey, but, if there are some people who think that we do, why, it's not our business to rob them of what little pleasure they might get out of imagining it." --- Will Rogers |
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| legitlinda | Apr 13 2007, 01:38 AM Post #22 |
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On Procrastination: Ain't nothing to it but to do it! I don't know who said that, but I say it all the time so I claim it as mine. 
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| Sibs | Apr 13 2007, 06:39 AM Post #23 |
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You can pick your friends and you can pick your nose, but you can't pick your friends nose! |
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| Duke | Apr 14 2007, 01:39 AM Post #24 |
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Folks use to say when they saw somebody messing around with the back of their pants or dress; "Going to the movies? I see you picking your seat." |
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| Duke | Apr 14 2007, 01:52 AM Post #25 |
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My absolute favorite quotes come from the Holy Bible and then I do surely enjoy many of the quotes of our founding fathers, I know I have read and heard many quotes from people from many walks of life, but none come to mind right now. This list isn't really my favorites, but the 1st one probably explains in part why I just keep write'n anyway; "The fuzziness of my mind is something I've learned not to get overly excited about, it's like a bad spark plug, it's a spark or don't spark kinda thing."-Duke "A misfire is the worst when someone is shooting back at you or something really really bad is just about to get you."-Duke " The British is ah come'n the British is ah come'n !"-Sheriff Andy Taylor talking to Opie and some other boys about Paul Revere. " I just turn my whole body into a weapon." - Deputy Barney Fiffe "Heeey Cisco", "Heeey Pancho"- Cisco Kid and his trusty sidekick Pancho " Are we there yet, are we there yet, are we there yet?"- millions of kids and I " When the house is ah rock'n, don't come ah knocking, 'cause I ain't home and you should already be in a safe shelter too, because this trailer house doesn't stand up well in hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes, or WKRP in Cincinnati's dropping live clipped winged turkeys from a helicoptor !!!" -Duke " Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes! ,,, doesn't necessarily apply concerning a charging rogue elephant !"-Duke Some things I've learned; "In my journey through life I learned at an early age that stepping in a fresh pile or a crusted over one is both bad"-Duke "Letting sleeping dogs lay is good advice in particular, if it ain't my dog"-Duke "A BB can bounce back off something and put out my eye."-Duke " Hitting a guy that can kick my tail isn't a good thing to do, but sometimes it was the right thing to do" -Duke " In a lot of cases in life it is best not to corner something you can't whup!"-Duke " When it is truly important and I feel like giving, I shouldn't "-Duke " Wasp's and hornet's nests are works of natural art and enjoyable to examine, just not when there are any live wasps or hornets still around"-Duke " Chunk'n rocks, corn stalks w/ roots, hard snow balls, etc. is fun, but when chunked at people, they chunk back and it does hurt"-Duke "Bullies bully folks that will put up with it, and sometimes them and I had to get bruised up some before they chose someone else to practice their claim to fame on"-Duke " An early and quickly learned lesson was that mouthing off at Momma and/or Daddy was not something I ever needed to do again" -Duke " Messing with animals that I am not trained in handling can be bad, they don't care if I'm just playing or not, and even a small 300 lb. yearling bull can hurt me bad"-Duke " Forgetting or ignoring some important things can be costly" -Duke Probably about a thousand more things easily, but I stop on that part and know ya'll have thosands too. Weeeell, just oooone mooore; This often applies to when people read many of my posts and are looking for the end of them; >" Are we there yet, are we there yet, are we there yet?"<- millions of kids and I I'll think some more and come up with just a few soon of real favorites( your there). |
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| Sibs | Apr 16 2007, 06:25 AM Post #26 |
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Now that I finally got it all together, I don't remember where I put it. |
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| Condor | Apr 16 2007, 09:34 AM Post #27 |
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To quote millions when something goes wrong or goes differently than planned: "Ah Chit!" |
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| Duke | Apr 19 2007, 03:44 PM Post #28 |
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I hope you find where you put it. More well known quotes; "Has anybody seen my car keys?"- millions of people "Have you seen my glasses?"- millions of people "Did you see where I put my teeth?" - far too many people "Do these make my butt look big?" -millions of people |
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| Non Hyphenated American | Apr 19 2007, 05:34 PM Post #29 |
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I won't be wronged, I won't be insulted, and I won't be laid a hand on. I don't do these things to other people and I expect the same from them. John Wayne (The Shootist) |
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| Sibs | Apr 20 2007, 07:04 AM Post #30 |
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I like the one that Hick uses at the bottom of his posts. |
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| legitlinda | Jun 20 2007, 12:28 AM Post #31 |
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<span style='font-family:Geneva'>"The problem with Establishment Republicans is they abhor the unseemliness of a political brawl" (Patrick J. Buchanan). </span> |
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| Hick | Jun 20 2007, 12:40 AM Post #32 |
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That one always brings smile to my face whenever I see it. |
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| Herb | Jun 20 2007, 11:23 AM Post #33 |
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Life is tough, it's even tougher when your stupid. (has been attributed to John Wayne) Life's too short to take seriously. (My dad) If no one will know the difference a hundred years from now, don't worry about it. (my dad) Too say your sorry without changing your actions is a waste of words. (Mom, I think) |
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| Duke | Jun 20 2007, 03:05 PM Post #34 |
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"Let us implore Him to remove from our hearts that false pride of opinion which would impel us to persevere in wrong." -- President James Buchanan, Dec. 14, 1860 |
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| bsb006 | Jun 21 2007, 02:05 AM Post #35 |
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Wherever you go, there you are! - Duke |
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| Sunshine | Jun 21 2007, 06:05 AM Post #36 |
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No wonder I can't get away from myself. 
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| Town Drunk | Jun 21 2007, 09:10 AM Post #37 |
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This is a quote that I love so much that I have typed it up and printed it out and framed it and placed it on the door going into one of my bed rooms. UNDERSTANDING IS THE REWARD OF FAITH. THEREFORE SEEK NOT UNDERSTANDING THAT THOU MAYEST BELIEVE BUT BELIEVE THAT THOU MAYEST UNDERSTAND. Augustine C:416 
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| Town Drunk | Jun 23 2007, 04:36 PM Post #38 |
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Faith is believing what you know ain't so. --Mark Twain,
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| Sunshine | Jun 24 2007, 05:18 PM Post #39 |
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Birds of a feather flock together and sh*t on your car. When I'm feeling down, I like to whistle. It makes the neighbor's dog run to the end of his chain and gag himself. A penny saved is a government oversight. The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right time, but also to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment. The older you get, the tougher it is to lose weight, because by then your body and your fat have gotten to be really good friends. The easiest way to find something lost around the house is to buy a replacement. He who hesitates is probably right. Did you ever notice: The Roman Numerals for forty (40) are " XL." If you think there is ood in everybody, you haven't met everybody. If you can smile when things go wrong, you have someone in mind to blame. The sole purpose of a child's middle name is so he can tell when he's really in trouble. There's always a lot to be thankful for if you take time to look for it. For example I am sitting here thinking how nice it is that wrinkles don't hurt. |
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| Toothless Dawg | Jun 24 2007, 09:30 PM Post #40 |
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Many years ago as a young telephone man, I got a trouble call that anytime the phone rang, the dog would bark. When I arrived the owner told me the story and I dialed a 'test' number that would ring back the phone. Sure enough the dog barked and howled and went crazy. It seems the drop from the pole to the house was hung pretty low and the family had hooked the dog CHAIN onto the drop. To make matters worse, the dog had a choke collar. From the dog running back and forth, the chain had worn through the drop and whenever someone called this phone, it was 105v going straight to the dogs neck. I think I made a friend that day when I took the chain off the drop and hung a new one that was a little higher. :lol: :lol: :lol: |
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