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    Dangerous times

    A few days ago an American warship was engaged in training exercises with our NATO allies. Russian fighter jets from airbases in the Kaliningrad Oblast flew extremely close to our naval vessel, a very dangerous maneuver. Serious business, these Russians. What is next? Russian submarines...
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    English language

    1. I wondered why the baseball was getting bigger. Then it hit me. 2. Police were called to a daycare where a three-year-old was resisting a rest. 3. Did you hear about the guy whose whole left side was cut off? He's all right now. 4. The roundest knight at King Arthur's round table was Sir...
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    high mileage oil, 75K miles

    Most oil brands are available in a "high mileage" flavor, advertised for use in vehicles with 75,000 miles or more. A vehicle with poor oil maintenance can have high mileage wear at 40K, yet a well maintained vehicle can have low mileage wear at 140K. How did the ad teams come up with 75K as...
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    Green Yards

    The last few years, I have gone green with my yard, not green like a golf course, green like "environmental green". Advantages of going green..... The time I used to spend doing yard work, I now spend doing things I really enjoy. I use no water, herbicides, pesticides, or fertilizers so no...
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    If Dirty Harry was a computer geek

    "I know what you're thinking, did he send six emails or only five? Well to tell you the truth in all this excitement I kinda lost track myself. But being this is a Chinese Sunway TaihuLight computer, the most powerful computer in the world and would blow your flat screen clean off, you've...
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    thoughts for today

    -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Stop sending me that pop-up ad for Classmates.com! There's a reason you don't talk to people for 25 years. Because you don't particularly like them! Besides, I already know what the captain of the football team...
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    why extended OCI ?

    Why do some car owners try to get the last mile out of a oil change? Compared to engine damage from dirty oil, they are not that costly. Even a low price oil and filter changed at 5-8K is better than extending any oil/filter combination. The whole point of a oil change is to get the dirty oil...
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    Cooper Tires

    How do Cooper tires rate for the BITOG crew? going on a 2006 Mercury Mountaineer, no off-road use. (not private label tires made by Cooper)
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    bad metaphors

    1) His thoughts tumbled in his head, making and breaking alliances like underpants in a dryer without Cling Free. 2) He spoke with the wisdom that can only come from experience, like a guy who went blind because he looked at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it and...
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    check-out line rant

    If I am in a check-out line where there is ....... a senior with slow motor skills, no problem. a shopper with a basket full of items, no problem (unless they are in the express lane) a customer that needs to have a price check because the store screwed up, no problem. however....... I thought...
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