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In perspective, the DJIA is down ~10% over the last few days but up ~80% over five years. The people that are really going to get hurt are those with potential multiple whammies. 1) Mortgage coming due 2) Bought at peak 3) Leveraged Investments tanked 4) Expensive financed toys 5) Income...

Anyone remember the Hunt brothers? They bought up all the silver they could find. As it became scarce it rose in value. They used that gain to leverage more purchases. Silver got so crazy that people were buying silver tea sets at retail and taking them to the scrap dealers. IIRC the Hunts...

I carried the ownership in my wallet. Most of them said "Home built", even if they weren't. That's another story if the trailer has a manufacturer's logo on it with associated serial numbers. I suppose one could remove the stickers and put ugly welds over the good ones to hide the truth. An...

A guy in high school had his jock strap fall out of his gym bag. His girlfriend asked what it was and he told her it was a nose guard. She tried to put it on.

The public school I went to expropriated a bunch of houses on Wright Avenue to facilitate a building extension and larger athletic field for Fern Avenue School. There was a very large tree, probably maple, in one of the back yards that got a large ring of stone placed around it. That allowed...

Sometimes it has to be done as an alternate to taking down a tree on a property being re-developed. I thought there was a rule of thumb the ring had to be at least the diameter of the crown of the tree.

I was driving along Airport RD a few years back and was surprised at the size of the GPS in the car ahead. As I got closer at a light, nope he was watching a movie. 100 KPH is 91 feet per second.

So the diner says to the waitress "I'm vegan, allergic to gluten and don't drink. What do you recommend?" Waitress: A taxi.

FWIW one of the best fences I've ever seen was surrounding an apple orchard. Whenever they pruned the trees they piled the trimmings around the property as a fence. The tips of the branches faced out like a porcupine and nothing was big enough to step on to climb over. It obviously took time to...

The Scot in me wants to say "What else could I have done with $1,000?, some nifty tools etc." However I find that when I'm spending more I'm enjoying life more. Moderation being the key word. Also only spend money you have, not money you hope to have. That said, the $100 a head would freak some...

Three tubes of gas welding rods. Pick up near Bloor / 427

Without taking it completely apart I can't see the inner parts. However, there are bevel gears at both ends of the hex shaft and tops of the columns. I agree the reaction is more in keeping with cables. I can't find any manufacturer labels so getting specs is hard. This started with me wanting...

What's there to know about linear actuators? I've figured out my lift table / desk and got it working, sort of. It has a single 24 volt motor driving a hex shaft to power the two legs. The power supply is missing but it works on an 18 volt Ryobi battery. While I don't really need it, it's a...

I was looking for a cheap table to be used as a workbench and bought one at Habitat for Humanity for $60. I figured if it didn't work quite right the top was worth the $60 for a 6' X 3' slab with metal trestle legs and wheels. It seemed kind of heavy when we went to load it and as we turned it...

Add to that, the person fabricating the incident gets sued for the damages.

Watch out. My mother was working for a store when they went under. Because she knew where all the skeletons were kept, the liquidators kept her on but only for limited hours for a couple of months. When all was said and done, she was let go and applied for unemployment. The first question she...

I thought you were suggesting some members are slow at jokes and you had to repeat.

It's tricky. When smoking bans were expanded to include legions, a lot of veterans complained that they didn't fight in WWII to be told they couldn't smoke at their legion. That was twisting the rhetoric. They fought to preserve a democratic system where the voting public elects representatives...

Service calls are similar but don’t have the parking issues. Then there’s the washroom problem. Timmies is going from bad to worse.

Family finances should be different pockets in the same pair of pants. Also, financial gurus tell you to diversify but are annoyed if you have diverse financial planners.