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Tank birthday and I'm a Geezer

diana a

diana a

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I'm not a snowflake and will take it as soon as it is available . I know so many that I expected would take it and have said they will not for a year. It puts me further up the list. But if so many don't get the shots that will require us to all to continue to wear masks because there is no herd immunity... oh well
 
Paulie 069

Paulie 069

diana a said:
I feel bad for business like restaurants and gyms. @Paulie 069 you can't say "Screw virus already open our country back up" There are 3000 people dying of Covid each day. Put that in porspective....3000 died on 9/11. We all know people who have/had it. I have had family and friends who have died. I have one in the hospital now who has low O2 and is on his 3 dose of 5 allow of Remdesivir. They only give that out to the very serious cases. He's 32 years old

BTW I don't like Como. He has done things during Covid and it back fired on him and then he has his hands out looking for help
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So sorry for what this year has bought upon you, the heart ache and pain will eventually lesson , hope you are well, your a dear person and hearing your loss is sad, thoughts n prayers
@Paul B im also sad to hear you’ve lost more close friends, but I’m still here for you buddy
 
Paul B

Paul B

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"PaulB" type Mandarin feeder
I am going to put this in a few places. I found that my urchins eat through the stocking so I have been using this mesh which is the perfect size.
It is right inside the plastic on a RO membrane.
No, I don't cut up a new membrane but I use an old one. There is enough of this tiny mesh in there for many "PaulB" type feeders.

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mickeysreef <*))))<

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Paul B said:
"PaulB" type Mandarin feeder
I am going to put this in a few places. I found that my urchins eat through the stocking so I have been using this mesh which is the perfect size.
It is right inside the plastic on a RO membrane.
No, I don't cut up a new membrane but I use an old one. There is enough of this tiny mesh in there for many "PaulB" type feeders.

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that looks interesting. can you explain it to me like I'm a 3 year old cause I don't get it. thanks
 
Paul B

Paul B

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OK 3 year old. Do you know what that feeder is that I mentioned? If not, I will have to start with that, After Hansel and Greta of course. :D
 
Paul B

Paul B

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Today before the sun came up, like most mornings I took a walk. Most of the time I walk the same way down this country road. About a mile down the road I can start to smell the horses.
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There is a horse rescue place there. I was always a city kid so I am not sure if you call it a ranch, corral or nursing home for horses. ;Bucktooth

I understand these horses are past whatever they did in their prime, but these days I don't know what horses are used for. We do have tractors so I don't see any plowing fields and I have never seen anyone around here riding them. The nearest race track is 80 miles away and I have never seen one walking on the sides of the highway towards there.

I know some of them have "coats" on an and some of them appear to be wearing designer boots . Their day consists of standing in a mixture of mud, dead squirrels and horse poop while they munch on a wet bag of dead grass. ;Yuck
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I know when I was a kid, horses were used a lot in movies. There were no Tablets, I Phones, MP3 players etc. so we used to go to the movies to watch "Cowboy and Indian" movies.

I am sorry, but that is what they were called. (google it) I would imagine that today they changed the name to Cowboy and Native American movies or Cowboys and indigenous native movies or just Westerns.

Anyway one of my favorite Western shows was "The Lone Ranger". It started in 1949 (I was born in 1948) and it was one of the few shows on. Filmed in black and white, like all shows were. It was about this Marshall named "The Lone Ranger". (As a kid, I always thought it was "The Long Ranger".

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Anyway this guy always wore a mask. No one knew why because at the beginning of the show, when they showed the credits, it read "The Lone Ranger" played by Clayton Moore, so everyone knew who he was. ;Shifty

He had a good buddy named Tonto who played a "Native American" but he wasn't called that in the show. He was played by "Jay Silverheels" which sounds Jewish but he was really born in Canada on a reservation and was part of the Iroquois Nation which was a group of various tribes.

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The guy was really a horse trainer and racer so he knew everything about horses. He probably also knew why they sometimes wore coats and designer boots. :cool:

I don't know what "The Lone Ranger" did before he was in the show. I think he owned an LFS in New Jersey but I am guessing.

The Lone Ranger rode a white horse named Silver and when he rode away at the end of each show, he would yell "Hi O Silver" which today sounds really lame but I am sure I also used to run around yelling that. :)
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Tonto's horse was named "White Feller". which to me, is a Sissy horse name but I am sure they wanted to make the star's horse sound more "Manly".

When the Lone Ranger solved a crime, he would leave a Silver bullet at the scene so they all knew that it was him.

Silver bullets cost a few bucks so I am sure they used the same bullet in each episode.

That particular show was one of the few Westerns that depicted many, but not all "Native Americans" in a good light. Tonto at least, as there weren't to many other "Native Americans" in the show but the majority of Westerns falsely depicted the Native Americans as ruthless savages.

Many years after the show ended the lead guy, Clayton Moore walked around wearing his mask. The creators of the show didn't like that and they sued the poor guy and he couldn't wear the mask. Instead, he wore these big glasses to "hide his identity" just like in the show but it was silly looking because he was not allowed to wear a mask that looked like he wore in the show. Talk about lawyers that had nothing better to do.
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Here where I live on Long Island New York we have a large Native American population. Unfortunately they also were not treated very well but not as bad as the plains tribes out west.

Here now we still have a couple of reservations. One tribe called the Montauketts tried to get a permit for a casino. The judge didn't grant their request because he said they were extinct. They couldn't find any from the tribe who were full blooded Montaukett Native Americans.

The Montauketts were the most powerful tribe on Long Island and they had to be because the tribes up north, from across the Long Island Sound used to raid them so the Montauketts built a fort.

Now there is a pond there called Fort Pond. (There is a great restaurant there)

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Montauk New York, which is the most eastern part of New York (and maybe the US) is named for them. I don't live far from there.

Many, or most of the roads here were named for the 13 tribes that lived here.

Where I live was home to the Setaukets. There are still quite a few of those and they were able to get a permit to build a casino but I think it has legal and money problems so it never got started.

No, this has nothing to do with reef tanks Sorry.
 
Paul B

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This morning the girl upstairs from me frantically called to tell me she has a gas leak and is outside in her car because she shut off her heat and opened the windows.
If her house blows up, my house also blows up so I ran upstairs to check it out.

I didn't smell anything but I don't smell anything most of the time. After you hit a certain age, your nose is just a protrusion with no function except to breath and you can do that with your mouth.

She was going to call a plumber. I told her "Never, like Never" call a plumber especially since I live downstairs and in another life was a plumber, (among other things)

She was obviously distressed so I told her to call the gas company and they will come right away for free with a "sniffer" tool and tell you if you have a leak.

They "sniffed" all over my house and didn't find anything and now they are still upstairs in her house.

I didn't tell them because it is embarrassing but I have a load of asternia starfish and many times I see them passing gas so I think that is it. :oops:
 
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mickeysreef <*))))<

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Paul B said:
This morning the girl upstairs from me frantically called to tell me she has a gas leak and is outside in her car because she shut off her heat and opened the windows.
If her house blows up, my house also blows up so I ran upstairs to check it out.

I didn't smell anything but I don't smell anything most of the time. After you hit a certain age, your nose is just a protrusion with no function except to breath and you can do that with your mouth.

She was going to call a plumber. I told her "Never, like Never" call a plumber especially since I live downstairs and in another life was a plumber, (among other things)

She was obviously distressed so I told her to call the gas company and they will come right away for free with a "sniffer" tool and tell you if you have a leak.

They "sniffed" all over my house and didn't find anything and now they are still upstairs in her house.

I didn't tell them because it is embarrassing but I have a load of asternia starfish and many times I see them passing gas so I think that is it. :oops:
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stay safe buddy
 
Mark_C

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Grew up on the Lone Ranger in reruns. Think it was on after Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom on Sunday mornings, but before Zorro. Fairly sure I recall Tonto's horse being called Scout.
If I'm wrong, I owe many triva point back from over the years.

But regardless, I share one of my favorite jokes with you...

Sitting around the campfire at the end of an adventure, the Lone Ranger and Tonto discuss their next move.
As LR is speaking, he screeches and grabs his nethers.
Tonto, always alert, jumps up, surveys the area, and seeing all clear, asks, 'What is it Kemosabe?'
LR exclaims, 'Snake bite! Rattler! Groin! Go to town and get the doc!'
So, Tonto jumps on Scout, rides into town and finds the doc.
Knocking on the door furiously, eventually the doc opens, 'Hello Tonto, what brings you here this time of night?'
Tonto, out of breath from his journey and the excitement, says, 'Kemosabe... snake bite... rattler... what can I do?'
The doc considers and says, 'Best bet is to suck the poison out.'
So Tonto jumps back on Scout and makes the ride back to camp.
He finds LR on the ground, holding his groin.
The Lone Ranger asks, weakly, 'What did the Doc say Tonto?'
Tonto replies, "Doctor says you gonna die.'
 
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