A friend of my father was a die maker for Milton Bradly, he could put together jigsaw puzzles face down... the puzzles, not him.
Although he could do it three sheets to the wind, not face down. :haha:

I have thought of the upside-down thing, but never the mixing.

They won't give you warts but maybe VD...

An underground fuel tank won't stay underground if it's empty and there is ground water to float it up.

At sewage works in the UK the large circular tanks are never completely emptied to avoid the possibilty of them floating on ground water and being damaged. When being cleaned or serviced they have clean water pumped in as ballast.

None of you knows how long I've been waiting to share that fact. :)

That was a Shitty Story. LOL!!!

Damn you, fargon :mad:

I'll need incontinence pants soon!

Damn you, fargon and Carruthers. :mad:

I'll need incontinence pants soon!

When I worked at Westinghouse they closed down one of the power plants. There were two underground oil tanks of over 25,000 gallons (never did find how much over), and since the ground was about six or seven feet above the river it's a good bet the ground water level was that high. If they popped up they would have to be decontaminated and disposed of which is a very expensive process.
They had ready mix concrete trucks lined up for a half mile in both directions to fill both tanks.

Swimming pools are supposed to have a hydrostatic relief valve that equalizes the water level inside and outside the pool.
If not, you can get a nice boat that floats up out of the ground (until it crumbles).
They used to make concrete boats. Boots too, I guess..

That's odd Jim, swimming pools are usually full to almost the top so I don't see how outside water would be high enough to float it. :confused:
I guess some people drain their pool in winter though. Those one piece fiberglass pools that look like a big boat before they're installed might be easy to float.

Draining the pool for maintenance or whatever is just the time when the pool level might be lower than the water table and up it comes.
With the extreme cost of installing (or re-installing) a pool, this is to be avoided. The valve I mentioned is about 30 bucks.

Wow. Water, man.

Amirite?

Tell me about it!

Water = bad news. Too risky.

Yeah, my neighborhood pool is drained for the winter. But we're high up on a hill, so no groundwater issues.

Underground tanks that are installed in a "floodplain" areas are required to be secured with Deadman anchors and cables to prevent that.
Even here in the desert that is a issue and comes up (no pun) regarding areas subject to 50year and 100 year rain/floods. Which we have had both of these occur in the past 40 years.

JR

I think the Canadian Postal System screwed up, instead of making these peel and stick stamps, they should be lick and stick with appropriate flavors. :haha:

Sugar pie...Call it like it is, I reckon.

Shoulda been scratch-n-sniff at the least...

Oh Hail, that ain't good, wonder what the sheet metal looks like?

Thanks, safety glass.

WD-40... in the beginning.

Has 3-in1 ever been pressurized?

Not sure but I doubt it since 3 in 1 is a product of the WD-40 Company.

"One million dollars!!"[/Dr.Evil]

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Apologies for pic-dumping all over the place...Pics For The Cellar folder is now empty.

It's supposed to have a security computer chip in it.

Flags and flags and more flags...

For some reason, I like the one in the top left hand corner the best. ;)

Imperialist! ;)

YOU CAN HAVE IT!

Yeah, we don't want no health care. :rolleyes:

Now cut that out!!:bitching:

This is why Puerto Rico and Washington DC have to be added at the same time. 52 stars can be arranged into 8 rows alternating 7 and 6 stars each. With 51 stars, you'd have to do just 6 rows alternating 9 and 8 stars each. The rectangle would get too wide.

Still quite popular in Hawaii, it would seem. :D

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Islanders stick together.

We kicked their ass too. http://cellar.org/2012/bwekk.gif

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Fox news fans?

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Didja see it?:eek:

The whistle wetter?

Yep.

The first picture in Gravdigr's post gave my memory a nudge.

There was an article in last week's Sunday Times about the joint UK/USA mission to track down the so called 'Jihadi John'.

Robert Hannigan, a former director of GCHQ, said:

I might be barking up the wrong tree and, as Gravdigr says, they're probably all watching Fox News.

Or test match cricket.


The article is behind a paywall but there might be a limited number of free articles, so here's the Link.

Damn cheaters...

That is a *lot* of brick cutting.

http://www.butetownhistory.info/en/h...isted-chimney/

Bruce is right, but it is still cool.

The future is the surrounding industrial stacks are going to keel over and stick their head in the sand? :lol:

Had a hard time finding Armour-Lyte because that's also the name of a sports drink.

Price ain't bad for the kick, but....

Out in Oregon, it looks terrible at first but it's body parts, no chassis, no grease/oil, so all it's adding to the water is iron/rust and lacquer that's thoroughly outgassed. I wonder how many were pulled out for WW II scrap drives?

When in doubt call it art...

Are there really enough proms and weddings to justify this car-nage?

No.

A very very lucrative patent for Mr Yale...

The four Hunter brothers were trying to set an endurance record by refueling and all maintenance in the air, but after 11 days a fog moved in and they couldn't see to refuel.

I bet that ain't in the labor book...

Getting unstuck...

Rule No. 16:

Try to get stuck near a tree.

The yellow strap rig is a neat idea, BUT you need to dig the hole twice--that will suck.

For the best price in disposal of the departed...

I used to answer the phone "Smith's Funeral Home, You stab 'em, we slab 'em".

Aslo:

"Devil speaking, who in the hell ya want?"

And:

"Pool room. Eight Ball speaking."

Hölle and Teufel are known surnames where I live.


(German for hell and devil)

I wonder if he has to close the gate before taking cover ?

I wonder if there was any sub-surface element to that shelter.

The paving slabs appear to have been cut away in a large key hole pattern so perhaps giving a hint to a space below.

Whatever the case, the sound of lumps of shrapnel hitting the metalwork would have been terrifying.

It's difficult to tell exactly where the picture was taken but I suspect I'm not too far away in this Streetview link.

Marlborough Road