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  • Posted by BCRinFremont 3 years, 8 months ago
    I did manage to throw away a dozen various power supply transformer cords. But, I still can’t bring myself to throw the dozens of connector cables: especially the ones with color coded splitters. They are so pretty, like a bouquet of wires
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  • Posted by mccannon01 3 years, 8 months ago
    Yes! Yes! Yes! Wonderful this week, OUC!!! LMAO!!!

    Oh, BTW, I do have several boxes of cables and one of them thar old timey phones!!

    P.S. Thanks for the interment tip, LOL!
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  • Posted by BCRinFremont 3 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    How do you tell if there is an elephant in your refrigerator? There are footprints in the Jello.

    One of numerous elephant jokes from a long time ago.

    Happy b’day to a different lizard!
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 3 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Semi-retired, I worked as a security guard for 4 contract security companies, including Wackenhut.
    Recall telling an employee of a client (a Wachovia data center) that so many corrections coworkers had died of this and that~~that I felt like a infantry rifleman of the 1700s, who marched in a skirmish line toward an enemy that had opened fire, causing hit coworkers to drop dead here and there all about me, leaving me to wonder when a lead ball would find me next,
    Anyway, Type 2 diabetes began to mess with my feet. I became fully retired during 2013.
    There's a cane within reach where I sit right now.
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  • Posted by $ pixelate 3 years, 8 months ago
    That Gardening one was delightful -- I can think of a few State and Federal level bureaucrats that I would like to plant somewhere.
    Then the Virtue Signaler with the mask -- of course there will always be the residue of humanity that cannot part with their "look how much I care" mask.
    Cables - tell me about it - I went through two large bins full, lots of duplicates, but some are One-Of-A-Kind ... 4-pin Din for my Radio Shack CGP-115 color printer... my fondness for the 80's ... one day I will power-up the Radio Shack Color Computer ECB along with the array of peripherals . . . Retro Computing during my retirement years.
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  • Posted by $ pixelate 3 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Happy 75th Birthday!
    I recently moved to Southern Arizona from Washington State. My best friend down here is a guy that also moved down here from Washington, around four years ago -- this, after serving for 26 years in the Washington State DOC (Department Of Corrections). He is now a real-estate agent and is loving it. He told me that Life in the DOC was hard on people -- you were literally In Prison -- and that the average life-span for officers was somewhere in the 50's. He also indicated that there was an online Memorial page -- lots of his fellow officers had died in their early 50's and a few in their 40's. He has a new lease on life -- and is effectively, an entirely new person -- gone are the DOC habits of smoking, drinking, etc ... he now runs 100 miler ultra marathons and is looking forward to the additional income via the WA State pension check.

    Glad you've been out of the DOC for 14 years and counting Dino. Cheers to many more birthdays and the opportunity to share your observations on Life with the rest of us here in The Gulch.
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    Posted by $ allosaur 3 years, 8 months ago
    Me dino thinks my ability to issue wise cracks is why I lived to turn 75 today.
    I was in the class of 82-2 (2nd 4-week class of 1982) at the Alabama Department Of Corrections Academy in Selma when told that the average life expectancy of a corrections officer is 59.
    Stress made Allosaurus (Latin for "different lizard") want to crack jokes.
    Been living off a full pension plus SS since 2007.
    "Ever see an elephant hide in a tree?"
    "No."
    "They hide pretty good, don't they?"
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  • Posted by $ Thoritsu 3 years, 8 months ago
    I have several SCSI cables and terminators. Can’t bring myself to throw away a 25 pin straight through, twisted shielded pair, even though a four pin USB smokes it now!
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  • Posted by Aeronca 3 years, 8 months ago
    I just did housecleaning last year, I got rid of my perennial box of cables! I saved a few.
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  • Posted by rjkford 3 years, 8 months ago
    Needed a funny or two (or a bunch) thanks for providing!
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