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September 21st, 2016, 01:49 PM | #81 |
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As you come to the end of the I&M Canal trail in the city of LaSalle in LaSalle county you come upon a gigantic depression that was dug out on purpose. In it are hundreds of tiny tugboats. There is a sign that explains what these were used for. When the canal was most active ( between 1848 and just before 1899) there were hundreds of 60 foot long canal boats going along the 96 mile long canal between LaSalle and Chicago. The boats going to Chicago had mostly raw materials in them: all the vegetables and fruits, and grains from all the farms, crushed limestone dug out from quarries, iron ore, coal, trees, cooking oil, and many other things all going to the hundreds of factories in Chicago. The canal boats coming from Chicago going back to LaSalle had finished products: Giant casks of beer, finished lumber products, steel products, limestone bricks, and many animal products such as salt pork, beef steaks, and hundreds of other things made in Chicago. There was so much traffic in the canal that many times there were too many canal boats and they would start to crash into each other. This is where the tugs would come in. They were two man tugs. One man would be in the pilot house keeping his arms on the wheel controlling the tug. The other man would control a very long thick tow rope which had a grappling hook attached at the end. He would signal a nearby canal boat and it would get near enough to him so he could attach the grappling hook to the end of the canal boat. Then the tug would tow the canal boat to one corner of the canal to ease up the traffic. There would be dozens of these little tugs constantly at work along the entire 96 mile long canal doing this all day. This way the traffic of canal boats going each way went along smoother and more efficiently, and all raw materials going to Chicago and finished products coming from Chicago would always get to where they were supposed to go at a reasonable time.
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A big, hairy motherfcuking spider that from a distance,looked like it was doing small jumps. But when I got closer I could see it was struggling feebly in the grip of what a retired entomologist friend of mine told me, when I showed him the photos, was a spider wasp. I won't go into what the spider's unenviable fate was, but if I'd known at the time I would've performed a mercy killing...or maybe not. It was a big fcukin' wasp and looked like it's sting would go through hobnail boots.
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But this SOB was much larger than the ones I typically see -- my best description of it would be that it looked like a mustache with legs! As I turned on the basement light and went down I happened to see it crossing the floor. I need not tell you what its fate was -- all I will say is that it picked the wrong time to come out of hiding to cross to the other side of the basement!
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Anyone who has read my silly, smart ass posts over my time here has figured out that I drive big trucks and operate heavy equipment for a living. This year I was headhunted to operate a heavy wrecker (Really big tow truck) for the winter season. With the typical Canadian weather Ive been pretty busy and the wife and I haven't spent a lot of quality time together so the other day as I was headed out on a call I said "Well why don't you come with me?" A half hour later she was finally ready to head out. (It takes me 5 minutes to get the call and be out the door.) Off we go, merrily on our way. I winch the poor driver out of the ditch, arrange a truck to pull his trailers down the road, convince the Cop it was road conditions and not driver negligence. I'm a damn superhero and I get to do it in front of the wife. I hook up to the casualty truck and proceed down the road, suddenly a small car pulls up beside us and starts beeping the horn, looking down I see this chick pull her boobie out and start bouncing it in her hands. (It was a REALLY nice boobie.) So picture it ..... I'm laughing my f@cking head off, the wife is doing the "OMG thats disgusting!" thing, and this big boobie is bouncing up and down up and down up and......... What are the odds?????????? Note to self. Leave the wife at home. LMFAO!!!!!! Thats what I saw the other day.
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A being named Henry Bolton
Turns out he`s Ukip party Leader , Although isn't that an oxymoron Emphasis on the moron , by the gormless look of him.
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Northeast of Flagstaff there is a place called Wupatki National Monument. It's an old indian village dating from about 500AD. Off to one side of the village is a blowhole...that's what it's called. You can google it and find an exact explanation of it. You can stand there, put your hand over the hole, and feel air coming out of it. You will also hear the noise of the rushing air that sounds like a water fall. I can only imagine what the original inhabitants of the place must've thought when they came across it.
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If you go to the Oval Office and visit with the current president of the U.S., something very similar happens when he speaks in his historical, silvery-spoon ignorance...
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