I have seen something unusual - Page 9

**trailmaster** · September 21st, 2016, 01:49 PM

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.

**Sir Honkers** · January 4th, 2017, 10:23 AM

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.

**cuzzyman927** · January 4th, 2017, 11:01 AM

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Originally Posted by loosegoose

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.

I had a similar unpleasantness in my basement the other night! I don't know what they are called, but they have many legs like a centipede and are "hairy" and quite ugly, but they are not a common centipede, they like dark places, but I do see them in my basement from time to time.
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!

**Sir Honkers** · January 4th, 2017, 06:42 PM

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Originally Posted by cuzzyman927

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!

You wouldn't have to justify yourself to me. Anything with more than four legs and covered in hair that comes inside might as well sit up and beg me to squash it. Not my wife though, there was a big huntsman in our toilet this morning and she traps it in a plastic container and frees it in the garden.
I love that woman, but seriously................

**ruffroundedges** · January 5th, 2017, 04:41 AM

Warning TLTR

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.

MaxJoker · August 2nd, 2017, 01:46 PM

In the park

Exactly this can only mean , better be called

Estreeter · August 2nd, 2017, 02:41 PM

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Originally Posted by MaxJoker

mean

Then what's this

MaxJoker · January 15th, 2018, 03:07 PM

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.

**cginok** · January 15th, 2018, 04:46 PM

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.

banquomerc · January 15th, 2018, 05:18 PM

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...

January 5th, 2017, 04:41 AM	#85
ruffroundedges Vintage Member Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: In a cave, havn't you been paying attention? Posts: 5,198 Thanks: 79,034 Thanked 95,993 Times in 5,282 Posts	Warning TLTR 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. __________________ Pull my finger..... To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 0 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 0 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 0 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.

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September 21st, 2016, 01:49 PM	#81
trailmaster Veteran Member Join Date: Sep 2013 Location: Chicago, Illinois, USA Posts: 59,888 Thanks: 1,328,972 Thanked 707,166 Times in 60,062 Posts	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.

January 4th, 2017, 10:23 AM	#82
Sir Honkers Veteran Member Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Land Of Glorious Leader Posts: 30,341 Thanks: 286,789 Thanked 386,115 Times in 30,295 Posts	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.

January 15th, 2018, 04:46 PM	#89
cginok Vintage Member Join Date: Jul 2010 Posts: 603 Thanks: 61 Thanked 5,414 Times in 594 Posts	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.

January 15th, 2018, 05:18 PM	#90
banquomerc Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 439 Thanks: 12,924 Thanked 3,000 Times in 408 Posts	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...