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The further and continuing adventures of the girl who sat in the back of your homeroom, reading and daydreaming.
About Me
- Roberta X
- Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
- I'm *mindlessly* fascinating. My internal monologue is like a frog in a blender, swimming like mad to keep ahead of the blades.
What's On My Other Blogs?
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HERMES "ROCKET"5 years ago
My Blogfriends List
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Sci-Fi Hot Take...7 hours ago
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Ethnic food, Westphalian style2 days ago
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Cults and Music5 years ago
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Defenders Of The Bill Of Rights
(c) 2007 through 2024, inclusive. All rights reserved.
Ego vadum perussi vestri prandium
Ego vadum perussi vestri prandium
"I saw to what extent the people among whom I lived could be trusted as good neighbors and friends; that their friendship was for summer weather only; that they did not greatly propose to do right; that they were a distinct race from me by their prejudices and superstitions."
Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
Blogs: A link here does not constitute an endorsement! Many people have gone nuts in recent years.
- View From The Porch
- Cop Car's Beat
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- Walls Of The City
- True Blue Sam
- Trailer Park Paradise
- Tom Cochrun/Light Breezes
- Thunder Tales
- The Wandering Thoughts Of J. R. Shirley
- The View From North Central Idaho
- The Unwanted Blog
- The Travis McGee Reader
- The Shekel
- The Miller
- Marko Kloos (.com)
- The Clue Meter
- Staghounds
- SnarkyBytes
- Sharp As A Marble
- Shall Not Be Questioned
- Self Sufficient Slacker
- Say Uncle
- Rustmeister's Alehouse
- Rich's Garage
- Retrotechnologist
- Pergelator
- PA State Cop
- Not Clauswitz
- New Jovian Thunderbolt! (RIP)
- Mycroft HOLMES 4
- Mike Kole: Hoosier LP guy
- Mike Flynn: The TOF Spot
- MArooned: JayG
- Listen To Uncle Jay
- Last Refuge Of A Scoundrel
- Jigsaw's Thoughts
- Insert Title Here
- In Jennifer's Head
- I Work On A Starship
- Home On The Range
- Gun Blog Black List
- Fatale Abstraction
- Fat In Indiana
- Every Blade Of Grass
- EB5AGV RadioRepair
- Cowboy Blob (link fixed!)
- Carteach0
- Caleb at GunNuts
- Brick O'Lore
- Better and Better: Matt G
- Ambulance Driver
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- Another Day, Part 9
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- Squirrel. Must. Die.
- Liveblogging The Apocolypse April BlogMeet
- BlogShoot!
- Our Great Father In Washington
- Snow Dinosaurs
- BlogMeet/BlogShoot Update!
- Breakfast + Savages
- Linky Truth
- A Very Happy Birthday To Frank W. James
- Reporter Arrested At Accident Scene
- Starship Lupine Exterior View
- Happy Blogsversary!
- Sun: Sleepy Now, Party Later
- True Fact!
- Good Morning!
- Buy A Gun Day
- Breaking News - Second Amendment
- Free Day! Yayy!
- Theme From "Stapp"
- Lookit The Morph!
- Techno-Geekery!
- Bad Gibberish
- Tea Party Poll
- Planet Hunter
- Conversation
- Another Day, Part 8
- Huffy Threats?
- April BlogMeet: The Poster
- Tea Parties, Bedwetters, Protesters Generally
- Like Something From Hank Morgan's Work
- To The Moon!
- Which Two Headlines?
- News Of The Obvious
- April BlogMeet
- Another Day, Part 7
- Various/In Haste
- Keep The Tapes
- Eee? Eeeeeeee!
- Moron Piracy
- All's Well That End Well
- So That's Why!
- The Pentultimate Thing I'd As Soon Not Do
- Wikiwander, With Detours
- Welcome To Airstrip One
- Sherlock Holmes: The Case Of The Curious Herb
- Thursarrgh
- Thank You But Please Try Harder
- Lighting Update
- What Happens
- So, It's Come To Cat-Blogging
- Guns, American "Cowboys" And Whatnot
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- Thank You, Congress*
- Sharing Distraction
- A Little Knowledge?
- FWIW
- Another Day, Part 6
- Science Fiction
- That'll Be The Sunny Friday...
- Oh, That Dude
- Amateur Radio Ops Bounce Signals Off Venus
- Another Day, Part 5
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"Your lack of compassion and humanity is stunning."
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"I think my brain just core dumped. What were we just talking about?"
--A travelling Texan
"Die quietly you ignorant hoosier."
--A Sad-Sack Moonbat
"Memetic whiplash has rarely been so much fun."
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12 comments:
I did not know that. In my circle of truckers it's always been known as the "DOT bumper."
Well, as long as it's true.
Ick!
I thought everyone knew that.
Turk, it's to prevent Mansfieldization, not cause it.
Had a (late) neighour rear end a semi 20 years ago.
Bar needs to be stronger and lower is all I have to say, given the result.
Even Ickier: The non-Wobbly version of the 1913 Italian Hall disaster (73 suffocated or trampled) resulted in door panic bars being called "Calumet Bars" for a long time in Michigan.
It says here, 'The death certificate stated that the immediate cause of Mansfield's death was a "crushed skull with avulsion of cranium and brain."'
I don't know what that means, but it rhymes with revulsion.
You come up with the most MARVELOUS trivia!
M
Oop, waitaminute, knew it'd come to me (guy walks into a bar, see): the reversing gear on a steam locomotive, that applies full power in reverse. It's a "Johnson Bar." So when a railroader says, "Don't jerk my johnson," see, it's not what you think.
And all this time I thought it was called an "I.C.C. Bar".
"Learning all the time."
Jayne Mansfield was not the first to die when their vehicle ran under the tail end of a semi. The first owner of my first Harley predated her by twenty years and a few weeks. And his farm purchase didn't even bend the handlebars.
But the really sad part is that several trailer manufacturers put similar bars under their trailers as far back as 1927.
Stranger
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