What a surprise... I was not expecting that.

Thanks for the win, Vic, Wiggo, and Carlos. The first time I won.

So let's continue this. But before the rules, I have a stupid question: What does TLPTPHW means? The history in the forums here is insufficient to answer this question.

The rules:
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1. The winner of the last thread starts the new one with a post of these rules.
2. Chooses a future event which triggers the winner, e.g. post number, date-time, and records it privately somehow (yellow sticky, etc.)
3. Everyone has fun posting until the target event is reached.
4. When the target is reached, the old winner posts a declaration of the new winner and also PMs them.
5. Shortly after this a Mod will lock the recently won thread. (My preference is for the winner to ask the mods to lock the old thread after the new one is started.)
6. No double posts. Violators buy drinks or a meal for the house in Rocky's.
7. Additional rule retained from the last round - No posts that APPEAR to be blank - these will be ignored or deleted. (Sig lines do not count as part of a post)
8. No posts from the ISS or from the TSS. ;) Just making sure yer woke up.

Congratulations!!

And enjoy your choice of parameter(s) for the next new thread!

Cheers,
Martin

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Congratulations!!

Mods are quick to lock a thread that has been won. So, you can't spend half the day walking in the rain... not looking at the forum...

Thanks for congratulations, Martin.

I am glad it's not a Micky Moused thread.

Congratulations - may this be a fair and clean "fight"

Remember, keep smiling and confuse everyone ;-)

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Bob Smith
Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society)
Somewhere in the (un)known Universe?

oh my. I have to update my Avatar. its been 25 years now.

Posting in the wee hours of a chilly Sunday morning as a few lite showers roam about.

Cheers.

Thanks, Rob.

… and as to Carlos avatar: Congratulations to a quarter century!

Here in between blue sky sunshine and midnight dark downpours...

Thar be som'thin' astirring the weather gods!!

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Okay, what does TLPTPHW mean? THE LAST PERSON TO POST HERE WINS. And you pick that person by rule #2.

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Congratz Mr. Duck.

Winning after my sons birthday party.

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With each crime and every kindness we birth our future.

Congrats McDuck. Posting while it is still safe.

@Victor.
My dad owns a almost 2.5 acre double wide premanufactured house lot. It is a 24’ by 40 something foot home.
The foundation leveling has horizontal rebar reinforced concrete beams12 inches wide by 18 inches deep and 24 feet long everywhere the home needs support. Additional steel tie down straps with 30 inch ground augers being embedded in the concrete beams on each side.
Hopefully the premanufactured home will stay put barring acts of Mother Nature.

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Winning as the sun shines after a misty mountain start.

Time to turn the kettle on.

Cheers.

The sun is setting on another Sunday in the highlands down under.

Cheers.

Thanks Admiral for explanation.

And thanks Mike and Gary.

I enjoy the first, really warm afternoon this year. It‘s 26C/79F, cloudy.

Time to prepare for another Monday.

Cheers.

It's almost time for me to drive up the hill. I am at 7 feet above sea level now and have to climb over Donner Summit at an elevation of 7,239 feet. So do I add one and a third miles to my trip?

And my dismay of pipe fitters (and plumbers) is stirred yet further...

How difficult can the removal of two pipe fittings be?...

Not my usual task, but for this case...

Safely isolating the section was easy... So we looked forward to an easy job and to being easily finished with time to spare before Monday... Easy...

Except...

Physically restricted access, poor lighting, and a mess of other pipework in the way... So much so that there was no room to get human arms and tools in there to get anything to move...

I can well see how/why unexpected damage gets done for what on paper looks like a trivial one hour job...

Hence, brain was engaged against the more impatient in the team (ok, the one other in the team!) to deftly cut away a few bits to gain a minimum of access.

That worked well... Except that the fittings were jammed in place by the weight of the other parts... Duh...

That was then overcome by carefully cutting two sections of pipework to relieve the strain... Extra work but it was the only way, short of bulldozing the lot!

That section can stay isolated until 'sometime later'...

Hey ho! Very good escape and a good excuse for beers!!


I wonder if there's any HR restrictions on a job spec of "must have the arms and strength of an orangutan"? Then again, with the blind tick-box keyword mentality, they might actually hire one!


All good fun!


HR: "Human Resources"

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Posting on a Monday morning while waiting for the jug to boil and the sun to rise.

Cheers.