Texas man shoots driver in car

[230RN]

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Sounds like another "living while impaired" beer meets beer situation.

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[zxcvbob]

You do if you know you don't want to be rude and shine your bright vehicle lights into someones house at night, but need to check you phone for directions to where you are going.

No you don't.  You back out and turn around, and park on the side of the road while you check your phone.  You probably should have done that before you pull into a driveway to turn around.

[Jim147]

I'm one of those people with over a quarter mile driveway. If someone turns in my drive at night and turns the lights off it is normally a state trooper running radar and looking for drunken cowboys. Running up to him or her might not end well.

[230RN]

Jim147 related:

"I'm one of those people with over a quarter mile driveway. If someone turns in my drive at night and turns the lights off it is normally a state trooper running radar and looking for drunken cowboys. Running up to him or her might not end well."

Heh.  Late 1970s. My farm about 2AM, two miles out of town, woke up to the sound of a car on the gravel in the driveway.  Could not see the car from my bedroom window.  Grabbed my bedroom shotgun (BRSG) and rushed downstairs and looked out the window to see it was a Highway Patrol car.  Leaned BRSG against the wall and went outside.

Nobody in patrol car.  Nobody in barnyard parking area.  WTF?

We had indoor plumbing, but the place still had a WPA (Works Progress Administration) one-hole outhouse, which we (I) rarely used, near another outbuilding.

Noticed some light coming out of the outhouse cracks, then the door opened and a Trooper came out with his flashlight.  Shined it on me.

Upshot:  Previous owner had given him permission to use the outhouse if need be, had never told me about it. Pleasant conversation, "Any time you need to stop, go ahead."  Next day I put fresh TP and a flashlight out there.

Sidelight.  One day I noticed the "2 X 4"s looked big.  Measured them.  They were an actual two inches by an actual four inches.  Amazing.

Terry

REF (WPA. Article doesn't mention a lot of private projects, which constituted part of the "boondoggle."  I won't tell anybody if you won't):

https://www.history.com/topics/great-depression/works-progress-administration

The barnyard with my LTD out there.  Outhouse does not appear in this pic.

[K Frame]

"Sidelight.  One day I noticed the "2 X 4"s looked big.  Measured them.  They were an actual two inches by an actual four inches.  Amazing."

It wasn't until the 1960s that the 2x4 became standardized at the nominal 3.5x1.5 inches.

Before that you'd likely see actual dimensional lumber.

[Jim147]

I still have a little real 2x4 oak around here. I use them for barrel vises.

I have a good friend in town that has an incredible brick *expletive deleted*it house in his back yard. I just have the old little wood one.

[Hawkmoon]

"Sidelight.  One day I noticed the "2 X 4"s looked big.  Measured them.  They were an actual two inches by an actual four inches.  Amazing."

It wasn't until the 1960s that the 2x4 became standardized at the nominal 3.5x1.5 inches.

Before that you'd likely see actual dimensional lumber.

They went through two intermediate stages on the way: 1-3/4 x 3-3/4, and then 1-5/8 x 3-5/8. The house I grew up in and still live in was built in 1950. The 2x4s measure 1-5/8 x 3-9/16, and that's after 70+ years of drying and shrinkage.

The 1-1/2 x 3-1/2 became the standard around 1975, IIRC.

[just Warren]

Can you guys stop comparing your wood?

[230RN]

^ That was a gut bustin' knee slapper.
Needed a laugh.  Hallowe'en soon, almost nothing but horror movies on TV.  Watching Fronkensteen now which at least doesn't have someone getting smooshed by a hydraulic press and...and has Teri Garr in it.  <BP spike>.....

[just Warren]

Damn.

Gene Wilder, Peter Boyle, Marty Feldman, Cloris Leachman, and Madeline Khan are all gone now.

[JTHunter]

Can you guys stop comparing your wood?

As long as it isn't "morning wood" they are comparing ! 

In addition to Wilder and company, add Kenneth Mars too.  Of the main cast, only Terri Garr is left and she is in her mid-70s.

[gunsmith]

back in the good old days when I lived off grid north of nowhere Nevada - it was the beginning of burning man season .
We had a long, dirt/gravel driveway with big signs warning you to stop because guns were being used - stupid L.A types drove all the way to the front door.
 They thought the signs were a joke and that they were on burningman property.
I was going to yell at them but one was a really pretty girl

[230RN]

As long as it isn't "morning wood" they are comparing ! 

In addition to Wilder and company, add Kenneth Mars too.  Of the main cast, only Terri Garr <BP spike> is left and she is in her mid-70s.

Ah, but she'll still be Roberta Lincoln in "Assignment: Earth" to me. <BP spike>

There was April Tatro as Isis the cat, too, but that wasn't Terri Garr. <BP spike>

Gary Seven: "That, Miss Lincoln, is simply my cat."



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[RocketMan]

Ah, but she'll still be Roberta Lincoln in "Assignment: Earth" to me. <BP spike>

There was April Tatro as Isis the cat, too, but that wasn't Terri Garr. <BP spike>

Gary Seven: "That, Miss Lincoln, is simply my cat."

That episode was to be a pilot for a spinoff series of the same name.  Unfortunately it didn't work out.

[230RN]

Sorry, MillCreek, but this incidental sidelight by me (Reply # 28) seems to have taken your thread off in new directions:

"Sidelight.  One day I noticed the "2 X 4"s looked big.  Measured them.  They were an actual two inches by an actual four inches.  Amazing."

A strange case deserving of more direct attention.

Mea culpa.

Penitent Terry, 230RN

[JTHunter]

That episode was to be a pilot for a spinoff series of the same name.  Unfortunately it didn't work out.

And that was a shame because the interplay between Garr and Tatro would have been epic ! 

[230RN]

Well, back to the veer, I guess  Sorry.

Agreed.  Just watching it for the original showing, I thought it was kind of weird that they just showed the cat's human form briefly (April Tatro) and that was that. Fade to theme.

Wasn't until I hit the information on the net decades later that I found out about the "pilot" dealie.  That explained a lot, and I agree with you.

I wonder how they'd have handled that... sisterhood, one complementing the other in Gary Seven's adventures, one-upmanship one-upwomanhip (meow!) with the winner "purring"(!)....?

I even wondered if there might have been an uprising from the public about some kind of "bestiality" question.  They probably tiptoed around that before abandoning the project. (Remember: It was 1968.)

Kinda too bad, because Ms. Tatro was a very attractive lady, even though Ms. Garr <BP spike> plucked my heartstrings.

(Sorries again, MillCreek.   But, you know.... APS.)

Terry, 230RN