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Shoxthemonkey

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  1. The place I live is small but we are the county seat. It means we have several lawyers and a district judge in our community. We have a 30 bed hospital with full lab so we have a couple MDs and several nurses and technicians. KDOT has a regional headquarters here so we have several civil engineers in town. We are always looking for school teachers but the administration seems pretty stable. We have two manufacturing companies that provide jobs for 60 or so people. Many of those are skilled positions. Just because a place is small doesn't mean that there aren't opportunities for professionals. Our pressing need right now is for someone to fill the dining void. Subway and Casey's isn't getting it done. We have a couple of shuttered cafes downtown that need somebody to take over. One of them was recently remodeled. Great opportunity for the right person.
  2. I'm an engineer for a small manufacturing company. We design and build specialty manufacturing equipment like rollformers and cut-to-length lines for the metal forming industry. It's a family owned business with 20ish employees. Because it's small, I get to wear many hats and dabble in sales, design, manufacturing and field installations. I make about 75% of what I could earn if I worked in Wichita. I live 3 miles outside of town on 80 acres, no mortgage. My office is 3 blocks from the 9-hole golf course and I play at least 4 days a week. I intended to be retired by now, I'm 67, but I enjoy what I do and they let me come and go as I please, for the most part. The money is too easy to give it up.
  3. I thought about posting from the Toadies catalog. Reply to Mr. Fuck
  4. Surprised that this one hasn't been posted yet.
  5. I've been with the same woman for 50 years, married 47. This one always gets me. Hat tip @hullabelew
  6. Baxter Springs, pop 3,944 https://www.kansas-demographics.com/cities_by_population
  7. ^^^^^^ I'm not disputing that there are shithole towns in Southern Kansas, there are many, but I don't know of any with that many people. Dodge City, Garden City, Pittsburg and Liberal are all under 28,000. They are mostly so small that they only have a single high school. I'm not sure where the "small" line is but I would guess that most folks would put your SILs on the small side of it.
  8. One more.
  9. Hands off. She's mine.
  10. Yeah, Lutherans. They have good bars in Lindsborg.
  11. ^^^^ Yeah, the fucking Hillsboro Mennonites are always sticking their noses where they don't belong. Good for her.
  12. I have a drawer full of those if you need one. Several new Poly-Chokes. Dad was blindsided by the choke tube revolution. I inherited a lot of obsolete inventory when he passed.
  13. Yep. I'm one of them. My great Grandfather founded Bethel College in Newton. Do you know why you always go fishing with a pair of Mennonites? If you take just one, he'll drink all your beer.
  14. I'm jealous. Our 2500 pop. town only has a bar at the bowling alley. We used to have 3 good restaraunt/cafe options but now we are down to a shitty mexican place and Casey's. I'm not a big drinker but I am a big eater so we make a trek to Wichita at least once a week for dining. You would think with the Czech/Catholic influence on our county that we would have more drinking options. I'm taking applications for my replacement if any of you mechanical engineering types are looking for a job in rural America. If you don't need a bar, that is.
  15. Shoxthemonkey

    Songbirds

    Paraphrasing what an earlier poster said, "She may not be a great technical singer, but I like the noises she makes". It works for me.
  16. Shoxthemonkey

    Songbirds

    Great lineup. Not a weak link among them.
  17. ^^^^ The blondo? Yeah, sure. Why not?
  18. Appears to be something wrong with that one dudes dick.
  19. That ending hip thrust. Niiiice
  20. The Tri-Pacer was one of my first as well. I liked to find the obscure models like the Ryan Navion and the like. My Grandparents bought me the same Revell P-51 for about 6 birthdays running. My brother sent me another for my 60th.
  21. https://www.silverspitfire.com/ Beautiful airplane.
  22. Mahsupials. Because they're fast.
  23. Or @markstanco's $300 alligator
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