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1 hour ago, Underdog said:

Certainly beats the alternative of a grandpa becoming friends with a teenage girl he accidentally texted.

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Somehow, I had lost the title to both my boat and the title for the engine. I tried to get in touch with the loan company I had used when I purchased it. They had been bought out years ago, and were no help. I called TPWD and got a great dude on the line, explained the situation, and there was no longer a lien on it. He told me the form I needed, and to just write down everything you just told me, and we will get you taken care of. Sure enough, in about three weeks, I got a new boat title. I didn't get the title for the engine, but figured it might have gotten delayed and would come later.

Today, I got a letter from a TexasEx that lives in the first house I bought in Cedar Park. He had gone out of his way to mail me the title to the engine as I had never changed the address. It had a very nice note that apologized for his kids opening it up. I just wanted to say "Thanks" and see if he might be a fellow Surly member. If so shoot me a DM, and expect a gift card in the mail.

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6 minutes ago, CHIEF said:

Somehow, I had lost the title to both my boat and the title for the engine. I tried to get in touch with the loan company I had used when I purchased it. They had been bought out years ago, and were no help. I called TPWD and got a great dude on the line, explained the situation, and there was no longer a lien on it. He told me the form I needed, and to just write down everything you just told me, and we will get you taken care of. Sure enough, in about three weeks, I got a new boat title. I didn't get the title for the engine, but figured it might have gotten delayed and would come later.

Today, I got a letter from a TexasEx that lives in the first house I bought in Cedar Park. He had gone out of his way to mail me the title to the engine as I had never changed the address. It had a very nice note that apologized for his kids opening it up. I just wanted to say "Thanks" and see if he might be a fellow Surly member. If so shoot me a DM, and expect a gift card in the mail.

CHIEF

Um yeah that was me and on the gift card that’s Eddie V’s with a “V”. 

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2 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

It'll get you a half dozen blue point oysters, and that's good enough for me.

That is what I would order as well. 

I gave the "Green Hornet" to a buddy. The tilt and trim no longer works, and all of the hinges are rusted, its faded as shit. We had some good times on that boat. If we took it back to POC and dropped it into the salt, I am 100% sure it would disintegrate right before our eyes. Nothing funnier than when we made Justin drive back from the Big Jetties. because we had families with young children, like he was expendable. 

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5 minutes ago, Parliament said:

My mom fwd:fwd:fwd'd me that literally 25 years ago.

My mom was on the right wing fwd:fwd. After taking the time to research and debunk every single email for a month, I just deleted the ones that arrived afterward. Had no effect on her.

It was posted on Bluesky today, and I had never seen it. I am impressed by you.

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Under the premise that discovery is a good thing, TIL science has discovered how to split electrons into fractions of an electron.
https://scitechdaily.com/a-physics-discovery-so-strange-its-changing-quantum-theory/

Setting up nicely for Pablo and Allan (UT Austin) to win the Nobel in 2025. They were predicted to win in 2024 for the magic-angle in twisted graphene but AI decided it didn’t want to wait to take over.
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Link to Stephen Pastis’ post, titled: “Ever Wished That Calvin and Hobbes Creator Bill Watterson Would Return to the Comics Page? Well, He Just Did.”


Since I love Watterson’s art, I enjoyed the read. And the comics attached brought a couple of good laughs.

 

https://stephanpastis.wordpress.com/2014/06/07/ever-wished-that-calvin-and-hobbes-creator-bill-watterson-would-return-to-the-comics-page-well-he-just-did/

 

Here’s Pastis’ strip which opened the door.

 

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1 hour ago, Willfully Horn said:

Link to Stephen Pastis’ post, titled: “Ever Wished That Calvin and Hobbes Creator Bill Watterson Would Return to the Comics Page? Well, He Just Did.”


Since I love Watterson’s art, I enjoyed the read. And the comics attached brought a couple of good laughs.

 

https://stephanpastis.wordpress.com/2014/06/07/ever-wished-that-calvin-and-hobbes-creator-bill-watterson-would-return-to-the-comics-page-well-he-just-did/

 

Here’s Pastis’ strip which opened the door.

 

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This made my day. I would get our local newspaper if it had comics in it. But nope.

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36 minutes ago, Nuge said:

Huge fan of Calvin & Hobbes.  In fact, I have one of the books by my shitter.  I'm curious how @Willfully Horn came across a 10 year old blog and has Watterson done anything since?

It came up on Bluesky, and I hadn’t seen it. And, I don’t know.

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20 minutes ago, ChickenSandwich said:

The obvious answer was a gift card to the Dollar Store 

I’m sure he needed the cash for gas. I hardly carry cash, usually just use my debit card. I had $30 that has probably been in my wallet for six months, I gave that, and husseled the wife for another &40, that was all the cash she was carrying. 
We were in CHIEF Jr.’s truck, we had to go pick up some tables and chairs for the birthday party. Mrs. CHIEF brought up that we should have checked the console, he always has cash in there. Sure enough, she opened it up and there was $200 sitting right there. I would have given him that as well if I would have thought to check it. I don’t mind at all helping a guy that works a sixty hour week to try and take care of his family. 
 

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Something good to come out of LSU:

BATON ROUGE – LSU researchers have created a new, low-cost way to break down plastic, a potential breakthrough that could save billions of dollars and eliminate billions of tons of plastic pollution.

https://www.lsu.edu/mediacenter/news/2025/01/3_low_cost_plastic_recycling.php

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Something good to come out of LSU:
BATON ROUGE – LSU researchers have created a new, low-cost way to break down plastic, a potential breakthrough that could save billions of dollars and eliminate billions of tons of plastic pollution.
https://www.lsu.edu/mediacenter/news/2025/01/3_low_cost_plastic_recycling.php

It’s LSU. I presume the methodology is “first, you make a roux…then, ya eat it.”
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15 hours ago, Kennythetiger said:

Your math isn’t adding up. First you said that you gave him $60, then you said that you gave him $70. 

I didn’t count it. Was told later she handed me $40. Probably to make her feel superior to my $30. You know how women are. 
 

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