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Re: How to Stop Fence from Leaning ?

rob...@nf.sympatico.ca (jim) — Fri, 19 mar 2010 10:53:52 UT

In english please?

Re: Where to get Bentonite clay (Home Depot? Target?)

spamb...@milmac.com (Doug Miller) — Fri, 19 mar 2010 11:50:01 UT

I don't know if it's still available or not, but I remember from my teenage
years an acne treatment called "Mudd" that did pretty much the same thing.

Re: Still more on Prius runaway

nopsammm2...@bigfoot.com (mm) — Fri, 19 mar 2010 10:43:04 UT

Right. That's why the thing looked like a mushroom. The stem was the
box. There's not a lot of point to building a balloon that won't
carry a payload. If that's all you want, you can buy one fully made
at the supermarket.
Oh, yeah. That was why. The balloon wasn't empty, it still had
helium, almost enough to fly since until a littel while earlier it was

Re: More on that runaway Prius...

sa...@dog.com — Fri, 19 mar 2010 10:41:14 UT

On Fri, 19 Mar 2010 05:58:06 -0400, "Ed Pawlowski"
Unless they don't.
We are talking about a MALFUNCTION. Things often behave in
unpredictable ways when they are malfunctioning.

Re: How big are surveyor pegs

ninebal...@aol.com (Hustlin' Hank) — Fri, 19 mar 2010 10:40:14 UT

Pins are usually 1" metal rods that extend below the frostline so they
won't be shoved up by freezing and thawing. It could be below grade by
a foot or so, depending on your location.
Where I live (central Ohio), the property line begins in the middle of
the road and extends towards the rear of the property. There is a 30'

Re: How big are surveyor pegs

sa...@dog.com — Fri, 19 mar 2010 10:38:55 UT

On Fri, 19 Mar 2010 05:06:20 -0400, mm <NOPSAMmm2...@bigfoot.com>
wrote:
Find out who did the last survey. It will be noted on the survey.
Getting a previous survey "verified" by the same surveyor can often
save you a lot of money.

Re: About recalls for runaway cars.

sa...@dog.com — Fri, 19 mar 2010 10:27:48 UT

On Thu, 18 Mar 2010 21:33:23 -0700 (PDT), Harry K
Bad guess. It had a centrifical cluych that needed to be disengaged.

Re: Still more on Prius runaway

sa...@dog.com — Fri, 19 mar 2010 10:25:29 UT

On Thu, 18 Mar 2010 21:24:06 -0700 (PDT), Harry K
It is a box, and if you look around I'm pretty sure you can find
photos or video showing it in detail with the door open and closed. It
was intended for cameras and weather instruments, not human
passengers. It was big enough for a small kid to get inside.

Re: More on that runaway Prius...

sa...@dog.com — Fri, 19 mar 2010 10:20:35 UT

On Thu, 18 Mar 2010 22:07:22 -0400, "Ed Pawlowski"
Something may interfere with the pressure getting to the wheels. This
is especially true of cars with ABS.

Re: How big are surveyor pegs

nopsammm2...@bigfoot.com (mm) — Fri, 19 mar 2010 10:02:59 UT

Thanks for your good reply.
Just an inch or two? So I need a good metal detector.
Property lines seem to bring out the extreme in some people, and some
of them are crazy already. :)

Re: More on that runaway Prius...

e...@snetnospam.net (Ed Pawlowski) — Fri, 19 mar 2010 09:58:06 UT

"Bob F" <bobnos...@gmail.com> wrote
Actually, a lot of people know. They default to plain hydraulic brakes.

Re: Where to get Bentonite clay (Home Depot? Target?)

nopsammm2...@bigfoot.com (mm) — Fri, 19 mar 2010 09:37:07 UT

On Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:46:36 -0700 (PDT), Ron <BigELil...@msn.com>
wrote:
Actually I figured anything about girls and sex would interest a lot
of the people here.

Re: How big are surveyor pegs

dgrif...@7cox.net (DanG) — Fri, 19 mar 2010 15:35:39 UT

It is normal to drive the pin below grade. The pin is usually a
piece of rebar on end, so it is a fairly small target to find.
They often have a plastic cap installed on the top with the
surveyor's name on it. The pin is 2' long. I suppose someone
could move a survey pin, but it would seem extreme. Once you've

Re: Still more on Prius runaway

nopsammm2...@bigfoot.com (mm) — Fri, 19 mar 2010 09:18:50 UT

On Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:56:14 -0400, Kurt Ullman <kurtull...@yahoo.com>
wrote:
I guess some people do talk about them.
Some African tribe had a practice, to determine who was teling the
truth, of heating something, maybe it was a ceremonial piece of metal
to which magical properties were attributed, and having the accused or

Re: Still more on Prius runaway

nopsammm2...@bigfoot.com (mm) — Fri, 19 mar 2010 09:12:05 UT

This assumes there are no false positives from lie detector personnel
There are. It can further convince them that you are guilty.
I don't know how many false positives there are, reporting that
someone actually telling the truth is lying, and no one talks about
them but I've been there. And there wasn't even any crime or civil