A double freeloading success story

The TWWs want to thank some great city friends who brought up some goodies for Mrs. TWW's birthday lunch. 

The supper was from Don, Bob and Marv at the local VFW fish fry (delivered by BABA and NANA). Thanks to them also.  

Too nice out today to be inside - blog must wait until tomorrow

Flying Freeloaders at Work

Keeping the public trough full for the flying freeloaders

Is the house of cards starting to fall?

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/08/14/breaking-new-paper-makes-a-hockey-sticky-wicket-of-mann-et-al-99/

The link is to a post on a paper done by real statisticians instead of paleoclimatologists  who had to take a statistical class or two while in school. They must have been bought off by BIG OIL.

Double contribution to the cause

GAGA of Q & D Delivery made a courtesy call a few days back.  While here he left TWW a nice utility knife since he learned on the first visit to move Mrs. TWW's NuStep, TWW had three utility knives, two of which did not work and one was over 50 years old. 

TWW thanks him for the contribution to the cause.  Also, TWW learned GAGA did not have to pay for the present and had gotten it for free.  This led TWW to add a freeloading principle to his list with no intention of giving proper attribution:

 Freeloading Principle # 11 -  The best premium to give away is one you have yourself gotten for free and do not need.  (you get rid of extra stuff and have someone owing you a favor). 

So thanks to GAGA for the double contribution. 

Stoem South; Nice to North

More government intrusions on private lives

Another sleepless night coming up.

TWW Admits Trespassing on Neighbor's Land

Tom was here

Another energy saving innovation

TWW was surfing the web and came across this energy saving idea. It has been so hot lately he thought he'd try it out. What you do is take all the frozen stuff out of the freezer and then cool down the inside of the freezer so the energy use is less. 

When life sends you lemons make lemonade

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/08/08/days-decide-activists-claim-tea-party-imposters-infiltrating-elections/

This link claims Democrats are having people run as Tea Party candidates (people who vote for them would be the ones who would have voted for the Republicans).

Floating around the web - some things never change

Railroad tracks.

The  US  standard railroad gauge (distance between the rails) is 4 feet, 8.5 inches. That's an exceedingly odd number.

  Why was that gauge used? Because that's the way they built them in England, and English expatriates designed the  US  railroads.

Why did the English build them like that? Because the first rail lines were built by the same people who built the pre-railroad tramways, and that's the gauge they used.

Why did 'they' use that gauge then? Because the people who built the tramways used the same jigs and tools that they had used for building wagons, which used that wheel spacing.

Why did the wagons have that particular odd wheel spacing? Well, if they tried to use any other spacing, the wagon wheels would break on some of the old, long distance roads in  England, because that's the spacing of the wheel ruts.

So who built those old rutted roads? Imperial  Rome built the first long distance roads in Europe (including  England ) for their legions. Those roads have been used ever since.

And the ruts in the roads? Roman war chariots formed the initial ruts, which everyone else had to match for fear of destroying their wagon wheels.

Since the chariots were made for Imperial  Rome, they were all alike in the matter of wheel spacing. Therefore the United States standard railroad gauge of 4 feet, 8.5 inches is derived from the original specifications for an Imperial Roman war chariot. Bureaucracies live forever.

  So the next time you are handed a specification/procedure/process and wonder 'What horse's ass came up with this?' , you may be exactly right. Imperial Roman army chariots were made just wide enough to accommodate the rear ends of two war horses. (Two horses' asses.)

 Now, the twist to the story:

When you see a Space Shuttle sitting on its launch pad, there are two big booster rockets attached to the sides of the main fuel tank. These are solid rocket boosters, or SRBs. The SRBs are made by Thiokol at their factory in  Utah

 The
engineers who designed the SRBs would have preferred to make them a bit fatter, but the SRBs had to be shipped by train from the factory to the launch site. The railroad line from the factory happens to run through a tunnel in the mountains, and the SRBs had to fit through that tunnel. The tunnel is slightly wider than the railroad track, and the railroad track, as you now know, is about as wide as two horses' behinds.

So, a major Space Shuttle design feature of what is arguably the world's most advanced transportation system was determined over two thousand years ago by the width of a horse's ass. And you thought being a horse's asswasn't important? Ancient horse's asses control almost everything... and CURRENT Horses Asses in Washington are controlling everything else!

Evidence proving global warming missed

This thermometer read about 106 F when the TWWs got back home but TWW did not get a picture in time so the ignorant masses will still keep belieiving anthropogenic global warming is not real.

Surprise gifts from the Millruhl sisters

Another thank you to some great donors

The Millruhl sisters stopped up with some donations on Saturday.  The TWWs thank you! 

Note to future donors: Due to conditions beyond his control TWW has not been able to make many premiums since March. We still welcome your donations to the Garbin Moraine Freeloading Foundation but we will have to give you only hugs and kisses (hard for a Norwegian to do)  instead of premiums until TWW gets more made. 

More rain worsens the seven year drought

TWW realizes this topic is getting boring but it keeps raining and everybody says we are in a drought and the way we live is to blame.

TWW wonders

Today is haircut day. TWW wonders why they charge the same price for old guys as they do for kids with more hair. 

Whowithan Arrow?

Who with an Arrow said "you can do thousands of things  right and nobody notices but make one mistake and they remember it forever".   The driver of the ATV that moved Mrs. TWW's NuStep was overheard saying something similar. 

More BreitBart BS?

Can you devise a good caption for this picture?

(item was washed before picture was taken but camera wan't)

NuStep moved to the library

Thanks to Q & D Delivery Company (note: they don't do babies) the NuStep is upstairs for a while. Q& D promised to get  a different driver or send the one who moved the machine to driver's training before they come back to move anything else.