Comments on: Stony http://www.headrambles.com/2008/06/12/stony/ Rambles around the head of an Irish Grandad Sun, 14 Mar 2010 14:45:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Blogging With a Hole in my Face | Just Thinkin' http://www.headrambles.com/2008/06/12/stony/comment-page-1/#comment-11930 Blogging With a Hole in my Face | Just Thinkin' Thu, 10 Jul 2008 21:28:48 +0000 http://www.headrambles.com/2008/06/12/stony/#comment-11930 [...] days of soft food and I’ll be right as rain. Next time though I’m bringing a glob of plastique and a roll of detcord. Diesel fuel is expensive nowadays. Bookmark [...] [...] days of soft food and I’ll be right as rain. Next time though I’m bringing a glob of plastique and a roll of detcord. Diesel fuel is expensive nowadays. Bookmark [...]

]]> By: Grandad http://www.headrambles.com/2008/06/12/stony/comment-page-1/#comment-11929 Grandad Sat, 14 Jun 2008 18:14:56 +0000 http://www.headrambles.com/2008/06/12/stony/#comment-11929 Kirk M - I don't intend passing on for a year or two yet [but I may change my mind], so there is plenty of time. I don't know if they allowed you to keep your submarine when you left, but if they did then Killary Harbour on the west coast is a good natural fjord. Or Bantry Bay has a deep water terminal? Let me know and I'll give you GPS coordinates of either or both. Kirk M – I don’t intend passing on for a year or two yet [but I may change my mind], so there is plenty of time. I don’t know if they allowed you to keep your submarine when you left, but if they did then Killary Harbour on the west coast is a good natural fjord. Or Bantry Bay has a deep water terminal? Let me know and I’ll give you GPS coordinates of either or both.

]]> By: Kirk M http://www.headrambles.com/2008/06/12/stony/comment-page-1/#comment-11928 Kirk M Sat, 14 Jun 2008 17:52:07 +0000 http://www.headrambles.com/2008/06/12/stony/#comment-11928 I am truly honored sir, and perhaps I'll fortunate enough to be able to someday and hopefully not before for we both pass on. :P Always meant to visit Ireland while we were poking holes in the ocean in and around that general area but we could never seem to find a parking spot for the submarine. I am truly honored sir, and perhaps I’ll fortunate enough to be able to someday and hopefully not before for we both pass on. :P

Always meant to visit Ireland while we were poking holes in the ocean in and around that general area but we could never seem to find a parking spot for the submarine.

]]> By: Grandad http://www.headrambles.com/2008/06/12/stony/comment-page-1/#comment-11925 Grandad Fri, 13 Jun 2008 13:58:05 +0000 http://www.headrambles.com/2008/06/12/stony/#comment-11925 Kirk M - We don't normally take kindly to foreigners moving into our area, but should you ever wish to retire to Ireland, I think we could happily let you in. I think you would fit in <em>very</em> well in our village. Kirk M – We don’t normally take kindly to foreigners moving into our area, but should you ever wish to retire to Ireland, I think we could happily let you in. I think you would fit in very well in our village.

]]> By: prin http://www.headrambles.com/2008/06/12/stony/comment-page-1/#comment-11924 prin Fri, 13 Jun 2008 13:47:36 +0000 http://www.headrambles.com/2008/06/12/stony/#comment-11924 Ah, Kirk, you made my morning! Thanks for the laugh! :) Ah, Kirk, you made my morning! Thanks for the laugh! :)

]]> By: Kirk M http://www.headrambles.com/2008/06/12/stony/comment-page-1/#comment-11927 Kirk M Fri, 13 Jun 2008 13:27:24 +0000 http://www.headrambles.com/2008/06/12/stony/#comment-11927 Ah, I remember days like these back before the medication. Going around with a small backpack full of plastic, caps and detention cord (military issue-love that stuff-burns at 5 miles a second). I recall one night around 3:00 AM when another depressed buddy of mine and I were sitting atop this knoll overlooking a section of major highway that headed over an 8 lane bridge between Groton and New London, CT. We were waiting for the local State cop sitting at the turn-around at the base of the bridge to fall asleep in his cruiser so it was a good thing we brought a few brews along to pass the time plus my buddy had brought his guitar also and we sang songs in bad harmony to keep our spirits up. You see, we had wrapped several of the trees that surrounded that turn-around with about 5 wraps of the det. cord; the end of which was connected to a radio detonator. When my buddy saw the trooper's head nod for the last time through his high powered binoculars, I set off the det. cord via the radio transmitter I had been sitting on. We laughed for weeks afterward at the results as you can imagine. Great therapy that was. No one did manage to figure out how several medium size pine trees seemed to have been blasted off their trunks at the same time exact instant especially when one of the "State's Finest" had been awake and alert at the time at the very turn-around where it happened (or at least he was a split second <i>after</i> it happened anyway). But that was then. Now I just spend a few happy hours during the summer weekends baking up these "plastic" golf balls and substituting them for the real ones up at the local club...I do limit myself to lawyers and certain politicians though, this really keeps my spirits up. I just knew that greens keeper job would come in handy one day. Ah, I remember days like these back before the medication. Going around with a small backpack full of plastic, caps and detention cord (military issue-love that stuff-burns at 5 miles a second).

I recall one night around 3:00 AM when another depressed buddy of mine and I were sitting atop this knoll overlooking a section of major highway that headed over an 8 lane bridge between Groton and New London, CT. We were waiting for the local State cop sitting at the turn-around at the base of the bridge to fall asleep in his cruiser so it was a good thing we brought a few brews along to pass the time plus my buddy had brought his guitar also and we sang songs in bad harmony to keep our spirits up.

You see, we had wrapped several of the trees that surrounded that turn-around with about 5 wraps of the det. cord; the end of which was connected to a radio detonator.

When my buddy saw the trooper’s head nod for the last time through his high powered binoculars, I set off the det. cord via the radio transmitter I had been sitting on. We laughed for weeks afterward at the results as you can imagine. Great therapy that was.

No one did manage to figure out how several medium size pine trees seemed to have been blasted off their trunks at the same time exact instant especially when one of the “State’s Finest” had been awake and alert at the time at the very turn-around where it happened (or at least he was a split second after it happened anyway).

But that was then. Now I just spend a few happy hours during the summer weekends baking up these “plastic” golf balls and substituting them for the real ones up at the local club…I do limit myself to lawyers and certain politicians though, this really keeps my spirits up. I just knew that greens keeper job would come in handy one day.

]]> By: Grandad http://www.headrambles.com/2008/06/12/stony/comment-page-1/#comment-11926 Grandad Fri, 13 Jun 2008 12:25:14 +0000 http://www.headrambles.com/2008/06/12/stony/#comment-11926 Medstudentwife - Don't worry. He's a professional, and we trust him around the village. Our village is our regulatory body and we're happy. Medstudentwife – Don’t worry. He’s a professional, and we trust him around the village. Our village is our regulatory body and we’re happy.

]]> By: medstudentwife http://www.headrambles.com/2008/06/12/stony/comment-page-1/#comment-11923 medstudentwife Fri, 13 Jun 2008 04:05:03 +0000 http://www.headrambles.com/2008/06/12/stony/#comment-11923 I don't know if I want to cry or laff .... given my past AND PRESENT !! My jaw is flapping... not good.... catching flies on this one.. Okay I'll call it.... Nice guy but.... HE IS CARRYING POTENTIALLY EXPLOSIVE ITEMS IN A PUBLIC AREA HELLO.... NO REASONS ARE GOOD ENOUGH... No local regulatory body you can call ? I know the rock and the hard place....but at least make who'm ever aware.... call them... THIS IS NOT FUNNY !!! And ya !!! I'm a safety prude, but I've seen enough.... ) I don’t know if I want to cry or laff …. given my past AND PRESENT !!

My jaw is flapping… not good…. catching flies on this one..

Okay I’ll call it…. Nice guy but…. HE IS CARRYING POTENTIALLY EXPLOSIVE ITEMS IN A PUBLIC AREA

HELLO…. NO REASONS ARE GOOD ENOUGH…

No local regulatory body you can call ?

I know the rock and the hard place….but at least make who’m ever aware…. call them…

THIS IS NOT FUNNY !!!

And ya !!! I’m a safety prude, but I’ve seen enough…. )

]]> By: John O http://www.headrambles.com/2008/06/12/stony/comment-page-1/#comment-11922 John O Fri, 13 Jun 2008 00:18:10 +0000 http://www.headrambles.com/2008/06/12/stony/#comment-11922 Maybe Stony wanted to blow up the "Lisbon Treaty", sounds like that what should happen to the treaty anyway! Maybe Stony wanted to blow up the “Lisbon Treaty”, sounds like that what should happen to the treaty anyway!

]]> By: English Mum http://www.headrambles.com/2008/06/12/stony/comment-page-1/#comment-11921 English Mum Thu, 12 Jun 2008 19:33:59 +0000 http://www.headrambles.com/2008/06/12/stony/#comment-11921 Can I have a commenters list? Can I? Can I? Can I? Pleeeeeeeeease??? Can I have a commenters list? Can I? Can I? Can I? Pleeeeeeeeease???

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