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Forum: The Trailer Park
Jan 5th 2015, 4:07 pm
Replies: 30
Views: 2,196
Posted By paddingtongreen

Re: Baby #2 is here

Very well done! My congratulations to all.
Forum: The Trailer Park
Nov 12th 2014, 2:18 pm
Replies: 66
Views: 5,440
Posted By paddingtongreen

Re: A brief whine regarding Veteran's Day

My time in the REs qualified as previous service for the draft.
Forum: The Trailer Park
Nov 12th 2014, 2:03 pm
Replies: 10
Views: 759
Posted By paddingtongreen

Re: Harry & David Pears at TJ's

Take your pick! (http://www.harryanddavid.com/h/fruit-gift/pears?cm_sp=fonav-_-fruitgift-_-pears)
Forum: The Trailer Park
Nov 7th 2014, 9:54 am
Replies: 192
Views: 11,378
Posted By paddingtongreen

Re: November Elections

I live in a retirement community, there are enough of us that we have a polling place in the community, we do have to open the gates to some locals who live nearby. Anyway, we had a better than 75%...
Forum: The Trailer Park
Aug 7th 2014, 10:01 am
Replies: 71
Views: 7,784
Posted By paddingtongreen

Re: Old batteries and electrical matters

This Guy (https://rustybikebell.wordpress.com/tag/a-battery-light-for-classic-bikes/) Has some similar lamps and an adapter, he doesn't say where to get one, I couldn't find any but some work with...
Forum: The Trailer Park
Jul 25th 2014, 8:01 am
Replies: 10
Views: 1,038
Posted By paddingtongreen

Re: Oh the irony!

Just remember, you are more American than he or she is, they simply appeared here, you had to work for it!
Forum: USA
Jul 11th 2014, 11:22 am
Replies: 33
Views: 9,035
Posted By paddingtongreen

Re: Moving my family to Philadelphia

Delaware county, west of Philly, is fairly good if you stay west of Darby, Upper Darby and Folsom, although some residents would disagree with that slur. I raised my family in Springfield Delaware...
Forum: The Trailer Park
Jun 18th 2014, 11:57 am
Replies: 76
Views: 2,975
Posted By paddingtongreen

Re: Redskins team trademarks cancelled by US Patent and Trademark Office

I still don't understand the resistance to change.

They would make a bundle selling the old gear to people who wanted to collect it, followed by another selling the new rig to the fans.
Forum: The Trailer Park
Jun 6th 2014, 9:07 am
Replies: 8
Views: 759
Posted By paddingtongreen

Re: 70th Anniversary of D Day Landings (6th June)

This thread had me thinking, I don't specifically remember D-Day. I was nine and a bit and my dad had been wounded at the Anzio Beachhead and was in the military ward of St Mary's Hospital,...
Forum: The Trailer Park
Jun 4th 2014, 9:13 am
Replies: 20
Views: 1,423
Posted By paddingtongreen

Re: Secret Service wants to Edetect sarcasm

Now let me see, was that ironic, satirical, sarcastic, or something else?
Forum: The Trailer Park
Jun 3rd 2014, 2:13 pm
Replies: 20
Views: 1,423
Posted By paddingtongreen

Secret Service wants to Edetect sarcasm

Secret Service wants to Edetect sarcasm in social media.

...
Forum: The Trailer Park
May 28th 2014, 1:13 pm
Replies: 16
Views: 1,339
Posted By paddingtongreen

Re: Fascinating article on compound numbers.

Odds and ends.

Was fooled by title, this is compounded interest, not compound numbers. I fooled my self at first thinking of complex numbers and the Mandelbrot Set.

I remember explaining to my...
Forum: The Trailer Park
May 22nd 2014, 9:14 am
Replies: 21
Views: 1,900
Posted By paddingtongreen

Re: Robbery Suspect Tracked by GPS and Killed

Then the question arises as to whether they were upper crust lads up to an innocent prank or whether they were of the lower class' and damaged and stole public property.
Forum: The Trailer Park
May 20th 2014, 2:02 pm
Replies: 20
Views: 2,035
Posted By paddingtongreen

Re: Buying a Vehicle

A bit out of date now, but Enterprise was the only name brand that rented cars at the rates allowed by the insurance companies when I needed one.
Forum: The Trailer Park
May 6th 2014, 5:41 am
Replies: 64
Views: 5,177
Posted By paddingtongreen

Re: And also...have you made any arrangements for your old age?

It's a thought, perhaps I should think about doing something.:)

I couldn't keep up with my four bedroom house on three quarters plus acres so I moved to a retirement community in the same county....
Forum: The Trailer Park
May 4th 2014, 5:25 am
Replies: 17
Views: 1,545
Posted By paddingtongreen

Re: A first..after 25 years here.

My wife wanted a celebration of her life. She made friends easily, the church was full to overflowing. Instead of the standard urn, we had her ashes in a flowery china box, a country cottage with the...
Forum: The Trailer Park
Apr 24th 2014, 12:11 pm
Replies: 222
Views: 10,373
Posted By paddingtongreen

Re: Police and Education

It looks as though this thread has become an excuse for some here to tout their university education.
Forum: The Trailer Park
Apr 21st 2014, 10:10 am
Replies: 222
Views: 10,373
Posted By paddingtongreen

Re: Police and Education

OT, but the only time I liked to go to church was Midnight Mass on Christmas Eve at Saint Mary's, Paddington. I could almost guarantee that some would come in and keel over when the incense hit them,...
Forum: The Trailer Park
Apr 17th 2014, 11:59 pm
Replies: 222
Views: 10,373
Posted By paddingtongreen

Re: Police and Education

This is a strange thread to read for the first time, people quoting posts that aren't there:confused: Quite discombobulating it is, it infers a lack of education on somebody's part.

Somebody...
Forum: The Trailer Park
Apr 13th 2014, 12:31 pm
Replies: 71
Views: 5,156
Posted By paddingtongreen

Re: How do you respond to "how are you?"

I answered flippantly, in fact, since I live in a retirement community where there are people in all stages of health, it is not an idle question. When I ask it of my neighbour who is dying of...
Forum: The Trailer Park
Apr 13th 2014, 8:29 am
Replies: 71
Views: 5,156
Posted By paddingtongreen

Re: How do you respond to "how are you?"

Whad jou wanna know for? You writing a book?

I worked with some Italian Americans when first arrived here in Philly.
Forum: The Trailer Park
Apr 5th 2014, 1:08 pm
Replies: 15
Views: 1,274
Posted By paddingtongreen

Re: Grand National This Saturday

I went to see the National one year, maybe 1961, when the Russians sent a couple of horses. They were tailed of halfway through. The thing I remember most was how heavy my binoculars had become by...
Forum: The Trailer Park
Mar 29th 2014, 5:37 am
Replies: 53
Views: 2,866
Posted By paddingtongreen

Re: Whose bright idea was is to build apartments like this?

They are caught between two imperatives, they don't want to create the chimney but they have to clear the smoke, especially if there might be people inside.
Forum: The Trailer Park
Mar 28th 2014, 12:47 pm
Replies: 92
Views: 5,416
Posted By paddingtongreen

Re: Which is more vulgar?

It is in the ear of the listener.

I have some difficulty with the idea that different words describing the same thing should be vulgar to a different degree. Why is ***** profane when copulate is...
Forum: The Trailer Park
Mar 28th 2014, 12:38 pm
Replies: 53
Views: 2,866
Posted By paddingtongreen

Re: Whose bright idea was is to build apartments like this?

Where does this need for "one pour" come from because it is wrong on several counts unless your understanding of "one pour" is different from mine. There is no such requirement although there are...
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