The Spanky Show - Page 11

Shape Shifter · 07-05-2005, 05:36 PM

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Originally posted by Spanky
However, a large truck is not easy to turn. Its not like the power steering wheel on a Mercades. And a drivers reflex should not be to crank the wheel far enough to flip the truck when they are faced with an unforseen circumstance. . These drivers of the gas rigs are paid serious money because they get special emergency training and the driving is highly hazaderous. These guys are paid not to panic. Maybe if a kid ran out onto the road, but there was nothing in the road to swerve from. I just don't get the connection between, minor explosion in the car = hard right turn. Why not just brake.

Breaking hard with a full load can cause a truck to go out of control. What's the matter with you? Usually, you seem so thoughtful and intelligent. I would have thought you'd have seen the Smokey & the Bandit movies, or at least caught a few episodes of BJ & the Bear.

Spanky · 07-05-2005, 05:38 PM

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Originally posted by ltl/fb
I thought the flip was related to going down an embankment -- sorry, "tumbling down an embankment." It's not hard to turn enough to go off the road, and once you start tumbling . . .

Why are we arguing about this? Don't you have any wildlife stories to tell? Am I going to have to start sharing cat stories?

No rabbits, no quail, no deer. Just three bored cats sitting on the balcony.

ltl/fb · 07-05-2005, 05:39 PM

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Originally posted by Spanky
No rabbits, no quail, no deer. Just three bored cats sitting on the balcony.

Why don't you let them actually go out. Why are they confined to a balcony.

Why did you think it was a hard right turn. Do you have pictures of the tire marks or something. Are you withholding evidence.

Edited to remove the question marks.

Hank Chinaski · 07-05-2005, 05:48 PM

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Originally posted by Shape Shifter
Breaking hard with a full load can cause a truck to go out of control. What's the matter with you? Usually, you seem so thoughtful and intelligent. I would have thought you'd have seen the Smokey & the Bandit movies, or at least caught a few episodes of BJ & the Bear.

when the deer come back I think it might be good to shoot bottle rockets at them so he can see some real world responses.

07-05-2005, 05:49 PM

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Originally posted by ltl/fb
Why don't you let them actually go out. Why are they confined to a balcony.

Why did you think it was a hard right turn. Do you have pictures of the tire marks or something. Are you withholding evidence.

Edited to remove the question marks.

I like this tone. I imagine you speaking with kind of unplaceable Middle European accent and brandishing a long cigarette holder. It conveys a certain sense of sophisticated & cosmopolitan ennui and gives me some insight into why Hank is so smitten with you. Rowr!

Gattigap · 07-05-2005, 05:50 PM

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Originally posted by Spanky
No rabbits, no quail, no deer. Just three bored cats sitting on the balcony.

Again I say, Lawtalkers desperately needs a webcam function.

ltl/fb · 07-05-2005, 05:51 PM

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Originally posted by ironweed
I like this tone. I imagine you speaking with kind of unplaceable Middle European accent and brandishing a long cigarette holder. It conveys a certain sense of sophisticated & cosmopolitan ennui and gives me some insight into why Hank is so smitten with you. Rowr!

Silly boy. Zen I vould haff sed "somesing."

And you must find Spanky SMOKIN' hot. Hotter even than dtb thinks her next-desk neighbor is.

Greedy,Greedy,Greedy · 07-05-2005, 05:52 PM

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Originally posted by Flinty_McFlint
I think you're just super macho.

We know.

Flinty_McFlint · 07-05-2005, 06:30 PM

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Originally posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy

We know.

That photo was taken as we were burying Spanky's significant other as he had caught her cheating on the internets. I told you, he's muy macho. The only reason I helped is because he still has the negatives for certain photos I'm not proud of.

07-05-2005, 07:14 PM

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Originally posted by Spanky
Is it just me or did this guy completely lose his cool. My friends and I used to launch bottle rockets at eachother all the time. It is not like they can do any serious damage. This guy has a bottle rocket in his cab and he flips his truck? Not a very cool customer. Probably shouldn't be driving a tanker truck anyway.

Bottle rocket hits driver; truck overturns

Tuesday, July 5, 2005; Posted: 12:47 p.m. EDT (16:47 GMT)

Manage Alerts | What Is This? ATLANTA, Georgia (AP) -- A fuel tanker crashed and sprung a small leak early Tuesday after the driver was hit by a bottle rocket as he drove past a group of youths, authorities said.

The driver was seriously injured, and two or three nearby apartment buildings were evacuated as a precaution, they said.

The truck struck a curb and a fire hydrant before tumbling down an embankment into a parking lot.

A small amount of fuel leaked from a valve but firefighters quickly contained it, police Sgt. J.L. Hensal said. "The truck stayed pretty much intact," he said.

Police Sgt. Kevin Iosty said no arrests had been made.

The truck driver, Rafael Diaz, had just passed a group of eight to 11 juveniles on the side of the road when one of them fired a bottle rocket into the truck cab, hitting him in the head, Iosty said.

Diaz, 29, of Woodstock, was being treated at Grady Memorial Hospital for serious facial and head injuries, Iosty said.

I love that you are trying to stir up dicussion on your eponymous board. I am not sure any other poster could pull this off.

07-05-2005, 07:16 PM

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Originally posted by Spanky
No rabbits, no quail, no deer. Just three bored cats sitting on the balcony.

How many litter boxes do you have?

07-05-2005, 07:18 PM

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Originally posted by ltl/fb
Why don't you let them actually go out. Why are they confined to a balcony.

Why did you think it was a hard right turn. Do you have pictures of the tire marks or something. Are you withholding evidence.

Edited to remove the question marks.

As I understand it from reading the What Do Deer Eat board, the cats have the option to come and go as they please. Spanky generally leaves the sliding glass door open facing his backyard that is in his frontyard so that the children can wander in and out as they please. He only shuts it when that mean looking, Apple but not APricot, eating buck shows up and gives menacing looks to spanky llike he wants to make him his bitch. This doesnt explain the cat seclusion though.

SO the cats sound more lazy than bored. Maybe its from having too many litter boxers at their disposal.