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    Re: Useless Interesting Facts

    So Catwoman developed Bluetooth. Cool


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    Re: Useless Interesting Facts

    Some websites are just scams.

    https://masrows.myshopify.com/produc...8uyvc-34894IN4

    When the price is less than half of everyone else and they offer free shipping...it might be a scam

    When the address on their website looks like a brand new home/condo and yet they claim to sell 2,000 pound auto lifts, it might be a scam
    https://www.zillow.com/homes/12456-G...20442203_zpid/

    When the email address ends in ".shop", it might be a scam
    Support email: Contact@masrows.shop

    When you call the phone number and it answers with an automated voice that says only "please record your message", it might be a scam
    Phone +1 385-545-9666

    When they show on their website products all the way from coffee makers to wood chippers....it might be a scam
    https://masrows.myshopify.com/collections/our-products

    When it shows 93 products "in stock" at that $2.5M home in California that's shown on Zillow....it might be a scam
    https://masrows.myshopify.com/collec...availability=1

    When there are numerous stories about how shopify has many scam stores...it might be a scam
    https://magenest.com/en/shopify-scam-stores/
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    Re: Useless Interesting Facts

    Some of those links for me just say not to click further basically. lol


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    Re: Useless Interesting Facts

    Origin of "A man's best friend is his dog".

    Watched a Death Valley Days today. The story was about George Vest's case against someone who shot a boy's dog. (A slight modification of the actual events.) There was a trial and here is Vest's closing "argument" (more of a sermon).

    Gentlemen of the jury: The best friend a man has in this world may turn against him and become his enemy. His son or daughter that he has reared with loving care may prove ungrateful. Those who are nearest and dearest to us, those whom we trust with our happiness and our good name, may become traitors to their faith. The money that a man has, he may lose. It flies away from him, perhaps when he needs it the most. A man's reputation may be sacrificed in a moment of ill-considered action. The people who are prone to fall on their knees to do us honor when success is with us may be the first to throw the stone of malice when failure settles its cloud upon our heads. The one absolutely unselfish friend that a man can have in this selfish world, the one that never deserts him and the one that never proves ungrateful or treacherous is his dog.

    Gentlemen of the jury: A man's dog stands by him in prosperity and in poverty, in health and in sickness. He will sleep on the cold ground, where the wintry winds blow and the snow drives fiercely, if only he may be near his master's side. He will kiss the hand that has no food to offer, he will lick the wounds and sores that come in encounters with the roughness of the world. He guards the sleep of his pauper master as if he were a prince. When all other friends desert, he remains. When riches take wings and reputation falls to pieces, he is as constant in his love as the sun in its journey through the heavens.
    If fortune drives the master forth an outcast in the world, friendless and homeless, the faithful dog asks no higher privilege than that of accompanying him to guard against danger, to fight against his enemies, and when the last scene of all comes, and death takes the master in its embrace and his body is laid away in the cold ground, no matter if all other friends pursue their way, there by his graveside will the noble dog be found, his head between his paws, his eyes sad but open in alert watchfulness, faithful and true even to death.
    He won the case and an appeal to the state supreme court.

    More details: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Graham_Vest
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    Re: Useless Interesting Facts

    The Lone Ranger is on Grit now in the AM. There are a couple of interesting facts about LR.

    The TV show ran on TV from 1949 to 1957. Seasons 1, 3 and 4 ran for a full 52 weeks of episodes - new show every week. Rare back then, unheard of today.

    The last season was filmed in color but broadcast in B&W. The Grit showings have Season 5 in color and my goodness the quality is stupendous.

    Now here's something I didn't know. I'm sure comic book historians have this on the top of their heads:

    The Green Hornet is the son of The Lone Ranger's newphew Dan, a spinoff that happened in the radio days. The comic books had a reference (a LR portrait in the GH home), but the broadcast rights were in separate companies so they couldn't reference each other. See the details in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lone_Ranger
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    Re: Useless Interesting Facts

    Crazy that they ran for 52 weeks.


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    Re: Useless Interesting Facts

    The first day of spring this year was early - 3/19 at 11:06PM EDT - because of the leap year day.
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    Re: Useless Interesting Facts

    Quote Originally Posted by twobjshelbys View Post
    The first day of spring this year was early - 3/19 at 11:06PM EDT - because of the leap year day.
    OH, that's why all of the posts on Facebook that didn't make sense, I didn't know the facts.
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    Re: Useless Interesting Facts

    Something I never heard of a week ago…a conduit piston. I needed to run wire through 100’ of conduit but wasn’t sure how. This device allows you to tie a string to it, then use a shop vac to suck the string through the conduit and so then you can attach and pull your wire through. Smart, but simple.


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    Re: Useless Interesting Facts

    Quote Originally Posted by Tommy Gun View Post
    Something I never heard of a week ago…a conduit piston. I needed to run wire through 100’ of conduit but wasn’t sure how. This device allows you to tie a string to it, then use a shop vac to suck the string through the conduit and so then you can attach and pull your wire through. Smart, but simple.


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    Wow, that's surprising you didn't know that. We called them a mouse...

    If it's a straight run your electrician fish tape should do it. If it's got closed turns the fish tape usually stops. (Most electricians use a 90* turn with an access port (if exposed) or into an outlet box (if covered).

    For small conduit a piece of rag on a string will blow down. Plus, it will make the turns that these things won't.

    For larger pipes I use a small hollow ball and punch a hole in it and pull the the string through the ball. The right sized ball will also make turns.

    I start with the typical package cord string since it's the least resistance. Then I'll use the string to pull either a stronger string or rope, or pull my electrician fish tape. (Fish tapes have trouble with 90* turns...) When we pulled the 6/0 aluminum service wire bundle we used a heavy rope and tugged it along with a backhoe bucket. They also had some lubricant but that essentially disappeared in the first few feet.
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