ExiledInIllinois

Bald eagles have been off the endangered list since late 1990s. Off the threatened list for about 15 years. They are like rats in the sky now. 😆 Okay, not really... But everywhere...

Look how close she let me get to her. At work a few days ago, only had my puny cellphone... Highly compressed: ESSAYONS!

At work... We had a radio system... Repeaters, etc... All tore out. You're right. There needs to be redundancy. In a national emergency, we are pretty much screwed with cell service.

Yes. In a power failure, landlines don't usually go out AND emergency, all cells will be jammed since most use that now. It's a good safety feature... Preparedness. You can always hack it to charge stuff: Yeah. But call one state over and it's through roof the toll charges on lamdline! I am under 10 miles from Indiana border... Don't dare call a 1(219) area code from my landline! 😉😉

@BeerballProbably remembers taking the excursion boat across The Lake! 😆

I am calling BS! The Boy Scouts ad depart would NEVER authorize an ad like to be placed, no matter how much they were offered! 😉

Child! "In fact, under one testing scenario, a leather helmet provided a lower level of DAI risk than any of the modern helmets. ... While these helmets are effective shields against catastrophic skull fractures, they don't do as good a job absorbing energy from a lower impact hit." https://healthland.time.com/2011/11/07/in-football-leather-helmets-could-provide-a-better-defense-against-concussion/#:~:text=In fact%2C under one testing,any of the modern helmets.&text=While these helmets are effective,from a lower impact hit.

We used to collect the Dairylea milk cartons and redeem the free Braves tickets. Sit in the Oranges... Where my lifelong vertigo started! 😆 Semi-vertigo. 😆... I am totally afraid of heights, just unprotected falling up steep steps! 😉

Yup! Before the Erie Basin Marina... It was a rail yard. Coal/ore unloading. My father worked on Delaware-Lackawanna & later Erie-Lack... Loading, he said there was a big ramp, gravity driven I believe... If you missed your spot, one would have to ditch/jump in to the water...

Then... There wasn't even picture ID.

Late 80s, Early 1990s...

Can we merge this Crystal Beach... We snuck in after it closed. I got a "souvenir" from the "Laff in the Dark" ride... 😆... Blush... One of our finest moment as a drunk 19 year old in Ontario... 😉

Kids practice and play on artificial turf now! 😜

Maybe the KID didn't know it turned into a felony standing her ground. I wonder if the cops told her first? "You know? If you insist this is really you, it turns from a misdemeanor into a felony." I guess they don't have to, and ignorance of the law is no excuse... BUT... I would hope a good lawyer could plead it. The law is complicated. Answer: You flunked Kindergarten, twice? 😆🤣 😜

Yes. Jr. & Sr. High. Offensive Guard & Tackle. One time special teams, kickoff team. I said ONE time. You don't wanna know the result of that play. Okay, two times, I grabbed an onside kick. You also don't wanna know the results. Let's just say, I wasn't on "The Hands Team." LoL...

My older sister worked @ the Aud Club... She actually got my younger sister her first job working at The Hatch (Erie Basin) during the summer. The two were affiliated I believe. Trying to remember some of the stories they told about when the Knox' owned the Sabres. Interesting story about the catastrophic seiche that hit Buffalo in 1844. The "Great Buffalo Flood of 1844"... It's why the breakwaters were built to prevent future devastating seiche events. Where the Aud was going to be built was under 10 feet of water during that flood of 1844: A seiche is an inland tidal wave. Yup... The tidal wave that hit Buffalo right where the Aud would be built. 😆 https://www.buffalohistorygazette.net/2010/09/the-lake-erie-seiche-disaster-of-1844.html?m=1 This one's for: @BringBackFergy & @Beerball 😃

But since the dawn of time teachers have been having relationships with their students. Above 18 of course. Even in the repressive Victorian Era it happened and went unpunished.

Yeah. Rick Martin is dead now.

It's silver. 😉

The Stanley Cup is a different Story. The SC was built on disrespect! It was originally disrespected and used as a "peanut bowl" for many years. That's the tradition. The original Ottawa Silver Seven (Senators) got drunk after winning it... And tossed in the Rideau Canal...Upon waking up the next morning, they realized their disrespectful actions and went to look for it. Good thing the canal freezes over in Ottawa during winter because it was right there in the lock chamber of a flight lock in Ottawa... On the ice! NOW you know..."Tales from the Canals" Special Shout-out to my BFFs: @BringBackFergy @Gugny @Beerball @Seasons1992 https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/03/sports/hockey/how-the-stanley-cup-wound-up-in-a-canal-or-didnt.html "The Ottawa Silver Seven, forerunners of the Senators, with the Stanley Cup in 1905, around the time that one of them is said to have kicked the trophy across, or into, Ottawa’s Rideau Canal.Credit...Bruce Bennett Studios, via Getty Images" Tom Brady needs to stop co-opting other's traditions. What a cheat...

Go @Gugny Go @Gugny Go Gug... It's your birthday 🎂🥳🎉 It's your birthday 🎂🥳🎉🎈🎁! 😆🤣 Ain't every day Gugny's birthday? It sure feels like it!

^^^This Kid gets cake that looks like an ass... And I get boopkiss. 😆 Some have the life! /smdh

If you know you're gonna fail... ALWAYS refuse the breathalyzer. Why give them evidence to use against you. Every minute is your friend...

This is redundant, but HFBD. Mods will be by surely to clean the mess up in Aisle 11. 😆 😉😜

Why can't we merge this with @Johnny Hammersticks thread? It was my birthday first. Anyho... Thnx... Can I celebrate it year 'round like @Mike in Horseheadsdoes? HappyF'ingBirthday Mike! Frozen. Cold. Ground up and in a freezer!