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  2. Make your gas price predictions here

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    Our gas is sold in litres, currently 1.38 a litre (highest it's ever been, people are freaking, myself included). That translates to 5.22 a U.S. gallon, 6.35 per Imperial gallon. Cost us 160.00 to fill up the pick-up truck at work today. Criminal. Someone, somewhere is making a whack of cash. Shouldn't cost more than 40 bucks to fill a tank....

  11. Happy Birthday Ken

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    Lea, I will be taking loads of photos...

    A former co-worker of mine died today, so yeah, every day above the grass is a reason for celebrating I guess. I'd pass away a happy guy after partying with my Songfacts family at Jimmy's Margaritaville... This place at times reminds me of Jimmy's song "Coconut Telegraph"

    Tuesday on the island

    Not much goin' on

    The parties are all over

    They ended just past dawn

    But the jungle drums are beating

    With the tales from late last night

    Cause the stories bear repeating

    For everyones delight

    Chorus

    You can hear it on the coconut telegraph

    Can't keep nothin' under their hat

    You can hear 'em on the coconut telegraph

    Sayin' who did dis and dat

    Dis and dat dis and dat

    Now I'm not one to deal in gossip

    But was he that big of fool?

    To do a belly buster high dive

    And miss the entire pool?

    Now what's the word on sweet Melissa?

    And the kid nobody knew

    Did Ricardo ever find her?

    I swear it's just between me and you

    Chorus

    You can hear it on the coconut telegraph

    By now everybody knows

    You can hear it on the coconut telegraph

    Just who comes and goes

    Comes and goes comes and goes

    It's humpday on the island

    And the lines have all gone dead

    All the juicy news is history

    I guess everything's been said

    But when the eagle flies on Friday

    And the boys break out the rum

    Then the joint begins to jumpin'

    And you'll hear those hot lines hum

    Chorus

    Put it on the coconut telegraph

    All the celebration and the stress

    Put it on the coconut telegraph

    In tewnty-five words or less

  12. Random Video Posts

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    Thanks Ken! So thats how they do it???? Maybe when I retire, I will open up a bakery. I got some practice at the range today with the AR-15, so I can make doughnuts at a distance of 50 yards. 6 hours in the 90 degree weather. I look like a lobster and feel like a haggis.

    I had to look on a Google image search to find out what a AR-15 was. Wow. I hope you said "See de moofin? Und here mit de boome shooten!"

    Solarcaine, my brother. Kills the sting straight off...

  18. Happy Birthday Ken

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    Ah in these waters it isn't the barnacles, it's the G.D. zebra mussels. A gift to us from ocean-going vessels dumping water-ballast in the Great Lakes. They cover every square inch of any wreck I've ever been on covering up fine detail. They are only as big as a thumbnail but there are trillions of them. They seem to not like brass for some reason. You get inside an engine room of a wreck and everything is clotted with them then you see these huge brass fittings gleaming like they day they were cast. Many a diver has brought down a paint scraper to remove the things from the name of a wreck. zebra20mussel1xt1.jpg this is a single one, this is what a shopping cart looks like covered with them.. photo405ij5.gif You can see what I mean...

  20. Random Photos Thread

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    f_Picture245m_89d2d5b.jpg I either need a life, or a better digital camera. These little purple flowers are growing out in front of my house and took me over a half-hour to photograph. They are small, about the size of my thumbnail, and pretty as all get-out...

  21. Happy Birthday Ken

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    A fellow dive companion of mine with a closet-load more cash than I'll ever have called me tonight and gave me a one-of-a-kind birthday gift. A spot on a charter to find the wreck of the Hydrus, a ship lost in the Black Friday storm of 1913 and never found. The Canadian Navy has agreed to lend the expedition side-scan sonar. Second weekend in September and I am positively cranked.

    Ken.

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