Jeez, even Boxing day and Nate gets the answer in... This man is hard to beat. I'd also heard it was the day the churches distrubuted the money that had been left in the donations box (well I guess some of it anyway). But generally the 26th, boxing day, is more like a Christmas day without having to do anything - I mean the 25th's going to be busy right, so on the 26th we just sit and stare (recover). I very much wish everyone a Merry Christmas, family and friends are very important at this time, and getting more so I think. This site means a lot to me in just picking up the tricks that I wouldn't otherwise know about, real solid support when things come a-tumble on the truck, teriffic interest in hearing about what everyone else is doing, more people who understand what I feel when drive the '55, and just occasionally being able to help someone else (I hope). By the way this Saturday is the big fire up the engine day - after its second rebuild following the oil pump kokup. Youngest child is back from varsity for the hols so I'll have his profound knowledge of all things mechanical - yeah! I'll let you know how we get on.
Good on Ya Mel ; Spending time with your kids is the best time you can spend . My boy will be out in the desert this year , he's usualy with me as we both wake up by 05:00 and go for a nice Christmas breakfast moto ride... I'll prolly go ride alone , watch the ocean and find a coffee place . He's planning to be home on the 25th and says he'll be hanging 'round with me then . To-night we're supposed to pull my old 1963 DeLuxe VW Beetle out of deep storage so I can finally replace the tranny , it's been parked so long , I now have THREE used trannies to choose from , I thnk I'll try the 1967 one 1st. as it has a good ratio that allows the 40HP engine to really get up & go... Jr. says he wants me to rebuild the engine and use the vintage Hirsch roller crank I picked up a few years ago then dress it with the 1963 EMPI dual carby setup I've been sitting on for 35 years..... I'm hoping to get some riding in the next two weeks as I took off from the shop beginning to-morrow .
Big Engine Day ! Good news ! keep us posted . -Nate By the way this Saturday is the big fire up the engine day - after its second rebuild following the oil pump kokup. Youngest child is back from varsity for the hols so I'll have his profound knowledge of all things mechanical - yeah! I'll let you know how we get on.[/QUOTE]
Collection plates Speaking of collection plates I heard something that I want to run by you guys. I heard that the folks in Vegas would sometimes put their casino chips in the collection plates at the local Catholic churches. They are from different casinos so they send them all to a local monastery to be sorted so and taken around to the casinos to be cashed in. The people that do this at the monasteries are the chip monks. Did you see it coming?
These videos are killing me. I love it! Hey Ken I have had a few close calls with dirtbikes myself. I raced motocross for years and broken a few bones and has given me a weather forcasting nose and knee. The nose came from not making a 90 ft uphill triple. Knocked me out, broke my nose and face plate. I got right back up a few weeks later and came out and soared right over it like I've been doing it for years. That's how you get over your fear of bikes. Get right back up and do it again. (Dad just said it was more like I didn't learn my lesson the first time and I'm dumb enough to try it again). The knee came from a 85 ft step down table top. Over shot the landing by about 20ft and the rest is history. 13 stitches and the removal of some nerves in my left knee and now I know when the rain is coming. Still can't feel the skin though. Funny how that works. I'm getting out of riding just because I can't afford the bike and my truck at the same time, so the truck stays and the bike has got to go. Just want to say thanks for all of you guys support and it really is good to have friends that are willing to help with anything. Hopefully one of these days when the trucks are done we could all meet up and go for an afternoon cruise.
This is a new reason why mine has got to be built "road-worthy". I want to travel in mine. Now I have some great people to see on those trips! 'Course it'll be a couple-o-years before it's time to go, but hey- you've been warned!
happy holidays to everyone here!! hope you all have a great time and remember why we get holidays-- so we can work on our old trucks!! well, maybe not, but it'd be fun anyways! heading off to Phoenix this afternoon. Long drive, but itll be nice and warm when i get there. i'll be driving through casa grande, thinking about stopping by Patricks and see what they've got laying around. anyway, you all have a good one, stay warm, and take care!! jon
Ha Jon, I tried but my wife had some other plans. Plus the youngest decides he needs to play 8 hockey games in 4 days. Been Nice just to get back to work for a break & some rest.
For certain reasons ive not been about recently, but wish you all a great new year, and get out and drive those trucks guys! thats what they were built for. ________ GLASS BUBBLERS
Kings time????? sorry fella but we are the ones on real time, you all set your watches by us Boxing day; derived from the olde English, bocks, bocks are a small furry animal similar to a weasel, now extinct due to over hunting, they were hunted mainly by the peasants in the middle ages as a christmas feast, due to the goose and turkey only affordable by squires and lords etc, now as they were only hunted during the week prior to christmas day the bocks learned to stay hidden and keep quiet during that time, and as the hunting stopped on christmas day the bocks would slowly emerge the day after and call one another to sound the all clear, the call of the bock was rather musical and sounded like an woman calling from a distance, so the day after christmas day became known as "bock sing day" But.... they died out, mainly due to the problem of the leap year, so shifting the day that christmas is on, so they would get up and sing a day early and.........extinct! so peasants had no feasts for christmas day, chicken was the only other affordable alternative but tasted nothing like bock, but they discovered that there was just a few bocks left up in the yorkshire mountains and they only found them when they sang, so bocks could only be had on bock sing day, but as the hunter would return to the village with the rare beast a fight would normally break out, thats where bare knuckle fighting arose from, the last recorded fight in 1646, over a bock was at the grounds of a manor house owned by a Marquis in an area then known as Queensford, later the 'ford' was dropped and 'bury' replaced it, and it is reguarded by many historians as the beginning of the rules of boxing, trying to make the fight for the bock a fair one, so gradually the bock was forgotten and the tradition of fighting took over with the rules laid down by the Marquis, so over the centuries the language changed and bock sing became boxing, There you go, a little history for you, Happy new year ________ Toys medical
Serious question for Brit50 Were you one of the original writers for Monty Python? Or Benny Hill? As Daffy Duck says here in the colonies says, "You quack me up"!
Brit story Well, I've heard it all now. My family came from England and settled in the valley that I live in in East Tennessee in the late 1700's. They say that a lot of our hillbilly talk is based in old English dialect. Now I know that a lot of our BS is too! Thanks, Brit. I enjoyed it. Bill
Oh WOW! I can't wait to share this with my third grade students! To heck with our American text when there is such a fantastic, authentic sorce! Thanks Neil! This site is a gold mine! Keep the prose flowing!!!!
Its amazing what a little medication can do, dont ask about the origins of Easter bunnies or st georges day! ________ Buy vapir one
Happy New Years to all !!! Getting ready to go the the Eagles football game today So figured I would post it know Rather then drunken web posting later Hope everyone is safe tonight Go Eagles !!!!
