The 1541 disk drive must not have been as popular in the U.K. as it was in Canada, because no one I knew even had a tape drive -- it was disks or nothing. But even the 1541 was, as the ad for the Epyx Fastload cartridge put it, a lumbering hippo. It used to go out of alignment constantly and couldn't read disks until you paid someone knowledgeable (more knowledgeable than I was, anyway) to fix it. But we liked it anyway! Hooray for the C64!

>> ^AeroMechanical:

I think I'd rather have one of those walking lumber machine things:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CD2V8GFqk_Y&feature=player_detailpa
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Even if it is really slow... it's got a chainsaw on a big hydraulic arm. Probably whup this thing in a mech battle.


Bagger 288 eats those things for breakfast! By the handful!

I think I'd rather have one of those walking lumber machine things:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CD2V8GFqk_Y&feature=player_detailpage

Even if it is really slow... it's got a chainsaw on a big hydraulic arm. Probably whup this thing in a mech battle.

Hell I'd quit working if that thing was running uncontrolled within 200ish feet of me.

Although it is funny to see them making fun of the guys for it, and calling a 8-10 foot piece of lumber a "big stick".

Can you imagine going to the lumber yard and telling them you need a couple 8 foot long big sticks and a couple 10 foot big sticks?

Did you notice his right wing slant on the issue of tobacco companies lying about cigarettes, and hoping they don't "get t-boned by the lumbering vehicle that is the federal government"? People know better and can decide for themselves without big government interference, no matter how evil the big company making the huge profits off something so addictive and poisonous.

Well oot o' the East there came a hard man
Oh-ho, a' the way frae Brigton?
Ah-ha, glory hallelujah
Cod liver oil and the orange juice

Well he went intae a pub and he come oot paralytic
Oh, VP and cider |VP is rum or sherry, I think
Ah-ha, what a hell of a mixture
Cod liver oil and the orange juice

(spoken: Sex rears its ugly head...)
Does this bus go tae the Dennistoun Palais?
Oh-ho, I'm lookin' fur a lumber |looking for a woman [1]
Ah-ha, glory hallelujah
Cod liver oil and the orange juice

(spoken: Eyes up the talent, and lo and behold...)
In the dancin' he met Hairy Mary,
Oh, the flooer o' the Gorbals |flower
Ah-ha, glory hallelujah
Cod liver oil and the orange juice

(spoken: Chats he up...)
Aw noo Mary, are ye dancin'?
"Oh no, it's just the way I'm staunin'" |standing
Ah-ha, glory hallelujah
Cod liver oil and the orange juice

(spoken: Rebuffed!)
Well then, Mary, yer one in a million,
"Oh-ho, so's yer chances!"
Ah-ha, glory hallelujah
Cod liver oil and the orange juice

(spoken: Rebuffed again!)
Well then Mary, can I run ye hame?
Oh-ho, I've got a pair of sandshoes,
"A ha-ha, ye're hell of a funny!"
Cod liver oil and the orange juice

(spoken: Never say die. Sways aboot nonchalantly,
picking his nails with a bayonet. An' he knocks her off...)
Well, doon through the back-close, an' intae the dunny, |[2]
Oh-ho, it wasnae fur the first time, |wasn't
Ah-ha, glory hallelujah
Cod liver oil and the orange juice

Then oot came her mammy - she was goin' tae the cludgie, |[3]
Oh-ho, I buggered off sharpish,
Ah-ha, glory hallelujah
Cod liver oil and the orange juice

Noo Hairy Mary's lookin' for her hard man,
Oh-ho, he's jined the Foreign Legion |joined
Ah-ha, Sahara unner ra camels, |under the camels
Cod liver oil and the orange juice

Then Hairy Mary's had a little baby
Oh-ho, its faither's in the army
Ah-ha, glory hallelujah
Cod liver oil and the orange juice

Channels art and dark were chosen purely for their phonetic qualities.

I've got a good quip for when you buy a lot of 2 x 4s at Lowes: "deliver me lumber, ya swab!"

I'm aroused. Where's @dag 's lumber-stache when you need it?

>> ^hpqp:

The real question: is that a Trabant or a Lada?


absolutely a lada.

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I used to work at a lumber yard. I could write pages of hideous things I've seen people do. Never seen this one, though. But, a guy once used twine to cradle a 22' LVL underneath his truck. Nobody saw him doing it until he drove away...I can imagine him trying to stop and having it fly out...soooooo stupid.

If you don't know what an LVL is...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laminated_veneer_lumber

Arrg, deliver me lumber!

He's like, "Why? We have legs.. just use them!"

Meanwhile some 400lb'er lumbers by in slow motion, gasping, and rides the escalator up as the gears squeak under the strain of the weight.. wondering why conveyor belts don't cover all the straight-a-ways longer than a few meters.

Tags for this video have been changed from 'john deere, tractor, tree harvester, lumber' to 'john deere, tractor, tree harvester, lumber, forest, logging' - edited by SlipperyPete

Arrr, deliver me lumber!