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Joined: Mar 2010
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Renaissance Man
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I once found a green Stanley thermos on the side of the road. It has a bad case of road rash and is completely unusable as a thermos.
It has resided in the bed of my work truck for 15 years. It is my "lucky thermos". Twenty years and running and I haven't been fired yet.
The feds recently had us install spyware on our trucks so I am now being monitored by SkyNet. I'm going to need all of the luck left in that thermos the way I drive.
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Carl ... hate to tell you but even as a retiree, I still have clearance and access into that system. They are onto you and they are closing in (they'll have a grand jury indict you for something ... probably this Tuesday...). The black SUVs should be on your lawn any night now ... But hey, I hear Gitmo is nice this time of year ... 
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Joined: Mar 2010
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Come get me coppers! I ain't goin easy!
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Joined: Feb 2004
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The road kill tool I just brought home weighs a couple of thousand pounds. It's a surface grinder that can be adapted to mill stovebolt cylinder heads, and I got it for scrap iron price plus a 2-day road trip! I also got to meet Papa Joe and share a meal with him on the way!
Jerry
"It is better to be silent and be thought a fool than to speak and eliminate all doubt!" - Abraham Lincoln
Cringe and wail in fear, Eloi- - - - -we Morlocks are on the hunt!
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. - Ernest Hemingway
Love your enemies and drive 'em nuts!
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Unrepentant VW Lover
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Jerry -- That's not a roadkill tool. A good deal, yes. But you didn't find it on the side of the road or at the dump .... so no soup for you!
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Joined: Sep 2011
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I found this ROAD KILL fire extinguisher on the side of the road. Contents were used by previous owner. So I turned it into a ROAD KILL TOOL BOX for my truck. I already have a smaller version of THIS ONE [ youtu.be] in my 1965 truck but this one is slightly larger. Made this one last week. Here’s the first one I made a few years ago. First one I made. [ youtu.be]
Last edited by Lugnutz; Wed Mar 29 2023 12:44 AM.
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Joined: Feb 2004
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Kettle Custodian (pot stirrer)
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I hope the drug runners down on the border aren't reading this post. That would be a really sneaky way to get a BUNCH of deadly stuff through a checkpoint!
Jerry
"It is better to be silent and be thought a fool than to speak and eliminate all doubt!" - Abraham Lincoln
Cringe and wail in fear, Eloi- - - - -we Morlocks are on the hunt!
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. - Ernest Hemingway
Love your enemies and drive 'em nuts!
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"Hey! I sound like Darth Vader!!
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Back on topic or no soup for any of you!!
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Mark
That should be, No Road Kill Soup for any you.
Can't remember finding any tools on the road but, I'm sure I have lost a few over the years.
Don
Of all the things I've lost in my life, I miss my mind the most!1967 GMC 9500 Fire Ladder Truck"The Flag Pole"In the Stovebolt Gallery [ stovebolt.com] '46 2-Ton grain truck '50 2-ton flatbed '54 Pontiac Straight Eight 1954 Plymouth Belvidere '70 American LaFrance pumper fire truck. 1976 Triumph TR-6
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Joined: Mar 2010
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I almost deposited a roadkill tool while giving my 3 year old a ride to daycare. I was going around a corner when I heard a clunk and metal hit the road. I knew what it was right away. It was a Craftsman screwdriver which I had left under the hood to adjust the carb.
I did not cuss, but sort of growled a little bit.
My 3 year old, in his carseat looked at me and asked, "(Expletive deleted), Dad?" "(Expletive deleted)?
I couldn't stop laughing to tell him, "No, I don't need any of your help son."
He must have picked that up from his foul-mouthed mother...
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