Re: Off topic: How long will you live?


"big stinkie" <andythe@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>
> les wrote:
>
> (snipster...sounds like 'twister')
> >
> > Or tornados... I've been in the path of 'em for 39 years, only close
call so
> > far was the big one in '99 that traveled over 100 miles. Some of the
final
> > damage from it was less than 1/2 mile from me. Sounded like a freight
train
> > roaring thru.
> >
> Lived in Nebraska and Kansas all my life. Been near a bunch of
> tordados, but never saw one. Not like I'm trying to avoid 'em or
> anything. Heck, when the 'sireens' blow I'm the first one out in the
> yard holding a beer looking up into the sky. That fact would lower my
> life expectancy score, I bet.
>
> Andy aka Big Stinkie SLOB#3
>

I remember doing that right after I got the Triumph basket case. The tornado
was supposed to be coming our way and I went to make suree that it left the
garage alone. My wife still doesn't believe that I "scared it away". Hell, I
grew up in Xenia. A tornado was just another excuse to throw a party.

BoboTWG


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