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What do you think this is:

 

I saw a report that Fluffy has been averaging growth of 18" and 40 lb per year since that picture was taken (2 years ago) still relatively young, only 12 years old.

Interesting dilemma: Feed Fluffy and in 10 years the snake will be 40 ft long and 700 lb, able to more than bite the hand that feeds it, maybe eat the man that feeds it. Don't feed Fluffy nearly as much, and the 24', 310 lb snake will be veeeeeery hungry, and probably veeeeery mean.

 

This is why I like dogs and cats.....

 

Reminds me of some more "Advanced Engineering" seen in mass produced boats, see pix below (from David Pascoe's article on crappy-putty "advanced composite" structural filler cores, http://yachtsurvey.com/Fiberglass_Boats.htm )

 

The scariest part of that is that even an experienced surveyor can't tell the quality of the underlying material. The average buyer won't have a chance.

Interesting that one of the worst boats is a Sea Ray, one of the majors. Does anyone know if there has ever been any legal action taken against Sea Ray for shoddy construction?

 

Oh, haha, that is excellent!

 

I rescued one from a trap in a stream a few years back. He wasnt as big as fluffy but say 10ft and different colouring. I was not alone, there was few of us. He was exhausted from holding his head up out of the water for who knows how long.

Down town one night I was sitting enjoying my beer and the world going by when I saw a photographer and his snake (Python) put the snake down on the floor. It was motionless and he was patting it as though trying to revive it.
People gingerly surrounded it as he laid it out full stretch like a PVC pipe. They all thought it was dead. I swear it looked at me and winked.

I run over them all the time. Small ones!!!

I had a bloody King Cobra reer up at me once ,not far from the house , he was big too. I was on a motor bike and he lunged at me as I passed it.

I guess he got a mouthfull of hot exhaust. I managed to get my leg up in the air, he could have bit my arse actually.

I looked in the mirror and he went down and shot off into the brush.

 

nice roast tho' eh Snowy!

 

Put a hook and it can be yur new duck and whales

 

haha, Westlawn, that would be an excellent use!

I was surprised to learn that those thingamajigs where prototypes, on, yes, guitar pedals. That means that some heavy metal guitarist will look at it and go "Man, that is one tough muthafugga-looking pedal", lol.

 

http://www.ship-technology.com/contractors/propulsion/gallery.html



http://www.ship-technology.com/contractors/propulsion/abb/abb1.html

 

Things that make you go "Huh?!"



I guess they forgot to put the ladder for releasing the liferafts up until after the hose holder was made. You'd think that they would....oh never mind. There is just no way to justify stupidity, is there?

 

Looks to me like the liferaft came last & bent the ladder to fit (especially for bent people?). Has the liferaft been deployed & not replaced?

 

I'm thinking that they got nailed by the Coast Guard for not having access to the liferaft releases....here is a wider angle view of the liferafts, etc.

--Chuck

 

Posting pics, help please.

I have a Photobucket address, and can post links to pics, I was wondering how do you fellas get the pics to show up immediately on svreen without having to go to the written link as I would have to do.

Is it the link choice in Photobucket, such as using HTML or some other source?

I can choose 4 things:
EMAIL and IM
Direct Link
HTML Code
IMG Code

Will any of these produce a picture directly to Boatdesign forums?

Thanks in reply,and yes I have done a search on pic postings, try it and you will be overwhelmed by links, all of them not detailing how to directly see a pic that i have found.