joke of the day
 

my dad sent me this, pretty funny i think:

Railroad tracks.
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> The US standard railroad gauge (distance between the rails) is 4 feet, 8.5 inches. That's an exceedingly odd number.
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> Why was that gauge used? Because that's the way they built them in England, and English expatriates designed the US railroads.
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> Why did the English build them like that? Because the first rail lines were built by the same people who built the pre-railroad tramways, and that's the gauge they used.
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> Why did 'they' use that gauge then? Because the people who built the tramways used the same jigs and tools that they had used for building wagons, which used that wheel spacing.
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> Why did the wagons have that particular odd wheel spacing? Well, if they tried to use any other spacing, the wagon wheels would break on some of the old, long distance roads in England, because that's the spacing of the wheel ruts.
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> So who built those old rutted roads? Imperial Rome built the first long distance roads in Europe (including England ) for their legions. Those roads have been used ever since.
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> And the ruts in the roads? Roman war chariots formed the initial ruts, which everyone else had to match for fear of destroying their wagon wheels.
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> Since the chariots were made for Imperial Rome, they were all alike in the matter of wheel spacing. Therefore the United States standard railroad gauge of 4 feet, 8.5 inches is derived from the original specifications for an Imperial Roman war chariot. Bureaucracies live forever.
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> So the next time you are handed a specification/procedure/process and
> wonder 'What horse's *** came up with this?' , you may be exactly
> right. Imperial Roman army chariots were made just wide enough to
> accommodate the rear ends of two war horses. (Two horses' asses.)
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> Now, the twist to the story:
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> When you see a Space Shuttle sitting on its launch pad, there are two
> big booster rockets attached to the sides of the main fuel tank. These
> are solid rocket boosters, or SRBs. The SRBs are made by Thiokol at
> their factory in Utah
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> engineers who designed the SRBs would have preferred to make them a bit fatter, but the SRBs had to be shipped by train from the factory to the launch site. The railroad line from the factory happens to run through a tunnel in the mountains, and the SRBs had to fit through that tunnel. The tunnel is slightly wider than the railroad track, and the railroad track, as you now know, is about as wide as two horses' behinds.
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> So, a major Space Shuttle design feature of what is arguably the world's most advanced transportation system was determined over two thousand years ago by the width of a horse's ***. And you thought being a horse's *** wasn't important?

Ancient horse's asses control almost everything...

and the current
> Horses Asses in Washington are controlling everything else!
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where the fvck is everyone tonight? For once I feel social and sh1t...

Watching the game :ugh2:

ahh, that'd do it. i was watching a bit earlier, BUT I also had my laptop out. Multitasking ftw.

That's what I've been doing too, except I just finished watching House a little while ago.

ot but have you watched "hell on wheels" yet on AMC? I'm really digging it actually, I wish the walking dead moved at the same pace as this show.

No, I've never heard of that show.

It comes on after the walking dead, it's about the construction of the railroad connecting west and east coasts immediately after the civil war, as a history buff, I think it's pretty good. Common (the rapper or whatever he does, don't listen to that type of music much) is in it, and he's actually quite good in this show.

Meh, doesn't sound that interesting to me. I'm usually too busy catching up on DVR stuff anyways :icon17:

yeah, the show def has a more tailored/limited audience i think, i hope it survives and there's a next season though.

we got most of the small stuff from my apartment moved tonight (rain really f'd things up) and we're moving the larger stuff in the morning hopefully.

we need pics of the official Nissan apartment

All packed up... moving company coming tomorrow... hotel reservation for tomorrow set...


3 days till im in tropic heaven!

it's a house bro :tup: moved from an apt to the house :happydance:

bah hum bug

landon :wave:

:hello:

:hello:

uhhh

bluuuuuu :hello:

Shadoooooo :hello:

Lemersssssss :hello:

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They can't wipe the aliens from his brain.

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that crazy haired dude never ceases to entertain me.

nor most of us phil lol

bye bye yall. had fun bring part of the 37z crew

what? :eek:

What happened?

my car got totaled. o well. im looking at is350c, either 328ic or 335ic, or g37c. what do yall think? i love the g, and i dont really wanna leave the nissan crew, but my last three vehicles were infiniti/nissan.

yea g37c. love those things. sorry to hear that eddie. just because you don't have one anymore, doesn't mean you can't keep posting! i mean... just look at all these mustang members now... :wtf2:

Sucks man, how did it happen? I would go with either the 335 or the G37. G37 definitely has the looks and is cheaper, but I think BMW might be more comfortable and more responsive to mods.

Agree with Patrick, you can still keep posting here even though you don't have a Z anymore. Who else will harass Nina???? :icon17:

yeah. im gonna stay premium for ak. i say g37>370z.

clipped into another car when i tried to avoid another car from hitting me. i havent harassed nina for a while. we still got shado and izamoo to harass her. and chris to rescue her from the harassment.

Sucks. Did insurance say it was your fault or the person who almost hit you? I had a similar incident in May 2010. Totaled my 2010 Maxima after 4 months when. I was turning left to get onto the highway when some guy in a pickup truck coming from the other direction jumped out of the highway on ramp and decided to keep going straight. I managed to stop my car in time and out of his lane, but the bastard still swerved into me. Of course the insurance said it was automatically my fault because I was turning left :(

yep. my fault. o well. its just an accident. at least no one got hurt. cars are always replaceable.

one annoying thing about this wreck is that everybody is telling to get rid of my bike. they all say, what if you were on your bike........

That's how I looked at it. Now I have a much better car :tup:

You just gotta be more careful with it I guess.