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Goddessatlaw

Tuesday, April 29, 2003 - 10:03 am EditMoveDeleteIP
You got me there, Froggie. I've never actually seen them loading the silos, but I think they have a conveyer-belt system that leads from the bottom of the silo (outside) to the top of the silo and dumps the grain over the top. I could be wrong (although I'm always right, I also try to admit when I don't know what I'm talking about). Someone with true farm creds should explain this one to you (I might learn something, too).

Froggiegirl621

Tuesday, April 29, 2003 - 10:07 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Thanks alot Goddess and Kaili...it was bugging me since my drive yesterday! Such a beautiful day and all I had on my mind were silos!!! Go figure...

Babyruth

Tuesday, April 29, 2003 - 10:14 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Froggie, are you ovulating, by any chance? LOL

Froggiegirl621

Tuesday, April 29, 2003 - 11:53 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Why yes, Babyruth, yes I am! How did you know?!?

Sia

Wednesday, April 30, 2003 - 05:51 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Sorry, but you are incorrect as to the use of silos. They are used as storage and hatching pods for aliens who are slowly increasing their numbers until there are enough of them to take over Earth, a' la "Invasion of the Body Snatchers." Beware, ladies: if your husband begins staring with glazed eyes at the television, he may be a "pod-person." Contact the local authorities immediately.
alien

Mygetaway

Wednesday, April 30, 2003 - 07:36 am EditMoveDeleteIP
LOL, Cute Sia..

Jedisan

Wednesday, April 30, 2003 - 12:25 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Don't know where else to post...so here goes:

I need help on a crossword puzzle.

The clue is: "Cartoon villan Whiplash"
There are 7 letters, adn if all other clues are done correctly, this is what i have

-NY-E-Y

i do not have any kids to ask...

PS: That is really cute SIA.

Kaili

Wednesday, April 30, 2003 - 12:31 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I did a google search for your clue- in a Dudley Do-right thing I found there is a movie review that mentions...

"Dudley (played by Brendan Fraser) is still a Royal Canadian Mountie with a solid jaw, unshakable morals, and an IQ less than his suit size. And the black-clad, mustachioed Snidely Whiplash (Alfred Molina) is still the bad guy who delights in tying people to train tracks."

I wonder if Snidely would fit? The only problem is that you have a Y where it would be an I.

Kaili

Wednesday, April 30, 2003 - 12:36 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Snidely Whiplash

Jedisan

Wednesday, April 30, 2003 - 01:49 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Kaili: By George I think you've got it!

The only reason I have a Y, is because the down clue was "Country star Griffith", and I ASSUMED it was nancy with a Y, but evidently it is not!

I would NEVER have gotten this clue without your help. You are terrific!
thanks.

Jedisan

Wednesday, April 30, 2003 - 01:54 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
PS: Picture is GREAT!!!

Draheid

Wednesday, April 30, 2003 - 01:56 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Jedisan: Perhaps this would help: www.nancigriffith.com

Whoami

Saturday, May 03, 2003 - 10:21 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
OK, this probably is a dumb question, but what the heck.

On various tv shows (mostly "back then"), they'll feature a 16-year-old getting his/her driver's license. The scene after the test will show the kid coming home and showing a piece of paper that is the temporary license.

As far as I can remember, we always got the plastic license with picture ID and all right on the spot. Are there (or were there) parts of the country where kids were given paper temporary licenses, as opposed to the plastic "permanent" ones?

It's always interesting to learn how other parts of the country do things, when you think it's such the norm where you live (like that garbage disposal thread blew me away at first, cause I thought everyone had one!).

Sia

Saturday, May 03, 2003 - 10:32 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
When I was 16 (eons ago!) I was given a paper permit after passing the written portion of the test. I didn't get a plastic-laminated real driver's license until I had taken the driving portion of the test for the third time.

Zachsmom

Saturday, May 03, 2003 - 10:36 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
you want me to remember when I was 16? LOL

After taking the driver portion of the test..I was given a temporary license and the pix one came in the mail about ohhh I don't remember..lol but less than 6 weeks..

Spygirl

Saturday, May 03, 2003 - 10:39 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
When I got a Louisiana license last summer, I got the regular plastic ID right then. When I switched back to a Texas license in January, I got a temporary paper license and the plastic one in the mail 3 weeks later. Go figure.

Whoami

Saturday, May 03, 2003 - 10:40 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Yea, they do paper learner's permits here too. But the TV shows are always talking about the kid passing his/her driver's test, and how they can now "go out and drive by themselves without having to have a parent or someone with them." Maybe it's just in Hollywood that the kid is given a paper temporary license!

I took two times before I passed my driver's test. The first time, I had just come off my night shift job, hadn't been to bed for over 24 hours, and one of the problems was the examiner said I was weaving all over the road!

Jmm

Saturday, May 03, 2003 - 10:45 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Texas gives a paper temporary license (I don't have to remember DD just got her's a couple of months ago). You then get your license in the mail in a few weeks. I do seem to remember in Kentucky getting a paper license way back when.

Sia

Saturday, May 03, 2003 - 10:59 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
My grandmother once told me that when my grandfather got his driver's license, all that he needed to do was sign a form and maybe pay a nominal fee. There was NO driver's test. My Grams was born in 1918 and her husband was a year or two older than she was. He's been gone for many years. Imagine handing out licenses to just anyone!!! That would be scary!

Jmm

Saturday, May 03, 2003 - 11:04 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
My grandmother, who is now 80 something, tells of going downtown when she was 16, flirting with the cop and getting her license issued. She has always kept the license up to date and has to this day never taken a test. lol

Sisalou

Saturday, May 03, 2003 - 11:06 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Hey Sia - Wanna hear something really scary? I had to take my drivers test 3 times before I passed!

I hit the da*& cone twice when I was trying to parllel park and that is an automatic fail.

Marysafan

Sunday, May 04, 2003 - 09:24 am EditMoveDeleteIP
"Back then" local county offices were not equipped with the technology to process the "new" driver's licenses with the photo on them. They had to be sent away for processing and you received a paper temporary license until your new ID card style driver's license came in the mail...usually in 4 to 6 weeks.

Egbok

Sunday, May 04, 2003 - 10:54 am EditMoveDeleteIP
When my kidlets got their licenses at 16+, they received a papercopy with their picture printed onto it as temporary proof. Then about 1-2 weeks later, they received the plastic card and a 1/4" purple (or was it aubergine?) stripe with the lettering in white stating "Provisional". I don't recall exactly what Provisional entails but it limited the age group they could have in their car while driving and also the curfew nighttime hours they are allowed to be driving. I'm not sure how long the Provisional period lasts. All I do know is that the status was helpful to me as a parent to keep the rules of using the car in focus. And if you're a parent, you know what I'm talking about.

Squaredsc

Sunday, May 04, 2003 - 11:56 am EditMoveDeleteIP
kool ms. eggie, they had an aubergine stripe, lol. when i got my learners permit at 16 it was plastic, few months late when i got my "real" permit it was plastic too, and as i was under 18 and couldn't drive past midnite, had to take the side view picture. never got any paper permit.

Kaili

Sunday, May 04, 2003 - 03:27 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Egbok...My first license- laminated and received on the spot- was a "probationary" one- what it means is that until the first time it had to be renewed, if you were stopped you were given double the points that you would have if it was a regular license. Just a way to be more strict with new drivers I guess. After that you get a regular license.

Wisconsin now has graduated driver licensing so I think for the first few months there are time restrictions (can't drive late at night alone) and restrictions on the number of non-family passengers for new drivers. I know the kids break this all the time, and I don't know the details because I got my license before it was in effect- but it's just added restrictions that are lessened as time goes by until they finally have fulldriving rights.