February 17, 201214 yr Yeah, when you post something and you have to be asked if it was sarcasm then you're dead on with this assessment, homey. :lol: I think it's just the nature of the Internet. For example, that comment was intended to be sarcastic. :lol:
February 17, 201214 yr Cricket - have never been able to understand that sport. That's a good one. I've tried more than once to try and understand what the devil they're doing out there. And if I'm not mistaken, cricket is the second-most popular sport on the planet with only soccer having more people playing it. Still... it makes no sense to me.
February 17, 201214 yr Author That's a good one. I've tried more than once to try and understand what the devil they're doing out there. And if I'm not mistaken, cricket is the second-most popular sport on the planet with only soccer having more people playing it. Still... it makes no sense to me. It is a LITTLE bit like baseball. In Cricket you don't have to run when you hit the ball. So you can hit the ball straight down to the ground and if it hits the ground before someone catches it then you can just stand there and hit again. You get "runs" by running back and forth from line to line. You only go if you are almost positive you can make it to the other line before the other team hits the wicket. If you hit the ball over the boundaries(basically a homerun) then you get 6 runs. If you roll a ball and hit the boundaries (basically like hitting the fence), then you get 4 runs. Players will get one or two chances to hit depends on the type of game. The only way to get a wicket (get out in baseball terms) is if you hit the ball in the air and they catch it, you miss and it hits the wicket(the wooden thing behind the batters), or for the other team to hit the wicket before you cross the line when you are running (like getting out running to first). You need to get 10 wickets to make the other team stop hitting. There is another thing called "overs" which basically controls how long the game is. That is pretty difficult to explain and I would suggest googling it if you really cared. Some games take up to 5 days. A team can bat for a whole day. Actually a single player can bat for an entire day in some types of games. Overall it is a slowwww game, but if you know what's going on then it is actually pretty interesting. Overall I actually enjoy it quite a bit. This might be really confusing, but oh well. I tried lol.
February 17, 201214 yr ^ That's exactly the problem. Just like trying to figure it out on Wikipedia. I'm a pretty smart guy who can wrap my brain around a lot of stuff, but put cricket in front of me and my mind turns to mush.
February 17, 201214 yr Electrical work. Pass. Call my buddy. You are for sure in the majority, but for the life of me I don't understand why. My Dad was one of those guys typical of his era. He could rebuild an engine, build a boat, re-load shotgun shells and build a house (including the electric). He often did jobs on the side of his real job, including electrical work. I often was his unpaid helper/laborer. As such I was introduced to wiring homes, etc. In high school, I re-wired the garage of a buddy's parents. I didn't think it was odd that the parents trusted me to do so, but some did. When I build my farmhouse in 95 I did the bulk of the wiring myself. When I redid the kitchen a few years ago, I did it also. Wired the barn built last summer. It really isn't difficult. Most people are afraid of doing wiring work because it can kill you (or as my Dad used to tell me: electricity cannot kill you. You can kill you.) But the simple fact is that wiring is simple and very safe. Use some common sense; be certain that the power is off; read a book on wiring (most are written in the "wiring for dummies" vein with pictures); and you'd have zero problems. Sometimes years will go by between my wiring projects and before I proceed with a new project, I'll pull out the book and refresh my memory on some things (wiring a 3 way switch for some reason perplexes me until I re-read the book).
February 17, 201214 yr I think it's just the nature of the Internet. For example, that comment was intended to be sarcastic. :lol: I knew it was. Couldn't resist bringing up my question from the Tee Martin thread though. :lol:
February 17, 201214 yr Also... dogs. Some dog will be walking down the street and one of my friends will say "That's a 'So-and-So Breed'." Other than maybe a golden retriever, I couldn't tell you the first thing about dog breeds. Dogs fall into the category of one of my "favorite topics of useless knowledge". I think the most interesting things about them are the reasons why the dogs were originally bred to look and act the way that they do. Take the Jack Russell Terrier, for example: bred to be compact and fearless because they were bred to crawl into rats nests and kill rats. The reason their tails are docked to about 4" is so their handler can grab them by the tail and pull them out of the nest/hole they've climbed into. Other favorite useless knowledge topics are horse breeds, trees, and greater Cincinnati beer & brewery history.
February 17, 201214 yr You are for sure in the majority, but for the life of me I don't understand why. My Dad was one of those guys typical of his era. He could rebuild an engine, build a boat, re-load shotgun shells and build a house (including the electric). He often did jobs on the side of his real job, including electrical work. I often was his unpaid helper/laborer. As such I was introduced to wiring homes, etc. In high school, I re-wired the garage of a buddy's parents. I didn't think it was odd that the parents trusted me to do so, but some did. When I build my farmhouse in 95 I did the bulk of the wiring myself. When I redid the kitchen a few years ago, I did it also. Wired the barn built last summer. It really isn't difficult. Most people are afraid of doing wiring work because it can kill you (or as my Dad used to tell me: electricity cannot kill you. You can kill you.) But the simple fact is that wiring is simple and very safe. Use some common sense; be certain that the power is off; read a book on wiring (most are written in the "wiring for dummies" vein with pictures); and you'd have zero problems. Sometimes years will go by between my wiring projects and before I proceed with a new project, I'll pull out the book and refresh my memory on some things (wiring a 3 way switch for some reason perplexes me until I re-read the book). Yep....agreed on all counts.
February 17, 201214 yr Dogs fall into the category of one of my "favorite topics of useless knowledge". I think the most interesting things about them are the reasons why the dogs were originally bred to look and act the way that they do. Take the Jack Russell Terrier, for example: bred to be compact and fearless because they were bred to crawl into rats nests and kill rats. The reason their tails are docked to about 4" is so their handler can grab them by the tail and pull them out of the nest/hole they've climbed into. Other favorite useless knowledge topics are horse breeds, trees, and greater Cincinnati beer & brewery history. I had several dog breed books as a child that I looked at daily. Still glance through them fairly often.
February 17, 201214 yr I knew it was. Couldn't resist bringing up my question from the Tee Martin thread though. :lol: I thought you knew me well, so that's good to hear. Never thought about the Tee angle. My bad. :thumb: Fixed that for ya.... :lol:
February 17, 201214 yr Plants, flowers, and trees. I cannot identify anything other than a rose or tulip.
February 17, 201214 yr Plants, flowers, and trees. I cannot identify anything other than a rose or tulip. I used to work at a major nursery back in the day and had my own landscape company for a few years till I sold it. To this day I still walk by plants and trees and such trying to identfy them. (Insert dork jokes here!!)
February 17, 201214 yr I'm not a good speller by nature. I look a lot of words up, but in general, I fall in the Jack of all trades category. “A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.” ― Robert A. Heinlein I think I've done all of these except die gallantly. That ones still out there, I hope.
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