IanHarrop

$500 taxes! Ouch... You must have gotten your rig new, or you got it cleared by a third party brokerage (which tend to rape you). Maybe it was shipped up UPS - they're the worst for brokerage charges Ya no kidding there has been a few times for small samples and such being recived and the brokrage being way more then the cost of the product. Glad it was the clients bill and not mine. Thier new line should be bend over we'll show you what brown can to you. I use USPS when I can I can relate: last year I bout a $30 item and shipper would only send it UPS for which they charged me $20 US. When it got here I was charged $30 CDN by UPS for brokerage fees bit there no - repeat, no - customs or duty on it. So my $30 item was $80 by the time it got here. I go with USPS Global Express Mail and put insurance on things for a lot less. "Where troubles melt like lemon drops, away above the chimney tops, that's where you'll find me" Dorothy

No.... well yeah i suppose?, we have regular size condoms and Aisian size for all the Mongoloid people living in the country. I imagine there is African size too, but not too many Negroids in NZ. The Maori are mongoloids. They need to make smaller sizes too - for India. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6161691.stm "Where troubles melt like lemon drops, away above the chimney tops, that's where you'll find me" Dorothy

I agree with this answer. The solution to your problem is developing an attitude where you really don't care what this guys says. The fool it taunting you because he gets pleasure from it. Be joyous in his pleasure. When he says something respond in a fun and funny way, laugh, agree, do a pirouette. Turn it into a game to see how silly a response you can give him. You can start rating his insults and tell him the score. Congratulate him and tell him when he scores a 10, encourage him when when its a 5 and tell him that you're disappointed when its only a 2. Your blood pressure will go down and you'll be happier. You can't change others - You can only change yourself. "Where troubles melt like lemon drops, away above the chimney tops, that's where you'll find me" Dorothy

I agree. According to the report I saw, he left the scene of the first attack and beat up another old lady in walker. The cops say their pulling out all the stops on this one. I too hope he resists arrest. He'll get what he deserves. "Where troubles melt like lemon drops, away above the chimney tops, that's where you'll find me" Dorothy

I think the son is looking good. You can find some references to strawberries questioning if they are fruit but these tend to be the non-scientific ones. The more scientific articles refer to it as a fruit. By example this article discusses strawberries and its by a botanist http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/2005-05/1115337053.Bt.r.html Here's another, from Oxford. http://jxb.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/28/2/377 "Where troubles melt like lemon drops, away above the chimney tops, that's where you'll find me" Dorothy

No it doesnt..... Does anyone care to comment on how much they think? I can't comment on price but be sure to check the packing card to be sure that the RSL is noted as either- "RSL components removed at Factory" Or "NO RSL INSTALLED AT FACTORY" other wise you'll have to find a Master Rigger to sign off on the RSL removal or may have problems getting a re-pack on that rig. Reference: http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/safety/detail_page.cgi?ID=658 "Where troubles melt like lemon drops, away above the chimney tops, that's where you'll find me" Dorothy

It's not prefect, though. It has its lamentations. Mark Maybe you nbeed to read The Book of Lamentations "Where troubles melt like lemon drops, away above the chimney tops, that's where you'll find me" Dorothy

Utility that lest you spell check anything you enter into websites. If you don't want to use dz.com's spell checker or you want something that works everywhere. http://www.iespell.com/ "Where troubles melt like lemon drops, away above the chimney tops, that's where you'll find me" Dorothy

Don't bother taking good Canadian beer down to the Americans - they won't really appreciate it as they have little ability to recognize quality beer from all the years of drinking that stuff they make down there. If your plan is to take it down so that you won't have to drink American beer - give up. Americans may not be able to tell the difference between good and bad beer but they are greedy bastards and will take your beer away from you and drink it themselves. They will guzzle it - not taking time to savour the quality or wonderful flavour of great Canadian beer. You are better off to have a number of shots of hard liquor to dull the taste buds and then you will able to drink American beer with no ill affects. Just remember what the similarity of American beer and making love in a canoe is..... "Where troubles melt like lemon drops, away above the chimney tops, that's where you'll find me" Dorothy

Having a blaaa weekend so far. I was supposed to go skiing but were having heat wave here and the winds gusting up to 97 kph (about 60 mph) so I decided to stay home. The snow at the top of the mountain would have been fine because its colder up there, the wind make the ride on the lift intolerable. "Where troubles melt like lemon drops, away above the chimney tops, that's where you'll find me" Dorothy

Here you go... good roads! http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=dublin+ireland&layer=&ie=UTF8&z=7&ll=53.330873,-6.251221&spn=3.648388,12.414551&om=1 "Where troubles melt like lemon drops, away above the chimney tops, that's where you'll find me" Dorothy

Safety Meetings take a whole day now? Back in the 70's it didn't seem to take that long but my memory isn't so good for those days "Where troubles melt like lemon drops, away above the chimney tops, that's where you'll find me" Dorothy

Are you sure? Comments from Bill Booth: -from http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=995974#995974 Spinning the rings was never necessary. All you do when you spin the rings, is put salt from your hands on the hardware. By the way, each opening rotates the rings a little anyway. If you will look at cadmium plated middle rings with over 100 jumps on them, you will see a slight "compression" of the plating evenly all around the "back" side of the ring. Flexing the webbing was a good idea when we used 1 3/4" Type 12 webbing to attach the smallest ring on "large" 3-ring systems. (We've used 1" square weave for over 20 years now.) On mini-rings, flexing the webbing was never really necessary. We left it in the generic 3-ring instructions only because not all risers are made with the correct webbings, and it doesn't hurt anyway. - from http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=1704668#1704668 Go ahead and play with your stainless steel riser rings if you must (I do). It won't do any good, but the oil or sweat on your hands won't hurt stainless. By the way, riser rings, when loaded toward failure, "potato chip", they do not "oval". In every case I've seen (with type 17, 1" risers), the riser webbing fails before the rings are damaged. The harness ring, which you can't rotate, is the only ring that will oval. We did have a problem with large (RW-1) harness rings which the manufacturer fail to heat treat, but that was back in 1981. "Where troubles melt like lemon drops, away above the chimney tops, that's where you'll find me" Dorothy

First off it was in Quebec -- That's not really Canada, they're French... They just don't speak it like the French "Where troubles melt like lemon drops, away above the chimney tops, that's where you'll find me" Dorothy

Did you check out the stuff on the USPA site about Safety Day? "Where troubles melt like lemon drops, away above the chimney tops, that's where you'll find me" Dorothy

I don't understand these pictures..... Where are the boobies? My dad was there...just couldn't do it Good answer... he would have been "Where troubles melt like lemon drops, away above the chimney tops, that's where you'll find me" Dorothy

I don't understand these pictures..... Where are the boobies? "Where troubles melt like lemon drops, away above the chimney tops, that's where you'll find me" Dorothy

ahhh its old news.... repost police http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=2707512#2707512 "Where troubles melt like lemon drops, away above the chimney tops, that's where you'll find me" Dorothy

My hero. I weighed 242 and I'm going for 199. I'm at 230 after 19 days I'm aiming for 170... I'll be that for LP. I won't even be an Anvil with gear on. Last year I sunk out on the heavy weight formation. BY the way 12 pounds in 19 days - Fabulous ! "Where troubles melt like lemon drops, away above the chimney tops, that's where you'll find me" Dorothy

I have to agree, if the guy had any friends he would have built it using a much larger fridge. The size he has, he is obviously drinking alone My thinking is that he would have someone to toss him a beer if he had any friends. This is one of those things like having to button your own shirt sleeve buttons because you're single. Don't remind me.... I'm single... "Where troubles melt like lemon drops, away above the chimney tops, that's where you'll find me" Dorothy

I have to agree, if the guy had any friends he would have built it using a much larger fridge. The size he has, he is obviously drinking alone "Where troubles melt like lemon drops, away above the chimney tops, that's where you'll find me" Dorothy

I should have taken part... Last year at LP I was 230 and setting the fall rate. I'm under 190 now and going for more. "Where troubles melt like lemon drops, away above the chimney tops, that's where you'll find me" Dorothy

This could lead to saving the lives of police officers. 50% of their diet will now be good for them ahh dude, too easy. Hey, never said I was smart or into hard work - I like the easy ones "Where troubles melt like lemon drops, away above the chimney tops, that's where you'll find me" Dorothy

what kind of vibe do i give off here? my wife really is a woman with a vagina and everything. Stop try to make me jealous - I don't have a wife that is really is a woman with a vagina and everything "Where troubles melt like lemon drops, away above the chimney tops, that's where you'll find me" Dorothy

This could lead to saving the lives of police officers. 50% of their diet will now be good for them "Where troubles melt like lemon drops, away above the chimney tops, that's where you'll find me" Dorothy