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Skriven 2009-08-26 15:14:00 av Glen Jamieson
     Kommentar till en text av Bill Swisher
Ärende: TIN ROOFS  90826
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 -=> Quoting Bill Swisher to Glen Jamieson <=-

 > What fun!!  Hopefully there was something soft for you to land in.
 BS> Wasn't that much of a drop.  About like jumping off of a normal roof,
 BS> I was also much younger then.

Yeah, you bounce better when young.
 
 > In NYS I have seen what can happen with a mix of snow and thaw, with
 > long icicles waiting to fall and nail passers-by, and gutters torn off
 > the edges of roofs.
 BS> Several years ago, I can't remember how many, there was someone in
 BS> town here hit
 BS> by ice falling.  Second story IIRC.  I can't recall if they died or
 BS> were badly injured.

I have seen photos of those ice stalactites. They looked quite deadly.
 
 > Replacement of asphalt shingles seems to be a regular necessity, so I 
 > wonder why they are used?  Even if they were cheaper than iron
 > (OK, "mild steel", for DD), the labour costs of replacement would
 > make them more expensive.

 BS> Just seems to be a standard roof I guess.  The metal roofs are
 BS> definitely noisier during rain/hail.  Here we have a low pitched roof
 BS> and had the tar/gravel roof replaced with what's called a "torchdown",
 BS> think of a tarpaper like membrane over the plywood.  They continue to
 BS> use asphalt shingles, or cedar, in places where they shouldn't be, like
 BS> Southern California and the pictures of destroyed houses after a
 BS> wildfire. 

I would expect either of those roofs to be highly inflammable.
Probably another reason for them not to be used here.

 > No brains on display, at that time, but probably available to order.
 BS> I recently had a MRI done on my head, long story, and they provided me
 BS> with a CD
 BS> which had the images.  On it is a really nice one showing a
 BS> cross-section of my
 BS> brain, orbs of the eyes and the optic nerves connecting them.  The
 BS> wife and I joked that we should export that and have a T-Shirt made
 BS> from it.  I thought about the wording for it...above/below would be: 
 BS> "This is my brain*" and on the
 BS> back it would say:  "*not on drugs, but I was sick at the time".

Ha!  I've got mine on film, from when I had a cat scan a few years
ago.  The doc thought I might be getting a stroke, but he looked at my
brain X-ray and found nothing.

 BS> This sounds like a lot of trouble...me I just take a pound of sausage,
 BS> in the chub and oddly enough the cheaper it is the better it seems to
 BS> work, and fry/break it up.  I look at how much grease is left and dump
 BS> in some flour.  Fry
 BS> that a bit.  Start adding milk (cold and we drink fat free), black
 BS> pepper, worcestershire sauce, maybe a little paprika if I feel like it,
 BS> bring to a boil
 BS> and keep adjusting things until it looks just a little loose and you
 BS> like the taste, it'll stiffen as it cools.  Spoon over biscuits in a
 BS> can that have been baked and split.  Takes about 30-45 minutes,
 BS> depending.  The time before last we
 BS> were short on milk so I mixed in some powdered buttermilk and water to
 BS> get enough liquid.  The last time I used a mixture of half-and-half and
 BS> water. Shrug...it ain't rocket science.

My son does something similar with canned corned beef and chopped
onions.  It keeps him happy.

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