monkeylizard

Makes his Ken dolls anotomically correct with rubber cement and a hot glue gun

  For that price, Kate Upton better be their delivery driver.

Lost his virginity to RuPaul

Thank you for making my point.

Was featured on COPS.       Three times.

Thanks for the heads up, Mike! I ordered 3 cubes. I hope they ship fast!

Other than a handful of nut-jobs out there, no, none of us think the undead will rise up and try to eat our brains. "Zombies" is a useful metaphor for whatever societal collapse one might want to be prepared for. For those who consider such things, that could be foreign invasion, viral outbreak, civil war, economic collapse, natural disasters, etc.   If you're prepared for a zombie apocalypse, you're prepared for any of those real things. By focusing on any one of the "real" events, people start arguing over the likelihood of the event instead of focusing on the prepping methods. So if a person says they're preparing for a civil war, someone else will come along and say that won't ever happen and they need to be preparing for a natural disaster instead. Neither poster knows the likelihood of either event, and it's irrelevant. The tools, supplies, and skills needed to survive one are more-or-less equally employed to survive another. It's not a perfect overlap (usually less shooting in a natural disaster vs. civil war for example), but by and large that holds true.   So "zombies" form a common ground that we can all work from. As was posted above, even the CDC has a zombie preparedness guide. If you look closely, it's pretty much the same stuff in their hurricane and earthquake guides. They finally learned that by adding a little fun to their literature, people may actually read them. You'll also find zombie threads that have little if anything to do with prepping, like The Walking Dead threads. That's just because zombies are fun.

Buys ammo at Wal-Mart. Resells it at Bill Goodman's.

Not sure. I haven't seen the bill this year (should come any time now) and I don't recall what it was a year ago. I use Terminix.

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+1 to the termidor. If you want to DIY, do the perimeter treatment around your house. Dig up the top few inches of dirt around the house's outer perimter and apply as described on the label. The advantage to having a contract is that you get damage coverage from most of them. IF you have a problem with termites later, they pay for it. If you look in your crawl space every year and check each wall for termite tubes, and if you're the kind of guy that keeps up with his home maintenance, chances are that you'd find them before they did any major damage. I had them at a prior house eating on the paper on the drywall in one small area, then I noticed they had eaten up about 4 feet of baseboard. I treated...they died...I fixed the damage. It's possible they ate on the studs in that wall too, but it wasn't worth tearing out drywall to find out.   On the other hand, I have a neighbor now (different house than my termite problem) who had them years ago and treated for them and repaired the visible damage. Similar situation to mine before. When we both flooded in 2010 and he got the sheetrock out, the studs in that wall below his big heavy bay window looked like swiss cheese...   I now have mine professionally treated and inspected and under contract.

Peed his pants upon learning of the Vera Bradley Outlet at Opry Mills.

  Why do you think the picture was taken in the bathroom?

Has never voted for No. 6

It needs more cowbell.

Picks up other people's brass at the range while they are looking. Hums "Dancing Queen" while doing it.

Still thinks volunteering to put together a TGO  meet was a good idea.

Once spent six weeks in Amsterdam trying to remember the safe word

Take pepper spray and have a good time. Downtown Nashville's tourist zone isn't exactly the southside of Chicago.

Agreed. I think they'll take Carl to that point in Season 4. It will make his character very difficult for many viewers to understand, but all the better for it. Besides...."monster" is relative in their world.   I agree that Carl did the right thing by shooting the guy. Hershel's dumber than a dumb thing that is stupid if he thought that guy was trying to surrender. Carl said "drop it", not "walk closer and hand it over." The guy thought he had an old man, a girl, a baby, and a little boy right where he wanted them. All he had to do was get close enough and overpower Carl and he'd have them all. Oh little did he know.....   On the bright side....now they have a .50.   :)   I sure hope they stopped by where the Gov slaughtered his people and collected all that useful ammo and firearms. The Gov and has road trip buddies just left it all.

That depends on if you think you're sure of where you'll be buried. It would suck to have a prepaid plot in Knoxville but be retired in Florida when you die and your kids all live in Wyoming, and nobody you know lives in Knoxville any more.

  The gunfire is a problem because it's inconsistent. Zombies are slow, can be found in herds, want to eat you, and can be killed by destroying the brain. It's not real, but it's consistent so viwers suspend disbelief and don't question it. Head shot hip-fires from a handgun at 200 yards followed by scoped rifles missing at 50 yards is not consistent. Inconsistencies in a story line kill the immersion factor by making the viewer focus on the fact that the story is pretend. The story the writers are trying to draw us into is interrupted by "hey....wait a minute....how could that have just happened when last week they did X?"   As for the safeties and revolvers ejecting, that's irritating for much the same reason. The details can make or break a story. The viewer is either engaged in the story or they aren't. Missing the details hurts that. Besides that, it's simply wrong. It would be like having a sound effect for a top-fuel dragster every time they drive by in that Hyundai. That said, it's only going to interrupt the immersion for enthusiasts like us that would notice those details. Most viewers won't notice that stuff, but anyone can notice the marksmanship inconsistency. That's why I think that's a much bigger deal.   The "safety" comment from Andrea, I think, was a throwback to season 1 when she had that nice handgun but didn't know how to use it. I think it was a wink-and-a-nod to how far she has come from scared dingy blonde to zombie-stomper. Sort of an inside-thing between her and Rick, and not so much a comment that his revolver has a safety.

Glad you're OK. I don't think that's gonna buff out....         I was at an insurance conference (yeah...they're usually as exciting as that sounds) where I attended a session hosted by the assitant director of the IIHS and he showed some cool crash-test stuff. When asked about the SMART cars, he said, they're all roll-caged and airbags galore.They've made them about as safe as they can and they do well in most of the tests. there is some real solid engineering in them, but no amount of safety engineering can violate the laws of physics. When one gets smashed by a Ford Excursion, it's gonna hurt.   For all of you out there, if you don't have side-impact airbags, then seriously consider getting a vehicle that has them.   FYI - When asked what he drives, he said he and his wife drive Subarus. Either Forester or Outback...I can't recall now. He said it was the best car that IIHS has ever tested for protecting the occupants.

I thought that was one of the most practically useful articles I've seen in a long time in that magazine. Certainly not a replacement for real training, but it raised some good points that I hadn't thought of.

I use Fidelity for mine. They have excellent tools on their website for managing the funds/stocks that you select. I can't say I've seen anyone with better web tools.