Maggie’s Motivational Pic Thread v2.0 - - New Rules - See Post #1

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Many years ago I was trying to sort out an electrical problem in a college dorm room. I was kneeling down along side a desk in a dark bedroom pulling an outlet apart. I shifted over and kneeled on something hard, I reached down to move the item without looking and as I did my brain started to process what my hand was holding. "Hmmm..." I look down to see this big brown dildo in my hand. I made some noise and flung it away. lmao That's when I saw it was one of those, a wooden dick bottle opener.
 
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That is 100% on the person who made the decision to try and ride out the storm on the hook (anchor). My last cutter was 82’ long and displaced 60 tons and under normal conditions an 80 pound Danforth type anchor held us in place just fine. Six months after I joined the DD-214 club a hurricane was headed for St Thomas when both engines were offline waiting for parts to arrive from the US so the group commander told the CO to tie off to a mooring ball in the harbor that was held in place by a 6000 pound concrete anchor. This is a newspaper photo of that 60 tons of steel and how well the 6000 pound anchor held it in place.
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The whole crew was onboard at the time and they could have all died because the group commander lacked an understanding of the forces involved when the ocean is in a mood.

On a semi related note the USCG in their infinite wisdom paid a marine salvage company to bring in a barge crane and put the cutter on a barge and tow the barge to New Orleans to a shipyard who rebuilt the hull. After the hull was rebuilt the USCG decommissioned it and towed it up to Ocean City MD and sunk it to be an artificial reef. The Whitehorn was slated for decommissioning BEFORE the hurricane… 🙄
When you are spending other people's money.
 
When I was a kid I was great at picking out the cow patties that crusted over and held together, but we’re still wet in the middle and splattered when thrown at people.

Also would see hundreds of magic mushrooms and had no idea at the time.
I view all wild mushrooms as deadly toxins. Because I have never learned how to identify friend from foe. So they are all foes.