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100 skills every man should know-Popular Mechanics
Popular Mechanics ^ | 9/8/2008 | The Editors

Posted on 10/03/2008 5:59:02 AM PDT by Dutchgirl

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To: Dutchgirl
“Change a diaper”

WTF does this have to do with “Popular Mechanics”?

The art of the fold?

At least there are pressure forces at work when you perform the Heimlich Maneuver.

21 posted on 10/03/2008 6:17:58 AM PDT by weegee (Obama's a uniter?"I want you to argue with them (friends,neighbors,Republicans) & get in their face")
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To: Dutchgirl

Lift that bale! Tow that barge, and bake a cherry pie!


22 posted on 10/03/2008 6:19:42 AM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of the Masses Could be Farts)
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To: nascarnation
I have replaced a hard drive in my laptop.

What did you do with your old hard drive? Did you destroy it sufficiently that it would take the NSA to recover some of it?

23 posted on 10/03/2008 6:19:59 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (The $700B bail out is giving parachutes to bankers while we must keep our seat belts on and shut up.)
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To: renosathug
Next issue will be updated to include instructions on how to field-dress a moose.

The only requirement is that you be able to field dress a moose better than your wife. I think Todd has that one covered...

24 posted on 10/03/2008 6:20:43 AM PDT by gridlock (The Democrats have attacked Motherhood. If they attack Baseball and Apple Pie, we got it made!)
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To: Dutchgirl

Ok...I missed brew beer and I don’t have an infrared thermomentor in my shop.....


25 posted on 10/03/2008 6:21:40 AM PDT by nevergore ("It could be that the purpose of my life is simply to serve as a warning to others.")
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To: Dutchgirl; All

I USED to do much of that list.

But after being run over by an ILLIGAL alien I have lost a lot of my memory on how to a lot of these things... ;>(


26 posted on 10/03/2008 6:21:43 AM PDT by TMSuchman (If you strike me down, I'll just become more powerful than you'll ever imagine!)
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To: pgkdan

Who the hell whitewaters in a canoe?

These dopes never heard of a kayak?


27 posted on 10/03/2008 6:22:13 AM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of the Masses Could be Farts)
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To: KarlInOhio
Did you destroy it sufficiently that it would take the NSA to recover some of it?

My last hard drive, I drilled through the platters and hammered them until they were bent. Will that do?

28 posted on 10/03/2008 6:22:36 AM PDT by gridlock (The Democrats have attacked Motherhood. If they attack Baseball and Apple Pie, we got it made!)
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To: Dutchgirl
How about Organize a Community? What type of man are you if you cant organize a community?

Military Know-How 48. Shine shoes 49. Make a drum-tight bed 50. Drop and give the perfect pushup

I would put shooting and hand to hand combat a little higher than making a drum-tight bed.

29 posted on 10/03/2008 6:23:21 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (The $700B bail out is giving parachutes to bankers while we must keep our seat belts on and shut up.)
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To: Dutchgirl

Geez. I hope they grade on a curve or I flunked.


30 posted on 10/03/2008 6:23:49 AM PDT by Mr. Brightside
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To: Dutchgirl

bump


31 posted on 10/03/2008 6:25:18 AM PDT by Centurion2000 (McCain/Palin 2008 : Palin the Paladin 2012)
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To: Dutchgirl
98 out of 100 aint bad.

Not too big on snake bites or rip tides in Minnesota but I think I read somewhere the southern part of the State does have rattlers.

I'll be doing #17 this afternoon. Have 5 gallons to bottle up.

32 posted on 10/03/2008 6:25:18 AM PDT by Manic_Episode (Some mornings, it's just not worth chewing through the leather straps...)
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To: KarlInOhio

I took it apart just for fun, and wolloped the platter with sledge, LOL


33 posted on 10/03/2008 6:25:18 AM PDT by nascarnation
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To: Dutchgirl
29. Use a French knife
Does a Switchblade count?

(not that I have any as they're ... uh ... like illegal)

34 posted on 10/03/2008 6:26:35 AM PDT by Condor51 (I have guns in my nightstand because a Cop won't fit)
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To: Dutchgirl

well maybe 99% rather than 99.9999999%


35 posted on 10/03/2008 6:27:36 AM PDT by from occupied ga (Your most dangerous enemy is your own government,)
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To: gridlock
That should keep 99.99% of the people from doing anything with it. I don't know what the military does to get rid of one. The last one I destroyed I took it apart to its platters and then ran an orbital sander over their surfaces, but it had a lot of other people's financial information on them from a business so I wanted it destroyed.
36 posted on 10/03/2008 6:27:46 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (The $700B bail out is giving parachutes to bankers while we must keep our seat belts on and shut up.)
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To: dirtboy

“I just take off the diaper and put the rug rat in the dishwasher. They’re top-rack safe, you know.

PLEASE, for safety’s sake: turn off the heated dry option.


37 posted on 10/03/2008 6:29:33 AM PDT by Unassuaged (I have shocking data relevant to the conversation!)
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To: KarlInOhio

refer to #7 Use a stick welder(or better yet, a cutting torch)


38 posted on 10/03/2008 6:31:09 AM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of the Masses Could be Farts)
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To: gridlock
My last hard drive, I drilled through the platters and hammered them until they were bent. Will that do?

When I was in the Air Force, we were supposed to take a belt sander to the disk (we're talking 10-12 inch disks and a 40-pound portable sander with 80-grit paper). The lights would dim when you hit the trigger. That'd probably do it, too.

39 posted on 10/03/2008 6:33:15 AM PDT by IYAS9YAS
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To: Condor51

I had to google that one:

http://www.laguiole-france.com/laguiole_french_knife.html

check out the pocket knives-they look like something a frenchman would carry...


40 posted on 10/03/2008 6:34:25 AM PDT by snuffy smiff (the most pathetic thing about libs is not that they lie-but that they lie unto themselves)
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