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Top five: Worst summer jobs
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| May 4, 2010
| Andrew Swab
Posted on 05/06/2010 12:18:50 PM PDT by JoeProBono
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To: JoeProBono
I once had a job collecting urine from sick rams. We’d give the rams some chemical, they would get very sick, and then excrete some cancer fighting drug in their urine.
But those ‘spigots’ didn’t come with valves...
To: Mr Rogers
Mental flash of the “Malcolm in the Middle” sequence where Otto has Francis attempting to “milk” the bull. Don't tan with the pheromones!
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posted on
05/06/2010 6:01:30 PM PDT
by
70times7
(Serving Free Republics' warped and obscure humor needs since 1999!)
To: thackney
Thanks for the laugh...when hubby and I first became farmers and knowing very little about honey dippin, we were told by the guy that if we lifted the lid before he got there it was 10 dollars off the cost....we didn’t know enought not to stand down wind...never made that mistake again....
To: Mr Rogers
My very first job was serving The Philadelphia Bulletin 7 days a week at age 11 (my mother lied about my age)
It was hell in winter
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posted on
05/06/2010 6:09:25 PM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: Zman516
Hi Zman when I had 80 goats didn't get paid for working the hay fields had to pay the owner of the field...3000 bales is a lot of pulling off the baler, stacking on the wagon, elevator to hay loft and stack it again. The its throwing it down the hole in the loft to the goats below....I should have become an engineer, but loved farming goats..
But we could bale to the weight we wanted if they were becoming too heavy...
not that strong anymore, have trouble with 40 pound bags of dog food..but goat farming was 20 years ago... GG
To: JoeProBono
Refuse to answer, it's OK.
There is no proper defense of your position. Nor of anyone who needs to call in for back-up to taunt. Meh.
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posted on
05/06/2010 6:13:27 PM PDT
by
Daffynition
( Someday we'll know why love can't move a mountain.)
To: Daffynition
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posted on
05/06/2010 6:17:10 PM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: Mr Rogers
ROTFLMSS They don’t call them rams for nothing...those rams can kill you quick....at least the BIG ones.
To: JoeProBono
Be careful with that thing. It might blow up in your face. Like your l'hommage pour accabler de sarcasmes. Bonne nuit.
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posted on
05/06/2010 6:38:02 PM PDT
by
Daffynition
( Someday we'll know why love can't move a mountain.)
To: Daffynition
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posted on
05/06/2010 7:25:53 PM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: JoeProBono
Darling husband's summer job will be protecting and defending your freedom, living in a tent 7000 miles away from home, in the desert, in kevlar gear and body armor, in 90+ degree heat, with no electricity, no air conditioner, no home-cooked meals, no email, and no FreeRepublic. In return, Uncle Sam cut his income by a third.
I'd like to see anybody try to beat that.
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posted on
05/06/2010 7:35:30 PM PDT
by
shezza
(Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord.)
To: shezza
... 7,000 away from home ...
IMHO, your darling hubby wins.
Thank him for us. My screen gets kinda blurry thinking about the husbands, sons, brothers, dads (daughters and sisters, too) over there protecting us ...
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posted on
05/06/2010 8:19:21 PM PDT
by
Cloverfarm
(This too shall pass ...)
To: shezza
No one can beat your husband. He is the best we have. Hope your family is reunited soon....GG
To: runninglips
I used to treeplant. Good money, hard work. 10 cents a tree, and I think my best was 2000 in a day. :)
To: Ignatz
I once hauled bingo work to an illegal janitor at night.
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posted on
05/10/2010 5:35:07 PM PDT
by
1010RD
(First Do No Harm)
To: runninglips
BTDT. Reading your tale brought the taste of drywall dust to my mouth.
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posted on
05/10/2010 5:37:21 PM PDT
by
1010RD
(First Do No Harm)
To: PGR88
Aluminum smelting plant, punch press right next to the blast furnace August, hot, hot, hot August. The entire summer was a nightmare. I couldn’t wait to go to college.
I wondered why all the older punch press operators were missing fingers. They were just trying to break up the monotony.
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posted on
05/10/2010 5:43:01 PM PDT
by
1010RD
(First Do No Harm)
To: shezza
Darling husband's summer job will be protecting and defending your freedom, living in a tent 7000 miles away from home, in the desert, in kevlar gear and body armor, in 90+ degree heat, with no electricity, no air conditioner, no home-cooked meals, no email, and no FreeRepublic. In return, Uncle Sam cut his income by a third.
I'd like to see anybody try to beat that. I certainly can't beat that today...but between 1966 and 1969, I could at least equal it.
Living out in the jungle...sometimes if lucky in a sandbagged hootch, eating local produce (with the ever present threat of dysentary) and C-rats, humidity of 100%, temp of 96 to 98 degrees, constant rain for 6 months at a time, mold, bad water, no mail of any kind (we never even heard of "e-mail"), flak jackets (if the First Shirt or CO was around), jungle boots, a buddy you didn't know if you could trust, jungle rot, and for us E-1s, a total of $37 every two weeks that was lost within a day or two of payday in various and sundry poker games.
So...thank him for his service from all of us....but especially from us vets. Tell him we know a bit about what he's going through.
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posted on
05/10/2010 5:46:07 PM PDT
by
Logic n' Reason
(Buzzard's gotta eat; same as worms.)
To: JoeProBono
Horizontal jack hammering in the Virgin Islands. Made the Heinekens something special after work though.
To: JoeProBono
Read a JPB thread????!!!
I came for the pictures. ;-]
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posted on
05/10/2010 5:53:25 PM PDT
by
1010RD
(First Do No Harm)
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