The Person Below Me (TPBM) Pt. II (1 Viewer)

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No, but had a BBQ yesterday after my son's football game (we won, Moravian College 19, Lebanon Valley College 18.

TPBM is getting ready to close his pool.

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Wish I had a pool.....

TPBM wanted to be a lifeguard as a child....

This Jack O' Lantern.
An Irish legend tells of Jack, a lazy but shrewd farmer who uses a cross to trap the Devil. One story says that Jack tricked the Devil into climbing an apple tree, and once he was up there Jack quickly placed crosses around the trunk or carved a cross into the bark, so that the Devil couldn't get down. Another myth says that Jack put a key in the Devil's pocket while he was suspended upside-down; Another myth says that Jack was getting chased by some villagers whome he had stolen from, when he met the Devil: it was time for him to die. However, the thief stalled his death by tempting the Devil with a chance to bedevil the church-going villagers chasing him. Jack told the Devil to turn into a coin with which he would pay for the stolen goods (the Devil could take on any shape he wanted); later, when the coin/Devil disapeared, the Christian villagers would fight over who had stolen it. The Devil agreed to this plan. He turned himself into a silver coin and jumped into Jack's wallet... only to find himself next to a cross Jack had also picked up in the village. Jack had closed the wallet tight, and the cross stripped the Devil of his powers; and so he was trapped. In both myths, Jack only lets the Devil go when he agrees to never take his soul. After a while the thief died, as all living things do. Of course, his life had been too sinful for Jack to go to heaven; however, the Devil had promised not to take his soul, and so he was barred from Hell as well. Jack now had nowhere to go. He asked how he would see where to go , as he had no light, and the Devil mockingly tossed him an ember that would never burn out from the flames of hell. Jack carved out one of his turnips (which was his favourite food), put the ember inside it, and began endlessly wandering the Earth for a resting place. He became known as "Jack of the Lantern", or Jack-o-Lantern.
 
To a point, I agree. Look at a 1957 Chevrolet. That was a thing of beauty.
The "spitfire" was a good looking aircraft. But.... time marches on.

TPBM never drove an "old" car.
 
Depends what we're discussing. Some strange middle-aged white guy with a high pitched voice and wearing tin foil on his head talking about how he was visited from aliens from the planet oreon... yeah I'm incredulous.

TPBM believes in aliens.
 
Nope. I just locked myself in my darkroom at school. I was a smart-@ss but not a troublemaker. BTW thanks for the Ghost/Jack stories...I love them.


TPBM is LOVING the cooler temps in the morning.
 
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