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Old 30th November 2017, 06:15
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I have 6 places where I keep my "stuff": My place, my son's place, the boat, the travel trailer, my son's motor home and my car. The is one immutable law attached to this: Where ever I look for any particular item, it is never where I think I left it, it is never in any of the places where I look, and, as soon as I give up and purchase a new one, I immediately find the item I was looking for in the first place. The sub section to this law is that if I have two, or more, of the item I was looking for, they are all in the same place.
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Old 30th November 2017, 10:05
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I've decided I've got a poltergeist. I'm currently revamping my computer room so as to put in an amateur radio station. Every time I put a tool down to do something else, the tool is moved to another place.

This isn't 'losing and finding.' This is a dark force from beyond ....
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Old 30th November 2017, 16:34
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I'm sure most of us have a selection of pozidriv/phillips screwdrivers. Ever noticed that the one you can put your hand on is the one that's completely knacked?
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Old 30th November 2017, 16:52
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I bought a special calendar this last month as a present for our daughter.....I said ' I am putting it here in a safe place as we lost the one last year"...........neither of us can remember where this safe place is and we have two weeks before she is back in country..........urghhh

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Old 30th November 2017, 17:10
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I'm sure most of us have a selection of pozidriv/phillips screwdrivers. Ever noticed that the one you can put your hand on is the one that's completely knacked?
Nowadays we, in theory, get around that problem by using power drivers with separate bits.
So when the bit wears out you can just bin it - But you don't, you throw it in your tooolbox and when you are looking for a new one next time you can only find that one.
System works with Stanley knife blades as well.
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Old 30th November 2017, 18:37
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I think the phrase for old knackered tools (as well as a host of other things) is: "Well I don't want to throw it away, it might come in useful for something down the road."
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Old 30th November 2017, 19:34
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I too belong to that school which never throws anything away. I still use a wire-stripping tool given to me by my father 55 years ago; all of the more recent ones have disappeared.
Has anyone else noticed that the more useful a device is, the more legs it grows in order to relocate to somewhere other than where it is supposed to be?


Question: Why is a grub-screw driver like a teaspoon?


Answer: Because no matter how many of them one has, there is never one available when needed.
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Old 1st December 2017, 23:17
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The law governing the suitability of the tool that you can find for a job is not the same as the tool that you need for the job, is related to another law that dictates that the last nut you need to slacken off in the most difficult place to access, is rusted solid.

These laws were first established by that obscure Victorian steam age engineer, Septimus Onesimus Dickinson, and have been known ever since as "S.O.D's Laws."
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Old 2nd December 2017, 09:05
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I think this may sum it all up!

https://1funny.com/the-remember-song/
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Old 2nd December 2017, 18:23
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I believe that as the years progress finding and losing develops an inverse progression in that losing becomes easier and finding becomes more difficult, and this is why I subscribe to the theory of parallel universes. These are where upon death one will be consigned to start all over in a new one, and it is into one of those where the tool I put down five minutes ago has migrated in preparation for my demise, although as others here have noted, it is one of the unexplained effects of quantum physics that purchasing a replacement causes the immediate reappearance of the original. This is called "quantum entanglement" and is not my fault.

Another explanation that does occur quite frequently is that the tool last used two months ago and urgently needed now was borrowed by #1 son and never returned, and the loan had been forgotten so a new one had to be bought. This is simply a variant of the parallel universes that one's offspring inhabit, and it is one in which quantum entanglement does not apply.
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Old 3rd December 2017, 19:10
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Two years ago my grandson dropped a toy engine when playing with it in my room. It has never been seen since! There is a lump in one corner of the room where stuff gets misplaced, but so far most stuff gets back.

I am going to post this and then dash over to The Other Site to see if it emerges there.
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Two years ago my grandson dropped a toy engine when playing with it in my room. It has never been seen since! There is a lump in one corner of the room where stuff gets misplaced, but so far most stuff gets back.

I am going to post this and then dash over to The Other Site to see if it emerges there.
Yup. That proves it beyond all doubt.
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Old 3rd December 2017, 19:55
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There is a link! Who will advance a theory?
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Two years ago my grandson dropped a toy engine when playing with it in my room. It has never been seen since! There is a lump in one corner of the room where stuff gets misplaced, but so far most stuff gets back.

Engines have whistles; now, find the engine and you will find the missing boatswain's pipe.

Of course, if it really went over the edge it will be happily running up and down railway tracks on the underside of the Earth, with the driver thinking he's actually on the upper side.
Which simply proves my hypothesis: It's all in the eye of the observer……...
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The other site! More poof of the flat earth. Obviously SN is on one side (we will call it hear the dark side) and SH is on the other. The learned professors on SN are cogitating over the problem of gravity as the mass and its distribution seem wrong for M1M2/D^2 to reach 9.81 Newtons.

Perhaps we can incorporate the lost-things-coming-back effect. We should seek to determine the distance between the two planes and the density of the 'filling'. The answer, I am sure, will lie here.
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Be advised the FEEP are watching and listening. (Flat Earth Enforcement Police.)
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They can't find us here, that debate is in another dimension.

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Bit of Cheltenham training will soon get you through that barrier. The Super String Diode is all you need.
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Has anyone lost one of these? - Quantum physics may have the answer, or maybe not
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That is the notorious "Mistress" model with a fixed top ring. I know of it, but have never actually held (nay, caressed) one.
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The other site! More poof of the flat earth. Obviously SN is on one side (we will call it hear the dark side) and SH is on the other. The learned professors on SN are cogitating over the problem of gravity as the mass and its distribution seem wrong for M1M2/D^2 to reach 9.81 Newtons.

Perhaps we can incorporate the lost-things-coming-back effect. We should seek to determine the distance between the two planes and the density of the 'filling'. The answer, I am sure, will lie here.
That sounds something like a chemical formula for a Peanut Butter Sandwich.
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Peanut butter is the spawn of the devil. It is the very epitome of evil. Even mentioning it can bring slithering monsters up from the depths of the unholy.

If ever there was a thing that should be lost, and never found, it is peanut butter.
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Peanut butter is the spawn of the devil. It is the very epitome of evil. Even mentioning it can bring slithering monsters up from the depths of the unholy.

If ever there was a thing that should be lost, and never found, it is peanut butter.
But Peanut Butter on bread with Rasberry Jam on top is a rare delight..

BTW Just watched Scotland embarrassing themselves against Wales. Trying to get the missus to agree to relocating.
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Old 7th February 2018, 18:42
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Peanut butter, necktie of the Gods.

Apparently, if crossed with a hen you get a cock that sticks to the roof of your mouth! Something for both sexes.
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Peanut butter essential ingredient of best food. Pork sate/Nasi goring of Chinese crewed delights.
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