Finally found where to get STEEL snow shovels. The plastic ones break in one storm (the steel strip at the bottom comes loose)
Figures it would be Amazon. I don't know where one is made, but the pusher one is made somewhere they know snow - Canada.
I have asked at our local hardware store. All they can get are plastic ones. Must be a Chinese plot to keep us snowed in.
buzzsawmonkey
12/16/2020 5:15:49 PM
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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 3:
Weird. Our local hardware store has steel shovels a-plenty. I had one that I kept in the car which was all-metal, and gave that one to a friend after that car bit the dust. The current shovel is steel-blade with a wooden handle.
Plastic snow shovels are a sad joke.
Kosh's Shadow
12/16/2020 5:23:27 PM
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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 4:
Can't get them at the big box hardware stores, either. The local one said he can't get them.
I got a few there before the current owner bought it, and one thin steel one is working fine, plus a 1/8" thick aluminum one. The steel pusher needs to have the blade reattached; I just have to get the right size screw.
Occasional Reader
12/16/2020 5:35:35 PM
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I have not had to shovel snow (with one brief exception) since... 1996, I believe. And I don't miss it a bit.
Occasional Reader
12/16/2020 5:39:38 PM
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Argh. Somewhat bored, I started watching a series called "Sons of LIberty", about the American Revolution. Interesting subject, of course. In the first episode, Sam Adams suggests to another character that they should organize a "boycott" of Loyalist businesses... a term that would not be invented until the 1880s. Then they jump from the Boston Massacre, to the Boston Tea Party, as if they happened weeks apart (in fact, almost 4 years apart). Oy.
"So I took me to the hashfire inn, for a secret caucus of the hotheads, rebellious libertines all..."
Occasional Reader
12/16/2020 6:12:16 PM
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Reply to lucius septimius in 8:
they also don’t even attempt to make the colonials sound like anything other than 21st-century Americans in terms of speech.
Kosh's Shadow
12/16/2020 6:27:14 PM
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In #10 Occasional Reader said: they also don’t even attempt to make the colonials sound like anything other than 21st-century Americans in terms of speech.
Did they organize meetings on Facebook, Twitter, and WhatsApp?/////
Occasional Reader
12/16/2020 6:59:08 PM
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Also, Paul Revere is this super ninja killing machine.
Kosh's Shadow
12/16/2020 7:05:22 PM
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In #12 Occasional Reader said: Also, Paul Revere is this super ninja killing machine.
With silver shurikens he made?/
Kosh's Shadow
12/16/2020 7:06:01 PM
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In #12 Occasional Reader said: Also, Paul Revere is this super ninja killing machine.
Or did he hit his enemies over the head with Revereware frying pans?/
Kosh's Shadow
12/16/2020 7:06:49 PM
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In #13 Kosh's Shadow said: With silver shurikens he made?/
That would make him the Lone Minuteman Ranger! Too bad he got caught trying to ride on Silver!
Kosh's Shadow
12/16/2020 7:19:47 PM
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So, I propose a series of movies about our Founding Fathers that present them as superheroes!
Who wants in on the project?
Kosh's Shadow
12/16/2020 7:36:41 PM
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In #16 Kosh's Shadow said: So, I propose a series of movies about our Founding Fathers that present them as superheroes!
I heard back from Hollywierd. They insist the Founding Fathers be portrayed as supervillians who enslaved the black men and killed the red men, etc.
Occasional Reader
12/16/2020 7:38:29 PM
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Oh, dear. And one of the characters just said, “that’s just a bridge too far“ regarding a proposal. As far as I know, that phrase does not precede operation market garden.
Occasional Reader
12/16/2020 7:51:29 PM
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I am half expecting George Washington, during the next battle scene, to order his troops to “lock and load“...
Occasional Reader
12/16/2020 7:58:11 PM
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OK, but for all my kvetching, the miniseries does show the founding of the country as a noble event. I give them credit for that.
Kosh's Shadow
12/16/2020 8:14:13 PM
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In #20 Occasional Reader said: OK, but for all my kvetching, the miniseries does show the founding of the country as a noble event. I give them credit for that.
I'm shocked it wasn't canceled in today's culture.
Occasional Reader
12/16/2020 8:25:26 PM
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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 21:
And at least Sam Adams and his friends did not agree to trash the loyalist businesses on Yelp. Anyway, good night to all.
Kosh's Shadow
12/13/2020 2:39:07 PM
JCM
12/16/2020 5:03:55 PM