@cv Thank you. That is a great place to hang mistletoe. Decades ago when Bear Bryant was at Alabama it was reported he asked people to kiss his ...

@gary_g NBA star Jerry Lucas was an expert at CDO, He played a mental game of taking names and words apart, putting the letters in alphabetical or...

@mathteacher Yep. For city kids and really dumb ones at that. There came a time when a spy or two became the focus of most cartoons, movies and TV...

One time, about 35 years ago when I had a high schooler for a helper, we used a boat to get to a single monument. The client had put the overgrown ca...

Does this area have some of those "whatsit's" that predate the PLSS surveys? You know "something something claim". Kansas doesn't have those or any...

OCD is real. It is most apparent to someone who is watching someone else behaving in that manner. Realizing your own OCD traits is much more difficu...

@mathteacher Thank you. That is amazing. I wonder how long the planks were. Each one could be quite heavy. Seeing the term "plank" takes me ba...

@cv He was consistently arguing about one thing or another. Do your best to tell the story for us. I honestly seem to have forgotten it.

@rankin_file I believe that was Ty Olinghouse. The 0.04 story started with me. That goes way back. A survey tech, who I knew well, was creating...

Before you answer, stop and pretend you asked the question first.

@sluggo Oh, now, that is just precious. It's nice to see someone point out the foolishness involved.

If you Google straw man or straw buyer you may stumble onto the name Disney. They maximized this procedure while buying up half of Florida so they co...

This is purely a guess, but, I can think of why it may have been done. It was common practice many years ago to use what was called a "straw man" to ...

@norman-oklahoma That would be very interesting for one reason. I had an account at the first bank that was purchased by that family. They added ...

Pulled this one from Page 7 of 7. It has been viewed about 1200 times in three weeks yet no one has made a comment of any kind. BTW, learned a few ...

Remember this thread? It has been viewed nearly 1800 times since the OP on May 21. It currently is on Page 7 of 7. I was just trying to determine ...

Yup. Never have seen that term used. I recall from deeds cited here at some time in the past that some conveyors in the Old South specifically excl...

@andy-nold Thank you for correcting me. I do wish he would reconnect with this site. I must have had a brain fart that switched his last name to P...

@gary_g A plank road sounds similar to a corduroy road which I understand is basically logs laid side by side for miles When Missouri became a Sta...

@crashbox Is Broadus surveying on the streets of gold these days? I know Schaut and Cook are doing that.