A little follow up to this story. Our woodshop teacher found the high school principal Friday afternoon and handed him a slip of paper with a name an...

I had a (bonehead city flunkie who was the chief brownnose in charge of whatever the city manager told him to do) try to tell me this could not happen...

@gstritter Same question as Andy above.

Whew. More reasons to stay where I am. Bureaucracy for the sake of bureacracy is insanity at its worst.

@gordon-svedberg That would be an incredible chore given the wind velocities and how drastically they change in a short distance. Being over top of...

Bras were invented as birth control devices. They were to be worn on the knees and tightly fastened to keep the legs together . . . . . . . ....

When I read Saint Simmons I couldn't help but laugh out loud. A neighbor farmer in my teenage days and before would hire me for farmwork whenever I c...

@olemanriver Yes and no. That book was not in existence when the surveys were performed that you are attempting to follow. For example, Land begi...

Survey tech buddy of mine was nearing 80 when a newcomer to his little hometown came walking out of his house, not saying a word, and shoved my buddy ...

A recent rerun of The Beverly Hillbillies featured a visit from the Mayor of Bug Tussle, back home. The Clampett family was thrilled to be honored by...

Just knew this had to be in Florida.

Could to!!!! Yes, Keith Williams. He coined the term Bogus Theory, I believe.

This reminded me of a weird story from the early 1960's. The mailman didn't stop at the mailbox one day, but drove up to the house. My mother walked...

Ol' Knud Hermanson would include examples of surveys that he considered standard that included everything, including the precise location of the mailb...

He held that if a subdivision indicated the street ran parallel with the east-west section line then the blocks were not formed of straight lines as o...

@norman-oklahoma What was the name of our old buddy who had been up near the top of Government surveyors but was retired. Liked to argue with every...

Set up one time on the front lawn of a hospital where it appeared the lawn had been mowed the day before. Within 15 minutes a maintenance worker appe...

@gary_g I'm not surprised. The list of issues that come up grows as the size of the district grows. The Education Service Center whose Board I sit...