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  1. CanoeTramp

    Rainbow Gatherings

    The Allegheny National Forest , North wester Penna. Is most Likely the closest Rainbow gathering to Ohio. About once every ten years, The last gathering there was this past july.
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    Four Loko !

    This may make ya sad... four loko news.. Why is there 3 different thread on the four loko ban. How about using the search before starting a new thread .
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    official fishing thread

    Thank you Pheonix for starting a fishing thread. That's one weedy pond you got. I've always used weedless top water lures like grass frogs or scum frogs in slop like that. A Texas rigged soft plastic worm is a good rig for fishing in heavy weeds. I usally shove a round toothpick in the hole of...
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    Cooking using a Hobo Stove

    Heres a really simple diagram of how a downdraft gassifier wood stove works. - Taken from backpackinglight.com probable the altimit source on the subject of wood burning packstoves.BackpackingLight.com -- Home Page
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    Cooking using a Hobo Stove

    double post.
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    The flatest in hobo biker transportation...

    Here's a pretty sweat railbike that can also be run on the streets.
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    Who else wants to get land?

    Maybe you could start that thread. I't would be more interesting than this one.
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    help hitching out of NYC

    Easy escape from Manhatten,- The Staten Island Ferry is free to ride.
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    Building Tree house. Best place to get scap wood?

    Bulk trash pickup,- nearly every city has one,- one of the weekly pickups for the month is for heavy / large trash. Call your city hall if you don't allready know. I'm always picking lumber out of the trash. - You could build your own house from what others through away. Job sites if you can...
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    Sup, punks!

    I think he meant to say he likes punk cock.
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    In europe

    Maybe I'm wrong, I've never been to Europe, But I thought just about every german, austrian, and german speaking swiss under 40 speaks some english. Maybe in the eastern half of Germany I could see one having a problem communicating, Then again Germany has been unified now for 20 years. I'd...
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    Who else wants to get land?

    I've been internet shopping for cheap land for years, Just always curious what's out there at bargain basement prices, And I'm convinced that the cheapest best land is in Michigans Upper Peninsula. After that I'd say parts of norther Wisconsin, parts of northern Minnesota, and also northern...
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    Nicknames, and how you got them

    Biscuit - given to me buy my girlfriend because I hate to shave, - Whisker Biscuit shortened to Biscuit. I usally get call Biscuit when I'm looking a little scraggly.
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    Whats your favorite beer?

    Straub beer of St. Mary's PA, is my favorite and always will be, ( word of warning - straub in can is made in Rochester NY, so it's not the same as that botteled in St. Mary's PA, ) Favorite Wisc. beer is Point Special, - Steven's Point WI, - " If you're out of Point you're out of town". Sorry...
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    Running in boots

    Assault boots are the new thing with the military, basicly a high top cross trainer. So maybe old school combat / jungel boot are'nt the best thing to run in. If your boots are korean, taiwaness, any sort of asian made knock off of an american combat boot, - I would'nt intrust the health of my...
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    Best places in America?

    I apologize, my reply was'nt meant to be disparging. I'm sorry you feel the way you do about the s. side. I'd still reccommend it as a must see to any traveler. Bloomfield, Polish Hill, The Strip, Oakland, Squirrel Hill, Mt. Washington, and The Mexican War Streets I'd add to the list. I'm not in...
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    hard times up on big rock candy mountain

    Thanks bote, that was an interesting read, would have never thought to have looked that up on wiki, if it was'nt for your post.
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    stupid fucking hangovers

    2 aspirin, 2 vitamin c tablets, and a pint of water before going to bed, has always been my cure to prevent a hangover in the morning,
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    recommendations, anyone?

    Two favorite foreign films, House of Fools -Russian , A dark comedy about psychiatric patients and combatatants during the first Chechen war. The main character Zhanna a young schizophrenic woman who believes Brian Adams is her fiance. Mediterraneo - Italian, A small group of Italian marines end...
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    Best places in America?

    Could it be more ambiguous that you're not from Pgh. and hav'nt spent a significant amount of time there?. You most likly only saw about 5% of the south side. Next time you visit turn the other direction when you come off the south end of the Birmingham bridge.-Better yet take the 10th street...
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    Body found near Keenesburg, CO

    http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=news/local&id=7260935 Make it 12 maybe 13, Two teenagers hit by the last Amtrak Hiawatha from Chicago to Milwaukee, just a few hours ago, one dead, one in critical condition.
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    Legality of carrying knives (and other weapons?)

    Been thinking about that myself, I got a dodgy hip, broken in a car crash, 20 years ago. Going to make my self an over engineered oak cane or walking stick, Would come in handy if I need to crack some yegg upside the head. Does any one know about the legality of hatchets, axes, and machetes...
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    (VERY General) What is your idea of anarchy?

    Anarchy has way to many adjectives, From now on I'm just a Libertarian. W/ libertarianism you're either right or left, and the lefties are a small minority.
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    Best places in America?

    Any lake or river that hasn't been spoiled by man. Any rural area that has'nt been destroyed by corperations,- with their big box stores and fast food nation. My favorite rural areas being north west and north central Penna., and norther Wisconsin. Favorite neighborhoods in America,-...
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    New around here from Detroit

    From Detroit this is how one would most likly get to the Mississippi River, - up the Saint Clair River into Lake Huron, from Huron to Lake Michigan, through the Chicago Harbor & River Lock & Control works, In to the Chicago Sanitation & Ship Canal, into the Des Plaines River, into the Illinois...
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    Places You Hate Most

    Exurbia/Suburbia-Illinois, Wisconsin. Let the carpet bombing commence.
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    Dragging myself into this century........

    Wallymart trac-fone, motorola flip phone,- double minutes. I just ignore all the extra b.s. features on it, used the camera maybe once in the past year. Can't understand why anyone needs an internet phone,- trying to surf the net on a screen not much bigger then a match box, has to be the...
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    ?Which boot is "your" friend on the steel?

    http://bargainsplusmore.flyingcart.com Great place to buy high-end military boots, like bates, belleville, addisons, matterhorn, and more, for half the price the goverment pays. Maybe factory seconds, but the seller dosn't state so. Alot of odd sizes and limited quanitity. Also the seller has...
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    ALICE Backpacks?

    Backpacks? alice's website,- lol, ALICE is a military acronym that stands for all-purpose lightweight individual carrying equipment. It was replaced starting in 1997 with the MOLLE (modular lightweight load carrying equipment) gear that the u.s. military currently uses.
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    Pallettes = homes

    Sorry to disapoint, but I'm doubtful construction on my tiny little house will start any time soon. Hoping to just get the trailer this summer and get it preped. Way to many ifs and variables, - like time, finding the scrap materials I'll need, getting my friends help, ect.. I'm still not set on...
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    New here, and I got an idea!

    I wouldn't bother with a fireplace, You're already packing in so much gear,-why not get yourself a 15 or 30 gallone steel barrel and a few feet of stove pipe, you could pack a lot of stuff in that barrel and strap it to a pack board, or get a friends help and carry it on long pole like hunters...
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    Pallettes = homes

    Thanks veggieguy for the youtube link, I've been to that web site, but didn't know about the yt video. I'm planning on building my own tiny house on wheels. still on the hunt for a suitable trailer. Building with pallets is a cool idea, but all that hardwood equals one heavy little house, A big...