Bring me the head of Diego Garcia...and the Mayor of Addu Atoll too!

Cap Mandrake · Post by **Cap Mandrake** » Tue Feb 04, 2014 3:22 pm

Are there any choreographers or palette consultants in the readership?

Here is the problem. Frau Braun already approved the exterior paint colors which were selected from a palette recommended by Dunn Edwards after consultation, no doubt, with choreographers and palette consultant types.

So far, so good, but here is the problem. After 19 years with no rain gutters, the architect, my brother, told me I was an idiot and advised rain gutters. So we get in the "gutter guy" and he says "you don't want any crappy latex paint on my powder painted, heat cured gutters". His color palette is close to the Dunn Edwards but even I can see the difference. Some of the walls are over 30 feet high so you can't easily repaint the gutters once they are up unless you paint them in place at the same time as the walls.

Now what?

Here is what I predict. I put up the gutters and never rains in Southern California again for 50 years.

Cap Mandrake · Post by **Cap Mandrake** » Tue Feb 04, 2014 3:25 pm

Also, don't just say "put in copper" because it is a budget buster.[:)]

Chickenboy · Post by **Chickenboy** » Tue Feb 04, 2014 3:47 pm

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake
Are there any choreographers or palette consultants in the readership?

Oh no. Not falling for that one. If you ask if there are any hairdressers or Liza Minelli fans in the readership, do you think anyone will admit as such? [:-]

Not that there's anything wrong with that, of course.

ETA: What about gilded gutters? Surely that can't be too out of place in your neighborhood?

witpqs · Post by **witpqs** » Tue Feb 04, 2014 3:49 pm

Gold leaf?

Chickenboy · Post by **Chickenboy** » Tue Feb 04, 2014 3:51 pm

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Gold leaf?

Gah! Stop that!

poodlebrain · Post by **poodlebrain** » Tue Feb 04, 2014 3:52 pm

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

Are there any choreographers or palette consultants in the readership?

Here is the problem. Frau Braun already approved the exterior paint colors which were selected from a palette recommended by Dunn Edwards after consultation, no doubt, with choreographers and palette consultant types.

So far, so good, but here is the problem. After 19 years with no rain gutters, the architect, my brother, told me I was an idiot and advised rain gutters. So we get in the "gutter guy" and he says "you don't want any crappy latex paint on my powder painted, heat cured gutters". His color palette is close to the Dunn Edwards but even I can see the difference. Some of the walls are over 30 feet high so you can't easily repaint the gutters once they are up unless you paint them in place at the same time as the walls.

Now what?

Here is what I predict. I put up the gutters and never rains in Southern California again for 50 years.

Before selecting gutters you should consider what sort of cleaning they might require. Leaves and pine needles can accumulate and form obstructions in your gutters.

Cap Mandrake · Post by **Cap Mandrake** » Tue Feb 04, 2014 5:09 pm

OK...i'm going with pre-aged copper with gold plated joints and the self-cleaning option.

sprior · Post by **sprior** » Tue Feb 04, 2014 6:01 pm

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self-cleaning option.

We call it "rain"

Cap Mandrake · Post by **Cap Mandrake** » Tue Feb 04, 2014 6:38 pm

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ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

self-cleaning option.

We call it "rain"

[:'(] Doesn't work very well here if you go 10 months with no rain. On a flat part of my roof the drain got clogged with about 10 billion oak leaves....THEN it rained like Hell...the water built up above the flashing and water flooded 2 stories through the "drywall".

If there is any kind of preventive maint. I will almost certainly not do it. That is essentially why I have to tear down half my deck.

poodlebrain · Post by **poodlebrain** » Tue Feb 04, 2014 6:48 pm

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OK...i'm going with pre-aged copper with gold plated joints and the self-cleaning option.

This may be just the outfit you need to contact, M & M Sheet Metal & Rain Gutters

witpqs · Post by **witpqs** » Tue Feb 04, 2014 8:36 pm

Yeah - why the heck do they call it 'drywall' anyways?

Mike McCreery · Post by **Mike McCreery** » Tue Feb 04, 2014 8:43 pm

RE: "Fukoku Maru, pal!" - 2/4/2014 1:38:02 PM

Cap Mandrake
Battlefields! Beta Tester

The wall needs to be in a dry place for you to use it?

Cap Mandrake · Post by **Cap Mandrake** » Tue Feb 04, 2014 9:25 pm

Everyone has been very helpful with all this gutter talk.

Anyone who wants to borrow my soundtrack to Yentil is welcome, but I will need it back.

Cap Mandrake · Post by **Cap Mandrake** » Tue Feb 04, 2014 9:57 pm

[:)]

Cap Mandrake · Post by **Cap Mandrake** » Wed Feb 05, 2014 12:28 pm

The unnamed neighbor who baptized my couch is completely unashamed.

Either she has amnesia or thinks I didn't notice. Wierd what the human brain is capable of.

Admiral Lord Sprior, have you any more pictures of Londontown? It appears Admirar Rord Nerson is on day 3 of the Navajo sweat lodge ceremony again.

Cap Mandrake · Post by **Cap Mandrake** » Wed Feb 05, 2014 12:36 pm

Editirix Note:

Either she has amnesia or thinks I didn't notice. Wierd what the human brain is capable of.

The editorial board wishes to remnind readers that one does not properly end a sentence with a prepostiion.

Cap Mandrake · Post by **Cap Mandrake** » Wed Feb 05, 2014 1:00 pm

**************Offices of Shell-Mex and BP Ltd, London************

Chairman: <gazes at statue of Baby Jesus holding an orb displaying all the holdings of the company> Mr. Cheatham, you haven't explained why my company should simply hand over 30% of future proftis from our operations in Sarawak. Johny Jap is on the run there.

I. Dunn Cheatham, Esq: Because my client is prepared to insure no further destruction of refineries. And it's 30% of gross revenues, sir.

Chairman: Seems to me that is something the bloody Japs have to ensure.

I. Dunn Cheatham, Esq: Precisely sir! That's what the other 5% is for.

Chairman: That seems more like blackmail than a business proposition.

I. Dunn Cheatham, Esq: "Blackmail" is such a harsh word. We like to think of it as aligment of incentives....

witpqs · Post by **witpqs** » Wed Feb 05, 2014 1:48 pm

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The unnamed neighbor who baptized my couch is completely unashamed.

Either she has amnesia or thinks I didn't notice. Wierd what the human brain is capable of.

Admiral Lord Sprior, have you any more pictures of Londontown? It appears Admirar Rord Nerson is on day 3 of the Navajo sweat lodge ceremony again.

Perhaps in her amnesia she assumed that she, ah, did penance that same night. [;)]

Cap Mandrake · Post by **Cap Mandrake** » Wed Feb 05, 2014 2:18 pm

Editrix Note:

Because my client is prepared to insure no further destruction of refineries.

The author may be attempting to suggest that Mr. Cheatham is the product of a consanguineous marriage among mountain folk in Eastern Kentucky or the author himself may be the product of a consanguineous marriage among mountain folk in Eastern Kentucky. In either case, the Editorial Board wishes to clarify that "ensure" is word required in this context.

Cap Mandrake · Post by **Cap Mandrake** » Wed Feb 05, 2014 2:20 pm

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ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

The unnamed neighbor who baptized my couch is completely unashamed.

Either she has amnesia or thinks I didn't notice. Wierd what the human brain is capable of.

Admiral Lord Sprior, have you any more pictures of Londontown? It appears Admirar Rord Nerson is on day 3 of the Navajo sweat lodge ceremony again.
Perhaps in her amnesia she assumed that she, ah, did penance that same night. [;)]

If I didn't know better I would say you are trying to get me in trouble.