Our resident MacGyver just made it into the 30K club. How would you like to join me in heartiest congrats?

Congratulations to one of my favorite jellies! If I ever need to live in the wilderness, I really want @Luckyguy to be with me. He has the most innovative ways to do just about anything I would ever need. I always look forward to your great answers. How it took you this long to get 30K is beyond me.
I also have a secret crush on him. :-)

Congratulation! You are a genius when it comes to anything engineer-eque (and a lot more, including some relationship matters). And you are a cool jelly too, always get lucky!

And thanks @Adirondackwannabe for letting me know your real name :)

Chyna mentioned @Luckyguy, but shouldn’t the OP include his name?

Congratulations.

@gailcalled How many MacGyvers do we have on here?

Who knows? I can think of several.

Congrats to LuckyGuy.

Cheers! I adore you, funny, smart, thrifty and can build a fire out of dryer lint. You’d be one kick ass ranch hand over here on the Ponderosa. Party on!

Yikes! The snow is coming down at a good clip and we expect to see another 4–6 inches on top of the 6 we have already. Knowing that I’ll be firing up the snow blower in the morning I was just getting ready to go to bed and under the warm covers and…. Now this! :-)

@Adirondackwannabe When I first read your question, I was surprised as I had never heard the name before. I thought it might be an inactive jelly who just got enough lurves. But when I searched the name, only one user showed up, and they had no lurves. I read the question again and saw that you implied you had met the jelly before, so I immediately thought of @LuckyGuy :)

Stay warm in the Noreaster @LuckyGuy. Congrats to a fellow nature lover!

My apologies, the new Jellies won’t know LuckyGuy is our own MacGyver. And how about 24” of snow.

Waiting on a big west coaster storm too. Plenty of time to party here! haha

@Adirondackwannabe Give me a piece of string, a paper clip and a mirror, and I’ll make a compass to help find my way there. Thanks for hosting.
I really admired MacGyver and thought he had the best job in the world. It turns out I was right.

Hells yeah I would! You kick some severe ass, plus I like you. Congrats and cheers, bro. :)

@LuckyGuy Hey you are one of the jellies that make this sight worth visiting. There are some peeps that never add anything positive, but I can not recall anything negative in any of your answers. Keep up the good work.

Best Wishes LuckyGuy! Wow! 40K!

Congratulations to LuckyGuy way to go!! Will there be a big party with champagne and/or pancakes?

Mazel tov, bubbeleh! Such a shayna punim!

Hey there @LuckyGuy, congratulations!

HAPPY for you @LuckyGuy

The Luckiest Macgyver round has blown the roof off the mansion! Congrats to a bright mind with positive energy and sharp humor sprinkled with logic! Get that Xmas champagne flowing early!

30K? That’s a crowne-ing achievement! I’m going to make a peach pie for the party! Congrats, @LuckyGuy. Your answers are always level headed, thoughtful and kind and you are definitely a positive addition to this site.

Yay, yay, yay!! Congratulations!!!

Thank you all! I’ll answer personally later. As the weather service predicted, we got a little over a foot of heavy snow. I need to clear out a few driveways so the neighbors can go about their business.
Someone’s got to do it.

Yay, my go-to jelly for motivational speeches! At some point, I want one of those too, by the way…but for now: Congrats! :)

@LuckyGuy: A foot of snow? Jeezus. We got a dusting here. Flurries all day yesterday which stuck minimally and then this morning, it must have flurried last night because the car is white.

Congratulations on your well engineered milestone!

Congratulations!

We are lucky that you’re our guy! Congratulations on this incredible milestone!

OK I’m back. The snowsuit, face mask, hearing protection, goggles and boots are off and I am sipping a hot chocolate after wolfing down 2 eggs whipped and cooked in the microwave.
It looks like we got about 14 inches (35 cm). My neighbor’s garage door froze shut and broke the main spring so he couldn’t get his tractor out to plow so I took a care of his place too.

Thank you for the kind words. As the snowblower was munching away I was thinking about what I wanted to say and started recalling some of the things I’ve learned here. there are many.
I work in an extremely technical area and am surrounded by creative and technical people. Our discussions center on the task at hand and technologies that would bring us closer to a solution. It is exciting stuff. We don’t discuss philosophy, politics, religion, family relationships, abortion, gay rights, dating issues, travel, pets, current music, sickness, etc.
This site and the people here have filled a void I did not know I had. Here I can talk with intelligent people from all over the world. Where else could I discuss life issues with a South African, a New Zealander and an Australian? You people are total strangers yet I find that I actually care how things work out with you. You’ve taught me empathy.
I can talk about things here that I cannot discuss in the real world. It is both a release and a chance to learn. For that I thank you all.

@LuckyGuy

You mentioned that “somebody” has to do it, so I’m curious to know if you’ve had a chance to check out Mike Rowe’s (the Dirty Jobs guy) new show on CNN.

Fortuitously, it’s called “Somebody’s Got To Do It”

I think you’d enjoy it and “Somebody’s” got to watch it :D

Oh, and heartiest congrats on the 30K. Quite a milestone for you ! !

@LuckyGuy I’m glad I’ve found someone with a similar living condition. There are things here I can’t discuss with people in real life too. Here I have a chance to practice my English as well as interact with people from far away. I’ve shared a ton of dirty secret here :P

We all have something to teach and learn. And we are strangers yet we are so close.

@chyna You were one of the first to greet me here over 5 years ago. We probably know more about each other than we realize. In the next life I will serve you a meal in a Japanese bento box.
@Mimishu1995 You are new and have fit in so well. I have tremendous respect for your language skills and sense of fairness. You bring a fresh perspective to the group. Please stick around.
@gailcalled Who else carries enough equipment in his vehicle to handle virtually any emergency? Who else would turn around across I-90 to avoid standstill traffic waiting for a tipped 18 wheel tanker to be righted?
@zenzen I recognize you as one of the more cerebral participants here. The reflection from that crystal dome lights the way. If/when I am in your area you know I plan to look you up – if you’d have me.
@talljasperman Thank you. My wish for you is to take some of the advice to heart and act upon it. We all have the power to make our lives better. And everything is more enjoyable when we are healthy.
@Coloma Over the years you shared your ups and downs and always answered from the heart. Through all that, your smile and good humor stayed constant. Yep. There’s Gold in Them Thar’ hills.

@LuckyGuy Awww, well…shucks.
Man..the wind is ripping through these hills right now at hurricane force, lights flickering, 100mph on the summit here. If I blow away it’s been nice knowing you. haha
A perfect day to keep the fire and party going!

One of my favorite jellies. Congratulations! No worries! ;)
I miss this place…

‘SNOW PARTY LIKE A 30K PARTY!!

Congo Rats, @LuckyGuy !

@wilma Come back! All is forgiven.

It was definitely more than luck that got you to the third floor or the mansion. Congrats to a great member of the Fluther community!

@marinelife You, too, greeted me so many years ago. Your answers were so quick and complete I figured you could type at 100 WPM. I’m glad you enjoy the nature photos I post on the other site. It is all around us if we just look. (And it REALLY is all around us when viewed through a thermal imager!)
@Symbeline You were one of the people I had in mind when I mentioned the void I didn’t know I had. Over the years I’ve read what you’ve written but rarely mentioned it. Just know it registered. I also know beneath that tough exterior lies a heart filled with the T-Virus antigen. May a smile be your Umbrella.
@majorrich Thank you for your confidence. Until recently I did not know the Okinawa connection. CQ CQ DX
@Adirondackwannabe Thank you for hosting – and for “getting it” and understanding when I describe where I live. You and I live in a different world than many folks here. They cannot imagine a world where it is normal to step outside wearing only your underwear and a pair of work boots so you can shoot at a skunk that has been stinking up your house for a week. I’m glad you’ve got my back.
@prairierose Welcome to the collective. It certainly did not take long for you to fit right in. Some day I’d love to hear what brought you here and how you discovered the site. I hope to be hosting a party for you some day.

@janbb Oy mishpocheh. It has been and honor to know you. I thank you for sharing your situation with us. More people have learned from your experience than you know.
@Adagio Until I met you I thought it was only inhabited by sheep. I don’t know how you do it but occasionally your descriptive and thought provoking words have made my keyboard blur.
@Tropical_Willie Thank you for bringing a bit of paradise to my cold, dreary environs. I’m inside looking out at gray skies and several deer with their bellies just above the snow and your name alone brightens my day.
@ZEPHYRA You name always shouts from the page – and I smile. I think Bobby McFerrin’s famous song. If you recall I wasn’t always Lucky.
@jca I still smile when I think of the Q where we both confessed to having similar morning coffee/tea bathroom habits. Where else can a discussion like that take place? I am still a 2 shower per day fan and believe in shopping from my refrigerator before Costco.

@linguaphile It has been a little over 2 years since you made some major changes. I’ve wondered how it all worked out. Let’s discuss it over coffee at the party.
@longgone I hope you realize that, unlike Matt Foley, I do not live in a van down by the river. I practice what I preach and i try to stay in shape while doing it. Because, as you well know, everything is better when you are in shape.
@FireMadeFlesh Dude, we know more about each other than most. You are doing good things but don’t always see it clearly. Dial up the magnetic field a bit. That will clarify it. Keep thinking! ;-)
@syz Actually I must thank you for all the lessons you’ve taught us about animals, nature and food requirement. I printed out that paper and have the data at my fingertips.
@picante From what little I know about you it seems you like to travel. Some day you must update us on your adventures. Please figure on a Western NY trip some time in your life. We are not as exciting as Montreal, Paris, or S.M.de A but we do offer fantastic night skies, the lowest crime rates in the country and the friendliest people. Put it on your VayCay calendar.
@Buttonstc Somebody has to do it, indeed. I live by the Conservation of Grief Principle. The goal is to minimize grief in the world. If I can do the job in 20 minutes (20 minutes of grief for me) and it saves my neighbor 2 hours of shoveling (2 hours of grief for him), a grief avoidance ratio of 6:1, then I am morally obligated to take care of his driveway. If the GAR is 1:1, common sense dictates it is absolutely his responsibility. Since I am not Mother Theresa I consider any GAR below about 3:1 to be the other person’s responsibility. Anything over 10:1 I will do in a heartbeat. The fuzzy zone is GAR between 3 and 10 and my response depends upon other factors such as the grief I will endure if I don’t meet a certain deadline.

Trust @LuckyGuy to engineer his compassion!! Gotta love that guy!

@janbb , Laughing here, if my life ever looks like something normal again, you can bet I’ll be back!

@janbb. I am not the creator of that method. I learned it from another person who picked me up while hitchhiking. He said it if took him only a couple of minutes out of his way to save me a long walk he would do it. He tries to minimize grief in the world. That was about 40 years ago and the concept has been in my mind ever since. I was the one who numerically quantified it.

@LuckyGuy I hope you know I didn’t mean it as a put-down. You are the kindest engineer I know. I just got a kick ou of your quantifying it.

@wilma Thank you for coming out of your awesome tree house to say hello! I’m touched that you chose my event to do it. You are missed.
@Yetanotheruser You snow this site can always use another user. Thank you for your kind words. You certainly call it the way you see it.
@dxs Thank you for the compliment. I had been ‘worried’ but now ‘luck’ was with me. So? did you get the job? Some of us have been waiting at the edge of our seats.
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@janbb Of course I didn’t take it as a put-down. We’re mishpocheh! :-)

@LuckyGuy I do know. That’s what makes your advice valuable!

I love the GAR!

@LuckyGuy: I consider you my own private stalker and thrilled for it. You do show up too often on highways and byways (and even Jim’s Diner) near me, some a stone’s throw away, far too often to be a coincidence. Is that you slogging up my driveway on your Yaktrax? Or is it just my frustrated hunter, stlll without his deer. (It has been a pleasure.)

^^ You Nanooks of the North must stick together!

Not only did I not know which jelly it related to, I still have no clue who the fuck this Macgyver bloke is :D
Regardless, congrats.

Nanooks of the North. LMAO!

@ucme MacGyver was the eponymous lead character of a TV show from 1985 to 1992. He used scientific methods and household materials to save the world from almost certain destruction. He was a smart boy and obviously always did his physics and chemistry homework in school.
He was a secret agent with a science teacher twist.

Typical scene:
“MacGyver! The train is out of control and is heading straight for the orphanage!”
“Quick! Get me a chewing gum wrapper, a piece of duct tape, a box of Brillo pads and an aluminum frying pan.”
“But!”
“Don’t ask any questions. Just do it!”

Spoiler: He makes a wad of thermite and blows up the track which diverts the train – thus saving the orphanage but totaling the nearby court house where congressional hearings were being held to support the homeless and gay rights.

If you watch one episode you will have seen them all.

This also partially explains why I carry the items I do in my wallet.

@LuckyGuy Sounds like a white Mr T, only with less anger issues.

@ucme He was much smaller and more wiry than brutish Mr T – And had way more brains.

You will notice that many of my answers will have a suggested experiment tied to them. We learn by doing. A couple of people here suggested the MacGyver name due to that tendency.

“Quick! Hand me a bottle of Everclear, a tube of Avon Skin-so-soft, a sheet of 220 grit sandpaper and a salted pretzel! ”
“And call 911 in exactly 42 seconds!”

@LuckyGuy! Congrats! I hope you know that you are one of my favorite people here.

An arrangement you sound more than comfortable with @LuckyGuy , which is fair enough.

@ucme Yep. Best job in the world. :-)

Serve anothet two rounds of that golden bubbly, the man deserves a double celebration!

@Cupcake Thank you for the vote of confidence but, it is you who deserves accolades. You are accomplishing so much that will surely make life better for all concerned.

If you ever need a break you’re invited to Jim’s Diner too. (Only in a different city.)

Congratulations @LuckyGuy. I’ve booked us a table here 40.7356° N, 74.0067° W. Here’s a quiz for you to do too. I got five right so I think I’ll definitely need to come and live at your place when the apocalypse comes.

@Earthbound_Misfit You know me all too well. You knew couldn’t resist the lure of a dappled boar. I was in the area just last week! I walked all the way from the station with the same name as the place where a man in Kentucky sure is lucky, to a grand station centrally located in a busy area. A friend of mine has an office 2 blocks south near a street that implies a place to leave a car – but you certainly cannot.

How to celebrate this milestone for someone who would send empty shotgun shells to a random stranger (me) so that she could attempt something creative. The appropriate thing would be to build a shrine, or an altar, but I’m not that good.

Instead, I shall express my gratitude for his intelligent answers, friendliness, sense of humor and ability to share his thoughts without being offensive. Reading your answers always brings a smile or another way to think about things. Thank you for being here. The collective is better with you here.

Warmest congrats, my friend.

@LuckyGuy I always look forward to your answers. You have this awesome balance of intelligence, humor, and kindness. If I’m ever in NY or you’re ever in DC, we’ll have to have a glass of wine together!

Wasn’t there a recent discussion about french fries, where @longgone agreed to bring her baked potato wedges to the next mansion party?

Oops.

Back with wedges – help yourself! I left them in the oven long enough to get crunchy, just for you. Also, complimentary fish sauce all around!

I thought you said “wedgies”!

Let’s take 30,0000 rolls of duct tape and stack them into the shape of a celebratory cake.

Congratulations @LuckyGuy!!!

Worried no more.

Before mine, we were just at 69 responses. Teehee.

I think you mean LuckyGuy? if so, YAY congrats!!!!

@Yetanotheruser No! I like you all too much :)

@tedibear A while back I had asked a Q about what to do with empty casings and you were one of the few crazy people who actually wanted and were excited to receive them. Imagine my concern while standing on line at the post office mailing items tainted with GSR. :-) I’m glad you liked them.
@2davidc8 Thanks! It is always a pleasure. You’ve been around for such a long time where were you hiding?
@Haleth Oh I would gladly accept. I’m sure it would be a pleasure. Your descriptions of wines are so intoxicating, after reading just two, my BAC% exceeds the legal limit.
@cookieman Indeed, duct tape is the perfect gift for me. There are so many uses. I can even use it to make a wine glass for a tasting. Worried no more – absolutely.
@LornaLove Yes. ‘Tis I. Thanks for the well wishes. I hope you found your spot. If you are ever in the area I can offer undisturbed privacy – except for deer, coyote and other critters. Vitamin D is an important component of good health. Here’s to yours. (Tipping a duct tape wine glass filled with @Haleth‘s finest nectar.

Here is your duct tape cake. @cookieman got so excited, he forgot to bring it.

Congratulations, Lucky Guy!

@chyna: I went to the store to get it, but 30,000 rolls was a bit of a sticky situation.

@chyna Nice! No matter how hard I try I just can’t seem to blow out the candles.

@Dutchess_III Thanks for the well wishes – and the video! I like it! :-)

I just came up with my contribution to the party: six boxes of 5,000 rounds of .22LR. Use as needed. Wildlife, zombies, neighbors. etc.

Oooo…. If you can supply a mix of CCI 0064 and CCI 0074 we can really spice up the party.
Christmas is coming…

Noted. I wish I had got one of those 30 round mags for the Rugers when they were legal. Bring on the zombies.

Zombies?

I have a couple pounds of finned flechettes if you reload shotgun. Great for zombie whompin’. Speaking of which, did I miss punkin chunkin this year or was it never on?

@Symbeline If the zombies come, I want LuckyGuy and you with me. You can do the close work. LG and I take the distance work.

I can round up the zombies on horseback and herd ‘em to the slaughter. haha

I’m always ready for some up close and personal zombie action. shite wtf am i saying

I bet you could snap their heads off with a good bullwhip. lol

As long as they’re not Viking zombies. I think there’s a film idea there. They would be pretty ferocious.

Sorry I am late! Congo rats MacG!

@filmfann Thanks! This post is so far down it reminds me of 30,000 Lurves Under the Sea.

Just for the record, 2 nights ago I watched the pilot of MacG on Netflix while eating supper and took notes. The show is ~30 years old so it is fun to see what technologies (and styles) are the same and what have changed.

He used:
a paper clip to stop the self-destruct timer on a missile
a piece of string, book of matches, rubber band, and a stick, to fire an AK-47 as an escape diversion
the smoke from 3 cigarettes to visualize the beam from a 10 kW laser.
a prism from a pair of binoculars to reflect the beam back and destroy the laser.
a fire hose and water pressure to lift an I-beam a few inches so he could make an escape path
a few chocolate bars from a damaged vending machine to plug a hairline crack in a leaking sulfuric acid tank
a cold capsule, piece of elemental sodium, water and a pile of dirt to blow a hole in a metallurgy laboratory wall

“Quick! Get me a balloon, a dab of toothpaste, a calculator, and a gerbil.”

@Symbeline If it wouldn’t put us both in prison I would so send you a box of these.

I particularly like the warning label.

@LuckyGuy For several years, I was only a light user of this site. Even now, I don’t visit as often as I should. But, like many others, I’ve been an admirer of yours and your thoughtful contributions.

@LuckyGuy Here ya go, humor of the day. :-)

www.darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin2005-09.html

@Coloma They are funny – and often so tragic. Things can go terribly wrong so quickly.

@LuckyGuy

True, kinda sad, but hey, eliminating the weakest links from the gene pool is natures way. lol

@LuckyGuy Hahaha I remember those. Man just having the empty box would be cool.

@Symbeline Considering the volume of product that gets consumed here I could easily get a box of whatever is available and just send you the clean empty box. I’d be happy to do it. Just let me know if you’d prefer shotgun or 9mm .
I’d have to check if it is available, and you would need to figure out where to tell me to mail it.
Fun! :-)

Dude, really? If you come across the shotgun box, that would be way too classic. I could send you a few bucks back if it ends up costing a little too much to send. seriously that box is awesome

Bah! My pleasure. I’ll use them anyway. Now I just need to find them. I’ll let you know.

Sweet. :)

30Kongratulations @LuckyGuy

I missed this celebration because I was not able to log in at the time.
Boy, did that roast my nuts.
CONGRATS!

@flutherother Always thought provoking.. i’d say the world would be better if everyone was like you. :-)

@ibstubro Thanks. If you are going to roast chestnuts make sure to score them at least half inch deep. I made a mess of the toaster over when 2 exploded. The second one did it when I had the door open spewing chestnut guts all around the kitchen.

How traumatizing, @LuckyGuy!

Chestnuts exploding an open fire. lol
I blew up my bowl of Oatmeal this morning in the damn microwave. What a mess!

I’ve never even seen a roasted chestnut.

We call our microwave the terminator, it is so freaking powerful. haha

I’ve taken to lowering the power level of late @Coloma.

I am sooooooooo sorry and sooooooo late to this shindig. I’ve been out and about and only checking in every now and then for quite awhile.

I just want to say congratulations for making it to 30K!

I remember when you first got here and you were a worried guy. I think we had quite a bit of a conversation behind the scenes. That’s when we first became pals. Since then I’ve enjoyed talking to you about food and dinner parties and deer and snowy climates and smart guy stuff in which I have no aptitude.

You have given me a sensitive, no nonsense, male perspective, when I needed it to try to talk some young Jelly off the bridge, due to real and/or imagined relationship problems. You’ve probably helped to save some real lives on this site. I’m a sucker for young people dealing with the pain of relationships gone bad (because I’ve had a few of those in my distant past) but sometimes I feel like I can’t quite answer/help them on my own and you have been a real life saver in some of those cases.

You are one of the kindest and most pleasant Jellies to talk with, yet you have a good sense of humor too. You’re one of those guys that plays well with others and you make us feel a little calmer when you’re around. ‘Cause we know you can fix it, whatever it is.

It’s funny, when @ibstubro mentioned this party to me today (weeks after it happened, for which I apologize heartily) This Song popped into my head. Only the line where it says, “Wearing a face that she keeps in a jar by the door.” made me think of you sitting there with your prostate sitting in a jar by the door, ha ha. Plus you do, indeed, help a lot of the lonely people.

Thank you for explaining to all of us that life post prostate can be wonderful and physically/sexually satisfying. I don’t think a lot of people would have known that, if not for you. You’ve given a lot of people some hope for the future, especially since all of us are getting older and may find ourselves or our partners in this situation. It’s not necessary to fear, at least not as much as we would have, if you had not given us the true information about what it is like.

Thanks for everything.

Now if you’re still hungry, I’ve prepared an Indian Buffet for you that is guaranteed not to make you sweat : )

@Kardamom Oh my goodness. I am truly touched.
Thank you for the kind words. You brought back memories.
Wow. Just… wow.

I’d be delighted to dig into that buffet.

@LuckyGuy : )

Can we use small plates, please?

@Dutchess_III I would prefer the 8 inch salad plates, please. :)

Sounds like a plan @prairierose!

Hey….somebody come and finish off the 300 cupcakes I still have around from new Years. lol

I like the 8 inch plates too. They fit in the dishwasher perfectly. Corelle is preferred.

@Coloma I hope you plan on freezing those cupcakes. Send them here if you like. We’re going to get a deep freeze tonight.

I’m still working a a huge box of chocolates I “won” at the family gift exchange at Christmas. And SOMEBODY ATE THE ORANGE CREAM!!!

^^Probably Dakota.

DAKOTA! TIME OUT!