What do Ya'll use,,,,,
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Topic: What do Ya'll use,,,,,
Posted By: desertjoe
Subject: What do Ya'll use,,,,,
Date Posted: 02 Dec 2018 at 8:33am
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for removing splinters in your fingers, hands ect,ect,,?? For some reason, I have been getting MORE than my share of mostly metal splinters, and some wood one too,,!! I do use my 4 1/2" grinders to do most of my metal cutting but then again,,I've been doin that for the longest,,,just seems as if I get more and more these days. Right now,,I've got one in my right typin fore finger and I keep hittin it on the dang keys and it very hard to change to middle finger,,,,,,argh,,,!!! I cannot see the friggin thing but I KNOW it is there,,,!!!!Even tried my magnifyin glass but still cannot see it,,,shore hurtin,,!!!
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Posted By: darrel in ND
Date Posted: 02 Dec 2018 at 8:54am
| Try a hatchet! (disclaimor: I am not responsible for the loss of any of your limbs if you actually try this! LOL!) Darrel |
Posted By: chaskaduo
Date Posted: 02 Dec 2018 at 9:13am
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All I can suggest is google or duckduckgo using sliver or splinter removal, lots of tips there. Mean while there's this to ponder. [TUBE]-gnnVnNn1Yk[/TUBE] For some dang nabbit reason I can't get the whole 57 second video to play, here's the url if interested. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gnnVnNn1Yk" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gnnVnNn1Yk
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Posted By: Thad in AR.
Date Posted: 02 Dec 2018 at 9:13am
| I use a sharp razor knife to open it up. Metal seems to work deeper where wood will fester and work it’s way to the surface. Deck screws and drywall screws always leave little metal splinters that are hard to retrieve. |
Posted By: Thad in AR.
Date Posted: 02 Dec 2018 at 9:16am
| A guy I used to work fore used to tell us to draw a circle around it and take it out off the clock. Lol |
Posted By: DaveKamp
Date Posted: 02 Dec 2018 at 9:57am
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Being able to SEE it is kinda important. I put on a pair of 2.5x, but sometimes put on TWO pairs of cheaters to get about 4x magnification. I have a pair of sharp point REVLON tweezers... they're sharp pointed enough to puncture skin if you need to, and I dress the OUTSIDE profile with a diamond-hone to keep them that way. I have one sharp, and one dull disposable shaver, one single-edge razor blade, and one straight pin, and some isopropyl alcohol in my sliver-cabinet too. The FIRST thing I'll try... is take the dull disposable razor, and gently rake across it. Frequently, if it's a wood splinter, the razor will be sharp enough to grab, but not sharp enough to cut through... and it'll drag it out. If that doesn't, I graduate to the sharper one. If it's not out enough to rake, but enough to see, I'll grab it with the tweezers. If it's below surface, I open up a line across the TOP of it (same plane) until it's exposed enough to lift and pull out. Sometimes I'll have to pick UNDER it with straight pin. Then I wash it out good with isopropyl. ------------- Ten Amendments, Ten Commandments, and one Golden Rule solve most every problem. Citrus hand-cleaner with Pumice does the rest. |
Posted By: Walker
Date Posted: 02 Dec 2018 at 10:11am
| There is sort of a diamond shaped spade type hollow needle that works great if you can see the jigger. My wife was temp first aid person at a factory for awhile is how I found out about it. Your Doctor probably has a drawerfull of them if you ask. You just poke it in, give it a twist and pull it out. Living in Multiflora Rose country I get lots of practice. If you've got like a super duper type of magnet on metal you might give it a whirl too. |
Posted By: fixer1958
Date Posted: 02 Dec 2018 at 10:21am
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Straight pin and fingernail clippers. |
Posted By: Pat the Plumber CIL
Date Posted: 02 Dec 2018 at 10:30am
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Stanley utility knife blade. Blue shop towel and electric tape for a bandage. ------------- You only need to know 3 things to be a plumber;Crap rolls down hill,Hot is on the left and Don't bite your fingernails 1964 D-17 SIV 3 Pt.WF,1964 D-15 Ser II 3pt.WF ,1960 D-17 SI NF,1956 WD 45 WF. |
Posted By: thendrix
Date Posted: 02 Dec 2018 at 10:33am
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If you can see the end you can roll a pair of pantyhose around in your hands and the end of the splinter will hang in the pantyhose and should come out ------------- "Farming is a business that makes a Las Vegas craps table look like a regular paycheck" Ronald Reagan |
Posted By: copyrite1972
Date Posted: 02 Dec 2018 at 11:38am
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I use the same Swiss Army knife that my Grandpa used to use on me! ------------- D15 Series II |
Posted By: Dusty MI
Date Posted: 02 Dec 2018 at 3:39pm
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I also use nail clippers, but you have to be able to see the splinter. Duty ------------- 917 H, '48 G, '65 D-10 series III "Allis Express" |
Posted By: Hubert (Ga)engine7
Date Posted: 02 Dec 2018 at 3:53pm
X2. Put pressure on both sides of the splinter with the fingernail clippers or end of a ball point pen to help pop it up if you can see it. If it is shiny metal sometime you can stain it with iodine so you can see it. Either Duluth Trading or Sportsman's Guide at one time sold a splinter removal kit, they may still have it. I've still got a small piece of metal shrapnel in my arm from back around 1965, it went in too deep to bother with digging out. ------------- Just an old country boy saved by the grace of God. |
fixer1958 wrote:Posted By: DiyDave
Date Posted: 02 Dec 2018 at 5:43pm
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Swiss army tweezers work pretty good for me, keep one of the lil knives, on a key chain. I also keep that lil blade wicked sharp, if I have to go digging. also them scissors on the knife are good fer cutting skin you no longer need off a wound. For the ultra small stuff, drawing salve will get a little blister, or pus pocket, to form around the foreign object. Worst of all, in my opinion is fiberglass... https://www.walmart.com/ip/Smile-s-Homeopathic-Drawing-Salve-Prid-18-G/12167279" rel="nofollow - https://www.walmart.com/ip/Smile-s-Homeopathic-Drawing-Salve-Prid-18-G/12167279
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Posted By: Ray54
Date Posted: 02 Dec 2018 at 6:42pm
I learned to dig my own with my pocket knife as soon as I had a knife. Sure better than some big old person poking and carving  .Some of the new kinds of thistles any more can be impossible to see. My Wonderful came with a supply of salve good for man or beast, cure anything.I still don't know what it cures but I have found it does good drawing a sliver you cannot see. Get it washed and put a dab on and then a brand-aid to keep from rubbing it off overnight and most time you can get it in the morning. The chips from carbide die grinder cutters seem to be the metal ones that poke in the fastest and deepest.
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Posted By: HD6GTOM
Date Posted: 02 Dec 2018 at 7:21pm
| Old gal does mine, she takes pleasure in digging them out, always digs far deeper than necessary. |
Posted By: JohnCO
Date Posted: 02 Dec 2018 at 7:37pm
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Gloves, so you don't get them in the first place... ------------- "If at first you don't succeed, get a bigger hammer" Allis Express participant |
Posted By: desertjoe
Date Posted: 02 Dec 2018 at 8:13pm
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OK,,guys,,I've laughed enough so I'm ready to get this dang horseshoe out of my finger,,, AND,,,,and,,Many thanks for all the suggestions,,,both kinds,,,,  I shoulda explained better,,,First of all,,I cannot see the stupid thing but sure as heck can feel it in there. Me bein right handed,,and,the splinter is in the very tip of the index finger of my right hand makin it very dificult to do any explorin on it with my left hand,,,SHEE,,it,,!!!! I'm pretty sure it is a metal sliver as I been using the grinder workin on my car hauler trailer. DANG,,,it sure hurts to do my two finger speed typing. Tried some old family recipe poultices, like baking soda paste and didn't do chit,,,
Right now I got another poultice of bar soap mixed with sugar and band-aid,,if that don't do it by mornin,I'm gonna go buy a new set of clippers and dig thet sob out of there,,,,, |
Posted By: truckerfarmer
Date Posted: 02 Dec 2018 at 8:51pm
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Sharp utility knife or needle ------------- Looking at the past to see the future. '53 WD, '53 WD45, WD snap coupler field cultivator, #53 plow,'53 HD5B dozer Duct tape.... Can't fix stupidity. But will muffle the sound of it! |
Posted By: DiyDave
Date Posted: 02 Dec 2018 at 9:06pm
Reminds me of one of my grandfather's stories... Ole doc Lancaster was the only doctor within local distance, back in the old days. Him and my grandfather were good friends. One day a brotha comes into the practice, fulla buckshot, from about the waist down. Doc calls my grandfather and asks , Joe, did you fill someones pants with buckshot, last night? Yeah was the answer, he was a chicken thief... Doc says, I thought that might be yer handywork, joe, sos I dug extra deep!
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Posted By: klinemar
Date Posted: 02 Dec 2018 at 9:18pm
| I agree with JohnCo Gloves! That being said I use hypodermic syringe needle. Usually a 20 or 22 gauge that can be bought at a farm livestock supply. Sometimes I have to soak the appendage in Epsom Salts to help see the sliver and guard against infection. Metal slivers do work themselves deeper and sometimes I have to open the wound and use a heavy magnet to remove the splinter unless it is aluminum! |
Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 02 Dec 2018 at 11:29pm
| and I hope you have eye protection too? are you sure a hot metal ember didn't just fly on there and burn ya? |
Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 02 Dec 2018 at 11:30pm
| oh....I use a razor knife too, just scrape it back and forth, usually pulls it out |
Posted By: klinemar
Date Posted: 03 Dec 2018 at 7:29am
| Speaking of hot metal embers. I was welding overhead once on a manure spreader ( A side slinger) when a hot ember from the stick dropped down the bib of my overalls and landed on my left testicle! Klinemar learned how to dance the Highland fling real quick! |
Posted By: Tbone95
Date Posted: 03 Dec 2018 at 9:30am
Oh NUTS!
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Posted By: desertjoe
Date Posted: 03 Dec 2018 at 9:38am
Yeah,,Klinemar,,I've had that happen lots of times too,,,,
 Fact of the matter,,just yesterday had something happen that never had before,,,,My Brother had brought me 3 big pieces of extra heavy cardboard,,I mean like bout 1/4" thick,,he says you can use that to lay on whilst mechanicin instead of layin on that cold azzed concrete floor. I thought,, "Thas a great idea",,, I was welding on the trailer while layin on one of those pieces of cardboard when I kept feelin some heat by my pants pocket,,reached down and my pocket knife felt some warm,,so moved it around and kept on weldin. Dang knife kept get warmer and then hotter,,,Finally couldn't stand the heat and looked and the friggin cardboard was afire,,,ON THE INSIDE, kept mashin the fire but finally got so big I left it and come out from under the trailer,,!! Sure was weird that it was burning following the runners INSIDE the cardboard and every so often would burn out and go to smokin,,,Had to run go get the water hose before thet sob burned my trailer boards down,,,,, Ruined my good pair of jeans too,,,PFFFFTTttttt |
Posted By: klinemar
Date Posted: 03 Dec 2018 at 9:58am
| Yeah Joe I burned up a perfectly good Carhartt Coat with me in it welding a hitch on to the back of a truck! I could see a reflection on the inside of my welding helmet. When I finally stopped and raised the helmet I could see the flames we're what was reflecting on the inside of the helmet! Last time I laid under something welding with my coat opened! |
Posted By: TimNearFortWorth
Date Posted: 03 Dec 2018 at 11:13am
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Few years back, before my mother passed I called and asked what other name there was for what we used to refer to as "drawing salve" growing up on the farm. Wally World had to order it but that stuff is neat. Had a sliver I could not get ahold of and did not look forward to the Dr. visit if it started to get infected. Ichthammol Ointment 2% is what you want. Put a good dab on the center of the band-aid, center it over where you think the sliver is located (best done after a bath/shower to soften the skin) before goin to bed. Next morning, peel the band-aid off and more times than not, you'll see the little bugger in the band-aid. Amazing stuff, looks like tar and a tube will last for years. Worth mentioning, wire "wicker" in my eye once working in the Middle East and overseas, you tend to not look forward to going to a local DR. Felt it scratching when I blinked the next morning so off to the camp infirmary as the last thing you want is an infection at those temps. Indian Dr. looked into my eye with a scope, grabbed a magnet off the refrigerator, held my eye open and swiped the magnet back and forth just above the eyeball. Showed me the wicker, gave me eye drops and off I went. Yes, I was using a face shield while buffing but after that, also used goggles to be safe.
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Posted By: Ted J
Date Posted: 03 Dec 2018 at 2:45pm
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Metal and glass will work themselves OUT of your body. Wood will work itself inward, toward the heart. You can try some gorilla tape and see if that works, but I doubt it. The best advice upwards is to use iodine on it. It works best with wood, but should work with metal. Get yourself a GOOD magnet, that'll pull it out. I also had the Doc do this to me once with a piece of metal. I also was (and always will) use a shield when working upside down. I have a piece of old rusted iron (I was re-doing an exhaust system) and the doc said to just leave it alone, as the rust had already gone away, but the residue would always be left in the eye. Iodine will highlight the piece and you can then see what you are doing. You'll be amazed at how it sticks out visually now!! I usually get by with a tweezers (really sharp pointed ones) and a properly sterilized needle. Put the needle into the flame of the stove for a few secs. AHEM,,,,,,let it cool off before you first use it please...... WARNING to anyone who has EVER had a metal sliver in their eye,,,,IF you are going to go into the tube for an MRI,,,,,,,, TELL the Doc as some of them worry about the piece coming back through the eye and blinding you. They will then do a thorough eye test to see if anything is still in there. ------------- "Allis-Express" 19?? WC / 1941 C / 1952 CA / 1956 WD45 / 1957 WD45 / 1958 D-17 |
Posted By: nella(Pa)
Date Posted: 03 Dec 2018 at 2:57pm
This was used for ever, as far back as I can remember, and that is too far to suite me!
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Posted By: DiyDave
Date Posted: 03 Dec 2018 at 6:33pm
Reminds me of this old um er chestnut... One Christmas Eve, a frenzied young man ran into a pet shop looking for an unusual Christmas gift for his wife. The shop owner suggested a parrot, named Chet, which could sing famous Christmas carols. This seemed like the perfect gift. "How do I get him to sing?" The young man asked, excitedly. "Simply hold a lighted match directly under his feet." was the shop owner's reply. The shop owner held a lighted match under the parrot's left foot. Chet began to sing: "Jingle Bells! Jingle Bells! ..." The shop owner then held another match under the parrot's right foot. Then Chet's tune changed, and the air was filled with: " Silent Night, Holy Night..." The young man was so impressed that he paid the shop-keeper and ran home as quickly as he could with Chet under his arm. When the wife saw her gift she was overwhelmed. "How beautiful!" She exclaimed, "Can he talk?" "No," the young man replied, "But he can sing. Let me show you." So the young man whipped out his lighter and placed it under Chet's left foot, as the shop-keeper had shown him, and Chet crooned: "Jingle Bells! Jingle bells!..." The man then moved the lighter to Chet's right foot, and out came: "Silent Night, Holy night..." The wife, her face filled with curiosity, then asked, "What if we hold the lighter between his legs?" The man did not know. "Let's try it," he answered, eager to please his wife. So they held the lighter between Chet's legs. Chet twisted his face, cleared his throat, and the little parrot sang out loudly like it was the performance of his life: "Chet's nuts roasting on an open fire...." |
Posted By: desertjoe
Date Posted: 03 Dec 2018 at 7:49pm
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Yeah,,Nella,,,I'm thankin ole Tim near Ft Worth,,!! I read up on it and seems as it was the best there ever was for drawin out splinters,,,,I say"WAS" as wouldn't Ya know,,,it musta worked TOO GOOD cause one of them federal agencies outlawed it bout 6-7 years ago according to my pharmacist,,,,!!!!! Mighta been durin the obama years but ain't got my calculator close by,,,,, Local pharmacist told me they have something "almost" as good called "PRID" and it kinda pricey for that little bitty tube but,,,,but this sob keeps hurtin like it is,,,,,Ima gonna go buy two tubes of it,,,,,, |
Posted By: klinemar
Date Posted: 04 Dec 2018 at 6:23am
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The Kline Family has used this product for generations. We refer to it as "Stinking Grease" !
Porter's Products Established 1871
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Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 04 Dec 2018 at 9:22am
| stick yer finger ina glass of iodine, it'll tells you where it's at |
Posted By: desertjoe
Date Posted: 04 Dec 2018 at 9:25am
Well,,CHit,Good Buddy,,I've tried just bout everything else,,,I didn't even know they still made iodine,,,,
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Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 04 Dec 2018 at 9:26am
| yeah...they usually mix it in salt |
Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 04 Dec 2018 at 9:27am
| ever thinks about sliding down a big ole razor blade bare butted nekked and landing in a bucket of iodine? |
Posted By: chaskaduo
Date Posted: 04 Dec 2018 at 9:34am
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Say what? Are you drinking the iodine or licking the ointments or ? ------------- 1938 B, 79 Dynamark 11/36 6spd, 95 Weed-Eater 16hp, 2010 Bolens 14hp |
Posted By: DiyDave
Date Posted: 04 Dec 2018 at 6:20pm
Wanna talk about something that STINGS, try horse strength Gentian Violet. I happened to find a bottle in an old barn I was cleaning out. Coupla years ago, I was handlin some green poplar boards, 1X12, 16' long or so. Taking them offa the truck, hadda turn left, and go up 1 step, through a 36" door, to stack them inside the barn that was going to get them. on the last board, I managed to insert the first knuckle of my right index finger, into the face of a $5 pocket watch, that I usedter have attached to my belt, at my right hip. As I climbed the step, the face shattered inward, and my knuckle skin became part of that pocket watch, and as I continued into the building, the board rotated enough, to grind the skin offa that knuckle, down to the bone, on the inner corner, of that knuckle. took off about a pea sized hunka skin, felt like sharpening a pencil with an old style schoolbox sharpener. Skin stayed with the watch... Then the bleedin started. Not squirtin, mind you, but a steady flow that I couldn't stop. SO I said what the hell, lets try that horse stuff, on the shelf in the office... Took the top and the swab on a stick, and just touched it to the wound. Felt like I stuck it in a lectric outlet! Hurt like hell fer about an hour, but sure stopped the blood...
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Posted By: desertjoe
Date Posted: 05 Dec 2018 at 2:25am
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OK,,Guys,,,got a good update on thet horseshoe in my finger,,,The local drug stores did not have that ICHTHAMMOL Ointment that ole Tim was talkin bout,,,so I tried a poultice I saw on YouTube with bar soap shavings mixed with sugar, then bandage it up overnite,,,and,,,,and,,,the sob was gone this mornin,,,or at least the pain is gone, Studied the bandage good but cannot see thet dang thing,,,bit it gone and ,,,and,,,I can speed type again... ps, I did find some of thet ichthammol stuff on Ebay and got some ordered as I get them dang slivers in me all the time any more from using the 4 1/2" grinder all the time,,,,Many THANKS for all the suggestions,,,!!!!
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Posted By: JC-WI
Date Posted: 05 Dec 2018 at 12:57pm
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Was just goin to ask if you ever got that sharpie out of that pointer index finger... Good to hear it got out. Back when I was helpin at the peat plant, I had to crawl up inside the discharge tube and weld all the seams in there... Was using the wire feed welder and that sum-a-bich would shower me with all these little molten metal splatters... and burn right through the clothes. One of them bigger sums of a biches burnt through the pant leg and went on down inside my shoe, dam that a hot one, and that pellet done seared my hide and stuck to it. Went an grabbed the stick welder, was whole lot smokier and a bunch of sl*g too, but that thing wasn't near as hot with it's splatters. Yea, I remember coming out and patting some fires out too. Was thinking back to when I done broke my tractor loader frame and I was down under the tractor laying on a cardboard out in the wet snow... hanging onto the spud with wet gloves... and my old pup came over and started licking me in the face... and she had wet paws... and everytime I would get tingled from her tongue. She couldn't understand what was happening and lick me again and I couldn't get her to stop... finally had to throw the spud holder away from me, then everything was fine in her world. LOL ------------- He who says there is no evil has already deceived himself The truth is the truth, sugar coated or not. Trawler II says, "Remember that." |
Posted By: DiyDave
Date Posted: 05 Dec 2018 at 6:24pm
Reminds me of younger days... I was welding together a coupla meyer snow plows, to make a V plow, for a FE loader, I had, back then. It was about 20º out, snow all aver the place, and I was in a pair of insulated coveralls. Was leaning agin the blade, welding the ears on, fer the loader, when I felt my left knee was a lil hotter than it should be. took the helmet off, and as I did, saw the cotton insulation, and canvas burst into flame! rolled in the snow, thought I had it out, but I was still smellin mohican burning, and since I'm tha last mohican, MUST BE ME!. Dang piece of sl ag had stuck to the ace bandage, on my knee, and heated up them flat springs, on the side of the ace bandage, as well as set it on fire, too. Couple hands fulla snow stuck down the coveralls , finally put it out, but you shoulda seen that dance! result was a quarter sized blister, with coil marks from the springs... Pertinent part of the video is about 4 minutes in... https://dai.ly/x3bobkq" rel="nofollow - https://dai.ly/x3bobkq
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Posted By: JC-WI
Date Posted: 05 Dec 2018 at 7:49pm
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DD, Vigi-link eff'd ye again... should be a good link here... http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3bobkq" rel="nofollow - http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3bobkq ------------- He who says there is no evil has already deceived himself The truth is the truth, sugar coated or not. Trawler II says, "Remember that." |