this reminded me to finally sign up for TSA pre-check. Just applied and interview on Monday

I get an email at least twice a week from my apartment that one of the four elevators in the building is broken. I feel like keeping an elevator working for more than a week at a time shouldn't be that hard.

jerseyhoya wrote:I get an email at least twice a week from my apartment that one of the four elevators in the building is broken. I feel like keeping an elevator working for more than a week at a time shouldn't be that hard.

I watched a chick flick with my wife years ago where the guy who invented the elevator somehow was magically transported to present day NYC (or some big city) where he fell in love with someone. Anyway, once he transported to current day, all of the eleveators stopped working because he time traveled before he invented it. It really stuck with me all these years later because that is a really strange premise for a movie.

You'd also think someone else (or many people) would've invented the elevator had he hadn't. It wasn't exactly like Einstein coming up with the Theory of Special Relativity.

Exactly! And I think it was even more obscure than just he invented the elevator, it was like he discovered the physics that make elevators work. Someone else would've figured that out eventually!

and if the elevator concept never worked, why the @#$% did people install them???

It was from 2001, Kate and Leopold was the name, starring Meg Ryan as a plucky NY advertising executive and Hugh Jackman as an English duke from 1876 who is inadvertantly time traveled to 2001! Hilarity ensues as they fall for one another. Jackman was nominated for a golden globe for this somehow and sting won an gg for best original song. Also co-starred Breckin Meyer and Natasha Lyone for the full early 2000's movie bingo experience.

Slowhand wrote:

PrattRules wrote:Glen Onoko hiking trail to close. Big bummer.

Oh no!

Closing May 1st because people have died climbing the falls. I'm going there next weekend. I recently climbed a waterfall on a hike this past fall, right up the waters edge. This is probably where I'm gonna die

please don't die palmy

Whoa no way. Was planning on going back in a few weeks.

Bucky wrote:please don't die palmy

Thx pal. Your words give me strength, but stuff like this makes me feel alive. It's my free solo. All i can do is be prepared mind & body

dibs on your dabs.

momadance wrote:dibs on your dabs.

obvi. taking a rip before my ascent

Bill McNeal wrote:It was from 2001, Kate and Leopold was the name, starring Meg Ryan as a plucky NY advertising executive and Hugh Jackman as an English duke from 1876 who is inadvertantly time traveled to 2001! Hilarity ensues as they fall for one another. Jackman was nominated for a golden globe for this somehow and sting won an gg for best original song. Also co-starred Breckin Meyer and Natasha Lyone for the full early 2000's movie bingo experience.

i saw this movie while i was on an airplane and have to say I enjoyed the charm

PrattRules wrote:Glen Onoko hiking trail to close. Big bummer.

happy i got to see and experience that before leaving. now if they could only close this other death trap called the grand canyon too.

https://abcnews.go.com/Lifestyle/wireStory/fatal-falls-grand-canyon-follow-dozens-62385500

jerseyhoya wrote:I get an email at least twice a week from my apartment that one of the four elevators in the building is broken. I feel like keeping an elevator working for more than a week at a time shouldn't be that hard.

I would suspect someone, or several some people are living in the elevator cars.

azrider wrote:

PrattRules wrote:Glen Onoko hiking trail to close. Big bummer.

happy i got to see and experience that before leaving. now if they could only close this other death trap called the grand canyon too.

https://abcnews.go.com/Lifestyle/wireStory/fatal-falls-grand-canyon-follow-dozens-62385500

Glad I got there before they started filling it.

First, if one of four elevators is routinely broken in a building, I would avoid riding any of them.

Second, how exactly do you close a hiking trail? They can't fence the whole thing off. Grab a compass, orienteer your self a few hundred yards past the trail head, and hike your brains out. I suppose after awhile the lack of maintenance might be an issue.

TenuredVulture wrote:First, if one of four elevators is routinely broken in a building, I would avoid riding any of them.

Second, how exactly do you close a hiking trail? They can't fence the whole thing off. Grab a compass, orienteer your self a few hundred yards past the trail head, and hike your brains out. I suppose after awhile the lack of maintenance might be an issue.

in the late 1960's carpet bombing was used for this sort of purpose and has continued to this day with mixed results.

Napalm wrote:

Slowhand wrote:

PrattRules wrote:Glen Onoko hiking trail to close. Big bummer.

Oh no!

Closing May 1st because people have died climbing the falls. I'm going there next weekend. I recently climbed a waterfall on a hike this past fall, right up the waters edge. This is probably where I'm gonna die

closed by the PA game commission, which of course oversees a sport that results in dozens of injuries and usually a few deaths every year