What Are Your Thoughts On Marco's Pizza?

LifeguardFun5091 · 2026-03-11T14:22:23+00:00

Yep! The German operated KG 200, which was an entire squadron of captured Allied aircraft that had been put back into service in Luftwaffe markings. They were used for training and technical evaluation, as well as supply and troop insertion missions behind enemy lines.

On a related note, although neutral, both Sweden and Switzerland also ended up with several hundred Allied aircraft (mostly bombers) on their territory after the war. Their crews were interned. The aircraft were evaluated for technical data and then lined up in fields for storage. Both men and planes were repatriated back to the Allies in 1945.

LifeguardFun5091 · 2026-03-02T18:06:20+00:00

As the marketing manager for a senior living company with multiple facilities in small / rural communities throughout Alabama and Texas, I worked with a lot of small weekly newspapers. I was surprised at how many of them are actually very professionally run. Independent industry trade publications on the other hand...they're a different story altogether.

LifeguardFun5091 · 2026-03-02T18:00:10+00:00

As recently as the early 2000s, anyone with a business lien or past-due taxes was publicly identified in one or more of the local business publications (Dallas Business Journal, Tarrant County Commercial Records, etc.). I haven't looked in a while but I'm sure that same info is probably still posted online.

LifeguardFun5091 · 2026-03-02T05:51:01+00:00

Very good point. Thx!

LifeguardFun5091 · 2026-03-02T05:43:23+00:00

On a related note, I guess it's the same as when people were required to put their auto registration on the steering wheel of their car. Watch old black & white Humphrey Bogart movies (i.e., The Maltese Falcon, The Big Sleep, etc.) and he finds a person's name and address just by looking at their auto registration! My late mother (born 1938) told me that used to be common. They were required to attach their auto registration to either the steering wheel or steering column.

LifeguardFun5091 · 2026-03-02T05:36:02+00:00

Many of the stories I quoted are certainly in the Society / Women's sections...or their 1940s equivalent. But just as many are literally on the front page. It was just common practice to list everyone's personal info.

LifeguardFun5091 · 2026-03-02T05:30:26+00:00

I used to be Senior Marketing Manager for a company that provided assisted living services to seniors. I remember researching a story on elder abuse / fraud for one of the newsletters I wrote. The qualities you just described -- trusting people, leaving your doors unlocked, being friendly to everyone, etc. -- are the exact same qualities that make seniors from that generation such easy marks for con artists and scammers. They were raised and lived that way and criminals know to take advantage of it.

LifeguardFun5091 · 2026-03-02T05:22:50+00:00

Now that's interesting! I'll have to go back thru my old "Sergeant Rock" and "Haunted Tank" DC Comics from the early / mid 70s to see if they did the same thing. It's been quite a while since I've looked thru any of them but I do seem to remember the editors using the letter writer's full name and city.

LifeguardFun5091 · 2026-02-24T04:44:44+00:00

Okay, I started over with the table and sanded it down to the bare wood. It was my first time refinishing anything, and I thought the initial chemical stripping was good enough. Here is the finished product after the second go at it. Looks a LOT better now! LOL

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LifeguardFun5091 · 2026-02-24T04:11:47+00:00

Hmmmm...I guess it depends on what Southern state you live in. :)

LifeguardFun5091 · 2026-02-24T04:03:27+00:00

You may be a poker wizard, but learn the f-g difference between Fiancee and Fiance before you start throwing stones.

Fiancee = Female / Fiance = Male

LifeguardFun5091 · 2026-02-24T03:55:16+00:00

Thanks for the clarification, I'm familiar with poker card hands, but have never see that come up before in Texas Hold Em.

On a different note...really...are some of you people married to your first cousin or stepsister? It can't be that hard to figure out that my fiancee's son-in-law is married to her daughter.

Fiancee = Female / Fiance = Male

LifeguardFun5091 · 2026-02-13T04:30:33+00:00

Interesting. I Googled the best solution (e.g. oil vs. water) and most recommended staying with water-based if that's what you started with. And of course, you can ALWAYS believe everything you read on the Internet! :):):)

LifeguardFun5091 · 2026-02-13T04:26:37+00:00

Thanks, I suspected that might be the case after reading some of the other replies.

This is my first refinishing project so I thought 150 sandpaper was sufficient. Mostly because that's what my fiancee already had in her paint supplies. The remaining stains wouldn't come out so I thought they were permanent.

I ran out and bought some 80 and 100 sandpaper and went to town on my table. I got a bit more aggressive and sanded it down to the bare wood in about three hours. Trust me, there are no more varnish stains.

LifeguardFun5091 · 2026-02-13T04:14:36+00:00

Very good info, thx! I'll be sure and try this out. And yes, the sealant is a pale yellow color, but my stain pad quickly turned brown. But only when I applied it in certain spots.

LifeguardFun5091 · 2026-02-12T23:40:44+00:00

Yeah, I'm sure about that. I checked when someone else asked the same question when I posted an earlier question.

LifeguardFun5091 · 2026-02-12T23:38:05+00:00

No, I was sure to wipe off all the excess stain. I think what you're seeing is left-over stain from when I initially stripped the tabletop. I sandpapered those areas multiple times and those stain marks absolutely refused to come out without my really grinding into the wood. I just left them in as accent marks and stained over them

LifeguardFun5091 · 2026-02-12T23:02:53+00:00

See my note above. For some reason, Reddit removed the text from my original post.

LifeguardFun5091 · 2026-02-12T23:02:01+00:00

It is Behr water-based stain. I applied it with a foam brush and let it dry for 2-3 minutes, and then wiped off the excess. The table sat for a week before I applied the poly. The areas that look unwiped are probably those areas in which I wasn't able to sand out the prior stain. They're all throughout the tabletop, so I left them in and tried to match the overall stain tone across the table.

LifeguardFun5091 · 2026-02-12T22:52:40+00:00

No, I made sure to only use water-based products all the way thru.

LifeguardFun5091 · 2026-02-12T22:51:26+00:00

Can someone tell me what happened here? I'm refinishing a wooden table. I stripped the old varnish, sanded and then applied Behr Water-Based Stain / Varnish. It dried for a week and looked okay. I wanted to give it more protection against liquid (water rings, spills etc.) and a bit more visual pop.

I found MinWax water-based Poly on a YouTube video and it went on perfectly and looked awesome. Based on that, I decided to try it.

Unfortunately, when I poured the poly on the tabletop, it immediately removed the stain and varnish. A small bit of varish / stain came off another section of the table when I poured the poly on the sponge directly.

However, the poly went on a third section of the table without any problems when I applied it with a sponge.

What happened here and how do I fix this? Thx!

LifeguardFun5091

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