100 things a man should know!

[Caneyscud]

From Popular Mechanics - they had this list where you are to score your knowledge and experience compared to celebrities.  Obviously, you will look through it and scan it for things you have done or know.  But more fun might be to suggest things that should be added as requirements for manly knowledge!  And it has been duly noted that No. 40 is "grill with charcoal" with no mention whatsoever about bubba pucks or atomic dragon balls or kummok's salmon or WTS' brisket!

Automotive
1. Handle a blowout
2. Drive in snow
3. Check trouble codes
4. Replace fan belt
5. Wax a car
6. Conquer an off-road obstacle
7. Use a stick welder
8. Hitch up a trailer
9. Jump start a car

Handling Emergencies
10. Perform the Heimlich
11. Reverse hypothermia
12. Perform hands-only CPR
13. Escape a sinking car

Home
14. Carve a turkey
15. Use a sewing machine
16. Put out a fire
17. Home brew beer
18. Remove bloodstains from fabric
19. Move heavy stuff
20. Grow food
21. Read an electric meter
22. Shovel the right way
23. Solder wire
24. Tape drywall
25. Split firewood
26. Replace a faucet washer
27. Mix concrete
28. Paint a straight line
29. Use a French knife
30. Prune bushes and small trees
31. Iron a shirt
32. Fix a toilet tank flapper
33. Change a single-pole switch
34. Fell a tree
35. Replace a broken windowpane
36. Set up a ladder, safely
37. Fix a faucet cartridge
38. Sweat copper tubing
39. Change a diaper
40. Grill with charcoal
41. Sew a button on a shirt
42. Fold a flag

Medical Myths
43. Treat frostbite
44. Treat a burn
45. Help a seizure victim
46. Treat a snakebite
47. Remove a tick

Military Know-How
48. Shine shoes
49. Make a drum-tight bed
50. Drop and give the perfect pushup

Outdoors
51. Run rapids in a canoe
52. Hang food in the wild
53. Skipper a boat
54. Shoot straight
55. Tackle steep drops on a mountain bike
56. Escape a rip current

Primitive Skills
57. Build a fire in the wilderness
58. Build a shelter
59. Find potable water

Surviving Extremes
60. Floods
61. Tornados
62. Cold
63. Heat
64. Lightning

Teach Your Kids
65. Cast a line
66. Lend a hand
67. Change a tire
68. Throw a spiral
69. Fly a stunt kite
70. Drive a stick shift
71. Parallel park
72. Tie a bowline
73. Tie a necktie
74. Whittle
75. Ride a bike

Technology
76. Install a graphics card
77. Take the perfect portrait
78. Calibrate HDTV settings
79. Shoot a home movie
80. Ditch your hard drive

Master Key Workshop Tools
81. Drill driver
82. Grease gun
83. Coolant hydrometer
84. Socket wrench
85. Test light
86. Brick trowel
87. Framing hammer
88. Wood chisel
89. Spade bit
90. Circular saw
91. Sledge hammer
92. Hacksaw
93. Torque wrench
94. Air wrench
95. Infrared thermometer
96. Sand blaster
97. Crosscut saw
98. Hand plane
99. Multimeter
100. Feeler gauges

[Smoking Duck]

You think there's any coincidence that dealing with an angry wife isn't anywhere on that list?  That's cause men aren't miracle workers  ;D

[cowgirl]

lol I want to meet the man that can do all of that!  ;D

[Smoking Duck]

They only exist in movies and folklore, Cowgirl  ;D  Most times I can't even walk and chew gum at the same time....get way outta rythm.

SD

[pensrock]

lol I want to meet the man that can do all of that! 

I'm sure you have run into a few that would say they can do all that.  :)

But actually many of them are very doable. May not be the best at many of them though.  ;D
Don't know anything about ironing, using a sewing machine, changing diapers and probably about ten others.
So I'll admit, I cannot do all 100.  ::) ;D

[cowgirl]

 I'm sure you two are right.  ;D
I guess the ironing and sewing aren't that important.
Didn't see anything listed about reading directions. I have always heard that real men do not look at instructions or ask for directions.  ;D

[pensrock]

Didn't see anything listed about reading directions. I have always heard that real men do not look at instructions or ask for directions. 

Directions/instructions? Who needs stinking directions or instructions?  ;D ;D
I mean after all, we are just humble servents to the female of the species, they direct and instruct us on everything we do.  ;) ::) ;D

[cowgirl]

Didn't see anything listed about reading directions. I have always heard that real men do not look at instructions or ask for directions. 

Directions/instructions? Who needs stinking directions or instructions?  ;D ;D
I mean after all, we are just humble servents to the female of the species, they direct and instruct us on everything we do.  ;) ::) ;D

lolol!!  Do you happen to be single?  ;D

[pensrock]

lolol!!  Do you happen to be single? 

Actually yes I am, but I can still deny I made that last statement.  ::) ;D
Hmmmm, lets see now.
Is it too late to rephrase that statement made in the last post?  ::)  ;) :)

[beefmann]

lol I want to meet the man that can do all of that!  ;D

CC,
I can do all that and make a waitress  laugh too,

went to Mimi's cafe for breackfast sat in a booth and when the waitress asked what i would like.. I asked for orange juice, two links of sausage and eggs... she asked how would I like my eggs... I said like my mind...scrambled ! ! !!

[deb415611]

Didn't see anything listed about reading directions. I have always heard that real men do not look at instructions or ask for directions. 

Directions/instructions? Who needs stinking directions or instructions?  ;D ;D
I mean after all, we are just humble servents to the female of the species, they direct and instruct us on everything we do.  ;) ::) ;D

lolol!!  Do you happen to be single?  ;D

ROTFL      ;D

[HCT]

Hmmmmm, I don't see anything about assembling kids Christmas toys. :D :D

[Caneyscud]

I'm sure you two are right.  ;D
I guess the ironing and sewing aren't that important.
Didn't see anything listed about reading directions. I have always heard that real men do not look at instructions or ask for directions.  ;D

That's why we have GPS and Google Maps - don't need no stinkin' instructions!  We got the power aaarrrgggghhh!

Unfortunately I do know how to iron and sew along with (and I am going to resent I said this - I know I am, I know I am) knitting, crocheting and tatting.  And I clean toilets, cook, take out the trash, and make the bed.  (ohh my head is hurting already). 

Here to make it easier, I've already set up the target on my back - real big like too!

[Mr Walleye]

I'm sure you two are right.  ;D
I guess the ironing and sewing aren't that important.
Didn't see anything listed about reading directions. I have always heard that real men do not look at instructions or ask for directions.  ;D

That's why we have GPS and Google Maps - don't need no stinkin' instructions!  We got the power aaarrrgggghhh!

Unfortunately I do know how to iron and sew along with (and I am going to resent I said this - I know I am, I know I am) knitting, crocheting and tatting.  And I clean toilets, cook, take out the trash, and make the bed.  (ohh my head is hurting already). 

Here to make it easier, I've already set up the target on my back - real big like too!

Hazel!!!!.... Is that you!  ???

:D  :D  :D  :D  ;D

Mike

[deb415611]

Unfortunately I do know how to iron and sew along with (and I am going to resent I said this - I know I am, I know I am) knitting, crocheting and tatting.  And I clean toilets, cook, take out the trash, and make the bed.  (ohh my head is hurting already). 

Wow Caney, you'd make a better woman than I am ;D  ;) .  I don't even have a clue what tatting is.  I'm also quite happy to pay someone to clean the bathrooms(although I do know how).

Deb