Forty Rod SASS 3935

I have a small collection of pocket watches. I am offended no end by companies who either don't offer watch pockets at all or make them completely unusable, like very shallow, very narrow or with the top of the pocket above the bottom of the belt so you can't get anything in or out of it without opening your belt. I've seen some so far down the front pocket that they are equally useless.

If it's any consolation I'd give my eye teeth for a REAL Mexican restaurant up here. I can't stand Taco Bell of Del Taco or the dozens of ?Mexican food" places that are about as authentic as Chef Boyardee is Italian. Two places here are very good but one is a lunch truck supplier and the other is tiny, hard to find, sort of ratty looking on the outside, and almost no one speaks English. I go to the last one because they have pictures on the menu and I can point at what I want. They also have Mexican music that isn't loud offensive mariachi noise. The service is wonderful, too.

This is NOT a personal attack, but.......Why do some of you insist on posting things that sound interesting but many of us won't "sign in" to some crappy site because we refuse to expose ourselves to unwanted garbage that often comes with it.

Snow birds are universally a PITA. When I told my California acquaintances and neighbors that we were moving to Arizona I got a lot of "Are you nuts? You'll bake your brains out." I could not convince them that we would be in CENTRAL Arizona and it wasn't all that hot. That was almost ten years ago and I've seen maybe fifteen days where the temperature was over 108 and a similar number over 102. Of course those same dummies think we have saguaro cacti on every street and park and yard, don't believe there is the largest forest of Ponderosa pine trees on the continent less than 29 miles from my house, bald eagles in my yard, and there isn't all that much gold in every body of water. Some are still convinced that the Grand Canyon covers half the state. I only regret that we didn't make the move 45 years earlier and that my wife didn't live long enough to really appreciate it.

Many years ago I was in a hospital bed and watching the only episode ofOprah Winfrey. She asked her audience similar questions and only one girl out if maybe 25 people could answer any of the questions.....and that young lady got all of them right. Examples; "Aparthied" is a dance that African Americans do. Chicago is the Capital of the USA. There are 65 Great Lakes. Japan is a state. The President is some actor but I can't remember who. I never heard of any place called Utah. ....and the ball rolled on. This is why I firmly believe that we need a test of basic history, civics, and recent events that people should HAVE TO PASS to vote, drive a car, have children, hav any government job, or even leave their houses without a keeper..

I have a black belt in falling down. Been on blood thinners now and have a Micra Implanted Pace Maker for almost seven years so far. It's about the size of a 22LR cartridge and has no external "evidences" except a thumb nail size scar in my groin where they ran it up a vein to implant it. Battery is supposed to be good for about ten more years. I get a checkup every four months to ensure that it's still working. So far, so good. BTW blood pressure is usually around 128 / 72, oxygen is 94-96, pulse runs right at 62-65. I've never felt better. BTW#2 I have lost about 90 pounds in the last 26 months, down this morning to 192.4. I haven't been that light since I graduated from high school 65 years ago. (Nothing fits any more!)

I changed my name to Brass Dragon (Cherokee Cathouse Kate was involved in that decision...whatever became of her?) and within 20 hours I called HQ to change it back. It hadn't been processed so it was never registered and I've been Forty Rod ever since

My wife and I met Dale and Roy when we first moved to California. We bought a house in Ontario while I was still in the Corps and we drove up to Utah to visit our folks. On the back we stopped in Victorville and went to the museum and met Dale at the front door. She was the nicest person you could ever imagine. Someone asked if her husband was around and she said "Yes. He's out back somewhere playing Roy Rogers."

I've been told that all but two kinds of poisonous snakes in the US are found right here in my area. In the ten + years since we moved here I've yet to see even one.

And 42 years doesn't mean much to people who have been representing the Constitution (and every other armed citizen law and court decision) since it was ratified. Never trust them.

As desperate as they have proven to be over the years, why give them anything, regardless of age, to use against us?

Had some customers when I was working gun shops who professed their choices proudly but for the most part they made Rush Limbaugh sound a bit left of center. They didn't flaunt anything or make an issue of anything, but if you asked they would speak up. I liked most of them better than some of the freaks that came in, including a few local LEOs who weren't in life with my beliefs.

Neither one of those idiots are smart enough to pee a hole in the snow they are standing in. Think of the ammo they are giving the anti-gunners to prove they are right and we shouldn't be allowed to have guns.

Mine, too....because my wife did it that way and I didn't care. I still don't.

I can relate to that. I get almost all of my medical care from the VA and haven't had an assigned doctor of any kind for about ten years. I do have a half dozen really good nurses of various degrees and a wonderful admin lady and if I need a doctor I can usually see one inside of a short week. I have also been referred to practitioners of acupuncture, massage, chiropractic, hypnotism, physical, sleep, and psychotherapy....and a lot pf people who actually care and love to laugh if that's what is called for. Dental is a totally different story.

Hey, Bubba. I like your new haircut. Side note note: I love bears, I respect bears, but I don't trust bears. They'll sometimes kill you just to keep their skills sharp and sometimes they'll eat you. Sometimes they'll kill you just because they're bears..... and they are totally unpredictable and afraid of almost nothing.

Dad was a southerner and Mom was a Mormon. Both used directly the same way, just like you do. I got a lot of that from them, but in the 60 years since I left Utah I've picked up a lot of other things hat have changed my way of talking...but not my talking whenever I feel like it and saying what I think.

California? He'll likely walk away with a small fine and do it all over again.

Go to your room, and no TV for you tonight young man.

I'm a proud bigot when it comes to idiots, a--h---s, inconsiderate or totally disconnected from reality people...or anyone who gets in my face when I'm already in a bad mood

Nope. A rod (aka "pole", "perch", or "lug") is a surveyor's measure of 5 1/2 yards, 16 1/2 feet, 1/320 of a mile, 1/4 of a "chain" or 25 "links". 40 rods equal 220 yards, 660 feet, 1/8 of a mile or 1 furlong. That distance is / was about as far I could hit a target the size of a dinner plate with any (not many but a few) of my cowboy or mountain man guns. There was also a legendary pair of measurements for mountain mule, white lightnin', or other home made whiskeys known as 20 rod or 40 rod whiskey. It was based on how far you could walk after such a drink of a cup of the stuff before you could lose the ability to still fire a gun. It also rated the shooter who could still be dangerous at the end of such a walk. Someone had called me the Forty Rod Kid clear back in my college days ( I don't remember why) and it just popped into my head when I needed an alias for SASS.

This brought back some memories. My Dad was an Ozark-raised guy who had only one real musical instrument...a banjo ukelele...but he played spoons, harmonica (maybe a real musical instrument) and a juice (Jew's) harp....same "maybe" applies here. He also made a tub-a....a wash tub with a four foot dowel rod and a single string..., water glasses, hair combs, and almost anything else he could get a sound out of. He even put different kinds of taps on his shoes to get different sounds. He did it for fun and for the memories it gave him. When we moved to Utah he had three friends who played "conventional" instruments. They had a fiddle, a pair of guitars (6 and twelve strings), a banjo, and a piano... and they sang a lot. Oh, yeah, Dad was a yodeler, too, both western and Swiss style. They were pretty good. Made a bit of money for a spell by playing all over the county, but Dad had to give it up because "it got in the way of my professoring at the college". This lady is a lot better than Dad was but he sure had fun showing off while it lasted.

I bought one for my wife when we got married (60 years ago in July). My daughter has it now and carries it around their property in NC to discourage "critters". She still uses the original Hunter holster and cartridge belt. Before I met my wife I bought and sold maybe a dozen. They were cheap and very handy, but I had a date coming up or needed a tire for my car, or whatever. I'd like to find a good one again....and I'm still looking for a Colt Scout, too.

I'm having trouble with "My way is the intelligent way". Where did you get that idea?

.....and someone probably got paid for that....