[how big a jug?]

11 hours ago, Subdeacon Joe said:

 

Those look like they are meant to be carried by 2 people. 

Clumsy, hard to carry and / store.

[Pay.gov]

14 hours ago, Eyesa Horg said:

The JCP we had in the area closed a couple/few years ago.

I have no idea why the one here is still open.  I go through it from the parking lot to the insice of the mall ans most of the time you could fire grape shot in any direction and not hiy anyone.  No appears to be working there...you have to search them out...and there are few, if any, shoppers.

 

Been that way since we moved here 12 years ago.

 

Sears is gone, Sam's Club and the AAA moved 95 miles away down to Phoenix.

C. A. L. Ranch opened  a new store here ("Bigger and better than the one in Prescott" .....NOT!).

[Mickey D item]

I have not set foot in a McDonald's since the San Ysedro California massacre in July 1984.  About 40 people where shot and half killed (one an unborn child) by a madman, a terrible occurrence for sure....as all such shootings are....

 

BUT the wife of McDonald's founder didn't blame the killer, but put all her weight and a ton of money behind the anti-gun movement.

 

The place could vanish from the planet and I'd not shed a tear.

[Sir Jacob Vousa]

Not all heroes are white, American, or Christian.  It has taken a lot of years for some to admit to this and accept it.  Far too many still don't.

 

Atta boy Sgt.Maj. Vousa.  I would have been proud to know you.

[how big a jug?]

On 3/21/2025 at 10:39 PM, Alpo said:

Let's suppose, just for supposing, that you are at a campsite. And the only water available is at a faucet a quarter of a mile away. So you going to walk. That's a half mile round trip.

 

And of course you need a container to bring the water back. There are three of you that are going to fetch water.

 

In the book - yes this is from a book - they took the tea kettle and a couple of saucepans. And I thought they would probably do better with actual water jugs. The tea kettle might not be too bad - it has a bale after all. But open saucepans - that just seems like you would spill about half of it before you got back. Buckets would work, but you would slop a lot.

 

Then I got to idly wondering - because I wonder idly frequently - how big a jug would be the best to carry if you're going to make a half mile walk. Gallon? 2 gallons? 5 gallons would be ludicrous.

Two three gallon water canvas bags, or one per person, were standard equipment when we were still going camping and hunting and just traveling around.  They carry well when empty, aren'y all the heavy when empty and not ridiculously heavy when full, keep water cool from evaporation if you hang them in the shade, and back then they cost under a dollar each.

 

I haven't laid eyes one one in about 25 years. 

[The Wedding Gift]

I stopped sending my grandson anything when he never acknowledged receiving them.

 

Last year he complained to my son and DIL about not even getting a card from me.  My DIL (I love that lady)quietly asked him if he'd ever so much as let me know that he had received anything.

 

This year I got a Christmas card and a birthday card from him.  If he keeps it up until next year I'll send him a card.

 

It will take a lot longer than that get mentioned in my will again.

 

[Pay.gov]

3 hours ago, Subdeacon Joe said:

I once got billed for $0.00.  I ignored it on the assumption that since I didn't owe anything I didn't need to do anything. 

 

WRONG!

 

The next month I received an Overdue bill that showed I still owed $0.00 plus $0.00 interest, please submit payment or my service would be canceled.   So I  wrote out a cheque in the amount of "Zero and  zero/100 Dollars."  The agency cashed it and the bank processed it.  This was in the days when banks would send the processed cheques back to you with your monthly statement.   I laughed when I saw it.

My very first credit card bill (I was 17 and bought a jacket from J. C. Penny):  I paid it before I got the bill.  Bill came in for $00.00.  I laughed and threw it away.  Next month I got a notice that I was in arrears for $00.00.   This repeated for three more months.  Finally they threatened to take legal action and to put a negative statement in  my credit rating. 

 

I went the the manager of the store...a family friend...and asked how I could get this BS stopped.  He told me to send them a check for the full amount.  I did, for $00.00, and never heard any more about it.

 

That was in 1959, long before anyone knew about computers.  I destroyed the card and haven't done any business with JCP since.

[Useless fun fact-ish type stuff]

On 2/17/2025 at 12:42 PM, Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062 said:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                           ......  explains quite a bit .......  🙈🙉🙊  😉

YEAAAAH, duz! 

 

On 3/19/2025 at 4:32 AM, Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 said:

While Picasso is known by that simple mononym, his full name was….. Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno Crispín Crispiniano María de los Remedios de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz Picasso.

Be careful.  You could damage yourself trying to say that too fast...or bite your tongoe or lip.

[Torpedo Juice]

2 hours ago, Pat Riot said:

“Soldiers”? 

Water Warriors. 

[Tejeños]

Original Tabasco sauce is as hot as I get.....generally.

[me and the rest of the world don't think alike]

Alpo, define  "think".  

[Now We Know Where Tesla Looked For the Design]

12 hours ago, Blackwater 53393 said:

That thing is probably more functional than the Tesla!! 🤨

Looks better, too.

[Now We Know Where Tesla Looked For the Design]

5 hours ago, Pat Riot said:

Perhaps you haven’t seen some of the crappy sci fi movies I’ve seen. 
 

 

I should have said "some of" the movies".  Some of them were so bad they could be described as "criminally bad."

[Now We Know Where Tesla Looked For the Design]

38 minutes ago, Pat Riot said:

I still think that Tesla truck looks like something out of a “B” Sci-Fi movie from the 1950’s. 

What a rude comparison.  

 

At least the Sci-fi movies were entertaining.  The Tesla is just plain ugly and a lousy design both inside and out.

[GOFWG]

2 hours ago, watab kid said:

paper shot shells - you had to expand the attached quoted post to see them tho 

Found 'em.  Look good for paper shells.

[Unexploded Ordnance]

There were still tons of unexploded and abandoned ammo all over Okinawa when I was there.....22 to 25 years after the war ended.

 

TV and radio announcements were broadcast several time a week warning folks in several languages about the dangers and EOD never took a break the whole time. 

 

They were carefully gathered and taken off shore to an unoccupied island (or so I was told) where they were destroyed by explosives.

[Now We Know Where Tesla Looked For the Design]

5 minutes ago, Injun Ryder, SASS #36201L said:

I thought this was the design inspiration. 

 

 

 

I like the dumpster better.  At least it looks like It had a purpose in mind in its design.  I was next to a Tesla for six or seven miles in traffic the other day.

 

The damn thing is a traffic hazard.  You can'r see around it nor through it and it appears to have more blind spots than a Sherman tank, even more so than my Impala sedan..

[Operation Cowboy]

15 hours ago, Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 said:

With the end of the war in Europe just days away, one of the strangest episodes of the entire conflict unfolded along the German-Czechoslovakian border. More than 350 American soldiers had just fought their way through enemy lines to reach the town of Hostau. The settlement, which was still in the hands of a detachment of Wehrmacht soldiers, was home to a treasure trove of considerable value: several hundred prized Lipizzan horses. The famous and extremely rare animals had been seized by the Third Reich as part of a bizarre wartime cattle breeding program. Fearing for the horses' lives, the German officer in charge of the breeding sent word to the Americans that he and his men would surrender en masse if the U.S. Army promised to rescue the beasts. A cavalry unit from Patton's Third Army jumped at the chance to save the legendary Lipizzans. The mission, which has been dubbed Operation Cowboy, would have seen U.S. troops, along with a motley collection of liberated Allied prisoners of war, a bona fide Cossack aristocrat, and a platoon of turncoat German soldiers race against time to shepherd a herd of priceless horses to safety, all the while fending off attacks from a legion of Waffen-SS stormtroopers bent on their destruction. This incredible true story was the inspiration for Ghost Riders, a new nonfiction book by author and historian Mark Felton

Wouldn't it be wonderful to watch this with the music, but WITHOUT THE HUMAN NARRATIVE.

[Old time and not commonly-heard phrases.]

9 hours ago, MizPete said:

No harm done.

Only to my remaining sanity and increased embarrassment.  

[ANKLE FUSION??]

51 minutes ago, Blackwater 53393 said:

WELLLLL! I DO  have lots of experience with sitting around with my feet propped up!!  You COULD say I have that mastered!!

 

My problem is that my patience is wearing VERY VERY thin and my sanity,  (which has always been in question) is becoming more threatened with every passing moment!!  🤪

Have you earned a black belt in sitting around?  

 

I don't have the seriousness with my feet and legs that some of y'all have, but I have walking problems of my own.  After I got a black belt in falling down I started working on one for sitting around.

 

 

[GOFWG]

1 hour ago, watab kid said:

i did a bunch of those up years ago and had nothing but trouble with them , they swelled a bit , still worked but stuck in my chambers , PITA so i went back to just plastic , all my hulls are once fired federals so that was not the issue , 

What?

[your contact list]

17 hours ago, Alpo said:

Do you have people listed by name or do you have them listed so you can tell who they are?

 

I have a lady lives down the street. She is listed as Rachel corner of clay. I had a swarm of bees move into my attic. If I had just put the name of the guy that removed them in my contact list, I wouldn't have any idea who it is. So he is listed as bee guy.

Yes!

[Classic Cowboy costuming]

23 hours ago, Sixgun Seamus said:

Are those the same ones that you wore on the ark?

No, those were Cisco Kid's branded.  

[Old time and not commonly-heard phrases.]

On 3/16/2025 at 11:19 AM, MizPete said:

Nossir.  Southern Lady.  Born & raised in the sovereign state of South Carolina.

Of course you're a lady.  I knew that and just plain wasn't paying attention.  My apologies.

[I may wear Blue today]

On 3/17/2025 at 6:07 AM, Subdeacon Joe said:

In 7th and 8th grade, Catholic school,  I made sure to wear something orange.  

A friend of years gone by received a five pound bag of oranges every St. Patrick's day.  He was NOT amused and blamed me for awhile but never did find out who really sent them.  He moved to Montana five or six years later and I lost track.