Forty Rod SASS 3935
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I was at a craft show a week ago and several people were selling painted gourds. Little elves, dolls, and all sorts of gourd figures.
I asked a lady if she knew what a shmoo was. Her daughter looked it up on her computer thing and I asked her if she could make one her gourds into a shmoo.
She could.
I asked if she could make me one about a foot tall. Yes, IF I could find a dried bottle gourd that big, preferably already sanded. She could make the legs from styrofoam, add whiskers and eyelashes, and paint the eyes.
Do they grow bottle gourds that tall and, if so, where can I get one?
Cartoonist Al Capp created shmoos in about 1948 for his comic strip Li'l Abner. Shmoos are native to Dogpatch.
I want one to sit in my kitchen just so visitors will ask what it is.
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Don keep askin stoopid kweschuns.
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2 hours ago, Larsen E. Pettifogger, SASS #32933 said:
Facebutt only allowed me to see about ten seconds and then cut me off.
Yeah, me too.
I refuse to put my vitals on any more sites. I already get more BS in my computer, sooooo, I guess I'll just miss out on a lot.
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Pontiac Tempest. Buick Special. Olds LeMans. Chevy Corvair. Great choices, but I wanted a Tempest so bad. A friend had one that was just wonderful. Most of the other similar sized cars were no match in speed or handling.
Dad bought a Buick Skylark Special sedan.....with four doors, yet. (Very conservative college professor, you know.) Embarrassing!
So I rebelled and bought a 1960 MGA 1500 instead, and drove it to pieces. I changed the carbs to Webers, bought what became a header, reversed the electrical system, improved wheels, tires, and shocks, added a three point seat belt set, put in a roll bar, added better seats and a cool wood steering wheel, bought a Bell racing helmet and two fire extinguishers, cool sun glasses and fingerless golfing gloves, etc. I'd buy one today if I could find one in really good shape that didn't cost a college education. I loved that car. It got me started in sports car racing.
Later on I owned a Corvair Corsa 140T that had been" Yenko-ized". New suspension, better transmission and turbocharger, improved brakes, race tuned, more instruments, roll bar, and more. Much better than a "normal" Corvair. Good for about 125 mph or more, but scary at anything over about 110. It was great, but wasn't family car at all.
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On 4/16/2026 at 12:43 PM, Sedalia Dave said:
Thank you, Bob!
I have both on my bookmarks list. It's therapeutic to check them out once in a while. Brings back some very pleasant memories and once in awhile a laugh or two.
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Works for me.
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Just now, Forty Rod SASS 3935 said:
And why, pray tell, is it in this subject?
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8 hours ago, J-BAR #18287 said:
The image is John Matuszak in makeup for his role as Sloth in the movie The Goonies.Since his name is in the bottom left corner, I suspect Pat Riot created it.
I think it's beautiful!
And why, pray tell, is it in this subject?
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I bought a "dial phone" a few years ago. It DID NOT have push buttons in a dial -looking thing but a real dial....but....when you dialed you had to move your finger all the way around and make sure you pushed the crescent-shaped stop gizmo. When you took your finger out to go to the next number the dial turned back to the starting point, dialing the proper number. I even found a 1960 phone book from Logan, Utah to go with it and I put Mom's old phone number, SK2-2175, in the center window.
It was a perfect copy of the old black Western Electric 500 "saddle" series phones and was fun for awhile....but you had to have a land line (I used it as the kitchen phone in a five unit set. I hid the base in a tin breadbox.) When my provider went to a different system and did away with land lines, I gave it to my daughter-in-law who still uses it. She found a place in Las Vegas that still supports land lines.
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2 hours ago, Pat Riot said:
My attempt with a new Glock a few years ago.
Where did this come from?
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3 hours ago, Sixgun Seamus said:
Kay and I played in a handball choir in our church for years. I agree that recordings do not do justice to them. You have to hear them live. Several our our choir could hold up to three of the smaller bells in one hand and play them. I played bass clef lower bells (C4 to E4) and no way could I hold more than one at a time in one hand. It is amazing how many different sounds you can get out of one bell depending on technique.
One of the ladies had five bells, one was close to four feet tall, and one about thee feet tall on a frame on the table. I watched her use sticks, little metal mallets, three or four different brushes, padded sticks, a little dog-toy-like pillow thingy, and her hands. I had watched and listened to to her warming up in another room before the show started. She got so many sounds out of each bell I couldn't believe it. and I can't even begin to describe the different sounds.
There was a five foot long, 3-4 inch diameter tube hanging on a frame. It made"thunder" sounds from an almost impossible bass to a mid-range tenor. There was a "tinker bell" like you'd imaging a fairy using.... a tiny little thing with dainty sounds that pierced right through the others when it was her turn.
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I guess I have heard the bells for years, but never knew what they were before....and most recordings do NOT do them justice. Sitting within ten feet of them in a chapel with amazing acoustics for a fifteen minute show was a great experience.
Actually, the entire cantata was beyond belief...except for a piano player who was a world class payer, but was not suited to this program.
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What Eyesa said. I have been blessed with absolutely wonderful medical people, too. Some have become close friends.
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Oh, THAT Tombstone.
I thought you were talking about your own tombstone, but I ain't ready for that and was hoping you weren't either.
Don't go scaring folks that way.
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On 4/17/2026 at 5:46 AM, Rye Miles #13621 said:
Well, any excuse to buy a new gun! 🤣🤣
What's this "excuse" crap?
See it.
Want it.
Buy it.
'Nuff said.
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On 4/3/2026 at 5:54 AM, Cactus Jack Calder said:
COG,
Like Eyesa, I like the bigger one also. Both need a pair of Pommel Holsters. 😄
Been kinda busy this week. Monday had a Heart Catheterization. Dr placed a Stent in the Right Carotid Artery. This makes 4 Stents, in 30 years so far. In recovery Dr said I’d need to come back 4/17/26 for another Stent in my Left Anterior Descending Artery (the Widow Maker). I don’t know why she didn’t do it Monday. Perhaps I was too long under the stress of bodily invasion.
One pleasant thing that came of this. My present Cardiologist is retiring. The Dr who did the Cath has agreed to take over as my regular Cardiologist. She is very personable and a real cutie. Maybe 1/2 my age, maybe younger. My old Dr is a great guy but not quite as pretty. He rides a big bike like COG’s and has a handsome Gunfighter Mustache, but he still ain’t as pretty as my new Dr. 😊
So a prayer or two would be greatly appreciated. I have a strong faith and connection to my Church and I am on their Prayer List. I know the Lord has the best plans for me. So I am not greatly worried, as the outcome will be the correct one.
Regards to all the Cowboys,
CJ
Prayers are sent, Jack. Trust in God and the doctors and keep us posted.
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I still remember when our party line number was 47B. Then it became 2147b, SKyline 2 (SK2)-2175).....No longer a party line..... and finally, 752-2175.
When area codes came along ours was 801...Utah.
I also remember "Number please."
"Miss Alice,(or which ever operator was there) this is Tom Taylor. Can you ring Mom's number so I can let her know I'm home?"
"I sure can, Tommy. Hey, did your sister get over the measles okay?"
"Yeah, she's back to being a pest. I'll let Mom know you asked."
"Thanks. See you in church."
I also remember "Number please."
"I cut myself real bad. Can you call Doctor Malouf?" and having operator stay on the line talking me down, telling me to wrap a towel around the cut and keep pressure on it, asking questions until the doctor was on the doorstep inside of 20 minutes. One of the other operators had called the doctor and Dad and Dad got there about 5 minutes after the doctor did.
I really, honestly miss those days.
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48 minutes ago, Cyrus Cassidy #45437 said:
Arbiter is the software they use to assign us to games, and we can block teams, sites, and partners. When "blocked" we will not be assigned to work with them.
If it's going to keep you awake nights or cause you any other problems block him. Life is too short to have to put up with that sort of burden.
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Come on up and bring your gun. I'll show you my Star Model 43 Fire Star (I bought it new about 40 years ago and carried the heavy little bugger for close to 30 of those years. It still rides in the dash of my car with four of the nine mags that I bought with the gun.) and buy you lunch at Nana's. Then we can go to J&G together. I need some mag pouches like the ones they sold me a few years ago.
It won't save you any money, but you can get a good trip out of it, a free lunch, and maybe meet some folks you never met before.
Call ahead and make sure they are in stock, let me know when you'll be here, and come ahead on.
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I never heard of a bell choir until just before last Christmas. Several denominations of churches got together for a two hour Cantata. One group (Lutheran?) had about a dozen, mostly ladies, with those wonderful bells. All had at least two bells, and three or four had more. I had no idea how many different sounds could be made with just one bell.
I'd been to those cantatas before, but this was the first time a bell choir came. It was a marvelous evening and I'll go again for as long as I'm able.
They were almost as good as the Mormon Tabernacle choir in Salt Lake City, and they had lots more types of music than just singers and pipe organs.
Sorry for the off subject butting-in, but you gotta see and hear a good bell choir performance before you die.
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At eighteen I had just received a SAA .45 with a 5 1/2 barrel for Christmas. It was made in 1959 and I was the first owner. It went EVERYWHERE with me....well, almost....for the next 38 years.
I didn't get a motor cycle until three years later, a Harley 74 (75? I never was a motorcycle guy and sold it a year later.)
Why?
Because motorcycles ain't got no back seat for those cold nights at the drive in, no place for an ice chest, no heaters, etc.....and no matter how hard I tried I could never fog up the window.
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10 minutes ago, Alpo said:
I'm guessing this one's expensive. Because adding to whatever it cost to get it will be the three times as much to have it removed.
I'd use that photo in my defense for shooting the SOB that screwed up spelling patrIot
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1 hour ago, Blackwater 53393 said:
Selling BuicksDriving the porcelain bus
Tossing his/her cookies
Calling for Wyatt and his brothers
Praying to the porcelain god
Laughing in lumps
The apartment that Shawna and I sub-let, for two weeks after we eloped, until my orders moved us across the continent had been occupied by three college guys. They were good friends of ours. They had painted the toilet traffic light red because "every man should have a chance to hug a redhead".
My wife, a redheaded mostly Irish-Scottish lady, left a note taped to the top: "Gary, you BOYS will be very lucky if you ever get the chance to hug a real redhead."
He told me that they all read it and laughed until they ran out of air.
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Hey, guess what I found
in SASS Wire Saloon
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Going through some old papers and came across my Certificate of Appointment as a Gigadeer Brindle in the Stealth Bullet Shooting Society signed by Colonel Dan SBSS#1 himself, and dated 15 June, 2002.
Gotta find a frame for it.