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    Step aside, Sasquatch. Move over, Occam. Jeremy is here!

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    I use a Viking Blade brand safety razor that uses Gillette three blade cartridges.  I shave in the shower using Camay brand bath soap (because my wife did) and water as hot as I can stand it.  I get a shave so smooth it makes a baby's bottom feel like a gravel road.  Touch it up with a dash of Old Bay brand bay rum.....very mild and not a bit overwhelming..... and I'm ready for almost everything.

     

    Other than that, the video nails it perfectly.  BTW, I'd give a lot for hair a white as his.  Mine's a sort of light steel gray.  It ain't bad but I'd like it whiter, more like the color of my soul.

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    Pome alert

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    4 hours ago, Utah Bob #35998 said:
    As an old gentleman, you can never be overdressed. 😉
     
    A mirror, when you’re an old geezer
    Can leave you feeling distressed
    You should try not to do it while naked
    Go get yourself properly dressed
     
    And you know what I mean by properly
    A neatly pressed shirt for a start
    No backwards ball cap on your noggin
    No jeans that are falling apart
     
    A proper fedora’s a nice touch
    Or a Stetson if the mood is just right
    or even a Boater in summertime
    To ward off the sun’s rays so bright
     
    Properly cleaned and pressed trousers
    A crease like a knife’s a nice touch
    And a good belt to hold up your pants please
    Or you’ll look like a gangsta and such
     
    Shine your shoes, add a tie if you want to
    A vest if the weather turns cool
    But avoid a fur collared raccoon coat
    You don’t want to look like a fool
     
    Now go back and look hard in the mirror
    In you classy fine hat and new suit
    Go stroll around town with some pride for a change
    The young girls might say “Awww. Ain’t he cute!”
     
    They say “Clothes make the man”, well not always
    But they’re handy if it starts to sprinkle
    And one very important factor is
    They will certainly hide most your wrinkles

    What a coincidence: tomorrow is my 60th wedding anniversary.  My wife would be proud if she still lived, but I'm celebrating alone, proud enough for both of us

     

    I have a red rose and a white carnation, a tradition we started the year before we were married and it was kept going every year since, even when we were apart....Okinawa, Japan, Vietnam, and other interferences with  our ceremony.

     

    I still have two custom suits that I had made by Peter Daniel, Montclair, CA when I was in business for myself.  I'll be wearing the navy blue one tomorrow with an ice white shirt by the same tailor.  Add a solid blood red necktie with a double Windsor knot, parade gloss western style boots, a custom "cowboy fedora" by  Bobbie "All Hat" Dumez (RIP my friend), a gold pocket watch with a double chain, and two lapel pins and I'll be presentable.  I'll take a framed picture of my wife, order a glass of Burgundy and a cup of decaf coffee for her, and we'll enjoy a wonderful meal at Gabriella's Italian Restaurant.  Every year it's a different place.

     

    If I can get the staff to do it, I'll have them play Neil Diamond's "The Story of my Life" at dessert time.

     

    Your poem will be resting on the table my friend.  Thank you.

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    Why Anti-Tank Rifles Weren't Sniper Rifles

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    BTW, both of those guns can hurt you.  Never had a problem with ejected rounds because we had a mimeographed set of instructions.

     

    Everyone got to shoot each gun once.  Some fired them more than once.  Not me.  One kid, Roger someone, broke his collar bone on his second shot.

     

    Carried them up Green Canyon to an abandoned sheriff's shooting range in a pickup because my MGA wasn't up to the challenge.

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    Rubaboo

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    I've eaten jerky and pemmican all my life, usually as a trail food. They will keep you alive in an emergency but we never used it more than as a pocket snack while hunting, hiking, or fishing.  Night time found camp fires and cast iron cook ware.

     

    I never even considered making rubaboo stew out of it and haven't made pemmican in years and I made my last jerky to sell at a rendezvous over 25 years ago.

     

    That said, I think I'll pass on this stuff for......well, forever.

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    Honey every day?

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    You have great taste.  

     

    JIF creamy pb and Kerry Gold salted butter.  Consumer Reports reported on butters and rate KG #2.  I don't recall what #1 was but it cost twice as much, and KG tastes just right to me.  It's worth the extra cost.  I buy four pound package.

     

    About a year ago I went on a quest to try all the different honeys I could find.  I got local clover honey, pure Arizona mesquite honey, sourwood honey and a bevy of others......a total of22 jars.  I couldn't find a nickel's worth of difference in any of them except one.  Maybe my old taste buds are finally going bad, but...... 

     

    Byrd's Bees 100% raw honey stands out.  My daughter lives in Flat Rock NC and found this local honey that is just right.   When I run out of the honey a have already....in about five years....I'll have her gather me up few jars to tide me over until I die.

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    My supper last night

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    12 hours ago, Rye Miles #13621 said:

    I’ve ruined a couple of pans when boiling eggs! I’d fall asleep and woke up and heard popping noises! Luckily I only boiled 4 eggs at a time. I’m very careful now🙄

    Hey, I bought a little thingy that holds up to five eggs and boils them (from really soft to hard), poaches them, and makes several other dishes, and is so simple even I can use it.  Cost me about $25.00 IIRC and I use it maybe once  week.

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    Why Anti-Tank Rifles Weren't Sniper Rifles

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    Posted · Edited by Forty Rod SASS 3935

    I have, in my long ago past, fired Boyes and Lahti antitank rifles using surplus ammo.  Both were fairly accurate at 100-200 yards, maybe out to 350, but not much further.

     

    Not very impressive.

     

    Some outfit in Florida was selling them for a song (IIDC we paid more to get them shipped to Utah than the guns cost) and a few us got the money together to buy the guns and ammo (Hey!  Great name for a magazine.)  An Air Force brat in the bunch bought both of them when we ran out of ammo.

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    Honey every day?

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    16 minutes ago, watab kid said:

    if i can find fresh honeycomb i will eat a bit more than a spoonfull every day - ill go back to my peanut butter and honey sandwiches i used to enjoy so much 

    Honey and real butter are the only things that will make me eat peanut butter.  PB is supposed to be good for you, too.

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    Another "why not" question

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    10 hours ago, Linn Keller, SASS 27332, BOLD 103 said:

    A brand new, fairly stiff Stetson saved my skull one summer afternoon ... a four foot long set of pipe tongs (family oilfield setting) slipped out of the user's hands and cracked me across the crown.

    Kind of reshaped the hat but saved the underlying scalp and whatever claimed to be rattling around inside my skull.

    I stepped back, examined the skypiece, allowed as it just got some character, and went back to work.

    Now, that explains a  lot.  😉

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    Honey every day?

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    Posted · Edited by Forty Rod SASS 3935

    Yes, since I can remember.  On toast, pancakes, waffles, in coffee and tea, and on a lot of breakfast cereals.  I even remember it in Ovaltine when you still had to boil it.  (I'd love to find those old black crystals of Ovaltine again.  Nothing ever tasted just like it and the stuff they sell now under that label is still the best, but not the same.)  I remember driving 60 miles each way over to Bear Lake to buy huge tins of honey with the comb still in a lot of it...until Dad found out it was really from a farm just three miles down the road.

     

    We'd chew the combs until they had no honey left in them.  Sure beats chewing gum.

     

    Mom used a lot of honey in her baking and for glazing some meats.

     

    I think Mom and Sis used to rub it on their skin but I'm not sure of that. 

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    My supper last night

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    4 hours ago, Rye Miles #13621 said:

    22 minutes in the microwave? Was that what the directions said? That’s a long time in a microwave 🙄😳

    NOOOO!  Read it again and then read the next response from Cowtown Scout....who got it right.

     

    Pay attention, son!  Pay attention!

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    Shame Brought to my Regiment

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    Looking at the pictures seem to indicate that they were taken many years ago.  I think they show an M-1A1 carbine and a M-1 Garand rifle and some sort of WWII style rocket launcher.  The helmets are styles not used since Vietnam.

     

    Also there is no evidence that these people are even from your regiment and not some jackass U S soldiers  

     

    If I'm correct it appears that you are being offended by something that isn't really identified and from a long ago time.

     

    Am I missing something here?

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    Any fishing lure collectors out there?

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    My sister-in-law, in spite of severe arthritis in her hands, made fishing lures and tied flies as part of her own version of therapy.  Her husband was not much of  a fisherman....but her son, and later his wife and son, all were, and used her lures and flies almost exclusively.

     

    She designed a lot of her own tools and sold all of her creations in sporting goods stores in the Layton, Ogden, and Salt Lake City area for years.

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    Another "why not" question

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    15 hours ago, Sedalia Dave said:

     

    Get a wooden hat stretcher. Then take a sanding disc to it and reprofile the sides so that it creates the desired oval shape you want.

    I have two of those and they are as useless as tits on a chicken.

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    Another "why not" question

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    12 hours ago, Rip Snorter said:

    The big issue that even fine off the shelf can't generally address is actual head shape.  I have a couple of off the shelf, but several customs.  Most of the customs are a perfect fit, and you will not wear out a good one.  I wear a Western hat daily - took me 24 years to wear out a favorite Resistol my wife gave me.  Customs last generations - a rancher friend has his Fathers and Grandfathers handmades.  They still look great.

    I bought a 1941 vintage Resistol that had never been worn.  It's been  my every day favorite for almost ten years.  About once a years I have it cleaned and re-blocked (that lady just retired and I don't what I going to do now.).

     

    I still have two All Hat hats (a very elegant wide brim high crown cowboy hat and a "western Fedora", both in light gray)  that Bobbie Dumez (Damn I miss that guy.) made for me that are almost as good, but they are more Sunday-Go-To-Meeting hats that don't get as much use.

     

    I also have a baker's dozen other hats and caps that get very little use, a beaver pelt "trappers hat" and a Marine eight panel utility cover and an Army "boonie" hat that are mostly once or twice a year hats....and a Navy watch cap for really cold days.

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