Forty Rod SASS 3935
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I stopped worrying about that when my broken and worn out parts outnumbered all the rest.
Adapt and carry on.
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In have been to two Jimmy John's and see nothing to go back for.
I don't like fast food places as a general rule and lean more toward small mom and pop cafes and neighborhood restaurants.
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Wait until you get to be my age. Dyslexia is a high point, mental focus is a far gone memory...if you have any memory left at all...reflexes don't flex any more, and damn near everyone you know is a stranger.
Nostalgia becomes a very close friend and you set your alarm clock to wake you up in time for a nap.
I am lucky to never have being lost, but I was really confused for a few months.
And it get worse as you get older.....I think.
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8 minutes ago, John Kloehr said:
Is that 3 a 2?
It's a 2!
Don't blame me. I'm old y'know, and my keyboard is dyslexic.
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"Sleigh bells ring" while I was walking 'round in womens' underwear.
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6 hours ago, Subdeacon Joe said:
I never like time changes. I'd rather stay on standard time all year.
I've been beating that drum for most of 80 years.
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Didn't bother me a bit.
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15 hours ago, Black Angus McPherson said:
You've got me wondering, Forty. What was the 7.65?
Angus
OOPS! Meant 7.63 for AK47s and SKS carbines, etc.
We supported a lot of ARVN and friendly guerrilla groups who used captured arms. Almost all of it was issued to Special Forces (some of whom also liked them) for distribution.....and some of our guys found that they liked those pieces better than our issue arms, too.
I didn't catch that and apparently no one else did, either. You get a smiley face.
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Tex S. Ranger
Tex Melater
Tex Tyle
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In don't care what variant you find, those birds were hell on the bad guys. I only saw them in 'Nam once, but even just flying overhead they are awesome (not a word I use often) and scary....and they are BIG.
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Not in my day.
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SHHHHHH!!!!
Don't let them know that we know.
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Are any of us?
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On 2/5/2026 at 7:09 PM, watab kid said:
im not crazy about the kiosks , definetly dont eat a McDs any more or BK either - will still go to wendys
Have a Wendy's almost in my front yard. Some days it's good, somedays it isn't. Very slow because of the drive up. I don't go there a lot anymore.
Jen's, Sally B's, Nana's, Dinner Bell, and Zeke's are all better and we have developed a few very good Mexican places lately.
I still like Subway and Guido's. too.
All are a bit costier than the fast food places, but they all are worth it
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Looks like she's setting you up to do the cooking...and probably the cleaning up, too. Be careful. I was sucked into that trap, too....for 51+ years.
PS, I didn't mind being trapped a bit.
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What genuine law would be broken if it were used?
Of course, the lawyers and courts and leftist anti-gun pukes, both within and without the pinkish news media, would create some make-believe laws for the case.
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59 minutes ago, Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770 said:
I don't know... I think that Alpo and Subdeacon Joe might be polar opposites, Alpo asks questions nobody else does, Joe answers questions nobody asked.
They do seem to balance their part of the universe, don't they?
Sort of a Yin and Yang sort of thing. 'Taint good nor bad, it just is!
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"War crimes" are a BS political phrase usually used by some group that is using something equally horrible (or worse) than the people they are accusing of war crimes.
I give you the Germans accusing us war crimes during WWI for using shotguns in the trenches while they introduced poison gas and flame throwers.
And in the next war I can't even think of anything they did that wasn't a was crime.
How about Japan accusing us of war crimes for using incendiary bombs as they were burning POWs and others to death with gasoline and diesel fuel?
The Vietcong raping women and children to death, murdering and torturing the families of anyone who spoke against them, and executing entire villages.?
Or Muslim terrorists wanting us punished for bombing civilians as they use bombs carried by "devoted" screwballs to blow up shopping centers, schools, and other non-military targets all over the world?
War crimes my tired old butt!
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Time for Cliff Hanger to step forward. He knows more about submarines than anyone else I ever met. Where are you Cliff?
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"A man with a watch always knows the time. A man with more than one is never quite certain."
Walter Raleigh
Master Horologist
Logan Utah, 1955........above his work bench.
This quote is now on the wall under my collection of pocket watches. I think I'll move it above them so I'll have a place to show off all the the chains, fobs, and drops that I have gathered, too.
I miss you, Walt...and thanks.
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19 minutes ago, Subdeacon Joe said:
Letterpress printing type was sold by the ‘font’ which consists of a package of upper case or lower case letters, or figures (numerals and punctuation marks), and looks like these:
As hard as it may be for someone in 2021 to understand, each pack of type consisted of one subset of one typeface in one size and one style and one weight. Each foundry had a standard distribution of characters (because, for example, “x” was used much less frequently than “e”). Since each package of type was more or less the same size, the number of actual pieces of type in a package would vary with the point size of the type. Thus each package would have stamped on it the number of “A” (or “a”) characters it contained…allowing the purchaser to extrapolate the other character counts using a standard table (the most common being that of American Typefounders):
Because typesetting anything serious would require more characters than came in a single package, customers would order multiples of packages, which would then be combined and carefully placed into a typecase:
…which would in turn be stored in a type cabinet:
To put this in stark perspective, for a typesetter to have the flexibility to use the same assortment of faces, weights and styles as are visible in this MS Word dialog box…
…would require about 14,000 pounds of metal type!
When our local paper got rid of their "lead" (alloy) type I was given 400 pounds of it for casting bullets. They had tons of scrap typr in a large building behind the plant that had been dumped back there and never hauled away for reuse somewhere else. I didn't cast my own for modern guns and it was too hard for muzzle loaders.
A swapped the last of it out about 6 or 7 years later. It wouldn't have lasted that long, but they gave away tons more to other people in the valley, too.
It just dawned on me that it was about 1960, 65 years ago or maybe a year or so either way.
Also all that lead and I ain't died nor even been sick from exposure.
Another "just dawned on me": just a few years later I was traveling all over Vietnam with Agent Orange all over the place and have no negative effects from that either.
Makes me wonder what God is saving me for. I hope it's a good reason and not some horrible example for other folks.
I remember some using it for "base" by melting it down adding more lead or other metals to get exactly what they wanted.
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3 hours ago, Rye Miles #13621 said:
The more choices the better for our military!
But a PITA to supply ammo if they have more than one caliber. As an Ordnance officer in 'Nam that was one our greatest challenges...and we only had five or six calibers to deal with: .45, 7.62, 7.65, 9mm, .50, 12 gauge,
The bigger stuff was easier because so few of our guys were using it.
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He doesn't think like anyone else I know. Maybe everyone on his planet think like he does.
Now, on MY planet.......!
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Miss Bea Haven
Penn Dupp
Watt R. Medowne
Watt A. Laydee
Watt A.Mann
Harp O. Marks
I. B. Dangd
Cary M. Home
Lande Grant
Happy Berday
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FN America gets Military Contract
in SASS Wire Saloon
Posted · Edited by Forty Rod SASS 3935
There was a place that let you fire auto weapons for a price.
I wanted so bad to shoot a Ma Deuce again but I kept hearing $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$!
I walked away, sad, but financially solid.