Forty Rod SASS 3935
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1 hour ago, Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 said:
I wonder who would have the XXXXX to show up at the front door to date one of those ladies' daughters.
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13 hours ago, Subdeacon Joe said:
If you start young..
Little bugger is already dangerous.
We need to cultivate this sort of thing and at the proper time unleash it on many of the people around the world who are screwing things up...or trying to.
I'd like to meet that little kid.
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11 hours ago, Blackwater 53393 said:
Myself and the majority of the people that I associated with at that time, as well as mayof the people that I play music with these days!!Too wide a brush, my brother, but that's your opinion. I'll defend your right to state your opinion even when I don't believe you are wrong.
(You'd probably mess yourself if you knew all of my opinions. Hell, I don't even know all of my opinions.....and many have morphed into something else over the years.)
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I'd like to stand around with a cattle prod and use it on ANY idiot who doesn't respect these guards...and others like them at Arlington, etc...who have chosen, and been chosen, to take on such a noble job. Probably none of these people who are guilty of this behavior have had the courage to serve in almost any capacity and likely are social misfits in many other ways.
I won't put down anyone who has not served. They had their personal reasons and I won't judge them as long as they don't disrespect or belittle, or attack others by word or deed, but no one has a right to belittle and disrespect those who have, nor anyone else for that matter.
It's education and attitude adjustment time around the world.
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9 hours ago, Alpo said:
What part of cowboy action shooting is a historical reenactment?
Or are you referring to Star Trek as a historical reenactment, because we all know cowboy action shooting is an imaginary play time.
Most of my shooting irons are. Some are slightly different, like the calibers of 1860 Henry and 1866 Winchester rifles. I've even had guns refinished to be more accurate visually.
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5 hours ago, Subdeacon Joe said:
40's first day of kindergarten?
Too late. We'd been up for five hours by them, milked the cows, fed the horses and hogs, gathered some eggs, cut wood for the fire place and Ma's stove, and walked six miles up hill to school in foot deep snow carrying my sister on my back.
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On 10/25/2024 at 9:41 AM, Alpo said:
Some of the stuff I post, I just post it then delete it. But some I think is good enough that I need to keep it.
I'm just having trouble deciding whether to keep this in the cat file or in the automobile file .
That's a cool cat, Daddy-o.
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On 10/17/2024 at 4:52 PM, Gracos Kid said:
And for some reason drinking the Dill pickle juice will quickly help leg cramps to go away......I save the juice just for that purpose.....You can actually buy pickle juice shots at Walmart but they are $1.50 for just one gulp.......Cheaper to save the juice from the jars.....
my wife used to use the juice for that. I'd forgotten and want to thank you for the reminder. I sure miss her and things like this help.
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On 10/19/2024 at 6:10 PM, Blackwater 53393 said:
I just don’t like the texture of Mt. Olive pickles. They lack that snap that I get from Clausen and some homemade kosher dills and they’re more salty to my taste.
I bought some Whickes brand hot pickles. They were crisp and had the heat I wanted, but I wouldn’t want them all the time.
Vlassics are a little less limp than Mt. Olive, but STILL don’t have the texture I want in a pickle.
Haven’t seen any Nathan’s in a long time.
Glad there’s a selection!! Variety let’s folks get what they want!!
With an election coming up?
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On 10/24/2024 at 3:20 PM, Blackwater 53393 said:
I can believe it!! Some of us had pretty wide areas of appreciation for the new waves of music in the rock and roll spectrum!!Elvis, The Beach Boys, Dylan, The Beatles and The Stones, Peter Paul and Mary, (mostly considered “Folk” but part of “The Scene”) and the whole R&B genre!
We listened to and played it ALL!
Back in those days, I lived in Nashville and you couldn’t “swing a dead cat” without hitting some country music singer or one of their band members. I was in my early teens and we’d be hanging out at some other kis’s house. Some of their folks who backed up one or another big act would be rehearsing in their basement or garage studio. They’d invariably take a break from whatever they were working on and it would be some kind of ROCK that they played and jammed on!
Who is this "we" you're talking about?
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About September, 1962, Mountain Home AFB, Idaho, remote gate, about 1900 hours, (The nearest place with anyone else alive was three miles down the road), two gate guards armed with S&W Model 10 revolvers, each guard with 6 rounds in a leather cartridge slide and no ammo in the pistols.
Three of us college guys showed up to pick up one guy's personal belongings (he was an AF brat home to go to college while his Sergeant Major dad completed a tour in Greece) which got sent to Mountain Home instead of Hill AFB in Layton, Utah. While we waited for someone to come escort us on base I asked one guard what kind of piece he was carrying. He didn't know, but said it was written on the gun somewhere and handed me his weapon. " Maybe you can find it."
I did, showed him where it was and gave his weapon back to him. The other guy was still on the phone with his back to us.
Hill Field got tougher, because I was home on leave in 1968 before I went to 'Nam and picked up "transient pay" at the base paymaster's office (My wife's home was a couple of miles from the south gate.)
I wore Class A uniform with my shiny Captain's bars and what ribbons I had, was given a one day escorted pass at the guard shack with three armed (1911s with magazines in the well and two more magazines on their belts.) AF dudes and was picked up at the gate, driven to a parking lot by two armed men, and walked to the office, then driven back. They gave my wife a pass so she could use the facilities while I was gone, but I didn't get one and I still had a Secret Clearance. She didn't have a Secret Clearance, but had a Confidential one because of her work at the hospital on Okinawa.
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2 hours ago, Father Kit Cool Gun Garth said:
The World's only rotating boat lift.
Looks to me like that would be more practical, if it were a LOT BIGGER, than our two or three hundred-year-old lock system.
Can you imagine the USS Ronald Reagan (or something even larger) riding one up and down in minutes instead of hours? Well, can yuh?
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On 10/8/2024 at 2:36 PM, Caprock Kid said:
I don't get it. Why wouldn't it make sense?
In 1965 I was one of the few living Second Lieutenants who not only could read and manner of maps and use compasses, but taught those subjects to college ROTC cadets.
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20 hours ago, Blackwater 53393 said:
YOU’VE BEEN MOONED!!
Hey, you got a new shirt. Looks good on you.
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I seldom use You Tube and then only if I'm following up on something that someone one the wire (usually the Saloon, where I spend much of my time and effort.) has referred me to.
I never have initiated anything on You Tube....now I never will.
Thanks for the heads-up.
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On 10/24/2024 at 3:30 PM, Pat Riot said:
Is it too early to say…
Nyuk, Nyuk, Nyuk
Almost always!
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9 hours ago, Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474 said:
WOW!
Some real experts there!
Shooting and RO's
It would have been fun to watch them shoot that Tannerite!
From a distance.
A lot more distance.
Does Darwin look a lot like Sean Cannery...or does Connery look a lot like Darwin?
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Typical. treed days late.
Rings of SCAM!
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On the way.
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Makes me wonder how many other heroes are out there, just ready and waiting for the time when they will have to prove themselves.
God bless these guys and others like them, and God, please look out for those that they left behind.
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7 hours ago, Eyesa Horg said:
A purdy WACO
Pronounce WAHco, not WAHco. I got straightened out on that by a guy who flew one out of Logan Airport in Northern Utah.
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Just now, Forty Rod SASS 3935 said:6 hours ago, Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967 said:
TBF* Avenger. Dad was an eighteen-year old kid riding backward in the turret, flying off Ranger CV-4.
*TBF Avenger was a Grumman plane; TBM Avenger was essentially the same plane built by General Motors.
Lost seven (?) of them in the Burmuda Triangle about 1949. I remember the fuss over it in the papers and on the radio.
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6 hours ago, Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967 said:
TBF* Avenger. Dad was an eighteen-year old kid riding backward in the turret, flying off Ranger CV-4.
*TBF Avenger was a Grumman plane; TBM Avenger was essentially the same plane built by General Motors.
Lost seven (?) of them in the Burmuda Triangle about 1947.
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On 10/22/2024 at 2:08 PM, Eyesa Horg said:
If I could own a plane, I'd be a vintage one, preferably a Bi Plane.
If I could(afford one) I'd get a Beechcraft D-17 Stagger Wing biplane with upgraded everything.
Had a barber friend in Pomona who had one and it was just plain ELEGANT! New engine, seats, avionics, sound proofing, communications gear, almost an entirely new plane. Pilot plus 3, relatively slow by modern standards, very quiet and comfortable, a just a very pleasant ride.
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Vivaldi
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Too bad I can't hear it!