[Ok, gone too far]

[Ok, gone too far]

On 2/24/2025 at 7:32 PM, ORNERY OAF said:

 

Someone needs a punch in the mouth...the horror 

How long until someone puts a raillike that on a sling shot?

[I was in the area...]

I like "tek" ties but can't make then look right.

[Harpo and Chico]

Got it.  Impressive coordination....but really annoyingly repetitious.

[Harpo and Chico]

Ain't that wonderful?  Does it come with sound, too? 

[The world is getting stranger and stranger]

My mother had an uncle born and raised in Italy.  He was about 30 when he came over here and became a citizen.  He Americanized his name and carried his citizenship papers in an oil cloth wallet.  At the drop of a hat he's carefully bring those out ans show them to whoever was there with the proud statement "My name is Joe C------. and I am an American citizen!"

 

His English was almost as good as people who were born here and I never saw him without a coat, vest and necktie, and he always wore a hat to town.  Dapper little old man.

 

 He was 96 when he died and he was buried with a 48 star flag on his chest.

 

Uncle Joe was an American!

[It ain't SASS legal, but looks like fun!]

21 hours ago, Dapper Dave said:

Understood, sir. But first, I need to get her to shoot. 

 

 

I have two little pocket pistols that I picked up in trades at two different times and places.  They don't fit my collection but somehow I just can't let  them go.

 

Both are .32 S&W.

 

The first is anH&R Young America Bulldog  5 shooter with a 2" barrel, nickel plated, tiny little POS.  It can be fired SA or DA.  I can only get 1-1/2 fingers on the grip and the trigger guard only allows the very tip of my finger inside.  I have to remove the cylinder to load it or dump the empties.  It's really accurate, too, reliably getting 9"-11" groups at 10 feet.  

 

The second gun is an Iver Johnson break top (S&W style with auto ejection and all that) "hammerless" DA only, blued piece.  I can get two whole fingers on the grip and the trigger guard is larger, but so close to the grip that I have to get my trigger finger all the way in to the second knuckle.  This is an honest 80% gun with only some "bedside stand" wear.   If I can get a decent grip on it the little booger will keep all 5 shots in a  three inch circle at 10 feet.  

 

They are both kind of fun to take to the range just to see the reactions of guys with 2 or 3 grand fully equipped shooting machines.

 

I also have a Hammond Bulldog "derringer" as big as a school bus (and nearly as heavy) single shot monster that doesn't work, but it's unique, so I keep it.

 

[His Sentence Should Be Wearing a Sign In Public]

3 hours ago, Rip Snorter said:

Now don't be dictatorial - he has already paid for his stupidity.

Not even close.  

[Kangaroo Steaks?]

On 2/22/2025 at 8:03 AM, Subdeacon Joe said:

California bans all kangaroo products because,  apparently, it's not a sustainable product and kangaroos are endangered. 

 

The ban was signed into law in 1970 by Ronnie Reagan.

Of course they are endangered. It's been years since a wild kangaroo was seen anywhere in California.

 

Kind of like the ban on Ivory.  ALL ivory: African, Indian, Vietnamese, Pakistani, etc....even on places where they detusk the animals that are domesticated and / or dangerous nuisances and burn it! 

 

Tyler (of T-Grip fame) used t sell something called Ivorex (Brand name before everyone else started using it).  It was a GE insulation material (paper or linen micarta?) that aged like ivory, had grain like ivory, had the same texture as ivory.  It came in 3 pieces per gun so you could custom fit it to your gun.  I bought two sets and spent a lot of evenings in the barracks fitting them perfectly.

 

I wore them to a gun show in Pomona (when it wasn't a capital offense to even know what a gun was) and was accosted by a state a---ho-- who was goin to confiscate them because '"ivory is illegal".  After showing him the sales slip and instruction sheet, Polaroid pictures of the stages of fitting them, and a batch of other stuff I told him to get his supervisor over there.

 

He called on the Pomona PD to arrest me.  I worked in a local gun store and knew about one of every six of seven cops in a fifty mile radius.  I lucked out and one of the five LEOs that showed up knew me.

 

They talked to the puke and after a few minutes I was free.

 

The next Monday I called this jerk's office and reported it along with a list of witnesses.

 

I never heard back, but I never saw that guy again over the next 29 years.

 

I'd love to be able to get that material again.  I had some micarta grips made a few years ago, but it isn't the same stuff  anymore.

[Inflated job titles]

On 2/22/2025 at 10:32 PM, Buckshot Bear said:

Underwater Ceramic Technician

Dishwasher 

When I worked in Yellowstone one summer they called us Pearl Divers.

[What does one do with pico de gallo]

22 minutes ago, Stump Water said:

 

This.

 

That way you can leave out the cilantro, because it smells/tastes like stink bugs.

Yeah, I don't like cilantro either...nor some other foreign foods that just don't work well with my taste buds.

[For the Birds]

On 2/26/2025 at 4:55 PM, Stump Water said:

 

I'm pretty sure it's because they aren't there.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mammals_of_West_Virginia

They said rt he same thing about Whiskey Jacks in southern California.....but I have (had?) pictures of them in my yard in Ontario and in Curly Cole's yard in Rancho Cucamonga about 1995.

[yb-49 flying wing]

17 hours ago, Colorado Coffinmaker said:

Slim,

 

Partially correct.  The YB-49 exhibited a measure of adverse yaw.  The amount of adverse yaw only affected the bombing accuracy with dumb iron bombs.  One must remember pinpoint accuracy is not a requirement with Nukes.  Close Counts 🤪

"Missed it by thaaaat much"!  

                                                     

                                                    Maxwell Smart

[GOFWG]

On 2/21/2025 at 3:25 PM, Blackwater 53393 said:

Left the house just after 7:00 this morning. Had a makeup appointment with the foot doctor and then stopped for a nice sit down breakfast with Schoolmarm.  Called in and had some prescriptions made ready for me at the pharmacy, and by the time breakfast was finished they called to tell me they were ready. 
 

We picked ‘em up and the next stop was the liquor store for Schoolmarm some wine.

 

Next stop was the Post Office!  I had to mail a letter, grab some packing tape, seal up a box of stuff for Forty Rod, and another for a new shooter that needed a shotgun shell belt and then get those mailed off too.

 

Then to the bank for some cash to pay for some laser ingraving on my new ‘92 stocks, and then out to the studio to pick them up!

 

Add in a stop for gas and you have eight stops and over a hundred miles.

 

We got home just after noon!! I took a short nap and then put the carbine back together. Now it’s almost time for supper and some of that banana pudding I made earlier this week!!

 

Doc says I SHOULD be walking full time in a couple of weeks. For now, she says to take it slow and easy.

 

I got a lot done! Don’t reckon I can GRUMP too much today!  🙄

 

 

 

That's a nce looking iron.

 

I'll give you a hundred bucks for it.

[WTB Godiva coffee cups]

I'd like to get four more to replace 35 years of clumsiness.  They have to unchipped., unbroken, or stained.

 

Let me know what you have and what it will cost me.

 

Thanks.

 

4T

[I wonder if this is related?]

Alpo, I always figured you were full of it.  Thanks for clarifying that for me.

[If you was a cop]

4 hours ago, Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770 said:

I'm not a Cop, I've never been a Cop. I go armed everywhere. The only exceptions are that I don't carry on my person, in my gym or at my Dr.'s office. But I carry TO my gym or my Dr.'s office. 

My Jeep has a lock box bolted under the driver's seat that houses a 9mm. 

OTOH, my best friend is a retired Tucson P.D. officer who does NOT carry. He figures that he's done his part, and he will just be the best witness that he can be.

 

As for GIbbs, I suppose that he figured that he was someplace where he wouldn't need a gun, perhaps figuring that being in a boat, if there was an accident, he might lose his Dad's gun. You know, like so many of the guys here. 

Clayton? He's British. Who knows.

I almost always go armed.  Some places I have to leave my gun in the car: VA hospital, local police station (but I can carry in the sheriff's offices, polling places, schools if posted, etc..

 

I usually have three guns in my car, one on my side, one in the glove box and one in the "secret space" behind  the info screen on the dash.

 

Sometime a few more.  I was stopped by a PVPD officer and got my license and CCW permit out (I don't want any surprises.)

 

He asked if was carrying a gun in the car.  I said "a few."  He asked me if I was afraid of something and I told hem "only rust and left wing

politicians."

 

He grinned and said he was, too and wished me a nice day.  I've run into him at various events since then and  we are sort of friends now.

[yb-49 flying wing]

3 hours ago, Injun Ryder, SASS #36201L said:

Used to see this beauty flying while preparing for EOT in Norco. Prior to EOT, there would be an air show in the area and there would be many historical planes in the air over the range. Sadly, this plane and it's pilot were lost in 2019.

 

When I worked at McDonnell Douglas I met a dozen or so guys who were volunteering to restore that little darlin'.  They had to make a lot of parts from scratch because much of the paperwork had vanished over the years and the actual parts had "departed" too.

[What does one do with pico de gallo]

On 2/27/2025 at 5:26 AM, Alpo said:

I saw some yesterday at the store and it looked so good - all red and white and green and moist and. And somehow it ended up in my basket. It's now in my refrigerator.

 

But I don't know what to do with it.

 

Suggestions?

Eat it.  Eat it with Mexican food, Italian, hamburgers, steak, almost anything but ice cream and apple pie.  Put it on the food before or after you cook it or use it as as side dish.

 

Start our with a teaspoon full and go from there.  Try different kinds as you go.

 

It beats most other relishes hands down.

 

Make your own or if you're lazy or timid Herdez brand is good.

 

Now if I could just find some mellow Arkansas Chowchow and some Okinawan kimchi......!

[yb-49 flying wing]

19 hours ago, Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967 said:

And a smokey booger on takeoff, too  

 

 

 

So are F-4 Phantom II jets.  Kerosene burners, but one of best combat planes of its era.

 

They pulled my fat out of the fire twice in 'Nam.

 

Also liked A-4s, LOCH choppers, Hueys of any configuration, and C-123 Providers too..

[Old time and not commonly-heard phrases.]

hoity toity

Polaroid cameras

"Number please"

zone codes for mail, like Salt Lake City 314 Utah (My uncle Paul's zone or I wouldn't remember it.) 

party lines (and four or five digit phone numbers)

Ice deliveries for the ice box in the basement.

[yb-49 flying wing]

I just watched War of the Worlds again and had forgotten that the yb-49 was a jet powered prototype  version of a yb-39 prop driven wing.

 

It's still a good movie after all these years.

[Scientific names]

Now we're cooking.  Keep 'em coming.

[Kangaroo Steaks?]

54 minutes ago, Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 said:

You taught English?

 Yep!

 

Never could spell....and a dyslexic keyboard hasn't helped at all.   

 

Does "secede" fit your pistol better?

 

 

[WHAT THE HECK HAPPENED!!]

42 minutes ago, Blackwater 53393 said:

What is up with the wire??

 

Couldn’t get on all day yesterday and it just opened up again this morning!

 

The threads are displayed differently and some stuff is kinda’ weird!

Goblins exist.....and cause all manner of problems.

 

There's a bounty on them.  Catch one and call the U. S. Army Air Force.