Forty Rod SASS 3935

Because we can. Claim the whole thing for the USA and charge anyone that goes there to be there and use our facilities

I'd grin so wide the top o my head would fall off.

Okay, so I don't want one after all.

Maybe some lefty puke will get an ash in the eye just as an annoyance. Go for it, my friend.

I don't HAVE to log into anything I don't want to. That means I'm not logged in to much, and it doesn't seem that I've missed much because of it.

Early Macks had a separate stick for reverse...and some had a steering whee behind the front seat for backing up. Maybe it' ssomething like that.

What rez is that, Yak?

I registered and forgot about it. Graduated from college five years later, was commissioned a 2d, Lieutenant later that same day and fifteen months later was drafted. My Dad knew the local draft board members and wrote to tell me how surprised they were when he told them and that and gave them photos galore.

Son, you have to stop smoking that stuff. I makes you weird, and folks are starting to talk behind your back.

I want to be cremated, a small flag ceremony with taps, and Neil Diamond's The Story of My Life played to commemorate my wife. I'd like some friends to get lunch together at some little family restaurant and have someone put a brief notice right here on this website. Dump my ashes on my roses and go on with your lives. You'll get over it sometime, so why not now? My son will try to make a bigger deal of it and that's why his sister, 2 years younger than he is, has been made the person to take care of all this. She loves her Daddy, but she will see to it that my wishes are carried out and it isn't turned into a circus....and if anyone tries to do anything else she will go militant on them. I don't go to funerals any more. The last one I attended was a disaster. It was a month or more after the man died. There was a large bunch of people who had known him and a preacher who wouldn't shut up. My Dad used to call guys like him a "carnival preacher". It was pretty obvious that he DID KNOW the man. The widow was a study in over-dramatic carrying on with screeching, loud sobbing, that was frankly as phony as a three dollar bill. I had not spoken to her in a few years, didn't much like her anyway, and I was embarrassed when she hugged me and carried on for three or four minutes and then took her show to the next person If anyone treats me that way I will do my best to come back and haunt the bejabbers out of them until they die, hopefully years later, in a psych ward somewhere screaming in terror. All this is academic anyway, because I'm going to live to 102 years old so I can be my own HighSchool reunion.

I have an Ithaca Model 37 Featherlight 12 gauge that slam fires. That dates it prior to 1959-1961. It's not what I would call useful but it's a riot to shoot My Dad's old Stevens 560 "Ranger" 12 gauge can do the same thing but it will just flat beat you senseless.

I knew a Gunnery Sergeant once who would have looked at that mess and asked "Am I supposed to eat that or did somebody already? His favorite question...and it got him thrown out of a bunch of mess halls (don't mess with Marine Chief cooks. They'll kill you.), dismissed from a Marine Corp Birthday Ball on the Queen Mary, and asked to leave at least four civilian cafes that I know of. Point being: that question still applies in some cases.....and you can't throw me out

We saw the first one in Orange County at a theater with a wraparound and over screen. When those ships 'flew out of the balcony' in the opening sequence, I was hooked. After the movie I was driving home and my wife told me "to slow it down because you aren't flying an X-wing fighter and you're going to get a ticket."

I like the Sioux City sarsaparilla best of the ones available. It's carried by Cracker Barrel in some places and a few Kroger stores get it once in awhile, too. I go through two or three four packs a week on average. Earp's is terrible and I can't even find Yukon Gold any more. (There was an orange flavored stuff by that name many years ago, but it was a liquor.) There are a few other brands pop up now and again, but none worth buying again. Honey Man had a brand in their stores that might be okay for cleaning paint brushes but I wouldn't bet on it. Waiting to get the report from Kris. I'm open for any others.

I look at that and try to imagine JUST WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT GUY TRYING TO DO?

Have you seen the movie of Albert Einstein riding a unicycle? He was really good at it. I don't recall any chain saws or nitroglycerine in the movie.

I fit that age range and rank and as crippled up as I am these days I can't think of anything I could do any more. Maybe be a bad example. Taylor, Captain, OrdC...later Gunnery Sgt, USMC.

I always thought the Spencer was awkward and un-wieldy. I still want one.

The only changes that were obvious to me were the upgraded sound effects. I liked those because I don't hear very well any more.

Like I said, about four days a year..... ..... but it sure looks great hanging on the wall with a Hawken rifle, my shooting bag, tomahawk, a few knives, various belt bags, and all the rest of my collection of mountain man, frontier, and primitive outdoors gear...capotes, gun cases, powder horns, etcottonpickingcetera.

Add some elk hide "botas" (half-leggings with decorations) and wool socks, and you can be comfortable almost anywhere that it gets cold.

I have a beaver "free trapper style" hat with fold down ear covers that is very useful......about four days a year in North Central Arizona. It goes well with an elk hide fringed jacket with two coyote tails fitted together at the roots (that can be taken off or put on at my choosing) for a fur collar, some wool gloves and an old red and black scarf that my kids gave me when we lived in Illinois in 1971. "Hot" can sometimes be an understatement

Look at The Big Trail ca about 1925. Lots of things that Hollywood didn't make until later, lots of genuine antiques, real snow (no soap flakes), great story line, some poor but acceptable acting, and really great story line. My favorite JW movie. El Dorado is second and Rio Bravo is a close third.

Looks like a girl I dated in high school. She wasn't much to look at, but man, could she dance.