Forty Rod SASS 3935
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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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Danke.
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When I was a kid there were a lot of planes around, planes I had seen during WWII, but was too young to realize what they were. Up through the 60s I built models of a bunch of them and even got to ride in a few. Three that I got to ride and really stand out are the PBY, a B-25, and a Kaman HH43 Husky "egg beater" helicopter.
I loved those era planes but never became a pilot because up until about 1977 my eyesight just wouldn't permit it.
Others that I went up in that are memorable are the Grumman Goose, D-17 Stagger Wing, C-123, Ford Tri-Motor, Hueys many times, Chinooks a bunch, a LOCH, a B-17, and a Canadian Beaver up in Sitka called "BrushBuster II" that just simply scared the hell out of me.
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5 hours ago, Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770 said:
You know that you can always count on your Sergeants. When I was in, ('77 thru '90), we called them jungle hats, so I just searched "jungle hat size 8", and that's one that came up.
When I wore that hat I was an Army Ordnance Corps Captain.
A few years later I was a Marine Staff Sergeant and a small time later a Gunnery Sergeant.
I pretty well have figured out who I can trust, but thanks again for the upbeat message.
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Who is Britanny Spears and why must I care?
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Ordered and confirmed, delivery next week.
How did you find this place? I never came across them before.
Thanks, Sarge. I owe you one.
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Does anyone make these in plain green like the ones we were issued and in men's sizes (7 7/8 or 8)?
From a search on the web the sellers seem to think everyone has a size 7 1/2 or smaller.
My original hat finally fell apart after 60 years. No one makes anything that lasts anymore. (Sarcastic imogi needed here.) I have guns well over twice that old that look and work almost like new.
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I just checked and I don't look one minute older than I did.....
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Why are you talking about dairy air. That smells like cow crap.
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Run for a few seconds, stop and turn around abruptly and plow back into the chaser. While he / she / it are regaining their / its balance, kill them with whatever is at hand...including a hand.
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And so many people winder in awe at my hatred for Facebook.
Sell your soul if you want to. I'll keep mine for something worthwhile...like another gun or two.
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1 hour ago, Blackwater 53393 said:
Never been lost! I always knew right where I was!!
I might not know where I was going…
OR HOW TO GET THERE,
but I knew right where I was!
Think about this conversation in the future, Sit back and stretch, look around at all you can see, remember the good times and bad and say right out loud "Well, here I am!"
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20 minutes ago, Buckshot Bear said:
They are a major problem, they are doubling in numbers every 9-10 years.
I mate I went to boarding school with in Sydney has one of the largest stations in the Northern Territory, around 17,000 square kilometres from memory and they shoot them in their 1000's every year because of the damage they cause and it doesn't even dent their numbers slightly.Well, for one thing I put that in the wrong part of the message. It should have been about the movie HAWMPS!
Mea culpa.
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In 1960 three other students and I rode a Super G Connie back from Atlanta after a week in Georgia. The plane was simply elegant, the crew was perfect, and I never had a smoother and more pleasurable ride before nor since.
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18 hours ago, watab kid said:
glad you made it safe and sound , glad to have you back , will you get compensated for that trip cost in some way ?
I rode on a VA voucher. The tip came from my pocket because the driver was GREAT and very entertaining.
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2 minutes ago, Buckshot Bear said:
Australia is home to the world's largest population of feral camels, estimated to be over 1 million.
I'd be surprised if you folks can't get camel burgers at a MacDonald's somewhere.
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If you watch the movie check his personal armament. I laughed so hard my wife was afraid she'd be a widow any second.
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Damn! You beat me to it. Jack Elam should have received some kind of award for his role.
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23 hours ago, Dawg Hair, SASS #29557 said:
I think you are probably on the right track. I keep thinking Corn Flakes because that is what my Mom always got us for breakfast but it could have been something else. All I remember is that the front was about the Cisco Kid but the cutout in the back was a picture of a Cavalry Colt.
I'm 84 and just like to reminisce.
I'll 84 in a week or so. Corn Flakes had a lot of gun models, mostly undersized. I recall a S&W model 10, a Colt SAA, a Buntline special, a Luger, a 34 or 35 Beretta, a Navy Colt, and a few others.
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Wire Rope Slug
in SASS Wire Saloon
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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!