Forty Rod SASS 3935
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I played Patrick Henry in a fifth grade assembly. The teacher, Henry Cooper, said "just say it firmly. You don't need to raise your voice".
That was my first time on stage...but far from my last.
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How good is it?
Who does it?
What does it cost.
I want to add my DIL to a pic that she wasn't in because she hadn't married my son yet.
She's part of the tribe now, though....thank God.
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Just now, Forty Rod SASS 3935 said:
I always got MY WAY....as soon as my wifr told me what it was>
I always got my own way....a.s soon as my wife told me what it was.
If that looks like a double dip to you it's because it is!
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On 3/13/2025 at 8:45 PM, Alpo said:
I always got MY WAY....as soon as my wifr told me what it was>
On 3/13/2025 at 8:45 PM, Alpo said:
I always got my own way....a.s soon as my wife told me what it was.
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3 hours ago, Cypress Sun said:
Boy, you guys seem to know a lot about burying/hiding bodies.
I know nothing. I saw nothing!
I know nothing. I saw nothing. I didn't do it. I wasn't there. She said she was over eighteen.
Five statements that served me well over the years.
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I found a German .22 revolver, a real POS, on a school ground as I was walking to work. After school I took it the police station. I went in, told them I had found a gun, it was in my car, and I wanted to turn it in. Two cops walked me out to my car and I found myself looking down the barrels of two guns. A third cop came out handcuffed me and searched me and my car.
They questioned me and got all pissy when I demanded an attorney (my wife's boss) be present. I was yelled at, cussed at, threatened, and insulted, asked totally unrelated questions, insulted, and generally harassed. Finally an officer who was assigned to the campus of yhe school and knew me quite well, came in, questioned two of the cops, an HE called my wife's boss.
After four hours I was turned loose without any comment from the jackasses that had tried to violate almost ALL of my constitutional rights. Mister Jaffee sent a letter to the police Chief, the City Council and Mayor, every news paper ,TV, and radio he could think of, the California State Bar Association, and anyone else he could think of.
I was suspended from my teaching job without pay and never set foot in that school again. I had a friend pick up my personal belongings.
After two weeks I got a note saying "We are sorry for your inconvenience and any misunderstanding that there was." No punctuation and lousy English.) It was on OPD stationery, but was unsigned.
That was California about 2008.
If I ever find another gun I will carefully take it without touching it, shoot a couple of holes in a school house or church with it, and hide the gun in the Police Chief's back yard or in his car....and make an anonymous phone call to a TV station.
I had no use whatsoever for California cops and never will.
Arizona LEOs are a totally different breed and I have nothing but good contact with those I have met here.
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3 hours ago, Rip Snorter said:
Before speed loaders were common and law enforcement used revolvers, there was actually a stage in an FBI course (I still have the manual) where you reloaded with loose rounds from your pocket. Right front if you were right handed, opposite for left. Surprisingly effective and at least as quick as a drop box, Though you might drop a round or two. I don't know how everyone seems to talk about dirt and junk in pockets - rarely had a problem with that.
I did that before I could afford more magazines, usually with .22LR rounds. I was surprising how I could grab six rounds for a Bearcat or Colt Scout, probably five out of six times. I did almost as well with .45Colt, too.
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11 hours ago, Subdeacon Joe said:
Those look like they are meant to be carried by 2 people.
Clumsy, hard to carry and / store.
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14 hours ago, Eyesa Horg said:
The JCP we had in the area closed a couple/few years ago.
I have no idea why the one here is still open. I go through it from the parking lot to the insice of the mall ans most of the time you could fire grape shot in any direction and not hiy anyone. No appears to be working there...you have to search them out...and there are few, if any, shoppers.
Been that way since we moved here 12 years ago.
Sears is gone, Sam's Club and the AAA moved 95 miles away down to Phoenix.
C. A. L. Ranch opened a new store here ("Bigger and better than the one in Prescott" .....NOT!).
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I have not set foot in a McDonald's since the San Ysedro California massacre in July 1984. About 40 people where shot and half killed (one an unborn child) by a madman, a terrible occurrence for sure....as all such shootings are....
BUT the wife of McDonald's founder didn't blame the killer, but put all her weight and a ton of money behind the anti-gun movement.
The place could vanish from the planet and I'd not shed a tear.
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Not all heroes are white, American, or Christian. It has taken a lot of years for some to admit to this and accept it. Far too many still don't.
Atta boy Sgt.Maj. Vousa. I would have been proud to know you.
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On 3/21/2025 at 10:39 PM, Alpo said:
Let's suppose, just for supposing, that you are at a campsite. And the only water available is at a faucet a quarter of a mile away. So you going to walk. That's a half mile round trip.
And of course you need a container to bring the water back. There are three of you that are going to fetch water.
In the book - yes this is from a book - they took the tea kettle and a couple of saucepans. And I thought they would probably do better with actual water jugs. The tea kettle might not be too bad - it has a bale after all. But open saucepans - that just seems like you would spill about half of it before you got back. Buckets would work, but you would slop a lot.
Then I got to idly wondering - because I wonder idly frequently - how big a jug would be the best to carry if you're going to make a half mile walk. Gallon? 2 gallons? 5 gallons would be ludicrous.
Two three gallon water canvas bags, or one per person, were standard equipment when we were still going camping and hunting and just traveling around. They carry well when empty, aren'y all the heavy when empty and not ridiculously heavy when full, keep water cool from evaporation if you hang them in the shade, and back then they cost under a dollar each.
I haven't laid eyes one one in about 25 years.
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I stopped sending my grandson anything when he never acknowledged receiving them.
Last year he complained to my son and DIL about not even getting a card from me. My DIL (I love that lady)quietly asked him if he'd ever so much as let me know that he had received anything.
This year I got a Christmas card and a birthday card from him. If he keeps it up until next year I'll send him a card.
It will take a lot longer than that get mentioned in my will again.
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3 hours ago, Subdeacon Joe said:
I once got billed for $0.00. I ignored it on the assumption that since I didn't owe anything I didn't need to do anything.
WRONG!
The next month I received an Overdue bill that showed I still owed $0.00 plus $0.00 interest, please submit payment or my service would be canceled. So I wrote out a cheque in the amount of "Zero and zero/100 Dollars." The agency cashed it and the bank processed it. This was in the days when banks would send the processed cheques back to you with your monthly statement. I laughed when I saw it.
My very first credit card bill (I was 17 and bought a jacket from J. C. Penny): I paid it before I got the bill. Bill came in for $00.00. I laughed and threw it away. Next month I got a notice that I was in arrears for $00.00. This repeated for three more months. Finally they threatened to take legal action and to put a negative statement in my credit rating.
I went the the manager of the store...a family friend...and asked how I could get this BS stopped. He told me to send them a check for the full amount. I did, for $00.00, and never heard any more about it.
That was in 1959, long before anyone knew about computers. I destroyed the card and haven't done any business with JCP since.
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On 2/17/2025 at 12:42 PM, Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062 said:
...... explains quite a bit ....... 🙈🙉🙊 😉
YEAAAAH, duz!
On 3/19/2025 at 4:32 AM, Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 said:While Picasso is known by that simple mononym, his full name was….. Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno Crispín Crispiniano María de los Remedios de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz Picasso.
Be careful. You could damage yourself trying to say that too fast...or bite your tongoe or lip.
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2 hours ago, Pat Riot said:
“Soldiers”?
Water Warriors.
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Original Tabasco sauce is as hot as I get.....generally.
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Alpo, define "think".
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12 hours ago, Blackwater 53393 said:
That thing is probably more functional than the Tesla!! 🤨Looks better, too.
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5 hours ago, Pat Riot said:
Perhaps you haven’t seen some of the crappy sci fi movies I’ve seen.
I should have said "some of" the movies". Some of them were so bad they could be described as "criminally bad."
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38 minutes ago, Pat Riot said:
I still think that Tesla truck looks like something out of a “B” Sci-Fi movie from the 1950’s.
What a rude comparison.
At least the Sci-fi movies were entertaining. The Tesla is just plain ugly and a lousy design both inside and out.
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2 hours ago, watab kid said:
paper shot shells - you had to expand the attached quoted post to see them tho
Found 'em. Look good for paper shells.
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There were still tons of unexploded and abandoned ammo all over Okinawa when I was there.....22 to 25 years after the war ended.
TV and radio announcements were broadcast several time a week warning folks in several languages about the dangers and EOD never took a break the whole time.
They were carefully gathered and taken off shore to an unoccupied island (or so I was told) where they were destroyed by explosives, probably C-4.
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5 minutes ago, Injun Ryder, SASS #36201L said:
I thought this was the design inspiration.
I like the dumpster better. At least it looks like It had a purpose in mind in its design. I was next to a Tesla for six or seven miles in traffic the other day.
The damn thing is a traffic hazard. You can'r see around it nor through it and it appears to have more blind spots than a Sherman tank, even more so than my Impala sedan..
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Canadian Bacon
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have never eaten Canadian bacon. Does it taste like "our" bacon?
Is it leaner? I'm fed up with buying a pound of bacon and ending up with half meat and half fat.