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    High Trestle

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    8 hours ago, Subdeacon Joe said:

    From FB 

     

    Holy moly! TOT reader Francis Reaves kindly shared this astonishing circa 1895 photo of a train crossing the high bridge over the Pecos River near Langtry. If you have a large computer monitor, check out the architectural details ... the underpinnings, the foundation/footings and how they are built etc.. Wow. What an engineering feat and what a leap of faith to cross it in a train! I am reminded of this quote:

     

     "The high, spindle-legged railroad bridge across the deep canyon formed by the Pecos River between Langtry and Comstock was breathtaking. It was more breathtaking to stand on it and look down than to stand beneath it and look up. It had no guardrails, and a broad footpath ran its length. To walk across made one giddy enough, and legend gives credit to a young ranchwoman who first dared to ride across it on horseback. She was celebrated in an anonymous poem, "The Pecos River Queen." James Cooper of Snyder said that when he lived near the bridge in the 1930s, sheet metal was laid in places where the wooden walk was unsafe. Many times, however, he and others rode their horses across that clattering path with the danger of plummeting to death at both elbows. He said you needed a steady, unspookable horse. Others told stories of their encounters with the Old Pecos High Bridge. When she was a child, Katherine Anne Porter crossed it more than once on trips from Kyle, Texas, to El Paso. She remembered the bridge, which was two years younger than she, having been built in 1892, as being unsafe. She wrote, "Here was the famous and beautiful Pecos Bridge, then supposed to be the highest and one of the longest in the world." Three hundred twenty-one feet above the river, it stretched 2,180 feet long, almost half a mile. It was the highest bridge in the United States and third highest in the world, merely 27 feet short of the record. "

     

    ------ Elton Miles, More Tales from the Big Bend, 1988

     

    Thank you, Francis. I have never seen this photo before

     

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    Wow and yikes 😳 

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    Primers locked up

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    3 minutes ago, Pat Riot said:

    Around here they lock up the thieves, not the products. ;)
     

    A refreshing change from the west coast. 
     

    Actually, at Walmart they have been randomly checking receipts on your exit to verify purchases. I guess the theft rate at self checkout has gone up. 
    I made a comment that they shouldn’t need to check now that the university is on summer break. The “Asset Protection” lady said “We think it’s regular folks.”

    I said “You’re probably right. All the chi’dren that go to WVU are little angels. We wouldn’t want to huht dare whittle feewings now, would we?”

    Dirty looks from the Asset Protection lady and her coworker. 
    I have never seen a place that reveres their University soooooo much. It’s almost uncanny. 
     

    Walmart has their ammo locked up. Everyone I’ve been to as a matter of fact. You have to get a clerk to open the the case to get you what you want. That’s the only thing locked up.

    Primers locked up

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    I’m surprised this place had all the primers and ammo out in the open. It’s a big place.
    All the small gunshops around here have the ammo behind the counter and primers in a case. 

    Primers locked up

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    3 minutes ago, Blackwater 53393 said:

    If cutting down on theft and shoplifting will help to lower the price, (which it certainly should) I’m good with it!!

    Oh yea I have no problem with it. They gotta do what they can to cut down on theft. 

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    Primers locked up

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    I was at a local sporting goods chain, Fin Feather and Fur, I bought a few items and was looking for primers. I have enough but I like to pick up a couple hundred now and then. I didn’t see them, they’re usually on an end cap shelf. I checked out and the girl asked if I found everything ok. I said .” Are you guys out of primers”? She said they were locked up back by the gun counters in a glass case which I missed. She said they’ve have instances of theft of primers so they locked them up! All their ammo is out on shelves and they got a ton of it. I wonder if that’ll be next? 

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    Just Rifles

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    Okay so 2 rifles and shotgun. Shoot rifle targets twice so you don’t have to shoot rifle at the pistol targets which may be too close. 
    THE RIFLEMAN CATEGORY! I like it! 

    I HATE WALMART!

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    36 minutes ago, Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770 said:

    EASY there Rye, nobody's saying that you can't do so if you want to. If that's your preference, go for it. 

    As for me, I've got more time than money, I'll wait in the cashier line. Like I said, I don't work there. Now if they offered a discount for using the self checkout, like they do for gas, I'd be all over it.   

    Not denying it.🦖

    So you’re a proud dinosaur? I can’t argue with that! I actually respect you for your honesty! 😎🤠

    Grand slam car winner

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    The Guardians have a sponsor that gives a brand new car to someone in a certain inning if the team hits a grand slam also someone else wins 4 new tires from another sponsor. Well it happened! Carlos Santana hit a grand slam. First time I heard someone won! Great job Carlos. 2 happy fans today! 

    Oh yea, this is the anniversary of Carlos’ debut with Cleveland 15 years ago.

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    I HATE WALMART!

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    Just now, Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770 said:

    EASY there Rye, nobody's saying that you can't do so if you want to. If that's your preference, go for it. 

    As for me, I've got more time than money, I'll wait in the cashier line. Like I said, I don't work there. Now if they offered a discount for using the self checkout, like they do for gas, I'd be all over it.   

    Like I said to Forty you do you and I’ll do me. Have a great day!

    I HATE WALMART!

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    5 hours ago, Forty Rod SASS 3935 said:

    Do you save any money for doing their job for them?

     

    Are the waiting lines any shorter?

     

    If you answered "no" to either one you're getting shafted. 

    I don’t save any money but I save time and there’s hardly ever a line and it’s always shorter than the cashier line. 
    I disagree about getting shafted. I’m glad to get out of there in a hurry so I saved time and time is money so they say! 
    How about you do you and I’ll do me?

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    I HATE WALMART!

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    I generally only have a few things no matter where I shop,I’m out everyday so no need to have a full cart of groceries so that said I like the self serve it’s quick and convenient.  I have no problem at all.

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    Proper English: 'is' vs. 'was'

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    1 hour ago, Rye Miles #13621 said:

    If someone asked what my dad’s name is or was I would still say” His name is Sam”. Maybe it’s weird but that’s what I would say.

    Well I was never good at English, I cut the class all the time. You guys is right it IS if he’s alive and WAS if he’s not alive. 

    Proper English: 'is' vs. 'was'

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    45 minutes ago, John Kloehr said:

    George Washington WAS the first president of the United States. The first president of the United States WAS George Washington. The president of the United States from 1789 to 1797 WAS George Washington.

     

    Does not sound right to ask:

    Who IS the first president of the United States? Who IS the president of the United States from 1789 to 1797?

     

    Can say my dad IS deceased. If he WAS deceased, that would also be strange. And while George Washington WAS the first president of the United States, he can not be replaced by a new first president. Nobody else IS the next first president.

    Yes, this works. It is present tense. George Washington is buried at Mount Vernon.

    If someone asked what my dad’s name is or was I would still say” His name is Sam”. Maybe it’s weird but that’s what I would say.

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