Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967
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I enjoyed their little video, but everytime the dude mispronounced "Garand" it made my teeth feel like I'd just taken a bite of green persimmon.
Dude ~ it rhymes with "errand!" ˈɡærənd/ GARR-ənd
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*~Nascar~*
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I feels your pain, Double D~!
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46 minutes ago, Alpo said:
I remember part of ours.
I don't.
Graduation day I played hookey. I had my priorities, and enduring the misery of sitting with a crowd in the sun wearing a purple robe (yeah, PURPLE!) was a poor alternative to an afternoon fishing by myself at Lake Chabot.
Came home with four trout and a mess of crappie!
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Yer outta touch there, Alps...!
In today's world it's common for a high school to have multiple valedictorians. Heck... some have dozens!
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So when will it be delivered~?
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On 5/18/2025 at 8:13 AM, Big Sage, SASS #49891 Life said:
The main problem is they are getting old. It was back in the early 70's when I was loaned to Fairchild to support the startup of it. Not a lot of spares around either.
So's the B-52.
I've enjoyed seeing A-10 demonstrations at a couple of air shows.
For one of these, Ms Helen Brimstone and I went to Salinas a few years ago. We arrived on the Friday before the show, and I suggested to her that we check out the airport " 'cuz me might get to see some rehearsal flights!"
Sure 'nuff, we did - the two of us and some other dude hanging on the fence got to see the entire routines of several aerial performers AND the A-10, PLUS the "featured attraction," an F-35. Quite frankly, I thought the A-10 was more impressive; all the '35 did was make a couple of passes then booked back to his home base.
The next day, the '10 did a terrific exibition. And then the announcer came on and said "Folks... we're sorry, but the F-35 will not be appearing at todays show after all. The plane evidently experienced a mechanical failure shortly after takeoff and had to RTB." It does have something of a reputation for "issues with reliability, maintainability, and structural integrity."
And then....
*She ain't dainty, but she's still gorgeous!*
As @Trailrider #896 sez, "give 'em over to the Army." Hell, give 'em over to the Marines! (Although the Marines might be more prone to breaking 'em, but it would be for a good cause!)
Ms Brimstone once said that she liked the F-18 more than the A-10 'cause she thought "it was bee-yoo-tee-ful."
Her son immediately fired back with "Mom, you're so shallow! That's like saying you like Britney Spears better than Susan Boyle!"
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We used to hear all sorts of arguments favoring doing away with the A10 in favor of the F35. Riiight...! Send a less capable (for the purpose) plane that cost what... twenty times the price of the A10? - in to the weeds? Sorry, all you ground-pounders!
QuotePentagon leaders sold the concept of the F-35 to Congress and the American people by saying it would be an affordable replacement for the F-16 in the air supremacy role and the A-10 in the close air support role. Nearly 22 years later, the notion of the F-35 as an affordable replacement for any program has long-since been shattered.
Serious questions remain as to whether the unreliable F-35 can be an effective replacement for the successful F-16. As for close air support, questions remain about the F-35’s ability to fill the A-10’s role, and a report detailing the results of comparative tests conducted in 2018 and 2019 between the two programs, obtained with a great deal of effort by the Project On Government Oversight, casts even more doubt on the matter.
F35A and A10C Comparison Test Report (just ignore all them pesky strikethrough "Secret" labels)
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Nicely done, Sir!
So... have you introduced the pome to your guitar yet...?
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4 minutes ago, Subdeacon Joe said:
Here, too!
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11 minutes ago, Alpo said:
This is illegal in Washington DC.
Any person related to another person (not including the 4th degree of consanguinity); marriage void if BETWEEN MAN with his grandmother, grandfather's wife, wife's grandmother, father's sister, mother's sister, mother, stepmother, WIFE'S MOTHER, daughter, wife's daughter, SON'S WIFE, sister, son's daughter, daughter's daughter, SON'S SON'S WIFE, DAUGHTER'S SON'S WIFE, wife's son's daughter, wife's daughter's daughter, brother's daughter, sister's daughter;
BETWEEN WOMAN with her grandfather, grandmother's husband, husband's grandfather, father's brother, mother's brother, father, stepfather, HUSBAND'S FATHER, son, husband's son, DAUGHTER'S HUSBAND, brother, son's son, daughter's son, SON'S DAUGHTER'S HUSBAND, DAUGHTER'S DAUGHTER'S HUSBAND, husband's son's son, husband's daughter's son, brother's son, sister's son.
It appears to me that the couples that I changed to uppercase would be in-laws. My wife's mother - mother-in-law. My son's wife - daughter-in-law. My son's son's wife - granddaughter-in-law .
Hell, I think Congress is full of 'em~!
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Outstanding, and Congratulations!
And be sure to thump the lad for takin' six months to share the news with Dad!
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Hopscotch...?
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37 minutes ago, Alpo said:
Add a dash o' maple and OH Yum~!
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Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost. It might be a mite irreverent of me, but I'll always think of him as "Pope Bob."
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'Specially if the twenty have submachineguns and the one dude has a pistol. Just watch almost any episode of NCIS....
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The concept's not new...!
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Half-Breed Pete's dad was Army. Fought in the Battle of Monticello Ridge. At his funeral the honor guard was Army; could have been of any branch, just happened to all be Army. The bugler was a Marine.
The late Bear Paw had been career Navy. At his funeral an Army Special Forces sergeant stood at attention during the entire service.
It all works - honors rendered.
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McDonalds Kiosk
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I won't use 'em. An absolute exercise in frustration ~ wanted two breakfast burritos; no way to order two... the 'helpful kid' said "ya gotta just put in a breakfast burrito then put it in again." Helen Brimstone ordered a sausage mcmuffin... it came sans sausage.
I'll only do the drive-through, and then won't drive off until I check that the order is correct. There was a period when I was putting in a lot off road miles, and the drive-through was expeditious - but more than half the time the order was screwed up. 'Specially when they'd direct me to park and they'd bring it out to me.
I pulled through once and placed my order, then drove to the pick-up window. "We'll have your order shortly; it'll take a few minutes, so just pull over and park and we'll bring it out to you when it's ready!"
No thanks... I'll wait.
The gal looked out the window at the cars behind me and said "Uh... you have to pull over, 'cuz there are other cars behind you!"
Well... that's okay; they can wait too. I'm not pulling over, 'cuz every time I do my order gets screwed up!
She poked her head out and looked again ~ "But that's my BOSS behind you!"
Well, that's cool! He can just wait too!
Less than forty-fice seconds later she handed me my bag. I checked before leaving - wonder of wonders, it was correct!
And leave us not forget ~ we have the gub'nor newsom to thank for the kiosks... his $20 an hour minimum wage for fast food workers necessitated cost-cutting AND price increases. The Employment Policies Institute found that California lost as many as 16,000 fast food jobs since the law was signed. (The gub'nor claims there were actually more jobs created; who ya gonna believe?