Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967
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So... remember that Secret Service gal in sunglasses who couldn't find her holster after the Trump shooting??
Well... we now know where she came from! @Subdeacon Joe posted on the Memes thread earlier today the "Time Warp" scene from the Rocky Horror Picture Show ~ and by golly, at the 2.00 mark there she is!!
Or was....
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15 hours ago, Whitey James said:
If you could only have one firearm, whether it be due to financial or governmental constraints, what would it be and why?
Me? Ruger GP100 4 inch 357 magnum
Why?
If I can only have one then it has to fill many roles including daily carry.
No magazines to lose.
Built like a tank so you can use it as a blunt object when you run out of ammo.
Easy to disassemble (can be done with a coin)
Ammo variety from mouse farts to nukes
Mine has a 6" barrel (yours is actually 4.2"!
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And you're right on the ammo part ~ but for some reason, mine reeeally doesn't like "cowboy" loads. Oh, it'll shoot 'em all right, but accuracy just ain't the same as with peppier rounds. But they're still fun to shoot!
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'Stones - of the "kidney variety."
Don't recommend 'em. Few hours in the ER this last Sunday (but not my first "rodeo"). Nope... don't recommend 'em at all.
Also don't recommend the pain meds ~ they do work, but I reeeally don't care for the mental fog. I'd make a right terrible druggie! That said, I do think the previous experience with morphine was preferable to this trip's Dilaudid.
Kudos to the ER staff, though - they take this stuff seriously!
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14 minutes ago, Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 said:
Remember when pistachios were red and your fingers would get red eating pistachios? No more, right?
back in the RED days: Iran produced the world’s pistachios and carefully supervised the harvest. In those days the nuts were collected from the ground after they ripened and fell. In that state some had reddened and some had not. To make the nuts more appealing a red dye was used to make them uniformly red.
Enter an enterprising American nut smuggler…. He smuggled a few nuts out of Iran and began a pistachio orchard in California. Californians invented tree shakers which would make the trees drop their ripe nuts into collection baskets. Voilá, no more ripe nuts on the ground turning red, more need to die all the nuts.
Izzat why they're now green?
And kudos to that "enterprising nut smuggler!!"
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My dad, aboard Ranger....
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As a side note: the first three are "permanent trophies." As such, new ones are made each year and awarded the championship team to be kept permanently.
The fourth, hockey's Stanley Cup, is a "travelling trophy." In that, it is passed on to the new season's championship team with the team's name engraved on the lower band. (It's also the oldest North American sports trophy, having been first awarded in 1893).
The bowl atop is the actual original trophy. The lower portion is comprised of a barrel with five removable bands. When the cup runs out of room for new names, the top band is removed and the others move up one spot. Every 13 years, a band is retired and placed in the Hockey Hall of Fame.
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8 minutes ago, Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062 said:
........ so the one that's taller is not like the rest ....... what are they ??? 🙃
National championships ~ Vince Lombardi Trophy (football), Larry O'Brien Championship Trophy (basketball), Commissioner's Trophy (baseball),
Stanley Cup (hockey).
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For what it's worth, his poor selection of words had been pointed out to the **** on the Tube of You....
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15 minutes ago, Cowtown Scout, SASS #53540 L said:
I remember something about some protesters in a European car dealership who glued themselves to the floor and the dealership just turned out the lights, closed up and left them there. 👍😁 The protesters were complaining afterwards about how they were treated. 🤣
Yup!
Climate protesters glue themselves to Porsche museum but needed to go potty
QuoteThe Autostadt is a VW gem among the Wolfsburg factory complex, with the immense glass storage tower shuffling completed vehicles awaiting delivery and pavilions for Audi, Seat, Lamborghini, and Porsche. This should have made it the perfect place for the back-and-forth, a magnet for police intervention and media.
Instead, staff at the VW museum ignored the playbook. Instead of calling Wolfsburg police immediately, staff "recognized the right to protest," then closed the pavilion for the evening and left — turning off the light and heat as they walked out.
The UK outlet Express, likely sick of this happening on its own shores and not inclined to be charitable, wrote that the protestors "pleaded for medical treatment because their hands were sore and moaned that they couldn’t go to the toilet." The paper interviewed one protester who said of staff, "They refused our request to provide us with a bowl to urinate and defecate in a decent manner while we are glued," and, "We can't order our food, we must use the one provided by Volkswagen. Lights off. Random unannounced checks by security guards with bright torches."
What Express left out is that the reason it could interview a protester was because he'd been removed over a potential medical issue and was being held by police. The remaining eight protesters, along with six Scientist Rebellion members who weren't glued, stayed in place through the night to Friday morning. The most recent post on the outfit's Twitter page at the time of writing said police had arrived in the morning to arrest everyone. According to German outlet Welt, "The police then took action against the other activists on Friday. Criminal proceedings were initiated for trespassing, coercion and property damage."
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Glued themselves to the wall. The museum folks shoulda oughtta just turned off the lights and left 'em there overnight. I hope that sentence included a diet of only tomato soup for two years.
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4 hours ago, Forty Rod SASS 3935 said:
I had a Browning Sweet Sixteen and have leaned toward the 16s ever since...right behind 12 gauge.
I have one 16 now, an Ithaca Featherlight, along with a Featherlight 12 and a 20. What can I say? I love Ithaca pump guns. I've thought about finding one in .410 and /or 28, but I don't really have much enthusiasm for them right now.
Sassparilla Kid* has a 16 ga Winchester Model 12 that was his "Go-To" shotgun for years. Ducks and doves and clay pigeons all feared the lad and that gun....
Alas, with lead shot now illegal for hunting in california it's pretty much retired - he's not about to mess up the full-choke barrel with steel shot, and lead trap loads are a challenge to find. Hopefully some day he'll stumble upon a proper barrel and bring it out of retirement.
*He still fondly remembers dinner with you and your delightful missus some fifteen or sixteen years ago...
The kid - limit of doves before the start of work ~ 16 ga Model 12, back when lead shot was still legal.
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5 hours ago, Blackwater 53393 said:
Having been to Oakland and seen the conditions in and around the stadium, I can’t blame them for leaving!!
Oakland doesn't deserve a team. Hell... Oakland doesn't deserve to exist!
My buddies and I used to go to a LOT of games "back in the day" - college and after. Many, many games would have only a few hundred people scattered throughtout a stadium that held something like fifty thousand. Their first World Series game wasn't a sellout!
The Coliseum actually wasn't that bad - until they butchered it to make Al Davis happy. Then it was beyond awful.
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I truly enjoyed that, Joe. But I have to confess, when I first saw the thread title I honestly expected something totally different....
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1 hour ago, Father Kit Cool Gun Garth said:
Speaking of toilets...
Nigh onto ninety bucks for a bale of bung fodder...? Dang!!
Bidenomics??
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I'm getting curiouser and curiouser about the 28 gauge...
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Two things I don't care for on this model, without having seen one "in the flesh:"
First, the lever shape. I think the more oval loop is more appealing, and would actually prefer a classic style.
Second... the corny-as-all-get-out name. Seriously... spelling "Lever" backwards??
That reminds me of a few times back in the 1980's when I was sentenced to spend weeks at a time in Omaha on business. Now... Omaha in itself wasn't too awful bad, but it was a mite boring. The food was quite good! But I cringed every time I saw "Aksarben" this or "Aksarben" that... Aksarben Village, Aksarben Foundation, and so on. C'mon... the couldn't get more creative than spelling Nebraska backwards? 
That said, I actually could see myself investing in one. I've thoroughly enjoyed the Savage rifles I've owned or shot; the 99 is a classic, nothing wrong with the 110 bolt action, and I just love the old Savage Model 1920 series.
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Pondering a new shotgun.
Passed on my 12 ga Franchi O/U to Sassparilla Kid last weekend. Think I shot it once in seven years; nice gun, just never got around to using it. We had a trap event on Saturday (Boy Scout fundraiser); it was somewhat nicer than the Kid's CZ Woodcock, so I made him an early birthday present. He was plumb tickled - and did well with it.
Anyway, I'm thinking about replacing it next spring with another smaller gauge - gots plenty o' twelves. And leaning toward another Franchi O/U. So... Twenty? Sixteen? Or how 'bout a Twenty-Eight?
Thoughts? Opinions?
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1 hour ago, Father Kit Cool Gun Garth said:
After extensive research, and reviewing all of the suggestions you gave me, I settled on the following optic for my Ruger Mark IV 22/45 Lite:
Ironically, I had previously looked at it earlier in the day when it was at a higher price and because I waited, without knowing, it got reduced.
Will let everyone know how it works after testing it out.
Reviews were good.
Well, I'm intrigued. Looking foward to your report!
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1 hour ago, Tall Tale Todd said:
Knowing you, Hardpan, it was probably something you said.
Hell, "Triple T," knowing me, it might've been something I thought...! 🙄 😏
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17 minutes ago, Pat Riot said:
Not sure why it was pulled. I saw your Howard the Duck comment and agree it was a pretty entertaining movie. Yours was the last comment I saw so I have no idea what got it yanked.
Maybe you should have added a shot of the lovely Lea Thompson with your post?
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Posted · Edited by Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967
So I had a follow-up with the urologist this morning - who turned out to be a most delightful lady doctor.
During the discussion, I said that I'm not a real big fan of "alternative medicine," but asked her if she had ever heard of Java Tea - Kumis Kucing, or Orthosiphon stamineus. She had not, and was curious why I asked. I told her that I've never been big on "alternative medicine," but that my little sister had recommened the herb as a tea. It seems that our dad, who had a history of stones, had started using it and never had another stone. Was my sister a medical type, she asked? I then said that, oddly, Elizabeth was an acupuncturist, and had actually studied in Bejing.
To my surpise, the doctor laughed, and said "I strongly suggest you listen to your sister!" She then told me that she was herself a proponent of "alternative medicine," and had a great appreciation of the Chinese discipline - "they've been doing it a heck of a lot longer than we've been doing much of what we do!"
Well, I was astonished. The doc then went on to say that we needed to be more open-minded, and recognize that there were things out there that really do work, and that she personally availed herself of acupuncture and herbal pursuits. And she also said that she intended to research the herb.
I'll be darned...! My already high regard of baby sister just ratcheted up another couple notches!