Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967

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

*~Nascar~*

I feels your pain, Double D~!

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!

Yer outta touch there, Alps...! In today's world it's common for a high school to have multiple valedictorians. Heck... some have dozens!

So when will it be delivered~?

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!"

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! F35A and A10C Comparison Test Report (just ignore all them pesky strikethrough "Secret" labels)

Nicely done, Sir! So... have you introduced the pome to your guitar yet...?

Here, too!

Hell, I think Congress is full of 'em~!

Outstanding, and Congratulations! And be sure to thump the lad for takin' six months to share the news with Dad!

Hopscotch...?

Add a dash o' maple and OH Yum~!

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost. It might be a mite irreverent of me, but I'll always think of him as "Pope Bob."

'Specially if the twenty have submachineguns and the one dude has a pistol. Just watch almost any episode of NCIS....

The concept's not new...!

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.

Only one. On a Saturday evening sometime around Christmas, 1972, ol' Hank and I went to the movin' picture show to see a new Robert Redford movie, Jeremiah Johnson. The following Monday, I made my way to the San Francisco Gun Exchange. "Mister Posner, might you have a fifty caliber Hawken?" "Why yes, we do! It's a Thompson/Center, but just like the one in that new movie -" "I'll take it! And a bullet mold, pleeze...!" (I already had plenty of lead, fffg powder, and caps on hand for my revolvers) It was quite the novelty at ranges for a while ~ I still wonder at how most people back then were totally unfamiliar with black powder. But it was - and still is - a TON o' fun. It even won me a turkey! Nowadays there are some folk who will quickly criticize the piece, claiming it is not perfectly historically accurate (in design and construction, not shooting - as it shoots quite accurately!). However, back in '72, this was about the only game in town - Lyman wouldn't bring out their Plains Rifle for another eight years. I'm happy with it.