Loophole LaRue, SASS #51438
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Joe:
Thank you!
My wife and I have been feeling the stress of taking my aging Dad into our home - the extra laundry, the special cooking, the unique burdens of caring for elderly parents. Of course, we would not have it any other way - we love him dearly. But every once in awhile, we need to release some frustration with small inconveniences such as the pile of dropped food under his place at the table (he has become our dog's fast friend) - and this pic hits the mark. Thanks for giving us something to laugh about!
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Kid:
Looks like his website is gone, and he has migrated to Facebook.
Great hats!!!
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Charles beat me to it...with a phone number to boot.
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The '70's were the "transition years" in car making. Up till then, almost everything was heavyweight Detroit iron, built of steel with little concern for weight; if it was heavy, just put in a bigger engine; no worries about gas supply or prices. Very little plastic.
Then came the gas crunch, and the need for higher mileage cars. More plastic and aluminum to lighten car bodies and engines; crude evolving electronics; government mandated "pollution control systems" and "5 mph bumpers" (that looked like battering rams on the front and chastity belts on the rear); suddenly, graceful design and performance were replaced by conflicting design goals, and a huge gap in quality and drivability appeared. Remember how your '70's car used to "diesel" or percolate when you shut it off? And then would not start without a screwdriver stuck in the choke to hold it open?
Blissfully, we have progressed to fuel economy through higher engineering; the late model full size cars now get better gas mileage, with better performance, than did the Japanese "econoboxes" of the '70's. And they are much more exciting to drive.
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Aw, shucks; I was hoping for a spill ON the highway; nothing quite like watching the ballet of a couple of cars and trucks dancing down the pavement on rolling marbles.....
Better luck next time!
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Uh, no. I don't mix guns and alcohol.
Might be fun. though.Wine is serious business, or so I've been told. I'm in love with my gas-operated cork remover - push the needle through the cork, hit the button, and an inert gas forces the cork up and out. No busted cork. No failed openings. No clunky mechanisms. No ostentatious $300 "connoisseur" openers.
$18.99 with an extra package of gas cartridges.
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Ian McShane had become ubiquitous since Deadwood. Pirates of the Caribbean (as Blackbeard), John Wick, and even Game of Thrones - wherever you need that face that is creased with pain and wear, and that voice that breathes whiskey and smoke and dark Irish pubs. Great actor. At times, Deadwood was too painfully real to watch (or listen to), but it had grit...real grit. And what a cast.
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Hey! Easy on the Vega! My '71 got me through college and law school. I had a part time job in an auto parts store, and my employee discount was too great to resist. After adding a set of Hooker headers, a Holley 4-barrell, and some other go-fast goodies, I bet my 110 hp four banger was delivering a screaming 118 hp, applied to the ground through a 2 speed Powerglide tranny!
Some folks had miserable aluminum block failures; my mechanicals were solid; it was the rust that finally caught up to me. New, it was $1995; it brought $350 used in 1977, with over 100,000 miles and advancing body rot.
Wished I could have gotten my hands on a Cosworth GT version; lots of promise in those little cars.
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Rumor has it that Goodell will not show....
After two play-off games in a row at Atlanta, and no other NFL games to attend for cover, Goodell is headed for the Puppy Bowl.
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Well, that was a particularly satisfying game!
What? Lots of long faces around here, eh?
Buck up.
One to go for SB #5!!!!!! One ring for each finger!!
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Modular???
Makes you wonder who the hell is the team picking out the guns!So, for those of us not in the know...what's the problem with modular? I was unfamiliar with the concept, but after looking through the Sig site and the catalogs at Midway and Brownells, it looks like the gun is easier to disassemble, and transforms quickly between 4 calibers, 3 grip sizes and 3 frame sizes - ultimate adaptability. Assuming its does all of this dependably, what's not to like?
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Utah Bob's ski resort!
Deep powder and lots of it.
Book Now!
Let's see....no groomed slopes, no rope tow, no ski lift, no trails, no gondola, no staff, no skiis....
Looks like UB will need to improvise.....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bT4OHV--YWU
Wheeeee!!
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My nomination:
Burl Ives in The Big Country
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMiD6PU8SKI
One of my favorite Westerns, with great performances by Gregory Peck, Charlton Heston, Ives, Jean Simmons, and even a sniveling Chuck Connors. Could have wished for better from Carroll Baker, but it was the character I really disliked.
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Great idea!
Rousing applause for W as he entered.
Very interesting to watch the isolation camera that's focused on some folks from Arkansas...
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I saw a video with the late Tom Knapp where he broke 100 clays at once with a punt gun! thing is a bloody cannon!
:) See 2nd link in Post #4, above.
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"Alvord then turned to a profitable career as a train and bank robber, and finally, he traveled to the West Indies and disappeared from history."
A Man after my own heart; make the big bucks and head for the Caribbean.
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I got the sense that the writer of the story accompanying the photos was not terribly well versed in the subject matter, either. But the comments were at once hilarious and sad.
The text of the article is almost word-for-word the same a the Wiki article on punt guns, and most of the photos appear in both places.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punt_gun
A bit more balance, and less false drama, can be found here: http://www.wideopenspaces.com/duck-cannon-past-punt-gun/ along with a great video of a punt gun in action (I love the way they tied it down to the table before firing!)
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I've had it with my local paper of record - The Boston Globe. If I read one more hand-wringing, doom predicting, sour grapes diatribe concerning the end of civilization as "we" know it, I'll puke on my boots. Have folks up here always been so self-absorbed and dismissive of any thoughts except their own? Wait...don't answer that.....
So I'm looking for a new "primary" source - that paper or mag or broadcast on the Internet that you go to FIRST when you want some reliable facts. Like most of you, I cruise multiple sites (Fox, MSN, CNN, etc.), looking for some balance; but TBG has always been the paper that I look to first. But not anymore.
Suggestions? Nominations for reliability, breadth of scope, fact checking and multiple quoted sources, and suppressed political agenda/tilt?
So far, I'm leaning toward the Wall Street Journal, if I can cut through the jungle of financial stuff and squeeze the extra change out of my wallet.. There's something about a paper that still has living reporters, and calls everyone "Mr." or "Mrs." or (shudder) "Ms.".
Recommendations?
Gracias!
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I wasn't going to write this and then I thought "what the heck".
Anyway, back in late 2000 I was invited to go on stage and meet and shake hands with Bill Clinton at the Staples Center when I worked for the transit agency there in Los Angeles. I was one of four "invitees". I declined.
Forget your rubber gloves?
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Once represented the LA Lakers, including Mitch Kupchak and Kurt Rambis, when they were both still playing. Two of the most down-to-earth, regular guys you could ever meet. Regular except for size. Kupchak was so tall that he had to have his Volvo dealer remove the sunroof and install a dome to get enough headroom; the dealer also installed a 10" steering wheel to give Mitch room to put his knees up alongside the wheel.
Rambis was John Denver on stilts. A laid back surfer, every doorway in his house was raised to 9', and his bed was extended to the same size. His wife coached the LA professional tennis franchise at the time; while watching a match, I also met Billie Jean King.
Have met a whole bunch of Republican politicians. Mitt Romney is undoubtedly the smartest guy in the room. Any room.
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Well, unless I knew the person who approved the release, or who actually made the release, and had some understanding of their personal political motives, I'd be reluctant to express an opinion on whether the release was accidental or not.
Hereabouts, we have a specific statute outlawing the public release of gun owner information by the state (yes, you read that correctly; MA actually has a statute designed to protect gun owners). If a bureaucrat violated that law, I imagine that there would be some screaming; but the information would still be out there.
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Ooops....
Once the cat is out of the bag, it's tough to put it back in. Remember when we used to write our driver's license numbers at the bottom of checks? (For that matter, remember checks?)
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If there is one person in professional sports I cannot stand (yeah...as if there is only one!), it would be Tom Brady. What a complete unethical, egotistical, CHEATING bastard.
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha..........
Better luck next year, Denver. Envy is rather unbecoming.
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PETA, and other humorless fanatics, will not be satisfied until there are no zoos, animal acts, animal actors, or even pets, and until we all eat nothing but tofu, dress only in synthetics and ban animal names for athletic teams and automobiles.
The first time I can remember being overwhelmed by these wonders of Nature was when I saw the circus in Philadelphia around 1958. We had seats on the end of a row, and the elephants entered the ring via a walkway to my left; they were no more than 20' away. The smell was overwhelming, but I could have cared less. For a moment, I was in the jungle with Tarzan.
I hope the crazies live nothing but boring, uneventful, drab lives.
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OMG It's a good thing that little guy decided not to move or it could have has a disastrous ending.
Yeah...a CATastrophe.....
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I Guess It Works
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Kris:
I'm no saint, but I do love my Dad; the saint here is my dear wife, who has pitched in mightily to make this possible. Like many baby boomers, we just finished helping the kids get through school and off on lives of their own, and expected that we might find some more time (and money) for ourselves; but Dad needs help more than we need fun, and we're glad to do it. And the fact that you and others would compliment us for doing so leads me to believe that you have all faced the same choices and burdens. God bless you all.
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