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Subdeacon Joe

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  1. DUH...Limelighters, Kingston Trio, and Smothers Brothers.
  2. FB find Although the Martin B-26 Marauder did not make its first flight until Nov. 25, 1940, its design showed such promise that the Air Corps ordered 1,131 B-26s in September 1940. The B-26 began flying combat missions in the Southwest Pacific in the spring of 1942, but most were subsequently assigned to Europe and the Mediterranean. In 1945, when B-26 production was halted, 5,266 had been built. The Marauder on display was flown in combat by the Free French during the final months of WWII. It was obtained from the Air France airline's training school near Paris in June 1965. It is painted as a 9th Air Force B-26B assigned to the 387th Bomb Group in 1945. TECHNICAL NOTES: Armament: 11.50-cal. machine guns; 4,000 lbs. of bombs Engines: Two Pratt & Whitney R-2800s of 2,000 hp each Maximum speed: 285 mph Cruising speed: 190 mph Range: 1,100 miles Ceiling: 19,800 ft. Span: 71 ft. Length: 58 ft. 6 in. Height: 20 ft. 3 in. Weight: 37,000 lbs. loaded
  3. OH! A Group Called Smith! My favorite of "Pearls Before Swine" that I mentioned before
  4. You betchem! Lazy Afternoon, Rainy Tuesday, The Dream, Tuesday Afternoon.... I think one of the most underappreciated groups of that era. And if you ask 100 people to name one of their songs, 98.5 will only be able to name "Nights in White Satin."
  5. Pearls Before Swine. The Lovin' Spoonful One specific Moody Blues piece (Yes, they did more than Nights in White Satin)
  6. Some Greek bullets were inscribed with what translates roughly as "Catch this!"
  7. Here we would still be being told that it's "too soon" to call it a terrorist attack."
  8. Maybe "unremember" would be a better choice. I rather like it. Very topical for the late '70s.
  9. WOW! Now I want to hear what he has to say about the "pedophilic tendencies" that are so deeply embedded in the school industry. And so much worse than abuse by clergy of any sect. About 15 years ago I did some digging and found that across the boards abuse by clergy is at around 2%, compared to about 1% to 1.5% in the overall population. School industry is about 5%.
  10. Funny how everyone of that persuasion knows that "Trump is a rapist" yet there has never been a conviction, or even a credible accusation. And, of course he is a conman of sorts....all businessmen are. So are all politicians. Since I haven't watched it, other than clips on YouTube, it wouldn't mean anything for me to boycott the show. But people do need to write to whatever service it's on to let them know, also the producers and any sponsors.
  11. My guess would be not many. Word would likely spread quickly to Not Try That. https://www.warhistoryonline.com/war-articles/japanese-knee-mortar.html
  12. It's not often you see them in desert colors. That must be it.
  13. That's weird. When I went in for the, ah, rear view camera testing, I tired to leave off the little socks they gave me. I kept pushing them off, the staff kept putting them back on me.
  14. Here's the photo from which that was cropped: She's not gripping her elbow. She's not grabbing her shoulder. That arm is just floating there. When you see this stance in movies the gun hand will be over the middle of the forearm, with that support arm just floating in the air. As I wrote, it must be a Hollywood thing. I agree that IF you can lock up that supporting arm by grabbing the opposite elbow, shoulder, etc. you will have a more stable platform than classic Bullseye stance. Maybe. Some of those Bullseye shooters are rock steady. And the Olympic shooters are like robots.
  15. I was trying to find a certain pistol stance as in illustration for another thread and found this gem
  16. That looks more like Rugby. In soccer they would all be on the ground pretending that they had been skinned alive.
  17. Must be a Hollywood thing. Every time I see it in the movies the left arm is out, unsupported, just bent at the elbow and floating there, and the gun hand is braced on it, or at least the right forearm is braced on it. Never seen it in real life.
  18. I've never really understood how using an unsupported arm as a rest helps.
  19. Traces of Texas · The Texas Quote of the Day is a description of the notorious outlaw-turned-rancher King Fisher, who was apparently quite the dandy in his day: "King Fisher and his followers stole the settlers' livestock; robbed their corn cribs; and murdered those who opposed them. Fisher was then [the late 1870s] about twenty-five years old, and a perfect specimen of frontier dandy. He was tall and exceedingly handsome. He wore the finest clothes procurable, and of the picturesque, dime-novel type. His white, broad-brimmed sombrero was ornamented with gold and silver lace and had a golden snake for a band. His Mexican short jacket of fine buckskin was heavily embroidered with gold. His sheer, expensive shirt was worn open at the throat, with a silk handkerchief knotted about its wide collar. A crimson silk sash was wound about his waist. His chaperejos, or "chaps," were made of a royal Bengal tiger, ornamented down the seams with gold fringe. The tiger's skin had been procured at a circus in Northern Texas. He and some of his fellows had literally captured the circus, killed the tiger and skinned it, just because the desperado chief fancied he'd like to have a pair of tiger skin "chaps." He wore high-heel boots of costly leather, and silver spurs ornamented with little silver bells. He rode the best horses he could steal in Texas and Mexico." ----- N.W. Jennings, "A Texas Ranger," 1930
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