Subdeacon Joe
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"Mornin'! Would you please bring down/pull out (describe position od firearm)? Thanks."
Yes, even if it's afternoon I'm likely to say, "Mornin'".
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34 minutes ago, Stump Water said:
There was a narrow gauge railroad built to the town in 1881.
Interesting map at wikipedia that you can zoom in on.
If it brought in wood it's just a more efficient way of bringing in wood.
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Surprisingly for such a titanic struggle, Towton is less well-documented than other battles of the Wars of the Roses. Even such basic data as the numbers engaged and killed, wounded, or subsequently massacred and executed remain a matter of hot dispute among military historians, although the emerging evidence of battlefield archaeology makes clear that the battle surpassed all similar struggles on English soil.
On one fact, however, all authorities agree: for a medieval battle Towton was awesomely huge. The lowest estimate for the number of fighting men there is 50,000 - the highest, upwards of 80,000. And there is broad consensus, too, that at least 20,000 died, probably around 28,000 - an estimated 1% of the total population of England at the time. That is a staggering statistic by any standard. So what brought these men to that desolate field, and why did they fight and die there?
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1 hour ago, Alpo said:
That last one there is one of the dumber things I've ever heard of.
We've been at War for 4 years. We've been shooting and blowing up and bombing and now we're going to quit. The war is over. At 11:00. But it's 10:55 so we're still going to keep shooting!!!!
If we've decided to stop the war at 11:00, what the hell difference is me firing off some cannon at 10:55 going to do?
But that's what they did.
Worse....the Armistice could have been signed a few days before, but some fathead liked the idea of "the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month," and so held it up for a couple of days .
Even worse than that idiocy is that the were attacks ordered to begin within an hour of that time.
Last American death, 11 November, 1918, at 10:58. https://www.archives.gov/news/articles/last-american-death-wwi
The two groups had been watching each other, everyone knowing that it was to end soon and just hoping to wait it out. Well, almost everyone.
A couple of pieces I've read about it , possibly all originating from the same source, suggest that he was somewhat bitter that he hadn't killed any Huns and, without orders charged the Germans.
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From FB
Another way of signalling at sea, besides flags, was to signal with sails and guns. This system became established very early on and was a welcome, if not easy, solution when flags were prevented by poor visibility and smoke. The system of sail signals began to be used as early as the 14th century, and only within a fleet, to send messages to the entire alliance. This lasted until the 18th century.
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33 minutes ago, Blackwater 53393 said:
Yeah. I’ve seen them before on a regular shelf in some smaller stores.I’m not a big salt user. I usually substitute pepper for salt at the table and I cut salt in a lot of recipes by as much as a third.
I don’t find them any more salty than other brands, but that’s just me. My family prefers them as well. I have never asked any of them why.
To each his own. Pickle brand loyalty seems to run strong. I was raised with Del Monte Dill Halves, sometimes whole Dills. Then went to Vlasic after trying them when I left home. Tried other brands now and then, but none measured up. One day saw the Mt. Olive brand at half the price of Vlasic. They were better, in my opinion, than Vlasic.
I've tried some of the local small batch, naturally fermented brands, especially https://www.thebrinery.com/
Good, but LORDY they're expensive. Especially with how I like pickles and sauerkraut. 9 bucks for a 32oz. container.
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1 minute ago, Blackwater 53393 said:
If the Clausens aren’t refrigerated, they might become salty. I don’t find them that way and I prefer their preparation as the cucumbers used aren’t cooked. The cold pickling process is why they don’t get limp and mushy like other brands.I really prefer the kosher flavor!!
It was only about half an hour from when I picked them from the cold lunch meat section to when I popped them open was less than an hour. But these square with my memory of all the ones I've had in the past, overpowering salty.
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Bill Marx, son of Harpo Marx: "By the time he settled down with my mom and started raising a family, he was in his fifties and financially secure enough not to have to work every day. And so he spent a lot of his time playing with... and getting to know... his kids. And this became his 'second childhood.'"
"My dad was the most child-like adult I've ever known. Not 'child-ish' - an unattractive quality that suggests a certain selfish insensitivity. That wasn't Dad at all. No, he took the world in the way a child does - with lots of wonder and very little judgment.... with the delight of someone for whom everything is new and delightful. The great comedy parodist of song, Allan Sherman, wrote in his autobiography, 'A Gift of Laughter,' 'Harpo Marx had the good sense to never grow up.'"
"Dad once told a friend he wanted to have as many kids as he had front windows in our house on Canon Drive in Beverly Hills... so that he could see them waiving at them when he got home from work. It's still a nice image."
"My mom remembers waking up one night to find herself alone in bed. She searched the house to find out where my dad was. She looked into my 4-year-old sister, Minnie's room and found him in there, on the floor, playing jacks with her. He had insomnia, needed some action and decided to wake her up and play with her (Despite the fact that it was 3 in the morning, she was delighted)."
"In Dad's autobiography, 'Harpo Speaks', he mentions a list of rules we Marxes lived by. It wasn't a gag - Dad really did live by those rules and expected us to do the same. It wasn't that hard - his rules were all about being true to yourself and doing what was best for yourself."
Harpo Marx Family Rules
1. Life has been created for you to enjoy, but you won't enjoy it unless you pay for it with some good, hard work. This is one price that will never be marked down.
2. You can work at whatever you want to as long as you do it as well as you can and clean up afterwards and you're at the table at mealtime and in bed at bedtime.
3. Respect what the others do. Respect Dad's harp, Mom's paints, Billy's piano, (son) Alex's set of tools, (son) Jimmy's designs, and Minnie's menagerie.
4. If anything makes you sore, come out with it. Maybe the rest of us are itching for a fight, too.
5. If anything strikes you as funny, out with that, too. Let's all the rest of us have a laugh.
6. If you have an impulse to do something that you're not sure is right, go ahead and do it. Take a chance. Chances are, if you don't you'll regret it - unless you break the rules about mealtime and bedtime, in which case you'll sure as hell regret it.
7. If it's a question of whether to do what's fun or what is supposed to be good for you, and nobody is hurt whichever you do, always do what's fun.
8. If things get too much for you and you feel the whole world's against you, go stand on your head. If you can think of anything crazier to do, do it.
9. Don't worry about what other people think. The only person in the world important enough to conform to is yourself.
10. Anybody who mistreats a pet or breaks a pool cue is docked a month's pay.
Happy Birthday, Harpo Marx!
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1 hour ago, Forty Rod SASS 3935 said:
With all that open land why did they build everything so close together, in some cases stacked ofrsharing walls/
Why were most western towns built that way? Sharing walls means fewer materials needed. Close together means less walking, shorter distance to carry goods. This isn't farming or ranching country. Bodie was a mining town. Why build two miles away?
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3 hours ago, Alpo said:
Well I do duck duck go, not Google. But none of your three links actually had any reference to the M39. I did, however, greatly enjoy all three pages you linked to.
The first one has a sort of off hand remark about the military issuing soft point ammunition and how it had a warning on the box not to shoot people with it because that was a violation of The Hague.
And I have a picture of both the ammunition and the warning on the box.
But I was hoping for an article somewhere specifically about this ammo.
Ah! I misconstrued your question. I thought you wanted information on a 35 grain .22 Hornet load.
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9 minutes ago, Alpo said:
"They include the Anschutz Model 1730, Ballard Model 1885, Browning A-Bolt Micro Hunter, Browning Model 1885 Low Wall, BRNO ZBK 110, Cooper Model 21, CZ Model 527, Ruger 77/22H, Ruger No. 1, New England Handi-Rifle, Thompson/Center Contender Carbine, Savage Model 40, and the Savage Model 24F combination gun with its .22 Hornet rifle barrel and 12-gauge shotgun barrel. The old cartridge is more alive today than it has ever been."
"Best choices in bullets for the .22 Hornet are the Speer 33-grain TNT and 40-grain Spirepoint, Sierra 40- and 45-grain softnose, Nosler 40-grain Ballistic Tip and 45-grain softnose, and Hornady 35- and 40-grain V-MAX and 45-grain Spirepoint. "
"Best powders for use with all bullet weights in the Hornet are H110 and W296."
Nice to know I picked the right stuff.
77/22 H, CZ 527, Hornady 45 grain spire point and Winchester 296.
I just quickly glanced through each site to make sure it was at least close to what you seemed to want. Glad it helped.
Odd that you couldn't find it. All I did was copy "M39 22 hornet 35 grain soft point" and paste it into a Google search.
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3 hours ago, Stump Water said:
Interesting place. 8,400 ft. elevation. Subarctic climate.
All the wood had to be packed in.
From the Bodie Foundation FB page:
About 300 cords a day were needed in Bodie not just to keep warm, but also to power the mining machinery. This photo of the first Standard Mill, an all-wood building built in 1877, is surrounded by piles of wood. The mill consumed 20 cords a day.
One of the memorable people:
Throwback Thursday
Information about the everyday lives of the Chinese population in Bodie is scarce. We know that they suffered discrimination as they were not allowed to join the local labor unions to work in the mines. Their jobs in Bodie were mostly in support industries: transporting wood into Bodie, ordering shipments of fruits and vegetables to sell to local residents, and operating restaurants and laundries.
The 1880 census recorded over 250 Chinese residents. After the boom years of 1877-1881, the Chinese population began to decline, although some remained into the early 1900s. A newspaper article from 1931 tells of “Bodie Tom” who died at “Elbow Ranch” on the East Walker River in Nevada. The land where this ranch was located is now part of Walker River State Recreation Area near Yerington, NV.
“Colorful Character of Pioneer Days of Gold Camp is found dead,” the newspaper article begins.
He was 80 years old at the time of his death. Bodie Tom “was respected through the years for his honesty and integrity. Earning his living by bringing wood to Bodie, on pack burros, from the high mountains, Tom had become a familiar figure to almost every resident of the famous gold camp during its better days.”
The article adds that he hauled wood to Bodie for many years, “and with his savings purchased the Elbow Ranch several years ago.”
In earlier years, he had married a Native American woman and lived in the hills near Bodie. They raised two daughters, who later resided in Mason Valley. At the time of his death, Tom’s wife had been dead for several years.
The article adds that he continued to cut and sell wood “in spite of his rapidly waning years.”
He had become ill and moved to the ranch about a year ago and hoped his condition would improve so he could return to San Francisco, “where he had spent his boyhood days.”
Photo of Chinese hauling wood into Bodie, courtesy of Mono County Historical Society.
#ThrowbackThursday
#AsianPacificAmericanHeritageMonth
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I was in the store and saw Clausen Kosher Dill Miniatures. Bought a small jar. Sort of crisp. But LORD are they salty! Almost no other flavor. Pretty much what I remember of them. Not worth the premium price.
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Tonight is like a combination of Christmas Eve and the night before a colonoscopy
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Not funny, just the pepper tree we see from our front window.
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2 hours ago, John Kloehr said:
Don't take your pet rock for granite.
It's not gneiss of you to keep posting schist like this.
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Who makes a 'Good' (best) case trimmer?
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Dremel!