Subdeacon Joe
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Tastes like sweet and sour chicken.
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2 hours ago, Alpo said:
I don't understand the confusion.
Austria is people wearing shorts and funny little hats.
Australia is people wearing shorts and funny big hats.
Nothing at all alike.
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11 minutes ago, Alpo said:
I don't make stuffing. You know, where you take the dried bread and you mix it with spices and chopped onion and celery and various other things, and put it in the bird and roast it in the oven. I don't do that.
I make boxed stuffing. And since I found out you can do it in the microwave I don't even make it on the stove anymore.
Barber Chicken is a company that makes maybe a dozen or so different flavors of stuffed chicken breast. And during the turkey holidays - Thanksgiving and Christmas - they make a stuffed turkey breast. It is stuffed with sage and cranberry stuffing. It's pretty good.
So I got to wondering how it would taste if I put some craisins in that box stuffing mix. And I just did.
It's pretty good. Because the craisins are sweetened dried cranberries, it makes the stuffing more sweet than savory. But it's pretty good.
We stock up on it when it's on special. It's useful. I usually sauté celery and onions then make it over that, but sometimes for something quick I'll just follow the directions.
It's also good for making meatloaf it savory bread pudding.
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As found on FB
June 1940. Ben Johnson, 22, loaded a dozen horses into a boxcar in Oklahoma. He was making thirty dollars a month on the Chapman-Barnard Ranch when a call came from Hollywood. Howard Hughes had purchased horses for a film called The Outlaw, and someone needed to deliver them to northern Arizona. Johnson volunteered. Hughes offered three hundred dollars. It was more money than Johnson had ever seen in his life. He took the job and delivered the horses to Flagstaff, thinking he’d return home.
But Hughes noticed how the young cowboy handled the animals. Within days, he offered Johnson one hundred seventy-five dollars a week to stay on as a wrangler. Johnson later recalled, “I’d been making a dollar a day as a cowboy, and my first check in Hollywood was for three hundred. After that, you couldn’t have driven me back to Oklahoma with a club.”
Hollywood became his new range. Johnson shepherded horses to sets, doubled for Gary Cooper, Joel McCrea, Gene Autry, Roy Rogers, John Wayne, and James Stewart. For seven years, he was another cowboy among many—unknown, reliable, indispensable.
Then came Fort Apache. Johnson was doubling for Henry Fonda when a wagon bolted with three men hanging on for dear life. Johnson, astride a horse, chased it down, caught the lead horse, and stopped the runaway. Director John Ford had watched everything. The next day, he called Johnson into his office and handed him a contract. On the fifth line—five thousand dollars a week—Johnson stopped reading, signed, and handed it back. From anonymous stuntman to Ford’s stock company, his first credited role was in 3 Godfathers in 1948.
Over the next five years, Johnson appeared in Ford classics: She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, Mighty Joe Young, Rio Grande, and Wagon Master. He bought a ranch in California, invested in real estate, and secured his financial future. But at thirty-five, the pull of the rodeo was stronger than Hollywood’s glitz.
He took a year off to compete full-time in team roping, honoring his late father, Ben Johnson Sr., a three-time world champion roper. Partnering with Buckshot Sorrells and Andy Jauregui, he rode every event. By the end of 1953, he had won the world championship. Yet after tallying expenses, he realized he’d broken exactly even. “I came home with a championship and didn’t have three dollars,” he laughed later. “All I had was a worn-out car and a mad wife.”
Hollywood welcomed him back, but he never abandoned roping. For decades, he competed in charity rodeos, raising money for children’s hospitals.
In 1971, Johnson almost turned down The Last Picture Show. He hated the script’s language. But John Ford personally asked him to take the role. Johnson agreed on one condition: he could rewrite the part to remove profanity. He played Sam the Lion, a gentle, world-weary theater owner, and critics hailed it as his finest performance.
March 1972. The Academy Awards. Johnson, holding the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor, decided to abandon his prepared speech. Instead, he addressed the audience simply: rodeo cowboys worked harder than anyone in show business, and the championship belt he’d won in 1953 meant more to him than the golden statue in his hands. The room erupted in applause.
Ben Johnson remained humble throughout his career, acting for over twenty-five more years in films including The Wild Bunch, Junior Bonner, Chisum, The Getaway, Dillinger, Bite the Bullet, The Sugarland Express, and Angels in the Outfield. He appeared in more than 300 films and television shows.
Outside of film, he used his fame to raise millions for charity. He sponsored celebrity rodeos in major cities, benefiting children’s hospitals in Houston, Phoenix, Oklahoma City, and Los Angeles. His ranch, his investments, and his careful planning made him worth an estimated one hundred million dollars by the 1990s.
Honors followed: ProRodeo Hall of Fame in 1973, Western Performers Hall of Fame in 1982, and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1994.
April 8, 1996. Johnson, seventy-seven, collapsed from a heart attack while visiting his ninety-six-year-old mother in Mesa, Arizona. He died shortly after. His wife, Carol, had passed two years earlier. His mother lived until 2000, reaching 101.
Ben Johnson remains the only person in history to win both a world rodeo championship and an Academy Award. And yet, he described himself simply: “I’m just a cowboy who got lucky.”
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4 hours ago, Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062 said:
THANK YOU!
Probably in my top three of that era/genre.
Judith Durham(AO) was quite lovely. She should have been Dame Judith for her work. Beautiful, beautiful voice.
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Dumb question, do you go by "Johnny" or "Vanya?"
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Straight out of the haigiography of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, Archbishop of Myra in Lycia
"Despite his great gentleness of spirit and purity of heart, Saint Nicholas was a zealous and ardent warrior of the Church of Christ. Fighting evil spirits, the saint made the rounds of the pagan temples and shrines in the city of Myra and its surroundings, shattering the idols and turning the temples to dust.
In the year 325 Saint Nicholas was a participant in the First Ecumenical Council. This Council proclaimed the Nicean Symbol of Faith, and he stood up against the heretic Arius with the likes of Saints Sylvester the Bishop of Rome (January 2), Alexander of Alexandria (May 29), Spyridon of Trimythontos (December 12) and other Fathers of the Council.
Saint Nicholas, fired with zeal for the Lord, assailed the heretic Arius with his words, and also struck him upon the face. For this reason, he was deprived of the emblems of his episcopal rank and placed under guard. But several of the holy Fathers had the same vision, seeing the Lord Himself and the Mother of God returning to him the Gospel and omophorion. The Fathers of the Council agreed that the audacity of the saint was pleasing to God, and restored the saint to the office of bishop."
Troparion — Tone 4
The truth of things revealed you to your flock as a rule of faith, / a model of meekness, and a teacher of temperance. / Through humility, you attained the heights; / and through poverty, riches. / O Father and Hierarch Nicholas, intercede with Christ God that our souls may be saved.
Kontakion — Tone 3
You were shown forth in Myra as an officiant of the sacred rites, / for you fulfilled the Gospel of Christ, O Venerable Nicholas, by laying down your life for your people, / and saving the innocent from death. / Therefore, you were sanctified as a great initiate of God's grace.
His feast day, in jurisdictions that use the Julian Calendar falls on Dec. 19 Gregorian.
(Side note, it is from this that we get the phrase "not an iota of difference," which is mistakenly used to mean "not even the smallest difference" but which really makes a huge difference)
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Thanks, Johnny! Great overview of your laws. Your gun laws sound as messed up as ours here in California.
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28 minutes ago, Forty Rod SASS 3935 said:
That looks like Hell with the fires out.
About the photo:
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Coffee for the Exhausted Conquerors of Engebi Island" is the title of an iconic 1944 photograph by Chief Photographer's Mate Ray R. Platnick, showing weary Marines, including Faris "Bob" Tuohy and PFC Stephen Garboski, taking a coffee break on a transport ship after the brutal Battle of Eniwetok Atoll, symbolizing their exhaustion and resilience, with the image highlighting the human cost of Pacific island-hopping during WWII and becoming a poignant reminder of war's toll.Key Details of the Photograph:- Event: The Battle of Eniwetok Atoll (Marshall Islands) in February 1944.
- Subject: U.S. Marines, covered in grime and soot, finding a brief respite with hot coffee.
- Photographer: Ray R. Platnick (USCGR).
- Significance: It captured the psychological toll and sheer exhaustion of combat, contrasting with typical heroic war imagery, and became a widely distributed symbol of survival and the harsh realities of the Pacific campaign.
The Marines in the Photo:- Faris "Bob" Tuohy: A 19-year-old Marine at the time, who survived the war, lived to be 99, and famously posed for a similar photo years later, reflecting on his experience.
- Stephen Garboski: A Private First Class with the 22nd Marines, who was tragically killed by friendly fire in Guam in July 1944.
- Unidentified Marine: The man in the middle is often thought to have also been killed in action, possibly during the Battle of Okinawa, notes one Facebook post.
Legacy:- The image, displayed in exhibitions like "Power in the Pacific", offered a rare glimpse into the mental strain of war, emphasizing endurance and the longing for normalcy.
- It remains a powerful testament to the sacrifices made by Marines in World War II, preserved in collections at museums like The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and The George Eastman Museum.
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Checking his list.
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Gun cameras on American WWII fighters were most often in one of the wings.
Cpl. Michael Senia, who was part of the 353rd Fighter Group's photographic section, loads a gun camera into the wing of a P-47 Thunderbolt. This was probably taken at Metfield air base where the group was stationed between 3 August 1943 and 12 April 1944. Image stamped on reverse: 'Keystone press.' [stamp], 'Passed for publication29 Oct 1943.' [stamp] and '290575.' [censor no.] Printed caption on reverse: '"Thunderbolts from Britain". These pictures, taken by Sam Goldstein, war correspondent for the pool, at an 8th Fighter Command air base located "somewhere in England", show the pilots of an American P-47 "Thunderbolts" fighter group as they prepare for a mission to escort their "big friends", the Flying Fortresses to a target someplace in enemy occupied Continental Europe. - Every day, squadron after squadron of these powerful little fighter ships take off from airdromes all over England to escort the big bombers waiting to be taken into Europe. Photo shows: Cpl. Michael Senia, Brooklyn, N.Y., loading combat gun camera into the wing of a P-47. Camera exposes film simultaneously with gun-fire. 63 & 64.'
The camera didn't replace any of the guns. They were electronically started by pulling the trigger. They kept running for a bit, I think 5 seconds, after the trigger was released.
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6 hours ago, Alpo said:
That says that the truck is being unloaded from a C-17.
When I first read it I thought it said it was being unloaded from AC17 - an ATTACK C-17.
Probably because just been reading that thread about Puff. But I was thinking I knew of an AC 47 and an AC-130, but an AC-17??
And that's why you should not use all caps.
There's clearly a space between the A and the C.
Besides:
https://homefrontfanfiction.fandom.com/wiki/AC-17_Spectre
It's on the internet, so it must be real.
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3. Abandoning carts in random locations.
I usually put it in the designated spot, or I stop when I get out of the store, take my bags, and leave it near the door so it's easy for someone to grab. If there is a large walkway between sections of the parking lot, and someone is gathering carts, I'll leave it there. Idjits who leave them in handicap spots should be horsewhipped.
9. Taking forever at the deli counter.
I've watched people get belligerent over 0.01 pounds. "I SAID THAT I WANTED A POUND YOU (string of explitives)!!"
Me? "I'd like a pound and a half of the bulk pork breakfast sausage, plus or minus 25%, please." Although, I'll also, if it's early and there's no like ask for "two-thirds of a dozen 8/12 shrimp, and half a score strips of your thick cut applewood smoked bacon, please." Then watch the mental gears grind. Best response i ever got was, "It's early. I haven't had enough coffee yet. What the hell do you want?" His boss was standing there, translated it for the guy helping me. We all laughed.
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6 minutes ago, Alpo said:
They probably still sell them in Canada. They sell the ammunition there.
But I have a friend in England that has a 9 mm rimfire shotgun. He shoots "those damn American squirrels" out of his garden.
Apparently the American gray squirrel is an invasive species in England.
I've gotten pretty good at translating "I don't speak gun, but this is my problem".
I still read Black Powder Cannon forums, and there are always people asking how to fire the "antique cannon" in their garden. Those "Antique Cannon" being cheap, poorly cast pot metal or almost slag Grey Iron castings from China. We usually call them pipe bombs.
So that's the "garden gun" that came to mind.
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