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    Finally an answer! Why Chicagoans do not put ketchup on hotdogs

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    3 minutes ago, Pat Riot said:

    probably put DelMonte in their bottles.

     

    That's all my folks bought.   I used (that's like 40 years ago) to think it was pretty good. Switched to Heinz and pretty much have stuck to that.   Hunts isn't bad,  but doesn't match it.  There was a sooper-dooper special on Del Monte about 5 years ago.  "Why did we think this was good?"  Ended up using it to make BBQ Sauce. 

     

    Same thing for pickles.   Mom only bought Del Monte Dill Halves.  After moving out I discovered Vlasic Kosher Dills and later Mount Olive Zesty Kosher Dills.  

     

    At the same time I gave the DM catsup another try I bought a jar of their Dill Halves.  Again there was the wondering how we ever thought they were good. 

     

    Obviously lots of people like Del Monte products because they  keep making them, but I  don't care for them. 

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    how big a jug?

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    8 hours ago, Alpo said:

    I was searching for water jugs, to see if they actually made one gallon jugs. Aside from milk jugs which are crappy plastic and fall apart.

     

    And I found some 11 Liter containers.

     

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    Which would be about what - 3 gallon?

     

    I've not found a 20 liter container, either. Lots of 19s, but no 20s.

     

    Those look like they are meant to be carried by 2 people. 

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    Sir Jacob Vousa

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    Link to PDF:

    https://www.mca-marines.org/wp-content/uploads/Coastwatcher-Vouza.pdf

     

     

    Different article:

     

    https://pacificwrecks.com/people/veterans/vouza/index.html

     

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    During early August 1942, Vouza walked into a Japanese Army, 28th Infantry Regiment "Ichiki Regiment" bivouac and was captured and accused of being a spy. When he was searched, they found a small U.S. flag under his lap-lap (a cloth wrapped around the waist). Afterwards, he was tied to a tree and was questioned but said nothing. Likely, he was interrogated by either Kiichi Oshima (who spoke Japanese) or Reiichi Kinoshita. Frustrated, Japanese soldiers cut him with their bayonets wounding him. Despite this torture, Vouza did not say a word and by dusk fell unconscious from the wounds. Later, Vouza claimed his interrogator or torturer was Terushige Ishimoto who spoke English and conscripted local laborers, but he was elsewhere at the time.

    Amazingly, he managed chew through the ropes holding his hands and escape but weaked had to crew roughly three miles before reaching the U.S. perimeter at Tenaru (Ilu River). The first sentry he encountered was U.S. Marine Wilbur Bewley who let him enter the line. Afterwards, he was given first aid for his wounds and a transfusion of many pints of blood. When debriefed, he provided information to the Marines about his home village of Tasimboko that was used to plan the raid led by Col Merritt A. Edson planned for early September 1942.

    After twelve days recovering from his wounds, Vouza became the "chief scout" for the Marines and helped guide the 2nd Marine Raider Battalion on their raid against Tasimboko on September 8, 1942. He also participated in the rest of the Guadalcanal campaign. In December 1942, Jacob Vouza was photographed at Henderson Field wearing Marine uniform with Sergeant Major rank insignia holding the severed head of a Japanese soldier [warning graphic photograph]. with a caption stating the head was a revenge killing for his earlier capture and torture. More likely, the head was from a soldier killed at The Gifu and posed for propaganda purposes.

     

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    Dan Bongino

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    7 hours ago, Blackwater 53393 said:

    It seems like over the years it’s been one runaway bureaucracy after another, without oversight, creating “laws” without the authority to do so!!

     

    Most of them should have been RICOed long ago. 

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    Pay.gov

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    1 hour ago, Eyesa Horg said:

    That's truly bizarre 🤯 

     

    So probably cost 10¢ for the check itself. And they spent $20 to process it! Wonder how you'd handle that with cash!

     

    Hmmm....I  suppose I could have gone into their office,  handed the clerk the bill and a sawbuck and waited to get the change.  It would have been fun to watch them grind mental gears trying to figure it out. 

     

     :lol:

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    Pay.gov

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    I once got billed for $0.00.  I ignored it on the assumption that since I didn't owe anything I didn't need to do anything. 

     

    WRONG!

     

    The next month I received an Overdue bill that showed I still owed $0.00 plus $0.00 interest, please submit payment or my service would be canceled.   So I  wrote out a cheque in the amount of "Zero and  zero/100 Dollars."  The agency cashed it and the bank processed it.  This was in the days when banks would send the processed cheques back to you with your monthly statement.   I laughed when I saw it.

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    how big a jug?

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    17 minutes ago, Pat Riot said:

    I recall one overnight hike I went on with some coworkers, the last one, I carried a 1 gallon jug in my backpack and 2 - 1 quart WW2 canteens on a web belt up a 7 mile trail to the top of a mountain.

    Dinner time came and some people had dehydrated food “because it’s light to carry” and NO WATER to make it with, because they drank the 1 quart they each had hiking up the mountain. 
    I had made the mistake of saying I had a gallon of water in my pack when we started the hike. 
    So, not only did I collect all the firewood “we” were using I was told by a boss at work that I needed to ante up some of my water. 

     

    What kind of idjit thinks that one quart of water is enough for TWO DAYS?  Especially with a moderate mountain hike?  AND with dehydrated meals that will take at least a cup (1/4 of a quart), and more likely closer to a pint (1/2 of a quart), to prepare the meal?

     

    So you started with about 12 pounds of water and Mr. Bigshot expected you to happily share?  

     

    Only thing I would have done differently was in the morning,  after filling my canteens, would be give them the rest so I didn't have to carry it out.  That would have been 3 pounds that I didn't have to carry.  Plus it would have been fun to watch them try to divy it up among themselves. 

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    how big a jug?

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    1 hour ago, Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 said:

    I suppose HDPE jugs would be frowned upon.

     

    If you're "campaigning" yes. About the only non-period thing allowed was modern medications.   

     

    At most events,  as long as they aren't visible to the public, almost nobody cared.  And even those are easier to carry with a yolk.

    how big a jug?

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    Instead of avoiding answering the question, I'll take a stab at it.  

    Doing reenacting I've faced that situation.  No choice in where our camp was in relation to where the water was.  3 gallon buckets which you put 2 gallons in, and rig some sort of shoulder yolk to hang the buckets on.  Why only 2 gallons?  Because if you fill it to 3 gallons you will likely have a gallon slosh out before getting back to camp.    If you have some sort of closed container, say 3 gallons, you fill it to 3 gallons, and again, hope to have a pair of them and hang them from a shoulder yolk even if it's just an improvised one.  

    If  you only have sauce pans, you do the best you can.Every quart of water you bring back is a quart you don't have to walk for later. 

     

    And make it a rule, everyone who is going to be near the water source ALWAYS takes am empty bucket or jug and brings back more water.  Or some firewood.  One thing I noticed in our reenacting unit was that those who were always profligate with firewood in the evening were the least likely to be the ones fetching the firewood.  They also tended to use the last of the water and not get more.  Or do something stupid like clean their mess gear in the bucket that you would be pouring out of for coffee or other cleaning.  And not be willing to carry water back to camp.  

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    Ba-Dump Tissssh - Memes

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    3 hours ago, Linn Keller, SASS 27332, BOLD 103 said:

    A Northern Ohio University ... I think it was Brother Thomas ... a native French speaker who taught Spanish, and spoke it well ... but he stopped the class and asked in honest puzzlement, "Why are you all speaking Spanish with a French accent?"

    He was genuinely surprised when the class replied "But Brother Thomas ... that's how you speak it!"

    I understand Arnold Schwarzenegger was asked about his Austrian accent.

    He could not resist hamming up his answer ... "Ahkhsent?  Vhat akhsent?"

     

    In high-school one of  y Spanish teachers was from Chicago.   In spite of living in California for the better part of 30 years he retained his Chicago accent.   So we all started picking up his Chicago-Spanish with Barcelona undertones accent .

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    Ba-Dump Tissssh - Memes

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    On 2/23/2025 at 7:48 PM, Buckshot Bear said:

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    Use a rich dough (milk and eggs in it), spread with a sweet bechemel sauce,  add grated white chocolate or butterscotch  chips, top with sliced banana, dust with cinnamon and nutmeg. 

     

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    Dan Bongino

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    About time.   For several decades now it seems that,  other than investigating bombings, the focus of BATFE has been to pile restrictions on our civil rights  

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    Duncan v. Bonta, 9th Upholds Magazine Ban

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    Posted · Edited by Subdeacon Joe

    36 minutes ago, John Kloehr said:

    Ocean State for magazine bans (and Snopes for AWB bans) had conference scheduled for today. Any orders expected Monday morning. Cert is one of the possible outcomes.

     

    It would be nice, but I'm not going to hold my breath.  Too much kicking the can down the road.  

     

    Do you perchance have links to those cases?

     

    Never mind, found 'em.

    https://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/snope-v-brown/

     

    https://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/ocean-state-tactical-llc-v-rhode-island/

    Now We Know Where Tesla Looked For the Design

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    Mad Crow

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    This crow was eating some walnuts on the ground when a cat tried to jump it.  The cat got a tail feather and the crow didn't seem to like that.   So it flew into the pepper tree and started calling in its friends.   Soon there were a dozen or so in the tree all yelling at the cat.

     

     

     

     

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