Subdeacon Joe

You should apologize for insulting him like that!

I was raised in Vista, near Camp Pendleton. Saw a lot of them, and UH-1s, in the air in the 1960s and 1970s And during fire season here in N. California I still see the Broncos and the CalFire UH-1 "Super Huey." Although that's being phased out in favor of the Sikorski S-71i Fire Hawk.

We have a winner! Originally patented in 1987 by a guy who thought it was a good idea to get more cheese, but it didn't really take off until the mid-1990s when one of the chains brought it out as a response to marketing surveys where people thought they were wasting money on the "blank crust" because they were whiny toddlers who didn't like crust. I've tried stuffed crust twice. That's more than enough. Marketing. One more thing for people to order. Lots of People in the US want 8,000 choices so they can complain about having too many choices but not enough enough choices.

Unfortunately, too many conservatives sip from the cup of compromise. "We have to compromise some to seem reasonable!" Sorry, no we don't. It's that whole "Cake and Compromise" thing. We need to adopt Приказ № 227, "Ни шагу назад!" NOT ONE STEP BACK!

Or why gunpowder stinks. "Therefore, people began to prepare special areas to produce saltpeter. These areas were called niter beds (or nitre beds, if you're used to British spelling). Other names for these include nitraries and saltpeter plantations. We will study how these worked in today's post. Niter Beds. Click on the image to enlarge. Public domain image from a woodcut from 1598. Workers would prepare long trenches lined with clay and pile on heaps of manure, rotting leaves, plants and urine, arranged with layers of limestone and ash in between, and small twigs, branches and straws in the middle, to give the mixture sufficient porosity. Such heaps can be seen as C in the image above. The sides of the various heaps protect each other to some degree from wind and weather. Every week, the workers would keep the heaps moist by adding more urine, dung water, water from drains etc. The idea was to keep the heaps moist, but not too wet. Urine from drinkers of beer and wine were in much demand, as it was thought that this resulted in superior quality of saltpeter. The process needed to be somewhat carefully controlled because if it was overdone, the production rate of saltpeter would actually decrease. Meanwhile, the workers would collect pure rainwater in a large vat (A in the image above), as it is a relatively pure source of water without any minerals dissolved in it. They would also collect wood (D in the image) to be used to prepare ashes and for boiling the liquids later on. After about a year, the heaps would be ripened enough and a saltpeter digger (E in the image above) would dig into them and take them into buildings B and A for processing. Click on the image to enlarge. Public domain image. Inside, they would use the pure rainwater to dissolve and leach the saltpeter crystals from the compost heap and then use the wood to boil the water and extract the crystals from it, as described in the posts previously." the home page for the sbove: http://firearmshistory.blogspot.com/ lots of good reading. Other references: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9703379/ https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/saltpetre-mining.htm https://history.osu.edu/publications/saltpeter-mother-gunpowder http://firearmshistory.blogspot.com/2016/03/the-history-of-saltpeter-v.html

Nope. I'm not comparing them. I'm saying that you don't need a .50 BMG for rabbit hunting. Unless you're hunting the Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog. I'm also not saying that we should send something armed with rifle caliber machine guns against massed regiments of main battle tanks. The OA-1K looks to have longer loiter time, greater versatility and adaptability than the Thunderbolt Ii. War has changed. Heck, look at what happened to Soviet...um... RUSSIAN...tanks in Ukraine. 4000 main battle tanks lost to anti-tank weapons and drones. We've retired the battleship because there are now better means of carrying out their role, maybe it's time to stop using 100 rounds of 30mm to shoot 1 Datsun pickup.

Perfect for when you go out for pizza!

There are even special pans for ot. https://www.webstaurantstore.com/wilton-2105-6878-perfect-results-non-stick-12-mold-muffin-top-slider-bun-pan-11-x-16/14321056878.html Personally, I don't see the fascination for them. Just eat the whole thing. I bet the girl in the story didn't eat the crust of sandwiches or pizza.

Um.....

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At church about 15 years ago we remodeled the hall, including a huge upgrade to the kitchen. The person who labeled the cabinets had sections for "Large Bowels" and "Small Bowels."

No, Joe.... Just walk away from that one.

Me is also a friend.

Paschal Troparion. Sung in English by Eastern Europeans Set in Appalachian Shapenote. For comparison

You'd have to fight CalFire for them! During fire season here they are Command and Control aircraft. And often the Pathfinder for LATs and VLATs, guiding them and laying smoke to show where to drop. Added: They have an insane amount of loiter time over a fire. I've seen the ones out of Santa Rosa on Flightradar24 stay over a fire 3 hours or more while the S-2s make 7 or 8 round trips.

My Dad's name was Alonzo. Somehow he picked up the nickname of "Bob." I never found out why. Some people called him Al, but that's understandable. But Bob?

40mm Bofors AA guns in storage at an ordnance depot at Bicester, Oxfordshire, England in preparation for DDay - 4 April 1944 Hardy (Sgt) Photographer IWM H 37362 WWP-PD

I first did write "Christian name" in that reply, then thought it might derail the thread, so changed it. To your point,

Love it!

Cooper. Taylor. Tyler.

Nicknames/diminutives like that don't bother me, but: Leslie, Dana, Hilary/Hillary, Morgan, and a few others i sometimes find frustrating. Irritating is the use of occupational surnames as given names.

Still, a dough made from ground grain and deep fried. Pretty much a universal concept. And.... Have you ever had Dessert Hush Puppies? A little higher ratio of AP flour, a little sugar, i like a little Allspice in the batter. Dust with Cinnamon Sugar when they come out of the fryer. Great with vanilla ice cream.

Are just savory Southern Loukemades.