Subdeacon Joe
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https://www.roadandtrack.com/car-culture/classic-cars/a28678066/studebaker-manta-ray-for-sale/
The Studebaker Manta Ray was a one-off custom car built by Glen Hire and Vernon Antoine of Whittier, California in 1952. Assembled with fiberglass molds using 1950s aircraft design as inspiration, it looks unlike anything else on the road, sporting a center turbine-like grille and three tail fins. Sadly, it never went into production.
After making its way onto magazine covers throughout the early 1950s, it was acquired by a collector in Junction City, Kansas, who kept it in storage up until his death in 1990. His son then took ownership and got it back to running, driving condition. At some point, the stock Studebaker engine was swapped out with a Dual-Quad Cadillac V-8, and the car was repainted from gold to light pink.
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This is definitely a "play with it" receipt. Pepper jack cheese? Gruyere? Smoked Gouda? Feta? Blue? Add some garlic powder or onion powder. Maybe crispy fried onions or jalapeños.
Cut the cheese into the 3/4" to 1" chunks shown, or grate it so it disappears into the dough.
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8 hours ago, Eyesa Horg said:
And then they still don't taste good.
Heathen! Sassenach!
I bet you put ketchup on your well done porterhouse!
You think hotdogs on the grill is BBQ.-
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Ereyesteday today's yesterday was tomorrow.
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7 minutes ago, Sedalia Dave said:
Definitely dress the part however, it might help if you don't include the period correct bayonet.
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1 hour ago, Rye Miles #13621 said:
Well even though we have open carry in Ohio, I don’t think carrying a 15lb musket or something would go over well in the park that I walk in or my neighborhood for that matter.
I could follow Pat Riot’s idea of a barbell though! 😂You just have to dress for it!
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2 hours ago, Ozark Huckleberry said:
for most of them, the discomfiture was likely because they had no way of knowing it was a departure from the lyrics, and they felt exposed for not knowing it.
Ah! So now the audience is a bunch of ignorant louts. Got it. Dollars to doughnuts most of them knew that what she sang after her oration were not one of the four verses of it.
2 hours ago, Ozark Huckleberry said:Still others tried to appear they were singing along. For both, they were missing the message Ms. Millben was offering in the second part -- that the American dream is still alive, and the U.S. is still that 'City on a Hill' for those who believe in freedom.
FINALLY! You are now admitting that it WASN'T the national anthem but a personal message.
2 hours ago, Ozark Huckleberry said:Ad aburdum hypothetical.
Not at all. An example of how clashing it was.
2 hours ago, Ozark Huckleberry said:'Loose homage'? The first half was pretty much on-point, other than a little tempo rubato, but then everyone 'mis-tempos' the anthem a bit, in my opinion
Yes, they do. But usually not to the point of making it impossible for others to join in.
2 hours ago, Ozark Huckleberry said:On 7/21/2024 at 7:29 AM, Subdeacon Joe said:I don't see a performer giving hisbor her best at a traditional rendition as condescending.
Neither do I. To quote (emphasis added):
On 7/21/2024 at 6:23 AM, Ozark Huckleberry said:I don’t see a traditional performance as mediocre, if that’s the best the performer has.
On 7/21/2024 at 6:23 AM, Ozark Huckleberry said:A performer whose style and skill makes them capable of more than the narrow ‘traditional’ rendition, but dials back their performance, is holding back their best. That’s not respectful, it’s condescending.
Arguing out of both sides of your mouth. You are implying, strongly implying, that any singer who doesn't go into flights of fancy is somehow dialing it back. Sort of, well, if all they are capable of is a mediocre rendition by singing it fairly straight forward, fine.
I guess this guy didn't give it his all because he didn't turn it into a full blown, 10 minute long operatic piece. Yeah, a few personal touches, but well within the usual range of large venue performances.
This guy pushes it a bit more at the end and makes it hard to sing along with, but still reasonably straight forward.
But he's obviously "capable" of doing so much more to it.
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3 hours ago, Ozark Huckleberry said:
Those two, I can figure. Plenty of animals tear into bee hives for honey, lots of animals eat eggs. It isn't a stretch to think early people noticed it, and followed the critters' examples to discover a food source.
Kopi Luwak coffee is what has me stumped.
Olives. You ever eat a fresh olive? I tried one once. Almost turned my head inside out. Who figured out "Hey! I bet if I soaked these in salted water, along with some wood ash, and changed the water every other day for about 60 days, these things would taste good!"
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On 7/22/2024 at 5:44 PM, Alpo said:
And where the heck are the grits?
They're for dessert, with butter, cream, and orange marmalade.
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2 hours ago, Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967 said:
C'mon, Cyprus ~ surely you can think of something more imaginitive than a simple firing...!
Maybe a high speed inspection of the bore of Mk. 7 16/50.
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I've often quoted that and, at those who scream the misquote of the wall of separation, ask if this letter should also be taken as constitutional law.
Partial Context:
"In order to assure a certain progress in this reading, consider what hours you have free from the school and the exercises of the school. Give about two of them every day to exercise; for health must not be sacrificed to learning. A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercise, I advise the gun. While this gives a moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprize, and independance to the mind. Games played with the ball and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be the constant companion of your walks. Never think of taking a book with you. The object of walking is to relax the mind. You should therefore not permit yourself even to think while you walk. But divert your attention by the objects surrounding you. Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far. The Europeans value themselves on having subdued the horse to the uses of man. But I doubt whether we have not lost more than we have gained by the use of this animal. No one has occasioned so much the degeneracy of the human body. An Indian goes on foot nearly as far in a day, for a long journey, as an enfeebled white does on his horse, and he will tire the best horses. There is no habit you will value so much as that of walking far without fatigue. I would advise you to take your exercise in the afternoon. Not because it is the best time for exercise for certainly it is not: but because it is the best time to spare from your studies; and habit will soon reconcile it to health, and render it nearly as useful as if you gave to that the more precious hours of the day. A little walk of half an hour in the morning when you first rise is adviseable also. It shakes off sleep, and produces other good effects in the animal œconomy. Rise at a fixed and an early hour, and go to bed at a fixed and early hour also. Sitting up late at night is injurious to the health, and not useful to the mind.—Having ascribed proper hours to exercise, divide what remain (I mean of your vacant hours) into three portions. Give the principal to history, the other two, which should be shorter, to Philosophy and Poetry."
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2 hours ago, J-BAR #18287 said:
The Park Service had the phone removed because people were using it. Government hacks.
Had it removed because people were leaving trash, taking souvenirs, and trampling down plants.
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2 hours ago, Forty Rod SASS 3935 said:
If he can't access it it's already lost.
But if he can get the account reinstated it's not.
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A Ghost in the Desert - 760-733-9969
(HELLO....)For several decades, a solitary booth stood in the middle of the Mojave National Preserve, miles away from civilization. Riddled by bullet holes and carpeted by broken glass, it looked like it had seen better days. Long before the proliferation of smartphones and social media, such edifices were the only way to call strangers and friends when you were far from home. It had been placed there in 1948 to service cinder miners, but no one knows exactly by whom. Its only neighbors were desert plants, telephone poles and—if it was lucky—a passing coyote. Over all those years, it was silent, with only the wind breaking the quiet of the desolate landscape. But then one day ... it began ringing. Like many legends, though, this story begins not with an object, but with a man.In May 1997, Arizona resident Godfrey “Doc” Daniels was reading a zine when he stumbled across a peculiar letter to the editor. A fellow known only as “Mr. N” had spotted a dot labeled “telephone” on a map of the Mojave, fifteen miles from the nearest paved road. Intensely curious, Mr. N drove all the way out there, found the booth alongside a dirt path, and wrote down its number—760-733-9969. Now burning with the same curiosity that had fueled this mysterious writer, Doc called the number several times a day over the course of a month, hoping to contact whoever might be on the other end. He even placed a sticky note on his bathroom mirror that asked him, “Have you called the Mojave Desert today?” Doc had begun to lose hope when one day, to his surprise, someone picked up—a cinder miner named Lorene. The two made small talk for several minutes, but, in his excitement, Doc forgot to ask her exactly where the phone booth was located. Fortunately for us, he tracked it down with a friend, drove out to it amid a fierce lightning storm, and made calls to his friends.Then those friends began making calls to each other from the Mojave phone booth, thrilled by the strange novelty of it all. However, Doc was not content to keep this secret confined to such a small social circle. He soon created a website that listed the booth’s number, and suddenly people began making pilgrimages to this mechanical oasis. Some of them called their own friends, but others simply wished to discover strangers across the globe.One man camped out among the Joshua trees for a month and answered five hundred phone calls. Another old man simply wanted to tell stories from his trucking days. Many of these voyagers even mailed Doc news clippings about a lone structure out in the desert that had become a worldwide sensation.Unfortunately, this early viral Internet phenomenon was too good to last. Concerned about the dramatic increase in foot traffic and possible disturbances to wildlife, Pacific Bell and the National Park Service discussed tearing it down. In May of 2000, during one of the last phone calls that the booth received, Lorene’s brother chatted with a man in England before going off to work in the cinder mine. When he left his sister’s house the next day, the booth had been razed to the ground.“It was just attracting too much unwanted attention in terms of litter and detritus, and mementos, and things that were being left onsite,” explained Dave Nichols, park archeologist for Mojave National Preserve. “I think that’s ultimately why Bell was convinced to remove it (the phone booth).”For a while, people still journeyed out to the concrete slab, proving just how powerful an idea the phone booth had become. One man even constructed a tombstone for the booth, to mourn its untimely passing. However, the Park Service eventually removed the slab too, and consistently thwarted attempts to add a commemorative plaque.“Public lands are not there to allow individuals to put whatever they want out there,” added Nichols. “But I understand the sentiment, of course.”Still, despite the physical absence of the Mojave Phone Booth, its legend would not die. Several filmmakers paid tribute to it, including in a 2006 feature starring Steve Guttenberg, Annabeth Gish, and Missy Pyle, appropriately called Mojave Phone Booth. Yet the rings had stopped ... until now. On July 31, 2019, a benevolent hacker named Jered Morgan (a.k.a. Lucky225) acquired the original number and set up a system where people can dial it and enter a conference call. You might be fortunate enough to find a stranger on the other end of the line, or you might find yourself talking into the void ... except this time, not even the coyotes are listening.
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Tea, hot or iced, is still tea.
Coffee, hot or iced, is still coffee.
Soft drinks are usually carbonated, but "-ade" beverages - usually citrus juice mixed with water and sweetener - are soft drinks.
"Sparkling Cider" is a soft drink, as opposed to "Cider" or "Hard Cider" which are alcoholic. -
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Well...that was interesting.
I was responding to a comment on the FB page of our local newsrag. It was taking a long time to post, and then a notice popped up that my account was locked, there had maybe been unauthorized activity on it. But got walked through steps to unlock it.-
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https://wikovveteranclub.cz/en/the-produced-types-and-categories-of-the-cars/
Wikov 35 “Kapka” (Drop)
Beside the series production of the vehicles and a few pieces of the sports raced vehicles, there were outstanding and experimental vehicles and prototypes from the beginning of the 1930s. The car maker reacted to the then developing trends in a construction of motor vehicles. The most popular of them was the first Czechoslovak car with aerodynamic bodywork Wikov 35 “Kapka” (“Drop”). With this car, the car maker was willing to help with increasingly clear tendencies to adjust the shape of cars to higher speeds. Although this project was not successful and from the beginning was problematic from the point of applicability at the then road conditions, it showed one of the options of the future development of car bodywork.
http://wikovveteranclub.cz/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/16.jpg
The vehicle 35 “Kapka” (Drop), the first Czechoslovak car with an aerodynamic bodywork.
https://auta5p.eu/lang/en/katalog/auto.php?idf=Wikov-35-Kapka-17243
Wikov 35 Kapka, 1931
Manufacturer Wikov Model 35 Kapka Year of production 1931 Start of production 1931 End of production 1931 Body type tudor Number of doors 2 Number of seats 4 Engine position front Drive wheel rear Fuel petrol Number of cylinders inline 4 Cooling liquid Capacity 1743 ccm, 105.9 cu-in Bore 72.0 mm, 2.835 in Stroke 107.0 mm, 4.213 in Compression ratio 5.2:1 Valve Gear OHC Valves per cylinder Fuel system carburator, 1 x Zenith Aspiration normal Max power [kW / PS / hp] 26 / 35 / 35 at 2800 rpm Max torque [Nm / ft-lb] 114 / 84 at 1600 rpm Total power (hybrid) Total torque (hybrid) Gearbox M3 Gearbox (option) Wheelbase 2800 mm, 110.2 in Front track 1280 mm, 50.4 in Rear track 1280 mm, 50.4 in Length Width Height Weight 1200 kg, 2646 lb Maximum speed 105 km/h, 65 mph 0-100 km/h Standing km Foto: Lukáš Hron, Concours d´Elegance Loučeň 2015 + archiv Auta5P
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1 hour ago, Forty Rod SASS 3935 said:
Find another way to contact the VFW, BOB..... and congratulations on getting out from under that Micky Mouse childish bunch of crap.
The problem is that if FB deleted his account all the content is lost.
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9 minutes ago, Hoss said:
I’m operations manager for a towboat company. We operate boats in S Texas, primarily between Houston & Brownsville. Occasionally to Port Arthur area, and we used to haul sugar from Rio Hondo Tx to New Orleans. The sugar cane farmers shut down due to not being able to get their water allotment out of the Rio Grande. (Mexico was using more than their share, US Govt would not enforce treaty)
we move a lot of scrap steel, steel coils, structural steel, fertilizer, petroleum products, chemicals, project cargoes, petroleum coke, you name it, we move it. Towboats are most efficient form of transportation. We can move more cargo per gallon of fuel than any other form of transportation.
I’ll pm you a link to our website
Thanks! Sounds like fascinating, and stressful, work.
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A full out, permanent ban? Or just like a 30 day time out?
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4 hours ago, Sedalia Dave said:
Can't watch the videos. The 360 view format doesn't work without installing the youtube app by google.
These aren't the same ones, but:
I'll tell ya, the first time I drove up past Stockton and saw a containership that far inland it really tweaked my mind.
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1 minute ago, Hoss said:
Barvpilots are extremely well paid. Depending on the port, many around 500K.
they are advisors to the ship captain. If they give bad advice and run aground or whatever, no responsibility! The jobs are coveted, in addition to being licensed & qualified, you have to be voted into the organization. Many are father to son type deals.
FWIW, my inland towboat captains make 150-170K. Takes about 5 years to go from green deck hand to licensed wheelman. In my 45 years I’ve never laid off a captain. I’ve fired a few, but usually only hurt myself as they will have another job tomorrow, I’ll be scrambling to cover the position!
yes, I earned my license, but did not care to be gone from home, so I run a desk now. The inland maritime industry has been very good to me and my family.
OK, now I'm curious...may I ask your profession, background, etc?
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4 hours ago, Sedalia Dave said:
Can't watch the videos. The 360 view format doesn't work without installing the youtube app by google.
That's odd. I'll go to my desktop and try loading from there.
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