Subdeacon Joe
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A great entertainer and a true ambassador and afficionado of baseball. One of a kind. They cracked the mould before they made him.
Rest in peace, sir.
Play ball!
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Yeah, and you can't steal stuff, Idjit!"
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59 minutes ago, Warden Callaway said:
Jim Verney made his start doing commercials.
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4 hours ago, Capt. James H. Callahan said:
It would probably work better if you load a round.
JHC
That was a heavily edited short reel. Sort of like the one minute cooking videos that don't show every knife cut of the person dicing an onion.
Thanks @Sedalia Dave for posting the full video.
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From Wikipedia:
Smith operated confidence schemes across the Western United States, and had a large hand in organized criminal operations in both Colorado and the District of Alaska. Smith gained notoriety through his "prize soap racket," in which he would sell bars of soap with prize money hidden in some of the bars' packaging in order to increase sales. However, through sleight of hand, he ensured that only members of his gang purchased "prize" soap. The racket led to his sobriquet of "Soapy."
The success of his soap racket and other scams helped him finance three successive criminal empires in Denver and Creede, both in Colorado, and in Skagway, Alaska. He was killed in the shootout on Juneau Wharf in Skagway, on July 8, 1898
https://www.legendsofamerica.com/we-soapysmith/
Soapy Smith – Bunko Man of the Old West
Soapy Smith
Jefferson “Soapy” Smith
“A gambler is one who teaches and illustrates the folly of avarice; he is a non-ordained preacher on the vagaries of fortune and how to make doubt a certainty. He is one who, in his amusements, eliminates the element of chance; chance is merely the minister in his workshop of luck; money has no value except to back a good hand.” — Jefferson R. Smith
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5 hours ago, Eyesa Horg said:
I've never had a next time!
There were only two more "next times."
She almost bled out the second time, took her to ER and they pumped 4 pints into her, along with a liter of saline just to get her on the dipstick. I dropped her at the ER door, parked, an hurried in. In the 3 minutes that took they had her in a room and had blood and saline going. "How did you even walk in?" they asked her. Got her stabilized and did a partial hysterectomy on her.
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https://www.weaponsandwar.tv/videos/cobray-terminator-12ga-shotgun
"The Cobray Terminator is an unusual - and unusually impractical - single-shot 12 gauge shotgun. It uses a sort of open bolt system in which the barrel is under spring pressure, and slams backwards into a fixed firing pin when the trigger is pulled. Only about 1500 of these were made before they were discontinued due to poor sales (not because of ATF intervention, as some people believe)."
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7 minutes ago, Eyesa Horg said:
With "jet" engines
Yeah, should have been "turboprop."
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From FB:
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In the 1870s, a family in Northern California made their home inside the hollow trunk of a giant tree, a striking example of the resourcefulness and resilience of early settlers in the region. This unusual living arrangement came about as families faced the challenging circumstances of life in remote areas, where access to traditional housing materials could be limited. The large, hollowed-out tree trunk provided shelter from the elements, offering a natural refuge in a time before modern construction methods and conveniences.
Life in such an environment must have been difficult, with limited space and basic amenities. Despite these hardships, families like this one often relied on the natural resources around them, living off the land and forming tight-knit communities. In many ways, their lifestyle exemplified the ingenuity and adaptability of settlers in the American West during the 19th century, who had to make do with what they had to survive and thrive.
While the tree trunk home may seem like an oddity today, it serves as a fascinating reminder of the creative ways in which people have adapted to their environments throughout history. It also provides a glimpse into the lives of early pioneers in Northern California, where the landscape could be both beautiful and unforgiving, and where survival often depended on the ability to work with nature rather than against it.:
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Found on FB:
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The BONUS Texas Quote of the Day is super. I hope y'all appreciate the effort I go to to read and pull out these old newspaper accounts!
"San Antonio was a very primitive town when we first came here. The houses were one-story and built of adobe, one room deep with dirt floors, and no connecting doors leading from room to room; a person went outside to enter another room at the back. The sills were more than a foot high, the window sills were three feet wide and the walls were three feet thick. The windows were iron-barred and one could sit in the window seat and chat with a passerby or flirt with an admirer. The floors were of dirt and kept hard by sprinkling and sweeping with brooms of brushy wood tops.
"The houses of the very poor were merely poles driven into the earth close together and the cracks filled with mud. Dried beef hides were spread on. the floor and the family sat on these to eat, breaking off small pieces of tortilla and folding these to form a spoon to dip up their chilli con carne and frijoles. The coffee was black, or, if diluted, goat milk was used. Frequently you saw a baby in a hammock hanging from the rafters. The hammock was made of hide.
There were no timid, frightened women there, nor were there women with frazzled nerves. Vicissitudes were their daily atmosphere and God's fresh air was their lipstick.
I remember the dreadful epidemic of cholera which followed the end of the war in 1865. People died on the streets, many from fear. So fast did they die and so many that there were no men to make the coffins. People were forced to nail pine boxes together as quickly as possible, haul them to the cemeteries and bury them in trenches side by side. But tragedy often has its comic side. There was a man in town who had never heard of prohibition, and his task of burying the dead was a gruesome one . He must have something to give him courage, so he took his courage in hand and started up to the cemetery on Dignowity Hill with a pine coffin on his dray.
"His eyesight was uncertain, the wheel struck a stump and when the driver looked back to ascertain what was the matter he saw his dead man sitting in the road with the broken coffin scattered about him. The "corpse" had only been dead drunk [not dead at all]."
----- Mrs. H. Lucas, San Antonio Express, November 22, 1925
Shown here: a photo taken from the Menger Hotel in San Antonio. It is circa 1867, making it one of the very oldest photos I have posted on this page. Understanding what it looks like now, it's hard to believe that it ever looked like this."
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5 minutes ago, Pat Riot said:
The concentration camps held mostly Jews. They also held Gypsies, Gays, the Disabled, people with mental issues and mental disabilities and probably political enemies. People seem to have forgotten that.
Also clergy, mostly Roman Catholic and Lutheran, Jehovah's Witnesses, Anabaptists, artists and actors who had been even mildly critical of the National Socialists. Also non-Jewish Poles, Serbs, Ukrainians, Russian citizens. Estimates I've seen of non-Jewish murders in the Camps vary between 6,000,000 and 8,000,000. Murdered to appease a Socialist ideology.
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5 hours ago, Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770 said:
I probably would have taken a panel off the box then.
That's what I did the next time.
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https://www.westernjournal.com/armored-humvee-machine-gun-mounts-stolen-california-army-warehouse/
Tustin Police say suspects broke in during the late hours on Jan 8 between 8 – 11:30 PM, stealing the Humvees and other military equipment including medical supplies, eight machine gun vehicle mounts, seven machine gun tripods, 18 bayonets, and 40 pairs of binoculars.
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What's in the tumbler? Whiskey Sour? Cosmopolitan? Iced Coffee?
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Just heard a good line on one of the true crime docudramas. Talking about a small town that had lots of, shall we say unsanctioned intermarital relationships, one of which led to a murder. "A soap opera in their back yards. Like Peyton Place....with guns."
Of course, typical of the entertainment industry, that channel's description of the gun is "her husband’s service revolver, a semi-automatic 9mm Glock. "
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2 hours ago, Forty Rod SASS 3935 said:
Does anyone?
The expats I knew who left as children, taken out by their parents, in the 1920s and 1930s were quite nostalgic for Holy Mother Russia.
The ones I know who left as adults in the 1990s had mixed feelings. They loved Russia, hated the Soviet Union, and were fearful of the near anarchy and criminal rule after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
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I'm going to that special hell.
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4 minutes ago, Alpo said:
That's dumb.
1.) You have no concept of a prank, do you?
5 minutes ago, Alpo said:If my wife needed feminine hygiene products, and the two of us go to the store together, I would not go in to buy them.
2.) Why not?
3.) One time she ran out (not bad planning, just a flow that was about 3x normal) and couldn't go out because of cramps. "Look for purple box." There I was in Walmart looking at the 50 foot long, 10 foot high wall of the versions fo the product. Call her, ask her the brand, the type, the specific wording on the box. 15 minutes later I flag down someone who works there. Took her about 5 seconds to find them.
7 minutes ago, Eyesa Horg said:That reminds of first time had to pick up tampons as the wife had the flu. I walk into the convenience store up the road and nearly die when I see all the choices. I knew what the box looked like..... but size!!!! Rated right up there with buying condoms when you're a teenager!
Once I asked my wife to pick up some motor oil since she was going to be out and about. 5 quarts Chevron Supreme 20W 50. When she got home she now knew how I felt when she asked me to get tampons for her.
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22 minutes ago, Ozark Huckleberry said:
Never had a cord wear out before the machine.
I've seen a couple of machines where the owners had pulled the cord loose by pulling it tight. Also, the cord doesn't take on a set with the loose coil.
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SpaceX Oops
in SASS Wire Saloon
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SpaceX says its Starship spacecraft broke up midflight as videos of debris emerge online https://search.app/vNM9ayJYyMSjnwqy7
Elon Musk, SpaceX's founder and CEO, shared a video of the debris on X, writing: "Success is uncertain, but entertainment is guaranteed!"
Musk later added: "Preliminary indication is that we had an oxygen/fuel leak in the cavity above the ship engine firewall that was large enough to build pressure in excess of the vent capacity."
Musk added that the company would makes some changes including more fire supression but that the company is not making any changes to plans for upcoming launches.