Subdeacon Joe
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AI generated.
"Hear me, all ye gathered!
For I would speak of this most loathsome wretch,
this rat-born spawn of villainy,
whose very presence doth sour the air as mildew on a dying wall.
Thou!
Thou misbegotten lump of curdled malice,
hatched from verminous seed and nursed upon treachery!
Thy heart is a rat’s heart—
small, scuttling, and ever seeking darkness.
Thy tongue drips lies as naturally
as the gutter drips foul water after storm.
Look upon him, friends:
a creature fashioned by Fortune’s drunken hand,
a patchwork of cowardice, falsehood, and rat-gnaw’d villainy.
He bears the face of a man, yet all within
is but the squirming corruption of a midden rat.
Would that the heavens themselves
might strike thee from the earth,
for no honest soil should suffer
such a scurvy, base-born miscreant
to set foot upon it!
Go, sirrah—
crawl back to the cracks from whence thou camest,
and trouble noble company no more,
lest I give chase and prove upon thy hide
that even a rat may learn fear!”
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1 hour ago, Abilene Slim SASS 81783 said:
I just now noticed the typo on the YouTube image that says “Supper Guppy…” 🤣
Avoiding copyright infringement.
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5 minutes ago, Rye Miles #13621 said:
I believe this only works for percolators. No need with a drip coffee pot.
If you have a particularly acidic blend, the egg shell will take some of that bite out of it.
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I was thinking about the vortecies from the propeller with my comment.
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Ah! You live in Chicago!
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Not something you see every day.
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14 minutes ago, Alpo said:
I frequently have had people offer me coffee, and when I accept they will invariably ask me what I take in my coffee. I tell them coffee.
That confuses some people.
I'd stir in a heaping teaspoon of fresh grounds.
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An interesting description:
"The violin & fiddle exist in a quantum superposition where an object is both a violin & a fiddle at the same time until music is played on it. It is only after hearing the music that you can determine which of the two it is. That's #StringTheory"
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15 minutes ago, Colorado Coffinmaker said:
Additionally, the ONLY thing one should have in their coffee is COFFEE.
Hmmmmm.....I usually use some water along with the coffee. Makes it easier to drink.
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Congratulations! May you be blessed with many more!
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Something I ran across in FB that I thought might interest people here. Useless trivia.
"Marine Corps CPL Ralph Wendling with a Japanese sword & canteen posing with two local “Policemen” on Guadalcanal - Late November 1942
This is possibly Ralph Edward Wendling 1916-1998 from Fort Thomas, Kentucky.
Thanks DH for his assistance
Archives Branch, Marine Corps History Division
Thayer Soule Photographer WWP-PD"
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https://www.battlefields.org/learn/civil-war/battles/mine-run
Orange County, VA | Nov 27 - Dec 2, 1863
After the inconclusive Bristoe Campaign in the fall of 1863, Maj. Gen. George G. Meade planned one more offensive against Gen. Robert E. Lee in northern Virginia before winter weather ended military operations. In late November, Meade attempted to steal a march southeast from Culpeper Courthouse, turn south through the Wilderness and strike the right flank of the Confederate army south of the Rapidan River. On November 27th, Maj. Gen. Jubal A. Early, in command of Ewell's Corps, marched east on the Orange Turnpike to meet the advance of Maj. Gen. William French’s Third Corps near Payne’s Farm. French moved slowly, giving Lee and Early time to reposition their line. Brig. Gen. Joseph B. Carr’s division, supported by Brig. Gen. Henry Prince's division, attacked twice. Maj. Gen. Edward Johnson’s Confederates counterattacked but were scattered by heavy fire and broken terrain. After dark, Lee withdrew to field fortifications he had prepared along Mine Run. The next day, the Union army closed again on the Confederate position. Skirmishing was heavy, but a major attack did not materialize. Meade concluded that the Confederate line was too strong to attack and retired during the night of December 1-2nd, ending the winter campaign of 1863.
https://www.battlefields.org/learn/articles/mine-run-campaign
In the early morning of November 26, on the first national day of Thanksgiving, the Army of the Potomac set out for another bloody meeting with the Army of Northern Virginia. In command of the III Corps -- replacing Daniel Sickles of Gettysburg notoriety -- was William French, a West Pointer from Baltimore. One staffer described him as “one of those plethoric French colonels who are so stout, and who look so red in the face, that one would suppose someone had tied a cord tightly around their necks.”
French’s III Corps was ordered to cross the Rapidan at Jacob’s Ford, but moved sluggishly from the outset and caused a massive traffic jam when he had to send his artillery east to cross downstream. It was nightfall by the time French completed his crossing. The operation was a full day behind schedule; the element of surprise had been lost.
Meade was furious, and with good cause: Lee had sprung into action. From near the Chancellorsville battlefield, an officer on Lee’s staff wrote home, “With God’s help there shall be a Second Chancellorsville as there was a Second Manassas." Lee dispatched the II Corps to deal with the blue force crossing the river. On the afternoon of the 27th, the leading elements of French’s column under Gen. Henry Prince came upon Confederate Gen. Edward Johnson’s division marching east along the Raccoon Ford Road. Gen. George H. Steuart’s brigade of Maryland Confederates, bringing up the rear, was hit with the first volley. Steuart wheeled his men, formed a line of battle in the road, and attacked with a yell. Johnson, at the head of the column, promptly countermarched his men and sent them in, either unaware or heedless of the size of the enemy force he was facing. Ultimately 16,000 men were engaged, fighting back and forth in deadly confusion, through dense woods and on farmland owned by a man named Payne.
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2 minutes ago, Cactus Jack Calder said:
Ha, fooled me. I should have tried to look it up.
Thanks Joe.CJ
I looked it up years ago!
The problem is that the "official" flag has the staggered rows, there was no standardized arrangement of the stars, so there are equally valid 45 Star flags with other arrangements. I bet you were thinking of the 5 x 9 arrangement.
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10 minutes ago, Cactus Jack Calder said:
Look at the last scene. A closeup of the USA Flag waiving. Only a portion of the field is shown.
What do you see?
CJ
The 45 Star American Flag.
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Just now, Subdeacon Joe said:
While many nations and cultures have some sort of feast or festival celebrating and giving thanks to God, or whatever deity that culture has, for a successful harvest, our Thanksgiving Day is uniquely American, although it does closely match the Canadian Thanksgiving Day on the 2nd Monday of October.
George Washington issued thisThat cut and paste messed up my formatting. I don't like typing from the right margin.
Between Washington's proclamation it was sporadic, there may or may not have been a presidential proclamation, and it could vary by State.
In 1863 Honest Abe issued
QuoteWashington DC, October 3, 1863
By the President of the United States of America.
A Proclamation.
The year that is drawing towards its close, has been filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies. To these bounties, which are so constantly enjoyed that we are prone to forget the source from which they come, others have been added, which are of so extraordinary a nature, that they cannot fail to penetrate and soften even the heart which is habitually insensible to the ever watchful providence of Almighty God.
In the midst of a civil war of unequalled magnitude and severity, which has sometimes seemed to foreign States to invite and to provoke their aggression, peace has been preserved with all nations, order has been maintained, the laws have been respected and obeyed, and harmony has prevailed everywhere except in the theatre of military conflict; while that theatre has been greatly contracted by the advancing armies and navies of the Union.
Needful diversions of wealth and of strength from the fields of peaceful industry to the national defence, have not arrested the plough, the shuttle or the ship; the axe has enlarged the borders of our settlements, and the mines, as well of iron and coal as of the precious metals, have yielded even more abundantly than heretofore. Population has steadily increased, notwithstanding the waste that has been made in the camp, the siege and the battle-field; and the country, rejoicing in the consciousness of augmented strength and vigor, is permitted to expect continuance of years with large increase of freedom.
No human counsel hath devised nor hath any mortal hand worked out these great things. They are the gracious gifts of the Most High God, who, while dealing with us in anger for our sins, hath nevertheless remembered mercy.
It has seemed to me fit and proper that they should be solemnly, reverently and gratefully acknowledged as with one heart and one voice by the whole American People. I do therefore invite my fellow citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens. And I recommend to them that while offering up the ascriptions justly due to Him for such singular deliverances and blessings, they do also, with humble penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience, commend to His tender care all those who have become widows, orphans, mourners or sufferers in the lamentable civil strife in which we are unavoidably engaged, and fervently implore the interposition of the Almighty Hand to heal the wounds of the nation and to restore it as soon as may be consistent with the Divine purposes to the full enjoyment of peace, harmony, tranquillity and Union.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of the United States to be affixed.
Done at the City of Washington, this Third day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and of the Independence of the United States the Eighty-eighth.
By the President: Abraham Lincoln
William H. Seward, Secretary of State
That pretty well set our tradition, and in 1941 made it a national holiday.
Unfortunately, it's been turned into, for many if not most, a 4 day bacchanalia of gluttony, football, and shopping frenzy. The latter we can blame on Macy and the Parade, issuing in the the Christmas shopping season.-
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13 hours ago, Buckshot Bear said:
Don't know anything about it except that it's a pretty big deal for you fella's, so I hope you all had a wonderful day with family and rejoiced together.
While many nations and cultures have some sort of feast or festival celebrating and giving thanks to God, or whatever deity that culture has, for a successful harvest, our Thanksgiving Day is uniquely American, although it does closely match the Canadian Thanksgiving Day on the 2nd Monday of October.
George Washington issued thisQuoteThanksgiving Proclamation
[New York, 3 October 1789]
By the President of the United States of America. a Proclamation.
Whereas it is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and humbly to implore his protection and favor—and whereas both Houses of Congress have by their joint Committee requested me “to recommend to the People of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many signal favors of Almighty God especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to establish a form of government for their safety and happiness.”
Now therefore I do recommend and assign Thursday the 26th day of November next to be devoted by the People of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being, who is the beneficent Author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be—That we may then all unite in rendering unto him our sincere and humble thanks—for his kind care and protection of the People of this Country previous to their becoming a Nation—for the signal and manifold mercies, and the favorable interpositions of his Providence which we experienced in the course and conclusion of the late war—for the great degree of tranquillity, union, and plenty, which we have since enjoyed—for the peaceable and rational manner, in which we have been enabled to establish constitutions of government for our safety and happiness, and particularly the national One now lately instituted—for the civil and religious liberty with which we are blessed; and the means we have of acquiring and diffusing useful knowledge; and in general for all the great and various favors which he hath been pleased to confer upon us.
and also that we may then unite in most humbly offering our prayers and supplications to the great Lord and Ruler of Nations and beseech him to pardon our national and other transgressions—to enable us all, whether in public or private stations, to perform our several and relative duties properly and punctually—to render our national government a blessing to all the people, by constantly being a Government of wise, just, and constitutional laws, discreetly and faithfully executed and obeyed—to protect and guide all Sovereigns and Nations (especially such as have shewn kindness unto us) and to bless them with good government, peace, and concord—To promote the knowledge and practice of true religion and virtue, and the encrease of science among them and us—and generally to grant unto all Mankind such a degree of temporal prosperity as he alone knows to be best.
Given under my hand at the City of New-York the third day of October in the year of our Lord 1789.
Go: Washington
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Just now, Rye Miles #13621 said:
I got ya beat, I’ve been on a horse 3 times in my life! 🤣🤣
Just missed the Olympic team, you say!
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Great article, thank you.
There is another version, where the whole egg is mixed with the grounds. I've tried it a few times and all I got was a mess. I'm not a fan of "Egg Flower Coffee."-
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1 minute ago, Rye Miles #13621 said:
Not when you’re on horseback, I need my right hand for the reins! 😂
And your saber! A REAL horseman can control his faithful steed in battle with his feet and knees. (says the guy who's been on a horse twice in his life
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Sliding On the Snow
in SASS Wire Saloon
Posted
Not a good landing.