Subdeacon Joe
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1 hour ago, Sedalia Dave said:
Some aviator is going to need clean underwear.
He's probably done that lots of times.
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2 minutes ago, Rip Snorter said:
It ain't fear of the internet, I was a relatively early business computer user, intensely for the latter part of my career. It is the reluctance to waste useful time on mostly trivial and occasionally disgusting clips. I don't ever watch 'em.
I don't recall you complaining about not being able to watch them. What you seem to be saying is that you're indifferent about them, so it doesn't matter if you have to sign in or not. My comment was addressing those who refuse to make 2 or 3 extra clicks. There's a difference.
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See also USDOJ Files Amicus Brief with SCOTUS - TEAM SASS - SASS Wire Forum https://share.google/EDxuuXnzZw27S4xYt
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3 hours ago, Colorado Coffinmaker said:
But Subdeacon,
Do you actually have anything else to do besides look for stuff to post on the Saloon?? What's an extra Ten or Fifteen minutes here or there.
FORTY - I agree whole heartedly.
I don't specifically look for stuff to post here. But if I run across something in my meanders through the rabbit warrens of the internet that I think may be of interest to people here, I post it.
As I said, I used to spend quite a bit of time trying to find a YouTube link for clip I had seen on FB, Instagram, or Twitter/X because 1 or 2 people whined about "I have to sign in!!!!" and refuse to do it for whatever irrational reason.
One evening I realized that I had spent close to an hour and a half trying to find 2 videos on YouTube. Just to cater to what I consider irrational fears about the internet. That's considerably more than "ten or fifteen minutes here and there."
So now I limit my search on YouTube to about 5 minutes.
The only problem I've ever had, even though I don't have 87 firewalls and anti-virus programs was from having my card read at one particular gas station. It happened twice about 10 or 12 years ago. Stopped using that station and haven't had any problems since.
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4 hours ago, Cypress Sun said:
Me neither, nutmeg kills housecats?
Lethal dose is about 1 tsp of ground nutmeg. I don't know of many receipts for cookies or cakes that call for more than 1 tsp of ground nutmeg. So, one cookie from a batch that makes 3 dozen isn't likely to be an issue. 3 or 4 might be enough to give it an upset stomach or diarrhea.
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46 minutes ago, Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 said:
A traditional nutmeg grater, top compartment holds a partially grated nutmeg.
That's the type I tried, and what I used at reenactments. Those are the type that are almost worthless. What i call a "nail punch" type because it looks like you punched it with a nail.
I have a box grater that has a side that's close to a microplane instead of the usual nail-punch.
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9 minutes ago, Rye Miles #13621 said:
Here what chatgbt has to say,
- In the 1500s, Europeans were already familiar with a bird called the “Guinea fowl.”
- Guinea fowl were imported to Europe through Turkish (Ottoman) trade routes, so people called them “turkey fowl” or “turkey birds.”
- When Europeans later encountered the American wild turkey, they mistakenly believed it was a type of turkey fowl because it looked similar to the Guinea fowl.
- So the new American bird inherited the old name, and it stuck: “turkey.
Oh....I've really wanted to do this:
THAT'S AI!!!!!!
That's true of the 16th century English, who saw almost everything exotic as Turkish. It doesn't explain why most of Europe calls it some form of "Indian Chicken."
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10 hours ago, Alpo said:
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I don't worry about it. With so many medical groups, financial institution, real estate groups, etc. using electronic storage now, there's no point. Think security in the off-site storage can't be breached? How often do we read of some big organization, including government agencies, being breached? Hell's bells, just after the the Bruen decision was handed down, the CA DOJ "accidently" left the door open to all the information on CCW applications (accidental according to an independent investigation by a law firm that the CA DOJ regularly uses, and which the senior partners all make huge donations to the ruling party in California).
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8 minutes ago, Widder, SASS #59054 said:
The 1st time I watched, I thought it might be a truck (duly style) with those little lights on the top of the cab.
My 2nd watch, I 'thought it was a plane, but the take off confused me.
Then on my 3rd watch, I think its a single engine little plane and the view is from the cockpit. Its hard to see the prop spinning, but
its there.
..........Widder
Yeah, the prop is hard to see, but you can see the blur towards the end of the clip. My first impression was "That truck is going to run over that sign!" then it fell away to the bottom left of the screen. As I said, deceptive.
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12 hours ago, Alpo said:
She seems to be making it more complicated than it is.
It is called a turkey because that's the English name for it. We call it turkey because we speak English. It does not matter what the French call it, it does not matter what the cambodians call it, it does not matter what the Russians call it. Because we do not speak French and we do not speak Cambodian and we do not speak Russian. We speak English and the English call it a turkey so it is a turkey.
Why did the English call it a turkey? Because it was a really weird looking bird like nothing they had ever seen before, and everyone knows that that really weird crap that doesn't look like anything anyone has ever seen before comes from the Orient. It comes from the East. It comes from Turkey.
Any other names is just extraneous BS.
You're missing the point. Whichever Englishmen saw Meleagris gallopavo and named the bird "Turkey" thought it originated in Türkiye. Turks, and most Europeans thought they came from India, Arabs thought they were Italian or Greek, Greeks thought they were Italian, Pacific Islanders thought they were Dutch, and Indians thought they came from Peru. They were closest, as its likely origin was Mexico.
An aside, using your "because that's what the English named it" theory, we should be calling corn "turkish wheat," or possibly "Indian" for "Indian Corn," corn being the term for any grain, see "barleycorn" (which is also a unit of measure equal to 1/3 of an inch) and pumpkins "turkish cucumbers." Those seem to be the original English names.-
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I tried one of the nutmeg graters. Microplane works much better.
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The name, anyway.
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AI Overview
The US Army officially adopted the campaign hat in 1883 for general use, but a version with a flat brim was officially adopted in 1911. It was retired in 1942 but then specifically reintroduced for drill sergeants in 1964 to distinguish them from recruits.
Campaign hat timeline
1872: The hat's predecessors, wide-brimmed civilian hats, began to be adopted by the Army for use in the Western frontier.
1883: The broad-brimmed campaign hat was formally introduced as part of the Army's uniform.
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From a quick perusal of various sites, including auctions of vintage militaria, for "US Cavalry Campaign Hat 1890" it looks like considerable personalization in shaping was allowed.
BUT....hard to tell if that reshaping happened during or after the owners served. The few pictures I've found of the period from 1883 to the Spanish American War of use in service look more like a civilian slouch hat than the classic Smoky Bear campaign hat. Photos i found, dated 1890 to 1898.
This one was just described as Indian Scout, I suspect late 1870s or early 1880s.
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1 hour ago, Pat Riot said:
Yes they are.
———————————-That was great, Joe. At first I was totally sucked in wondering why someone would do such a thing.
I am stealing that for future use.
Thank you for the belly laugh!
It had me until I got to "low flying rotary-wing aircraft." Whoever made it up did a great job by using all caps and proper, or proper sounding, language.
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1 hour ago, Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967 said:
A tense, psychological 'cat-and-mouse' battle between the Enterprise and a Romulan 'Bird of Prey.' Kirk, in the Robert Mitchum role, and the Romulan captain in the Curd Jurgens part, develop a grudging respect for each other.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curd_Jürgens
Jürgens was critical of Nazism in his native Germany. In 1944, after filming Wiener Mädeln, he got into an argument with Robert Kaltenbrunner (brother of high-ranking Austrian SS official Ernst Kaltenbrunner), SS-Obersturmbannführer Otto Skorzeny and a member of Baldur von Schirach's staff in a Viennese bar without knowing who they were. After this event, Jürgens was sent to a labor camp for the "politically unreliable" in Hungary. After a few weeks he managed to escape and went into hiding.[2][5][6][7] Jürgens became an Austrian citizen after the war.
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Just out of curiosity, I revisited her YouTube channel. Since I had posted it here, she uploaded it to YouTube.
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39 minutes ago, Forty Rod SASS 3935 said:
Why do so many of you post things where I have to sign on to see them.
I won't add anything to my already annoying list of BS sites that will put my name on another site to avoid.
Because we don't know that you have to sign in.
Because almost everyone else can see them.
Because we think people will enjoy it, but we can't also find it on YouTube, so post the Instagram link anyway.
I used to spend half an hour or more trying to find on YouTube something I had seen on FB. Finally decided that my attempts to placate the people who made the choice to ignore a source of both entertainment and information. So now, if I can't find it on YouTube in about 5 minutes, I go ahead and post the FB or Instagram. There's only so far I'll go to cater to someone else's irrational whims.
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Well, butter my butt and call me a biscuit! You can buy just one!
https://highplainsspicecompany.com/shop/nutmeg-whole/
But with shipping (this is to California, I don't know your zipcode)
you might as well go to a store and buy a small bag or jar.
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1 hour ago, Rye Miles #13621 said:
I never watched that show so excuse my ignorance! 🤣😂
It was posted in Yhe Saloon not long ago.
Someone Had to Do It....The WKRP Turkey Drop - SASS Wire Saloon - SASS Wire Forum https://share.google/SLdMY1omXg6bgaryy
Usually gets posted more than once.
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Me and my horse
in SASS Wire Saloon
Posted · Edited by Subdeacon Joe
Keeps the right hand free to use his saber.
Not a saber, but watch Capt. Jerome at about 2:30