Subdeacon Joe
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11 hours ago, Alpo said:
Don't:
Add to the population.
Subtract from the population.
Become the subject of a Safety Brief.
End up in:
Jail (gaol if in a Commonwealth port)
Hospital
Morgue
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1 hour ago, Pat Riot said:
Mmmmm…
I am kidding!
I know. Sorta like grits.
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This wild-looking thing is the T87, (full designation: Carriage, Motor, Amphibian, 105mm Howitzer, T87). It was an attempt to create an amphibious version of the M18 Hellcat tank destroyer. The running gear and lower hull are taken from the M18, but the upper hull is specially made to enable it to float. The turret was taken from the T88, and contains a gyro stabilised 105 mm gun. Despite these major modifications, the T87 could still reach 43 mph on land. It never entered production.
Another crazy weaponhttps://navalhistoria.com/the-pt-boat-elco-thunderbolt/
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Your best bet might be to call a museum near you and ask. Or, if you are near a university, call the history department, explain what you need, and one of the instructors should be able to either suggest ways to do it or where to find out.
For display on a staff, get some unbleached cotton yarn and a tapestry needle and carefully work the needle between the threads on the hoist and pull enough yarn through to tie the flag to the staff.
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2 hours ago, Pat Riot said:
I remember a game we played as kids called “Slap” (at least I think that was the name)
You put your hands together out in front of you. The other guy tries to slap your hands. You try to move your hands up, down or separate them like scissors to avoid contact. If the other person misses then they have to put their hands out and you try to slap their hands. This goes on until there is a miss then roles are reversed.
Quitting means you’re a punk, a sissy or any other demeaning name guys call each other to taunt the quitter.
Pain is an incentive to get quicker with this game.
We called it "Hot Hands." Two versions.
In the version you describe if the slappee broke his hands apart the slapper got a free shot. The slapper started with his has behind his back. He could flinch, shoulder fake, etc, but if his hand came out and he didn't try to slap the slappee got a free shot and became the slapper.
The other version, the slapper held his hands out, palms up, parallel to the ground and about shoulder width apart. The slappee rested his hands lightly on the hands of his opponent. Slapper could try fakes, if his opponent broke contact before he committed to a slap he was subject to a free hit. Slapper could break contact and flip his hand over for same side hits, break contact and cross under or over for opposite side hits. If he broke contact but didn't try a slap he was subjected to a slap and roles changed.
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18 minutes ago, Eyesa Horg said:
I guess when they said "it's after 5 somewhere", they were referring to AM as compared to PM today. Myself, I'm not real into a beer for breakfast, especially with pudding!
The hasty pudding was grains or flour boiled in milk or water with some salt. Or mixed as a batter and boiled in a pudding cloth until it was cooked through, like a very dense dumpling.
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"Michael Rennie was ill the day the earth stood still..."
One of the reasons that Michael Rennie was cast as Klaatu in "The Day the Earth Stood Still" (1951) was because he was generally unknown to American audiences, and would be more readily accepted as an "alien" than a more recognizable actor. Studio head Darryl F. Zanuck had shown the script to Spencer Tracy, who was eager to play the role. Producer Julian Blaustein objected, saying that the audience would have numerous expectations about the character upon seeing an actor of such repute emerging from the flying saucer. Blaustein knew that Zanuck had the ultimate control, and if he insisted, Blaustein would either have to resign, or make the movie in an unsatisfactory way. Fortunately, Zanuck agreed, and Rennie was cast instead.
The first actor to whom the role of Klaatu was actually offered was Claude Rains, who wanted to accept it, but had to decline because of a prior commitment on Broadway. Decades later, director Robert Wise would remark, "Fortunately, we couldn't get him."
The Army refused to cooperate after reading the script. The studio then approached the National Guard, which had no qualms about seeing the Army depicted in a less-than-flattering light, and gladly offered their cooperation.
Patricia Neal has admitted in interviews that she was completely unaware during the filming that the film would turn out so well, and become one of the great science-fiction classics of all time. She assumed it would be just another one of the then-current and rather trashy flying saucer films, and she found it difficult to keep a straight face while saying her lines.
This was Rennie's third film for 20th Century Fox; though he was under contract to the studio for seven years, and while he had important supporting roles in all of them, Klaatu was the only lead role he was ever given. (IMDb)
Belated Happy Birthday, Michael Rennie!
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Enormous 100-ton barrels of 15-inch Mark I naval guns at the Coventry Ordnance Works, dated September 1917. Just under 200 of these guns were made.
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5 hours ago, Alpo said:
While funny, I won't touch one of those things, except maybe to throw it into a fire.
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A 12-ton lead-and-rubber-shielded cockpit with windows 10-12 inches thick protected the flight crew from the otherwise lethal amount of radiation emanating from the reactor hanging in the bomb bay. Special water pockets installed aft of the cockpit also absorbed radiation.
Among the most audaciously hazardous concepts of the 1950s was the notion of installing an operational nuclear reactor inside an aircraft, a venture pursued by both the Soviet Union and the USA. The NB-36 ‘Crusader’ epitomized this daunting venture, representing a potential ecological catastrophe each time it ascended. Nevertheless, it managed to execute 47 flights. Its purpose was to evaluate the viability of managing a nuclear reactor during flight, serving as a preliminary step towards creating a genuine atomic-powered aircraft.
The NB-36 carried a three-megawatt reactor into the skies, and due to the extensive shielding necessary to protect its crew, it became the aircraft with the highest quantity of lead integrated into its structure, with the cockpit’s rubber and lead shielding alone amounting to eleven tons.
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43 minutes ago, Father Kit Cool Gun Garth said:
In high school one of teachers kept a bad of the little Tootsie Rolls in his desk. He would toss them to people as attaboys or throw them hard to get your attention.
He had pretty good aim.
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32 minutes ago, Marshal Dan Troop 70448 said:
. Its the new movies were night scenes are completely black, mumbling and whispering with loud soundtrack music, etc
And interior scenes smoke filled to "London peasoup fog" levels, and action scenes shot 2 inches from the actors and cutting to different views every quarter of a second.
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1 hour ago, Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474 said:
I find it especially bad with people with high pitch voices, those that talk using the tip of their tongue or with poor enunciation
Virtually every actress (for the high pitch), and actor now.
I have no trouble following the fast-paced banter of Cary Grant and Ros Russell in "His Girl Friday", or Grant and Katherine Hepburn in "Bringing Up Baby."
But the style for the past few decades of mumbling from the back of the throat, along with dialog at 45dB and music and sound effects ai 145dB, I find most movies unintelligible.
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45 minutes ago, Chicken Rustler, SASS #26680 said:
Yeah, there's definitely some irony going on here.
More like hypocrisy. Like the hundreds of Climate Change people flying in on their private jets, or getting out of their stretch limos to be seen riding a bicycle for the last 50 yards to a climate change summit.
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2 minutes ago, Pat Riot said:
It’s annoying as heck!
Do all Brits mumble and slam their words together like Germans, or what. They can’t even speak English properly.
Lol! You mean you only need subtitles for every western made on the last 25 years. Talk about Mumbling! And from the back of the throat, so that even if you could discern where the words start and stop, you're hard pressed to understand them because of the gargling.
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3 hours ago, Alpo said:
No, Sydney couldn't do that. She does like the spicy.
Stop off at the Thai restaurant for lunch.
Then a little later she stops off for lupper(?) - between lunch and supper - at a place that specializes in spicy food.
No thanks. I don't consider "hot" and "pain" to be flavors. Although we will ask for "Your kind of hot" at an Ethiopian or Eritrean restaurant. Very hot, but of a type that doesn't mask the other flavors.
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8 hours ago, Cypress Sun said:
You read some weird ****.
Sliced bananas, sliced cheddar cheese, Miracle Whip on bread...now that's some good stuff.
You forgot the Vegemite.
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6 hours ago, Pat Riot said:
When my wife and I went out to CA in June for my grandson’s graduation I saw a few of them. 1 white, 3 silver and a black one. They all look weird from any angle in real life.
6 hours ago, Pat Riot said:a “B” sci fi movie
Yep. Not really ugly, but very, very strange. But in the rear view mirror it was like a Klingon or Romulan war ship coming up on me. As you say, a "B" sci fi movie or 1960s television series that made it half a season.
A few days ago when I stopped at the casino in Rohnert Park to charge my car (it's free, paid for by the suckers who go into the casino), I saw 3 at the 1772 charging stations. Most I've seen in one day is six. Also a fair number of Rivian pickups and a couple of the Rivian SUVs.-
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Cinnamon Toast Crunch instead of Captain Crunch and leave off the peppers and pepper powder. Chocolate chips instead of the syrup.
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When does one know when to stop?
in SASS Wire Saloon
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With any labor intensive hobby (labor should include longhoursof driving), when you get to the point of asking yourself, "Why am I doing this?" while getting your gear ready, or loading up for the trip, or half way to an event, two events in a row, it's time to stop.
I was in the SCA for over 15 years, and for the most part enjoyed it. Got home filthy, dog tired, and knew that I had about 20 hours of cleaning, repairing, and repacking ahead of me, but even that was sort of fun. Chipped away at it after work for a week. Then the last 2 years I found myself letting the after event chores wait longer and longer, until a lot of the repairs and repacking didn't get done until the week before the next event. The joy was gone and it was just another chore.
Same for Civil War reenactment, especially because I did the care and feeding of the cannon for the unit. Didn't help that many of the people in the unit had the mechanical and camping skills of someone with a degree in Comparative LGBTQMOUSE Dance, and corresponding social skills. Burned out in about 8 years (some of that was because for some reason I always ended up having to change at least one tire on the trailer during the drive. ).
Basically, when it becomes a chore rather than a pleasure, it's time to quit.