Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984
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Has the ship been moved?
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Best thing about them was that my mother didn’t cook them, they weren’t boiled and the onions were not burnt, only put em in the oven and took em out.
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9 hours ago, watab kid said:
, i liked the end result and only the one 6" span has ever displayed deflection of any kind and that was almost negligible ,
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Just a footnote in all this. The crew consisting of 22Indian nationals are confined to the ship. Most reports say “ without internet “ which I interpret as they have no clue what’s happening.
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A 20-mule team before its 165-mile journey to the railhead in Mojave, California. C. 1883-1889.
The purpose of the twenty-mule-team wagons was to transport 10 short tons of borax ore per journey. The rear wheels, standing at a height of seven feet, were equipped with 1-inch-thick iron tires. The wagon beds, crafted from solid oak, measured 16 feet in length and 6 feet in depth, with an empty weight of 7,800 pounds. The convoy, extending over 180 feet with mules in tow, consisted of three wagons: the first as a trailer, the second known as "the tender" or the "back action," and the last serving as a water tank.
When loaded with ore, the complete weight of the mule train, including the wagons, amounted to approximately 73,200 pounds. The water tank, holding 1,200 US gallons, supplied the mules with water during the journey. An additional 500-US-gallon wagon was occasionally appended to deliver water to a dry camp along the route.
Over a span of six years, the teams successfully transported more than 20 million pounds of borax out of Death Valley. The horses, positioned as wheelers closest to the wagon, were ridden by one of the two individuals typically required to operate the wagons. While larger than the mules, the horses were considered less intelligent and less adaptable to desert conditions.
Remi Nadeau's historical account, "Nadeau's Freighting Teams in the Mojave," highlights the mules' superiority for general use in the desert region.
The teamster controlled the team using a single long rein, known as a "jerk line," aided by a lengthy blacksnake whip. Typically riding the left wheeler, the teamster could also operate from the trailer seat, managing the brake on steep descents. The swamper, usually riding the trailer, would be positioned on the back action in hilly terrain to operate the brake. Armed with a can of small rocks, the swamper could encourage an inattentive mule to return to work. Both men were responsible for preparing the team, tending to the mules' needs, and addressing any veterinary or repair requirements. A mid-day stop allowed for feeding and watering the mules in harness, while night stops provided corrals and feed boxes. Each day's travel averaged around 17 miles, and the entire one-way trip took approximately ten days. The company constructed cabins at night stops for the use of drivers and swampers.
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Eat Here and Get Gas
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How frequent are the recommended oil filter changes?
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2 hours ago, Ozark Huckleberry said:
The 'flaunting the law' versus 'flouting the law' mix up is kind of in the same category as the 'could care less' versus 'couldn't care less' error. It's wrong, but has been used that way so often and so long that it's common use, and everyone knows what you mean when you say it.
Like “congradulations”
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Ages ago I went to Philly on business. Went to dinner and ordered a beer.
”can’t serve alcohol until the polls close.”
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Like when SEAL Team 6 was created. It made the Russians wonder where 3, 4, and 5 were.
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Shipwreck casserole
I didn’t make this but thought the name alone made it saloon worthy.
- Ground beef: Start with a pound of lean ground beef. You can also use ground turkey.
- Macaroni and cheese mix: Stir a package of macaroni and cheese mix into the ground meat.
- Canned tomatoes: You’ll need a can of diced tomatoes.
- Milk: A cup of milk helps create a rich and creamy sauce.
- Frozen vegetables: A combination of frozen peas and frozen corn adds color and flavor.
- Salt: Seasoned salt enhances the overall flavor of the easy dish.
- Cheese: Shredded Cheddar cheese helps bring the whole thing together.
- Cook the beef until brown and crumbly.
- Stir in the mix, tomatoes, milk, and frozen vegetables.
- Bring to a boil, then simmer until the pasta is tender.
- Season and add the cheese.
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Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.
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Road Kill Cafe
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Peter loves to drink at the local bar, but his wife disapproves of this.
One night, he's at the bar and he gets extremely drunk.
He tries to stand up, but immediately falls to the floor.
He tries this a few more times, but each time he falls to the floor.
People offered to help him, but he said no each time.
He finally ended up dragging himself home and sneaking into bed, thinking his wife would never catch him.
The next morning, Peter's wife says, "Pete, you bloody worthless idiot, no good drunkard!
You were at the bar last night drinking again!"
Peter was confused. "How did you find out?"
"The bar called. You left your wheelchair there."
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That article came from NYTimes and requires a subscription which I do not have but one of my iPads was somehow able to read it all. Shhhhh.
(Yeah I know it’s not a secret if I said it on the internet.
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At Long Last, a Gold Medal for America’s World War II ‘Ghost Army’
Only seven of the original 1,100 soldiers who carried out psychological operations against the Axis powers are believed to survive.
For most of his life, Bernie Bluestein was not allowed to say anything about what he did during World War II in Western Europe.
Mr. Bluestein was a sophomore at Cleveland School of the Arts in 1943 when he left to join the U.S. Army. He then trained in a secret unit that landed at Normandy, France, shortly after D-Day in June 1944.
“What we did is we attracted the Germans’ attention so that the real units could do whatever they had to do elsewhere,” Mr. Bluestein, age 100, said in an interview.
As a private first class serving in the 603rd Camouflage Engineer Battalion, he created fake shoulder patches that his fellow soldiers wore on their uniforms to impersonate different elements of an infantry division. He also painted truck bumpers to falsely display markings of Army units that were actually elsewhere.
In his final mission, Mr. Bluestein said, the ruses devised by the roughly 360 soldiers of his battalion forced German commanders to spread their defenses thin in eastern France. That, he said, allowed the U.S. Army’s 90th Division — which was actually 10 miles north of the 603rd — to cross the Rhine River with less resistance.
“We saved the lives of about 30,000 soldiers,” Mr. Bluestein said.
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An aerial photograph of dummy tanks and other vehicles during Operation Viersen, near the German border, in 1945. The decoy helped stretch the defenses of the Germans, alleviating pressure on other U.S. forces. Credit...Ghost Army Legacy Project
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A colorized photo of a vehicle mounted with giant speakers that was part of the “sonic deception” campaign designed to confuse enemy forces.Credit...Ghost Army Legacy Project
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A colorized photo of an inflatable tank developed by the 603rd Engineering Battalion during World War II.Credit...Ghost Army Legacy Project
The 603rd and similar units came to be known as the “Ghost Army,” which numbered about 1,100 troops. Together, they inflated rubber tanks, created fake airfields, blasted the sounds of troops marching from speakers placed on trucks and designed other diversions to fool German soldiers.
The mission of these lightly armed soldiers, who were a precursor to the Army’s current psychological warfare units, was officially declassified only in 1996.
On Thursday, Mr. Bluestein and two other members of the Ghost Army — Seymour Nussenbaum, age 100, and John Christman, 99 — received the Congressional Gold Medal on Capitol Hill before a crowd of more than 600 that included family members and friends.
Many in attendance wore lapel pins depicting a shield with a cartoon ghost that has orange lightning bolts coming from its left hand, the unofficial insignia of a unit whose mission went unacknowledged for more than 50 years.
President Biden signed the legislation authorizing the medal in 2022.
Only seven of the original 1,100 soldiers of the Ghost Army are believed to survive.
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Speaker Mike Johnson handing the Congressional Gold Medal to Mr. Bluestein, who was seated next to Seymour Nussenbaum. John Christman, a third fellow soldier, was standing third from left.Credit...Maansi Srivastava/The New York Times
Mike Bagby flew from Birmingham, Ala., to attend the ceremony in honor of his father, Wilbur Wright Bagby, who served as an officer in the Ghost Army but died in 1992, before his unit’s activities were declassified.
“He took it to the grave with him,” his son said. “He just didn’t want to talk about it.”
“The way I found out about it was I hired a guy to research his history while he was in the war, just to get a timeline. And the researcher said ‘Wow. Your dad was in the Ghost Army, huh?’ I said, ‘Really?’ I had no idea.”
Mr. Bagby said his father left the service shortly after the war and worked as a structural and mechanical engineer, mostly in the coal industry.
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Mike Bagby attended the ceremony on behalf of his father, Wilbur Wright Bagby, who was a soldier in the Ghost Army. “He took it to the grave with him,” he said of his father’s secretive work during the war. Credit...Maansi Srivastava/The New York Times
“He had a temper like a match head, No. 1, but he had an amazing vocabulary and did the New York Times Sunday crossword in 15 minutes,” Mr. Bagby said. “But all of his conversational language surrounded four letters.”
“This was a unit of nothing but a bunch of liars,” he joked. “You know, they presented themselves as a lot of different armies.”
He said that in a letter to his mother during the war, his father wrote, “I’ve worn more insignias than most people in the whole army.”
Getting the Congressional Gold Medal for the soldiers took years of work, much of it initiated by Rick Beyer, a film producer. He learned about the unit 19 years ago from a friend’s colleague who said someone should make a documentary about them.
“It took us four sessions of Congress to do it, and it took a whole team,” Mr. Beyer said in an interview. “We had 40 or 50 people who were volunteer lobbyists. They were emailing. They were calling. They were visiting offices in person. Covid hit in the middle of that, but we readjusted our way of doing things and kept going. And by God, we made it happen.”
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Seymour Nussenbaum, 100.Credit...Maansi Srivastava/The New York Times
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John Christman, 99.Credit...Maansi Srivastava/The New York Times
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In a small theater off Emancipation Hall, where military and congressional leaders greeted the veterans before the ceremony, Mr. Beyer reflected on the enormous effort coming to fruition.
“These men, these three guys and the four who are watching at home, and the thousand or so who are no longer with us, are finally being honored the way they should be for what they did in World War II.”
Mr. Beyer, who co-wrote a book about the Ghost Army and produced a documentary about it, said it had been difficult to see so many survivors pass away.
“I always say that the Ghost Army is turning into an army of ghosts, but at least we have done this,” he said. “We’ve stuck this flag in the hill while some of them are still alive. And I think that’s important.”
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My daughter said the best thing was they included the exact spice mixed need to make the recipe. Personally I would consider that to be a drawback as there is never extra.
another thing I noted when I did use a service was that there was no provision for “one person meal”. Which would never be cost effective anyway.
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3 hours ago, Rye Miles #13621 said:
Guardians, (Indians) beat the A's 8-0! It helps that the A's are the worst team in baseball, at least last year they were!
The As have the worst odds in Vegas now ))))
Here is a beginning of the season list from one sports book. One other list has the As dead last, this has them tied with the Rockies.
(The number is the offered payout for a $100 bet.)
Dodgers +320
Braves +450
Astros +700
Yankees +900
Rangers +1400
Orioles +1400
Phillies +1500
Blue Jays +1800
Mariners +2000
Twins +2100
Rays +3000
Cardinals +3000
Cubs +3500
Diamondbacks +4000
Mets +4500
Giants +4500
Padres +5000
Reds +5500
Guardians +6000
Red Sox +6000
Tigers +7000
Brewers +9000
Marlins +9000
Royals +15000
Angels +18000
Pirates +20000
Nationals +25000
White Sox +25000
Athletics +50000
Rockies +50000-
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I did some years ago. The problem I had was that I didn’t choose the meals and by the time I learned about the deadline for selecting, the discounted meals were no more and I cancelled it.
My daughter used a different service when grandson was home and he prepared the meals. She liked it. Then he went to college and her house remodel took over the kitchen.
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9 minutes ago, Texas Maverick said:
Has anyone else tried the new Campbells Ghost Pepper Chicken Noodle Soup? I did this past week and it was not flavorful and very hot. I will NOT BUY it again.
TM
I have not. Thanks for the warning.
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It was on a trip to CA around 2011 when I was introduced to Cholula. I like it.
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I was watching a video on the Navy’s swim calls. There was a line….
”During WW II before safety was invented…”
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It's Almost Monday Humor Thread
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I am desperate for some help. I recently upgraded from Girlfriend 7.0 to Wife 1.0 and found that the new program began unexpected child processing and also took up a lot of space and valuable resources. This wasn't mentioned in the product brochure.
In addition Wife 1.0 installs itself into all other programs and launches during system initialisation where it monitors all other system activity.
Applications such as Boys Night Out 2.5, and Golf 5.3 no longer run and crash the system whenever selected. Attempting to operate Sunday Football 6.3 always fails but Saturday Shopping 7.1 runs instead. I cannot seem to keep Wife 1.0 in the background whilst attempting to run any of my favourite applications. I am thinking about going back to Girlfriend 7.0 but de-install doesn't work on this program.
Can you please help!
Joe.
Dear Joe,
This is a very common problem resulting from a basic misunderstanding.
Many men upgrade from Girlfriend 7.0 to Wife 1.0 thinking that Wife 1.0 is merely a UTILITIES & ENTERTAINMENT program. Whereas Wife 1.0 is an OPERATING SYSTEM designed by its creator to run everything.
You are unlikely to be able to purge Wife 1.0 and still convert back to Girlfriend 7.0 as Wife 1.0 is not designed to do this and it is impossible to de-install, delete or purge the program files from the system once installed.
Some people have tried to install Girlfriend 8.0 or Wife 2.0, but have
ended up with even more problems. (See in manual under Alimony/Child Support and Solicitors Fees). Having Wife 1.0 installed myself I recommend you keep it installed and deal with the difficulties as best you can.
When any faults or problems occur, whatever you think has caused them, you must run the C:\ IAPOLOGISE program and avoid attempting to use the *Esc-key. It may be necessary to run C:\ I APOLOGISE a number of times, but hopefully eventually the operating system will return to normal.
Wife 1.0 although a very high maintenance program can be very rewarding. To get the most out of it consider buying additional software such as Flowers 2.0 and Chocolates 5.0.
Do not under any circumstances install Secretary (Short Skirt version) as this is not a supported application for Wife 1.0 and the system will almost certainly crash.
Best of luck!
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