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See that Joe (shut up)? He thinks we're two different people (I said shut up!) As many times as our pictures have been posted, he still thinks we're two different people (if you don't shut up I'm going to slap the livin' crap out of you!!) I'm sorry Joe. Don't hit me again!

My thread on carrying butcher equipment in the truck. Now I know they make knives that are stainless steel, but if I really want to cut meat I get an old Hickory. It takes an edge quickly, it holds it pretty good, and with a steel it comes back real fast. But, if it gets damp, it rusts. I have heard of people buying them and then using white vinegar to "put a patina on it", which supposedly prevents rust. Never tried that, so don't know. Just seen it here on the all-knowing internet. The best thing to prevent rust is a light coating of oil, but three in one does not go real good with meat. So I was thinking canola. Will vegetable oil prevent rust?

I'm just sitting there playing solitaire before I go to bed, and this ad keeps appearing, for furniture. One piece looks interesting so I figure I will look at it and see how much they want for it. I'm not going to buy it, I'm just curious about the price. I click on the ad. Eventually the site opens. And I go to the piece of furniture that I'm interested in. I get maybe three lines read, and this big pop-up covers the entire screen, except maybe a quarter inch at the top and at the bottom. And it tells me that I can get an additional 5% off and all I have to do is sign up for their email notifications. I can't get rid of that pop up. There is no way to click on NOT INTERESTED. There is no X in the corner - none of the four corners. When I try to scroll the page, I can see that it is moving up and down, in that quarter inch of page behind the damn pop up. But I can't get rid of the pop-up, so I can't see the piece of furniture I was interested in. And I said to hell with it and backed out of the site. This is not the first web page that I have gone to and before I can get anything read a pop-up covers the entire page wanting me to sign up for email notifications. Some of them you can actually close it, but many of them you can't. So now, even if I was going to buy a hutch, I wouldn't buy it from them. Their website has pissed me off. How do people stay in business?

There's this video clip I've seen several times. Diner. Guy 1, 2, and 3. Good guy. Waitress. Guy 1 is messing with waitress. She is pleading with him to leave her alone. Good guy tells 1 to stop. 1 gets up and comes over to good guy, because he is Billy Badass and nobody is going to tell him what to do. Pushes his shirt aside to show his pistol, which will let good guy know that he is, in fact, Billy Badass. Good guy, without getting out of the booth, disarms him and puts him on the floor. Guys 2 and 3 come rushing over to help. 2 has his gun out. Good guy shoots 2 in the foot. 2 drops gun and falls to floor holding foot and screaming. Good guy points gun at 3. "Put your gun on the floor." 3 says he does not have a gun. "Put your gun on the floor." 3 draws his gun and puts it on the floor. Good guy finally gets up out of the booth, walks over and using his foot scoots the two guns -2's and 3's - aside a little bit, then leans over and picks them up. Goes back behind the counter to the french fryer. Removes the potatoes that are in it and drops all three guns in hot grease. Tells the lady behind the counter that he is not sure if the hot grease will set off the cartridges but maybe she will want to move. And then he walks out the door. 1 is unconscious. 2 is holding his foot and screaming in pain. But what is to prevent 3 from pulling his backup and shooting good guy in the back of the head? Because good guy apparently never thought that 3 would have a second gun.

Yes, it is true that Daddy was an Airedale. Prop planes until jets came along, when he transitioned to whirlybirds. That was long before they were called "helos". Whirlybirds. But he retired in 1960 when I was five, and he died in '98, so it's kind of difficult to ask him.

I took what the queen said - why is this knight different from any other knight - did the search on that but leaving the K off. Why is this NIGHT different than any other NIGHT. Turns out that that's the beginning of something during the Sedar, and it's actually what he was saying - in Hebrew. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ma_Nishtana

And now I get it.

And fat butts. Whenever I ride in a newish vehicle, I have to fight to get the seat belt buckled, because of all the room they left between the front seats. To give them all that room they have to have the female side of the seat belt tucked real tight up against the edge of the bucket, and if you're broader than about a 30 inch waist you got to fight. And I haven't been a 30-inch waist since high school.

would not be the first time.

That one seems to be missing the punchline.

Students from an Aussie military academy, taking a group selfie outside the palace?? Best I can come up with.

Thank you 40. I try.

Every so often I will have an idea for a hypothetical mind game. And I will throw it out on a board. Something like - you are doing this, and you are carrying a gun. What would you have? Now not every time, but I would say about 75% of the time, somebody will respond that they would not be carrying a gun. Why did they answer the thread? Or I will ask a question - how big is a 6 Litre engine in cubic inches? And sure as God made little green horse apples, someone will respond "I don't know". Again - why did they answer the question? People are confusing. Oh, and at about 61 inches to a liter, a 6 litre would be about 365 cubic inches, so no one needs to answer that question.

I was reading a thread on another board about roadkill. It reminded me of how several years ago I wrote to fish and game for Florida and for Alabama and for Georgia, about the legalities of roadkill, and putting down a hit deer. Florida told me that shooting a deer that has been hit by a car is perfectly legal, as long as it's deer season and I had a license. Georgia told me that there was no way in hell that I could legally shoot an injured deer. I needed to call the cops and let them handle it. Yeah, leave the little sucker in pain, but if I shoot it it best be legal hunting season and I best have an out-of-state hunting license unless I wanted to go visit the gray-bar hotel. Alabama said it was perfectly fine. Said just call it in. Usually they wouldn't even send out a deputy, unless somebody needed a tow or somebody was hurt and needed an ambulance. They said I could have the meat too. And thus my profound thought of the morning. Have butcher equipment in the truck. Harbor Freight sells a little tarp - maybe 6x8 - for about $3. Get a couple of them. Couple or three pair of nitrile gloves. Box of baby wipes. Roll of paper towels. A box of gallon size Ziploc bags. Something along the lines of an Old Hickory slicer. And most importantly, a butcher steel. Every four or five slices hit that steel couple or three strokes. Keep that blade sharp. That all packaged together would not take up a lot of room, but if you ever do hit something and you need to work on it at the side of the road, that would be very handy.

Dave sent me a link to the $2400 one, and I drooled all over my phone. I noticed, however, they did not mention the chokes. "It's a Darne, so you're just going to put it on the wall and look at it, so what do the choke matter?" And then I noticed as I was looking at the 16 gauge - and this is very important with a European 16 gauge - it doesn't give the chamber length. I have two European 16s. 2 9/16". Since that size ammunition is not made, you end up with two choices. Modify your gun, or custom make your shells. Seems like that would be an interesting thing to tell your perspective buyers. What size the chamber is and what chokes are on the gun. Unless they plan to just hang it on the wall and look at it.

Fully aware that he was going to land upside down - that is the joke. But I thought you were supposed to land from the bow. I guess I ain't too old to learn something.

It appears to me, from the location of the tower and the name, that this aircraft is approaching the stern. Didn't they always land at the bow?

Are they considered consumables? One time use? In the thread about half moon clips I mentioned that they were considered consumables, and were not saved to be reloaded but simply dropped on the battlefield when the three rounds had been fired. The Springfield stripper clips were the same. In World War II the Garand clip was a consumable. They weren't picked up and reloaded. They were left where they lay. I read that Marines in the Pacific, when invading an island, would go ashore with an L drum in their 1928 Thompson, but when it ran dry they would just drop it in the jungle and replace it with a stick. Reloading a drum is a pain in the butt when you're doing it on a table. When you're doing it in your lap in the middle of a jungle it goes Way beyond PITA. So they didn't try. I recall reading when we were first considering adopting an automatic pistol one of the complaints the brass had was that magazines were too expensive and that soldiers would leave them lying on the ground. Original 1911 mags had lanyard rings on the bottom, so you could tie them to your belt. That way when you needed to reload you just dropped the empty magazine, but you still had it and it could be reloaded Article in Soldier of Fortune magazine had a Marine telling about an experience in Vietnam. After the battle there were M16 and 1911 magazines lying around everywhere, where the Army had left them. And since the Marines never had everything they needed, he was picking them all up. They could be reloaded. Movie Kelly's Heroes. After a battle, while they were taking a rest, somebody is walking around with a bag resupplying them with Thompson magazines. One guy wanted three clips and one guy wanted five clips and one guy said he needed about seven clips and maybe 12 loose. He was told he was too trigger happy and to quit wasting ammo. But obviously they were shooting their magazines empty and dropping them on the ground and replacing them. They weren't picking them up for reload. I know, movie. So in this 40-year-long war over in the sandbox, did/do soldiers pick up and refill their magazines after a fight or do they leave them lying in the desert?

My 64 Fairlane, 69 Biscayne, and 70 and 72 Le Sabres all had the tank behind the license plate. Company work truck in 1989 was a Ford diesel. Left side. One cap in front of the rear wheel, one cap behind the rear wheel. I have an 86 Silverado. One cap on each side. That's fine if you remember to do dual tanks intelligently - drive on tank number one until it gets below a quarter, switch over to tank number two and immediately find a gas station and refill tank number one. You only have to refill one tank so you don't have to worry about location. But if you have run both of them down and need to fill both of them up you have to fill up one tank and then turn the truck around to fill up the other tank. That Ford with them both on the same side was sure nice.

I've never used half moon. In either 89 or 90, when Navy Arms brought them back into the states, I bought one of those Smith & Wesson 1937 Brasilians. I bought full moon clips. In the late 90s I bought a 625, which came with four half moon clips. I gave them away. Continued to use, and still continue to use, full moons. I currently still have the 1937 and the 625, and have added a 1917 and a 22 Thunder Ranch Special. And I have hundreds of loaded moon clips everywhere. All full moon. I have a couple hundred rounds of Auto Rim, but mostly full moon. I'm sort of tempted to lay claim to this. This is not mine, but I kind of wish it was. I really like it. Pretty cool way to go to the range.