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Apparently it was. I just did a search, as Eyesa mentioned, on 1956 and found this truck.
https://cdn.dealeraccelerate.com/ideal/1/158/7458/1920x1440/1956-ford-f100
And it plainly says Ford F-100.
I then did a search on 1969.
https://cdn.dealeraccelerate.com/ideal/1/647/19586/1920x1440/1969-ford-f-100-ranger
And as memory said, it is marked Ford 100.
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Minor question. Not about the show - I've never seen either show. 1956 F100.
Did they call it an F100 then?
I had a 1969 Ford pickup. And on the side of the hood it said it was a "FORD 100".
Not F100 - Ford 100. So that makes me wonder if there was such a thing as an F100 in 1956. Since there apparently was not such a thing in 1969.
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4 minutes ago, Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 said:
But does the whiteboard grant permission?
Point taken. Picture gone, replaced by link.
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Doc - the guy in the blue shirt - has been sucked into a wormhole and thrown a hundred years in the past, and is currently staying with his great-grandparents in 1924. Yesterday great grandma shot a moose - they live in Alaska - and after all the butchering she asked if there was anything that she could make for him since they had all that fresh meat. And he asked if she could make a pepperoni pizza.
https://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb4179.png
My first thought, when he asked, was since pepperoni is a cured sausage, it would be kind of difficult to make with fresh meat.
I figure this one should be okay - in the upper left it's got the actual name of the strip, and in the lower right it's got the copyright data.
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Neither rain, nor snow, nor sleet, nor dark of night shall stay this courier from his appointed rounds.
I am signed up with the post office. Every day that I will get mail I get an email telling me what is coming. Letters, packages. Most stuff includes the photograph of what is coming.
Tuesday I was supposed to receive my electric bill and a couple of pieces of junk mail. Tuesday when it was time to collect the mail it was snowing, and I decided it could wait until tomorrow. Yesterday, Wednesday, I was supposed to get one piece of junk mail. I went down to the street because I figured I really ought to get the electric bill. But the gutter in the street was running 3 foot wide, and the street was covered with a sheet of ice. I decided I could not step out into the street to go get the front of the mailbox, so I would let it all wait till tomorrow - which is today, Thursday.
The dog said she needed drained, so we went out to go for a walk. Once I got away from the house proper, end of(INTO. end of - geezus otto) the sunlight, the driveway was dry. Walking was easy. I get to the street and the gutter is about one and a half feet wide, and completely frozen over. But on the other side the street is clean and dry. So I step over the gutter. And we go for a walk. And she makes yellow snow two or three times. When returning to the house I figured I would finally collect yesterday's and the day before's mail.
The mailbox is empty.
Apparently the snow "stayed the courier". For the past 2 days.
When it snows up there in Yankee land, do you still get mail? Or do you only get mail 6 months out of the year?
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4 hours ago, Eliphalet R. Moderator said:
Here's a workaround, just post a link to the original image/article/whatever, without reposting that image/article/whatever. This came up in an earlier iteration of The Wire when folks were posting copyrighted images of the Swedish Bikini Shooting Team.
I don't see how this would work. Most of the cartoons, memes, funny photos, etc that I post I saved from the Smith & Wesson board.
So instead of posting the picture I should post a link to the post on the Smith & Wesson board where I got the picture from? Because I don't know where they got the picture from.
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My house is on the south side of the street. The sun is in the southern sky. That means that the house across the street had all the snow in his yard melted. But my house cast a shadow on the yard and I still have four inches of snow.
I went out with a shovel and I busted up the ice on my driveway, in front of my front door. Scooped it up and threw it out in the yard. Shoveled a pathway to dry drive. And I could actually walk without falling down. But trying to walk on that inch and a half sheet of ice - boy howdy that wasn't fun.
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Winnebagos, specifically.
Did they have the same setup with the steering and ignition as a passenger car does? Without the key you can neither turn the wheel nor take it out of gear?
Something they just did on TV. They didn't have the key so they couldn't start it and move it back off of where they needed to move it. So they put it in neutral and pushed it.
And I was just idly wondering how they shifted gears with the steering column locked.
Maybe winnebagos don't do that?
And don't tell me they could do that because it was a TV show. That gets real damn old real damn fast.
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Maybe he was using his lawn mower as a snowblower. Do what you got to do.
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Does the government have any authority to make you fly your flag at half-staff?
I was out and about the other day and I noticed that one of the neighborhood flags was at half staff. And I wondered, momentarily, who died. Then I remembered. Mr Peanut.
But two houses down, their flag was two-blocked. They either did not know or did not care about Brandon's decision.
I'm sure that when the President says you fly the flag at half staff, all federal agencies do so. But do state agencies have to? I'm sure they would, but are they required to?
And then the ones that prompted my thought - non-government entities. People or businesses that for reasons of their own are flying the flag. Do they have to obey?
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2 hours ago, Pat Riot said:
It’s pretty ain’t it, Alpo
This was the first picture I took yesterday when I found out about the snow.
I tried to frame the same picture just now. Close. You can just barely see a piece of the ladder.
Standing at the door to my back porch looking off to the east. That same naked tree, without the dirty window and the screen in the way.
And then looking off to the West, through my neighbor's backyard and to the houses across the street from them.
Yes, it is pretty. And the dog stood right beside me while I was taking those last two pictures. I could not get her to step off the porch into the snow. I don't know whether she's going to bust or just give up and pee all over my house. But she's old, like me, and also like me she has to go pee at least once an hour. And she hasn't since about 5:30 last night.
Took her out the front door this morning. Taking my little baby steps because I did not want to end up lying on my back. Walked over to the edge of the driveway and tried to get her to go up into the grass. No. Went back down behind the truck to the street. The layer of ice between the end of the driveway and the edge of the street was at least two feet wide. And then the street looked slippery. So I did not attempt to step off of the driveway onto the street. Don't want to end up lying on my back. Tried to go off into the front yard next to the driveway. She would not. So we go back up to the house and we go to the other side of the driveway and I actually got her to walk out in the snow with me. She wouldn't pee. She did not like it.
Y'all can have this crap. If one of you wants to come down with a shovel and a big truck and take it back with you, you are more than welcome.
Got a text this morning. Because of the unprecedented snowfall, the streets in the bridges are still closed to anything except emergency traffic. Basically the town is shut down.
Thursday midday at the earliest? I don't think she can hold it for another day and a half.
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47 minutes ago, Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 said:
See, and if you never got snow, you’ld never have learned that. Thank the Yankees who left the door open, I assure you it wasn’t me.
I could have done without learning that. Truly I could have.
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Dog is making noise. Woke me up. The room is well lit. Obviously I have slept through till morning. Put on my glasses, look at my watch. 1:00.
Oh yeah. Reflection off the snow.
She wants to go pee.
So I get up, and start getting dressed. And get more dressed. And even more dressed. It's cold.
There we go out. Front door. I'm hoping she will be happy peeing on the driveway. I don't want to go wading through the snow. I have no boots. I'm wearing tennis shoes. That's why we went out front instead of the backyard where it looks at least six inches deep.
She's not happy with peeing on the driveway, but really does not want to walk off into the grass. So we carefully, taking about 4-inch steps, walk down to the street and step out into the road.
She's much happier walking in the road. I keep telling her to squat, but she doesn't. And we get about a half a block away from the house, and the truth sinks in.
Several years ago I was visiting my daughter up north where it snows. And the morning after the blizzard we go out. When we first start off I am taking those little 3-inch steps because I'm scared of walking in the snow. But then we get to the parking lot, and there is no snow. I relax. The sun has melted it. It will be safe. And I start walking normally.
I have one foot on the ground and one foot in the air when she decides she wants to go that way and jerks my arm and I'm laying on my back.
Black ice, let me introduce you to Alpo. He's never met you before.
I could not get up. No purchase. No matter what I did I just slipped. I crawled across the parking lot to the curb and after crawling up into the snow covered grass I was able to stand up.
I remembered that. That's why I was still taking 4-inch steps - not walking normally.
So we're about a half a block away from the house, and I realize just how stupid this was.
It is 1:00 in the morning, when all normal people are asleep. If I have another encounter with black ice I will be lying on my back in the street, like Ralphie's little brother in Christmas Story.
And I would lie there until the rescue team could come get me up. Calling for help would be easier, however, if my phone was not still back at the house still plugged into the charger.
Fortunately I did not fall down.
Unfortunately she did not find a spot she could be happy with for a bathroom. Hopefully she can hold it until the sun comes up.
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Dang Deacon. I'm glad you thought that was funny. Because otto messed with it so much, I can't even tell what I originally wrote.
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Who wasn't just that it was all the melted snow. And when you pour hot water on snow it turns into water.
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Someone also said, in the comments, that Vietnam Troopers would take a chunk out and chew it like gum. That current claymores have stamped on the back - DO NOT EAT.
I know on the front it says FRONT TOWARD ENEMY, but DO NOT EAT?? Are our soldiers really that stupid?
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35 minutes ago, Calamity Kris said:
At least with your weather, folks are too scared to get on the road. It took me better part of two hours to make a 20 minute drive home because the idjits forgot how to drive in the wet......
Just received an official text from the county. Roads and bridges are closed to everything except emergency vehicles.
I was just out taking the dog for a drain, and in the street it came up over my ankles. That's pretty deep. That's pretty deep for us, anyway.
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As seldom is we have cold wet white stuff.
I just came back in from draining the dog. That was fun. About two inches deep on the driveway and she handled that okay. Then I stepped her off into the grass and it was about six inches deep. Or maybe she just sank down six inches because it was sitting on top of the grass. I don't know. I do know she did not like it. And immediately got back on the driveway. I take her out into the street and we start walking down the street and we go about 20 feet maybe and she goes up into the neighbor's yard and pees, so we quickly made an about face and went back to the house.
But it's 7:30. Sun went down over 2 hours ago. It should be pitch black.
Full moon was what - 2 days ago, three? Still pretty full. And with everything covered in a layer of white. It wasn't noon day bright outside, but it was light enough to read a newspaper.
Reflection from the moon and the stars. Never even considered that. I learned something new today.
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Yahoo news feed this morning said that Trump signed an executive order to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America.
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19 hours ago, Bad Bascomb, SASS # 47,494 said:
I'm trying to decide if the stupid one here is the guy in the picture - so he's actually being quoted - or the guy that just dreamed up the meme.
Saw that on NCIS one time. McGee said something about "grasping at straws", and Abby corrected him and said he should be saying "grasping at hollow polystyrene tubes". Because she was a scientist. And just saying straws wasn't enough. You mean paper straws or plastic straws or stainless steel straws?
And I'm sitting there thinking, hell for a scientist you're pretty damn stupid. The term grasping at straws refers to shafts of grain. Wheat straw or oak straw. Basically a piece of grass.
Because when you're out in the river and you're drowning, and this piece of straw goes floating by, while you would rather have a nice big log to catch hold of so you don't go under, you will grasp at the straw.
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I followed that back to you tube, to see if it was in fact a clip from the rookie. And then I read a lot of the comments - there's 110 and I didn't read that many, but I read a bunch.
It's amazing how many people know facts about things, but they all don't seem to know the same fact.
Somebody was upset that Nathan said that claymore was unstable. Because it is made from c4, and c4 is so stable it's not even funny. It's almost impossible to explode it unless you have the actual stuff designed to do so. It won't explode by burning or hitting it with a hammer ---- wait a minute now. I've read many times about people opening the mine and taking a little pinch of c4 out to use to make a fire to heat up their rations. That's supposedly works real well. And then they would stomp the fire out. And stomping on it would cause it to explode and blow their foot off.
So on the one hand we have the guy saying that it cannot explode from heat or percussion, and then on the other hand have all those stories about GIs stomping out burning c4 and blowing themselves up.
Hmmm.
Someone needs to reread their code
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The reason for the existence of West By Gawd Virginia is that that section of the country broke off from Virginia when it seceded, and stayed with the Union.
Therefore, West By Gawd Virginia is Yankee land.