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1 hour ago, Subdeacon Joe said:
So instead of catsup to cover the taste of rancid meat, Chicagoans let the meat spoil more and cover it up with a pungent yellow mustard, alien green relish, onions, pickles, peppers, celery salt, and tomatoes.
Makes sense to me!
Exactly what I was thinking.
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3 hours ago, Blackwater 53393 said:
I chased him and three of his buddies around with a lawnmower and a “lively lad” one afternoon.
For those of y'all, like me, that had never heard of a lively lad.
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Read an article many moons ago. By Ayoob, I believe. He was giving a talk to a class of police officers. And he has a tape recording of an interview with a cop. The cop tells about how the bad guy shot him twice in the chest and he was able to draw his python and shoot the bad guy once in his chest. Dead right there.
And he stopped the tape recorder. Several of the cops were commenting. The comments were all along the lines of "that's BS". Then one guy in the back of the room pipes up and says, "what kind of vest was he wearing?"
Ayoob turns the tape recorder back on and you hear him ask the cop - what kind of vest were you wearing? And the cop says it was a second chance model whatever.
Then he put some pictures up on the screen. Taken at to the hospital right after the shooting, and then some more from the next day. The nice purple bruise by his breastbone right after the shooting and the large green yellow purple black bruise that covered most of his chest the next day.
One of the cops commented that that looked like it really hurt, and that he would not like to have been shot like that. Ayoob ask him if he would prefer to be shot without a vest.
As I said, this was many moons ago. Late 70s / early '80s. Vests were a brand new technology.
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I was searching for water jugs, to see if they actually made one gallon jugs. Aside from milk jugs which are crappy plastic and fall apart.
And I found some 11 Liter containers.
Which would be about what - 3 gallon?
I've not found a 20 liter container, either. Lots of 19s, but no 20s.
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1 hour ago, Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 said:
In the Mediterranean, Diamond rings were first mentioned in writings about 100 AD. Diamonds, imported from India, were uncut and unpolished because nobody knew how to do that yet.
If they weren't cut, and they weren't polished - then they just looked like rocks. Why in the world would they put a rock in a ring?
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Let's suppose, just for supposing, that you are at a campsite. And the only water available is at a faucet a quarter of a mile away. So you going to walk. That's a half mile round trip.
And of course you need a container to bring the water back. There are three of you that are going to fetch water.
In the book - yes this is from a book - they took the tea kettle and a couple of saucepans. And I thought they would probably do better with actual water jugs. The tea kettle might not be too bad - it has a bale after all. But open saucepans - that just seems like you would spill about half of it before you got back. Buckets would work, but you would slop a lot.
Then I got to idly wondering - because I wonder idly frequently - how big a jug would be the best to carry if you're going to make a half mile walk. Gallon? 2 gallons? 5 gallons would be ludicrous.
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15 hours ago, Pat Riot said:
My Navy buddy Chas was a New York Puerto Rican from the South Bronx. He told me what to say to break the ice.
It darn near got my jaw broke when I recited it to her.Human in uniform, many years back. Guy is stationed in Italy. In Italy they don't say hello on the telephone. They say pronto.
So he sees this fine looking
signorina in the bar one night and he sidles over to her and softly whispers, "Pronto".
And she belted him. And when he stepped back in surprise she kicked him in the shin.
Pronto does not mean hello.
Pronto means "ready".
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Normally I would not have posted this because I don't like this stupid cat.
But this was too funny to ignore.
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The collet die is what the Lee factory crimp die uses for bottleneck cases. It has three fingers that come out from the side of the die and push the case into the side of the bullet.
The factory crimp die for straight wall cases is just another roll crimp.
I have been using the collet die on my bottleneck rifle cartridges ever since I found out it existed. But I was unaware they made a collet for a straight wall case.
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I posted a thread here few years back.
There were three TV shows. A Perry Mason episode. I believe a Twilight zone episode. And an NCIS episode. And the plot involved a young kid finding a gun in a vacant lot or in the woods or somewhere. He took it home and stashed it with his secret stuff.
At the end of each episode the adult was telling the kid that he should have told his father that he found the gun. And I asked the Saloon (ACS) at large if they would have told their father.
Everybody that responded said they would. Ain't no way I would have told mine.
When I was in junior high school there was this kid that frequently showed up with no lunch money. And he would sell me neat stuff for my 40 cent lunch money. He sold me a Case Trapper, which is the two bladed pocket knife about 4 1/2 inches long. He sold me a Zippo lighter. He sold me an Italian switchblade. All three of those, and other neat things, or confiscated by my father immediately upon finding out I had them.
When my older brother was 15 he bought a pistol from a guy down on the street corner. When he was 16 Daddy found out about it and confiscated it. He locked it up and when my brother got to be 21 he gave it back to him, unlike my knives in my lighter, but still he confiscated it.
There is no doubt in my mind that if I found a gun in the woods and I told my father that I found a gun in the woods I would no longer have that gun.
I just found a thread on another board. Zombie thread - 2003. The kid - he says he's 17 - says he just found his father's backup set of keys to the gun safe. And he's wondering whether he should tell Dad that he found them. Says that on the one hand he likes the fact that if an emergency happens he can now get to a weapon. And on the other hand he is sure that if he tells Dad he found the spare keys, Dad will change the hiding place. So he's asking for opinions on should he tell Dad or not.
I've only read seven responses, but all seven said he needs to tell Dad. I wouldn't. I wouldn't use the keys to get in the safe and play with the guns, and I wouldn't tell my friends were the keys were. But knowing where the keys were? That might come in handy.
Would any of you, if you found a gun in the woods when you were 12 or 13 years old, not tell your father? If you were 17 and found the backup keys to the gun safe, would you tell your father you found the keys?
I do wonder what he was looking for when he found the backup keys, but that's not the question.
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