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1 hour ago, Forty Rod SASS 3935 said:
Can I assume that you peed toilet bowl cleaner such as Lysol or Lime Away?
I'll bet that brought a tear to your eyes.
You use chemical cleaning agents in your toilet? You need to clean it more frequently, then you wouldn't need to.
Clean it no less frequently than once a week and all it takes is brushing it down with plain water.
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1 hour ago, Cypress Sun said:
Maybe I'm living under a rock, but $216/night for a hotel room is ridiculous
Nice to know I'm not the only one that thought that.
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3 hours ago, H. K. Uriah, SASS #74619 said:
That being said, I'd love to have a gun like Mississippi's in El Dorado, just for the fun of it, without needed to jump through NFA '34 hoops.
It's not as much fun as you might think.
There is basically three ways to shoot it.
You shoot it one-handed like it's a target pistol. Trigger guard does a number on the front of your middle finger.
You shoot it like it's an actual stocked shotgun - you hold it up to your eye, you pull it back as hard as you can with your shooting hand while you are pulling it forward is hard as you can with your support hand. This locks the gun in place and it's quite accurate. It's just very slow to get into position. And if you don't have that support hand gripping as tight as you should, you're going to hit yourself in the forehead with the barrels.
The third way is like Mississippi did it - both hands firing from the hip.
With or without the snarl on your face.
The problem is - at least it has been for me - is that the left hand tends to pull the gun to the left, making your shot go off to the left. Frequently missing the target entirely.
If the gun had a buttstock, with those short barrels, and you were shooting from the hip - you would have the buttstock pressed against your right hip, and therefore the gun would be pointing wherever your body is pointing. Hard to miss.
But with no buttstock, you don't get that "body positioning" help. And, like I say, that left hand tends to pull it off to the side.
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To the best of my knowledge it is only tuna in Mexican. The fruit is not tuna in Castilian, in Puerto Rican, in Cuban, in Argentine, in Peruvian, or any other of the gazillion versions of Spanish on the planet.
Just Mexican.
But isn't something like half of California Mexican?
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Not the same guy, but similar
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26 minutes ago, Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967 said:
biggest challenge was using one to fill an 8-man raft. Took a while, but got it done!
As I mentioned up the thread, used it one time with a '90s era Chevy, with the spark plugs below the rocker arm cover. So aside from the pain in the butt of getting it attached, we were filling up a queen size air bed. Took a while.
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8 minutes ago, Subdeacon Joe said:
Tuna. In the ocean, on the plate, in a can, or on a sandwich.
I thought everybody in California knew that a tuna was the fruit of a prickly pear cactus.
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Although there are currently 20 replies, only six answered the question. Five of them have the same phraseology. Which is, as I found when I looked up, the correct term.
The Canadian and I both use the same term. I was watching a TV show one day and they said something about a "safe deposit box".
And I thought to myself, I thought, "don't they mean a safety deposit box?"
That's what I've always heard it called - safety deposit box.
I guess it's me and Cold Lake against the world.
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50 minutes ago, Rip Snorter said:
Dam. As a Doctor's kid, Why would you have Ether int he field?
Also known as "starting fluid". Spray it into the carburetor of the engine that does not want to start.
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27 minutes ago, Blackwater 53393 said:
Played Gretchen Kraus on the TV series BENSON.
One episode, they found that the governor's office had been bugged. So they wrote this little scenario, to read underneath the microphone, so as to throw off whoever it was was bugging him - I think it was a political opponent but I don't remember.
Anyway, Gretchen is reading her script. The governor asked something and she is supposed to reply "yes".
She says, "da".
Benson looks up in surprise and says, "da?"
And she points to her script and says, "ja, 'da'."
That's one of the few things I remember about that show - that scene.
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20 minutes ago, Abilene Slim SASS 81783 said:
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1 hour ago, Blackwater 53393 said:
Add to that the fact that MOST of the compressed gasses are pushed down the hose on the compression stroke
They don't go down the hose. No compressed gasoline vapor goes into the tire. It goes out the exhaust valve.
This doomer is a miniature compressor. The piston going up and down in the cylinder works the compressor, but the air that goes down the hose is outside air from around the engine.
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1 hour ago, Abilene Slim SASS 81783 said:
The band and car were pronounced the same, which is where the band’s name came from.
I had to go check that to verify my memory.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/REO_Speed_Wagon#/media/File%3AReoSpeedWagon1917-cropped-thumb.jpg
The Speed Wagon was a truck, not a car.
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I know that. That's why I said that I was joking when I said that would be legal. I know they weren't legal. They weren't buscadero.
But it was the huge pile-on about "that's not what spots is!!!!!"
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I don't know.
I suggested, one time, as a joke, that my daughter's holsters should be legal for B Western because they've got spots.
The reaction - the hate-filled reaction - to my funny was truly scary.
Them B Western people take it seriously.
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25 minutes ago, Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770 said:
Those boots would be great for any category.
Not the way I read the rules.
"...must be embellished with fancy stitching, multicolor fancy design, conchos or spots"
While I see nothing wrong with those boots, as boots, they are playing (PLAIN, otto, quit messing with me) and therefore do not appear, to me, to fit the requirement for B Western.
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I am just curious about what people in various parts of the country call this.
It's like - water heater, or hot water heater? Tuna or tuna fish?
In the bank they have a lock box in the vault. You can rent this and store stuff in it, and nobody can get into it because you're the only one with the key, and there's no record of what's in there.
What do you call that?
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I'd wave it people just to mess with their minds. But messing with the mind of someone I don't know is not worth my hard-earned money.
It ain't that funny a joke.
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That first one -at about 15:45. Takes a bite, says it is spicy but not as spicy as he thought it would be. Chews a couple more times - there it is!
Reminds me of back when I used to hang around with a bunch of people that enjoyed eating Szechuan Chinese food. We would refer to peppers as being either "one bite hot" or "two bite hot". If it was less than two bite hot it wasn't really considered a hot pepper.
The terms referred to biting into the food. If as soon as you bite into it your mouth starts burning - that's one bite hot. If you have to take two bites before it starts to burn - two bite hot.
His salsa verde appeared to be two bite hot.
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This is probably a stupid question re: shotguns
in SASS Wire Saloon
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A few years ago somebody posted a picture of his rifle. He had taken a Rossi Ranch Hand (that's what they call their mare's laig, right?), and taken the butt stock off an original Winchester 92, and replaced the cut off one from the Rossi with the full size Winchester one.
He asked for opinions.
I told him my opinion was he needed to delete that picture and change that before they threw his butt in jail, since that was quite illegal.
He replied that he was in England. He said that if he were to take a standard 20-inch SRC and cut it down to 12 inches, that would be illegal. But the Rossi Ranch Hand was, by British firearms law, a rifle. And replacing the short stock on that rifle with a longer stock was perfectly legal.
Now, I don't know if what he was saying was correct. But that 92 with a 12-inch barrel sure looked good.