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  1. The only Colt 44 Magnum - not just snake gun 44 Magnum but Colt 44 magnum period - that I'm aware of is the Anaconda. But I don't think they ever made a short barrel one. Six and eight, and possibly a four, but not a two.
  2. That one pretty much is me.
  3. Boca Chica? The little girl's mouth? Yeah that sounds like a nice place to go get a friendly drink.
  4. Yeah, that's it. Blow the picture up and it clearly shows crpd stamped right above the trigger.
  5. No one thinks about baseball? I'm not even a sports fan, but that's the first thing I think of when I hear "homer". A four bagger. The second thing is D'oh.
  6. My first job was a bad boy (I think one of the most annoying things is when otto steps in on the first sentence. BAGBOY.) at a grocery store on the beach. The beach is full of tourists. One Sunday, about the second week of my employment, a tourist asked me if she could buy beer on Sunday. The idea of not being able to buy beer because it was Sunday was such a surprise to me. I told her of course she could. Several years later I'm visiting a friend in Flowery Branch Georgia. That's a itty bitty town north of Atlanta. And while we're conversing someone knocks on the door. She goes to the door and they talk for a while, and then she goes in the kitchen and comes back with a six pack of beer and he hands her some money and away he goes. And she came back and sat down she told me that she had just become a bootlegger. The neighbor had a visitor, and they had run out of beer, so he came over and bought some from her. Because apparently it is illegal in the Atlanta area - I don't know if it is in the entire state, but in the Atlanta area - to sell beer on Sunday. So he couldn't just slide down to the friendly 7-Eleven and pick up a six pack.
  7. On NCIS, whenever something did not seem right to Abby, she called it hinky. So one episode she said something was hinky and apparently McGee had enough. "Why do you keep saying that word? Hinky. It's not even a real word - it's a made up word!" And she gives him that look, that says that he's the world's biggest idiot, and says, "All words are made up words McGee".
  8. They've gone on a Caribbean cruise. They buy a t-shirt for one daughter, and a toy parrot for the other one. Yeah, so what. That's normal parent stuff. "Michael always wanted to see real palm trees." ???? See real palm trees?? All I got to do is look out my front door. I can see about a dozen without even leaving my yard. In the area I usually walk the dog there's probably a total of 30 or more. Real palm trees. But this cartoon is taking place in western Canada. Yeah, they probably don't have too many palm trees in western Canada.
  9. When I first heard of this book The author was explaining how you knew if you were a southern belle. Two things stuck with me - she had a list. One was if you were in your fifties and you still called your father Daddy. And another one was ordering iced tea in a blizzard. She said that she was visiting some friends in New York City one time, and there was a blizzard blowing, and she and her friends went into this restaurant to get out of the snow and the cold. She noticed that half of her friends ordered coffee, and the other half ordered hot chocolate, while she ordered iced tea. That was when she realized that she was a southern belle.
  10. Must be a Texan. That looks like a cow rib.
  11. If you can find a catalog on this website, you are doing better than me. https://www.estatesales.net/AL/Newton/36352/4000077?utm_source=yahoo.com&utm_medium=email&utm_term=32405&utm_content=Panama-City-FL&utm_campaign=2024-03-29-1DaysBefore
  12. Rocks from following too close on a gravel road, or low flying magpies?
  13. I know that if you got a bar, at some point in the night you have to stop selling booze. 2:00 a.m., 4:00 a.m. . It seems to depend on where in the country you are as to what time you have to stop, but there is some time where you have to stop. Now if your restaurant has a liquor license, I assume that it also has to stop selling at some point in the early morning. My question is at what point can you start again? I'm watching Roadhouse, for the first time in 10 or 15 years, and Swayze and Elliot and the doctor have gone to this restaurant in the early morning, and the two guys were drinking beers. Just occurred to me to wonder why they can be served beer at 5:00 or 6:00 a.m.? Would this be a real thing, or just simply Hollywood nonsense?
  14. That is a possibility. There are two other police guns in that auction.
  15. Another question. Same book. They're in the Mexican desert. And her pantyhose pretty much gets shredded, between the cacti and the mesquite and the greasewood and the rocks. Then they have sex, because this is not a novel for children so of course they have sex. The next morning she is trying to put her pantyhose back on, but there are so many holes in them that she keeps getting her feet stuck in the holes. The guy tells her that it looks like a waste of time and she should just give it up as a bad plan, and she responds that her mother told her that good girls always wore panties, or at least pantyhose. Then she gets disgusted and pulls them off and watch them up (I thought I'd slid one past otto. WADS THEM UP) and throws them away. I have as much experience with pantyhose as I do with high heels, but it seems to me that if the hose part was all shredded, you could hold on to the panty, and twist the hose till you get like a rope, and then cut that leg off of the panty. Then do the same to the other side. This is Matt Helm so of course he has a knife and it is sharp. You would now be bare-legged, but at least you would not be going commando. Is there any reason why this would not work? Would they unravel if you cut the leg off?
  16. That's something that's puzzled me for years. Surveys on gun ownership. Let's suppose that my wife is very big on jewelry. And the guy from Gallup comes to the door and wants to know if I have any diamond necklaces. So I'm just going to tell him about the 17 diamond necklaces in my wife's jewelry box on the dresser? I don't think so. When any decent firearm is going to cost you at least $500, I can't see telling some stranger that yes you've got 17 guns. That isn't anybody's business. And then we have the "we are trying as hard as we can to make it illegal for normal people to have a gun" thing going on in DC, so I'm going to tell the Gallup guy that I've got all these guns? And then next year when they get outlawed, the feds are going to go to the Gallup people and subpoena their records? Find out who said they had all them guns, so they can go pick 'em up? I just don't understand why anybody would tell them.
  17. Flaunting is showing off, while flouting is playing your flute?
  18. You are correct sir. The Diamondback is a smaller gun than a Smith & Wesson M&P. It's the same size as a Colt Police Positive Special - a D frame, which is bigger than a Smith and Wesson J but it's smaller than a Smith and Wesson K. And yes, it was only made in 22 and 38 Special. I posted that picture just to show an example of the stupidity of the people running this auction. They also are selling a "Baby Colt". A very similar 25 was actually called the Baby Browning, but that Colt is a 1908 Vest Pocket, not a Baby. And I really love this one. I can't tell whether that's an actual 1919, or a Tipmann in 22 long rifle. And that crank at the back of it is puzzling. I'm guessing you're supposed to hold the trigger with your left hand while you turn the crank with your right hand, therefore supposedly making it act like it's full auto, while not really being full auto?
  19. I have never heard of a 681 before. Obviously it's been too long since I've bought a new gun. But according to the all-knowing internet, a 681 was a 357. And as you can see from the barrel in that picture, that's a 38 special.
  20. They are in movies, but in real life? In the movie The Three Amigos, they get a telegram asking them to come to Mexico because of the infamous El Guapo. Two of them don't know the word, but the third one explains to the others that it means he is more than famous - he is IN famous. So they figure he is a great Mexican celebrity. In the movie Ruggles of Red Gap, this prospector strikes it rich and his wife takes him to Europe to see if she can get him a little bit of culture. While there he teaches a member of the British aristocracy how to play poker. And when they are ready to come back home, the Brit does not have the money to pay his debts. So he gives the prospector his valet. Ruggles (Charles Laughton). The wife sends a telegram back home saying that they're coming back and they're bringing a gentleman's gentleman with them. Nobody at home has ever heard of a gentleman's gentleman but since a "man's man" is more of a man than a regular man, obviously a "gentleman's gentleman" is more of a gentleman than a regular gentleman. And by the time the couple have returned to their little hometown with their British butler, the townspeople have decided that not only is Ruggles an aristocrat, but he is undoubtedly a colonel in the Coldstream Guards. This is a great movie, by the way. A really different Western. But it just makes me wonder if there are people out there really dumb enough to think that that's what infamous means, or that's what a gentleman's gentleman is?
  21. Occasionally, in a book, you have a woman wearing high heel shoes walking on rough ground. Rocks and sand and brush. And the guy will offer to break off or cut off the heel, so at least she's got a pair of flats to walk in the rough with. I've never walked in women's high heel shoes, but it just looks to me that if you broke the heel off, they would still not be comfortable. Because the sole has got that nice little L-shape to it. So the question is, have any of you ladies ever tried to walk in a pair of high heels where the heel was broken off? Was it doable?
  22. It's in Alabama, so I have no interest in going to it. They had 256 pictures of the guns that were going to be there, except they had very little description of what the guns were, and they would show both sides but they wouldn't do it one after the other so it looked like, "Hey they've got a Colt pocket 25. Oh, and look, they've got another one." Because those two pictures would be 10 or 15 pictures apart. But they did have two guns that intrigued me. First they had a fixed sight, stainless steel (I'm guessing stainless because of the color of the hammer and the trigger) 38 Special Smith & Wesson with a full length under lug. I have never heard of such a gun. And they had a Colt Diamondback in 44 Magnum. That would be something to stick in the old collection, wouldn't it? Extremely rare.
  23. According to the all-knowing internet Bring the water to the boil, set the eggs in the water and let them boil for 4 minutes. Remove them from the boiling water and immediately run them under cold water to stop them from continuing to cook. Second method. Put the eggs in cold water and bring it to a boil, and once it is boiling leave the egg in it for an additional one minute. Then remove from the boiling water and again immediately run under the cold tap to stop it from continuing to cook. So says the all knowing Duck Duck Go
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