Alpo

Many years back there was a thread about "you know you're a cowboy shooter when", or maybe it was something like "you know you've been a cowboy shooter too long when". Cassidy said that when you endorse a check with your alias. He said he was cashing his paycheck one time and they wanted to know who Sierra Jack Cassidy was.

And of course those two completely separate posts were merged. Argh!!

No, it did not. Now I'm curious about something else. You have an iPhone? This is the top of the text page on my Android, and it has a nice big thing to click on to block it. But this did answer my first question. Thank you. I don't know about him, but it's pouring down rain here and has been all day.

So this one's a coffee cup instead of a t-shirt. Sue me.

Okay. That makes sense.

Some people here I actually know their name. But that's generally because their name is part of their alias. Utah Bob's name is really Bob. Sedalia Dave's name is really Dave. Calamity Kris's name is really Kris. But generally I only know people here by their alias. 15 or so years back my daughter's family was moving. Her husband had a car lease. He was not taking the car with him. And he wanted to know how he could get out of the lease. If he would have to pay the two or three years that was left on it when he left. I didn't have any idea, so I posted that question in the Saloon (ACS). I figured that somebody here was bound to know. And I get a personal message. Guy says that he does that for a living and he can answer all my questions and I need to call him at this number. Before 5:00. So I call, and this man answers the phone, and feeling really really stupid I ask, "Is this General Delivery?" And it was and he told me the stuff I needed to know and I thanked him and that was the end of it. Ain't never talked to him again. The first time I went to Fandango - 2001 - I was going to stay in the Saloonatic village. I don't know if it is still like this - this October will be 20 years since I've been there - but at that time the range had this big parking lot area. And people for Fandango could bring their RVs and camp in that big parking lot. There was also a smaller lot. And that was for the people that were going to be on the Saloonatic posse. Sierra Jack Cassidy had some deal going with a guy that sold used RVs. If you had your own RV, you fetched it along and you can stay on that Saloonatic lot. And if you did not have an RV, but you still wished to stay there, you could rent one of those from Cassidy's buddy. So I show up and go to sign in, and this fella asked how he can help me, and I tell him I need to see Sierra Jack Cassidy. He's supposed to set me up with a camper. And the guy turns around and yells, "Tell Keith that another one of his has showed up". Keith? Who the heck is Keith? For some reason it had never occurred to me that Cassidy would have another name.

Let's say that Hardpan has been sending me texts. He hasn't - he can't - he does not know my phone number. But I'm using him for an example. Hardpan has been sending me texts. About stuff I have absolutely no interest in. AR-15s. Glocks. Mazda Miatas. California politics. I don't care about any of that stuff. So I block him. The next time he sends me a text about the emperor of California, what happens? Does it kick back to him, with a message letting him know that that number has blocked him and he can no longer send it stuff? Or does it just go over to me, but before it gets to me it disappears into the ether? Either way I don't get it, which is what I wanted, but does he find out that I blocked him?

That was pretty good. I didn't watch the next generation so I obviously had not seen that one before. Anybody know what the message was the captain got that freaked him out so much?

That guy goes to an English boarding school?

I was watching Major League. Yes I know, it's a movie. It's fiction. Still -- The Yankees are ahead by two. There is one man on. Pedro comes up and takes two strikes. Then he talks to his bat. Tells it that he is tired of waiting for it to work, and he will do it himself. Steps back to the plate and knocks one end ofINTO the bleachers. Then he kisses his bat, and then runs the bases. Holding the bat. Is there any rule about holding the bat while you're running the bases? In the next inning, the Yankees get retired with no new runs. Willie gets a bad cut and just barely beats the throw to first. He overruns first base, then turns to the LEFT to come back to the base. And I'm sitting there telling the Yankee first baseman to tag the idiot. Cause I remember from Little League that you turn to the right. If you turn to the left, you are still in play. You could be running for second. So all they have to do is touch you with the ball and you are out. But they didn't. So that was a rule that I knew that they ignored because it's fiction. But is there a rule about the bat? I saw this clip the other day. I don't remember where I saw it. But it was an actual clip. Actual game. The runner beat the throw to the base. The baseman still has the ball in his glove. The runner celebrates his great run by jumping up in the air. Both feet off the bag. The baseman tagged him while he was still in the air.

The movie was made in 1995. The Mamas and the Papas released the song in 1965. That's 30 years. And the way the porters are dressed, they are city people, not from back in the bush. I see no reason why they wouldn't have heard a radio.

There's a movie based on a Michael Crichton book. Congo. This group of scientists are going into Africa looking for a tribe of supposedly super smart gorillas. And they have taken a gorilla with them as a translator. Amy - I think her name was Amy -knows sign language. So they can talk to her and then she can grunt and snort and whatever with the other gorillas they meet. That's the plan. They're getting ready to go out on the river, and they had to drug Amy because she's scared of water. They're loading the boats and her handler starts singing California Dreamin'. And the African bearers - the porters - start singing along. Really had nothing to do with the movie but, it was neat.