Cypress Sun

I still say...throw a couple of Evinrude outboards on one end and turn it into a giant aircraft/infantry/support/everything carrier. It'd be virtually unsinkable after adding a heavy keel to it so it wouldn't tip over!

I bought an FN 5.7 brand new w/hard case and 3 - 20 round mags when they first got popular. It was very accurate, operated the way it was supposed to and pleasant to shoot, although I only ran about 200 rounds through it. When I first got it, I asked a friend of mine to get me a case of ammo for it as he had good connections for ammo at the time. He got the ammo in and called me to come get it. I got cash at the bank and went over to his house. How much says I, he says $800. I about soiled myself. Guess what, a case of ammo wasn't 1,000 rounds as I had figured, it was 2,000 rounds. I had to go back to the bank but I paid it as I didn't want to stick him with it. Sold the gun and ammo when someone gave me an offer I couldn't refuse. Looking back, I don't miss it as the ammo was outrageously expensive in my book.

Very beginning of the movie in which the character played by Tim Roth called the waitress garcon and the waitress responded by telling him that garcon meant boy.

I learned that by watching Pulp Fiction!

I say keep it at 50 States. Trade California to England for Canada. Send the libs to CA and the Loons to the US.

I see her name on scores every once in a while. I last saw her about 6 or 7 years ago, she was doing well at that time.

If I had to base my viewing of auto racing, or any other sport for that matter, on that abomination....I'd never watch auto racing again.

This is why you never give Yuri Geller a fork set!

I saw that in the news yesterday. I thought, how in the hell did he not hear or feel it scraping across the sea floor and land. Boy, nice house and scenic view!

I think that most brand name hotels require a credit card to reserve and/or book a room these days. You may still be able to pay cash for the room, I don't know, but they have your card on file to pay for any incidentals like damage or room bar usage. As far as responsibility for room damage, etc., I would think that that would be on the entity that signed for the room.

I was actually pleasantly surprised with the broadcast, picture was good, camera work good and good to see Carl Edwards again...wish he still raced. I have to be honest, I watch almost all sports, especially auto racing and baseball, with the volume on mute. Still, way too many commercials for me though. The next 3 or 4 races are also on Amazon if I read it right. I notice that you still call it the World 600, so do I just as I still call the (used to be) July race at Daytona the Firecracker 400. I fell asleep about halfway through the race and woke up with 10 to go. Glad to see Chastain win...started dead last. I don't know if anyone has ever started last and won the 600 before, probably not. Mrs. Sun has Amazon Prime, so I didn't have to pay anything. She orders a lot of stuff from there, occasionally she'll order something for me is I ask nice!

That was something! I've never seen that before. Boy, those choppers were lower than the grandstand it seemed like. Must have been a real thrill to see in person!

Congrats to Palou on the win. Makulas ran a good race also. Too bad for Larson, he crashed the same way in practice. A lot of trouble on pit road which surprised me somewhat. The filming was okay, I guess. Way too many commercials and 1/2 screen broadcast. I sometimes wonder why I bought a big screen tv when most of the time I watch sports it's on 1/2 screen 45% of the time with ads or useless commentary. Oh well, on to Charlotte.

Way past butchery. She should never have a microphone in front of her ever again. Just saw Mario, still looks pretty good for his age. A little joke, probably true... Emerson Fittipaldi with Mario as a passenger was pulled over while in a private vehicle near Indy for excessive speed. The cop said "Who do you think you are, Mario Andretti?" Mario leaned over and said "No, I'm Mario Andretti, this is Emerson Fittipaldi."

Although Prime is offering a supposed 30 day "free" trial, I don't like it at all. Nothing but pay per view in my opinion. NASCAR it taking any offer they can these days since they have managed to destroy stock car racing with their DEI efforts and their determination to make the cars the same. I'll watch because my gal can't live without Amazon, I don't pay for it...so that's a good thing. I'll also watch it with the volume on mute as E Jr. is one of the broadcasters and he just annoys the hell out of me.

That's hilarious....I want one!

If you live in an area where lightning is common, make sure you ground the pole well, especially if it is based in concrete w/rebar. Try to keep the pole as far away as possible from buried electrical lines of any type (phone/cable, etc.) and water lines, especially metallic conduits. Just a heads up.

It'll be interesting to see if Kyle Larson can repeat the feat of Tony Stewart back years ago and complete all of the laps both at Indy and Charlotte. Don't forget, Larson could have won Indy last year had it not been for the brain fart penalty of speeding on pit road. I just hope it's a safe race but not much is safe at 230mph although the SAFER barriers and the head/neck restraints have dramatically reduced deaths and serious injuries.

Watching Indy has been a tradition of mine for, well...ever since I can remember. The combination of speed, danger, brilliantly engineered cars and fearless drivers has always fascinated me. Never been there in person, but hope to go someday. Green flag today at 12:30pm (mol), EST of Fox.

Excellent!

For some reason, I thought of this Mars Automatic Pistol

They pick them up in the cemeteries and most other places they are temporarily displayed. Most of the flags I see on the road are the ones that people mount on their vehicle window which eventually fall off or break off.

It's MY island!

I was not aware of the no advertising rule with Media Mail. Mrs. Sun did, I wasn't on the need-to-know list, I guess.

Very impressive by any measure....especially impressive since the computer programs that the Voyager programs use are almost 50 years old and the distance is so great.