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Abilene Slim SASS 81783
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This is why she had to be stopped. From “Mad Men”: 😱😁
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13 minutes ago, Subdeacon Joe said:
Hey! Would YOU want to be in the headlines, "Officer Slim, of the Branson Police Department, PITs 97 Year Old On Lawmower!"?
You betcha. “Officer saves grandma from being run over by multiple vehicles.” 😄
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1 hour ago, Alpo said:
How long did it take to pull OJ over, in that slow speed pursuit?
OJ was in a large vehicle on a 4 or 5-lane interstate. She’s on a lawnmower on a rural highway moving at jogging speed - max. Coulda boxed her in 100 yards.
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1 hour ago, Alpo said:
Reading the story again, I wondered if this was a clue it was fake.
A steady speed of 8 mph for 22 miles.
That's almost 3 hours. Will a riding lawn mower hold enough gas to run for 3 hours?
I've never owned a riding lawn mower, and while I did use my mother's occasionally (when we could keep air in the damn tires) her yard was not big enough to take 3 hours to cut.
Yes, it can run for 3 hours. The clue for me is it took multiple police in cars, motorcycles and helicopter 22 miles to pull her over. That’s why I looked up the source of the story.
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Oh, the horror!!
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On 9/2/2025 at 9:13 PM, Sedalia Dave said:
Have you thought about...
That’s what we use
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My parents bought an old house that still had the original ice box that was built in to an outside wall. The ice man could access the ice compartment from the outside on the back porch, negating the need to come in the house. When they remodeled the house, dad tore it out and turned the space into a kitchen broom closet. (It had not been used as an ice box in decades.)
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Eons ago (college), maybe 1971, we were talking about the movie The Day the Earth Stood Still. Back then old movies weren’t shown regularly on TV like they are now, so there wasn’t a lot of exposure from repetitive viewing.
Anyway, the question came up about what Patricia Neal said to the robot after Michael Rennie was shot. And I instantly had the answer. These days, it’s become a cliche.
I still remember it, but right now I can’t find my car keys… 😁
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Umm… no bank has $200m in cash to disburse.
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15 hours ago, watab kid said:
dittos this - thats the safest and most reliable least likely to cause further issues
there was an unfortunate issue on my last posse , the fellow had a revolver squib on one stage - then a rifle squib on the next , then two revolvers on the next stage , made a mess of the day but each was pushed out and he was able to shoot the next ,
Our range has a 2-squib rule. 2 squibs in one match means you’re done shooting for the day at the moment of the second squib.
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1 hour ago, Alpo said:
Now, that's just wrong on so many levels.
Thank you, I was wondering what the punchline was.
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25 minutes ago, Subdeacon Joe said:
Appears to have been for a movie about the James Gang
https://rypn.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=6134
plus, I found this:
“There is no single "St. Louis Midland Railroad,"but the Central Midland Railway was a short line railroad in Missouri operating the eastern part of a former Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad line, while the Midland Valley Railroadwas a separate company operating between Arkansas and Kansas, not directly in St. Louis. The term could also refer to other railroads with "Midland" or "St. Louis" in their names, such as the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad or the St. Louis–San Francisco Railway.”
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A big clue with the Cole Younger poster is there wasn’t a company called the St. Louis Midland Railroad.
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I’m guessing it’s $50k for the viewing audience who likely wouldn’t realize $500 was a ton of money back in 1880. All they know is current dollars. A $50k reward reinforces Billy was a really bad dude to the audience.
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50 minutes ago, Sedalia Dave said:
Same here. With the addition of Liam Neeson.
Ranted about firearms like a rabid dog while simultaneously making millions off the Taken series.
I’ll add Matt Damon and Sylvester Stallone to the Hollywood Hypocrite list.
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1 hour ago, Alpo said:
Now that’s funny right there, I don’t care who you are.
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I tried to get this meme thread back on track with another meme after derailing it over the pen joke (sorry), but the mods must’ve found something objectionable and pulled it. Here’s another. Happy meming!
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1 hour ago, watab kid said:
…but i cant seem to pull that file .... UNTILL THE MNIDDLE OF THE NIGHT - it wakes me up and i cant get back to sleep and there is no one to tell it to ............................i hate that
Oh, there’s someone to tell it to. They’ll just be very, very unhappy you did. 😁
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58 minutes ago, Three Foot Johnson said:
Three feet?? I'm no aerospace engineer, but a 107' long airframe stretching three feet at speed? Three inches... maybe...
I was also never able to wrap my head around a fuel tank made with multiple panels with expansion joints, designed to leak until they warm up and expand. Turns out that's not entirely true either. From what I've read, the tanks didn't leak when new, but after a few expansion/contraction cycles, the sealant between the joints would start seeping fuel, and eventually start drippity dripping when fueled. Ground crews would time the drips and when a leak developed beyond X number of drips per minute from any particular joint, the tanks would be resealed.
Apparently I misremembered. You are correct that it was about 3 inches.
The documentary didn’t mention anything about sealant, but I found this in a search after reading your post. I learn something new every day.
“The SR-71 used a two-part elastomeric polyester sealant for its fuel tanks, but this material would break down under the extreme temperature fluctuations experienced during flight, causing leaks. The sealant system required frequent reapplication, with maintenance crews measuring leak rates to determine when it needed to be fixed. The fuel itself, JP-7, was not flammable and would dissolve contemporary tank liners, making traditional sealed tanks impractical.”
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1 hour ago, DeaconKC said:
That's why I either use a piston fill or converter.
Had to look that up as I wasn’t aware of them. Kinda cool.
I’m old enough to remember fountain pens that had an internal bladder. There was a lever on the outside of the pen that when lifted would squeeze the bladder. On release, the bladder would expand and draw ink from a bottle in through the nib.
As a tyke, I thought that was cool. What I didn’t understand is that if you lifted the lever again, you’d squirt ink everywhere. Dad was NOT pleased… 😱
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I remember him more for his TV roles like Longmire, 1883 et al. RIP.
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1 hour ago, Buckshot Bear said:
Do you have a shirt with a top pocket stained blue?
In grade school (Catholic) we were required to buy “washable blue” ink as opposed to permanent, which was important because boys had to wear white shirts.
The unintended consequence was that it encouraged “pen fights” where you whip the pen, making it fling ink on your opponent. Hey, it was supposed to be washable, right?
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Crown Royal in the U.S.
in SASS Wire Saloon
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I just now got that that Crown Royal/Royal Crown joke. I’m a little slow on the uptake. Clever!