[I wonder about reward posters]

A big clue with the Cole Younger poster is there wasn’t a company called the St. Louis Midland Railroad. 

[I wonder about reward posters]

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. 
 

 

[Of all the utter goofiness in John Wick 4...]

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. 

[Ba-Dump Tissssh - Memes]

1 hour ago, Alpo said:

Now that’s funny right there, I don’t care who you are. 

[Senior Moments]

[Ba-Dump Tissssh - Memes]

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!

 

[Senior Moments]

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. 😁

[SR-71 Engine Unstart]

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.”

[Ba-Dump Tissssh - Memes]

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… 😱

[Graham Greene RIP]

I remember him more for his TV roles like Longmire, 1883 et al. RIP. 

[Ba-Dump Tissssh - Memes]

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?

[SR-71 Engine Unstart]

22 minutes ago, Blackwater 53393 said:

Because the JP-7 jet fuel had a very high flash point, the TEB was a critical component for its ignition.”

There’s a great documentary out there somewhere on the SR-71 that covered that. You could throw a match in a puddle of it and nothing would happen. 
 

Which is just as well because the plane leaked fuel like a sieve when it was on the ground, leaving puddles of fuel. However, once airborne, air friction heated the plane such that the metal expanded and sealed the leaks. The plane would get so hot at Mach speeds that it actually grew 3 feet in length. 

[SR-71 Engine Unstart]

It was a problem that plagued them throughout their service. In the days before computers handled such things. 

[HMS Warspite]

Too bad they scrapped both. And the Saratoga (CV-3) was expended in the Bikini atom bomb test. 😢

[Ba-Dump Tissssh - Memes]

37 minutes ago, Buckshot Bear said:

 

My kids are in their 40s and wouldn’t have any idea of what they are. I’m thinking you’d need to be around 70 to recognize them. I haven’t seen them since 3rd or 4th grade. 

[Ba-Dump Tissssh - Memes]

1 hour ago, Injun Ryder, SASS #36201L said:

 

I think the word is eyebrows…

[would you consider this man to be evil?]

11 hours ago, Cypress Sun said:

 

I saw a tv commercial for a RX for that very disease the other day on tv.

Gotta love that. A drug made to counteract the effects caused by another drug. 
 

A character, Bernadette, in the show The Big Bang Theory, works for a large pharmaceutical company. The jokes about their drugs are hilarious. One of the best is where she says proudly, “Our company invented and cured restless eye syndrome.”

[Of all the utter goofiness in John Wick 4...]

 

[Of all the utter goofiness in John Wick 4...]

7 minutes ago, Rip Snorter said:

Nothing new under the sun - all the old Cowboy movies. Belt fed SAA? Have never seen a Wick, sounds like SSDD with no guardrails.

They’re sort of a mashup of Bruce Lee & Jackie Chan but with lots of guns and unlimited ammo. 

[Of all the utter goofiness in John Wick 4...]

6 minutes ago, Alpo said:

They are probably 30 clip magazines.

Except the movie takes place in NY, not Minneapolis. 😁

[Price Increases]

8 hours ago, WD Farren said:

The prices will keep going up as long as the gov't continues to print fiat currency fueled by debt.

In my lifetime, I remember $0.17 gasoline, $0.50 box of 22 LR, a new Chevy for $2,700 and a beach house in San Diego for $14,000.

Gas is gone, Chevy sold off, still have the beach house and that box of 22LR.

 

History teaches us you will NEVER see these prices again.
Buy it today, cuz it will be more expensive and more scarce tomorrow.

 

Primers have dropped a lot from their peak, but still much higher than before.
 

I remember those things too. But back then, $19k was a handsome annual income.
 

And in 1931 one could buy a new Model A Ford for $450. Context is everything. 

[do you like cats?]

How could they have left Julie Newmar out of the video?!

[I....Can....SUE!]

A talented actress (Jean Hagen) with a tragic personal life ruined by alcoholism. Died at 54 years old. 🙁

[I....Can....SUE!]

?

[Boy I’d like to have this in my den..]

7 hours ago, Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967 said:

But in the case of this particular aircraft, well... I asked the docent.  

That’s cheating! 😁