['Tis Tuesday]

1 hour ago, Linn Keller, SASS 27332, BOLD 103 said:

Tuesday.

Let's see.

Baked two pumpkin pies first thing this morning.

Taking the wife out for lunch.

Our ham radio club has a first-Tuesday-of-the-month, meet-and-eat at Golden Corral.

Looking forward to a sociable get-together!

Ham sandwich or ham & beans on the menu? 😁

[Info on Trail Boss]

The check is in the mail. 

 

It’s on the truck. 

 

You’re next on the list. 
 

 

[For jet fans]

Woulda made a great Bond movie girl. 
 

[XB-19]

Too bad they couldn’t preserve it (or didn’t want to) as it was such an interesting plane. Here is in 1946 with the Allison engines, just before scrapping. Also shown next to a DC-3. Wow!
 

 

[Awesome Alfa]

4 hours ago, Blackwater 53393 said:

I worked on ‘em some, many years ago!  Wasn’t fun!!

 

They became glorified Fiats!

They sure did, didn’t they? And then disappeared from the US market altogether. 
 

I see new Alfas around here from time to time. Other than the grill, they look generic, like every other car made here or overseas. 
 

These days, you can’t tell what brand a vehicle is until you see the logo/nameplate. Once in a blue moon I’ll see something where I say, “Huh, that’s nice looking.” It’s one of the reasons (other than cost) that I’ve no interest in replacing my 2005 Grand Cherokee. There’s very little out there that’s interesting. 
 

[Awesome Alfa]

39 minutes ago, Pat Riot said:

A friend of mine in the 80’s had a 1970 Alfa Romeo Spider. What a fun car that was. He let me drive it a couple of times. 
 

It looked just like this one. 

 

Nowhere near as elegant as the 1931 that @Abilene Slim SASS 81783 posted. 

Those were marvelous sports cars! As were the sedans. I got to drive one of these in the mid 70’s:

[pumpkin carving the Red Green Way]

“If you can’t find a man that’s handsome, find a man that’s handy.”

[firing pin]

Adding on, it’s possible to have a FP that’s too long. I replaced one that was too short with a longer one. It was so long that it would dent the primer just by gently closing the action. I found another one that split the difference between the two. Sometimes they need some fitting. 

[Awesome Alfa]

1931 Alfa Romeo 6C 1750 Gran Sport Spider Zagato

[Dick Winters, Band of Brothers]

Imagine sitting in on a meeting where the flag officer(s) try to make the one-per-division rule sound rational to a combat vet. 

[It's Almost Friday Humor Thread]

6 hours ago, Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 said:

 

This guy was driving down the freeway, a cute little bunny rabbit ran out in the road, he tried to miss it but he ended up running right over the thing. He pulled over and walked back to check on it. The bunny was dead, smashed, ran over. He was all bent out of shape about it. Suddenly a woman in a nice sports car rolls by. She sees him looking at the poor rabbit so she pulls over. She gets out of her car, walks up to the guy and says “what’s going on? Is everything okay?” The guy says “I just ran over this poor rabbit, he’s gone, there’s nothing I can do!”

She says “hold on a moment I have exactly what you need!” The guy looks at her like she’s crazy, thinking XXX? The rabbits dead, what can possibly be done? She goes to her car, grabs a can out of the console, walks back over to him and the rabbit and she sprays the rabbit with whatever is in the can. She looks at him and says “there you go! Problem solved!” He’s still like XXX? This chicks gone mad. Suddenly the rabbit stands up, it walks like ten feet, turns around and waves. It walks another ten feet, turns around and waves. It does that all the way until he can’t see the rabbit anymore.

He’s amazed, he asks her “ ma’am what do you have in that magical can?” She says “oh it’s just hairspray, it revives dead hair and adds permanent wave!”

[Paintball]

Says I have to sign in to watch. No thanks. 

[A Zebra Named Alpo?]

Stolen from Sedalia Dave. 😁

 

[Ba-Dump Tissssh - Memes]

3 hours ago, Gracos Kid said:

Walmart opened in Arkansas and sold the first toothbrush. In other parts of the country it was called a teethbrush…

[Tanker Pilot]

7 hours ago, Sedalia Dave said:

Sure wish a couple of those had been activated for the Texas Panhandle fires this spring.  The largest of the three fires burned over 900,000 acres in 72 hours.

 

Had they deployed air tankers on day two maybe just maybe they could have prevented the worst of it.

According to my son, those grass and scrub fires spread at lightning speed. I don’t think they could have marshaled and deployed enough retardant fast enough to have made a difference. ☹️

[Happy Hallowe'en~!! Whatcha gonna be?]

Thanks for the clarification. 😊

 

Mine is a lot rattier now after years of CAS, plus, I  changed out the “rope” band it originally had, which included a small feather.  
 

It’s the rope band and brim diameter on your girlfriend’s that got my attention. 
 

I have a number of hats, but this is my go-to hat with its black powder stains and a moth hole or two. The rattier it gets, the more I love it. The sweat band is cracked, but I’m not sure where how to replace it.  
 

[Happy Hallowe'en~!! Whatcha gonna be?]

17 minutes ago, J-BAR #18287 said:

Never, never ask that question.  I asked a client when her baby was due.  She wasn't pregnant.

 

I still get chills remembering that.

Humor writer Dave Barry said in his list of “Things I’ve Learned”, 

 

“Never ever ask if a woman is pregnant, unless you see the baby falling from between her legs.”

[Happy Hallowe'en~!! Whatcha gonna be?]

4 hours ago, Sedalia Dave said:

Last year at the Church’s Trunk or Treat. 
 

Dave, does your wife’s hat happen to be a Stetson? I believe I have the same hat, bought in ‘78. 
 

[so ... it's the last day of October ...]

2 minutes ago, Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967 said:

 

Who dat...?  

Our president. 
 

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-bites-babies-visiting-white-house-halloween-trick-or-treat-celebration.amp

 

 

[so ... it's the last day of October ...]

Until today, I didn’t know biting babies was a political Halloween tradition. I thought it was kissing babies. Folks, this really happened today. 

Do they bite babies in Australia too?

[Graf Zeppelin]

It was remarkable it didn’t crash in foul weather like the helium-filled USS Akron (1933) and USS Macon (1935). Those two crashes ended the rigid airship era in the US. The Hindenburg ended things forever in 1937. 

[Georgia Vote]

At my polling place, the machine spits out a printed tally sheet with your selections listed. You are given several chances to review your selections before hitting the print button. You then walk the sheet over to a scanner and feed it in. No one can touch the tally sheet but the voter.

 

Like a restaurant receipt, it’s incumbent upon the voter to review the printout before scanning, which is when a protest can be made. After that, well, too bad, as the sheet disappears into the scanner. 

[Ford F100]

1 hour ago, Subdeacon Joe said:

 

That's interesting since those are Instagram links. 

Yeah, but it was Tik Tok on Instagram. Since I don’t do Facebook, Instagram, TT et al, I have to make an effort to find the sound button on these ‘links to links’ in order to hear them. When I saw there were no F100s and just someone spouting off, I didn’t bother. Usually I don’t bother, regardless. 

[Question about electrical power outage]

Years ago we had a power outage that just affected 4 houses. I called it in and a crew came out. I pointed out the pole that connected our houses. The crewman spent the next several minutes looking around the base of pole. 
 

I asked what he was doing, since he never looked up at the transformer. He said, “I’m looking for the squirrel.” Then he said, “Got it.”
 

Sure enough, in the pile of leaves was just a fried tail standing straight up like a Wile E Coyote cartoon when he’d been electrocuted. 
 

😁

['25 CLASSIC COWBOY/COWGIRL SHOWDOWN]

1 hour ago, slow poke gear said:

Is this also going to be Kansas state match do you know?

The state match rotates to Powder Creek Cowboys for 2025, to be held in June.