Pat Riot

“Patriotus” the first stirrup.

You’d have to be careful that anything you develop could be seen by the church to be heresy or possibly satanic. Gunpowder could be one of those things.

In 1145 I would develop stirrups ahead of the normalcy of them and I would give them to anyone with a horse and saddle for room and board until I could figure something else out.

I draw the line at Miracle Whip. I liked it up until I was in my 20’s then my taste buds changed or something. Actually I haven’t tasted it in 40 years. Maybe I might like it again now.

It’s odds and ends. Darn tasty odds and ends…with ketchup and onions. I actually have several favorite ways to dress up my hotdogs: 1. Ketchup and onions 2. Brown mustard and onions 3. Mayo, American cheese and a dill pickle slice. 4. Carolina dog - mustard, chili, cole slaw 5. Sauer kraut and yellow mustard 6. Just cole slaw - my Cole Slaw.

Soap and breath freshener.

My wife and I finally found a decent pizza place after the only one we knew of here that’s nearby apparently couldn’t care less if they got your order right or even make your order at all. The old place was call Fat Angelo’s. It’s a family chain here. They all suck and will never see a dime of my money again. The new pizza place is called Big Al’s. They have a couple of restaurants here locally. Good pizza at decent prices. Mmmmmm

Wow! That should be posted on school bulletin boards everywhere. Thank you, Joe.

If you want a good frozen pizza try Motor City Pizza Co’s Detroit Style Pizza in the frozen food section of Walmart. <$8.00 If frozen pizza is beneath you, commenting to this post should be too…if you know what I mean. I always add a bit more shredded Mozzarella & Provolone, also from Walmart. 18-21 minutes in your toaster oven and it’s good!

After eating those you don’t want anything to eat…so I’ve been told.

I love Chicago style pizza. It’s my favorite. I love pizza in general, except for the weirdo foo-foo pizzas in California. Anyone that puts bean sprouts and tofu on a pizza should be treated poorly, often.

@Rye Miles #13621 you need to go to Trader Joe’s and go to their frozen food section and look for their pizzas with the Italian flag on the box. Those thin crust pizzas are exactly the pizza I had near the docks in Livorno Italy when I was in the Navy. There’s one near you.

I didn’t care about Kerry’s wife when it belonged to her family. She had nothing to do with the real business of making Heinz products. I have tried every other ketchup available and to me the rest just ain’t right. There was a ketchup sold by Smart & Final under their brand name that was actually pretty good, but they screwed it up…probably put DelMonte in their bottles.

What’s YouTube? Kidding. I don’t use YouTube. If I want to see a YouTube video I use the “Duck Viewer” through DuckDuckGo. I see the video and none of the other stuff. I don’t rate or comment on videos as I do not actually log into the site. I have met and known people who make money on YouTube, but I honestly don’t know how the money works.

DelMonte?! DelMonte?! Why I oughta… Heinz or nothing! It’ll have to be 3 bottles. 24 ounce bottles. psst…don’t tell anybody, but my favorite thing on hotdogs is ketchup and onions.

My advice. Dump that brass. Recycle it.

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You want to try a really good brown mustard? Pilsudski’s. I found it at Bass Pro Shops, of all places. It’s really good! https://www.basspro.com/shop/en/pilsudski-polish-style-mustard-with-horseradish

My son-in-law sent this to me. Why Chicagoans do not put ketchup on hotdogs. https://www.instagram.com/reel/DGg55MWCCnw/?igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA%3D%3D

I used to know officers that had been shot while wearing their vests. None of them said they’d like to do it again. One of my friends said he got hit more towards his left side and he got 3 broken ribs from a .45 ACP FMJ. He said he had been told it would hurt. He said that was an understatement, but he was thankful he was wearing it.

All I care about is if they liked the gift. Any form of acknowledgment is fine. We always get a phone call thanking us for gifts, well, my wife does. The only time I have ever gotten truly put off by no acknowledgement or thank you was at a friend’s daughter’s wedding and we bought an expensive gift for them from the registry at Buffum’s and we got no response at all. She got a divorce 2 years later. I heard she had a yard sale and sold everything they got in the wedding reception. She remarried a year after that. We sent nothing. We heard she was upset that we didn’t fly or drive 12 hours to the wedding and we didn’t send a gift. I told her Dad to just have her go pick out something nice at a yard sale somewhere and we’ll reimburse her. We never heard about it again.

Isn’t that always the case? I recall one overnight hike I went on with some coworkers, the last one, I carried a 1 gallon jug in my backpack and 2 - 1 quart WW2 canteens on a web belt up a 7 mile trail to the top of a mountain. Dinner time came and some people had dehydrated food “because it’s light to carry” and NO WATER to make it with, because they drank the 1 quart they each had hiking up the mountain. I had made the mistake of saying I had a gallon of water in my pack when we started the hike. So, not only did I collect all the firewood “we” were using I was told by a boss at work that I needed to ante up some of my water. I pretty much told him to shove it and that away from work he wasn’t a boss and sure as heck not my boss at work or away. I stuck to my guns. In the morning I made myself some instant coffee and had some peanut butter and crackers and I still had nearly a gallon of water. I filled my 2 canteens. The hike down was very quiet and mixed with harsh looks and murmured commentary as I left this band of overeducated buttholes back down the trail. When we reached the parking lot at the trail head I made a big to-do about dumping the last quart and a half of water onto the pavement. I yelled “Bye Everybody”, waved and got into my truck and left. For some strange reason I was never invited out again with them. Screw ‘em! I preferred shooting, motorcycling, surfing and rock climbing on my weekends anyway.

I seem to recall a class that I had in Gunnery School (1979) where the instructor told us that any sailor that told you that they drank real torpedo juice was either lying or they had at least 7 hash marks on their sleeve denoting 4 years of service for every hash mark. In 1943 battery / electric powered torpedoes were introduced with the Mk 18 torpedo. https://www.pamilmuseum.org/blog/design-and-production-of-the-mark-18-torpedoedesign-and-production-of-the-mark-18-torpedo Now, even today the Navy carries grain alcohol aboard ship for electronics techs to use for cleaning circuit / cable contacts but it is secured and regulated…for the most part.

My options: 1. Like @watab kid, I bring all the water I think I will need when camping. 2. IF I needed water when camping and the source was 1/4 mile away I would move camp to where the water is. 3. I have only camped where I wasn’t near my vehicle a few times. In those instances I carried my water on my back in my pack. I estimated what I thought I would need and doubled it. 3. If I did end up camping somewhere without my vehicle and water was 1/4 mile away (see item 2) it would probably be because I was taken hostage or captured and was being forced to walk to get water. In this case this would probably be a one way trip for either me or my captor as I would be planning to over power or outsmart any dipstick dumb enough to go into the woods with me thinking I was their mule. That or I would end up dead. Also, I won’t hike or camp with people too lazy, stupid or conniving to bring the water they need. I did not share in instances like these when I was young and hiking up a mountain to spend the night with a bunch of so-called friends / coworkers when I thought that type of thing was “fun”.

Rest in Peace, George Foreman