[time for a hypothetical question]

17 hours ago, Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770 said:

When my first wife died in '94, I had her cremated straight from the morgue. Never saw the body after the autopsy was done. Received the cremains in a bag in a cardboard box. She had always wanted to go to The Grand Ole Opry, and eventually I got her there. It's probably better that I say no more. 

My friend of 50 years died back in early '22. As a Good Christian, he wanted a Natural Burial. As he put it, "Right into the ground, naked as the day I was born." His kids found a cemetery in Ohio that would accommodate that. 

Addendum: I forgot to mention that there was a requirement for the body to be in what was not much more than a paperboard box for cremation.

And Tex's Natural Burial also included his NOT being embalmed.

[Chevy Silverado 2500 vs GMC Denali 2500 Tow Rig]

24 minutes ago, Eyesa Horg said:

I am still not completely sold on diesel myself.

The fact that even small diesel trucks must use DEF, (Diesel Exhaust Fluid) is enough to make me shy away from them.

[Now it can be told...or is it? UFO's or not.]

7 minutes ago, Trailrider #896 said:

Don't really need to worry about extra-terrestrial aliens. (Got enough illegal ones down here already.) First of all, they probably have their own version of the Prime Directive, and we don't qualify as intelligent enough to be assimilated or allied with. 

The Goa'uld would disagree.

[What to wear in the courtroom?]

Last time I was called for Jury duty, I never made it to the Courtroom. They passed out a survey for us to fill out. For the question on hobbies and Groups, I put that I was a member of the National Rifle Association, Gun Owners of America, Single Action Shooting Society, and a faithful follower of Rush Limbaugh. I haven't been back since.

Now when I was in Court for various misadventures, I wore Black Jeans, Black Cowboy boots, dark button up long sleeve shirt, and carried my Cowboy hat. 

As a side note, I've seen several Judges toss people out of their Courtroom for dressing like slobs.

[Star Trek v. Reality]

9 minutes ago, H. K. Uriah, SASS #74619 said:

Oh yeah.

That's when you take a Winchester 92, remove the forestock, brass the receiver, and wahlah!  You've got yourself a Henry!

To be an official Hollywood Henry, they will slide a piece onto the magazine tube that looks like the Magazine Follower on a real Henry. You can see one clearly in the Sam Elliot movie of Louis L'amour's "The Quick and the Dead", in the hands of the head Bad Guy.

[From the files of Subdeacon Joe: You ever wonder what damage a compressed gas cylinder can do?]

8 minutes ago, Subdeacon Joe said:

From the title,  "From the files of Subdeacon Joe:" would it be safe to assume that this is something that I had posted in the past,

 

And also safe to assume that my comment about precharged air rifles prompted it?

No, it's just a piece of useless knowledge that seemed like something you would post. Just having a little fun with it. Unless you ask me not to, I'll probably do it again.

Just like "An Alpoesque question...".

[Star Trek v. Reality]

4 minutes ago, Abilene Slim SASS 81783 said:

Similar thing in the Carey Grant movie, “Destination Tokyo”. He’s the skipper who disarms an unexploded bomb instead of someone else, who likely would have more expertise. 
 

Hollyweird. 

How about on "M*A*S*H*" when Hawkeye and Trapper disarmed a bomb in the compound. 

"Okay, let's sent the two most valuable guys in the unit for a dangerous job that they have no more experience than anybody else to do."

[Star Trek v. Reality]

1 hour ago, Alpo said:

I seldom watched The Next Generation. Did Picard go down with the away team, or did he stay on board and let Riker do all the exploring?

Riker usually went, since the XO is expendable I suppose, but occasionally Picard went, and Riker usually argued over the Standing Orders that the Captain NOT go. When Picard went, it was most often because he had some personal interest in THAT mission.

[From the files of Subdeacon Joe: You ever wonder what damage a compressed gas cylinder can do?]

I deliver these things for 30 years, and while I never saw this exact scenario, I saw some similar.

 

[Chevy Silverado 2500 vs GMC Denali 2500 Tow Rig]

4 hours ago, Johnny Buck said:

bought a Chevy Silverado 1500 with the 3.0 Liter Duramax.  I went to the travel trailer dealer, and we put a Rockwood Mini-lite (650 lb hitch weight) on the hitch, and it sat it right down.

 

So now the options are:

         1) Helper springs

         2) Air Bags or

         3) A Chevy 2500 diesel or a GMC 2500 diesel

I've gone full circle.  I have been told that the Chevy and GMC offer a smoother ride in 2500 vs. the Ford.  What's your experience?

I would Bag your current rig. As long as whoever does the installation is experienced and competent, That would be my choice. If you're not sure of Air Bags, Most modern tractor/ trailers are on air bags. I drove one for 30 years and never had a problem because of them. With the best of them, I think that you could even adjust your ride height based on your trailer weight. And it's going to be WAAAAAY cheaper than a new truck. Unless of course that's what you want anyway.

[Star Trek v. Reality]

2 minutes ago, Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 said:

Why to thhey send the 3 or 4 most senior staff to explore a strange new world?

Absolutely right. There should be a specialized crew to do that. Specialists whose JOB it is to Go Where No Man Has Gone Before. If a Senior Officer must go, he should have, again, a team with him specially trained for just that mission. 

Exobiologists, Exobotonists, etc. Security on a Landing Party should be by personnel trained for that, and ONLY that.

I think that the one time we saw something like that was in the "Arena", when Kirk and crew were fighting a ground battle with the yet unseen Gorn, and Kirk ask a Security Guy about firing a Mortar.

[Star Trek v. Reality]

13 minutes ago, Subdeacon Joe said:

The fact that there is a human being driving the ship at all instead of the computer doing it is the most unrealistic part of the show.

The human is not driving the ship, at this point, he's just monitoring what the computer is doing. Watching for alerts, sensor readings and such. The question I have is why they have two people at the Navigation Console. Why a Navigator AND a Pilot at the Helm? Just for redundancy? Okay, then why separate titles for them? And WTH is Worf doing back at Tactical anyway? On Kirk's Enterprise, the Helm read sensors and handled weapons WHILE Piloting the ship in battle.  

Just for reference to the Here and Now, Pilots in commercial passenger planes don't do much either. Yep, you guessed it, a COMPUTER is flying the plane from takeoff to landing. Pretty much all the Cabin Crew does is move the plane around on the ground. And watch monitors.

[time for a hypothetical question]

When my first wife died in '94, I had her cremated straight from the morgue. Never saw the body after the autopsy was done. Received the cremains in a bag in a cardboard box. She had always wanted to go to The Grand Ole Opry, and eventually I got her there. It's probably better that I say no more. 

My friend of 50 years died back in early '22. As a Good Christian, he wanted a Natural Burial. As he put it, "Right into the ground, naked as the day I was born." His kids found a cemetery in Ohio that would accommodate that. 

[Now it can be told...or is it? UFO's or not.]

The Klingons or Romulans wouldn't fool around, they'd just attack. The Xindi however...

[Do you have a printer?]

Mine is a Brother something or other. Copy, scan, etc. It has FAX capability, but I only used that once, got my boss in trouble, (hee hee!). I can send a FAX, but I'd have to set it up to receive. But I don't receive any, and the phone line isn't even connected anyway. 

I have kind of the same problem Alpo has, I don't print that often, and about half the time when I do, I get nothing. However, the Brother has a "Clean" cycle that I can run with the push of a button, so eventually I get a good print. The best part: It's an older model, so I can get ink on ebay for CHEAP. I'm talking about a BUCK a cartridge. 

[It's Almost Friday Humor Thread]

2 hours ago, Subdeacon Joe said:

How about when Urkle told Laura that he got a BMW:

[Cleaning Ball Caps]

4 hours ago, Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770 said:

FIFY. Then there's THIS Guy.

Okay guys, I'm talking about guys that seemingly can't figure the proper way to wear a cap during day to day life, NOT the ways we wear them for specific activities.

[Alpo-type question]

55 minutes ago, Alpo said:

Mycroft was his brother. If he had been married and had children who had had children who had had children who had had children who had children, none of them would be Sherlock's great-great-great-grandson. Mycroft's great great great grandson, but they would have been Sherlock's great great great great nephew.

True. However, even Sherlock stated that Mycroft was the smarter of the two. I would think that his offspring would inherit that trait. So get HIM on the case. 

BTW, the 221 Baker Street is a bank these days, but they have a small office in the back, called 221B that is staffed by someone because they constantly get letters addressed to Holmes.

[Alpo-type question]

4 hours ago, Rye Miles #13621 said:

I heard the great great grandson of Sherlock Holmes is interested in the case! 🙄

 

3 hours ago, Alpo said:

I don't believe that would be possible. For there to be a great great grandson that would first have to be a great-grandson, which would require a grandson which in turn would require a son which would require a woman.

And the only woman that Sherlock Holmes ever had any interest in was Irene Adler. And she was the one that got away.

It was never stated that Mycroft wasn't married. HE might have had a son.

[Cleaning Ball Caps]

24 minutes ago, Abilene Slim SASS 81783 said:

A ball cap worn backwards looks cool when:

Aiming a rifle

Driving a boat

Flying an open cockpit airplane or open canopy 

A ball cap worn backwards looks stupid when:

Doing anything else.

You get my drift. Please add your own. 😉

FIFY. Then there's THIS Guy.

[Cleaning Ball Caps]

4 hours ago, Blackwater 53393 said:

I won’t be a member of Kapa Skew, and a flat bill is unacceptable and in my opinion, ridiculous looking!

Agree 1000%. The only thing stupider is wearing them backwards.

[Are you running out to buy a glock?]

39 minutes ago, Rye Miles #13621 said:

A gunsmith at the LGS showed a couple of us how you can make an AR into a full auto with a piece of metal like part of a coat hanger or a zip tie.

I think that the difference is twofold: (1) An AR is so much bigger than a Glock that it's harder to shove down one's pants, and (2) Nobody's doing it to ARs. Yet.

[Cleaning Ball Caps]

I wear a Marine Corps Softcover as my everyday hat. They get dirty, sweaty, salt encrusted and smelly. When it gets to where even I don't want to get close to it, I take it in the shower with me and clean it with my shampoo. I figure that if it works on my hair, it will work on a hat that's got the same dirt on it. 

I pour shampoo into the cover, let the cover partially fill with water, and just rub the sides together. I also take a small brush to the bill. It comes out clean enough.

[Gift Card ponder]

I'd guess that they would put it back on the gift card, or possibly store credit.

[How often does Apple bring out a new phone?]

1 hour ago, John Kloehr said:

Not as quick as a TV remote. Depends on how one defines "can." Here is the procedure for my 12:

 

 

As I am now at three or maybe five years and running low on memory, plus my Otter case will need replacement at some point... And a newer phone will basically be "free" (I know, built into the plan price). I'll just turn the old phone in to be reconditioned and sold to someone else.

I'll rephrase. They're not designed to be replaced. With older phones, you could, like your remote, pop the back off, remove the old battery, and insert a new one.