[Is it Normal for CNN to have a 15 second delay on interviews?]

26 minutes ago, Texas Joker said:

Some delay for live TV is normal, let's the booth hit the dump button if somebody says something against the rules

More likely something that they don't want the public to hear.

[I wonder about reward posters]

2 hours ago, Chantry said:

Is there a reward for Alpo?

If you get your hands on Alpo, you'll have to be the one paying somebody to take him off your hands.

[Senior Moments]

1 hour ago, watab kid said:

I had not thought of that but it might well indeed do just that , he is an inquisitive sort , 

 

so .........dumb part of all this is im not sure what this might lead to , i almost cant recall where it all started 

Right. What were we talking about?

[Is this stupidity, or just laziness?]

32 minutes ago, Rip Snorter said:

Gets hot here as well 104° or a bit more - I slip them into the checkbook, right hand back jeans (genes?) pocket.  Maybe a few days, and I'm on the skinny side, but never seen one turn dark.

[Is this stupidity, or just laziness?]

1 hour ago, Subdeacon Joe said:

And you go to look at it and the thermal paper is all black. 

 

21 minutes ago, Rip Snorter said:

If it wasn't trash day earlier today, I could pull one out of the wastebasket and post it.  Every item & price, plus totals legible.  Montana, and even less free states where I have lived the same.  Involved in the Grocery business one way or another for decades till retirement, I have never seen what you describe.

In hot climates, thermal paper will turn black after sitting out for about 6 months. Longer if kept in a cool place. Here in Arizona I've seen it a LOT. The delivery printers where I used to work had thermal printers. When kept in a file cabinet, they would indeed last for a year or so, but if left out, especially in a hot area, they can go black in a matter of weeks. 

Stick one in your pocket and look at it after a few days there. 

[Senior Moments]

24 minutes ago, watab kid said:

i fear even ALPO would be disapointed to hear from me on an answer to somepone elses question i couldnt remember 

More likely it would spawn a question from HIM.

[using a double action revolver in the movie]

15 minutes ago, Alpo said:

Many people have noticed, in cowboy movies, where they have taken a double action revolver and they have put a fake ejector on the side of the barrel so it will look like a single action revolver, and hand it to the actor because he has to shoot very fast and he is unable to do that with a real single action revolver

I know, but he worked an SAA well during the rest of the movie. 

[using a double action revolver in the movie]

1 hour ago, H. K. Uriah, SASS #74619 said:

Darn...  I did a quick check.  This movie does not have an entry in the Internet Movie Firearms Database,   Aw, utsnay.

I know. That's why it took me a couple days to post this. I had to search the memory banks, (see the Senior Moments thread), to find this shot. I remembered that they'd done this for Jayne Mansfield, (though how I knew THAT is questionable), and then to get Google to fess up.

On the same train of thought though, through IMDB I did find something I'd suspected but never researched. In "ElDorado", during the church shootout, for some reason, Robert Mitchum is using a Colt DA.  

[Has anyone ever done this?]

56 minutes ago, Alpo said:

Whenever I run any kind of corded electrical equipment I drape the cord around my neck. It comes off the tool, up and over my left shoulder (me being right-handed the tool is in my right hand) and down my back to the ground.

 

I have never seen anyone else do this. Except my father. I do this because that's how he did this and that's how I learned. And you know something? When you got the cord hanging down your back it's awful damn hard to cut it in two with your skil saw.

A circular saw only has about a 6' cord on it. And even if one were to wrap the cord over one's shoulder and have an extension cord on it, leaning over his work the cord could still get in the way. When using a piece of equipment that requires a lot of movement, mower, weedeater, etc., I do the same. 

[Has anyone ever done this?]

I've done it many times. The same thing can be done when you to cut the cord powering your circular saw. 

[Senior Moments]

2 hours ago, watab kid said:

the drawers are full of lots of data and info but i cant get the drawer open enough , quick enough , to respond 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

 

21 minutes ago, Abilene Slim SASS 81783 said:

Oh, there’s someone to tell it to. They’ll just be very, very unhappy you did. 😁

Alpo would probably like to hear from you. 

[using a double action revolver in the movie]

On 8/31/2025 at 9:06 AM, Tex Jones, SASS 2263 said:

Annie Oakley (Gail Davis) carried double action revolvers with fake ejector rod housings.

Here's a still from the 1958 movie "The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw". This is Jayne Mansfield being shown how to shoot. The gun, (YES there is a gun in the pic) is clearly a Colt DA, and you can see the fake ejector housing on it. 

21 hours ago, H. K. Uriah, SASS #74619 said:

Hmm....  DA revolver with a fake ejector to make it look like a SA revolver.

Sure it's not one of these?



Or maybe one of these?

 

[Gun Free Zone]

52 minutes ago, Sixgun Symphony #62632 said:

You got THAT right. When Congresscritter Gabrielle Giffords, (I refuse to use the 'Gabby' nickname, because nobody called her that until Obama because couldn't pronounce her proper name), was shot here in Tucson, the blood wasn't even dry on the floor of the supermarket before our former Sheriff, a hardcore Anti-Gunner, was in front of the news cameras saying that the shooter had done it because was a Right Wing radical who listened to conservative hate radio. 

Over the next two weeks of investigation, it was proven that, of course, that wasn't the case. Quite the opposite. Registered Dumocrat, etc. When the Sheriff was again asked about motive, he just kind of mumbled that he didn't know.

[Gun Free Zone]

18 minutes ago, watab kid said:

the only reason they dont just off themselves is they want the notoriety , 

We should do like Paul Harvey used to do when reporting people like that, "He would want me to mention his name..."

[do you like cats?]

24 minutes ago, Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770 said:

I believe I'd go with Linda Carter.

 

22 minutes ago, Boggus Deal #64218 said:

She’d be 2nd or 3rd.

I don't know. It's close between her, Barbara Eden and Julie Newmar. If you REALLY want to make it interesting, add Donna Douglas and Heather Thomas into the mix.

[do you like cats?]

11 minutes ago, Whitey James said:

You can only pick one:

Julie Newmar

Barbara Eden

Elizabeth Montgomery

Linda Carter

Dawn Wells

Tina Louise 

Lindsay Wagner

Farrah Fawcett

I believe I'd go with Linda Carter.

[Gun Free Zone]

10 minutes ago, John Kloehr said:

Perhaps legislators should be limited to the protection they mandate for schools. They would then be protected only by signs, not armed law-abiding members of society. Wonder how they would feel about this... Would they think it is a dumb idea?

Just look at what happened with Kamala. She lost her Secret Service protection and was immediately provided protection by CHIPS. California "officials" conveyed "Dignitary" status upon her so that the state could do so. Newsome has to sign off on it, but unless she announces that she's going to run against for something I have no doubt that he will do so. 

I personally don't know why. Since she's not in any position of power, she's no threat to anybody.

[do you like cats?]

1 hour ago, Calamity Kris said:

MY dear, if you don't know Eartha Kitt, pull out your record player.  Here's one of her most famous works.

I'm familiar with her as Catwoman, I was just listing my preferences. I know who Lee Meriwether and Halle Berry are too, they just didn't make my top three.

I did like Halle Berry as Storm in the first X-Man movie.

[using a double action revolver in the movie]

19 minutes ago, Alpo said:

DALE EVANS also carried double action medium frame 38 special revolvers with fake ejector rods. I thought, like Gail, she carried Police Positive Specials. But I was reading a story being told by Roy Jr - who you would expect knew what was what in his own house when he was growing up - and Roy Jr and Roy senior were wrestling in the living room when Dale called them to supper. They did not stop the wrestling, and after she called them the second time "she went in her bedroom and came out with one of her Smith & Wessons from the show and shot it in the ceiling!", which got hubby and son's attention and they quit their fighting and came to dinner.

I read the same story. That .38 was loaded with "full report blanks" from what I remember. And she fired all 6.

Dale Evans is the reason I love strong women. Most women in movies back in those days, that just stood there, hand to mouth, screaming, as opposed to her charging to Roy's rescue, guns blazin'.

[do you like cats?]

1 hour ago, Abilene Slim SASS 81783 said:

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

You must have started it late. She was the first one shown.

[do you like cats?]

1 hour ago, Alpo said:

I have decided that most of the people responding to this thread did not even look at my post.

Wow.

I've noticed that the practice seems VERY common. Especially when commenting on an older thread.

(1) Julie Newmar

(2) Adrienne Barbeau

(3) Michelle Pfeiffer

And who in the heck are the last two?!?

 

[Senior Moments]

11 hours ago, MizPete said:

I have nonfluent aphasia - I know exactly what I want to say but the word is vacationing in Outer Slovenia.  

 

11 hours ago, J-BAR #18287 said:

When it happens to me, I just say, "It's in there...it will come out eventually!"

By the time they stop laughing, I can usually continue.

 

10 hours ago, Blackwater 53393 said:

Does anyone besides me wake up in the middle of the night remembering something you couldn’t recall in conversation earlier in the day??

Aggravates me to no end!!! 🤣

It happens to me on a semi-regular basis. Usually when I'm conversing with somebody whom I have a good deal of respect for and don't want to look like a moron in front of.

26 minutes ago, Alpo said:

When I wake up in the middle of the night, from a dream - and sometimes it's because I have to pee and sometimes it's just because I woke up - there's a question in the dream. Something was happening in the dream, and I wonder if it would really happen. So I make a mental note, that when I get up in the morning I will come here to the Saloon (ACS) and ask y'all all-knowing people.

 

Then when I wake up, I remember that I had a question about something that happened in the dream that I was going to ask y'all, but I don't remember what the question was.

 

And that is bloody annoying.

Judging on the questions that you DO ask here, I shudder to think of what you dream about that you need to question.  

[It's Almost Friday Humor Thread]

47 minutes ago, Injun Ryder, SASS #36201L said:

[Gun Free Zone]

11 minutes ago, Barry Sloe said:

What would you do in this instance? Carry to be safe, but violate the law or go without a defense??

 

BS

Carry and don't worry about it. Just about any time you're on a main road in Tucson you're going to be passing by a school. Not to mention that people around here just don't worry about it. The Turner's Gun Shop on Pima is literally across the street from a school.

[Gun Free Zone]

58 minutes ago, Chantry said:

This isn't about facts or logic, it's about fear, emotions and control, often by people who have no self control of their own.

More times than not, it's about people who want to USE that fear TO control the scared people, "Trust us, it's for your own good."

It's about the wolves using the sheeps own fear against them, and the sheeps inability to tell the difference between the wolves and the sheepdogs.