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Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770

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  1. 15 minutes ago, Subdeacon Joe said:

     Some joker had stenciled a doe under the stag so the sign was Or, a stag springing surmounting a doe statant, and an orle, Sable.

    Reminds me of the story of the woman who called the Highway Dept. wanting them to move the "Deer Crossing" signs. Her complaint was that too many deer were running across the road and getting by traffic there.

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  2. 1 hour ago, Abilene Slim SASS 81783 said:

    That would take a monumental degree of precision with specialized equipment and a basketball goal in a very exact spot on the planet. 

    Not necessarily. The moon's, just like the sun's position in the sky varies with the earth's orbit. The shadows in summer are on the other side of the house in winter. Maybe just good timing on the photographer's part. 

  3. 14 hours ago, Abilene Slim SASS 81783 said:

    More Photoshop. The moon travels thru the sky on an arc, not straight up and down. Since the camera is stationary, the moon would appear to the side of the goal. There are other clues too, but that’s the biggie. 
     

     

    It might be possible that the basketball hoop happens to be oriented so that it's facing North or South so that as the moon sets in the West, it would seem to pass through the hoop.

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  4. 43 minutes ago, Alpo said:

    I did not realize that that was his hand. I thought someone else was holding the phone up.

     

    Does anyone actually do that? Turn the phone around and then try to push the button? I thought that was the purpose of the reverse-camera thing. So you can both see yourself when you were taking a selfie, and the button you have to push.

    I think that the idea is that he's trying to take a picture while the phone is in calculator mode, not camera mode.

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  5. 3 hours ago, Sedalia Dave said:

     

    One has to wonder why #14 is necessary.

     

    2 hours ago, Texas Joker said:

    They rode their horse to the airfield

     

    2 hours ago, Pat Riot said:

    Now that you’ve read it you’ll never forget when flying, will ya? :D

    "They don't work on these new fangled velocipedes".

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  6. 20 minutes ago, Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474 said:

     

    They usually made containers of birch bark and dropped hot rocks into the sap or if they were lucky, had access to clay pot technology.

    From my Grandmother, I recall a story of her grandparents, heating water in a birch bark container. It can be done,if the flames are kept low and below the level of the water. 

    I've never tried it.

    Louis L'aMour mentioned this multiple times in his books, IIRC.

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