Trailrider #896

Wife had it severely in both hands about 10 years ago. Doc at the Mayo Clinic gave her a shot in each hand, but told her there was no guarranty how long it would last. She hasn't had any trouble since then., Just lucky, I guess.

You eat beef hearts and likely they'll beefarts by morning!

More misinformation: The black & white cow shown above, and the ones used by Chick-fillet, that hold up signs saying, "Eat more chikin!" are DAIRY cows, not beef cattle!

Another artist gone! She played Hot Lips Hannahan on MASH. She was 87. RIP, Ma'am!

Don't forget the Stars of David there. Including, if his family will ever agree to it, MGEN Maurice Rose, CG 3rd Armor Division, son and grandson of rabbis. (Except, like Hyman Rickover, their real religion was the service they were part of.) Freedom isn't free! | | |

Whatever you do when cooking pig, make sure it is cooked well to kill any triconosis. Same with bear meat!

Lest we forget... Lest we forget... | | | |

So my $3 bills are probably not right?

The propeller is part of the arming device for the bomb. The arming wire is attached to the aircraft's bomb rack so that the bomb isn't armed until the bomb falls away from the plane. The wire stays with the rack, and once it pulls free of the fuse, the propeller starts spinning until the bomb is armed. Once armed, whatever fuse mechanism type will set off the main explosive once certain conditions are met (impact with the ground, proximity fuse above the ground, etc.) The safety cotter pin shown in the above example prevents the fuse from being arms should the arming wire accidentally get pulled during handling.

Gotta watch those black cocker spaniels. Our two-year-old black and silver (they call that meryl) Cocker spaniel likes to grab socks and chew on them. He doesn't destroy them, but if you try to take one away, he will run to the other room. Makes a game of it. But socks are a lot cheaper than those fancy gun grips. OTOH, they make great watch dogs. Ours will bark and alert us at any noise in our cul-de-sac. Also goes nuts when the squirrels or rabbits come around where he can see them, Have fun with your new doggie!

I have one I bought years ago, before Dixie Gun Works offered them. Mine was marked, "Joan's Gun Shop". I haven't shot it in years, but recall that I also had an original Whitney Navy that I shot briefly. The Whitney would fire about six or seven shots before binding up so bad you had to turn the cylinder by hand! The Spiller & Burr replica would shoot at least 2+ cylinder-fulls before needing cleaning! It was also the most accurate cap&ball revolver I ever shot! Only a few thousand of the original S&B's were made, due to having the manufacturing facilities having to be moved ahead of advancing Union forces. I haven't ever seen an original, but I would imagine they would be worth something astronomical! I may be the one who referred to the Ruger Old Army as "The Super Whitney", due to the design of the loading lever/cylinder arbor. "

Some years ago a man was going to his car, having just attended an important religious service. He was struck by lightning just outside his car. He was seriously injured and I don't know what eventually happened to him. As far as protecting electronics against lightning is concerned. It would take a capacitor bank the size of a Minuteman I ESA room to take a strike!

With the diagnosis of Former President Joseph Biden with prostate cancer, it brings up a tendency by some doctors to say you don't need a PSA test if you are over a certain age. Their reasoning is that even if you are diagnosed with that or something similar beyond a certain age (80 is often quoted) you'll probably die of something else. Similarly, women are sometimes told not to bother with certain tests for the same nonsense! In fact, I know of both men and women who are diagnosed with ailments in their 80's, who were successfully treated, when their problem was caught early, and lived into their 90's or beyond! Pards, get your PSA annually, no matter what age you are! Ladies get your GYN tests annually, as well as mammograms! If your doctor demurse...FIND ANOTHER DOCTOR!

As I graduated summa cum lousy I couldn't say.

It should. John Mose basically scaled up the .30-06 when he designed the .50 BMG. The AF is now trying to substitute a modified cropduster as a CAS attack aircraft. Lets see how that survives against ground fire! They ought to turn the re-winged A-10's over to the Army. That ain't a fighter, it's a flying tank!

Yeah, but sometimes the official names are replaced by the guys and gals who fly them. For example, the B-1b is officially designated "The Lancer", but most call them "The Bone" for B-One, as in bad to. The A-10 is officially the Thunderbolt II, but better known as the "Warthog"

General "Chappie" James became commandant of the Air Force Academy. Sadly, we lost him to a heart attack not long afterwards. Robin Olds retired as a BGEN, and passed away at age 84. He might have made a higher rank, but he torqued a lot of AF brass. On this Memorial Day, we honor all who served and sacrificed, including "Black Man and Robin"!

A Swordfish basically "sank" the Bismark. Well, actually, it's torpedo jammed the ship's rudder, causing it to sail in circles until the British surface ships were able to catch up and deliver the coup de ta.

IIRC Earnie Pyle was killed there.

I don't know about any controlled substances, but maybe Taco Bell is putting something in the Rockies' uh, tacos, just to save money. (If the Rockies score 7 runs in a game, Taco Bell gives out free tacos!) As one other team's field manager said, "Even Casey Stengel couldn't help the Rocks!" I was a Chicago native as a kid, and the Cubbies were always in 8th place in an 8-team National League, yet their fans (not me, I was a White Sox fan) seemed to come to the games. Not sure if the Rocks' fanbase in Denver will sustain their support. Fans in the stands were shouting, "Sell the team!" during the 21-0 debacle the other night. But owner, Dick Monfort, says he has no intention of selling. Be nice if he would invest more money in descent pitching!

Congratulations, Colonel, Sir! Semper Fi!

Sign in an 8th AF officers' club: "Absolutely NO colonels under the age of 21 will be served hard alcohol!" It wasn't really all that much of a joke as the attrition rate in 1943 was so bad that surviving pilots were often promoted that high!

My grandmother was in her 80's, and would go out with "the girls", who were similarly in her age group.

My Dad was quite nearsighted. He held a reserve commission in the Army before Pearl Harbor. Although he didn't have to go active duty (34 years old, married with me on the way), after Pearl Harbor, he felt it his duty to serve. He went to take his physical, and was supposed to take the eye exam, and memorized the eye chart! But they switched charts on him and he failed the eye physical. He tried getting his congressman to get him another exam, but no luck. Finally, another lawyer friend got him a retest through a U.S. senator from another state! This time he made sure they didn't switch charts, and "passed". He went on active duty and served with the 42nd ID (Rainbow) division throughout WWII. He was assigned to division GHQ, so was not in actual combat during the war. After the war he went to JAG school (he had been a lawyer), and retired from the ready reserve in 1959 as a LTC.

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