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Just don't call me "Shirley"!
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Lawrence Welk, 4 February, 1956
Trailrider #896 replied to Subdeacon Joe's topic in SASS Wire Saloon
Wonaful! Wonaful! -
Oh, wow! I, too, remember it from the '60's, but never knew what it meant. Obviously about a guy who had lost (broken up?) with his girl. About the same effect as "Lemon Tree" had on me at the time...long before I met my present wife of 58 years.
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What the Mare's Leg should have been.
Trailrider #896 replied to H. K. Uriah, SASS #74619's topic in SASS Wire Saloon
Frankly, as cool as the Mare's Laige looked on "Wanted", with about a six-round capacity it was little better than a Colt's SAA with a 7-1/2 barrel, and, in my mind, not as handy. As far as a .45-70 version, I bought a M1886 with a 19" barrel and shotgun buttstock, and with some stout loads was all I found practicable for heavy game in dense brush. -
I believe $20 is what I paid to the DCM back in the 60's. Not sure, but the "unserviceable" designation may have referred to the fact that the headspacing was slightly out of tolerance. At the time, my Dad was still in the reserves and went on two-weeks active duty at Ft. Sheridan, Illinois, about 15 minutes from our house. I took the carbine to the post ordnance armorer. He took the piece, and returned about two minutes later with an M-2 (round, rather than the flat M-1) bolt, and that was that! I foolishly sold the carbine some years later when they had not increased in value that much.
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Caution making travel reservations
Trailrider #896 replied to Trailrider #896's topic in SASS Wire Saloon
That almost amounts to fraud. I wonder what government agency would look into that sort of money business? -
We made hotel reservations with a major chain, for three nights. We had stayed at this hotel before, and I called them on the phone back in March for April 22nd through the 24th. I was surprised when I received conformation on my credit card charging the whole amount, but because I was still recovering from surgery and a bunch of other stuff going on, did not question it, figuring I wouldn't pay it until after our stay. Our trip was for our annual wellness checkups at a major medical clinic, and we had appointments scheduled with doctors and for tests (everything came back okay for me and my wife). We received and emergency call from a family member to return a day early, which we did. We checked out the night before our departure and thought we were given credit for the unused day. It turned out that the reservation had been shifted to some "third party" outfit, which is why they charged the whole thing up front! But we never received notification except for a charge sheet with that outfit's contact info. After going round and round with the hotel chain's corporate headquarters, it turns out the hotel did give us credit for the unused night, BUT THE THIRD PARTY WILL NOT REFUND THE MONEY! The amount may seem trivial ($265.03), but being on a fixed income, it pays for about a week's groceries! The point is, if you make reservations by phone, be sure the hotel or airlines will not transfer the reservation to anybody else, and that you don't charge more than one day's fee (to be held by the reservation until 24 hrs. before you check in, which is reasonable in case you cancel right before check-in). If a full-price charge appears on your credit car, cancel it immediately, and contact the hotel again by phone to rebook. If they won't do it, go to a different hotel.
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I don't know. But if I was his girlfriend, she would be his ex instantly, and if she didn't call the cops, I'd be surprised!
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My go-to load for .44-40 with a 213 gr. hardcast bullet is 8.0 gr Universal. MV from a 7-1/2" barrel OM Vaquero with tight throats is 950 ft/sec. Would probably go to 8.0 gr. of Unique...if I could find either!
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If it was overseas, and depending on the provisions of the Statis of Forces Agreement with the country in which the crimes were committed.
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In 2003, I bought a Ford Expedition because they quit making station wagons and I needed both the hauling capacity and the passenger acommodations. I sold it in 2018 and bought a Ford Flex because the Expedition was a bit high off the ground for us old codgers to climb into, and I wanted the cargo space and the ability to haul at least 5 pax. They call the Flex a "crossover" vehicle. Crossover from what? No it ain't! It's a station wagon! And they quit making them a couple of years ago. (Did they come from Canada?) And if I decide to get a new car for my 90th birthday in 7 years, what will I be able to buy?
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My wife and I and our school-age daughters visited Lexington and Concord some years ago. Although Concord Bridge was impressive, I still get chills when I think about standing on Lexington Green, and imagining what it must have been like just before the unknown shot "opened the ball"! As Ben Franklin said to the lady who asked what kind of government had been created, "A republic, madam...if you can keep it!"
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I don't recall being early or late, but as my birthday is July 24, had my c-date been much later, I might be four years younger or on-existent, as Pearl Harbor happened only a couple of weeks afterward! Who knows what my folks would have thought about bringing a child into the world with a war commencing? As it was, by the time I was born, my Dad was commanding an Army service battery (coast artillery company) in Puerto Rico. He couldn't get leave for ten days to see me and Mom (who had some complications), and she refused to name me until he was there. So I was just "baby" until then. A year or so later, Dad was reassigned to the 42nd ID (Rainbow Division), via updated artillery school at Ft. Sill. He went overseas with the Rainbow in February of '45, and came home after VE day.. So regardless of whatever else you may call me, I'm a Son of Rainbow!
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Benjamin Franklin was asked, as he came out of the meeting of Congress, "What sort of government do we have, Dr. Franklin?" Replied Franklin, "A republic, Madam, if you can keep it!"
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"We have met the enemy and he is us!" Walt Kelly's Pogo Possum.
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I turn green and yellow with envy.
Trailrider #896 replied to Sedalia Dave's topic in SASS Wire Saloon
Yes, but had problems in the ETO at high altitude due to not having heat in the cockpit! Also, when you got into a dive from higher altitudes, some pilots experience "compressibility" problems that rendered the controls immovable! Sometimes the pilots couldn't pull out. P-38 did much better in the Pacific, where temps were warmer. Long range (once Lindberg showed them how to lean out the mixtures) enabled the -38's to get Yamamoto! -
Back in the summer of '64, at AFROTC summer camp, we were given a mini-survival school in the woods off the end of the runway at Richards-Gebauer AFB. They didn't want us to mess with live rattlers, so they gave us cans of rattler. Tasted like chicken...once you scraped off the cream sauce they put in with the meat!
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According to state law, my wife's middle name has to be her given middle name on her driver's license! So we have to use that when getting airline tickets. OTOH, she always signs checks with her maiden name as her middle name! Our income tax forms has her maiden name's initials, not her given middle name's initial. IRS and the state accept those just fine! Go figure!
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I will absolutely agree that the money spent by the "crew" and Blue Origin pays the engineers, production people, and ground crews, which, in turn sends money into our economy. That is just what happens with the space programs both governmental and commercial. The money spent on Apollo created between 9 and 13 dollars in the U.S. economy. When Shuttle was grounded, 2500 people lost their jobs at the Cape. But it directly affected 10,000 jobs in Brevard County, Florida. SpaceX, in addition to engineers and technicians, employs welders, riggers and heavy equipment operators at Boca Checca, Texas. So the space programs are not bundling thousand-dollar bills and sending them into space. Having said all that I do NOT see what the big deal is over the "crew" of the Blue Shepard flight being all women. There have been quite a number of professional women astronauts, cosmonauts (Russian), and a few taikonauts (Chinese), who have flown into Earth orbit, and done significant experiments. No disrespect to the four Blue Shepard women. Flying on any high performance rockets is an achievement. But, I will reserve my kudos to the likes of Peggy Whitson and Suni Williams, et al. Ad Astra!
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One comment about U.S. military small arms, especially rifles from WWII: The military didn't give a tinker's damn about original/matching parts! They wanted functioning arms. So, if there was some part that needed replacing, the armorer just swapped out the part, checked the headspace and function fired it. As a result, an M-1 Rifle or M-1 Carbine with all matching numbers is suspect to me! It is true that "collectors" want all matching parts and configuration. Depending on when the piece went through a depot-level recondition, it is doubtful that the parts would all match. So, if rifle #1 has a decent bore and functions, I would choose it. Just sayin....
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Years ago, there was an expression when you answered the phone, "Shoot, it's your nickel!" And I can remember, when I was a little kid, you could actually make a call with a nickel. My grandparents, who lived in a residence hotel in Chicago, had their "own" phone that did not go through the hotel switchboard (which they did use, also), actually had a payphone that required a nickel to make an outside call. My uncle lived with them, and had won some trophy cups from tennis. They would keep nickels in one of the cups! Later, that phone was replaced with one they rented from Ma Bell that would bill them monthly. Even on the Southside of Chicago, before about 1949, to make a call, you picked up the phone, and the operator would ask, "Number Paleeze!" The number was set up with some word prefix and five digits, as in "Midway-three-three-five-three-nine". Later that would convert to 643-3539. That was in the days before area codes. For long distance and collect calls you had to ask the operator to connect you with the number. Some of us older codgers still tell people to "dial" the number, even though we push buttons. When Don Ameche played the part of Alexander Graham Bell in the movie, we would sometimes refer to the telephone as "The Ameche".
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I made the five-shot block, which was just about right for balance! I guess John Moses learned a bit from his dad! Not only would Winchester have been out of business from 1885 to about 1935, but our armed forces would still be in world of hurt without the Ma-Deuce!
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How America RUINED the world's screws!
Trailrider #896 replied to Sedalia Dave's topic in SASS Wire Saloon
Really screwed 'em up, huh? -
Ancient wolf reborn with dna
Trailrider #896 replied to Rye Miles #13621's topic in SASS Wire Saloon
Nice white fluffy doggies! Aww... If they cross these semi-dire-wolves with regular grays, and turn them loose in NW Colorado, that ought to really make the local ranchers crazy! -
I made one...or at least the barreled receiver and a magazine block. The receiver was steel, not brass. I never completed it as I didn't have the wood. Sold it to a gentleman, who did complete it, and shot it! You will note the recessed front of the block's chambers. The idea was to seal the chamber against the breech end of the barrel. Jonothan Browning was father to John Moses! Prety neat idea and execution for the 1850's!