Black Angus McPherson

Oh, it works. It just needs to rain a little more. Angus

I had absolutely no idea. I have never seen "do." as an abbreviation before now. My guess would have been "doses", but I had no idea how much a dose would be. Oh, and thanks to Palewolf for the answer. Although, I must admit that, at first, I wasn't sure if he was giving me the answer to my question, or repeating my question. aka: "Yeah, what he said." Angus

So, what DOES "do." mean?

I'm thinking I'd like to have a crossbow that shoots toothpicks. I had a Salt gun. It wasn't worth a darn. Angus

Nobody has them. When I'm out of solar eclipse sunglasses I sell them for only $2.00. My wife was watching fb and it was full of people trying to buy the glasses and offering up to $20 per pair. Other posts full of folks offering to sell the glasses for $15 to $25 per pair. If you didn't already have them, you were pretty much SOL for getting them. People were still begging to buy some 20 minutes after the event started. With traffic at a standstill around here I don't know how anyone would get to where they were being sold, anyway. We had one pair for four of us and it was no big deal passing them around. Who lays back in a chair and watches the entire eclipse beginning to end? BTW, we used a collender (sp) and a big spoon with round holes in it and they both worked ok as a "pinhole projector". Angus

I'm guessing (hoping?) you're joking. You replace a stage with 15 KD's (5 Pistol + 10 Rifle) with a stage that has 20 KD's 5 of which are shotgun shells? It may be fun (for some) but, if you start replacing normal KD's with shotgun shells I think you're gonna get lynched. BTW, whatcha gonna do if someone hits the shotgun shells with the pistol. Another "What's the call"? Angus

My thoughts exactly! Just to stir the pot a little. For those pushing the "What target was he shooting at when he missed?" Who's to say his thoughts weren't "I need to pop off a round into nowhere for the down target. I'll just put this one 3" over target #4 now, then continue"? Miss because he didn't shoot where the down target was? How about he hits 1,2,3,4,5, six is already down so he pops off a round that obviously hits 4 feet to the left of #6, hits 7,8,9 and 10. Is that still a miss because he didn't shoot where #6 WAS? I believe Palewolf is sitting back and watching, being highly entertained by this discussion. I know I am. Angus

I had a recipe for roast beef. "Start with .50 cents worth of beef..." "Feeds six."

"NONBFN"?

I don't recall the actresses name, but she was one of the principles on the old show Designing Women. She was a conservative playing a very liberal character. She had it in her contract that whenever she had to deliver lines that she strongly disagreed with she would be allowed to sing in the next episode of the show. I always got a kick out of that and would wonder what she had to say in the previous episode when I saw her singing. Angus

There is, of course, always the possibility that they will get tossed into the trash by a good Samaritan.

That always helps.

I bet that adds up to a whole lot more $ than just paying the ticket.

Around here it's Three-One-Four day. 314 being the area code for St. Louis. Lots of specials around town for $3.14, like pizzas and ice cream among others. I don't think Illinois celebrates a Six-One-Eight day. Angus

I thought about addressing that in my reply, but I'm lazy and didn't want to get into a long drawn out post about ignorance vs. idiocy. This would be a much better discussion across a breakfast table and a good cup of coffee. If a person is merely illiterate and not also deaf and dumb they would think in the language they speak. An infant is probably merely ignorant and will learn to think, speak and read with time. I would guess that a person that can neither hear, speak or read any language would think in the form of pictures. In what language did the cavemen think? What say you? Are we getting close? (stupid meme started a way too serious discussion) Angus

I guess you better ask Helen Keller. No, wait, she "spoke" English. I guess if a person is literally too stupid to read they'd probably think in pictures. That's if they're not total mental vegetables.

That's easy. What language do they read? You're welcome. Angus

In Happy Trails' defense, you never actually said you were selling it or how much you wanted for it. Unless you sent him a private message stating so. It is a cool looking gun. Angus

Back in the day, we had a standing order on the afternoon watch, at shift change on a school day everybody headed straight out to the high school. When the kids got out you could count on one or two fights (sometimes a mass melee) as they dispersed towards home, or where ever they were heading after school. Often the fights started because "He (or she) was muggin' me". I am also reminded of one murder that occurred when two brothers were fighting over who was going to get the last pork chop at dinner. The weapon of choice for that one was a fork. Must have been some darn good pork chops. From the "You can't make this $#!+ up" files. Angus

I agree, and it seems more and more Police Departments won't even respond to many crimes anymore unless it's in progress. If your car gets stolen or your house/business gets burglarized just call the dept. in the morning and they'll take the report over the phone. You want somebody to process for prints or collect other evidence? Good luck with that. Sometimes it's embarrassing to be associated with the profession. I spent a lot of years responding to just about any crime you could name. I collected a lot of evidence (some I was pretty sure was worthless) and latent fingerprints from many of them. I am proud to say that, for several years running, I had the best clearance rate on the department from fingerprints recovered at crime scenes. Some of the problem is too much work and not enough manpower and some is just laziness or incompetence on the part of the officer(s) involved. That includes some supervisors. Man, this has brought up a lot of bad memories.. I'm SOOO glad I'm retired. Angus

In the house we use the good old spring snap-traps baited, usually, with peanut butter. Dead mice are put out near the pasture for the hawks. In the barn we use a 5 gallon bucket with a trap-door contraption that drops the mice into the bucket when they try to get the bait. I suggested water in the bucket to drown them. Instead, my wife carries the bucket ~150 yards from the barn and empties it into a pile of rubble near the tree line. An owl has decided that's a pretty good place to roost. I wouldn't use anti-freeze or other poison because that would also kill any other animal that feeds on the dead mice. I kind of like using them to feed the local owls and hawks. Plus, I had a dog poisoned with anti-freeze and that was a horrible way to die for such a wonderful dog. For that reason, I hold a grudge against anti-freeze as a poison. I won't use glue traps because, I think, that is an unusually gruesome way to die. I don't hate mice, I just don't want them in my house or barn. Plus, glue traps can also catch pets or other animals and kill them. Angus

Why not just makeup? It comes in lots of colors.

"Indian Ball" I know different places had different names. Baseball, sort of. 3-5 guys. Playing field was long with edges (foul) marked with t-shirts or extra gloves or rocks... One batter. Maybe a pitcher if there were enough players. Slow pitch. No strike outs. Otherwise you would "pitch" to yourself. The "outfield" were the players in a front to back line. If the ball was caught on the fly, it was an out. If the first fielder in line stopped/caught the ball before it got past him, you were out. Outside the side markers was a foul ball. Four fouls was an out. If the ball got past the first fielder it was a single. If it went over the first fielder's head, or got past the second fielder, it was a double. If it went over the second fielder's head or got past the third fielder (If there was one) it was a triple. Over the last fielder's head was a home run. Each player was his own team and "base runners" automatically advanced as appropriate for the last hit. A player would usually bat until he got 6 outs (two innings) then everybody would rotate positions. My friends and I would play that for HOURS. Often there were only 3 of us, 1 batter and 2 fielders. I don't think we ever had more than 6 players. Man, I used to love that game. My Dad's game was Cork ball. I'm not sure but what that might have been a St. Louis thing. Mini-baseball a little larger than a golf ball and a bat that looked barely larger than a broomstick. I think the rules were similar to Indian ball, but they had a pitcher and would, sometimes, use the side of a brick building in lieu of a catcher. Fast pitch. I used to have a cork ball bat, ball, and catcher's mask (Extra small face grid so the small ball couldn't get thru). I kind of wish I had them now. They'd look cool as a wall display. Great memories. Angus

Hmmmm, that LOOKS like English..... sort of. I wonder what it means.

"DEI"? I have no idea what that is. Does anyone care to fill me in? Angus