Black Angus McPherson
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8 hours ago, Rye Miles #13621 said:
Solar eclipse glasses are only about $5.00, why bother with a pinhole cardboard higamajig?
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".
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On 4/7/2024 at 1:29 PM, Creeker, SASS #43022 said:
But if you want MY stage thoughts?
Heres what I would do.
***** ΩΩΩΩΩΩΩΩΩΩ
©
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* = Empty shotgun shells standing on a two by four board (5 to the side of the rifle knockdowns) if you screw a couple flat head screws into the board just shy of flush and just wide enough to push a shotgun shell between - this traps the rim (like an extractor). A round hitting the shell will knock it free but a hit on the board generally will not knock it off.
Ω = rifle knockdowns
© = static shotgun target/ plate, bell, etc.
¤ = pistol knockdowns.
At BEEP:
With pistols - engage the 5 pistol knockdowns and then any 5 rifle knockdowns as desired.
With rifle - engage ALL rifle knockdowns still standing.
Then shooter is to engage the shotgun shell targets with their remaining rounds.
Shooter MAY then (it is not required) engage the static shotgun target 1x for each still standing target to "erase" their misses (pistol kd, rifle kd or empty shotshell target) (a shooter with MORE than 6 standing targets only requires an engagement of 6 times to be considered clean) a shooter choosing to not engage the static target is assigned a miss penalty for each standing target remaining.
Now we have eliminated Spirit of the Game calls.
Eliminated "errant" pistol round issues.
And made a fun, yet challenging stage that still has the allowance for the shooter to be clean.
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"?
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1 hour ago, Larsen E. Pettifogger, SASS #32933 said:
Probably laughing his butt off.
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.
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21 hours ago, Alpo said:
I used to have a cake recipe. Believe I got it from my grandmother. One of the ingredients was a nickel Hershey bar.
It was a chocolate cake and after you frosted it you shaved the Hershey bar and put the chocolate shavings all over the icing. But the recipe called for a nickel Hershey bar.
I had a recipe for roast beef. "Start with .50 cents worth of beef..." "Feeds six."
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On 3/24/2024 at 1:18 PM, Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770 said:
Nowadays the stores give the stuff that's "day old" or other unsellables to "charities" for the tax write off.
When I was still working, part of what I did was delivering tanks of Balloon Helium to grocery stores. Most of the time there were vans of people from one church or another loading up these products to take to feed the "less fortunate" or homeless shelters or some other food giveaway outfit. Occasionally I'd ask the Receiving Clerk if I could "steal" a doughnut from to pile and was ALWAYS told some version of NONBFN.
"NONBFN"?
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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.
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54 minutes ago, Sedalia Dave said:
There is, of course, always the possibility that they will get tossed into the trash by a good Samaritan.
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8 minutes ago, Blackwater 53393 said:
Ya’ gotta know people…
That always helps.
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1 hour ago, Blackwater 53393 said:
I’ve seen these wreckered to a private location, cut off the car, and dropped off beside a dumpster near the courthouse!!!
I bet that adds up to a whole lot more $ than just paying the ticket.
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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.
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16 hours ago, Subdeacon Joe said:
Kids can think and talk long before they can read. A person has to be taught to read. It's hard to imagine in this day and age, but universal literacy is a fairly recent phenomenon. Even as recently as WW1 some recruits couldn't read.
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)
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56 minutes ago, Subdeacon Joe said:
What if they can't read?
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.
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On 3/10/2024 at 11:16 AM, Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474 said:
That's easy. What language do they read?
You're welcome.
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19 hours ago, Wild Willi said:
It’s right hand. I guess I mirrored that one pic by mistake. I thought this pard would be interested but I guess not. It is the only blunderbus I ever came across.
wwIn 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.
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23 hours ago, Abilene Slim SASS 81783 said:
As more info comes out about the Chiefs parade:
When asked what led to the fight, one of those charged with shooting said, “He was staring at me.”
Nope, you can’t make this stuff up.
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.
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6 hours ago, Cypress Sun said:
A very sad commentary of the investigation process, or lack of I should say.
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.
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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.
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Why not just makeup? It comes in lots of colors.
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"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.
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30 minutes ago, Rye Miles #13621 said:
Diversity Equity Inclusion
Hmmmm, that LOOKS like English..... sort of. I wonder what it means.
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4 hours ago, Cypress Sun said:
Ya know, when I first read a news story with the use of the initials DEI a few years ago...I thought, 'What in the hell has Dale Earnhardt Incorporated (now defunct) have to do with this story about racism?'
"DEI"? I have no idea what that is. Does anyone care to fill me in?
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On 1/27/2024 at 8:00 PM, Alpo said:
100% of the men don't care about the oreo.
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Looking at the links provided brings up a question for me.
What is the difference between the "Combat Infantryman Badge" and the "Combat Action Badge"? I've never heard of the "Combat Action Badge" before now.
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H&H? I've been there a few times. The last time the prices all seemed kind of high. Still a pretty good variety, tho.
My favorite was the Gun Trader in St. Charles. Mostly used guns and rarely two of the same make and model. Lots of boxes of parts and accessories around on the floor. It was great. I bought a few guns and misc. stuff from him. Unfortunately, he closed down, I think, 20 years ago and moved to Florida. Most of the shops now seem to be loaded up with black rifles and plastic pistols that all look the same with the odd shotgun sprinkled in. Boring. Twice the size with twice the number of guns of the old Gun Trader but it only takes a small fraction of the time to look around before leaving.
Catalog nonsense
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I'm thinking I'd like to have a crossbow that shoots toothpicks.
I had a Salt gun. It wasn't worth a darn.
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