Will Kane

Do you wear chaps or chinks that have a pocket? If so, maybe you could drop the watch in that pocket, clip the chain to the pocket lip and leave a little of the chain exposed? 🤷🏽‍♂️

May da schvawtz be wit yew!

Just a little Hollywood Old West trivia. An El Tigre 92 was the stunt double for Lucas McCain's Winchester 92 in The Rifleman.

As I recall, Chester, Festus and Quint Asper all appeared together in one or two Gunsmoke episodes. Also, in his very first appearance, Festus wasn't the loveable, loyal sidekick he eventually turned into.

2.5, 5.0, 10.0, 15.0 & 20.0 Mhz. on your shortwave radio dial, or 303-499-7111 on your telephone or https://www.time.gov/ on your computer.

Beeep!

Blanket hanging over the back of the couch = the unseen shovel Matt Dillon had to bury people out on the Kansas plains = Lucas McCain’s 44-40 that didn’t require reloading = Clark Kent taking off his glasses and no one realizing he’s Superman.

Thanks for all the feedback. Much appreciated!

Mrs. Kane and I have decided to look into installing one of those install-it-yourself 25-foot flag poles to fly the USA and Texas flags in our front yard. Have any of you pards had good luck with a particular pole kit you can recommend? Thanks very much.

My high school probably wouldn't have let you graduate. That was what the administration held over our heads throughout 1969-1970 . . . "Do this. Don't do that. Otherwise, you will not be allowed to graduate."

He played Al Capone, Reese Bennet and everything in between.

Years ago, an elderly widow lady came to see me so I could draw up her will. I asked her to give me the name and date of birth of each of her children, figuring she had maybe 5 or 6 adult children by then. She said, "I figured you were going to ask for that, so I came prepared." She reached into her purse and pulled out a piece of paper that had seen better days, folded multiple times. She kinda whipped it and it opened into a long piece of paper. It had 20 names and birthdates handwritten on it. Some of them were duplicates. I specifically remember she had several sons named "Don". I don't recall her expired husband's name, but, as I recall, all 20 children were still alive.

^^^This^^^

I got called "Mr. C" quite a bit at work.

FWIW, I've had pretty good luck pan lubing and punching the bullets out of the cake with "Gato Feo", a popular recipe on the Cast Boolits website. 1 part mutton tallow; 1 part Gulf canning paraffin; 0.5 part beeswax.

Here is a transcript of his homily during his first Holy Mass he celebrated as Pope. I would say we are off to a most blessed new beginning. https://aleteia.org/2025/05/09/pope-leo-xiv-starts-first-homily-in-english-full-text?utm_medium=email&utm_source=sendgrid&utm_campaign=EM-EN-Newsletter-Daily-&utm_content=Newsletter&utm_term=20250509

To call Hoover Dam an engineering marvel is an extreme understatement. Coming up with the river diversion tunnels was sheer genius. I learned about Hoover Dam when I was in elementary school in the late 50s. Then, I watched The Amazing Colossal Man on television sometime later and wondered why they called it Boulder Dam.

Yes. Rumor has it that, back in the early 1950s, some inhabitants of said planet, on an interplanetary research mission, got off course and ended up in Silsbee, Texas, where another strange visitor from another planet had to come to their rescue.

Let’s assume you sued the young formerly pregnant girl (whom we assume was legally competent to enter into a contract in the first place) and won. Would the judgment be worth the paper it’s typed on?

Congratulations and Happy Anniversary! May it be a most blessed day for both of you.

Abilene, your last post triggered many memories and comments. We'll have to resume the walk down memory lane next time we're both at a match. Yeah. I have an Elecraft K3 that's all loaded up with crystal filters and is pretty much updated to a K3S. I think I may have blown the 100 watt finals in it and need to tear it open and do some troubleshooting as per a checklist Elecraft sent me. I love that rig. It's all the rig I'll need for the time I have left here. Antenna-wise, all I have right now is a HyGain 12AVQ trap vertical for 20, 15 & 10. I have some used tower sections and have been thinking of putting up a 40-footer with a modest beam for the high bands. We'll see.

The first time I ever saw Ruth Buzzi (and Dom DeLuise, for that matter) was in a sketch just like this one on some summer replacement variety show. This was years before Laugh-In. https://youtu.be/jEsZphqfmCQ?si=KBxRJgut2T7-my5t

Great photo, Abilene! Yeah. George became K5TR decades ago and has a nice contest station near Johnson City. Trey became N5KN and lives in California. I think he was still in college during his 6D2X days, several years before he made the first of his fortunes which, among other things, financed HC8N, his contest station on the Galapagos Islands. I was at 6D2X one weekend when Trey was there, but I don't think I was there when you were there. The South Texas guys who spearheaded the effort were Ken K5TSQ, Bill W5VX and Steve NA5C. A couple of other guys were also heavily involved . . . Harmon K5SJA and Beto AA5VC. Sadly, all but Steve have become silent keys. That station generated a bunch of great stories and memories.