I guess this was a double red letter day in history,
The first pay Jukebox was installed on Nov 23 1889, at the Palais Royale Saloon in San Francisco.
only 5 cents a play.
Do they still have the midnight movies? They were a big part of our social life when I was in high school. I saw Monty Python and the Quest for the Holy Grail at the mid-flicks! Of course, all the dopers would sit near the front and throw popcorn at each other.I went to the Insomnia Theatre when I was at college, '84-'85. I think it was Saturday nites. Drove the 45 miles from Pt. Lookout to Springfield, MO. I think the theatre was in or by the Battlefield Mall.
:D
AnnieLee, who sat in the back.
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On this day in history:
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1883 - Preacher, Abolitionist, and Women's Rights advocate Sojourner Truth died in Battle Creek Michigan.
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Yogurt! ;D...
On this day in history:
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1883 - Preacher, Abolitionist, and Women's Rights advocate Sojourner Truth died in Battle Creek Michigan.
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Where? At the Kellogg sanitarium? No more corn flakes for me!
Yogurt! ;D...
On this day in history:
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1883 - Preacher, Abolitionist, and Women's Rights advocate Sojourner Truth died in Battle Creek Michigan.
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Where? At the Kellogg sanitarium? No more corn flakes for me!
Slim
A, well Trinity, I don't know how to break the news to you, but John G. Kellogg was not famous for FEEDING yogurt to folks, he took the shortcut. :oCan ya say, "enema"? ;D
I haven't seen a Woolworths in I can't remember when lR, course at my age that could have been yesterday! ;D
I think they've been gone since sometime in the '80's.....Buck 8) ::)
lr you told the Police you didn't know it was a Myna, you said it told you it was 18. ;D
In the US. There was one in the early 60's in Egland that had the largest haul of anyof them. ;D
Correct in the US
Well the picture was suppose to be on a post in Coffee and Grub......whad' I do wrong now Trinity
Well, first I'd say you went wrong by allowing the cat to drive the mower. ;D ;D
I had to hunt this thread down so's I could post this,
on this day in History, the convoy started
Uh, Breaker One-Nine, this here's the Rubber Duck
You got a copy on me Pig-Pen? C'mon
Uh, yeah 10-4 Pig Pen, fer sure, fer sure
By golly it's clean clear to Flag-Town, C'mon
Uh, yeah, that's a big 10-4 Pig-Pen,
Yeah, we definitely got us the front door good buddy,
Mercy sakes alive, looks like we got us a convoy
Was the dark of the moon, on the sixth of June
In a Kenworth, pullin' logs
Cabover Pete with a reefer on
And a Jimmy haulin' hogs
We 'as headin' fer bear on I-One-Oh
'Bout a mile outta Shaky-Town
I sez Pig-Pen, this here's the Rubber Duck
An' I'm about to put the hammer on down
Cause we gotta little ol' convoy, rockin' through the night
Yeah we gotta little ol' convoy, ain't she a beautiful sight?
Come on an' join our convoy, ain't nothin' gonna git in our way
We're gonna roll this truckin' convoy, cross the USA
Convoy... Convoy...
Uh, breaker Pig-Pen, this here's The Duck
Uh, you wanna back off them hogs
10-4, 'bout five mile or so, 10-roger
Them hogs is gittin' in-tense up here
By the time we got into Tulsa-Town
We had eighty-five trucks in all
But they's a road block up on the clover leaf
An' them bears 'as wall to wall
Yeah them smokies 'as thick as bugs on a bumper
They even had a bear-in-the-air
I sez callin' all trucks, this here's The Duck
We about to go a huntin' bear
Cause we gotta great big convoy, rockin' through the night
Yeah we gotta great big convoy, ain't she a beautiful sight?
Come on an' join our convoy, ain't nothin' gonna git in our way
We're gonna roll this truckin' convoy, cross the USA
Convoy... Convoy...
Uh, you wanna give me a 10-9 on that Pig-Pen?
Uh, negatory Pig-Pen, yer still too close
Yeah, them hogs is startin' close up my sinuses
Mercy sakes, you better back off another ten
Well we rolled up interstate fourty-four
Like a rocket sled on rails
We tore up all a our swindle sheets
An' left 'em settin' on the scales
By the time we hit that Chi-Town
Them bears was a gittin' smart
They'd brought up some reinforcements
From the Illinois National Guard
There 'as armored cars, and tanks, and Jeeps
An' rigs of every size
Yeah them chicken coops 'as full a bears
An' choppers filled the skies
Well we shot the line, an' we went for broke
With a thousand screamin' trucks
And eleven long-haired friends of Jesus
In a chartreusse microbus
Hey Sod Buster, listen
You wanna put that microbus in behind the suicide jockey?
Yeah, he's haulin dynamite
He needs all the help he can git
Well we laid a strip fer the Jersey Shore
An' prepared to cross the line
I could see the bridge 'as lined with bears
But I didn't have a doggone dime
I sez Pig-Pen, this here's the Rubber Duck
We just ain't a gonna pay no toll
So we crashed the gate doin' ninety-eight
I sez, let them truckers roll, 10-4
Cause we gotta mighty convoy, rockin' through the night
Yeah we gotta mighty convoy, ain't she a beautiful sight?
Come on an' join our convoy, ain't nothin' gonna git in our way
We're gonna roll this truckin' convoy, cross the USA
Convoy... Convoy...
Uh, 10-4 Pig-Pen, what's yer 20?
Omaha?!
Well they oughta know what to do with them hogs out there fer sure
Well mercy sakes alive good buddy
We gonna back on outta here
So keep the bugs off yer glass
An' the bears off yer... tail
We gonna catch ya on the flip-flop
This here's the Rubber Duck on the side
We gone
Bye, Bye...
on Aug 10, 1936 the highest temperature in Arkansas, was recorded, in Ozark, 120 degrees
thank goodness it ain't that summer again. ;)
I've heard some stories down here about the people going down on the Arkansas river and finding some shady spots and then sleeping out there at night. the town lays right on the river, some of em drove thier wagons up on the mountain to the Mulberry river and stayed there.
I guess it was do whatever it takes.
Yup. Folks used to to that in Washington DC too. There are pictures of many people sleeping on the banks of the Potomac River near the Lincoln Memorial during the hot months of July & August. Try that now.
Meriwether Lewis was born on this day in 1774 near Charlottesville, Virginia.
and is still Dead
What!?? When did this happen!?? All the great ones seem to be going. :(October 11, 1809
And Jimi Hendrix is also still dead. :o
That is just enough. Next you're going to tell me Alexander Graham Bell is dead also. >:( :( :(
Stranger than truth, could it be that these two incidents are connected.
;D ;D ;D ;D
It's a conspiracy lead by Verizon
Bye Kitty!
In 1958, Geronimo's family was murdered by Mexicans.
Through the miracle of Time Travel he was able to seek revenge angainst those who had wronged him, but then if he did they never existed ??? ??? ???
Where did you get that date for the canned cow? My research says late 1850's, exact date not specified, but patented in Aug of 1856.
Salute! :) ;) :D ;D 8) ::)
I'm not a swinger, I need my briefs.
I had the mumps at the onset of puberty, now one side is bigger and hangs down further.
A look it Custer’s strap. Must be one them NCOWS things us SASS folks wouldn’t understand……..
Y’all ‘skooze me, be runnin’ ‘n duckin’……
Naw, most of them wouldn't be interested cause it's not sumthin' they'd want to show off at the range. ;) "memeber a lot of them just want stuff to show off at the range. ;D
........it's not sumthin' they'd want to show off at the range.
Thought they jist wanted to pick on other folks stuff ::)
;)
;D
That particular item - that's a fact! Hehehehehehehehe….
One I think yer talkin’ ‘bout, Del, I don’t want the fool. I’d say ‘we doan want ‘im’ but I can’t speak fer ever’body.
I'll second that.... kin we vote now?
all in favor
I will continue to use Annie Lee's Parasol when ever the hell I feel like it. Tell me that or an umbrella is not allowed I might pack up and go home
Yes on both accounts
Little S***. Or should I say "Nasty Boy". ;D ;D
Wrong state, further eat, in Virginny. ;)
This'un? ;DNo, this'un. ;)
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Dang Slim, I wasn't plannin on goin blind this early in life! 8) :o
No, this'un. ;)
Slim
Well quit lookin' at the ladies section of the Sears and Roebuck Catalog in the outhouse and maybe ya won't go blind. ;D
Dang! Well, don't you two look like twins? ;D ;D
Oh that's just an old wives tale... so I've been told. :o ;D
Buck, ya 'spose Sulpher Springs Texas wasn't a good place for a brewery? ;D
Sulphur Springs is better known for the large number of dairys in the county.
You ever drink any water from there?
The secret's in the water, Del. Sorta like not drinkin' down stream from the herd. Myself, I've gotten hooked on some beer from Slim's neck of the woods. Chippewa Falls to be exact. not a huge brewer, just started to be available in this area this summer. Got a tongue for it when we was visiting up in Milwaukee, Wissycoooonsin. Jacob Leinenkugel Brewery. they make lagers, wheat beers, and some interesting seasonals, including one that has berry juice in it. didn't think I'd like that one, but it is good. My two favorites are the Honeyweiss and Oktoberfest..............Buck 8) ;)Since 1867. ;)
Gottah problem with the twist offs. My daughter brings home imports ‘n stuff from micro-breweries. Where she developed a taste for that bitter crap I guess I’ll never know. The caps on those things don’t twist off. Commercial comes on, run ta the ice box, grab a bottle ‘n run back. Take hold ‘n give it a twist. Ya gottah scratched up hand ‘n the wrong bottle.
Should quit buyin’ bottles anyway. Ain’t the best idea when ya spend time in the garage or the barn. They’re both on slabs. Glass ‘n concrete don’t get along when yer clumsy.
The grocery carries them mini-kegs of Heineken. Good beer. But it’d take up too much space in the ice box. That'd be ideal.
Reckon I’d be best off just gettin’ cans…..
I just don't like that metal taste from the cans.
Really think if someone poured one of each in a glass mug ‘n I didn’t know which was what I couldn’t tell the difference. I don’t like drinkin’ from the can. It’s rough ‘n sharp ‘n this ‘stache ah mine gets hung up in the freakin’ tabs.
Arcey, I've experienced that problem with the none twist off caps. My hands are not as tough as they used to be. Heinken is really great beer, especially on draft. Not every one in Texas drinks Pearl or Lone Star. It's a disgrace to beer drinkers everywhere. As long as they keep makin Bud Light, I'm happy. We have a Miller Brewrey in Fort Worth, it's next to a Mrs Baird's bakery. All we need is a Oscar Meyer weiner factory to have beer and hotdogs. Gotta love those dogs.
Need ta live a few more years. I’d kindah like it if you’d hang around a few more too.
Shame on You, Arcey!
I'd surely like to make it to see those artifacts. Maybe I can make it part of my TIB IV trip. We'll see what the gas prices say.
I've seen two US naval ships: the USS North Carolina (BB-55) here in NC and the USS Yorktown (CV-10) in Charleston, SC. When I was about to graduate high school, I was trying to figure out how to proceed with my life. I filled out a few college applications, but was really unsure how to pay for it. I finally decided to join the Navy and take the GI bill. I had already been to the naval recruitment office and taken some tests before my Father announced that he would pay for college.
I don't regret having gone to school, but sometimes I wonder where I'd be if I had taken the other route.
with a little luck ya could'a been one of them Rear Admirals instead of just a Rear Admirer ;D
if'n you was a gub'ner you could be both ;D
with a little luck ya could'a been one of them Rear Admirals instead of just a Rear Admirer ;D
if'n you was a gub'ner you could be both ;D
Been on the Carolina in Wilmington. There were plans to get her out of the mud ‘n bring her here for hull refurbishment. While she was gone, the visitors’ center was going to be rebuilt. But now they’re worried her hull is so thin in places she may sink if they try to move her to Norfolk.
One of our shooters, Lynn Johnson AKA Wild Bill Wesley, grew up in Carolina back in the 50’s.. Remembers makin’ penny ‘n nickel donations in elementary school so the state could buy her ‘n save her from the ship breakers.
Ain’t goin’ on another rant no one wants ta read but I wish the state of Washington had done the same for her sister. She’s razor blades, long gone ‘n rusted away.
Three Army museums at Ft Lee just 30 minutes from Blackcreek, not to mention, Petersburg National Battlefield, Cold Harbor Battlefield, Drewry's Bluff, Chickahominy Battlefield, Museum of the Confederacy, and Confederate White House.
Then there is Lee's Headquarters at Colonial Heights, Pamplin Park Museum of the Confederate Soldier.... and on and on...
All of these minutes away from Richmond.
The Cod is on the Lake Front, East 9th, IIRC. It's by the Coast Guard Station and Rock'N'Roll Hall of Fame. The William G. Mather Museum ship is close by as well...............Buck 8)
I remember the USS Cod being berthed next the old Lake Front Stadium on 9th st if I remenber correctly. My photographic mind is out of film ;D
I heard he's going to release an album of Vulcan Love Chants! ;D
I thought ya was getting ready to post a new Avatar and tell us that was yer alias ;D
"Tis a law they have to have them at all State Fairs.
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I just wish that Klinger would use some NAIR!
On this day in 1970, Apollo 13 sent this now famous message, "Houston we have a problem." :o :o :o :o :o :o :o
Recent declassified documents has traced the problem to allowing Forrest Gump to drive the thing. ::)
Saw that, Del. I’ve seen video of the damage too. Nothin’ is shattered. It’s bent ‘n rivets are missin’. Never did appreciate Chapin’s l’il ditty.I believe a musician would have played the ragtime in that mess.
Leo, the survivors agreed the band was playin’ ‘til she broke in two. Some say they were playin’ up-beat ragtime. Others last remember the hymn ‘Autumn’. Whether or not they actually played ‘Nearer My God To Thee’ is probably properly attributed to the artistic license taken by Walter Lord in his novel ‘A Night To Remember’.
I believe it was originaly to be christened the Jenny 13. ;D
I was just thinkin about the Titanic about 5 minutes ago--didn't know this was the anniversary. Don't ask me why ???
Leo
Dependin’ on which legend ya decide ta believe. She strikes ice after an ill maneuver called by Murdock @ 2340 hours, 14 April, 1912, ship’s time. This effectively opened her starboard side to a long dentin’, poppin’ rivets ‘n openenin’ her to the sea. In a matter of seconds over thirteen hundred people were as good as dead.
Aprox 0220, 15 April 1912, RMS Titanic founders.
Shortly after 0400, RMS Carpathia begans to recover survivors. Carpathia would be lost to a German torpedo during WWI.
When it’s thought Titanic was said to be ‘unsinkable’, one should remember that was a boast made by the press. Harland & Wolf, her builder, nor White Star, her registered owners, ever made that claim. She was iron. She’d sink ‘n did.
Yeah, they can't get the concept that a bad guy is more apt ta think twice when folks are carryin. An even if he's a compete moron and goes for it anyway his spree is a million times more likely ta be stopped short.
I guess the antis envision everyone in the streets takin shots at each other and leavin loaded weapons layin around fer the kids ta play with.
Preachin ta the choir but.....SUPPORT THE NRA!!!
What He said! Here! Here!
He was a good 'un!
Idn't he the one who said if he had to choose from bein a live jackel or a dead lion he said, "I'd rather be a live lion". ;)
I guess it was actually L.L. that said that, but Heinlein wrote it down fer us.
Leo
Listen, my children, and you shall hear.................. ::)
Frisco is shakin' and burnin'
I got married the first time :o :o :-[ :-\
LEO is that like getting a letter from the manafactuers the day after the wedding saying, the warranty is void?
My most important Day is March 16, my wedding day. My wife and I celebrated our 34th anniversary this year. Most ol cops like me have a few ex-wives. I am on my first and last.
The Red Baron was shot down on this day. There are conflicting reports on who actually was responsible. One report says Australian ground troops, the other credits RAF Capt. Roy Brown...........Buck 8) ::) :o
I'm always the odd one on military airplanes, I like the Swordfish, the obsolete torpedo bi-plane that stuck the one in the rudder of the Bismark. So danged slow the fire controls on the Bismark shot in front of it.
On this day in 1889, 20 minutes ago the first Oklahoma Land Rush began............Buck 8) :o
Boomer/ Sooner is created............... :o
I can't think of anything ;D
Congratulations, Leo and Miz Lily ;D
MAY DAY MAY DAY.
Here's an interestin tid-bit
In 1942... Squadron No. 588 of the Soviet Air Force, an all-woman night-bombing unit equipped with Polikarpov Po-2 biplanes, is formed in the USSR. (AYY)
Leo
Tex,I wouldn't doubt that. It's a small world. My better-half's ancestors moved to Pine River, WI in 1854. In 1855, my ancestors moved to Lind Township, Waupaca County "by way of Berlin, Green Lake county, and Pine River, Waushara county." They might have met in 1855.
I was just thinking earlier after reading this that it is very likely that some of our relatives knew or at least ran across each other over there.
Leo
My Dad was in the 19th Army Engineers, served under Patton through N. Africa and Sicily. He was present at the Battle of Kasserine Pass...............Buck 8)
Leo, It was Operation Overlord............Buck 8)
He was not a crook.
Always wondered what happened ta that little dog a his that won so many folks over. That was just plain genious. Fergot it's name.
Leo
Yeah, Checkers. Cute little guy.
If'n I ever get ta Long Island ta sample the ice tea, I'll stop by and pay ma respects.
Leo
Today in 1876 Thomas Edison patented the mimeograph machine.
Remember sniffin the fresh papers when the teacher passed em out? We called it a ditto machine.
Today they'd call that huffin', no wonder we all have brain damage. ;D
On this date
1855 Battle of Acapulco during Mexican Liberal uprising
1862 Prelude to 2nd Manassas, Jackson is victorious at Battle of Cedar Mt, however Gen Charles S Winder is killed
Remember even the Mexicans beat the phrench
The Foreign Legion is their good miltary unit. I do like the CAN CAN Girls!
The Foreign Legion is their good miltary unit. I do like the CAN CAN Girls!
I would like to go to Normandy.
1945. Japan surrenders.
Here's one more your speed, Trinity:
Here's one more your speed, Trinity:
Niope, not me, I seen Henry Fonda crash in onna them dang things. ;D
Lots of folks crashed in 'm some lived to talk about it, put me on the list of wanted one
"The Battle of The Bulge".
"Nuts."
I don't think that one had Fonda in it. It did star Tuco, though. ;D
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093660/
SLAP
Here's one more your speed, Trinity:
Those little planes flew low and slow, not a good thing when folks on the ground are tryin' to shoot you out of the air.
Read about someone in one in the Pacific had some Jap officer shoot at him with a pistol, guy went around and threw a can of spam at the Jap.
Those little planes flew low and slow, not a good thing when folks on the ground are tryin' to shoot you out of the air.
All kiddin’ aside. Let me know. From where you’d get inta this area ‘n there, there’s a thousand places to make a wrong turn. Princess Anne Road in ‘n of itself is screwed up beyond a rational person’s belief. Let me know where ya are I’ll come get ya ‘n take ya or ya can follow me. It’s easy for me.
Maybe we kin talk LIT inta comin’ along.
Heck Cuzzin, I'll drive. I've been by the place, but haven't had time to check it out. I love WWII aircraft, used to have about a dozen models of different ones hanging in my room as a kid.
I still have my CAF coffee mug, TLD ;D Got it about 1989 when a B-17 came through here on it's way back to Chino, Ca.. it had just participated in the filming of "Memphis Belle", and was still in the "Belles" paint scheme..........Buck 8) ;)
Ya think theyd look good copied to a WESTERN AIRLINES airplane? Maybe plane NUMBER THREE?
My point 'zactly Tex. ;)
Just ask Helen.
Those guys look Canadian, by the looks of the uniforms.
Military.com sends some interesting stuff been getting it for a year now. You don't have to be a Vet to sign up. Remember it's .com not .gov or .org...It's free also
what about this one
Them two guys Roo posted look like they's ready ta patrol the streets a Hong Kong.
Parking lot security at Walmart.
Walmart needs parking lot security. Another person got shot in one in the next town over. Same one where a friend of mine was pistol whipped while sitting in his car over ten years ago. My Walmart down the street has also had its share of violence.
Hey, it's one stop shopping at its best. Roll in in your Escalade with gold rims, quickly rob someone and pick up diapers for the fifteen kids back at the government subsidized home. :-\
good thing I finished reading that post, I thought ya was gonna get ya a Nun's Habit and then when them bad guys jumped ya , you could spring back on em, :o
I saw an interview on TV, where they were talkin' to a couple of ol' gals that said they had been abducted by aliens. The news guy asked them if there was anything special about the aliens. They said that they were just "Your Basic LIL Gray Alien". I didn't know that was such a thing as a Basic LIL Gray Alien.
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when I was a Bail bonds man I carried ever where I went. all the LE knew we carried and it was Ok with them at the time. Never had to pull it but twice and only one of them was down right serious, I had done cleared it in my mind that he was a dead man, but he jumped down on the ground and I'd a had to shoot him in the back, after he got out of jail, he doused his wife with gasoline and set her on fire, He got life, guess he's still there.
even if yer real tired, there are some places ya sure don't want to go sleep, My cousin that comes over here and visits, went to sleep in a deer stand while he was bow hunting, fell out and stuck an arrow in his side, nothing serious with the arrow, but the fall liked to have killed him, he was in the hospital for 4 days, :)
yep, I really prefer keeping ma feet on the ground.
Arcey, I don't like snakes!
30 seconds Over Tokyo was on this mornin. Lots of great B 25 footage. Hadn't seen it in awhile, great flick fer plane nuts.
Leo
Fer awhile there was serious talk about slittin CA in half inta two different states. The north part and the south part are very different.
Wait a minute, that sounds like a familiar scenario...
Leo
Sam Houston? Wasn't he from Virginia? Heard he spent some time in Tennessee and out in the Indian Nations too.
I'd fight fer any a ya, Calyfornian er not.
Why in tarnation would beards be taxed? I thought we had the market on taxes cornered :o
Leo
Born just outside Lexington Virginia...
Wish y’all’d hush ‘bout the beard thing. Ain’t heard the socialists wantin’ ta tax them yet ‘n don’t wanna give ‘em no ideas.
Yep. Staunton side ah Lexington. Texans, Virginians. We’re kin ‘n I’m proud of it. Fought ‘n died side by side. Sumbody comes after ‘Sleep er yerownfineself got me ‘n Tom ta fight too. Ain’t that right, Tom?
Yup..seen the marker.
I'd fight fer any a ya, Calyfornian er not.
Why in tarnation would beards be taxed? I thought we had the market on taxes cornered :o
Leo
I always liked John Cleese. It'll be a shame ta have ta pop him off.
Some countries never learn...
Leo
shhhh! It's placed high in the Hall fame here in Litl Roosterville.
Even the weather don't like them, a tornader kept them from finishin' burnin' washington DC. ;D
Ol' John Cleese needs to listen to Charlie Daniels song "In America". The Cowboys, The Hippies, the Rebels, and the Yanks will kick his Tall, Skinny, english BUTT. Besides the folks from Ireland and Scotland don't much for england either.
The plaque will temporarily displayed at the HOOTERS location. The plaque will permanently enshirned at the LR ManCave!
The white house they burnt weren't in DC.
We kin put it in mine til yer's is finished. ;D
Russians invade eastern part of Poland in 1939.
The Germans and Russians had signed a non-aggresion pact in 1939, but neither one wanted to honor it.
Doancha know? The fewer is ah hunnert ‘n nineteen years ole ‘n gaily frolickin’ across the meadows in south america with Hugo Shovesitz? All kornspirin’ ta gouge us Americans on gas prices?
Any color ya want so long as it's black.
Leo
George Washington helped lay the cornerstone of the Capitol Building in Washington D C.
Sir Robert Peale organized the London Metro Police on this date.
In the old days, they would use those batons to signal each other by hitting the bricks. This is beginning of that saying.
Happy 101st Birthday, Gene.
There's a lot of neat stuff in Missouri. Used ta drive by the house where Mr. Howard was shot, but they don't make no big deal about it. It's just an old house with a plaque out front.
Another strange thing about livin in KC is that ya can drive past a statue of General Lee an a 5 minute ride later yer lookin at General Grant. After awile ya don't even think about which state yer in durrin the course of the day.
Leo
On this date in 1866, The Reno Brothers pulled the first Train Robbery. They got $ 10,000 in cash.
On this day we observe the event in which some guy with three boats accidentaly came across a large chunk of dirt an took credit fer bein the first one ta find it.
Leo
I'm chalkin' all that "world is round" bunk up together with the mess about the earth rotatin' around the sun. ::)
Some folks is just stoopid.
Hey Leo, wouldn't it be out of place for them to teach the truth in school? :o
Had a woman on TV last night said that she had a cat escape from her house...Could be an [urlhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocelot]ocelot[/url].
showed a picture, it looked like a small cheetah, fergit what she called it.
RJ is OK.
His wife is still a bit shaken as of last Sunday.
A cat that big is a chinese buffett! ;D
Whatcha think sells reality TV?
No body has seen DB or the $200,000. I don't think DB survived the jump. His carcuss and the money are up the mountains somewhere he landed.
This is truly funny.Whatcha think sells reality TV?Morons.
If nothing else, the 'magic bullet' that made no less than five entry/exit wounds conveniently falling out intact on the gurney and not deformed whatsoever.
Ruby was well known to the Dallas Police. He ran a strip club off Industrial Blvd. which was frequented by DPD officers, on-duty and off-duty. It was not unusual to see Ruby around the DPD station. Rumor has it that Ruby had DPD officers "on the pad".
Just a side note, don’t wanna change the subject.;D ;D ;D ;D
He was known as LBJ. Kennedy, JFK. So on……..
The next president apparently doesn’t care for his given, middle name of Hussein. We should respect that and drop it. Refer to the next president as BO.
Yeah, That nasty Ol' 18th amendment. Beer for everybody.
"Dragnet" premiered in 1951.
It was one of them "mess with the best, die like the rest" moments.
Leo
Yeah, but most those guys were civilians.
Leo most of the Americans and allies were civilian till the war started.
Good point. I don't imagine they had the option of saying "I quit" an findin another job. Didn't think of it like that at first.
Leo
Leo, It ain't that them folks really wanted to work for the Nazis, they just didn't have much of a say so in the matter.
Leo, It ain't that them folks really wanted to work for the Nazis, they just didn't have much of a say so in the matter.
there was more of them than there was nazis soldiers. They continued making their arms and weapons of war instead of using it to oust a terrible dictator...damn this scenario seems to keep repeatin it's self. >rant over<
As the sniper in Saving Private Ryan said, "Give me a clear shot at Adolph Hitler within a mile radius and that's it boys, pack yer bags, war's over". I'm sure a lot of allied soldiers held the same sentiment.
In 1947, NASCAR was established in Daytona Beach, Florida.
Gentlemen....start your engines!
Trains and tracks make real good strafing targets of opportunity. Them trains can't outrun them 50 cal. and 20 mm shells.
In 1944, The Battle of the Bulge starts in Belgium.
Been ta Kitty Hawk many times. Ain’t far from here. Stood at the markers. Ya can damned near throw ah bottle of shampoo the distance of the first flight.
Construction began, this day in 1833, on the Golden Gate Bridge!
Funny, I always thought it was about a 100 years later. ;D
As I remember, that bridge collasped in 1940.
How would you liked to have been in that lone car stuck on the bridge?
Funny, I always thought it was about a 100 years later. ;D
I'd a hated to be the one diggin all them post holes. :o I bet they wanted em good and deep.
Sam Morris? ::)
Who thahellheck was he?
Englishman, invented the Morris Minor automobile. ;D
Thanks Del..
Just think, In 7 years and 364 days, this too, will be over.
Hope it's just 3 yrs and 364 days....
you want him to have 2 terms? :o
Don't think it will happen, could be wrong, but I think the novelty of the man will wear off.I hope so.
Well, I guess he wasn't "The Answer" after all!That's fer sure. $150 million fer an inauguration. That's government waste at it's best. ::)
That's fer sure. $150 million fer an inauguration. That's government waste at it's best. ::)
Slim
Well, You would think that with a $150 million budget that they would have been able to furnish more porta-potties the fuddled masses in attendance. Go figure!
family thread or I make a comment
The wife says I'm already hLOL
Nevermind, family board and all that ::)
LOL
I agree with the anti-partisanship Nighteyes... something has to happen. And you know what, I've noticed that for some reason or another the right president is in for the job at the right time at least half the time. So here's hoping it all works out.
I hope he only have suceeds, I hope he turns the economy around and I hope he keeps the country safe. I hope a lot of his socalist ideas fall flat on their faces, including the fact he has never voted for gun rights. >:(
that too! ;)
no kidding. everyone here in Flag is really supportive of him and his "ideals" and it became a really fun class when the debate opened up and they found out about me being a veteran and wanting to be a Deputy US Marshall. The best part was when I brought up that part and asked "how is that tolerance, or equality?"
funny thing about it, I got a date from a girl that supports him big time, just because of my military background and how we both can respect one another and still disagree. That will be interesting tomorrow! LOL
sounds like a good rule Del. Good thing this girl actually likes guns and such, just believes in some sort of "control." Looking forward to opening up that debate with her. especially since all I have to do is go to Dixie Gun Works and order my 58 Remmies! LMAO! shipped right to my po box!
I. On a military forum I'm a part of, they put it really plainly:
neither candidate is "the chosen one" people try to make them out to be... put it plainly, they're a band-aid and here's hoping something better comes down the line.
I think we's go ta tha same church ;)
I find more glory to Him on the back of a horse watching the sun rise, than standing in some multi million dollar building with a bunch of hippocits who will cheat you blind in business or run over you in the parking lot as soon as they are done asking forgiveness! They all preach give me money to help thae poor learn the glory of God, I guess they carry Him around in the trunk of that expensive car the donations bought!
Sorry, rant over.
Leo, This group of ours have a lot of the same opinions and we get along. There is a certain amount of funnin' among us, but we're all good citizens.
Don’t believe a man has to go to church ta be a God fearin’ man. In my case, the people in the church run me off. It’s said the people are the church.
Still, I believe one day I’ll be standin’ ‘fore Jesus Christ. I’ll try to suck up the guts ta look Him in the eye ‘n admit I haven’t been much of a Christian ‘n ask to be forgiven.
‘N He’ll say, ‘Arcey, you jerk, be glad I’m in a good mood. Go see St. Peter ‘n tell ‘im I sent ya.’
some of my best and deepest thoughts on that subject come when I'm sitting out in the woods, nobody around for miles, just sitting there admiring all the creations here on this earth, it sure don't look like it came about just by chance, and I think the closer you come to the earth the more you notice it.
I'm like Arcey on I don't think you have to attend anybody's church in particilar, that ain't what it's all about.
You said it. To me there is just nothing like sitting, watching the sun rise and hearing the sounds of nature. Something I just don't get enough of here in the "city".
... every day I'm up before dawn just to enjoy it. I don't have class until 9:30 so that time is for me.
Better be careful, Willie, 'cause you're startin' ta sound like some of my kin. Your skin might start turnin' Red any day now...
;D ;D ;D ;D
Never seen so many folks agreein on the topic :D It sure is nice ta hear my way don't make me a heathen ;)
... and my foreign language is Navajo.
The Evangelists mostly talk about "a personal relationship with God (and/or Jesus)". In my personal experience, I've never seen two personal relationships that were identical. So I guess we ought not to be surprised that each of us has a different type of relationship with the Divine.
In the final analysis, IMHO, all of the world's religions have more -- MUCH more -- in common than we have differences. Too bad we have to exaggerate those differences.
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In the final analysis, IMHO, all of the world's religions have more -- MUCH more -- in common than we have differences. Too bad we have to exaggerate those differences.
Willie
You're on the right track ...keep yer eye on the prize
:D
Dutchy
Dutchy, That friend of mine that had the alcohol drag boat nemed it "Devil's Plaything". The boat was painted black and an artist had airbrushed a picture of a beautiful blond wearing only a bikini bottom standing next to the Devil. He had his arm around her. Willie, you are a man after my own heart.
My buddy has a sloop calls her Hope She Floats.
Greatest Scotch bar in the marina!!
I'm a sailor from 'way back!!!! Sea Scouts, University Sailing Team, etc. As a matter of fact, I grew up with Jimmy Buffett!! He and I were in the same Boy Scout and Sea Scout units.
I once had the experience of having to teach a bunch of Coast Guardsmen and their wives how to sail! Here's an important safety tip. If you ever find yourself in that predicament, do not -- Repeat, DO NOT -- put husband/wife teams on the same boat. It works a LOT better if you pit husband-teams against wife-teams!
Anyhoo, if I ever manage to collect enough funds to get a sailboat I'm gonna name it "Roweboat" (my, ah, REAL last name is Rowe).
... you found that out the hard way!? Oh crap!
Drink Up Leo, It's 5 o'clock somewhere!
the guy on the back almost looks as if he's doing the disco or something! LOL
here's the boat I was on:
... that's why there are specific jobs for each person on a Tall Ship and they all have to be in sync... if not, no good things happen!
Thank Heavens that I inherited my alcohol tolerance from the Germans and Scots-Irish instead of the Choctaws!)
Are you saying us Irish like to drink!?! ???
LOL
Are you saying us Irish like to drink!?! ???
here's a schooner for ya Daniel:
sure is a beut isn't she?
I've been known to drink a dram or two of single malt scotch and Bushmills Irish whiskey during the winter time. I'm an eighth Cherokee on my Dad's side along with some Clan Robertson thrown in.
My favorite single-malt Scotch Whisky, for the moment at least, is Balvenie Double-Wood. Och laddie, 'tis smoooooth goin' down. My favorite Irish Whisky, hands-down, is Tullamore Dew (though Jameson's will do).
My Scots-Irish ancestors came from County Fermanagh in Ulster Province. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/County_Fermanagh (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/County_Fermanagh)
My German ancestors (the von der Bergs, Americanized as Funderberg or Funderburk) came from northern Germany, along the Wupper River. There's even an ancestral castle called Schlossberg. And of course, my Choctaw ancestors are from Mississippi.
Welcome pard. My family name Carman is desended from some folks who came here in 1631, to Plymouth, wern't on the Mayflower, waited a few years to see if it would work out. Wern't that welcome in England at the time. Something to do with churches. ;)
Her maiden name was Funderberg. She might have been a relative of yours.....but then again, she was a dusky Nubian lady about 6'1" and an easy 225 pounds, and didn't have much resemblance to you at all.
Oh come on Del. We all know that you are descended from the Karmanns from Osnabrueck, Germany. The ones who stayed behind went on to convert beetles into convertibles and later collaborated with the Eye-talian design firm from Turin: Ghia. It was in the blood though, because you dabbled with VWs also. ;D
No surprise here. I've run across several of those dusky Funderbergs/Funderburks in my time. Nice folks, too! I've also run across some "dusky Choctaws" who may be distant blood relatives.
AH! CHEECAGO! That Toddlin' Town! Hog Butcher to the World!
Willie, You otta see the deep dish pizzas we fixed at the Muster last fall. Del fixed them in Dutch Ovens,
Well, That just leaves more for me to eat. I like the fresh pineapple for breakfast instead of juice.
LEO, They are messy to eat but I still like the juice.
It seems to me that we didn't get ruint too bad listenin' to all that evil music.
think about what yer saying, here we are in our 50's and 60's, still wearin jeans & cowboy hats, wantin to carry around a 6 gun, rifle and shotgun and shoot anything we can...
Ennybody still sportin’ a flat top?I kin come an' give ya one if ya like, a nice close one... ;D ;D ;)
Ennybody still sportin’ a flat top?
I had either a flat top or shaved haid from tha time I was 6 til I was 25....Me too, 'scept I got away from it a tad earlier, age-wise. My dad was a War-years Army sergeant from the skeleton out, and he kept his mane in a flat-top until the day he departed this World. It was required that I have a flat-top or less.
Ya know he didn't cheat, HIS hair is grey.
Y'all seen the "Just for Men - Touch of Grey" commercial. Apparently (because we all know that if it's on TV, then it's true), if you have a touch of grey, the bikini gals will come running.
I've got a touch of grey, but no one is trampling me down...
Y'all seen the "Just for Men - Touch of Grey" commercial. Apparently (because we all know that if it's on TV, then it's true), if you have a touch of grey, the bikini gals will come running.
I've got a touch of grey, but no one is trampling me down...
Trin, what they doan show is that all them guys with tha babes eat salad....
What about the cat? ;D
Me, lets just say I made sure my bunk was at the other end from the Little brothers at the GAF Muster, that shirt Gripmaker had made me a bit nervous. ;D
(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Ft%20Hartsuff%202008/PICT5689.jpg)
Not deliberately. ::)
I don't have to worry about hair of any length, thanks to male-pattern baldness. The hair that is left is mostly grey with some reddish brown.
Hairnets are not real fashion statments, they do not flatter folks features.
You ain't seen Arcey in his snood
;)
When I get to OWS I'll post ya a picture Leo. (No not of Arcey with one, don't have a good enough photo to photo shop of him. Do have a couple a you Leo, one with a candle.) ;D
You'll have to wait for the snood, I forgot the CD in the pick-up. ::)
Trinity, "necessity is the mother of invention".
It's nice to know those FFA Kids are our leaders of tomorrow.
The internet is gradually putting these newspapers out of business.
Leo most of the local TV stations have quite a bit of local news on their sites, I think the papers were late in coming around to the online age so they can't generate the advertising dollars to make it profitable.
I guess the newspapers will end up like the buggy whips, :o
There's lots a things online that could pass fer virtual TP.
I find a lot of stuff that is what you remove with TP. ::)
An some of it is justa couple clicks away ::)
Nope, not in Tall Tales unless ya wanna count my flub ups ;D
Them tis valuble lessons in life to keep others from doin' the same. ;D
Del, could some of that be considered bovine excrement? 8) ::) ;D
On this Date in 1897, Newbrassky became the 38th state.
I know you meant to type 1867. ;D ;D
And I know you meant to type 37th state. ;D ;D
RCJ
+1
;D ;D ;D ;D
ya didn't think I could pass that up did ya?
I know you meant to type 1867. ;D ;D
And I know you meant to type 37th state. ;D ;D
Happy Statehood Day! Best dang state in the Union!
RCJ
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That's what I get when I get in a hurry when someone comes into the shop. Worst thing is, they didn't buy nuthin' and were just a couple a dorks. ::)
I knew ya was gonna say that. ::)
Oh I fixed it also. ;D
What Delmonico is thinking: "No it's the tennis shows with the weird shock absorbin' heels and the Old Navy T-Shirt, plus the big buckle on yer belt that you bought, not earned that makes you look like a Dork." ::)
I bet that guy has a couple of "Cowboy Up" stickers on his Honda Civic.