Just in time for (U.S.) Independence Day

I have never seen a Texan be able to hold any thing straight while celebrating for any occasion. And they don't need much to celebrate. Just getting off work will due.

From a former g**dam yankee now just a dam yankee.

He said metric money. 1 euro is = to $1.56. The metric system what ever happened to it?

Ummm...I think dollars and cents IS a metric system of money, no? I'm not sure WHAT "Euros" are!

I was just trying to play along with the foreign conversions. (whitch I am not good at)

Gotcha - pounds, shillings, and pence is about as esoteric as grains, drams, and ounces. Actually, I think Euros are also a metric money system like dollars and cents (which only makes sense...). When I was in the Navy, it got confusing what with baht, yen, pesos, francs, etc. Fortunately, all you really needed was an approximate "how many to a dollar" value when you converted your currency. The rest was just "how many yen" from that point on.

Ahh yes the good ole days when we had rods, poles and perches and sometimes slugs, ferkins and chains....

John

And a gill of the finest for ya, Mate! Enjoy!

I keep wondering why everybody says it's over.

Did you see the first thing the NRA did after the Supreme Court ruling?

They filed suit in several California cities to get back the rights to keep guns in thier homes of people living in Public Housing. Crime has drop serverly since the threat of being expelled from public housing if a weapon of any kind were found in the home by the cops or inspector who look for damage.

Now this tells me the NRA is run by the Weapons Manufactures and their largest investors are possilbe the owners of Funeral Homes, Casket Makers and Grave yards.

Why else would they be comcerned with the poor having guns when the poor need food, education, jobs and transportation. They would have to miss meals to buy a gun and the ammo.

You would be wrong. Native Tennessean and Disabled Vietnam Veteran who has owned guns but no longer sees the need for more than a snake gun around the farm. I actually know few Tenneseans who own guns if they do the weapons are not mentioned or displayed. We have found a few things to do since we crawled out of the caves that do not include killing and skinning the wild beasts for dinner.

The question left out the changes in wind direction not to mention velocity at different levels. The answer is most likely they they would be using a lead bullet and it will land near the water supply and slowly or many years leech small amounts of leasd and add to the polluition already in the water going into homes for children to drink.

You have my respect...and admiration... I will drop all "yucky stuff" and place you with other hero's who have served this country. I am curious about lead, don't we get it from the ground anyway? And remember that di-hydrogen oxide kills more people around the world than most any weapon.

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"Yankee Doodle went to Ascot, just to play the ponies..." Thanks, Mate, same back!

Electroman,

I very much recommend hiking Hadrian's wall. I felt that the trail was marked very well and the restored sites and museums gave good information without the overdevelopment that can obscure the sense of historical places. There was some talk recently about encouraging people to visit specific sites along the wall rather than walk the whole path. This was to lessen the impact on the farm ground along the path. I could see that pasture especially was being harmed by the volume of foot traffic. As an old farmer, I did note how good some of the pasture was. One especially had almost a perfect mix of clover and grass - not easy to do. Anyway - I hope they can work all the problems out.

LG_DAVE

No...they heard you was coming

(Or it's to protect the terrorists from the natives)

Del

Same reason as Hadrian's wall is there .... its to protect us from those mad scots!!!

couldn't say - but I tend to be happiest where the good guys are better armed than the bad guys.

Me too, so long as the good guys know I think I'm one of 'em (and agree with me)! Otherwise, I'm happier when I'm better armed than anybody else...

I agree - the definition of "good guy" is quite important. Zimbabwe, Uganda - the definition may have gotten a little confused there.

Dern tootin'! Me, I'm one of the good guys no matter WHERE I am, just ask me, I'll tell ya! And the bad guys? Why, them's the ones a-shootin' at me, dadgummit!

My vote is for everybody except me to be disarmed. And for me to have an M-79. If you think Colt made everybody equal, try a Blooper.

Well, having used one, I must say they do have their limitations. But under the terms you presupposed (everyone else disarmed), there are certainly worse choices! At least you get the luxury of not having to fire a round a second! _{(the bad guys all duck for cover if they're still standing)}

Yeah, I was funning. Something like an Ithaca 37 with alternating buck and ball would make a better choice.

You can sure declare yer independence with that rig, anyway!

How come you guys are so fixated on Independence, then?

Well, it would have been a little before your time, but back about, oh, seven or eight Monarchs ago, this here piece of real estate was a part of the Kingdom. Yours, that is, although it's currently a Queendom, I guess (you don't call it that, though, do you?). Well, we colonists got a bit upset over taxes on tea, sugar, stamps, porcelain, iron goods, and such like, while not having an MP to our name. We called it "taxation without representation" and got just all out of sorts over it. (We can be like that!) George III, King of the day, was a trifle narrow-minded, so he sent soldiers to teach us some manners. We gave 'em a good old-fashioned butt-kicking, and declared ourselves "INDEPENDENT" of Georgie boy. Made it stick, too. So, ever since then we've celebrated the occasion. That about covers it. Anything else?

Dang! Fergot to check the 'anonymous' box! Ya got me fair'n'square!

Given you a GA (which won't do much good, 'less a bunch of other folks do likewise).

Anyhoo, I wuz just stirring it , and I hope y'all have a day!

Best regards to all,

John

When I was at Ft. Monmouth, I saw a bus sitting beside the parade ground one day with a whole bunch of Lts and Capts sitting on it just doing nothing but looking straight ahead. I had never seen a payroll transport before - turns out they had a little over a million in small bills (in 1963, a million was a fair amount of money). Anyway, I was nebby so I stuck my head in the door to see what was up. An MP racked an Ithaca about 2 inches from my nose and, for a minute, I thought I heard Jesus calling me. I had been shot at before and that wasn't nearly as hair-raising as the sound of that shotgun slide going home. I don't know what their load was and I sure didn't hang around to ask.

Make that a 19, the Bloopers big brother mounted on a Browning 50 cal frame.

No one else armed, fleshets and HE and remember up the universe it covers it all.

Brad

Comrade, Sorry to tell, all your images are appearing like this:

This can happen if you're just using cut'n'paste to insert the images. To have them appearing correctly on other folks' machines, you should use the "Insert/Edit Image" tool .

Regards, John

I thought it was just ME (truly).

I've had SOME occasion when I properly uploaded pics and they didn't appear (but I could see that on my screen before preview and before sending), but trying a second time, all seemed to work okay.

For me, I think it is just a slow and 'buggy' connection.

BTW -I can access the images by right-clicking on the blank, selecting 'properties', & copy'n'pasting the image URL into a browser address bar - but it kinda spoils the flow of reading a post!

John

[The image above now appears correctly on my browser, and in your #50, but it didn't work for the previous image in #50. I think it's now picking it up from my local cache - but it's all witchcraft to me! J.]

you should use the "Insert/Edit Image" tool .

I'm unable to find this feature--where would I find it?

I nab these "smilies" from Godlike Productions http://www.godlikeproductions.com/bbs/post.php?forum=1&allsmilies=1

a blog for Alien Abductees, Conspiricy Theorists, Coast-to-Coast Insomniacs and other assorted fringe elements...

I'm currently using the local library because, living in the boonies, I'm too far from DSL service and dial-up is just too slow for my ADHD-addled brain to handle.

Col. - the insert image tool is the 7th icon from the left on the tool bar at the top of the box where you type in your message. The icon directly to it's left is a broken chain link ("remove hyperlink"), and to the right is the "insert bullets" symbol (like in MS Word). Unless you have text selected, once you start typing the message the icons to the left of that "camera" for image insertion are "grayed out", so it may appear to be the first active icon in the toolbar. The "insert image" will prompt you to insert something saved in your "my pictures" folder (which I use a lot) or if you have a URL to it, you can go far afield finding things. Personally, I prefer to save .jpg, .bmp, and suchlike picture files to insert at my whim.

OK--I'm dancing now

Now I have a little more knowledge with which to show off my ignorance!

The chicks in Texas are still pretty bouncy...

OK, but your inserted pics are still not showing up...

Sorry, Col., it still ain't working out here! Still get the Red Ex things.

Here are the pix I think you wanted folk to see:

I posted them by doing what I described in #58, to show the pic in a browser¹, then 'right click' - 'save picture as ...' to save it on my HDD (I keep a folder called 'Pics for CR4' for just this sort of thing). I then used the to put them in my post.

Don't know why, but it just doesn't seem to work on everyone else's machine, unless I/you grab the images first, then 'insert' them from my/your local hard drive.

Regards, John.

¹ It will also work if you display the image on the Godlike Productions site, and do the 'right click' - 'save picture as ...' thing from there. But it seems it must be saved to your local drive before it can be posted for universal viewing.

OK--here is the url from Godlike Productions: http://www.godlikeproductions.com/images/smilies/bush_fing.gif

entered into the "Insert/Edit Image" thingie it reveals our commander-in-chief telling the "little" people what they can do about high gasoline prices.

If I understand you correctly, I need to save the picture first, as in bush_fing.gif

then open it via "Image Path" using the "Insert/Edit Image" thingie

That worked! (Good choice of images, BTW.)

Yup! ya got it there one-hundred-per-cent, CCC. No problemo!

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Just as a test, I did a drag-n-drop from your post (to which I was replying). There should be an image of someone nearly as smart as a red 'X' between the rows of '?'s.

I think it'll appear OK, 'cos either it's being stuffed up the wires from my local whatever, or 'cos it's already on your local whatever.

As I said before, it's witchcraft, but it works.

Nah, not a witch, just a politician! Happy...errr...Independence Day...ummm...I guess!

Hello Comrade Col. Clamrod

Your Graphics from: http://www.godlikeproductions.com/images

Are not properly recognised by the Forum Software.

You may be better to read: http://cr4.globalspec.com/thread/15743/How-to-insert-Graphics-into-your-Post-to-make-it-more-readable-or-interesting

Hope that assists you.

Kind Regards....

Hello Comrade Col. Clamrod

Your Graphics from: http://www.godlikeproductions.com/images

Are not properly recognised by the Forum Software.

You may be better to read: http://cr4.globalspec.com/thread/15743/How-to-insert-Graphics-into-your-Post-to-make-it-more-readable-or-interesting

Hope that assists you.

Kind Regards....

OK--here is the url from Godlike Productions: http://www.godlikeproductions.com/images/smilies/bush_fing.gif

entered into the "Insert/Edit Image" thingie it reveals our commander-in-chief telling the "little" people what they can do about high gasoline prices.

If I understand you correctly, I need to save the picture first, as in bush_fing.gif

then open it via "Image Path" using the "Insert/Edit Image" thingie like this...how does this look [ok--ae any of the images staying in view?]

Hello Comrade Col. Clamrod

Your Graphics from: http://www.godlikeproductions.com/images

Are not properly recognised by the Forum Software.

You may be better to read: http://cr4.globalspec.com/thread/15743/How-to-insert-Graphics-into-your-Post-to-make-it-more-readable-or-interesting

Hope that assists you.

Kind Regards....

Gun death stats are just hype used by Gun controlists and their flunkies in the Media. Gun death stats count all gun deaths. The stats don't tell you how many were murdered, how many killed in defense of self/others or how many were accidental. We teach health in school to promote better hygene and living condition, home ec to teach people how to hopefuly cook edible food and drivers ed to promote better drivers, so why don't we offer gun safety classes in the schools? Being born and raised in the South i was raised up with firearms and the proper way to handle and use them. If more people were educted instead of just seeing the crap pushed at the by tv that would help a lot inreducing accedental deaths. I don't care about the deaths of someone killed while trying to harm another person. The majority of the real victims are put in that position by local, state or federal ordnances restricting there 2nd Ammendment rights. It's ok to use your 1st ammendment right as i'm currently doing and the media takes it so far as to comprome national security and the safety of our armed forces saying it's "our constitutional right" while in the same breath denying others their 2nd ammendment right. Gun toting Bible thumpers started this country and managed to keep it free until the liberals got in and gradually started shaving off the rights "of the people". If our ancestors from WWII and earlier saw the crap going on today in the Unites States they would probably declare war on us to liberate us and give us a Democratic government that truly look after its people instead of the personal whims of the politicians, just as we now claim to be trying to do for other nations.

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Too bad that is off-topic guest(which it is to the OP), but I still wish that I could give that one a good answer anyhow! Gun control lobyists refuse to aknowledge the simple fact that criminals do not follow the law, and a gun ban would only affect law abiding citizens, not criminals! But, then again, the gun control nuts are also part of the same liberal establishment trying to push us more and more towards socialism and they want the public to be more and more dependant on the government for everything, including protection. Taking away guns means taking away the threat of revolution, which is especially important for an increasingly socialistic liberal establishment. Everyone has the right to defend themselves and no government should be able to take that away. A gun ban would essentially force people in a bad situation to 'bring a knife to a gun fight' and lose 10 out of 10 times. It's just sad that people are so naive and buy into this nonsense.

I had A feeling that this would not be a CIVIL discussion, I guessed a WAR would break out. IS it always gonna be this way? ON the subject of control are they controlling the guns or the people? IT'S crazy, look at the crime rate in Britain, thru the roof as soon as the took the guns aWAY. Like I said before when guns are outlawed only the outlaws will have GSR on their hands during their autopsy.

It's even more interesting than that! Don't forget Kinky Freidman...

Kinky who ????????

Kinky Friedman and the Texas Jewboys - one heckuva band! Here's a link...

http://kinkyfriedman.com/

Omigod! ROFLMAO. I didn't know about Kinky, but I gotta get some of his stuff. It's like Lenny Bruce meets Lyle Lovett.

You have NO idea...

Hello Comrade Col. Clamrod

Your Graphics from: http://www.godlikeproductions.com/images

Are not properly recognised by the Forum Software.

You may be better to read: http://cr4.globalspec.com/thread/15743/How-to-insert-Graphics-into-your-Post-to-make-it-more-readable-or-interesting

Hope that assists you.

Kind Regards....