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Ok, I'm not going to actually admit to anything here, but I will give just a tiny little tidbit of advice:   Never try to kill a skunk with a banjo...

My wife and I are expecting a baby come April!!! I used the photo below to announce it on Facebook. Should give my liberal friends something to think about. Got the idea from all these Pinterest photos my wife was showing me of shoes and things people were using to announce babies. Told my dad by giving him a G2.6, what I termed the "grand-baby Glock" haha [URL=http://s1298.photobucket.com/user/ldugsjr1986/media/1263776_969871133652_843261812_o_zpsdf18c71e.jpg.html][/URL]

I did not have relations with that leg.

She's got better boobs, too - although admittedly Piers Morgan himself is one of the biggest boobs on TV...

  Well, heck, it's all settled. We can just let God handle it, no worries.   Can never understand the Christian viewpoint on Jews .. they're the chosen people, yet they're all going to Hell.   - OS

  If he expects to go back tomorrow and find more it should be.

Timestepper ... ... DaveS ... ... and the rest of ya'll ... ... (especially the banjo part, Timestepper) ... ...   Please, continue to post.  I too have made a fool of myself more times than I care to remember, but I ain't blessed with the story-telling gene that ya'll have.   But for the sake of fairness, the dumbest thing (okay, maybe not the dumbest, but one that I will admit to) was back in my teen years when an older guy was trying to teach me how to "pop" a snake's head off by "cracking" it like a whip.  I musta failed to get that wrist snap right, 'cause when I pulled back, the snake wrapped around my head and bit my ear.  Probably would have made for some new dance moves if anyone had been there to film it.  Dang near wet my pants, too.  Now unwrapping a 4- to 5-foot long snake from your head while combining an Indian rain dance with go-go dance moves ain't easy, but it can be done.  Getting the snake to let go of my ear required help.  Thank God the snake didn't get my nose.  Don't know why, but that seems worse.

I know a lot of people think it's silly to argue over the term magazine vs clip, but right is right and wrong is wrong. I don't correct everyone I hear use the terms incorrectly, but I still expect a gun manufacturer to get it right.   My guess is the doofus approving the marketing isn't a gun guy.

I shouldn't say. I'm not sure the statute of limitations has passed.

Katie has better legs by a LONG SHOT !

  Ah, well, that certainly clears it up. :stunned:   - OS

Ok, again I'm not going to actually admit to anything, but since I posted this on the hunting board a while back, I guess re-posting it here would only be fair. This was originally written as a "letter of introduction" to acquaint a former supervisor of mine with the Rocky Mountains, but the world works in funny ways and, as luck would have it, it also turned out to be the first piece I had published and appeared in Muzzle Blasts magazine in January of 2001.      Dear Boss: Congratulations on having chosen the Colorado Rocky Mountains as your vacation spot this year! As you may know, even though I'm originally from Kansas, I have spent a great deal of time in the Rockies. In fact, due in large part to inaccurate maps, faulty compasses and the mysterious geologic forces which strive to constantly re-arrange otherwise familiar landmarks - I have probably spent more time in the Colorado back country than most members of the search and rescue team. At any rate, I am convinced that you, yourself could not have picked a better destination. I must admit that I am honored that you have come to me for advice and I commend you on your excellent judgment. Naturally, over the years, I have acquired an almost encyclopedic knowledge on this subject and you may believe me when I say that I have forgotten more than you know. From the time of Zebulon Pike to present there have been literally thousands of books and articles authored on the subject of camping and living in the Rocky mountains So many so that my wife jokingly inquired as to why anyone over the age of eight who owns a library card would willingly come to me for advice. I politely informed her that I, for one, could understand your wanting to learn things that only a real expert like myself would know! With that in mind, Boss, I have decided not to fill your brain with information easily obtained from other sources. Instead, I have enclosed the following list of things you should NOT do while you are in the mountains. I know you should not do these things, because unfortunately, I have done them all at some point in the past. Needless to say, the results have ranged from just thoroughly embarrassing to damn near disastrous! Good Luck Boss! May you learn at least as much from my "adventures" as I have... Things you should NOT do in the Mountains (Or anywhere else for that matter!) 1. Do not wrap an egg in clay and place it the campfire to cook. 2. Do not try to start a campfire using only a mouthful of brandy and a Zippo lighter. 3. No matter how cute and cuddly it may look - Do not try to pet a baby porcupine. 4. Never try to kill a skunk with a banjo! 5. Never try to bluff a moose... 6. Never try to cross a stream on any log which is more than ten feet above the water - Especially if the water is less than three feet deep! 7. Never leave your clothes more than a mile from where you are actually "skinny-dipping." 8. NEVER allow yourself to be convinced that riding a plastic toboggan down a two thousand foot snow mass and into a mountain lake would be "a really neat thing to do!" 9. Do not sneak up on your camp partner and "woof" like a grizzly - Especially if they are holding a cast iron skillet or a fly rod. 10. Do not throw rocks or pinecones at your camp partner when they in the bushes answering the call of nature - Especially if they are bigger and meaner than you are. 11. Do not throw rocks or pinecones at any stump that looks like a sleeping bear. 12. If you must climb a tree to escape from a recently awakened bear, do NOT disturb anything which looks like a wasp nest (at least until AFTER you are past it). And finally - Even if the hornets choose to go after the bear and leave you with only a few stings - Do not jump up and down, clap your hands and laugh uproariously while you are still standing in the uppermost branches of a pine tree!     :whistle:   ...TS...

Under advisement from my legal counsel, I will decline to post further in this thread on the grounds that in doing so I may incriminate myself. :D

Without Remorse is still one of my favorite books. RIP Tom.

All I got Saturday. Got trespassed on by a boy and his dog. Literally walked right up the ridge to my stand on the other side. Sent from my SCH-R530U using Tapatalk 2

The permissive environment for criminals that procrime DAs and Judges have created, along with legislation aimed at disarming and dissuading people from defending themselves will eventually give rise to widespread vigilante justice. Pretty soon criminals are gonna tangle with the wrong guy and he's gonna mow down a crowd of hoodlums. As far as this pack of wild beasts, they need to be tracked down, systematically executed, fed to pigs, houses burned and earth salted.

Looks like they're appeasing the masses, not the gun experts like all of us here on TGO :pleased:   I've heard magazines called clips all my life, ...guess its kind of a lazy, one syllable nickname that everyone knows what you're talking about even if its wrong.  Here's the actual definition of a clip, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clip_(ammunition) ... maybe we should send it to Marlin. I do miss the old company, they made some fine lever actions for many, many years.

Sad day when we fault a young man for driving down the highway during the middle of the day with his family by suggesting he is in any way responsible because he failed to have situational awareness.

Okay, one more. I was installing thin metal tiles as a backsplash in my bathroom.  After two rows i realized they were uneven and slanting downward (I didn't use a level and just "eyeballed" it). I was a bit frustrated and was using a screwdriver to reach behind them and pop them back off. In my haste, the screwdriver slipped and the tile cut my right pointer finger off. Yes, OFF! It was dangling by a small piece of skin that didn't cut all the way through. It went right through the joint and all! I lifted it back into place and thought to my self that it couldn't be as bad as I thought. I released the finger and it dangled again. I wrapped it in a towel, got my kids, and drove to town to meet my wife for a trip to the ER.  The finger is back on and a lot of the feeling has returned (happened in 2010). I still cannot bend it all the way down as I can my other ones.  That has to be my worst by far...

The best way to learn is to do. I've taken my dryer apart a few times over the decade+ that I've had it. In fact, most things I've learned how to tinker on in adulthood has been through trial and error. It's a learning experience you look back on and value despite it being so frustrating in the moment.

For one thing, dropping dead trees is a little more complicated than dropping live ones, but only if you care where it falls.   I can't give away wood here unless I cut it to length and haul it to the road.  Lazy trumps cold and poor.

You are giving them too much credit. The letter should be something shorter like: Why do you not vote the way we want you to? Either stop voting for your careers, or you will soon be searching for a new one.

Sorry I missed your post earlier, I have been out hunting the closed parks. Had the whole place to myself. :) Yup.

That's somewhat good news as TN does not issue a permit to conceal a weapon.  :rolleyes:

  Um, a believer in Judaism does not believe in "Christ as Lord and Savior", eh? My point being, all those billion or more "chosen people"  who have died since Christ are in hell, according to Christian belief, along with all the Hindus, Shintos, Buddhists, Muslims, etc. of course.    So maybe God ran a Jewish Only Heaven for about 3500 years until he sent Christ, then a Christian Only Heaven afterwards?   - OS

wonder if this is going to start the gun buster signs in walmarts ? Hope not

Oh you talk big now, but just wait... LOL you will be upgrading faster then they can release new models. :) I finally settled in on the same bow for the past 5 years. Don't see enough change to buy another yet. Yup.

  I think I'd have wanted to be drunk if I got shot in the left boy.

I caught an airplane on fire once right at the boarding gate. Black smoke pouring out of the auxiliary power unit. I blew the fire bottle and the temp went down on the gauge and then slowly started rising again. Only one fire bottle for the APU on that airplane. I forgot to close the fuel shutoff valve feeding it after it caught fire. So it kept burning. The gate agent asked me over the radio if they could board the aircraft and I told her "No, the airplane is on fire, I need the fire department at A8" She came back and I swear she said, "Does this mean we can't board?"   Fire department comes in with excitement, (they don't get to play fireman much outside of training), hose down the airplane, baggage belt loader, passengers bags, and me standing at the back of the aircraft. It was declared a crime scene until the NTSB came and got statements from me, the flight crew and everyone witness to this. Police officers actually guarded the aircraft and we were not allowed to take bags off or anything. For safety, the cop let me shutoff all the power to the plane. Needless to say, the flight did not go that day, but the passengers got a good story to tell everyone why their flight cancelled. I got to stay and change out the APU after the NTSB showed up. After that incident, I was nicknamed fireball and was told they were going to make me wear mittens so I couldn't flip switches and push buttons.   In my defense, that thing was going to catch on fire no matter who tried to start it next. I just happened to be "That guy" and I did not help the situation by not closing the fuel shutoff valve.

This isn't too far away from you. It's great for a weekend. You'll see many more 4wheelers than bikes but all are welcome. http://windrockpark.com

Ummm... not if you slip before you make contact with him... :yuck:

I was alarmed when you said a burning smell. I really would look farther than just a lint issue. Have had lint issues in the past but none ever smelled like something burning. Just be on a cautious side for a while after you restart the dryer to make sure that is your only issue. Could be shorted heater coils or drum belt burning out or pulley bearing going bad. Could even be motor that turns drum. Not trying to be an alarmist but don't want your home to burn down either.....jmho

  Okay, if the case it too 'weak' (I don't see how the case could be weak when one of the a-holes involved caught the whole thing on camera) then simply hold them while deciding whether or not to press charges.  By 'hold' them I mean put them in general population on Rikers Island and maybe one of the guards could let it 'slip' that they were, among other things, endangering and terrorizing a two year old little girl.    As for the one who is paralyzed, I have no f'ing pity.  He was not an 'innocent bystander' (as I saw his aunt claim in one article.)  He was stopped ON THE INTERSTATE as part of a group that was boxing the Range Rover in to prevent the driver and his family from escaping the mob.  If he had not been doing so, he would not have been run over.  Then the aunt tried to make it about money and lifestyle by saying that the guy driving a Range Rover and living a luxurious lifestyle can get away with running over people just because they ride bikes and have tattoos.  No, dumbass, the Range Rover driver can get away with running over people because those people were posing a threat to his life and the lives of his family.  My only hope is that the paralyzed biker lives a long, miserable life so he can serve as an example to others who would engage in such behavior.   Hell, I even saw an interview with the scumbag's wife on the television news where she was claiming that he was stopped and getting off his bike to 'help' the Range Rover driver.  She went on to say that the driver just panicked 'for some reason' (claimed she wasn't sure why) but now her husband was in the hospital.  Waaah.  What a bunch of bull crap.

With this point well explained has anyone ever wondered why it is called a magazine. Magazines is mostly relating to reading material so around knowledgeable gun owners they would think your referring to some book. Now we come to the word clip. I all reality that word does refer more to what we call magazines because after all a Magazine does clip into the lock in the gun........ :ugh:  So in all reality which sounds more logical yet is is just the opposite so go figure......... :rofl:  :rofl:  

I think that every time an official throws a flag, a deputy should step onto the field and serve a criminal warrant on the offending player.   It's football for crying out loud!   We're turning into a nation of old women . . . . .

Reloaded model rocket engines with black powder and a cannon fuse. Many police cars circling the block looking for the source of the explosion!

I assure you something like this will be well worth the extra few bucks over a cheap one.                            http://www.tngunowners.com/forums/topic/70900-beretta-686-silver-pigeon-sporting-1995-mfg/

Sounds strong Pro Gun to me. :up: Wish they would strengthen parking lot bill, repeal knife law.....and reduce gun free zones. Especially while the R's have all three branches.

The guy who got run over was an accomplice to an attack on a defenseless two year old. I hope he dies a horrible and painful death. He deserves a combination of bone/ass cancer. As for his family, they need to STFU. He deserved it. The family running their mouth about their criminal in a coma deserve the same fate for ignoring the terror he and his hoodlum friends put this young family through.

his time is the same as lamar for me.  i am going to vote for the other guy.  time for new blood.  

Hahaha!! I TOTALLY get where you're at! The first few times I'd tear into a guitar I'd find out I didn't have this or that part, or that modern saddles wouldn't fit a vintage bridge or whatever. Half the fun was finding that out and chasing parts down. Wifey didn't get that and just thought I was an idiot who didn't know what he was doing.... guess she wasn't wrong, really. But it was fun! :-D

Okay Look at it this way. Obama said if you like your insurance plan you can keep it.( he did not tell you it would be going up 200%+) He just said you can keep it. He said if you like the doctor you have you can keep them.( he didn't mention that there are about 70% of the doctors opting out of the ACA and many of them are retiring rather than go through all the hassle of the ACA plan) He said that the ACA would be affordable to everyone.( It is now coming to light that there is only about 15% of Americans that will qualify for it) He said you can stay on your parents plan till age 26. ( he didn't tell you that if you do that your parents health insurance premiums would be going up as much as 300% making it unaffordable for them to pay forcing you to get off the plan and buy the ACA plan). His plan is dependent on forcing millions of young healthy people who don't have coverage now to buy a policy on the ACA plan which in turn will be used to help pay for the people up in years that cannot afford the plan. If the young healthy people don't buy the policies as planned by Obama the ACA plan is in trouble. I sincerely hope that all of the young healthy individuals that have never had health insurance choose to pay the $95.00 penality because it will not be enough to support the ACA and it will begin to implode. The American people are now getting a taste of just what this train wreck is going to be by 2016 and some poor sucker that gets elected as President is left to face the train wreck because Obama set it up for after he is out of office before it takes full effect and the train goes over the cliff. Also to add insult to injury he has adjusted the bill so many times since the Supreme Court ruled on the original Bill as it was written that by law the bill should be null and void but yet it is not. He has written over 1200 exemptions to the law allowing many people to be exempted from the program including himself and his family and all of Washington Bureaucrats. If the bill was so great why are the people in Washington exempt?  Just some things to think about and................jmho 

Guys and girls, Let me explain a few things, I work with every foreigner that you can think of, and we had a drinking contest, Any way I normally do not get involved in child like things like this, but the Britt's and Germans, and the people from Holland challenged me at the Pub in Western Australia to drink a shot of every whiskey that they had in the bar, I had a total of 15 shots less than 5 hours hours ago, I kid you not! What kept me sober and able to drink my co workers under the frikken table was how they kept talking crap about how Americans can not keep up, We started with Irish Whiskey, moved to Scotch then to Jim Beam and then my favorite Jack Daniels,. I have never been so pissed off about how people talked about my county and my friends that I kicked them all on the nuts by standing up to them. The only person that could hang with me was a German female Co Worker that earned my respect, I left the International Terminal an hour ago and I am drinking some some strong coffe before I bourd my flight to Melbourne Aus, but please let me say that I did my best and succeeded to show all the International co workers that we from Tennessee can kick their butts!

What he says is true, but what he didn't mention is how he got on the mic and bashed Cruz.  Thanks for posting this.  We ran out of toilet paper at work so I printed out a copy of this letter.  I just thought it would be a good idea that when I wipe my ass I should have a good reminder of Bob Corker. ;)

Remember: Elections have consequences. :wall:

Losing the job, people can cope with that.  Its keeping it and being sent home for a week or whatever that is frustrating.  They still have their jobs.  Its very different from being laid off because being laid off is over and done, you move on.  Here, you linger, wondering if you should just enjoy a day or 2 off and hope it does not become a month or more...   the decision to quit or stay is more complex.    And, again, its wrong because the folks that are not getting paid are the honest workers.  The higher ups will all be untouched in the short term.

Best I can figure, the closest he came to making a bad decision was the amount of restraint he showed by not going all Carmageddon on the shitbags.

Next, anyone shoot a 25 cal rifle?   I have 75 or more Speer#1237 .257 75 gr cannelure J words, http://www.wholesalehunter.com/produ...roductid=27310 17 Hornady #2540 .257 100 gr spire point j words, http://www.midwayusa.com/product/673...int-box-of-100 and close to 20, Sierra 1600 .257 75 gr Hollow point j words. http://www.midwayusa.com/product/181...int-box-of-100   Links are for pics and info only. I got these in a box-O-bullets and do not need then, wont fit my 25ACP. :surrender: No I did not try. :wave: As always, free and ship on my dime or FTF in or around Nashville.