JTM. You have accomplished the near impossible and hit the triple, the trizacta, the trifecta! Congrats. Although Claw will record in the Book of Firsts that you took the uppermost position this day, your singular accomplishment at posting 1-2-3 will long be recalled by Dickweeds around the world. (I was going to mention the anals of TAH but that wouldn’t have been nice.)
Ex-PH2
It is truly necessary to mark the differences between ‘annals’ and ‘anals’. One ‘n’ less, and it becomes a solecism.
Charmin be with you, 2/17 AirCav!
11B-Mailclerk
Hole-cism?
11B-Mailclerk
The Unassisted Triple Play, TAH style!
Claw
Yes Sir, duly recorded as such.
((Over))
2/17 Air Cav
But I wasn’t going to respond, so why did you say over, over?
Claw
“why did you say over, over?”
Because my reply comment was directed at Jon The Mechanic, not you.
((Over))
2/17 Air Cav
I have only one feeling and you just crushed it. I may never get over the misunderstood over, over.
11B-Mailclerk
Roger, Roger!
jonp
Margot Kidder would argue that.
RIP, Margot. She gave hope to everyone with mental illness
In a concerted effort to get out of work early today (hey, at least I admit it), here’s this week’s trivia/humor column. I appreciate all the feedback from you fine folks, so keep it coming, please.
DID YOU KNOW…?
How many students attend the world’s largest K-12 school?
By Commissioner Wretched
When you get to be my age, you realize that the true joys and pleasures are few.
I love a good meal … especially if I don’t have to cook it, since I’ve eaten my own cooking (and lived to tell the tale).
I love a good book.
I adore a good movie.
And, as you all well know by now, I simply love a good baseball game, especially if the Chicago Cubs are playing (and winning).
You may have noticed that I didn’t list one major joy and pleasure above – trivia. That’s because I saved the best for last.
Trivia, for me, is truly a passion. Why else would I invest as much time and energy into mining these precious nuggets of information for you? (Well, I do get paid for doing it, but I digress.)
If you love trivia as much as I do, then you should let me know! Drop an e-mail to me at didyouknowcolumn@gmail.com and I’ll send you a prompt (ha!) reply.
Let’s do something we all love and enjoy … learn some tidbits of trivia!
Did you know …
… in Japan, the title for the television program Jersey Shore translates as, “The Life of Macaroni Rascals”? (Of course, the Macaroni Rascals are the descendants of the Little Rascals from the 1930s.)
… your skin stays alive for several days after you die? The cells are able to absorb what they need through osmosis. (That fact is wrong on so many levels …)
… if you get struck by lightning, it leaves a tattoo? (Provided you live to talk about it, that is. It’s most likely the least of your concerns once the bolt hits you, though.)
… the inventor of Vaseline, Robert Chesebrough (1837-1933), ate a spoonful of it every day? (It must have done something for him, since he lived to be 96. If it takes eating Vaseline to live that long, though, I’ll just go ahead and check out, if you don’t mind.)
… if you have a $10 bill and no debt, you’re actually wealthier than about 15% of all Americans? Most people have so much debt that it makes the cash they have on hand almost worthless. (And if you know whose picture is on the $10 bill, you’re smarter than a lot of other people, too!)
…a single coffee bush yields only about one pound of ground, roasted coffee each year? (And it was all hand-picked by Juan Valdez, too, if you believe the old 1970s coffee commercials.)
… people who can read lips say that if you mouth the word “colorful,” it looks as if you’re saying, “I love you”? (That might explain a lot of my early dates, now that I think of it. They just thought I was “colorful.”)
… the Greek health care system actually elected to amputate the limbs of diabetes patients instead of provide special footwear for them? The country’s incredibly high debt caused the state health service to choose amputation because it was less expensive than the special footwear.
… the largest school in the world is in India? The City Montessori School in Lucknow, India, has a kindergarten-through-12th grade enrollment of more than 44,000 students and 2,500 teachers. The student body is so massive that there can never be a full assembly, as there is no venue big enough to hold all the students at one time. The campus is spread out over 1,000 classrooms and through several buildings. (And I’d imagine that the school’s yearbooks are thicker than New York City telephone books!)
… the average human body – whatever that is – has enough iron in it to make a small nail?
… male horseflies can reach flying speeds of over 90 miles per hour? (No wonder you can’t swat the little boogers!)
… in the nation of Bhutan, street advertising, tobacco, and plastic bags are banned? The government policy is based on something called Gross National Happiness. (What the one has to do with the other, I’ll leave for you to figure out. I need to advertise some plastic bags.)
… scientists at Cornell University have made a functioning “nano-guitar”? It’s a playable guitar the size of a human red blood cell. (Of course, they don’t say who would be able to play it, but you get the idea.)
… a gallon of gasoline has 31,000 calories? (Well, that knocks gasoline off my diet list.)
… the United States is the only industrialized nation that taxes its citizens who live overseas, even if their income is generated in a foreign country and they never return to America? (Cue the Beatles’ “Tax Man” song.)
… there is no butter in buttermilk? (I have no objections to the taste of buttermilk. It’s the designs that it leaves in the glass that turn my stomach.)
… you laugh when you’re tickled as a panic response? That’s why you can’t tickle yourself, because your body does not sense any danger. (How many of you just tried to tickle yourselves?)
… there are no Burger King restaurants within 20 miles of Mattoon, Illinois? The reason is that, in 1968, a small restaurant called Burger King in Mattoon won a lawsuit against the fast-food giant because the small restaurant had trademarked the name in the state first. (But can you have it your way?)
… the richest man in history is believed to be 14th-Century Malian emperor Mansa Musa? When adjusted for inflation, in today’s money, he had a net worth of $400 billion.
Now … you know!
Ex-PH2
Well, here’s a bit of trivia for you, Commish:
Buttermilk is the liquid left over from churning butter. Whole milk contains cream, which is allowed to separate in order to use it to produce butter. As the paddles turn, the fat become beads of butter, and the liquid (buttermilk) is thrown off by the churn’s paddles.
Also, butter has to be washed in water as it is churned. Some milk solids still remain, which you’ll see as white foamy stuff when you melt butter.
jonp
you laugh when you’re tickled as a panic response? That’s why you can’t tickle yourself, because your body does not sense any danger. (How many of you just tried to tickle yourselves?)
umm…no comment
Mick
Aaaaggghhhhh…
David
Early, maybe 4th? Hard to tell with all the repeat posts.
Roh-Dog
Dang! Work is a … oh well.
Long live the Republic!
Have a great weekend y’all!!
Lmn0351
Top 10??
ChipNASA
Maybe,
Sheeeeettttt
None of us geunises here can count past 20 anwyay lessun we use our peckers as number 20 + 1 whatever the dang heck that is.
Actually looks like I made the first 25! A personal best.
The Stranger
1st in everyone’s heart!
NHSparky
Somewhere in top 100.
Shit, somebody here has to earn a paycheck, dammit!
OWB
And we are all glad that you are! Thank you…
MCPO NYC USN Ret.
FIRST
Haywire Angel
Present and ready to end this workweek. Bring on the weekend!
MCPO NYC USN Ret.
DAB is still dead!
The Other Whitey
And there was much rejoicing.
Ex-PH2
Somewhere in the Wilds of the Boondocks, I was too busy to remember, so Umpty-firth!
Ex-PH2
While I was out on maneuvers, foraging and looting, (and have to go back and do more foraging and pillaging), I saw six families of Canada geese, 4 duck families, and a turtle, but the trees are so far behind developing a leaf canopy that it looks like April instead of mid-May.
3rd year in a row, too, so don’t tell me nothing is happening. And the small lakes and ponds are full to overflowing (thanks to Shu the Weather God) and the wetlands ditto.
Many Bothans died to bring you this information.
NDHoosier
> I saw six families of Canada geese, 4 duck families, and a turtle
…and a partridge in a pear tree….
A Proud Infidel®™️
I like turtles.
GDContractor
Woke up this morning to see 2 wild Turkey out grazing in my pasture. That’s a first.
AW1Ed
Three inches of rain already today at la Casa de AW1Ed, and two more expected. Who called for a monsoon?
Ex-PH2
We sent it to you from Great Lakes, AAW1Ed. Pick one lake of many, and that’s where it came from.
2/17 Air Cav
I hear Frederick washed away.
AW1Ed
Could be. Saw parts of it floating by on the Patuxent River.
Mick
Raining here today in the Land O’ Mick.
90% humidity. You could cut the air with a knife.
Former EM1/SS
In honor of the second worst Secretary of State in US History (and the worst will never be president either)
Reporting for Duty!
11B-Mailclerk
In light of the whole collusion mess, doesn’t anyone else find it odd that
HRC’s alleged drink of choice is
Vodka.
Da?
Atkron
Did anyone else see the latest in TFOA?
An ammo box fell out of a helo into a Texas Classroom.
AW1Ed
Air Force helo, or did they catch a break for a change?
thebesig
As of May 18, 2018, Dennis Howard Chevalier, a.k.a. Denny H Chevalier, phony Gulf War veteran, phony veteran, phony C-130 compass call pilot, phony SWAT veteran, phony retired USAF Lieutenant Colonel… That Dennis Howard Chevalier… Still was arrested on February 27, 2018, for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.
He pointed a gun at his ex-wife and son, waved a loaded weapon around and pretended to shoot things, threatened an ex-fiancé with putting a round into her head, and then his arrest for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.
They need to take this guy’s weapons away before he shoots someone.
A Proud Infidel®™
He did it in Texas, so I’m sure he’s looking at a fair share of time as the “Property” of Bubba , Thor and the rest of his cell block.
Cheese Eater McBlobfish
Already did that. They told me that if I could do an atomic sit up without getting my face planted into someone’s ass, that I would escape that fate. I worked like the dickens to hit that magic standard, but could not reach it like I could a bunch of asses.
Several atomic sit up attempts, a sore abdomen, and a seriously smelly face later, I was declared their property. I can’t get rid of the smell.
Cheese,
Dennis Howard Chevalier
Denny H Chevalier
GDContractor
Since Feb 27, 2018, Chevyliar has affiliated his State of Texas PI licence with The Texas Defense Force. http://www.txdf.org. I wonder if they know.
AnotherPat
How ironic:
“Here are the Mugshots of the guys who allegedly run Mugshots.com and why they were booked”
Excellent! Glad to hear it. I can’t stand that stuff. I really can’t. It’s extortion plain as can be. I also don’t like newspaper accounts of arrests. The problem with the papers is that if charges are dismissed or the defendant is found not guilty or what have you, the papers do not publish that. There is no follow-up except in some serious felony cases. And that’s just rotten.
AnotherPat
You nailed it…? Agree with you @ newspapers not following up with “the rest of the story”…
According to this site, the 2 were arrested in Florida (Shock!)
Such a kind of follow-up story used to be called a “folo” in the newspaper business. One of the reasons they tend to be difficult to do is because courts often work at a glacial pace, and with unpredictable schedules. Courts also almost never announce progress, you have to keep checking back.
Back in the day, one of the things I used to do was a weekly sheriff’s log. Essentially a rewrite of the police blotter that’s a matter of public record. Something I found strange at the time was the relative popularity of the log among readers. There were probably multiple reasons including a big helping of schadenfreude.
Logically, you would think somebody who doesn’t like local crime stories is probably also not going to like something such as Jonn’s “Feel Good” stories every morning, but I’m not sure that’s always the case.
2/17 Air Cav
The police blotter is nothing more than a gossip column by another name. If a paper cannot do follow-up then it ought not be reporting mere arrests, other than where public safety is at issue, such as an arrest in a series of burglaries or sexual assaults.
2/17 Air Cav
Here’s another point that irks me, aside from papers not reporting dismissals or not guilty verdicts. Many states (probably all) have statute that cuts a first-timer a break. With some variation, a misdemeanant can have his record expunged after a certain period elapses, if he has met the conditions for expungement. The public policy behind it is that if a person (usually a young person) screws up, that screw up should not follow him through life and impede his job or career hopes. Newspapers, however, are not bound by this and, thus, in this internet age, an arrest can be found even though the arrest was expunged. That sucks.
Perry Gaskill
To be clear, Cav, the police blotter I’m talking about contains the brief raw incident reports from the cops. I’d disagree it qualifies as gossip in the sense of having a lot of rumor and innuendo. What was also true was that juveniles, and crazy people called 5150s, were not identified. Other people could sometimes be identified but you had to get a name from an arrest report which was separate.
Readers apparently liked the sheriff’s log for helping them be somewhat in tune with local crime. Whether frequent incidents were happening in certain neighborhoods, say, or what happened on the next block last week with all the lights and sirens. Personally, I remember working with reporters who constantly had a police scanner going and always thought it was a bit obsessive. The mugshot peckerwoods, at least it seems to me, aren’t journalists in the usual sense. They’re paparazzi with a business model that, allegedly, includes extortion. See what I did there?
My point about the extended timeline of court cases making a folo story difficult is also not something reporters like more than readers. It’s just the nature of the beast.
As an example: A few years ago there was an experiment in local journalism done in Washington D.C. called Homicide Watch. It was put out by a husband-and-wife team who sought to track in detail the arc of all of the city’s murder cases from initial report to penalty phase. Homicide Watch got good reviews and made something of a splash in the journalism community, but ultimately had to fold within a couple of years. Sources of revenue couldn’t support the amount of workload needed to generate relatively little content.
RCAF-CHAIRBORNE
Wolverines!!!
(And not that ghey 2011 remake)
Gravel
Am I first?
(Of course I’m not LOL)
Perry Gaskill
For the motorheads among the TAH crew, this hit the radar earlier this week. It’s a link to a video recently released by the national archives on a 1919 trans-continental motorized expedition by the Army. Eisenhower was along as a young LTC at the time. It’s worth a watch.
Sheeesh. We go through that every Spring around here.
Ex-PH2
1919, huh? Wow. That takes me back. I think my mother was 9 YO back then, just getting rid of that humongous bow she liked to wear in her hair.
Sparks
Thank you Perry. I watched the video of the troops in those hot as hell wool uniforms and I imagined Eisenhower saying, “Damn we need a good interstate highway system.”
Skippy
Reporting for roll call,,, from Sin city
Nice owls Lol…
two more weeks and the Skippy can will be fully
Relocated to the mountains of New Mexico
Hope all are having a awesome day
AnotherPat
Thanks for sharing, Perry. That was interesting.
Found on the same site a National Archives Video of activities at the Disciplinary Barracks at Fort Leavenworth (filmed around 1919?):
I didn’t read it because I don’t give a shit what he tells people he did in the Viet of the Nam. It has no bearing on who he has become. Just like Lurch’s four months in country, it has no bearing on his conduct for the past 47 years. He is a Deep State swamp critter who thinks he shits ice cream and there aren’t enough spoons to go around. Most of us here think he is corrupt. His connections to Comey and his selection of Hidabeast supporting lawers for his witch hunt prove it. But you keep drinking the proggie Kool-Aid.
LC
This is still a milblog, is it not? This is an article about a guy who chose to serve, went through Ranger School, Jump School and then served in Vietnam in some of the most heated combat, for which he was awarded numerous honors, including a Bronze Star with Combat V.
He’s also a life-long Republican who was a bi-partisan choice to be a special prosecutor…. but hey, yep, total ‘deep state’ swamp critter who is somehow a secret liberal plant and not worth learning anything about.
You’re a sharp one, rgr769.
Perry Gaskill
LC, it’s also been said Hitler was kind to dogs and small children. Before praising the virtues of Robert Mueller, it might be useful to take a look at a document written by Congressman Louie Gohmert about Mueller’s recent activities such as the ones rgr769 was pointing out. It’s long, but worth reading:
Credit goes to Ex-PH2 for providing the link a couple of weeks ago.
5JC
All Bronze Stars are “combat” medals, even the ones for merit. They don’t get awarded outside a “combat zone”. The “V” doesn’t stand for combat.
And just because it was not awarded for valor does not mean the awardee wasn’t in actual combat.
rgr769
The “V” stands for valor in combat. And LC stands for Liberal Cuck.
rgr769
Keep drinking that proggie propaganda. But since I served fifteen months in infantry combat units in Viet Nam, went to Jump School, Ranger school, and Special Forces school, I am not impressed. I suggest you look into his activities as a supervising attorney in Boston trying to keep four innocent men in prison, three of whom were sentenced death, so he could protect a criminal FBI agent in cahoots with Whitey Bulger. That miscarriage of justice only cost the taxpayers 10 million dollars in damages and two of the innocent men died in prison. Guess who opposed them getting out on four occasions? You might also want to look at what he did as head of the FBI. So, I guess I am sharper than your average prog like you. Saying he is a Republican is meaningless to me. He is corrupt.
rgr769
Having read Congressman Gomert’s article, I correct my error, by a factor of ten, above. Mueller’s corrupt Boston FBI agents cost the taxpayers over 100 million dollars in settlement payouts to the living men falsely imprisoned and the families of those who died in prison. Also, Gomert’s article, which is fully documented, show’s just how corrupt Mueller was as Director of the FBI, in attempting to cover up the Able Danger FBI eff-up that might have prevented 9-11 and seeking revenge against Curt Weldon for exposing it. Mueller is corrupt to the core.
OWB
Why should any of us (including you) care about his political affiliation either then or now? You actually pretend that bad behavior should be excused depending upon things other than the bad behavior?
No. That is wrong, LC. You know it, and accusing those who disagree with of being hypocrites just because you apparently are is inexcusable whether this is a milblog or something else entirely.
11B-Mailclerk
LC,
Whatever he may have -been-, he has gone seriously bad, and it wasn’t – recent-.
Veteran does not equal saint.
Veteran does not mean incorruptible.
And in the case of Muller, I believe we have a walking, talking example of “power corrupts”.
Shortly after the Texas shooting today, the local paper put out an article on “How To Survive an Active Shooter.” The article cites our County Sheriff, Wayne Ivey.
Ivey says that people should take four steps to survive. The last one is perplexing to me and as there is a vast amount of experience with weapons, law enforcement, etc here on TAH, I was wondering if this advice (in bold) would be considered accurate by the people here:
• Awareness: Know your surroundings and routinely ask yourself, “what if?” Look for exits, potential items that can be used as a weapon and areas that can be used as a cover.
• Avoidance: Always try and escape or evacuate. Encourage others to leave with you. Remember what’s important: You, not your personal belongings. Put distance between yourself and the threat. There’s a difference between hiding and barricading yourself. Turn out lights, silence cell phones and be prepared to attack. If there are multiple people in the room, spread out to attack from different angles.
• Arm: If you have a concealed carry permit and the venue allows you to carry your gun, then by all means you should have your gun with you. Be prepared to defend yourself. When the prey is armed, the predator thinks twice. Fight for survival and think of possible weapons around you — knife, scissors, fire extinguishers, chairs, lamp, etc.
• Attack: Attack and fight like your life depends on it. Aim for the head area so the suspect becomes distracted. Commit to taking the shooter down no matter what. Make sure your actions never put other innocent bystanders at risk.
People and personnel in schools are not carrying long weapons with them, so is that advice correct for handguns?
Thanks in advance.
AW1Ed
I don’t think he’s implying a handgun, though that would be optimum- more like attack with whatever comes quickly to hand.
LC
Agree with AW1Ed – this isn’t advice for guns, it’s just saying, “Throw shit at their head”. Chairs, bricks, phones, even balled up paper, whatever you’ve got. People instinctively protect their head and won’t be able to aim or identify incoming attacks as easily.
I’ve seen schools practice this with police.
11B-Mailclerk
standard advice for the average armed person is “aim center mass”
You can do headshots on demand with plenty of practice. The sweet spot is the size of a playing card, turned horizontal. -lots- of practice.
Under the stress of a gunfight, you may have as little as 40% of your practiced ability, as fine motor skill is lost first and fast under dire stress
Thus “center mass”.
But if you are reduced to the equivalent of ” fling crap”, the head is best bet. Be -enthusiastic-
Whats the difference between and epileptic oyster shucker and a prostitute with diarrhea?
One shucks between fits…
3/10/MED/b
HA!!
Hack Stone
Dallas Wittgenfeld gets released from his latest six moth residency courtesy of the local correctional facility, and he picks up the phone and calls Joseph Cryer. The conversation goes like this:
Dallas Wittgenfeld: Joe, this is Dallas, I just returned from my latest “long range patrol”.
Joseph Cryer: Welcome back. Did you get that tube of “I Can’t Believe It’s Not KY Jelly” that I sent you?
Dallas Wittgenfeld: Yes, I did. In the end, it really came in handy.
Joseph Cryer: No problem, I know what a pain in the ass being locked up can be.
Dallas Wittgenfeld: Anyway, thanks for taking care of things while I was gone. When can I pick up my cat from you?
Joseph Cryer: I have some bad news. Your cat died.
Dallas Wittgenfeld: My cat died? That’s awful.
Joseph Cryer: Yes, it is. Unfortunately, these things happen.
Dallas Wittgenfeld: If you have bad news, it is best to break it gently.
Joseph Cryer: What should I have said?
Dallas Wittgenfeld: You could have said something like “The cat was out on the garage roof chasing squirrels, and jumped to catch a squirrel, and ended up being trapped in a tree. He was stuck in the tree and couldn’t get down. I didn’t have a ladder tall enough to reach him, so I called the Fire Department. They sent a ladder truck, and the fireman was able to get the cat out, but as he was climbing down the ladder, the cat slipped from his grasp and plummeted to the ground. We rushed the cat to the veterinarian, and they tried all that they could, but the damage was too much, and they had to put the cat down.” That’s how you break bad news.
Joseph Cryer: Thanks. I’ll remember that the next time I have to tell someone bad news.
Dallas Wittgenfeld: So, what’s up with Daniel Bernath? He never called or visited while I was locked up?
Joseph Cryer: Well, he was out on the garage roof chasing squirrels…
Skippy
????
Cheese Eater McBlobfish
I know how much of a pain in the ass being in jail could be too.
Cheese,
Dennis Howard Chevalier
Denny H. Chevalier
AW1Ed
rgr769
Comedy gold there, Hack.
Hack Stone
Hack can’t take the credit for that joke. He first heard that joke while watching the plethora broadcasts of Capricorn One on a low budget cable channel in the Philadelphia suburbs back in the late 1970’s.
rgr769
I thought I had heard another version of it before, but you gave it that clever DRG-Bernathian twist in your composition, which made it so enjoyable. Just more schadenfruede and dark humor for the troops.
5JC
John has a long mustache, John has a long mustache
My tickle monster POS brother-in-law still has not made his $1 million bail (this is my shocked face). I wish he would hurry up and plea guilty so that he can start his 2+ centuries of time in prison. The Christian in me wants to pray for his soul. The Father in me hopes that he gets put in general population and not protective custody.
rgr1480
You can still pray for his soul while hoping he gets put in GP. Those actions are not mutually exclusive.
3/10/MED/b
Twist,
Remind me of who your brother in-law is.
Thank you.
OWB
The Armed Forces Day and Memorial Day festivities kick off today. Parades, VFW Poppies, ceremonies and placing flags on veteran graves are among those things I will be involved in over the next 10 days or so. Busy, busy, busy.
My challenge to each of you is to find at least one event in which to participate in some way. Many of these events just need passive members of the crowd while others need more active participation. However you are able, please give at least a prayer of support to something in your community which honors our military and our veterans.
AnotherPat
OWB: Just as you shared and recommended about Wreaths Across America, will take your challenge and partake in Memorial Day events as a volunteer.
Thank you for sharing and as one Veteran to another Veteran, thank you for all you do to remember our troops, past and present.
Salute.
Ex-PH2
Looks like Kilauea has hit the water table level and has sent up a steam explosion, as was predicted. Also appears, in some of those photos, that there are two calderas, but that could be something else. Busy place, though, and nothing will ever again be the same in that area.
Here’s an update: the fissures are now joining together. Isn’t that just ducky of Pele? The fissures are now heading ESE (east southeast) at about 300 feet per hour.
Same link as the other one, but updated:
The news medis seem to discuss or focus more on hurricanes, torndoes major snow storms or earhquakes on the Mainland, but little what is going on in Hawaii when it comes to vocanoes.
ALVO
92nd!! Winnar…. 😛
Ex-PH2
I have a couple of questions about fireplace chimneys:
1 – If you build a masonry/stone fireplace, can the stonemason put in a side oven for baking, and does it need a flue to let heat into the oven?
2 – Are those creosote-clearing logs really worth the money they cost, if you aren’t burning high-tar wood like pine? (Never ever burn pine indoors. NEVER.)
rgr769
A good old-fashioned chimney sweep could likely do more to clean a fireplace chimney than anything you could burn in the fireplace.
Ex-PH2
Thank you!
5JC
The answers to #1 are yes and maybe. There are different kinds.
Ex-PH2
I went looking for the kind of fireplace I was thinking of, the 18th century Rumford, which can have a side oven with a flue built into the sidewall of the main fireplace.
And the more you know how to do without modern conveniences, the better, in my view.
Perry Gaskill
The attraction of the Rumford, they indeed date back to colonial days, is that it had a relatively tall opening height and shallow depth. The idea was to have more heat radiating into the room instead of going up the chimney. They were also, according to the scant anecdotal evidence available, notoriously difficult to build. Get the design wrong, and the chimney wouldn’t draw smoke very well.
Although it might be possible to add a warming oven to one, thank thermodynamic conduction, it would probably be very difficult to find a mason willing to tap into an existing flue to be shared. My experience has been that brick chimneys almost always are lined with a large firebrick-type piping that makes things problematic. Adding a separate baking oven flue to an existing chimney is also difficult and might mean having to tend to two heat sources.
While it’s true that wood species relates to creosote build-up, I’d venture that the relative greenness of the wood is also important. Most reputable vendors won’t sell firewood unless it’s had a chance to cure and dry for about a year. Creosote is also why they tend to avoid fast-growing eucalyptus in the Southwest. Eucs also have the additional downside of normally best being cut and split while still green. Let things sit too long and they becomes a bear to work with.
11B-Mailclerk
HRC, insisting that -Trump- is a Russian tool, was waving her Soviet-badged Ushenko (fur hat) while addressing Yale.
That crazy vodka-swilling harpie just does -not- understand optics, or apparently irony.
Comments
133 responses to “Weekend open thread”
FIRST
Second?
And third?
Fourth!
Actually, you are second, according to the rules.
I only count as a single person.
JTM. You have accomplished the near impossible and hit the triple, the trizacta, the trifecta! Congrats. Although Claw will record in the Book of Firsts that you took the uppermost position this day, your singular accomplishment at posting 1-2-3 will long be recalled by Dickweeds around the world. (I was going to mention the anals of TAH but that wouldn’t have been nice.)
It is truly necessary to mark the differences between ‘annals’ and ‘anals’. One ‘n’ less, and it becomes a solecism.
Charmin be with you, 2/17 AirCav!
Hole-cism?
The Unassisted Triple Play, TAH style!
Yes Sir, duly recorded as such.
((Over))
But I wasn’t going to respond, so why did you say over, over?
“why did you say over, over?”
Because my reply comment was directed at Jon The Mechanic, not you.
((Over))
I have only one feeling and you just crushed it. I may never get over the misunderstood over, over.
Roger, Roger!
Margot Kidder would argue that.
RIP, Margot. She gave hope to everyone with mental illness
5th Hey Bitches!!
3 Sir
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOrgLj9lOwk
Skip a bit, Brother!
Sixth …
I am Number Six.
“I am not a number. I am a free man.”
Dobby is a FREE elf!
Top 1,000
In a concerted effort to get out of work early today (hey, at least I admit it), here’s this week’s trivia/humor column. I appreciate all the feedback from you fine folks, so keep it coming, please.
DID YOU KNOW…?
How many students attend the world’s largest K-12 school?
By Commissioner Wretched
When you get to be my age, you realize that the true joys and pleasures are few.
I love a good meal … especially if I don’t have to cook it, since I’ve eaten my own cooking (and lived to tell the tale).
I love a good book.
I adore a good movie.
And, as you all well know by now, I simply love a good baseball game, especially if the Chicago Cubs are playing (and winning).
You may have noticed that I didn’t list one major joy and pleasure above – trivia. That’s because I saved the best for last.
Trivia, for me, is truly a passion. Why else would I invest as much time and energy into mining these precious nuggets of information for you? (Well, I do get paid for doing it, but I digress.)
If you love trivia as much as I do, then you should let me know! Drop an e-mail to me at didyouknowcolumn@gmail.com and I’ll send you a prompt (ha!) reply.
Let’s do something we all love and enjoy … learn some tidbits of trivia!
Did you know …
… in Japan, the title for the television program Jersey Shore translates as, “The Life of Macaroni Rascals”? (Of course, the Macaroni Rascals are the descendants of the Little Rascals from the 1930s.)
… your skin stays alive for several days after you die? The cells are able to absorb what they need through osmosis. (That fact is wrong on so many levels …)
… if you get struck by lightning, it leaves a tattoo? (Provided you live to talk about it, that is. It’s most likely the least of your concerns once the bolt hits you, though.)
… the inventor of Vaseline, Robert Chesebrough (1837-1933), ate a spoonful of it every day? (It must have done something for him, since he lived to be 96. If it takes eating Vaseline to live that long, though, I’ll just go ahead and check out, if you don’t mind.)
… if you have a $10 bill and no debt, you’re actually wealthier than about 15% of all Americans? Most people have so much debt that it makes the cash they have on hand almost worthless. (And if you know whose picture is on the $10 bill, you’re smarter than a lot of other people, too!)
…a single coffee bush yields only about one pound of ground, roasted coffee each year? (And it was all hand-picked by Juan Valdez, too, if you believe the old 1970s coffee commercials.)
… people who can read lips say that if you mouth the word “colorful,” it looks as if you’re saying, “I love you”? (That might explain a lot of my early dates, now that I think of it. They just thought I was “colorful.”)
… the Greek health care system actually elected to amputate the limbs of diabetes patients instead of provide special footwear for them? The country’s incredibly high debt caused the state health service to choose amputation because it was less expensive than the special footwear.
… the largest school in the world is in India? The City Montessori School in Lucknow, India, has a kindergarten-through-12th grade enrollment of more than 44,000 students and 2,500 teachers. The student body is so massive that there can never be a full assembly, as there is no venue big enough to hold all the students at one time. The campus is spread out over 1,000 classrooms and through several buildings. (And I’d imagine that the school’s yearbooks are thicker than New York City telephone books!)
… the average human body – whatever that is – has enough iron in it to make a small nail?
… male horseflies can reach flying speeds of over 90 miles per hour? (No wonder you can’t swat the little boogers!)
… in the nation of Bhutan, street advertising, tobacco, and plastic bags are banned? The government policy is based on something called Gross National Happiness. (What the one has to do with the other, I’ll leave for you to figure out. I need to advertise some plastic bags.)
… scientists at Cornell University have made a functioning “nano-guitar”? It’s a playable guitar the size of a human red blood cell. (Of course, they don’t say who would be able to play it, but you get the idea.)
… a gallon of gasoline has 31,000 calories? (Well, that knocks gasoline off my diet list.)
… the United States is the only industrialized nation that taxes its citizens who live overseas, even if their income is generated in a foreign country and they never return to America? (Cue the Beatles’ “Tax Man” song.)
… there is no butter in buttermilk? (I have no objections to the taste of buttermilk. It’s the designs that it leaves in the glass that turn my stomach.)
… you laugh when you’re tickled as a panic response? That’s why you can’t tickle yourself, because your body does not sense any danger. (How many of you just tried to tickle yourselves?)
… there are no Burger King restaurants within 20 miles of Mattoon, Illinois? The reason is that, in 1968, a small restaurant called Burger King in Mattoon won a lawsuit against the fast-food giant because the small restaurant had trademarked the name in the state first. (But can you have it your way?)
… the richest man in history is believed to be 14th-Century Malian emperor Mansa Musa? When adjusted for inflation, in today’s money, he had a net worth of $400 billion.
Now … you know!
Well, here’s a bit of trivia for you, Commish:
Buttermilk is the liquid left over from churning butter. Whole milk contains cream, which is allowed to separate in order to use it to produce butter. As the paddles turn, the fat become beads of butter, and the liquid (buttermilk) is thrown off by the churn’s paddles.
Also, butter has to be washed in water as it is churned. Some milk solids still remain, which you’ll see as white foamy stuff when you melt butter.
you laugh when you’re tickled as a panic response? That’s why you can’t tickle yourself, because your body does not sense any danger. (How many of you just tried to tickle yourselves?)
umm…no comment
Aaaaggghhhhh…
Early, maybe 4th? Hard to tell with all the repeat posts.
Dang! Work is a … oh well.
Long live the Republic!
Have a great weekend y’all!!
Top 10??
Maybe,
Sheeeeettttt
None of us geunises here can count past 20 anwyay lessun we use our peckers as number 20 + 1 whatever the dang heck that is.
20.5
Buuuuuurrrrrnnnnnnn…
Present! Eleventeenth or so.
12rd and Honorary First yet again.
((((OVER))))
18 and Life.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8O317T6Zlno
21 and legal
I’m just proud of making it in the first 50
Actually looks like I made the first 25! A personal best.
1st in everyone’s heart!
Somewhere in top 100.
Shit, somebody here has to earn a paycheck, dammit!
And we are all glad that you are! Thank you…
FIRST
Present and ready to end this workweek. Bring on the weekend!
DAB is still dead!
And there was much rejoicing.
Somewhere in the Wilds of the Boondocks, I was too busy to remember, so Umpty-firth!
While I was out on maneuvers, foraging and looting, (and have to go back and do more foraging and pillaging), I saw six families of Canada geese, 4 duck families, and a turtle, but the trees are so far behind developing a leaf canopy that it looks like April instead of mid-May.
3rd year in a row, too, so don’t tell me nothing is happening. And the small lakes and ponds are full to overflowing (thanks to Shu the Weather God) and the wetlands ditto.
Many Bothans died to bring you this information.
> I saw six families of Canada geese, 4 duck families, and a turtle
…and a partridge in a pear tree….
I like turtles.
Woke up this morning to see 2 wild Turkey out grazing in my pasture. That’s a first.
Three inches of rain already today at la Casa de AW1Ed, and two more expected. Who called for a monsoon?
We sent it to you from Great Lakes, AAW1Ed. Pick one lake of many, and that’s where it came from.
I hear Frederick washed away.
Could be. Saw parts of it floating by on the Patuxent River.
Raining here today in the Land O’ Mick.
90% humidity. You could cut the air with a knife.
In honor of the second worst Secretary of State in US History (and the worst will never be president either)
Reporting for Duty!
In light of the whole collusion mess, doesn’t anyone else find it odd that
HRC’s alleged drink of choice is
Vodka.
Da?
Did anyone else see the latest in TFOA?
An ammo box fell out of a helo into a Texas Classroom.
Air Force helo, or did they catch a break for a change?
As of May 18, 2018, Dennis Howard Chevalier, a.k.a. Denny H Chevalier, phony Gulf War veteran, phony veteran, phony C-130 compass call pilot, phony SWAT veteran, phony retired USAF Lieutenant Colonel… That Dennis Howard Chevalier… Still was arrested on February 27, 2018, for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.
He pointed a gun at his ex-wife and son, waved a loaded weapon around and pretended to shoot things, threatened an ex-fiancé with putting a round into her head, and then his arrest for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.
They need to take this guy’s weapons away before he shoots someone.
He did it in Texas, so I’m sure he’s looking at a fair share of time as the “Property” of Bubba , Thor and the rest of his cell block.
Already did that. They told me that if I could do an atomic sit up without getting my face planted into someone’s ass, that I would escape that fate. I worked like the dickens to hit that magic standard, but could not reach it like I could a bunch of asses.
Several atomic sit up attempts, a sore abdomen, and a seriously smelly face later, I was declared their property. I can’t get rid of the smell.
Cheese,
Dennis Howard Chevalier
Denny H Chevalier
Since Feb 27, 2018, Chevyliar has affiliated his State of Texas PI licence with The Texas Defense Force. http://www.txdf.org. I wonder if they know.
How ironic:
“Here are the Mugshots of the guys who allegedly run Mugshots.com and why they were booked”
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/here-are-the-mugshots-of-the-guys-who-allegedly-run-mugshots-com-and-why-they-were-booked/
Excellent! Glad to hear it. I can’t stand that stuff. I really can’t. It’s extortion plain as can be. I also don’t like newspaper accounts of arrests. The problem with the papers is that if charges are dismissed or the defendant is found not guilty or what have you, the papers do not publish that. There is no follow-up except in some serious felony cases. And that’s just rotten.
You nailed it…? Agree with you @ newspapers not following up with “the rest of the story”…
According to this site, the 2 were arrested in Florida (Shock!)
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/05/18/this-site-will-remove-your-mug-shot-for-a-price-now-its-owners-are-charged-with-extortion/
Why do I have this bad feeling that this case will go on trial forever….?
Wow…another owner of Mugshots.com was arrested in PA…check out his Bail $$$$:
http://www.wfmz.com/news/lehigh-valley/upper-macungie-man-charged-with-extortion-in-california-on-line-scheme/742969960
So far, have not been able to find their mugshots on Mugshots.com or other “mugshot” sites (sarc)
The other reason I agree on what you wrote about newspapers, 2/17 Air Cav…look what happened to this individual…so sad:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/sep/04/mugshot-tabloid-local-crime-defamation-just-busted
Such a kind of follow-up story used to be called a “folo” in the newspaper business. One of the reasons they tend to be difficult to do is because courts often work at a glacial pace, and with unpredictable schedules. Courts also almost never announce progress, you have to keep checking back.
Back in the day, one of the things I used to do was a weekly sheriff’s log. Essentially a rewrite of the police blotter that’s a matter of public record. Something I found strange at the time was the relative popularity of the log among readers. There were probably multiple reasons including a big helping of schadenfreude.
Logically, you would think somebody who doesn’t like local crime stories is probably also not going to like something such as Jonn’s “Feel Good” stories every morning, but I’m not sure that’s always the case.
The police blotter is nothing more than a gossip column by another name. If a paper cannot do follow-up then it ought not be reporting mere arrests, other than where public safety is at issue, such as an arrest in a series of burglaries or sexual assaults.
Here’s another point that irks me, aside from papers not reporting dismissals or not guilty verdicts. Many states (probably all) have statute that cuts a first-timer a break. With some variation, a misdemeanant can have his record expunged after a certain period elapses, if he has met the conditions for expungement. The public policy behind it is that if a person (usually a young person) screws up, that screw up should not follow him through life and impede his job or career hopes. Newspapers, however, are not bound by this and, thus, in this internet age, an arrest can be found even though the arrest was expunged. That sucks.
To be clear, Cav, the police blotter I’m talking about contains the brief raw incident reports from the cops. I’d disagree it qualifies as gossip in the sense of having a lot of rumor and innuendo. What was also true was that juveniles, and crazy people called 5150s, were not identified. Other people could sometimes be identified but you had to get a name from an arrest report which was separate.
Readers apparently liked the sheriff’s log for helping them be somewhat in tune with local crime. Whether frequent incidents were happening in certain neighborhoods, say, or what happened on the next block last week with all the lights and sirens. Personally, I remember working with reporters who constantly had a police scanner going and always thought it was a bit obsessive. The mugshot peckerwoods, at least it seems to me, aren’t journalists in the usual sense. They’re paparazzi with a business model that, allegedly, includes extortion. See what I did there?
My point about the extended timeline of court cases making a folo story difficult is also not something reporters like more than readers. It’s just the nature of the beast.
As an example: A few years ago there was an experiment in local journalism done in Washington D.C. called Homicide Watch. It was put out by a husband-and-wife team who sought to track in detail the arc of all of the city’s murder cases from initial report to penalty phase. Homicide Watch got good reviews and made something of a splash in the journalism community, but ultimately had to fold within a couple of years. Sources of revenue couldn’t support the amount of workload needed to generate relatively little content.
Wolverines!!!
(And not that ghey 2011 remake)
Am I first?
(Of course I’m not LOL)
For the motorheads among the TAH crew, this hit the radar earlier this week. It’s a link to a video recently released by the national archives on a 1919 trans-continental motorized expedition by the Army. Eisenhower was along as a young LTC at the time. It’s worth a watch.
https://youtu.be/hZJKxkfF1D8
Sheeesh. We go through that every Spring around here.
1919, huh? Wow. That takes me back. I think my mother was 9 YO back then, just getting rid of that humongous bow she liked to wear in her hair.
Thank you Perry. I watched the video of the troops in those hot as hell wool uniforms and I imagined Eisenhower saying, “Damn we need a good interstate highway system.”
Reporting for roll call,,, from Sin city
Nice owls Lol…
two more weeks and the Skippy can will be fully
Relocated to the mountains of New Mexico
Hope all are having a awesome day
Thanks for sharing, Perry. That was interesting.
Found on the same site a National Archives Video of activities at the Disciplinary Barracks at Fort Leavenworth (filmed around 1919?):
https://youtu.be/SBnRLC-tpUA
“Nobody needs a revolver that holds six shots”
David Hogg #SoyMilk
Somebody needs to sew his mouth shut.
Superglue mouthwash
Wired had a good write-up on Robert Mueller’s time in Vietnam here. It’s certainly worth a read:
https://www.wired.com/story/robert-mueller-vietnam/
I didn’t read it because I don’t give a shit what he tells people he did in the Viet of the Nam. It has no bearing on who he has become. Just like Lurch’s four months in country, it has no bearing on his conduct for the past 47 years. He is a Deep State swamp critter who thinks he shits ice cream and there aren’t enough spoons to go around. Most of us here think he is corrupt. His connections to Comey and his selection of Hidabeast supporting lawers for his witch hunt prove it. But you keep drinking the proggie Kool-Aid.
This is still a milblog, is it not? This is an article about a guy who chose to serve, went through Ranger School, Jump School and then served in Vietnam in some of the most heated combat, for which he was awarded numerous honors, including a Bronze Star with Combat V.
He’s also a life-long Republican who was a bi-partisan choice to be a special prosecutor…. but hey, yep, total ‘deep state’ swamp critter who is somehow a secret liberal plant and not worth learning anything about.
You’re a sharp one, rgr769.
LC, it’s also been said Hitler was kind to dogs and small children. Before praising the virtues of Robert Mueller, it might be useful to take a look at a document written by Congressman Louie Gohmert about Mueller’s recent activities such as the ones rgr769 was pointing out. It’s long, but worth reading:
https://1zwchz1jbsr61f1c4mgf0abl-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Gohmert_Mueller_UNMASKED.pdf
Credit goes to Ex-PH2 for providing the link a couple of weeks ago.
All Bronze Stars are “combat” medals, even the ones for merit. They don’t get awarded outside a “combat zone”. The “V” doesn’t stand for combat.
And just because it was not awarded for valor does not mean the awardee wasn’t in actual combat.
The “V” stands for valor in combat. And LC stands for Liberal Cuck.
Keep drinking that proggie propaganda. But since I served fifteen months in infantry combat units in Viet Nam, went to Jump School, Ranger school, and Special Forces school, I am not impressed. I suggest you look into his activities as a supervising attorney in Boston trying to keep four innocent men in prison, three of whom were sentenced death, so he could protect a criminal FBI agent in cahoots with Whitey Bulger. That miscarriage of justice only cost the taxpayers 10 million dollars in damages and two of the innocent men died in prison. Guess who opposed them getting out on four occasions? You might also want to look at what he did as head of the FBI. So, I guess I am sharper than your average prog like you. Saying he is a Republican is meaningless to me. He is corrupt.
Having read Congressman Gomert’s article, I correct my error, by a factor of ten, above. Mueller’s corrupt Boston FBI agents cost the taxpayers over 100 million dollars in settlement payouts to the living men falsely imprisoned and the families of those who died in prison. Also, Gomert’s article, which is fully documented, show’s just how corrupt Mueller was as Director of the FBI, in attempting to cover up the Able Danger FBI eff-up that might have prevented 9-11 and seeking revenge against Curt Weldon for exposing it. Mueller is corrupt to the core.
Why should any of us (including you) care about his political affiliation either then or now? You actually pretend that bad behavior should be excused depending upon things other than the bad behavior?
No. That is wrong, LC. You know it, and accusing those who disagree with of being hypocrites just because you apparently are is inexcusable whether this is a milblog or something else entirely.
LC,
Whatever he may have -been-, he has gone seriously bad, and it wasn’t – recent-.
Veteran does not equal saint.
Veteran does not mean incorruptible.
And in the case of Muller, I believe we have a walking, talking example of “power corrupts”.
Whatever he was, he went Sith.
Shortly after the Texas shooting today, the local paper put out an article on “How To Survive an Active Shooter.” The article cites our County Sheriff, Wayne Ivey.
https://www.floridatoday.com/story/news/crime/2017/10/03/how-survive-active-shooter/727069001/
Ivey says that people should take four steps to survive. The last one is perplexing to me and as there is a vast amount of experience with weapons, law enforcement, etc here on TAH, I was wondering if this advice (in bold) would be considered accurate by the people here:
• Awareness: Know your surroundings and routinely ask yourself, “what if?” Look for exits, potential items that can be used as a weapon and areas that can be used as a cover.
• Avoidance: Always try and escape or evacuate. Encourage others to leave with you. Remember what’s important: You, not your personal belongings. Put distance between yourself and the threat. There’s a difference between hiding and barricading yourself. Turn out lights, silence cell phones and be prepared to attack. If there are multiple people in the room, spread out to attack from different angles.
• Arm: If you have a concealed carry permit and the venue allows you to carry your gun, then by all means you should have your gun with you. Be prepared to defend yourself. When the prey is armed, the predator thinks twice. Fight for survival and think of possible weapons around you — knife, scissors, fire extinguishers, chairs, lamp, etc.
• Attack: Attack and fight like your life depends on it. Aim for the head area so the suspect becomes distracted. Commit to taking the shooter down no matter what. Make sure your actions never put other innocent bystanders at risk.
People and personnel in schools are not carrying long weapons with them, so is that advice correct for handguns?
Thanks in advance.
I don’t think he’s implying a handgun, though that would be optimum- more like attack with whatever comes quickly to hand.
Agree with AW1Ed – this isn’t advice for guns, it’s just saying, “Throw shit at their head”. Chairs, bricks, phones, even balled up paper, whatever you’ve got. People instinctively protect their head and won’t be able to aim or identify incoming attacks as easily.
I’ve seen schools practice this with police.
standard advice for the average armed person is “aim center mass”
You can do headshots on demand with plenty of practice. The sweet spot is the size of a playing card, turned horizontal. -lots- of practice.
Under the stress of a gunfight, you may have as little as 40% of your practiced ability, as fine motor skill is lost first and fast under dire stress
Thus “center mass”.
But if you are reduced to the equivalent of ” fling crap”, the head is best bet. Be -enthusiastic-
Thanks folks.
There was a discussion at a Council meeting where this was brought up and no one interpreted as you do.
It makes sense, and perhaps this is just a case of poorly worded or a poor list.
Thanks to you all as your thoughts have cleared this up.
Depends of the range.
The golden knights take it 3-2
Live report from sin city
Army skydiving team?
The NHL hockey team
John Giduck – the turd with a face!
Here’s a good joke for you vets out there.
Whats the difference between and epileptic oyster shucker and a prostitute with diarrhea?
One shucks between fits…
HA!!
Dallas Wittgenfeld gets released from his latest six moth residency courtesy of the local correctional facility, and he picks up the phone and calls Joseph Cryer. The conversation goes like this:
Dallas Wittgenfeld: Joe, this is Dallas, I just returned from my latest “long range patrol”.
Joseph Cryer: Welcome back. Did you get that tube of “I Can’t Believe It’s Not KY Jelly” that I sent you?
Dallas Wittgenfeld: Yes, I did. In the end, it really came in handy.
Joseph Cryer: No problem, I know what a pain in the ass being locked up can be.
Dallas Wittgenfeld: Anyway, thanks for taking care of things while I was gone. When can I pick up my cat from you?
Joseph Cryer: I have some bad news. Your cat died.
Dallas Wittgenfeld: My cat died? That’s awful.
Joseph Cryer: Yes, it is. Unfortunately, these things happen.
Dallas Wittgenfeld: If you have bad news, it is best to break it gently.
Joseph Cryer: What should I have said?
Dallas Wittgenfeld: You could have said something like “The cat was out on the garage roof chasing squirrels, and jumped to catch a squirrel, and ended up being trapped in a tree. He was stuck in the tree and couldn’t get down. I didn’t have a ladder tall enough to reach him, so I called the Fire Department. They sent a ladder truck, and the fireman was able to get the cat out, but as he was climbing down the ladder, the cat slipped from his grasp and plummeted to the ground. We rushed the cat to the veterinarian, and they tried all that they could, but the damage was too much, and they had to put the cat down.” That’s how you break bad news.
Joseph Cryer: Thanks. I’ll remember that the next time I have to tell someone bad news.
Dallas Wittgenfeld: So, what’s up with Daniel Bernath? He never called or visited while I was locked up?
Joseph Cryer: Well, he was out on the garage roof chasing squirrels…
????
I know how much of a pain in the ass being in jail could be too.
Cheese,
Dennis Howard Chevalier
Denny H. Chevalier
Comedy gold there, Hack.
Hack can’t take the credit for that joke. He first heard that joke while watching the plethora broadcasts of Capricorn One on a low budget cable channel in the Philadelphia suburbs back in the late 1970’s.
I thought I had heard another version of it before, but you gave it that clever DRG-Bernathian twist in your composition, which made it so enjoyable. Just more schadenfruede and dark humor for the troops.
John has a long mustache, John has a long mustache
https://images.huffingtonpost.com/2009-09-01-johnkerrybeard.jpg
My tickle monster POS brother-in-law still has not made his $1 million bail (this is my shocked face). I wish he would hurry up and plea guilty so that he can start his 2+ centuries of time in prison. The Christian in me wants to pray for his soul. The Father in me hopes that he gets put in general population and not protective custody.
You can still pray for his soul while hoping he gets put in GP. Those actions are not mutually exclusive.
Twist,
Remind me of who your brother in-law is.
Thank you.
The Armed Forces Day and Memorial Day festivities kick off today. Parades, VFW Poppies, ceremonies and placing flags on veteran graves are among those things I will be involved in over the next 10 days or so. Busy, busy, busy.
My challenge to each of you is to find at least one event in which to participate in some way. Many of these events just need passive members of the crowd while others need more active participation. However you are able, please give at least a prayer of support to something in your community which honors our military and our veterans.
OWB: Just as you shared and recommended about Wreaths Across America, will take your challenge and partake in Memorial Day events as a volunteer.
Thank you for sharing and as one Veteran to another Veteran, thank you for all you do to remember our troops, past and present.
Salute.
Looks like Kilauea has hit the water table level and has sent up a steam explosion, as was predicted. Also appears, in some of those photos, that there are two calderas, but that could be something else. Busy place, though, and nothing will ever again be the same in that area.
http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/story/38186017/new-fissure-opens-in-lower-puna-while-others-still-spewing-lava
Here’s an update: the fissures are now joining together. Isn’t that just ducky of Pele? The fissures are now heading ESE (east southeast) at about 300 feet per hour.
Same link as the other one, but updated:
http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/story/38186017/new-fissure-opens-in-lower-puna-while-others-still-spewing-lava
Ex-PH2: Did you read the latest about the critters? (I have a soft spot for pets):
https://www.yahoo.com/news/noahs-ark-animals-rescued-hawaii-lava-133617506.html
The news medis seem to discuss or focus more on hurricanes, torndoes major snow storms or earhquakes on the Mainland, but little what is going on in Hawaii when it comes to vocanoes.
92nd!! Winnar…. 😛
I have a couple of questions about fireplace chimneys:
1 – If you build a masonry/stone fireplace, can the stonemason put in a side oven for baking, and does it need a flue to let heat into the oven?
2 – Are those creosote-clearing logs really worth the money they cost, if you aren’t burning high-tar wood like pine? (Never ever burn pine indoors. NEVER.)
A good old-fashioned chimney sweep could likely do more to clean a fireplace chimney than anything you could burn in the fireplace.
Thank you!
The answers to #1 are yes and maybe. There are different kinds.
I went looking for the kind of fireplace I was thinking of, the 18th century Rumford, which can have a side oven with a flue built into the sidewall of the main fireplace.
And the more you know how to do without modern conveniences, the better, in my view.
The attraction of the Rumford, they indeed date back to colonial days, is that it had a relatively tall opening height and shallow depth. The idea was to have more heat radiating into the room instead of going up the chimney. They were also, according to the scant anecdotal evidence available, notoriously difficult to build. Get the design wrong, and the chimney wouldn’t draw smoke very well.
Although it might be possible to add a warming oven to one, thank thermodynamic conduction, it would probably be very difficult to find a mason willing to tap into an existing flue to be shared. My experience has been that brick chimneys almost always are lined with a large firebrick-type piping that makes things problematic. Adding a separate baking oven flue to an existing chimney is also difficult and might mean having to tend to two heat sources.
While it’s true that wood species relates to creosote build-up, I’d venture that the relative greenness of the wood is also important. Most reputable vendors won’t sell firewood unless it’s had a chance to cure and dry for about a year. Creosote is also why they tend to avoid fast-growing eucalyptus in the Southwest. Eucs also have the additional downside of normally best being cut and split while still green. Let things sit too long and they becomes a bear to work with.
HRC, insisting that -Trump- is a Russian tool, was waving her Soviet-badged Ushenko (fur hat) while addressing Yale.
That crazy vodka-swilling harpie just does -not- understand optics, or apparently irony.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/05/20/no-im-not-over-it-hillary-clinton-jabs-trump-shows-off-russian-hat-at-yale-class-day.html
If only she knew when to quit….
She continues on her not victory (defeat) tour no matter what. She is delusional; and it is a sure sign of mental illness.