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Posted on 10/05/2004 3:33:41 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog
Eleventh Thread: Wedding Edition: The Hobbit Hole XI - No One Admitted Except on Wedding Business!
New verse:
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Upon the hearth the fire is red, |
Still round the corner there may wait |
Home is behind, the world ahead, |
Our anthem is good, mainly since the tune comes from an old english drinking song. Sorta like founding a new country, then giving it an anthem sung to "one hundred bottles of beer on the wall". :-)
If the Russians ever want some more Lenin back... we got a perfectly good statue of Lenin here in Seattle that I'll sell 'em. The city council put it up as a memorial after the fall of the CCCP.
I see... so unless someone's aim is off, you're ok. Gotcha.
I was thus privileged in about 1989 at Fort Bragg, NC.
Cannon to the left of me, cannon to the right of me, cannon in front of me, volley'd and thunder'd.
Meanwhile my S-4 (a Captain of Artillery) fuss'd with a map, and cuss'd.
It is most impressive. I do remember having the New Jersey firing over us once... they were about ten miles offshore, firing at an island, and we were about five miles off, right under the path of the shells. You could hear them going overhead... and it was a really, really wierd sensation. Your description of "God ripping a sheet" suddenly flashes into focus.
Once really weird thing about it though was that when they fired those big 16in guns even though we were a few miles away... we'd of course see the shot first, then *feel* the shot shake us as the shock wave moved through the water, and then finally we'd hear the shot. Wierd.
Yah.
Aim off = bad.
Good Evening EGE; can't say as I have heard of the singer, but I'm not an audiophile, my best radio etc. has always been in my vehicle.
Consider the new cinematic trick of adding CGI cannonballs, as seen particularly well in Gibson's The Patriot, which matches a Civil War-era description I've read...
spent beaucoup time in the field at Bragg...
the red clay jest don't come outta yer utilities...
I gotta dig out my old map... what's the name of the highest ridge just south of the eastern impact area?... I'm drawin' a blank, but it's a great view...
been on the OP's many a nite...
Good one; but yours is a transient state, doing your time till you join the rest of us - "workin for the man every nite an day" :-)
Herbie!! My kids loved that movie!
mmmmmmm.... artillery.... overpressure... shrrrrapnel...
I spent my last tour in the Div at the Arty Regt... huh?... didjuh say somethin?... huh?... what?....
Cool gadget!! Where did you find that?
True, but it hurts, man...
thank you sir... doin' muh part tuh twist the hearts n minds...
Evening all!
We got the other door installed in the barn today. Unfortunately, Hair is not feeling well, and has hit the couch already.
Evening - didn't know that. Though most of admit can admit that auto collisions can jam things up pretty good, doors, windows are prone to do that. Electric or manual. Lots of examples both pro and con on this issue though.
I LOVE that song! I wonder how it sounds in French?
I don't think I kept my map.
WHAT?... YOU SAY SOMETHIN'?... HUH?... WHAT?....
It must because I don't think they call it "The Rodina" anymore.
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