Word For The Day, Friday, May 13, 2005

But, but, but....

What would you do with the pickup-truck-snowplow?

501 posted on 05/15/2005 6:54:48 PM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (-I can only contribute to FR monthly, but Hillary's ABBCNNBCBS contributes to her campaign every day)

502 posted on 05/15/2005 6:56:03 PM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (-I can only contribute to FR monthly, but Hillary's ABBCNNBCBS contributes to her campaign every day)

To: Robert A. Cook, PE

Dunno - wait for a really bad storm in VA, and sell it for a fortune?

503 posted on 05/15/2005 6:58:37 PM PDT by patton ("Fool," said my Muse to me, "look in thy heart, and write.")

(Robt volunteers to eat xs's leftover BBQ....)

504 posted on 05/15/2005 6:59:03 PM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (-I can only contribute to FR monthly, but Hillary's ABBCNNBCBS contributes to her campaign every day)

550K wold buy much of Huntsville AL. And about half of the Army's Missile Base.

(Unless you're looking at those houses up on the ridge line...)

505 posted on 05/15/2005 7:03:20 PM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (-I can only contribute to FR monthly, but Hillary's ABBCNNBCBS contributes to her campaign every day)

To: Robert A. Cook, PE

Yeah, I found one up on the ridge line. It was hillarious! Circular drive, concrete pond, 2nd floor foyer - I was completely beverly hillbillies! I mean, I laughed - that ain't a house, it's an airport!

$600 k

506 posted on 05/15/2005 7:09:07 PM PDT by patton ("Fool," said my Muse to me, "look in thy heart, and write.")

Yep, I saw it. Brit routinely slaps the libs on the panel around quite handily. Juan Williams is Brit's favorite punching bag.

Juan - absent today - must have scored a new bag of Acapulco Gold and spent an Algore weekend, conjuring up new paranoid theories on how the Bush family wants to dominate the world...

507 posted on 05/15/2005 7:58:40 PM PDT by TheGrimReaper ("Virtue begat Prosperity, and the daughter killed the mother". - Cotton Mather, 1720.)

To: dubyaismypresident

Ahh rust belt liberals. I swear their slogan is "raise my taxes, but just make sure they don't move in"

(cough cough) Oakland County (cough)

508 posted on 05/15/2005 9:16:37 PM PDT by Dan from Michigan (Fire Stabenow in 2008)

To: Robert A. Cook, PE

You betcha!!! I am, at the moment, working on a very nice example of toolmaking and machining, based on a '98 Mauser action. Currently I am using a Rem700 action in .30.06 with a Kreiger Barrel and BR stock ( I enjoy the handloading of the .30-06 instead of more "exotic" BR cartridges... I also enjoy shooting the AR-15 with the H-BAR (1:7 twist) using the 80 gr VLD bullet. Since, by necessity, the 80 gr bullet is longer than the magazine, but fits the military chamber for 5.56mm NATO (but not, however the civilian ,223 Rem chamber) and pne uses a fixed mag follower just to lock the bolt back, one has, essential a BR firearm, since mine has the free-float bbl, adjustable trigger, etc, and has been tightened up by gwmoore engineering. There is something inherently appealing to an engineer about handloading and BR shooting, I think it's the "quest after the ultimate" with the chronographing, and the changing of reloading parameters on the spot that brings out the interest.

This being said, since I also own a Garand, in ,30.06, you begin to see the pix... I like that caliber. Good then, good now. I never could see the reasoning behind the .308 (7.62 NATO) Why waste that great .5" of case capacity that you, conceivably, might need (NO I dont, but someone might)....

Greg

509 posted on 05/16/2005 6:48:36 AM PDT by gwmoore (As the manual for the Russian Nagant revolver states: "Target Practice:'At the Deserter, FIRE' '')

To: xsmommy; secret garden

It was bowing to the porcelain god.

510 posted on 05/17/2005 6:25:39 PM PDT by CholeraJoe (The USDA suggests 6 servings of fruit or vegetables daily. I figure 4 Bloody Mary's ought to do it.)

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