This is the only shrine to Rush in Cape. His is one of the murals on our floodwall. Actually, most folks here who know him still call him "Rusty" and think of him as just a home town boy who made good. LOL
Posted on 12/04/2005 12:41:07 PM PST by Conservababe
I want to buy my five year old grandson a western outfit and a real cap gun for Christmas. I can't find a cap gun. I was politely told in ToysrUs that they didn't carry anything that dangerous. For heaven's sake, what is dangerous about caps? My brothers used them at an early age. When I do a google search, I am offered 'clickable' guns, but not the real thing.
Anyone have any information on this gun control?
Nope...it is an authentic "War of Northern Agression" pic.
LOL
In the winter, we made potholders and sold them around the neighborhood. We discovered that people coordinated colors back then, too and switched to taking orders by color and design.
Me and my bro....we were good!! Always had money to go to the Goodie-Shoppe and money for caps. My poor younger sister, with her long black hair was always the indian maiden. I can't tell you how many times we tied her up!! We bought her an Annie Oakley outfit one year to make amends.
Do you remember learning to make the caps go off with your finger nail. Black Nail...very cool!! Sign of "guts".
That's right! My mistake :)
Take an old washing machine or dryer apart - doesn't matter what the machine is, as long as it has a squirrel-cage cylindrical fan on the motor shaft.
Stand the motor on end, with fan cage up. Use sticks or something to prop it up.
Build protective blockhouse out of large cardboard box. Cut a hole in it and cover with layers of heavy Saran Wrap so you can see out.
Run plug from motor to blockhouse.
Fill fan cage with very ripe plums, figs, apples - any soft fruit. Remove pits if possible for better throughput.
Take up stations inside blockhouse, plug in motor and watch it whirl.
Spend the rest of the weekend scrubbing purple-and-brown stripe off house, fence, dog, neighbor's house etc.
"sunk a bulldozer"
Was that terribly difficult?
that sure seems like a lotta work. We'd simply set a whole roll on the ground then knock it with the butt end of a baseball bat and they'd explode all at once.
Sad, ain't it. Ebay.
LOL, yeah, we did that. Ah, the good old days.
Not particularly, and it wasn't intended. We sunk it on dry land.
See, there were these huge vacant lots behind my house. One summer, my friends and I spent a lot of time there having dirtclod fights - basically just fliging stuff at each other.
That got boring, so we started digging trenches to supplement the dirtpiles that comprised our "forts". Eventually, we had 200-300 or so feet of trench dug.
Then we thought it'd be cool to make tunnels. The bottom half of the tunnel system was already there, in the form of the trenches.
So we went out and scrounged wood scraps from construction sites - plywood, 2x4s, 2x6s and whatever we could find. We put the boards across the trenches, laid the plywood on top, and covered with dirt. Voila - tunnels!
We also built an underground "meeting room" by digging out about a 10-ft diameter hole about 4-5 feet deep. We roofed it like the other tunnels, which connected to it for secret-meeting access.
It was a fun summer: building, meeting, plotting against the girls.
But that fall, somebody bought the lots and a couple months later started clearing it for construction. After the summer rains, weeds and grass had pretty much obscured our tunnel network, which was cool.
But the guy driving the bulldozer also didn't realize the underground network existed. We were watching over a wall when he finally drove over the wide, deep meeting room and caved it in.
Bulldozer went down nose-first into the meeting room - sunk about halfway up the treads, ass pointing to the sky.
Scared the hell out of us, nobody hurt, but it took a couple days to get the dozer out. Dozer driver was pissed, but we never fessed up; too scared.
Guys like you just don't appreciate craftsmanship.
Did you ever take the roll of caps and bang them with a rock - boom!!!
Guys like you just don't appreciate craftsmanship.
BS, I'm a trim carpenter.
Works better with some brands than others. And probably has something to do with why some stores won't carry 'em.
Having fun can be a lot of work.
Off-topic, but I've always been curious, is there some type of shrine to El Rushbo in Cape Girardeau?
This is the only shrine to Rush in Cape. His is one of the murals on our floodwall. Actually, most folks here who know him still call him "Rusty" and think of him as just a home town boy who made good. LOL
Especially effective inside the garage!
No reason he can't do both. The "normal" order would be SEALs first, but "semiary first" would also work.
The father said: "Thirteen years old and you've already caused a three car accident....and you don't even have a driver's license."
In the meantime......The 3 year old granddaughter (daughter of a cop) was caught "laundering money". Yes, mommy had told her that money was dirty. She laid out the freshly "laundered" bills on a towel in the bathroom. Mommy dutifully reported the incident to Daddy, the "cop".
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