| This thread has been locked, it will not receive new replies. |
|
Locked on 03/08/2007 2:43:45 PM PST by Admin Moderator, reason:
New thread: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1797649/posts |
Posted on 12/01/2006 12:55:15 PM PST by ecurbh
Welcome to The Hobbit Hole!
Sing hey! for the bath at close of day
That washes the weary mud away!
A loon is he that will not sing:
O! Water Hot is anoble thing!
O! Sweet is the sound of falling rain.
and the brook that leaps from hill to plain;
but better than rain or rippling streams
is Water Hot that smokes and steams.
O! Water cold we may pour at need
down a thirsty throat and be glad indeed;
but better is Beer, if drink we lack,
and Water Hot poured down the back.
O! Water is fair that leaps on high
in a fountain white beneath the sky;
but never did fountain sound so sweet
as splashing Hot Water with my feet!
I was lookin' fer a not-so-top-of-the-line fer Shorty...
btw, the new forestock and toys are most excellent... theboy is like "this is mine, right dad?"...
no live fire with this group... strictly classroom... which does take some of the joy outta it...
later...
Glad you made it home safe. ;)
I have some Sierra Super MatchKings in 55gr that I should send you, since I can't use them. Everthing I have in 5.56 in either 1-in-9 or 1-in-7, and those light bullets just get spun up too much. I have to keep some M193 ammo around for use on the indoor range, since they frown upon the M885 penetrator. They check all ammo with a magnet.
Now if they were just as picky about keeping their own employees from putting their own rounds through their own ceiling, I'd feel better.
Oh yeah. Fortunately I think the CEO will personally make right with all those folks. Won't get their day back, but still.
Had to look that one up; rare breed in these parts, don't think I've ever seen one at the range. Pretty impressive optics.
FYI, should be out of here not much after 7. Hope Cisco is behaving himself...
He's been fine all day.... when you aren't here, he mostly sleeps :~)
He did something inexplicable today, though. I let him out and later went to call him, and heard him whine but he didn't come. I walked around the ranger, and he was in the back of the blue pickup. Tailgate was up... no idea how or why he scrambled in there, but he was afraid to jump back out.
Moron ;~)
Well... at least he wasn't way up a tree with no idea how to climb down.
:-)
heh... reminds me... I wuz out in the lot, and I wuz wonderin' where thedurndawg wuz... he was up in the back of thetruck... I dunno why... it wuz buttcrack cold... so's I had started the diesel engine fer a spell... musta thought he'd go along fer a ride...
I'd just sell those projo's local... the money you'd spend in postage on lead would be prohibitive...
They check all ammo with a magnet.
whattabunch of anal bastiges...
Huh? But lead isn't... uh... oh... nevermind.
What sort of nastiness is that?
"What? You've never heard of the new ~soft stainless~ steel bullets?"
Loveable moron, at least.
Did I say I'd be out by seven? That was a cruel joke.
At least I'll get to come home early tomorrow.
200 calories? For dinner?
That's... that's... like two beers. Or ~one~ really good beer.
Wow. I think I'd elect for the two beers instead. But that's just me. :-)
We're here whenever... Gonna hit the couch, so just come on over. :~)
Thanks for watching him!
Dang, that was a long day. My feet hurt. And I think I lost my mind somewhere around eight-thirty. Hopefully it finds me during the night.
I read that thread. Was JetBlue the only airline on which travelers were stuck? I thought that the trouble was the plane was in line for takeoff. At that point, there was nothing they could do, was there? Don't the airports set the rules about getting off planes once they've left the gate?
They're checking for the steel penetrator cores in M885 5.56mm ammo.
I sat next to a gal who had a friend on another plane and they were further up in the take-off queue. We got more status information by calling her friend on the cell than we got from our own crew. It was from her friend that we learned that the airport had closed and that planes were skidding around on the ice. This is not surprising because Delta can't even be bothered to announce which baggage claim to go to. But Delta wasn't about to let us off the plane. They showed us a movie and gave us water and snacks. Yippee. Folks were getting mighty irritable at the 3-hour mark.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.