Posted on 01/03/2008 6:35:58 PM PST by HairOfTheDog
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!
This has been a wet snow, but it’s supposed to drop into the 20s tonight. Could be tricksey in the morning.
Some churches are already canceling or redoing their schedules.
Oh ye of little faith...
mine???
‘scuse me? We ain’t voted fer a Democrat fer President since before you wuz born...
dee...nied...
I thought that VA went blue last time... the NOVA effect an’ all...
don’t make me turn this thread around...
heh heh... I know just which buttons tuh push...
yeah I keep fergettin’ thenewboy learned you how to read...
but I’mokaywiththat...
at least I didn’t take drivin’ lessons from Jr...
sad part about that is...is drivin’ record is better’n mine...
I rest muh case...
g’nite Stinky
glad yer back
I’ve been trying to save my sanity, but I haven’t had much luck.
Two Sundays before Christmas, when we were supposed to have our first full group rehearsal for Midnight Mass, we got 10" of snow overnight. We were up at 8:00, and realized there was no way we could get out of our driveway by 9am, much less down the hill,so we bagged it, figuring we knew all the music anyway. We just went back to bed. When we got up at 10, I checked my e-mail, and the Choir Director had sent a blast e-mail about 8 telling us to stay home and not get out on the roads, since they'd not even been cleared yet. We ended up going to 5:30 Mass because the roads were clear by then.
This is a classic British all-brass flare gun from a design of around 1900. The design was in use even in WW2, although the Brits by then made it out of pot metal, rather than brass. The Aussies, however, must not have gotten the word, because this Austrian version, made in 1942, is still brass. Brass is very good for shipboard use. It not only resists the marine environment, it's something extra the swabbie has to polish.
As shown next to the dummy Glock 21, it's not a small item. It fires standard one-inch pyrotechnics. It's also got military and manufacturer markings all over. The Brits and the Aussies are almost as big into markings as the Germans. Here's one big batch of markings, although there are others in other locations, too.
Sean Connery used one of these flare guns to take out an enemy speed boat in "From Russia With Love", along with shooting down a helicopter with an AR-7 survival rifle.
Well, he didn't actually shoot down the helicopter, but wounded the guy with the grenade, which then rolled around their feet. As the saying goes, "after you pull the pin, Mr. Grenade is no longer your friend".
Perhaps that's why even flare guns are illegal in England, unless officially deactivated. And while they're also cracking down on pellet guns and knives, soviet-bloc weaponry is flooding the country, courtesy of either organized crime or TROP. The bad guys have AKs, the cops their issued MP5s, and everyone else has to duck.
Even modern pyrotechnics are frowned upon, so boaters can't take advantage of the current batch on non-gun plastic 12ga flare guns and shells. I guess they'd frown even more if they saw my rocket-assist parachute flares. Of course, I have to remember where I put them, first.
Morning - ‘sniff’ indeed.
Hey that’s great about the convection oven! I’m glad you went ahead and bought it. Being able to bake some comfort food every now and then works wonders for a bad day, and the fact Halva likes the box is an additional benefit. I’ve been known to keep an old empty box in the house for quite a while just because my cats liked to lounge on it.
Probably the extra weight in his gut overloaded his swimbladder and screwed up his buoyancy, and when it passed he got getter. Fish farts are good sometimes I guess. ;o)
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