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Where is Travis Mcgee?
My feeble mind ^ | 7/12/2015 | Spodefly

Posted on 07/12/2015 4:02:08 AM PDT by spodefly

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To: momtothree
I’d love to be a “fly on the wall” and watch his reaction when he returns AND finds this post about him.

He MAY be doing some read-only checking in to see what's going on in his absence. If so, wait until he sees this thread and can see the pics!

If whatever he is doing is mundane... he’ll have to make a good story up! Pirates, sharks, kidnapped and escaped... something good. :)

Mundane? Trav? Not bloody likely. Recreational, fun vacation, maybe. But if nothing else, I bet he gets the germ of a good idea about another yarn.

As for the Pirates and kidnapping, maybe. But with cutie girl pirates, I'd hope, and with a recipe for shark steak on the Barbie-que grill, with lemon and rum sauce. Yum!

81 posted on 07/16/2015 8:36:32 AM PDT by archy
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To: archy

S,D. Myres made the first one Tom designed....:o)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Threepersons


82 posted on 07/16/2015 4:38:50 PM PDT by Squantos ( Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet ...)
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To: Squantos
S,D. Myres made the first one Tom designed....:o) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Threepersons

I'm not a bit surprised. But did you note in my response about * But in any event, El Paso Saddlery still uses the original patterns and machinery they did back when Charlie Bluemel kept 'em honest.* That'd be circa 1920-'25 or so, back in the days of Border Charlie Atkins and Tommy Box. There some fantastic masters of the tools of their trade back then. And Bluemel was at least as talented a leather craftsman as Tio Sam Myres.

The late Army ordnance Major George Nonte, who was a personal friend and mentor to me while I was attending the Ernie Pyle School of Journalism [really!] shared several stories with me of his days in Texas At Ft Hood/Bliss/Sam Houston. He also traded me out of an awful lot of really interesting gun, camera and Corvair parts. And an original SD Myers saddler holster for a 1911. If'n it had been a Bluemel, I don't expect I'd have let it go.

83 posted on 07/17/2015 8:55:35 AM PDT by archy
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To: Squantos
OOPS.

Tacking an jibing leeward and windward in blue water on vacation is my SWAG......

Your ride's here.


84 posted on 07/17/2015 8:58:46 AM PDT by archy
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To: archy

Below the high tide mark.....call the navy......:o)


85 posted on 07/17/2015 3:07:40 PM PDT by Squantos ( Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet ...)
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To: archy

Wow.... love the history of that stuff......:o)


86 posted on 07/17/2015 3:10:13 PM PDT by Squantos ( Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet ...)
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To: PhilDragoo

“Travis McGee’s still in Cedar Key. That’s what old John Macdonald said.” - Jimmy Buffett, Incommunicado

I haven’t had a Jimmy-Buffett-thon in years. Any more it reminds me too much of my wayward misspent lost youth.


87 posted on 07/17/2015 3:46:14 PM PDT by PLMerite ("The issue is never the issue. The issue is the Revolution.")
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To: archy

Somehow brings to mind an early work of Bob Newhart.


88 posted on 07/17/2015 5:42:55 PM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: archy

https://www.rxlyrics.com/lyrics/b/bob-newhart/defusing-a-bomb-68.html


89 posted on 07/17/2015 5:46:37 PM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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Somehow brings to mind an early work of Bob Newhart.

The association for me was a little different.

90 posted on 07/21/2015 7:08:34 AM PDT by archy
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To: archy

Could be that too.


91 posted on 07/21/2015 7:10:28 PM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: spodefly

Still wondering. Any news of Matt?


92 posted on 08/22/2015 8:57:48 PM PDT by ctdonath2 (The world map will be quite different come 20 January 2017.)
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To: ctdonath2

He was out sailing.


93 posted on 09/19/2015 12:33:55 PM PDT by rabidralph
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To: rabidralph

Yup, I just found out. Thanks for the note.
Methinks it’s important to keep tabs on each other, ensuring someone doesn’t think it’s a good idea to “disappear” dissenters.


94 posted on 09/19/2015 2:37:01 PM PDT by ctdonath2 (The world map will be quite different come 20 January 2017.)
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To: rabidralph

The Empty Copper Sea - 1978:

“I’ve been gone since early March, Van. I got back a week ago. Duke Davis had a party down in the Grenadines on that big ketch of his, the Antsie, and he had a bad fall and tore up his back, and he cabled me to come down and help him bring the Antsie all the way home. I didn’t have any time to read the papers or listen to the news.”


95 posted on 09/19/2015 2:48:49 PM PDT by abb ("News reporting is too important to be left to the journalists." Walter Abbott (1950 -))
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To: rabidralph

The Empty Copper Sea - 1978:

“I’ve been gone since early March, Van. I got back a week ago. Duke Davis had a party down in the Grenadines on that big ketch of his, the Antsie, and he had a bad fall and tore up his back, and he cabled me to come down and help him bring the Antsie all the way home. I didn’t have any time to read the papers or listen to the news.”


96 posted on 09/19/2015 2:49:12 PM PDT by abb ("News reporting is too important to be left to the journalists." Walter Abbott (1950 -))
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To: ctdonath2

Yeah, but sometimes, you just can’t keep track of everyone, especially those who seldom post or might not have a lot of friends. But the effort is worth it.


97 posted on 09/19/2015 2:49:44 PM PDT by rabidralph
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To: rabidralph

Well, when a high-profile vocal critic of our current governmental body suddenly disappears without warning or explanation, methinks it’s worth finding out why.


98 posted on 09/19/2015 3:33:20 PM PDT by ctdonath2 (The world map will be quite different come 20 January 2017.)
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