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The Socks That The Secretary Of State Wore To Meet The North Koreans Will Make Your Jaw Drop
Daily Caller ^ | 06/01/2018 | Benny Johnson

Posted on 06/01/2018 11:51:24 AM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

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To: Mollypitcher1

“I made lead soldiers by melting fishing sinkers and pouring them into a mold.”


Same for me, so the soldiers are definitively lead.
I have fond memories of the time I spent doing it with Grandpa, it’s like Christmas everytime. I enjoyed every step, from deburring to painting to repairing the molds or making new molds. That’s when I learned hard work can be so much fun.


81 posted on 06/01/2018 2:19:50 PM PDT by miniTAX (au)
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To: G Larry
I think they were polyethylene and some plastics still have various heavy metals.

Also, there was a fountain pen that had plastic cylinders full of ink. You put them inside the pen and when you screw on the end with the tip, it punctured the cylinder. Well, I used to light those up when they were empty and I stood on a chair and held them up by the ceiling. The drops fell into a metal waste basket from about 8 feet. Fantastic "zzzziiiip."

82 posted on 06/01/2018 2:48:52 PM PDT by Right Wing Assault (Kill: google,TWITTER,FACEBOOK,WaPo,Hollywd,CNN,NFL,BLM,CAIR,Antifa,SPLC,ESPN,NPR,NBA)
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To: Mathews

>> Brigadier General Anthony McAuliffe ...

OK, guys - that’s the 8th reply correcting my goof. I got it.


83 posted on 06/01/2018 3:02:05 PM PDT by QBFimi (It is not your responsibility to finish the work of perfecting the world... Tarfon)
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To: Lent

I am guilty of crimes against plastic-humanity for the way I treated my army men.


84 posted on 06/01/2018 3:05:39 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: Right Wing Assault
How did you miss out on "floods?"

I dunno. '50's kid...suburb bordering Detroit...the kids I hung out with were not very humorous. (shrugs shoulders)

85 posted on 06/01/2018 3:08:35 PM PDT by PGalt
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

Good for him! Colorful socks are ‘de rigueur’...shows he has a sense of humor.


86 posted on 06/01/2018 3:17:27 PM PDT by yoe
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To: Reno89519
"Tacky?! No, humorous, independent, and confident."

How right you are!!!

87 posted on 06/01/2018 3:19:23 PM PDT by yoe
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To: generally; vette6387; Lumper20; unkus; celtic gal; radu; LUV W; Jane Long; left that other site; ...

These are awesome socks and I will send this link to my email buddies who will love Mike Pompeo’s socks as much as we do. I’m sure they will forward this viral.

MAGA - get out the vote in November!!!


88 posted on 06/01/2018 3:19:26 PM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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To: katana

Gen. McAuliffe, Bump!

We bought the home we live in from the widow of a very good friend who was in the 101st Airborne then. He came in behind the lines at Normandy in a glider, parachuted into Holland and was trucked into the Bulge in the relief.

One hell of a tough little man. They were both extremely find people. Close friend of my father since childhood.


89 posted on 06/01/2018 4:43:54 PM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas
Just slightly less subtle than this:


90 posted on 06/01/2018 5:05:53 PM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

Just bought ‘em ... Amazon.


91 posted on 06/01/2018 5:08:27 PM PDT by Eagles Field
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To: QBFimi

That would have been General McAuliffe, commanding the defense of Bastogne with the 101st Airborne et al, with the benefit of a delaying action east of Bastogne buying just enough time for the 101st and others to move into position at Bastogne before the Germans could get there by the 4th Division, 99th Division, and the 28th Division (Pa. National Guard) / 687th FABN, among others... :)


92 posted on 06/01/2018 5:19:30 PM PDT by OKSooner (Don't be a Fudd.)
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To: QBFimi; All
Now that General McAuliffe and his eloquent defense of Bastogne have come into the conversation...

Recommended reading: "To Save Bastogne", by Robert Phillips.

"There was a battle of the bulge before the battle of the bulge."

93 posted on 06/01/2018 5:24:51 PM PDT by OKSooner (Don't be a Fudd.)
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

Gotta love a SOS with a sense of humor. Great sox!


94 posted on 06/01/2018 6:01:21 PM PDT by luvie (Our troops are the best of the best and we should honor them EVERY day!)
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To: Red Badger

One of the gifts my two brothers and I would get on Christmas when we grew up in Detroit in the sixties would be a large bag of plastic army men and a large bag of rubber bands. We would set up the soldiers in the upstairs hallway and shoot rubber bands at them for hours.


95 posted on 06/01/2018 7:26:34 PM PDT by gigster (Cogito, Ergo, Ronaldus Magnus Conservatus)
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To: Lent

Same here. Then the first gen G.I. Joe arrived one Christmas and the little guys were almost entirely forgotten! It was almost as cool as my Mattel M-16 ‘full-auto sound’ toy gun!


96 posted on 06/01/2018 7:49:24 PM PDT by snuffy smiff (Build the Wall and build it tall, then build a gallows and hang them ALL!)
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To: Roccus

I used to love playing with those little green guys, especially around July 4th when I could get my hands on some firecrackers and stage simulated battle scenes.

My how times have changed, as too many parents nowadays try to shelter their sons from any imaginative play that might someday help turn them into real men.

I wonder what would happen if I donated a lot of these green soldiers or other such items to Toys For Tots. Never mind, I don’t wonder. The green men would get sent to a green garbage can.


97 posted on 06/02/2018 4:29:31 PM PDT by zencycler
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