The Cremation of Sam McGee

Robert Service | 2008-02-27 | Robert Service

[don'tbedenied]

Yes I’m looking at the Collected Poems of Robert Service just now. My Mom gave it to me for Christmas in 1967. seems appropriate for this tough winter.

[ASOC]

Lets all sing together now

When it’s Springtime in Alaska
It’s 40 below.....

Pppfffttt
It got up to 32 above today.

[patton]

see the last paragraph of #40

Now THAT is alaska.

[LibFreeOrDie]

Jean Shepherd reads “The Cremation of Sam McGee”:

http://shep-archives.com/netjuke/search.php?do=search&col=tr.name&val=Cremation

(On the far left Options column, click the little musical note symbol to play.)

[andy58-in-nh]

Thanks - I found that site a couple of months ago and was amazed to discover a treasure trove of air checks of his programs and interviews. There are well over 1000 full-length WOR shows there, for Pete’s sake! Brought back a lot of memories.....

[ASOC]

True

Add the sudden flare of a tree ignigting in the dead blackness of a winter night from a slow burning tundra fire (you could XXXX yourself on that one)

Spitting in the air to watch the ice hit the ground

Have all your coms go south but see the most spectacular Northern Lights display in years

Watch *your* pallet load of C rats hit the ice cold dirt because the (60 foot) chute failed to deploy. And you get to dig for breakfast......

[patton]

And that latrine duty - where you are on the roster to burn off the frozen ring, from the cast iron commode on the clondike.

[patton]

Challenge time - one sentence, as many words as you can manage, NWTC.

Have at it.

[ASOC]

I sat shivering in the cold wind, wondering if the doctors really could attach the broken, frozen bits, but not bits of my manhood, thank you very much, those being very well protected, when the First Sergeant gave the incredible, no, unbelievable order for all of us to report to the mortar range to assist in cleaning up the many buffalo who had died that very morning in a freak training accident – the very morning I had frozen off my many bits trying to recover the MK 108 that had slid down the long icy path, known as Dead Mans Turn, near the infamous Mississippi range complex after being used to direct the many F-4 supported CAS missions, whose thundering blasts, from the multiple 500 and 1000 pound bombs, caused a herd of buffalo to stampede onto the distant mortar range, the very ones we were being ordered to collect as evidence for use in a possible courts-martial trail of the Range Control officer in charge, a well respected and careful man, well known and repected despite being an Army Captian and West Pointer.

170+ - I had to stop, I was laughing so hard. Forget the manatee, remeber the buffalo......

for the record, I HATE frozen C rats.....

[patton]

LOLOLOL - that is funny on soooo many levels.

Response later.

(BTW, c-rats aren’t _really_ frozen until an hour on the yukon stove won’t thaw them out.)

[ASOC]

Burnt on the bottom and ice on the top.

Yummy!

We used to keep a bucket of water on the top to add a bit of humidity and we would pre-thaw the worst of the cans with the hot water.

Or

Stick the box on the tailpipe of the MK 108 & let it cook. Beans and weenies will explode tho......