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[Cunuckgaucho]

13 hours ago, 98Z5V said:

That's a sweet M9 Lone Wolf - the only thing that could make it better was if it wasn't an M9 in the first place...  

What if he wiped it down the M9 with Bud light and changed it's pronouns? 

[Rsquared]

1 minute ago, Cunuckgaucho said:

What if he wiped it down the M9 with Bud light and changed it's pronouns? 

[Lonewolf McQuade]

At least it's not a Glock, I hear that's the preferred gun of the woke dildo warriors nowadays 🤣😂

[98Z5V]

10 hours ago, Cunuckgaucho said:

What if he wiped it down the M9 with Bud light and changed it's pronouns? 

That won't help - it's still an M9 - and it's still the "new" Bud Light."  Both suck.

9 hours ago, Lonewolf McQuade said:

At least it's not a Glock, I hear that's the preferred gun of the woke dildo warriors nowadays 🤣😂

Vailant attempt, my brother, but that won't work.  Now we know you own an M9.  Might as well switch it up to Bud Light at this point, and complete your transition...  

[Lonewolf McQuade]

On 4/8/2023 at 10:18 PM, 98Z5V said:

That won't help - it's still an M9 - and it's still the "new" Bud Light."  Both suck.

Vailant attempt, my brother, but that won't work.  Now we know you own an M9.  Might as well switch it up to Bud Light at this point, and complete your transition...  

Nah brother, you can keep your But-lite & transformers.  I'll stick w/ the metal guns & straight life👍🤣

[shooterrex]

This is what I did this evening.

Pretty good show. The new bass player is ok but he ain't Dusty.

[Armed Eye Doc]

1 hour ago, shooterrex said:

This is what I did this evening.

Pretty good show. The new bass player is ok but he ain't Dusty.

I head that he is a long time guitar tech for the band.

[MtnMike]

I last saw ZZ Top in Greensboro, NC when I was a senior in high school '83 or '84.  So, it's been a while ...

Edited April 9, 2023 by MtnMike

[shooterrex]

The first time I saw them was in 1976. This was the 9th time.

In 76 with Blue Oyster Cult. 2 1/2 hour drive each way. Got back to Ft Devens only to get about 3 hours sleep before a PT test.

[98Z5V]

6 hours ago, shooterrex said:

In 76 with Blue Oyster Cult. 2 1/2 hour drive each way. Got back to Ft Devens only to get about 3 hours sleep before a PT test.

  Funny as hell, brother!!!  Ft Devens does that to you.    I was there in '88, for a school, and the announcement came over the radio - Pink Floyd in Foxboro Stadium that night!  Yeah, school night, we went anyway, all fucked up the next day in class. 

Now, this get's deeper...     Me and THE SAME GUY just left San Angelo, TX, for training, had that add-on course at Ft Devens before we went to out first units.  When we were at San Angelo, something comes over the radio...  "Pink Floyd at Austin Civic Center TONIGHT!".. . And we hit that one  -yep, on a school night.  Next day sucked, as well.  Saw Floyd twice on the same tour, two different states, with the same crazy friend that I was in school with...  It was Epic, both times... 

Went BACK to Ft Devens in 1991...   I'm IN CLASS WITH THE SAME FUCKING GUY!!!  Fucking around at lunch, radio says, "Aldo Nova, Great White, and the Scorpions at ..."  some amphitheater that has a different name now...  So - what'd we do?  WE WENT!!!  Can't stop the train right now, this was meant to be, brother!!!   Next day sucked AGAIN..  but so worth it.  Aldo Nova is a badass, Great White rocks, and Scoprpions played a 3-hour set with no breaks, just going after it the whole time.

Life is weird, what it brings you - so take advantage of it when you can... 

Some Aldo Nova for a tribute:

 

Here's kind of a new video layout, from a couple years ago.  Same song, though, and still badass... 

Now THIS ONE...  Aldo Nova was 24 years old in 1982 when he dropped that song.  Here is him last year, at 62 years old, just crushin' it!...  

Fuckin' MEMORIES...   Thank you, Rex, for bring up what you brought up, brother.  Badass...  

[Sisco]

On 4/9/2023 at 11:16 AM, shooterrex said:

The first time I saw them was in 1976. This was the 9th time.

In 76 with Blue Oyster Cult. 2 1/2 hour drive each way. Got back to Ft Devens only to get about 3 hours sleep before a PT test.

More Cowbell

[Sisco]

A copied story about Merle Haggard and Toby Keith.

Merle's final show. Well worth reading.

It was Super Bowl weekend. Merle had already cancelled months of shows, but this particular booking was a big payday. Merle had to pay his band and crew, so there was no calling in sick for this gig.

Toby Keith was in town with his wife to watch some football and have some fun. Toby got word that Merle was in Vegas, so he went to see him… Merle was in bad shape. He needed to be in a hospital - not on a stage; but The Show Must Go On. Merle would not take charity from anyone, but he did turn to Toby and say, "How many songs of mine do you know?"

"All of 'em" answered T.

"All of 'em?"

"Yep. And I won't need a teleprompter."

"Well, stay nearby." After four or five songs, Merle's infected lungs were spent. He couldn't draw enough air to sing any longer. "We've, uh, we've got a special guest here tonight…" Toby came out and sang the rest of the show. Merle gave his last concert. The Strangers got paid. And the audience, while not realizing it at the time, saw something special.

Never speak ill of Toby Keith to me; thanks to him, Merle Haggard exited the stage with his dignity intact.

From W Earl Brown

[Armed Eye Doc]

I found my lottery car {if I win the lottery, I want this).  Then I expect @98Z5V to make it faster for me. 😁

 

[98Z5V]

That would be a pretty tall order, brother.  We've have to just drop a 9.3L crate engine in it...  

[Sisco]

1 - I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize.
2 - Borrow money from pessimists -- they don't expect it back.
3 - Half the people you know are below average.
4 - 99% of lawyers give the rest a bad name.
5 - 82.7% of all statistics are made up on the spot.
6 - A conscience is what hurts when all your other parts feel so good.
7 - A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.
8 - If you want the rainbow, you got to put up with the rain.
9 - All those who believe in psycho kinesis, raise my hand.
10 - The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.
11 - I almost had a psychic girlfriend, ..... But she left me before we met.
12 - OK, so what's the speed of dark?
13 - How do you tell when you're out of invisible ink?
14 - If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.
15 - Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm.
16 - When everything is coming your way, you're in the wrong lane.
17 - Ambition is a poor excuse for not having enough sense to be lazy.
18 - Hard work pays off in the future; laziness pays off now.
19 - I intend to live forever ... So far, so good.
20 - If Barbie is so popu, why do you have to buy her friends?
21 - Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.
22 - What happens if you get scared half to death twice?
23 - My mechanic told me, "I couldn't repair your brakes, so I made your horn louder."
24 - Why do psychics have to ask you for your name
25 - If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.
26 - A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.
27 - Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.
28 - The hardness of the butter is proportional to the softness of the bread.
29 - To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research.
30 - The problem with the gene pool is that there is no lifeguard.
31 - The sooner you fall behind, the more time you'll have to catch up.
32 - The colder the x-ray table, the more of your body is required to be on it.
33 - Everyone has a photographic memory; some just don't have film.
34 - If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you.
35 - If your car could travel at the speed of light, would your headlights work

[Armed Eye Doc]

Here is an interesting website that a patient shared with me. 

https://www.pdfdrive.com/

It has over 83 million books and pamphlets in pdf form and available for free download.  These are not necessarily the most recent books available, but they are free and virtually unlimited subjects.

[Cunuckgaucho]

11 hours ago, Armed Eye Doc said:

Here is an interesting website that a patient shared with me. 

https://www.pdfdrive.com/

 

Good find , had a quick browse so some titles worth checking out

[Armed Eye Doc]

My nephew's Eagle Scout project.  He has more words quoted in the article than I have heard him speak this year.  The interview for the article must have lasted hours to get that many words out of him.

https://www.wcmessenger.com/articles/scout-honors-the-flag/

[98Z5V]

That is fuckin' AWESOME, Doc!!!   What a great kid!!!  

[Rsquared]

That young man has obviously been around good people that have taught him well and have been a good influence to him.

Good for him Doc.

[unforgiven]

Your nephew is just what this country needs 🇺🇸

[Sisco]

Not mine but I liked it.

The US standard railroad gauge (distance between the rails) is 4 feet, 8.5 inches. That's an exceedingly odd number. Why was that gauge used? Well, because that's the way they built them in England, and English engineers designed the first US railroads. Why did the English build them like that? Because the first rail lines were built by the same people who built the wagon tramways, and that's the gauge they used. So, why did 'they' use that gauge then? Because the people who built the tramways used the same jigs and tools that they had used for building wagons, which used that same wheel spacing. Why did the wagons have that particular odd wheel spacing? Well, if they tried to use any other spacing, the wagon wheels would break more often on some of the old, long distance roads in England . You see, that's the spacing of the wheel ruts. So who built those old rutted roads? Imperial Rome built the first long distance roads in Europe (including England ) for their legions. Those roads have been used ever since. And what about the ruts in the roads? Roman war chariots formed the initial ruts, which everyone else had to match or run the risk of destroying their wagon wheels. Since the chariots were made for Imperial Rome , they were all alike in the matter of wheel spacing. Therefore the United States standard railroad gauge of 4 feet, 8.5 inches is derived from the original specifications for an Imperial Roman war chariot. Bureaucracies live forever. So the next time you are handed a specification/procedure/process and wonder 'What horse's as came up with this?', you may be exactly right. Imperial Roman army chariots were made just wide enough to accommodate the rear ends of two war horses. (Two horses' ases.)  Now, the twist to the story: When you see a Space Shuttle sitting on its launch pad, there are two big booster rockets attached to the sides of the main fuel tank. These are solid rocket boosters, or SRBs. The SRBs are made by Thiokol at their factory in Utah . The engineers who designed the SRBs would have preferred to make them a bit fatter, but the SRBs had to be shipped by train from the factory to the launch site. The railroad line from the factory happens to run through a tunnel in the mountains, and the SRBs had to fit through that tunnel. The tunnel is slightly wider than the railroad track, and the railroad track, as you now know, is about as wide as two horses' behinds. So, a major Space Shuttle design feature, of what is arguably the world's most advanced transportation system, was determined over two thousand years ago by the width of a horse's as. And you thought being a horse's as wasn't important? Ancient horse's as*es control almost everything. 😁😁

Edited June 18, 2023 by Sisco

[unforgiven]

Amazing good find brother 

[Armed Eye Doc]

This is a video of a mud dauber on our property that I found interesting.

 

[DNP]

Looks like a tarantula hawk.