LtLaszlo

Welcome to the clan all. Killroy, please welcome all new members with pictures like that please!! LOL!

That was incredible. I just saw an episode of Mythbusters trying prove whether or not in the old West a pistol shot could knock the pistol out of someone's hand. Couldn't from straight on, but proved possible from the side, which appears to be the case in the video. I'm sure the snipers must have seen that episode (or tested it themselves!!) Of course, the rifle here has much more power than an old West pistol. Foiled his dumb-ass plans!!

Sounds like an awesome trip Zoe! We had a similar trip a few years back also (I'm from Michigan). Went from Grand Junction Colorado through Las Vegas then to the LA area and back to Colorado. Visited Vegas and Hoover Dam and stayed with relatives in Grand Junction and in LA area of California. Looks like you are going through Death Valley, so hope you like it HOT!! Get's up to 40-50 degrees Celsius!! And like Lil says, be careful in LA as it can be dangerous if you don't know where you are going (and New York). As far as hotels, try to stay with hotels, not motels if you like cleaner and more perks like "continental" breakfast included in cost. Best Western, Hampton Inn, and Comfort Inn are average price whereas Marriott, Hyatt and Hiltons will be more. Hope you have a great and memorable trip!

That is insane! Not enough pay (or insurance) for that job. And what happens when you drop the wrench?!

Good thing his head is harder than the ice!! LOL

Good variation to COD2 Rugger!! Finally found someone in it, so PimpedOutPete and I were checking it out the other night. Didn't even get enough time to see what all it's all about, but had a few laughs with the bullet tracers, rockets and no gravity!! I'll be looking for some Idiots in there to play more of it.

I didn't know Ferrets like to bash people LOL!! I can vouch for Ferrets hours, as we've been battling it out for many weeks in the COD2 DM server and occassionally the CTF server. Like SOB said Ferret, get the Xfire up (you already talk in game) and talk to us. PimpedoutPeteADM has also played you a bit, so if we know you want in it shouldn't be a problem. You seem like you' fit in and no HACK accusations here!! LOL.

Subject: Runway Able - incredible piece of wwII history] Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2010 21:36:03 -0500 HISTORY Tinian Island, Pacific Ocean . It's a small island, less than 40 square miles, a flat green dot in the vastness of Pacific blue. Fly over it and you notice a slash across its north end of uninhabited bush, a long thin line that looks like an overgrown dirt runway. If you didn't know what it was, you wouldn't give it a second glance out your airplane window. On the ground, you see the runway isn't dirt but tarmac and crushed limestone, abandoned with weeds sticking out of it. Yet this is arguably the most historical airstrip on earth. This is where World War II was won. This is Runway Able. On July 24, 1944, 30,000 US Marines landed on the beaches of Tinian ... Eight days later, over 8,000 of the 8,800 Japanese soldiers on the island were dead (vs. 328 Marines), and four months later the Seabees had built the busiest airfield of WWII - dubbed North Field - enabling B-29 Superfortresses to launch air attacks on the Philippines, Okinawa, and mainland Japan. Late in the afternoon of August 5, 1945, a B-29 was maneuvered over a bomb loading pit, then after lengthy preparations, taxied to the east end of North Field's main runway, Runway Able, and at 2:45am in the early morning darkness of August 6, took off. The B-29 was piloted by Col. Paul Tibbets of the US Army Air Force, who had named the plane after his mother, Enola Gay . The crew named the bomb they were carrying Little Boy . 6½ hours later at 8:15am Japan time, the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima . Three days later, in the pre-dawn hours of August 9, a B-29 named Bockscar (a pun on "boxcar" after its flight commander Capt. Fred Bock), piloted by Major Charles Sweeney took off from Runway Able. Finding its primary target of Kokura obscured by clouds, Sweeney proceeded to the secondary target of Nagasaki, over which, at 11:01am, bombardier Kermit Beahan released the atomic bomb dubbed Fat Man . Here is "Atomic Bomb Pit #1" where Little Boy was loaded onto Enola Gay : There are pictures displayed in the pit, now glass-enclosed. This one shows Little Boy being hoisted into Enola Gay 's bomb bay And here on the other side of ramp is "Atomic Bomb Pit #2" where Fat Man was loaded onto Bockscar . The commemorative plaque records that 16 hours after the nuking of Nagasaki , "On August 10, 1945 at 0300, the Japanese Emperor without his cabinet's consent decided to end the Pacific War." Take a good look at these pictures, folks. This is where World War II ended with total victory of America over Japan . I was there all alone. There were no other visitors and no one lives anywhere near for miles. Visiting the Bomb Pits, walking along deserted Runway Able in solitude, was a moment of extraordinarily powerful solemnity. It was a moment of deep reflection. Most people, when they think of Hiroshima and Nagasaki , reflect on the numbers of lives killed in the nuclear blasts - at least 70,000 and 50,000 respectively. Being here caused me to reflect on the number of lives saved - how many more Japanese and Americans would have died in a continuation of the war had the nukes not been dropped. Yet that was not all. It's not just that the nukes obviated the US invasion of Japan , Operation Downfall, that would have caused upwards of a million American and Japanese deaths or more. It's that nuking Hiroshima and Nagasaki were of extraordinary humanitarian benefit to the nation and people of Japan . Let's go to this cliff on the nearby island of Saipan to learn why: Saipan is less than a mile north of Tinian ... The month before the Marines took Tinian, on June 15, 1944, 71,000 Marines landed on Saipan ... They faced 31,000 Japanese soldiers determined not to surrender. Japan had colonized Saipan after World War I and turned the island into a giant sugar cane plantation. By the time of the Marine invasion, in addition to the 31,000 entrenched soldiers, some 25,000 Japanese settlers were living on Saipan, plus thousands more Okinawans, Koreans, and native islanders brutalized as slaves to cut the sugar cane. There were also one or two thousand Korean "comfort women" ( kanji in Japanese), abducted young women from Japan 's colony of Korea to service the Japanese soldiers as sex slaves. (See The Comfort Women: Japan 's Brutal Regime of Enforced Prostitution in the Second World War, by George Hicks.) Within a week of their landing, the Marines set up a civilian prisoner encampment that quickly attracted a couple thousand Japanese and others wanting US food and protection. When word of this reached Emperor Hirohito - who contrary to the myth was in full charge of the war - he became alarmed that radio interviews of the well-treated prisoners broadcast to Japan would subvert his people's will to fight. As meticulously documented by historian Herbert Bix in Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan, the Emperor issued an order for all Japanese civilians on Saipan to commit suicide. The order included the promise that, although the civilians were of low caste, their suicide would grant them a status in heaven equal to those honored soldiers who died in combat for their Emperor. And that is why the precipice in the picture above is known as Suicide Cliff, off which over 20,000 Japanese civilians jumped to their deaths to comply with their fascist emperor's desire - mothers flinging their babies off the cliff first or in their arms as they jumped. Anyone reluctant or refused, such as the Okinawan or Korean slaves, were shoved off at gunpoint by the Jap soldiers. Then the soldiers themselves proceeded to hurl themselves into the ocean to drown off a sea cliff afterwards called Banzai Cliff. Of the 31,000 Japanese soldiers on Saipan , the Marines killed 25,000, 5,000 jumped off Banzai Cliff, and only the remaining thousand were taken prisoner. The extent of this demented fanaticism is very hard for any civilized mind to fathom - especially when it is devoted not to anything noble but barbarian evil instead. The vast brutalities inflicted by the Japanese on their conquered and colonized peoples of China , Korea , the Philippines , and throughout their "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere" was a hideously depraved horror. And they were willing to fight to the death to defend it. So they had to be nuked. The only way to put an end to the Japanese barbarian horror was unimaginably colossal destruction against which they had no defense whatever. Nuking Japan was not a matter of justice, revenge, or it getting what it deserved. It was the only way to end the Japanese dementia. And it worked - for the Japanese. They stopped being barbarians and started being civilized. They achieved more prosperity - and peace - than they ever knew, or could have achieved had they continued fighting and not been nuked. The shock of getting nuked is responsible. We achieved this because we were determined to achieve victory . Victory without apologies. Despite perennial liberal demands we do so, America and its government has never apologized for nuking Japan .. Hopefully, America never will. Oh, yes... Guinness lists Saipan as having the best, most equitable, weather in the world. And the beaches? Well, take a look:

Welcome Viperz! Enjoyed the COD2 battles with you so far, but now we have another Idiot to shoot at!!

Hey, what's with all the 12/31 birthdays?! Seems like an excessive number for one day. Must be dad took mom down the bumpy roads to get them out to claim that year for the tax break!

Here it is...knew it was out there!

Ahahaha! Those are good!! That Rodney comes up with some good songs! Except for the "man-boobs", I couldn't agree more!! How about "Dear Penis"? Another one of his classics.

Ya, thanks Rugger. U da man! BTW, have you heard from Dawgy? Hoping his outlook is getting better and he is doing OK. Miss him doing the regular map changes in COD2 DM, so thanks for following up.

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LOL! That was another good one. Saw another variation of this, where the dad used a remote controlled helicopter!! What happens when the tooth not quite that loose?! LOL. I want to see that one!!

Looks delicious Chile!! Let us know how it turns out. My brother-in-law actually did an Italian themed Christmas diinner this year. Except he pre-cooked the chicken in bread crumbs, then covered in tomato sauce, but used otseago (spelling?) and mozerella cheeses then baked. Also very good over tortinelli (again spelling, not Italian - hehe) noodles. Hmmmmmmmmmmm!! Wife's making another turkey today with stuffing, potatoes, pumkin pies and company over and the holiday celebration continues!! Eat, drink and be merry!! Happy New Year to all the Idiots!!

Midgetnatorjr has been playing it without too much trouble and seems to like it. Had some lag issues, due to borderline system requirements, but did a few tweeks in the game and video settings and seems to have it smoothed out. Been having to kick him off to get homework done!!

Ya, she'll have Santa's Pole pointing North!!

Welcome to XI, Dolphin. Never thought I could bring myself to shoot a dolphin, but there you are in COD2.

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Wishing all you Idiots a VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS and a Happy New Year!! And remember drink (and screw) responsibly!!

Many of those mentioned, but also any of you know of "kick-the-can"? Variation of hide-n-seek, but with can and find someone before another before someone hinding runs out and kicks it. If so, you start over. First one you find before kick is next one "it"/guarding the can. Got whole neighborhood playing when I lived in city. But then we moved to country and had animals.....but that's another post story LOL!!!

Cool stuff, Mike! Todays technology is just awesome, isn't it? I got a turn table recently and have been converting old albums and stuff you can't find to buy on CD. Mom-n-law likes Herb Alpert (old fogy music / horns) and wife found a bunch of records, some at garage sales. Been convertng them, but the trick with albums is no scratches or know how to use software to eliminate/reduce. Great for hard to find stuff, but many have old collections and no turn table to play them on anymore. Who likes all that "popping" anyway? LOL!!

As I stated earlier in this post.....you all can have the white shit!! Even with a beast of a truck (Chevy Avalanche - appropriately named), can't control the acts of the other morons on the road. Normal 45 minute drive to work this morning took 2.5 hours...arrrgggg!! Freakin semis stopped on I75 in middle lanes. Cars off road every freakin mile. STAY HOME...it's better than being in the ditch!! Followed one lady 5 miles on secondary roads, hazards on driving 10 MPH. When finally reaching traffic light and pulling next to her----she's on the freakin PHONE!! SHOULDN"T YOU BE HOLDING WHEEL WITH TWO HANDS YOU STUPID $!%@$%$%!! Why do I stay in Michigan...I HATE winter!!