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First rule of finance, make sure you know what you are spending regardless of the currency. I find it interesting that the bills might melt in the dryer. More than a few times I have had money go through the washer and dryer but thankfully have always been able to restore it. Imagine taking a ball of wadded plastic to the bank and asking for a new 20.00 bill. I would be a poorer man today if I had plastic money.

Again people are our own worst enemies. As some who have followed my posts I am a conservative, I have no problem with the death penalty, I believe in the right to own guns, and am a softy when it comes to animals. Even snakes. The following vid is about the current snake hunt for Pythons in Florida. I hate seeing it but the logical side of me understands the need. Pythons have decimated the population of many species in the Everglades, Raccoons being only one example. If only people did not release Pythons into a non-native environment this would not be happening. I also doubt this hunt will cure the problem. It will help but will not solve it. As with so many things the people are the problem. http://www.aol.com/video/11foot-python-killed-as-challenge-begins/517645167/?ncid=webmail21 http://www.cnn.com/2012/12/06/us/florida-python-hunt/index.html

Roger Howard posted to WSFA-TV: Here is some food for thought...We should place the elderly in prisons. They will get a shower a day, video surveillance in case of problems, three meals a day, access to a library, computer, TV, gym, doctors on-site, free medication if needed. Put criminals in nursing homes. They have cold meals, lights off at 7pm, two showers a week, live in a smaller room and pay rent at $4,000 a month!!! It's pretty sad that we treat prisoners better than the elderly.... :question:

Almost as bad as the Florida "Gators" putting a Crocodile on the cover of their media guide a few years back. Well, at least I guess you can still spend it. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/18/canada-20-bill-wrong-maple-leaf_n_2506299.html?1358544508&ncid=webmail8

Thinking he should go to jail and proving it are certainly two different things. The lead question is "what would you do". Well, jail is the least of the things I would do if I ruled the world. Besides, from the legal side some of the issues are already moot because in some instances the statute of limitations applies. Also not a law I would allow if I ruled the world. Guilty is guilty regardless of time elapsed.

Yes. Nuf said.

I have a red dot sight on order from SWFA http://swfa.com/Docter-Red-Dot-Sight-P51640.aspx I already have the can shown in the video but in black finish. This is IMHO an awesome 1911 45.

@@Cimon Take time to listen to your Grandfather, even if he might ramble a bit. He is one of the history books into your family. To this day I regret not having really talked to my parents about their younger days. Unfortunately it was not important to me until after I had lost them.

I just purchased the gun in the video along with the red dot sight, I already have the silencer shown in the video. I took this option because I like Hickok45's Y Tube presentations. If you take time to watch this video you will see the gun I bought but also see what I consider some excellent pistol shooting. He has very dry humor so don't be mislead. No fancy stuff, just a damn good shooter.

Idoz beat me to it, it was wax to help hold a "butch" haircut standing up. Sometimes called Flat Top Wax. I used " A little dab will do ya" Brylcreem.LOL Brylcream came after Butch Wax and was more for the Greasers, you know black leather jacket, pompadour and DA held in place with Brylcream. Been there, done that................when I still had hair. PS: DA = Ducks Ass for you youngsters. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck%27s_ass

Idoz beat me to it, it was wax to help hold a "butch" haircut standing up. Sometimes called Flat Top Wax.

BTW, I always had dinner time at my house old school style. We all sat down together, if the phone rang I would only take a message and allow return calls after dinner. My wife and I also did not talk about any kids problems over dinner. Problems could be handled after dinner. Only my daughter still follows a loosely similar dinner time with her family.

Hmmm, first I have heard that. I find the standard XI font dull and hard to read so I usually changed my posts to white that looks good to me. Anyone else find white hard to read?

'A young person asked me the other day, 'What was your favorite fast food when you were growing up?' 'We didn't have fast food when I was growing up,' I informed him. 'All the food was slow.' 'C'mon, seriously. Where did you eat?' 'It was a place called 'at home,'' I explained. ‘Mom cooked every day and when Dad got home from work, we sat down together at the dining room table, and if I didn't like what she put on my plate I was allowed to sit there until I did like it.' By this time, the kid was laughing so hard I was afraid he was going to suffer serious internal damage, so I didn't tell him the part about how I had to have permission to leave the table. But here are some other things I would have told him about my childhood if I figured his system could have handled it : Some parents NEVER owned their own house, never wore Levis, never set foot on a golf course, never traveled out of the country or had a credit card. In their later years they had something called a revolving charge card. The card was good only at Sears Roebuck. Or maybe it was Sears & Roebuck. Either way, there is no Roebuck anymore. Maybe he died. My parents never drove me to soccer practice. This was mostly because we never had heard of soccer. I had a bicycle that weighed probably 50 pounds, and only had one speed, (slow) We didn't have a television in our house until I was 12. It was, of course, black and white, and the station went off the air at midnight, after playing the national anthem and a poem about God; it came back on the air at about 6 a..m.. and there was usually a locally produced news and farm show on, featuring local people. I was 21 before I tasted my first pizza, it was called 'pizza pie.' When I bit into it, I burned the roof of my mouth and the cheese slid off, swung down, plastered itself against my chin and burned that, too. It's still the best pizza I ever had. Pizzas were not delivered to our home but milk was. I never had a telephone in my room. The only phone in the house was in the living room and it was on a party line. Before you could dial, you had to listen and make sure some people you didn't know weren't already using the line. All newspapers were delivered by boys and all boys delivered newspapers --my brother delivered a newspaper, six days a week. It cost 7 cents a paper, of which he got to keep 2 cents. He had to get up at 6AM every morning. On Saturday, he had to collect the 42 cents from his customers. His favorite customers were the ones who gave him 50 cents and told him to keep the change. His least favorite customers were the ones who seemed to never be home on collection day. Movie stars kissed with their mouths shut. At least, they did in the movies. There were no movie ratings because all movies were responsibly produced for everyone to enjoy viewing, without profanity or violence or most anything offensive. Growing up isn't what it used to be, is it? MEMORIES: My Dad is cleaning out my grandmother's house (she died in December) and he brought me an old Royal Crown Cola bottle. In the bottle top was a stopper with a bunch of holes in it.. I knew immediately what it was, but my daughter had no idea. She thought they had tried to make it a salt shaker or something. I knew it as the bottle that sat on the end of the ironing board to 'sprinkle' clothes with because we didn't have steam irons. Man, I am old. How many do you remember? Head lights dimmer switches on the floor. Ignition switches on the dashboard. Heaters mounted on the inside of the fire wall. Real ice boxes. Pant leg clips for bicycles without chain guards. Soldering irons you heat on a gas burner. Using hand signals for cars without turn signals. Older Than Dirt Quiz : Count all the ones that you remember not the ones you were told about. Ratings at the bottom. 1. Blackjack chewing gum 2.Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water 3. Candy cigarettes 4. Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles 5. Coffee shops or diners with tableside juke boxes 6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers 7. Party lines on the telephone 8 Newsreels before the movie 9. P.F. Flyers 10. Butch wax 11.. TV test patterns that came on at night after the last show and were there until TV shows started again in the morning. (there were only 3 channels... [if you were fortunate]) 12. Peashooters 13. Howdy Doody 14. 45 RPM records 15. S& H greenstamps 16. Hi-fi's 17. Metal ice trays with lever 18. Mimeograph paper 19. Blue flashbulb 20. Packards 21. Roller skate keys 22. Cork popguns 23. Drive-ins 24. Studebakers 25. Wash tub wringers If you remembered 0-5 = You're still young If you remembered 6-10 = You are getting older If you remembered 11-15 = Don't tell your age, If you remembered 16-25 = You' re older than dirt! I might be older than dirt but those memories are some of the best parts of my life. Sent to me by my daughter.

Joke or not I do not know. 2012 Darwin Awards Nominee No. 1: [san Jose Mercury News]: An unidentified man, using a shotgun like a club to break a former girlfriend’s windshield, accidentally shot himself to death when the gun discharged, blowing a hole in his gut. Nominee No. 2: [Kalamazoo Gazette]: James Burns, 34, (a mechanic) of Alamo, MI, was killed in March as he was trying to repair what police describe as a "farm-type truck." Burns got a friend to drive the truck on a highway while Burns hung underneath so that he could ascertain the source of a troubling noise. Burns' clothes caught on the drive shaft, however, and when the other man stopped he found Burns "wrapped in the drive shaft." Nominee No. 3: [Hickory Daily Record]: Ken Charles Barger, 47, accidentally shot himself to death in December in Newton, NC. Awakening to the sound of a ringing telephone beside his bed, he reached for the phone but grabbed instead a Smith & Wesson 38 Special, which discharged when he put it to his ear. Nominee No. 4: [uPI, Toronto]: Police said a lawyer demonstrating the safety of windows in a downtown Toronto skyscraper crashed through a pane with his shoulder and plunged 24 floors to his death. A police spokesman said Garry Hoy, 39, fell into the courtyard of the Toronto Dominion Bank Tower early Friday evening as he was explaining the strength of the buildings windows to visiting law students. Hoy previously had conducted his demonstrations of window strength according to police reports. Peter Lawson, managing partner of the firm Holden Day Wilson, told the Toronto Sun newspaper that Hoy was "one of the best and brightest" members of the 200-man association. A person has to wonder what the dimmer members of this law firm are like. Nominee No. 5: [The News of the Weird]: Michael Anderson Godwin made News of the Weird posthumously. He had spent several years awaiting South Carolina’s electric chair on a murder conviction before having his sentence reduced to life in prison. While sitting on a metal toilet in his cell attempting to fix his small TV set, he bit into an electrical wire and was electrocuted. Nominee No. 6: [The Indianapolis Star]: A cigarette lighter may have triggered a fatal explosion in Dunkirk, IN. A Jay County man, using a cigarette lighter to check the barrel of a muzzleloader, was killed Monday night when the weapon discharged in his face, sheriff's investigators said. Gregory David Pryor, 19, died in his parents' rural Dunkirk home at about 11:30 PM. Investigators said Pryor was cleaning a 54-caliber muzzle-loader that had not been firing properly. He was using the lighter to look into the barrel when the gunpowder ignited. Nominee No. 7: [Reuters, Mississauga, Ontario]: A man cleaning a bird feeder on the balcony of his condominium apartment in this Toronto suburb slipped and fell 23 stories to his death. "Stefan Macko, 55, was standing on a wheelchair when the accident occurred," said Inspector Darcy Honer of the Peel Regional Police. "It appears that the chair moved, and he went over the balcony," Honer said. THE WINNER!!!: [Arkansas Democrat Gazette]: Two local men were injured when their pickup truck left the road and struck a tree near Cotton Patch on State Highway 38 early Monday. Woodruff County deputy Dovey Snyder reported the accident shortly after midnight Monday. Thurston Poole, 33, of Des Arc, and Billy Ray Wallis, 38, of Little Rock, were returning to Des Arc after a frog-catching trip. On an overcast Sunday night, Poole's pickup truck headlights malfunctioned. The two men concluded that the headlight fuse on the older-model truck had burned out. As a replacement fuse was not available, Wallis noticed that the .22 caliber bullets from his pistol fit perfectly into the fuse box next to the steering-wheel column. Upon inserting the bullet the headlights again began to operate properly, and the two men proceeded on eastbound toward the White River Bridge . After traveling approximately 20 miles, and just before crossing the River, the bullet apparently overheated, discharged and struck Poole in the testicles. The vehicle swerved sharply right, exited the pavement, and struck a tree. Poole suffered only minor cuts and abrasions from the accident but will require extensive surgery to repair the damage to his testicles, which will never operate as intended. Wallis sustained a broken clavicle and was treated and released. "Thank God we weren't on that bridge when Thurston shot his balls off, or we might be dead," stated Wallis "I've been a trooper for 10 years in this part of the world, but this is a first for me. I can't believe that those two would admit how this accident happened," said Snyder. Upon being notified of the wreck, Lavinia (Poole’s wife) asked how many frogs the boys had caught and did anyone get them from the truck? Though Poole and Wallis did not die as a result of their misadventure as normally required by Darwin Award Official Rules, Poole did in fact effectively remove himself from the gene pool.

Reminds me of Indiana Jones and his gun against the sword dude. Did you know the gun move by Harrison Ford was not in the original script? It was improve.

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You might tell him to at least check in so he can see there are those that support and think well of him in wishing him good health and a full recovery. Too often it seems like a whim of nature when a man does not reach out for support in time of need. It's like that stupid concept that "men don't cry". Well most of us do and we just don't like to admit it. Mr. Bubbles, should you check in an read these posts there is no need to reply, just know that many of the members and regulars are thinking well of you and praying for your recovery. I wish you all the best.

It is hard and expensive just to obtain any M-1 in original condition. Meaning numbers match on all parts. Most M-1 have undergone reconditioning at some time in their lives. In this process parts are replaced, particularly barrels, and identifying numbers no longer match throughout. I know of no government records to show where and when they were used. If it is claimed so by private sale I would question the authenticity of the supporting records. My guess is CMP is the best bet however I never used them. http://www.odcmp.com...es/m1garand.htm Excerpt: Over the past 65 years, most M1 rifles have been arsenal rebuilt, refinished, rebarreled or repaired at least once and often several times. Most will show signs of service (often considerable) and replacement of various parts. They are seldom encountered with all original parts and original finish as delivered from the manufacturer. Such "original" rifles, even in well-used condition, are highly prized by collectors. Serial numbers on the receiver can tell you when the rifle was made and for my M-1's I only know the year it was manufactured, not where it saw service. For example I know the Winchester M-1 I got from Miltech was manufactured in Nov 1943, the month and year of my birth. I just do not know how you will be able to authenticate the type of M-1 you want. Not saying you can't, just saying I don't know how.

Like them both but especially the S&W MP 15. Great gun for inexpensive shooting.

Pfft on the Camaro's & Mustangs. When the 2014's hit the floor I will have a SUV muscle car! 0-60 in 4.8. Quarter mile in 13.5. http://www.allpar.co.../2014-SRT8.html

Just something that appeals to me about a revolver. I also have a S&W 340 SC .357 but it is hammerless, DA only. I just don't like having to pull the trigger to initiate the action. I have many semis suitable for carry but it does not take much of an excuse for me to buy another firearm. BTW, this was bought with change saved that I hardly missed each night putting it in a jar. It's a rare day when I ever use the change in my pocket to pay for anything, it all goes into the jar at the end of the day. Hmmm.......... I don't have a Kahr.................yet.

Better than another place his arm might have gone.