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It was just a week ago that Clive Coffee posted (on Instagram) that some coffees can benefit from a pinch of salt. It supposedly knocks the bitter edge from the taste.
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The Jeep being disgorged from the belly of the Convair is a dead ringer for my Dad’s first cabinet delivery truck. Multiple trips were required to deliver a set of kitchen cabinets. He soon got a pickup when the business got off the ground.
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My wife and I recently went to Wilmington, NC for about ten days, and while there, toured the USS North Carolina Battleship. It's interesting how some things prompt a person to take a pic, but not others.
Below are some of the 16in projectiles for the big guns. These projectiles are about 5ft tall, and weigh over a ton (2,000+ lbs). Each one requires (6) 90lb gunpowder charges in order to fire. The range is about 21 miles. The different colors indicate different 'piercing' characteristics.
Here are some pics of the vacuum tubes in the communications area of the ship. Funny how they used the term 'computer' for some of the equipment, even though this was 1940s technology. You can see that the biggest tubes were type C6A.
The machine shop was quite impressive. Here's the vertical lathe:
Drill press:
Regular, horizontal lathe:
The smell in the machine shop was pure grease and oil
This ship was only in service/commission for six years, from 1941-1947 (obviously WWII). Amazing that such a vessel only served for that short a period. The building of that ship had to be a massive undertaking.
Anyway, if you're ever in the area (I know there are a few NC members here), it is well-worth your time to tour the ship. But, tall gents need not apply...the headroom below deck is limited!"This may not matter to you, but it does to me for various reasons, many of them illogical or irrational, but the vinyl hobby is not really logical or rational..." - member on Vinyl Engine
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My wife and I ate Jersey Mike's subs in the snack area before touring the USS NCOn another occasion, we toured the Osprey aircraft at Miramar, before dining in the officers’ quarters, along with some of the officers.
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nooshinjohn wrote: »I watched the original "Top Gun" with about 150 Navy/Marine Aviators... It was fun to hear them yelling "BULLSCHITT!!!" in unison every 45 seconds...
I watched "Saving Private Ryan" with my parents and my father said that no one ever used the F-word around him even once while he was in WWII from 1942 -1947.
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nooshinjohn wrote: »I watched the original "Top Gun" with about 150 Navy/Marine Aviators... It was fun to hear them yelling "BULLSCHITT!!!" in unison every 45 seconds...
I watched "Saving Private Ryan" with my parents and my father said that no one ever used the F-word around him even once while he was in WWII from 1942 -1947.
That's what fathers do when they are teaching their sons. They lie through their teeth to set a good example and raise you right. Reality is a whole other can of worms.
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which, of course, immediately brought this to mind...
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That's what fathers do when they are teaching their sons. They lie through their teeth to set a good example and raise you right. Reality is a whole other can of worms.
Tom
I was in my mid-30s by this time. What you just wrote doesn't describe my father even in the slightest. -
No, he wasn't a chaplain. I just assumed that that specific word wasn't in such widespread use at that time. Apparently it was. Knowing him, he probably just blocked it out.nooshinjohn wrote: »Was he a Chaplain? I think cursing as a second language is a required course of study.... just don't do it in front of the Chaplain.
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Slightly related. my grandad was taken prisoner by the Germans in WW I and while in the POW camp got appendicitis. They took him to their surgical unit and operated on him. At that time he pledged if he lived he would never swear again. He lived, and he didn't. He invented his own expletives. I can remember him calling people blaam stupid and flegging idiots.
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Sorry to belabor my own post, but one really cool thing about the machine shop room was that certain levers on the machines are still 'workable', so some levers can still be moved when you grab them and apply pressure. It's kind of a cool feeling to sort-of 'work' the machines. Sorry...maybe it's just me.My wife and I recently went to Wilmington, NC for about ten days, and while there, toured the USS North Carolina Battleship. It's interesting how some things prompt a person to take a pic, but not others.
Anyway, if you're ever in the area (I know there are a few NC members here), it is well-worth your time to tour the ship. But, tall gents need not apply...the headroom below deck is limited!"This may not matter to you, but it does to me for various reasons, many of them illogical or irrational, but the vinyl hobby is not really logical or rational..." - member on Vinyl Engine
"Sometimes I do what I want to do. The rest of the time, I do what I have to." - Cicero, in Gladiator
Regarding collectibles: "It's not who gets it. It's who gets stuck with it." - Jimmy Fallon -
I was in my mid-30s by this time. What you just wrote doesn't describe my father even in the slightest.
What's funny to me (and all families are different...I am NOT confronting) is that I was 20 and staying with my Grandfather whom my Dad said "never" swore or ever uttered so much as anything resembling a "dirty" word. The reality on this was different from what my Dad stated.
Shhhh, don't tell anyone but once (only once), I even heard him say the "F" word.
Of course, Grandma wasn't around at the time.....
Times were different back then.
Tom
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USS Wisconsin.
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I was in my mid-30s by this time. What you just wrote doesn't describe my father even in the slightest.
What's funny to me (and all families are different...I am NOT confronting) is that I was 20 and staying with my Grandfather whom my Dad said "never" swore or ever uttered so much as anything resembling a "dirty" word. The reality on this was different from what my Dad stated.
Shhhh, don't tell anyone but once (only once), I even heard him say the "F" word.
Of course, Grandma wasn't around at the time.....
Times were different back then.
Tom
My father would say "$hit" if he was frustrated, but never in casual conversation. He never said the f-word, though. And my mother never spoke a nasty word in her life. All 4 of my grandparents never swore, either. (All 4 of them were born between 1897 and 1910.) Two of my brothers never swear and 2 of us do.
When I read through this forum, I sometimes start to write things that would get me banned for a month or two until I remember where I am. Curse you, tabbed browsing! HAHAHAHAHA
I remember being a teenager and my mother saying: "You're not allowed to say the word _____ in this house." That was the extent of her swearing.
My father even picked up a little German during the war. If he was really angry, he would say "SHIZEN" (sic) and if he was really, REALLY angry, he would say "SHIZEN HAUZEN" (sic). I had a German girlfriend that explained how to properly say what he mispronounced, but the addition of "HAUZEN" (instead of "haus") always made it clear he had lost his (mild) temper.
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I was in my mid-30s by this time. What you just wrote doesn't describe my father even in the slightest.
What's funny to me (and all families are different...I am NOT confronting) is that I was 20 and staying with my Grandfather whom my Dad said "never" swore or ever uttered so much as anything resembling a "dirty" word. The reality on this was different from what my Dad stated.
Shhhh, don't tell anyone but once (only once), I even heard him say the "F" word.
Of course, Grandma wasn't around at the time.....
Times were different back then.
Tom
I distinctly remember spending a few weeks at my grandparents house every summer. I always remember my grandfather (Papa) was as strait-laced and proper as they came. He was also a proud WWII combat vet.
I remember when Papa had “the guys” over for darts my grandmother took us boys out of the house for dinner, ice cream…
I was attached to my grandfathers hip. I remember asking her, “why can’t we stay home with Papa”?
She just gently informed me, “when Papa is playing darts with the guys, Papa isn’t Papa anymore”.
At that time, I was so confused.
He had a serious sweet tooth that my grandmother always teased him for (but always baked anything he wanted). I remember a year before he passed she was teasing him that he was finally getting a gut.
He took offense to that. So he promptly marched off and put his Army jacket on to prove that he was still in as good shape as he was then.
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Slightly related. my grandad was taken prisoner by the Germans in WW I and while in the POW camp got appendicitis. They took him to their surgical unit and operated on him. At that time he pledged if he lived he would never swear again. He lived, and he didn't. He invented his own expletives. I can remember him calling people blaam stupid and flegging idiots.
This was commonplace (As far as my experience was, as a kid). I thought they had a speech impediment until I was old enough to figure out what was going on. When I confronted them about it? The truth came out.
In my mind, whenever they said the "code word"? It was in one ear and out the other and instantly translated into the "real" word. (My bad)
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SCompRacer wrote: »USS Wisconsin.
Where the H 3 🏒 🏒 did you get that?
We had a couple of those bad boys anchored along the waterfront between Tacoma and Ruston WA, twin sister ships S.S. Cape Island and S.S. Cape Intrepid.
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SCompRacer wrote: »
Ah, yes, The Imperial Strangler of Hoth.
The story goes, the two women were Amidala's handmaidens, casually strolling this path depicted here at Higher Learning Of Hoth, and unwittingly came upon a spying Darth Vader, obscured by some shrubbery.
The women would inadvertently startle Darth, causing him to raise his arm reflexively - flinching to ward off a strike.
You see, Darth was bullied here at Higher Learning of Hoth, the other kids making fun of his breathing, drawing pictures of him with a pug's head an' stuff. As a result, Darth suffered great social anxiety, and was painfully shy, and really just kept to himself. He fell deep into fantasy fiction reading, developing an obsession for sword fighting. Because the best sword fighters always got the girl in the end, you know? So he became really good at swords.
Anyway, in flinching and drawing up his arm in protection, a great power was awakened in Darth for the first time - the power to choke with a gesture. A power which the women would later use in the Imperial Courts to accuse Darth of assault. But really, he just panicked once discovered, thinking they were gonna beat him up.
He was let off with a stern warning due to lack of evidence, and outcast further. Amidala took pity on Darth a couple of years later after seeing him rescue some kittens in a burlap sack down by the river, and we all know how the rest of the story goes from there.
Rumor has it, at least one of his descendants lives among us on this forum. You know him. Tall, radio voice guy? Defiler if shrubbery?
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SCompRacer wrote: »
Ah, yes, The Imperial Strangler of Hoth.
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Rumor has it, at least one of his descendants lives among us on this forum. You know him. Tall, radio voice guy? Defiler if shrubbery?
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My grandmother's family were German immigrants. She was born here.
My dad, a ww2 vet, used to swear in German, as well as English.
I spent a year in Okinowa as a Marine. Every other word we used was
a swear word. It was a lot of work to stop it when we came back stateside.
We could go on several minutes without repeating a 4 letter word or phrase.
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