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Longbows!!!

Actually it's not a longbow. It's just some kind of bow, I don't know, a recurve bow or a horse bow.

Or just a bow, I guess.

Neat stuff.

More:

Posted by: Ace at 05:49 PM




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1 Hoo boy. Here we go...

Posted by: mugiwara at January 23, 2015 03:50 PM (06U11)

2 But how does it fare against a crossbow?

Posted by: Turd Ferguson at January 23, 2015 03:50 PM (VAsIq)

3 LONGBOWS!!!!


Ironically, they were not responsible for the British victory at Agincourt.

(Thanks, Battlefield Detectives)

Posted by: Washington Nearsider, Keeper of the Guards, returned from 1080 exile at January 23, 2015 03:54 PM (2L0WZ)

4
Mork to Orson? Mork to Orson?

Posted by: Soothsayer, Knower Of All Approximate Knowledge Now and In The Future at January 23, 2015 04:02 PM (weCf+)

5 Invisible comment #2

Posted by: toby928(C) says Rubber Dingy Rapids, Bro! at January 23, 2015 04:05 PM (evdj2)

6
in b4 you, toby?

Posted by: Soothsayer of The Righteous And Harmonious Fists at January 23, 2015 04:06 PM (weCf+)

7 Hey now! Where's my hat-tip on this, huh?

But yes, it's super-f***ing-cool.

Posted by: Jeff B., Professor Emeritus of AoSHQ RINO Studies at January 23, 2015 05:41 PM (ewYO6)

8 Barry and I love long boys long time!

Posted by: Tight End Reggie at January 23, 2015 05:41 PM (5voqw)

9 I think that I will never see,
A longbow as lovely as as a tree ...

Posted by: Adriane the Ecological Critic... at January 23, 2015 05:42 PM (P+IZm)

10 Looks like a long bow to me.

Posted by: Vic at January 23, 2015 05:43 PM (wlDny)

11 Very impressive video.


Arrows don't kill people, people kill people.

Posted by: Stateless Infidel at January 23, 2015 05:44 PM (AC0lD)

12 WHOSE BOW THIS IS?

Posted by: Bob's House of Flannel Shirts and Wallet Chains at January 23, 2015 05:45 PM (vgIRn)

13 Welsh bowmen?

Posted by: Edward II "Dorkswallower" at January 23, 2015 05:45 PM (5EljE)

14 I saw ace was talking about HEMA on twitter earlier, so I knew it would only be a matter of time...

Incidentally, my favorite medieval weapons channel on YouTube is lindybeige, who had a longbow video linked on the ONT maybe 7 months ago. That guy is a troll.

Posted by: dudenolongerinsantacruz at January 23, 2015 05:45 PM (PGXA8)

15 You will bow down before me!

Posted by: Stephen Price Zod at January 23, 2015 05:45 PM (J0IP0)

16 Ah yes "automatic archer" Lars....

I've been looking at slingbows

Posted by: Sven10077 at January 23, 2015 05:45 PM (/4AZU)

17
It's funny how longbows massively pissed off Teh Ewok on that infamous thread, and now he has totally and lovingly embraced the meme.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 23, 2015 05:46 PM (VB0Qs)

18 I am skilled in the art of buggery. And war, but mostly buggery.

Posted by: Piers Morgan Gaveston at January 23, 2015 05:47 PM (5EljE)

19 Those unprotected knees are just begging for trouble.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at January 23, 2015 05:47 PM (oFCZn)

20 bo jackson, beau to the bow, may know

Posted by: archillery at January 23, 2015 05:47 PM (FGEvF)

21 I am skilled in the art of buggery. And war, but mostly buggery.
Posted by: Piers Morgan Gaveston at January 23, 2015 05:47 PM


Step over here by the window and tell me about your newsletter...

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 23, 2015 05:48 PM (knoK7)

22 I miss archery. Used to do it semi-regularly, but haven't touched a bow in years.

Posted by: Turd Ferguson at January 23, 2015 05:48 PM (VAsIq)

23 Cheater! He strung his bow too tight!

Posted by: Fewenuff at January 23, 2015 05:49 PM (zPNX5)

24 That dude is pretty cool!

And probably a lot more accurate than some street thug holingd a pistol sideways while crouching behind a car and yelling "I'm gonna cap yo ass!"

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at January 23, 2015 05:49 PM (/9Mak)

25 legolas dropped all his quivers in the first one

that isn't gonna help

Posted by: ThunderB, Professional Ball Deflator at January 23, 2015 05:50 PM (zOTsN)

26 17 IllTemperedCur,

At some point you just go with it....

Slingbows.... and BOLAS

Posted by: Sven10077 at January 23, 2015 05:50 PM (/4AZU)

27 His arrows are underinflated. Two year ban.

Posted by: Turd Ferguson at January 23, 2015 05:51 PM (VAsIq)

28 19 Those unprotected knees are just begging for trouble.
~~~~

I nominate thread winner.

Posted by: fluffy at January 23, 2015 05:51 PM (Ua6T/)

29 Pretty good with a bow but he throws like a girl.

Posted by: weirdflunkyonatablet at January 23, 2015 05:51 PM (WMyrX)

30 Lars as in a dirty Skandi Lars?

Very cool shizzle though. Good on him!

Posted by: Fewenuff at January 23, 2015 05:51 PM (zPNX5)

31 some people call it a slingbow an i aims ta kill you with it

Posted by: Bigby's Knuckle Sandwich at January 23, 2015 05:51 PM (Cq0oW)

32 The longbow is loose.

Posted by: Obama at January 23, 2015 05:52 PM (7wyDO)

33 Finally saw the cartoon series 'Archer'. Voice of Archer sounds like an effeminate stoner/hipster. Grew tiresome just like 'Bob's Burgers'. Chuck Jones and Mel Blanc spin like lathes.

Posted by: More Longbows on Cartoon Network at January 23, 2015 05:52 PM (5voqw)

34 Those unprotected knees are just begging for trouble.

Yeah. But it wasn't Trouble-Trouble ...

Posted by: Whoopsie I Shot Myself Goldberg ... at January 23, 2015 05:53 PM (P+IZm)

35 Denmark doesn't have Longbow Control Laws?

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 23, 2015 05:53 PM (ws1Wn)

36 Saracens are the muzzies, no?

Posted by: Bigby's Knuckle Sandwich at January 23, 2015 05:53 PM (Cq0oW)

37 Wow

Posted by: rd at January 23, 2015 05:53 PM (k19Aq)

38 I could only watch until he depaciteted that ber.
Don't shoot things with faces!

Posted by: JohnnyBoy at January 23, 2015 05:53 PM (TPjwz)

39 Posted by: More Longbows on Cartoon Network at January 23, 2015 05:52 PM (5voqw)

Tiresome? Screw you.

Posted by: Bob Belcher at January 23, 2015 05:53 PM (3jmxp)

40 I like how is casually sitting with his two targets drinking out of a Styrofoam cup and then shoots them

wouldn't they be suspicious when he brought his bow and arrows in?

I now see Michael Corleone taking the bow and arrows out from behind the toilet tank to confront the men in the Italian restaurant

Posted by: ThunderB, Professional Ball Deflator at January 23, 2015 05:54 PM (zOTsN)

41 31 Bigby's Knuckle Sandwich,

That was Billy Bob Thorton as Daniel Day-Lewis playing Joe Biden in "Scranton-The Motion Picture" right?

Posted by: Sven10077 at January 23, 2015 05:54 PM (/4AZU)

42 This is what you can do if you never worry about getting laid.

Posted by: Bob Belcher at January 23, 2015 05:54 PM (3jmxp)

43
I bet you this guy is really good at LARP.

Posted by: dan-O at January 23, 2015 05:54 PM (D0bIN)

44 Interesting how the old manuscripts showed a completely different hold compared to modern archery. I wonder how arrows are positioned in kyuudo, given that there's about as much ceremony and tradition in it as accurate targeting.

Posted by: nnptcgrad at January 23, 2015 05:54 PM (Opyrm)

45 Just like a Scandi to bring a Longbow to a gun fight.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 23, 2015 05:56 PM (ws1Wn)

46 Hunting deer with a bow is good, but hunting deer with a salt lick and a stick of dynamite is better.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at January 23, 2015 05:56 PM (5EljE)

47 Um, I don't have a bow in this fight....

Posted by: Lizzy at January 23, 2015 05:56 PM (ABcz/)

48 that guy with score almost any hole he wanted it any Ren fest, SCA meet up or LARP event...

Posted by: OG CELTIC-AMERICAN at January 23, 2015 05:57 PM (XlFLJ)

49 Nothing says "F*ck you" quite so elegantly as the Parthian shot. Big fan.

Posted by: All Hail Eris at January 23, 2015 05:57 PM (KH1sk)

50 45 Boss Moss,

What's awesome is making it work...

Posted by: Sven10077 at January 23, 2015 05:58 PM (/4AZU)

51 So as an honorary elf, does Lars get to bang Liz?

Posted by: Jean at January 23, 2015 05:58 PM (TETYm)

52 I bet you this guy is really good at LARP

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he was one of the guys making homorapey remarks to ace during that camping trip he was ranting about

Posted by: Bigby's Knuckle Sandwich at January 23, 2015 05:59 PM (Cq0oW)

53 What wasn't mentioned in the Lars video is that during the medevial times, archers put styrofoam at the bottom of their quivers to keep the arrows from falling out.

Posted by: Soona at January 23, 2015 05:59 PM (qbgxo)

54 51 Jean,

He gets Liz and Blanchett....

Lars Moron all-star

Posted by: Sven10077 at January 23, 2015 06:00 PM (/4AZU)

55 I'm a sky-bo, that's a new kind of hobo for planes.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at January 23, 2015 06:00 PM (fIv/H)

56 >>>>53 What wasn't mentioned in the Lars video is that during the medevial times, archers put styrofoam at the bottom of their quivers to keep the arrows from falling out.

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The Ostrogoths were renowned for their skill in styrofoam fabrication.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at January 23, 2015 06:01 PM (5EljE)

57 As a receiver, I like my bows soft!

Posted by: Joey Biden at January 23, 2015 06:01 PM (FsuaD)

58 Lars has been banned from Medieval Times Restaurant for killing the performers and patrons

Posted by: ThunderB, Professional Ball Deflator at January 23, 2015 06:02 PM (zOTsN)

59
How YOU doin'?

Posted by: Erika, the Bowfucker Lady at January 23, 2015 06:02 PM (VB0Qs)

60 Yes, I was able to perform all those stunts. I think I followed the historical guides. But, yeah, I usually have no idea whose bow I'm using. I just grab whatever the camera guy hands me.

Posted by: Archer Lars Andersen at January 23, 2015 06:02 PM (1CroS)

61 Even though it's apparently not true the Longbow Salute originated at Agincourt as a "pluck you" to the Frogs, I still *feel* it's True.

Posted by: All Hail Eris at January 23, 2015 06:03 PM (KH1sk)

62 >>> Lars has been banned from Medieval Times Restaurant for killing the performers and patrons

Let's not be arguing about 'oo killed 'oo.

Posted by: fluffy at January 23, 2015 06:04 PM (Ua6T/)

63 I missed the whole Longbow vs. Whatever kerfluffle back in the day.

Anyhow, I'm as pissed as a wet owl right now. I'm an idiot for running a half-dozen errands in the soaking rain.

Out to dinner.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 23, 2015 06:04 PM (FsuaD)

64 the really hard part is carrying concealed

and sitting down

Posted by: ThunderB, Professional Ball Deflator at January 23, 2015 06:04 PM (zOTsN)

65 I don't believe this. I mean, yes, you can fire fast with a five or ten pound pull on your bow, but not with any accuracy and certainly not with any impact. It's going to just bounce off any degree of armor, even heavy cloth, much less leather or metal.

The little wooden fifty-pound bow I use in my classes regularly bounces off of watermelons.

That shooting technique would have merely annoyed a medieval foot-soldier.

Posted by: Keith Eppich at January 23, 2015 06:05 PM (V72vb)

66 Posted by: Archer Lars Andersen at January 23, 2015 06:02 PM (1CroS)


Love the hash.

Posted by: davidt at January 23, 2015 06:05 PM (fBxC6)

67 "And probably a lot more accurate than some street thug holingd a pistol sideways while crouching behind a car and yelling "I'm gonna cap yo ass!"

Looks like he could put one right down the barrel. I'm impressed. He's an elfy little badass.

Posted by: freaked at January 23, 2015 06:05 PM (JdEZJ)

68 62 >>> Lars has been banned from Medieval Times Restaurant for killing the performers and patrons

Let's not be arguing about 'oo killed 'oo.
Posted by: fluffy at January 23, 2015 06:04 PM (Ua6T/)

You only killed the bride's father, you know.

Posted by: MikeH at January 23, 2015 06:06 PM (4OZqu)

69

OT

the State Department asked Disney about using the film "Frozen" to teach about climate change

back to shooting things

Posted by: ThunderB, Professional Ball Deflator at January 23, 2015 06:06 PM (zOTsN)

70
"Hunting deer with a bow is good, but hunting deer with a salt lick and a stick of dynamite is better."


Sounds kind of messy.


Sort of OT, but did you know you can knock a bird out?

Posted by: HH at January 23, 2015 06:07 PM (Ce4DF)

71 the really hard part is carrying concealed and sitting down
Posted by: ThunderB, Professional Ball Deflator at January 23, 2015 06:04 PM (zOTsN)


---------------------------------------------


I don't even want to know what the quiver would be.

Posted by: Soona at January 23, 2015 06:07 PM (qbgxo)

72 >>> I'm as pissed as a wet owl right now.

You wacky Brits and your wacky colloquialisms!

Posted by: fluffy at January 23, 2015 06:07 PM (Ua6T/)

73 That shooting technique would have merely annoyed a medieval foot-soldier.
Posted by: Keith Eppich at January 23, 2015 06:05 PM (V72vb)

'Tis but a scratch!

Posted by: medieval foot-soldier at January 23, 2015 06:07 PM (4OZqu)

74 Some slight recurvature is perefctly normal! Straightists.

Posted by: Bob's House of Flannel Shirts and Wallet Chains at January 23, 2015 06:08 PM (vgIRn)

75 I wanted longbows in 'Last Temptation' by Jodie Foster talked me out of it. Hell, longbows made 'Braveheart'! Where are my car keys, dammit?!

Posted by: Mel Gibson at Moonshadows on PCH at January 23, 2015 06:08 PM (5voqw)

76 the State Department asked Disney about using the film "Frozen" to teach about climate change

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Maybe we can get a version translated into French for Kerry's next excursion into Fuck Me diplomacy.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at January 23, 2015 06:09 PM (5EljE)

77 Ace,
Do you want me to send you Troll IP address? It's been the same each time I've looked?
Carol

Posted by: Carol at January 23, 2015 06:09 PM (sj3Ax)

78 davidt: "Love the hash."

Ooh, I forgot about that. [*hat tip*] Awesome.

I'll try to pull that out of the quiver on every crossbow thread from now on.

Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at January 23, 2015 06:09 PM (1CroS)

79 Maybe we can get a version translated into French for Kerry's next excursion into F*ck Me diplomacy.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at January 23, 2015 06:09 PM (5EljE)

Draw Me Like One of Your French Girls, John

Posted by: James Taylor at January 23, 2015 06:10 PM (4OZqu)

80 "44
Interesting how the old manuscripts showed a completely different hold
compared to modern archery. I wonder how arrows are positioned in
kyuudo, given that there's about as much ceremony and tradition in it as
accurate targeting.

Posted by: nnptcgrad at January 23, 2015 05:54 PM (Opyrm)"

They put the arrow on the right side of the bow but they use a Mongolian thumb hold instead of the European two or three finger hold. English longbow men used a three finger hold and put the arrow on the left side of the bow. The bows recovered from the sunken ship the Mary Rose changed the perception of English war bows. The bow with the lightest draw was 90 pounds. The heaviest draw was over 220 pounds. Most of the bows had draws between 120 and 190 pounds.

Posted by: Obnoxious A-Hole at January 23, 2015 06:10 PM (KDbAT)

81 Hey now! Where's my hat-tip on this, huh?

But yes, it's super-f***ing-cool.


*raises eyebrow* YOUR h/t?


Who cares? Cool is the point. Love him shooting an arrow in flight in half.

Posted by: Weirddave at January 23, 2015 06:10 PM (WvS3w)

82 Keanu Reeves is great in that first video as the stationary chair.

Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at January 23, 2015 06:10 PM (1CroS)

83 Sort of OT, but did you know you can knock a bird out?
------------------
Go on....

Posted by: Harry Reid, Getting Away With It at January 23, 2015 06:11 PM (VAsIq)

84 Sort of OT, but did you know you can knock a bird out?
Posted by: HH at January 23, 2015 06:07 PM (Ce4DF)

I usually slip a roofie into her drink, esp. if she's underage

Posted by: Prince Andrew at January 23, 2015 06:11 PM (4OZqu)

85 I love that S Korea trolled the Olympics with a blind archer.

The way the event is run at the Olympics, it's such a rote process that even a blind person can dominate.

Posted by: bonhomme at January 23, 2015 06:11 PM (jhqr1)

86

Biden was supposed to go to King Abdullah's funeral

Saudis said he couldn't because he isn't Muslim

(should've sent the JEF)

Posted by: ThunderB, Professional Ball Deflator at January 23, 2015 06:12 PM (zOTsN)

87 I used to be a bowman like Lars until I took a weasel to the knee.


Posted by: Throbbin Hood at January 23, 2015 06:12 PM (6CTxJ)

88 83 Sort of OT, but did you know you can knock a bird out?

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Yes. I do.

Posted by: Bill Cosby at January 23, 2015 06:12 PM (5EljE)

89 The heaviest draw was over 220 pounds. Most of the bows had draws between 120 and 190 pounds.
Posted by: Obnoxious A-Hole at January 23, 2015 06:10 PM (KDbAT)


-------------------------------------------


The squirrels never knew what hit 'em.

Posted by: Soona at January 23, 2015 06:12 PM (qbgxo)

90 ..the State Department asked Disney about using the film "Frozen" to teach about climate change

Of course. It's part of the <10% of kids entertainment that *doesn't* preach about AGW, so by all means, let's spoil that one, too!

Posted by: Lizzy at January 23, 2015 06:14 PM (ABcz/)

91 Stirrups were what allowed the Mongols to stop the German advance on Moscow in 1941.

Posted by: Little Known Historical Facts and Stuff, vol. 1 at January 23, 2015 06:14 PM (5EljE)

92 This was incredibly cool.

I like that both eyes are open.

The accuracy with all the jumping is a, ah, er, amazing.

Posted by: Seems Legit at January 23, 2015 06:14 PM (A98Xu)

93 You think this super worldly and sophisticated administration with such a boner for protocol would know that Biden wouldn't be able to attend before they announced it

Posted by: ThunderB, Professional Ball Deflator at January 23, 2015 06:14 PM (zOTsN)

94 The heaviest draw was over 220 pounds. Most of the bows had draws between 120 and 190 pounds.
Posted by: Obnoxious A-Hole at January 23, 2015 06:10 PM (KDbAT)

How fast will an arrow fly @220 lbs of pull?

Posted by: MikeH at January 23, 2015 06:15 PM (4OZqu)

95 It's been fun, y'all. Don't shoot yourselves in the knee. I'm out.

Posted by: Soona at January 23, 2015 06:15 PM (qbgxo)

96 The bows recovered from the sunken ship the Mary Rose changed the perception of English war bows. The bow with the lightest draw was 90 pounds. The heaviest draw was over 220 pounds. Most of the bows had draws between 120 and 190 pounds.

I've read that archaeologists can tell who are archers by their spinal column. The bow draw weight was so strong that it jacked up their spine.

Posted by: bonhomme at January 23, 2015 06:15 PM (jhqr1)

97 73 That shooting technique would have merely annoyed a medieval foot-soldier.
Posted by: Keith Eppich at January 23, 2015 06:05 PM (V72vb)


Not to argue unnecessarily, but the Mongols kicked the sweet piss out of medieval foot soldiers with at least a similar shooting technique.

Posted by: Bob's House of Flannel Shirts and Wallet Chains at January 23, 2015 06:15 PM (vgIRn)

98 Perhaps we need a Longbows vs. Crossbows MoMee.

Posted by: All Hail Eris at January 23, 2015 06:16 PM (KH1sk)

99 93 You think this super worldly and sophisticated administration with such a boner for protocol would know that Biden wouldn't be able to attend before they announced it
Posted by: ThunderB, Professional Ball Deflator at January 23, 2015 06:14 PM (zOTsN)

He's gonna convert

Posted by: MikeH at January 23, 2015 06:16 PM (4OZqu)

100 I now see Michael Corleone taking the bow and arrows out from behind the
toilet tank to confront the men in the Italian restaurant


Hans Solo only shot first because the other guy had a bow and arrow, and wasn't Lars Anderson.

Posted by: pep at January 23, 2015 06:16 PM (4nR9/)

101 How fast will an arrow fly @220 lbs of pull?
Posted by: MikeH at January 23, 2015 06:15 PM (4OZqu)


African or European?

Posted by: Bob's House of Flannel Shirts and Wallet Chains at January 23, 2015 06:16 PM (vgIRn)

102 Of course. It's part of the
Posted by: Lizzy

All media must advance the cause of National Socialis...I mean, Climate Change.

Posted by: Joseph Goebbels at January 23, 2015 06:16 PM (GuwT9)

103 How fast will an arrow fly @220 lbs of pull?

Posted by: MikeH


African arrow or European arrow?

Posted by: pep at January 23, 2015 06:16 PM (4nR9/)

104 @101
Damn you.

Posted by: pep at January 23, 2015 06:17 PM (4nR9/)

105 Of course. It's part of the

Disney swallowed that Flavor Aid a looooong time ago. Give a listen to Radio Disney, or just watch Fern Gully or Pocahontas sometime if you doubt me.

Posted by: bonhomme at January 23, 2015 06:18 PM (jhqr1)

Posted by: bonhomme at January 23, 2015 06:18 PM (jhqr1)

107 Not to argue unnecessarily, but the Mongols kicked the sweet piss out of medieval foot soldiers with at least a similar shooting technique.
Posted by: Bob's House of Flannel Shirts and Wallet Chains at January 23, 2015 06:15 PM (vgIRn)

"Not to argue unnecessarily" - do you even Ace of Spades, bro?

Posted by: MikeH at January 23, 2015 06:18 PM (4OZqu)

108 the Mongols kicked the sweet piss out of medieval foot soldiers with at least a similar shooting technique.

Only because they kept drawing the uneducable foot soldiers out of their castles, and could then take their time picking them off.

Posted by: pep at January 23, 2015 06:19 PM (4nR9/)

109 Bah! That guy couldn't hit the coconut of a European swallow.

Posted by: Long Bowman at January 23, 2015 06:19 PM (1CroS)

110 Knigggghts too.

Posted by: pep at January 23, 2015 06:19 PM (4nR9/)

111 103 How fast will an arrow fly @220 lbs of pull?

Posted by: MikeH

African arrow or European arrow?
Posted by: pep at January 23, 2015 06:16 PM (4nR9/)

I, I don't know *AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH*

Posted by: MikeH at January 23, 2015 06:19 PM (4OZqu)

112 "Not to argue unnecessarily" - do you even Ace of Spades, bro?

Posted by: MikeH at January 23, 2015 06:18 PM (4OZqu)


Stylebook says all arguing is Necessary... ergo...

It was an Oxymoron Jumbo Shrimp type of statement...

Posted by: BB Wolf at January 23, 2015 06:20 PM (qh617)

113 Stupid Pixy Mesa. the

Posted by: bonhomme at January 23, 2015 06:20 PM (jhqr1)

114 gah!

Posted by: bonhomme at January 23, 2015 06:20 PM (jhqr1)

115 >>>Only because they kept drawing the uneducable foot soldiers out of their castles, and could then take their time picking them off.

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What's the use of having a sally port if you're never going to sally?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at January 23, 2015 06:21 PM (5EljE)

116 Potus shoots a rainbow...

Posted by: OG CELTIC-AMERICAN at January 23, 2015 06:21 PM (XlFLJ)

117 Goddam Mongorians. Reave my wall arone.

Posted by: Welcome to City Wok, take a order prease at January 23, 2015 06:21 PM (GuwT9)

118 Not to argue unnecessarily, but the Mongols kicked the sweet piss out of medieval foot soldiers with at least a similar shooting technique.
Posted by: Bob's House of Flannel Shirts and Wallet Chains at January 23, 2015 06:15 PM (vgIRn)


That's the thing. I don't think the Mongols shot like Mr. Andersen there. I think they shot like this, with heavier bows:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4Br7e_D5jY

Posted by: Keith Eppich at January 23, 2015 06:22 PM (V72vb)

119 115 >>>Only because they kept drawing the uneducable foot soldiers out of their castles, and could then take their time picking them off.

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What's the use of having a sally port if you're never going to sally?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at January 23, 2015 06:21 PM (5EljE)

C'mon you silly foot soldiers, I'm feeling randy.

Posted by: Sally Port at January 23, 2015 06:22 PM (4OZqu)

120 What's the use of having a sally port if you're never going to sally?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at January 23, 2015 06:21 PM (5EljE)


So Sally can come on in??? We don't let da whores live in the Castle ya know...

Posted by: Medival Seargant at January 23, 2015 06:23 PM (qh617)

121 You think this super worldly and sophisticated
administration with such a boner for protocol would know that Biden
wouldn't be able to attend before they announced it

Posted by: ThunderB, Professional Ball Deflator at January 23, 2015 06:14 PM (zOTsN)

Don't forget this is the same DoS that couldn't translate Russian for "Reset" correctly after decades of a cold war against, duh, Russia. The US had Russian linguists that understood every nuance of the language and it's dialects but still screwed it up.
Marie Harf probably still thinks that in KSA they really don't take that religion stuff totes seriously you guys!

Posted by: Hrothgar at January 23, 2015 06:23 PM (ftVQq)

122 "its dialects"

Posted by: Hrothgar at January 23, 2015 06:24 PM (ftVQq)

123 >>Disney swallowed that Flavor Aid a looooong time ago. Give a listen
to Radio Disney, or just watch Fern Gully or Pocahontas sometime if you
doubt me.

Definitely! It's just not jammed into Frozen.
Which is really unusual for kid's entertainment nowadays - you can't escape it. Which was my point: it's freakin' *everywhere* - kids know about it already..

Posted by: Lizzy at January 23, 2015 06:25 PM (ABcz/)

124 Bonhomme- to be fair, Ferngully wasn't a Disney flick. I think it was one of Fox's? Anyway, the only way to watch that abomination is Nostagia Critic's review of it. Truly classic.

Posted by: nnptcgrad at January 23, 2015 06:25 PM (Opyrm)

125 So Sally can come on in??? We don't let da whores live in the Castle ya know...
Posted by: Medival Seargant at January 23, 2015 06:23 PM (qh617)

'ere, 'ere, I ain't no 'hore, I'm a a lady of the evenin' you toff, betcha yorin one of them poufters

Posted by: Sally Port at January 23, 2015 06:25 PM (4OZqu)

126 >>>>>The Ostrogoths were renowned for their skill in styrofoam fabrication.
.
.
.
.Uh no, it was the Visigoths.

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at January 23, 2015 06:26 PM (4oSLk)

127 How fast will an arrow fly @220 lbs of pull?

Not the only variable, so it's hard to say.
You also have to know:
1. Arrow weight
2. Draw length
3. IBO bow speed (used as a sort of standardization measure for bow comparison)

Rough estimate:
1. 350 grain arrow
2. 30 inches draw length
3. 345 IBO
Results in 595 FPS

Posted by: bonhomme at January 23, 2015 06:27 PM (jhqr1)

128 I've read that archaeologists can tell who are
archers by their spinal column. The bow draw weight was so strong that
it jacked up their spine.

Posted by: bonhomme at January 23, 2015 06:15 PM (jhqr1)

It would be interesting to pit Pajama Boy in a cage match against the scrawniest medieval foot soldier you could find.

Posted by: Hrothgar at January 23, 2015 06:27 PM (ftVQq)

129 Biden was supposed to go to King Abdullah's funeral


Perhaps bobby peru for the ex-oil-tick and his mustache.

https://www.youtube.com/ watch?x-yt-ts=1421914688v=fHOqJYk5-zgx-yt-cl=84503534feature=player_embedded





Posted by: DaveA at January 23, 2015 06:28 PM (DL2i+)

130
I shoot a modern compound bow that will shoot 300 FPS with 70 pounds of pull and a carbon arrow. It has 80 percent letoff at full draw

Posted by: King Abdullah at January 23, 2015 06:28 PM (6/J77)

131 Looks like a Japanese temple bow. Not very strong but very accurate.

Posted by: Pat at January 23, 2015 06:28 PM (AivPA)

132 Don't forget this is the same DoS that couldn't translate Russian for "Reset" correctly
Posted by: Hrothgar

In their defense, all of the real Russian linguists were busy keeping up on Russia's LGBTPZMRDVD violations.

Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Indestructible at January 23, 2015 06:29 PM (GuwT9)

133 130
I shoot a modern compound bow that will shoot 300 FPS with 70 pounds of pull and a carbon arrow. It has 80 percent letoff at full draw
Posted by: King Abdullah at January 23, 2015 06:28 PM (6/J77)



I have no idea what language this is.

Posted by: grammie winger, watching the fig tree at January 23, 2015 06:29 PM (dFi94)

134
I've read that archaeologists can tell who are archers by their spinal column. The bow draw weight was so strong that it jacked up their spine.

also by the number of brutal stab wounds, seems when foot soldiers got hold of them they showed no mercy

Posted by: kj at January 23, 2015 06:29 PM (lKyWE)

135 Given the history of the longbow vs. crossbow debate, this post is completely hilarious.

Posted by: alexthechick - Come to us SMOD at January 23, 2015 06:30 PM (IrByp)

136 Disney swallowed that Flavor Aid a looooong time ago. Give a listen to Radio Disney, or just watch Fern Gully or Pocahontas sometime if you doubt me.
Posted by: bonhomme at January 23, 2015 06:18 PM (jhqr1)


The Fox & Hound?

Or that marxist witch abomination with Penis Van Lesbian. Ugh.

Posted by: Anderson Cooper's Smoked Sausages at January 23, 2015 06:30 PM (MbqmP)

137 In their defense, all of the real Russian linguists were busy keeping up on Russia's LGBTPZMRDVD violations.

Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Indestructible at January 23, 2015 06:29 PM (GuwT9)

I know, priorities are so important!

Posted by: Hrothgar at January 23, 2015 06:30 PM (ftVQq)

138 Biden is going with a delegation to pay his respects but will not be able to attend the funeral

hilarity will ensue

Posted by: ThunderB, Professional Ball Deflator at January 23, 2015 06:30 PM (zOTsN)

139 These bows are cool and all, but can we get back to talking about Bradley Cooper...and how dreamy he is?

Posted by: FDR's Television at January 23, 2015 06:30 PM (ne2fm)

140 That's some serious bad assery!

Posted by: fly gal at January 23, 2015 06:30 PM (8TdcF)

141 In their defense, all of the real Russian linguists were busy keeping up on Russia's LGBTPZMRDVD violations.
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Indestructible at January 23, 2015 06:29 PM (GuwT9)

and try saying "LGBTPZMRDVD" with a full mouth while trying to stay looking fabulous

Posted by: State Dept. Rainbow Russian linguists at January 23, 2015 06:31 PM (4OZqu)

142 I bet Netanyahu is pretty good with a longbow.Meanwhile,president girlie man couldn't even draw one.

Posted by: steevy at January 23, 2015 06:31 PM (v5UtH)

143 How fast will an arrow fly @220 lbs of pull?
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An African or European arrow?

Posted by: Turd Ferguson at January 23, 2015 06:32 PM (VAsIq)

144 Bonhomme- to be fair, Ferngully wasn't a Disney flick. I think it was one of Fox's?

Ah, you are correct. It was 20th Century Fox.

Posted by: bonhomme at January 23, 2015 06:32 PM (jhqr1)

145 g to pit Pajama Boy in a cage match

He'd fatally injure himself trying to close the cage.

Posted by: DaveA at January 23, 2015 06:32 PM (DL2i+)

146 Meanwhile,president girlie man couldn't even draw one.
Posted by: steevy at January 23, 2015 06:31 PM (v5UtH)


What do you mean? Give me a pencil, a few hundred sheet of paper, & two weeks, & I'll bet you I can get Bill Ayers to draw an excellent bow for you.

Posted by: Barry Soetoro-Robinson at January 23, 2015 06:32 PM (MbqmP)

147 "Given the history of the longbow vs. crossbow debate"


...and the denial of what they see with their own eyes.

Posted by: Hey Zeus Smith at January 23, 2015 06:33 PM (q/aTs)

148 Given the history of the longbow vs. crossbow debate, this post is completely hilarious.
---
Has it ever been decided by morons on the field of battle? Like after a few bottles of Wild Turkey?

Posted by: All Hail Eris at January 23, 2015 06:33 PM (KH1sk)

149 142 I bet Netanyahu is pretty good with a longbow.Meanwhile,president girlie man couldn't even draw one.
Posted by: steevy at January 23, 2015 06:31 PM (v5UtH)

You are SO wrong, Valarie get me a piece of paper and my crayons, I'll show you...

Posted by: Obumbles at January 23, 2015 06:33 PM (4OZqu)

150 "Not to argue unnecessarily" - do you even Ace of Spades, bro?
Posted by: MikeH at January 23, 2015 06:18 PM (4OZqu)




My bad. So many pissing matches lately, and I am (thank the Lord) in a positive mood for a change.

Posted by: Bob's House of Flannel Shirts and Wallet Chains at January 23, 2015 06:33 PM (vgIRn)

151 Hrothgar: "It would be interesting to pit Pajama Boy in a cage match against the scrawniest medieval foot soldier you could find."

A grizzly taking on a salmon would be more civil and bloodless.

Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at January 23, 2015 06:33 PM (1CroS)

152 @138 Biden is going with a delegation to pay his respects but will not be able to attend the funeral
--------------------

Margaret Thatcher could not be reached for comment.

Posted by: junior at January 23, 2015 06:34 PM (UWFpX)

153 Off damn sock. It's archery language Grammy W

Posted by: The Jackhole at January 23, 2015 06:34 PM (6/J77)

154 Any physicists around who can answer me this question? If the bow has a draw weight of 220 lbs, does the guy drawing it have to weigh more than 220 lbs?

Posted by: right wing whippersnapper at January 23, 2015 06:35 PM (ThxKk)

155 PJ boys only defense against physical attack is to shit and puke himself.

Posted by: steevy at January 23, 2015 06:35 PM (v5UtH)

156 My bad. So many pissing matches lately, and I am (thank the Lord) in a positive mood for a change.
Posted by: Bob's House of Flannel Shirts and Wallet Chains at January 23, 2015 06:33 PM (vgIRn)

so, what's better for a pissing match, beer or water?

I think a flagon of beer sets up nicely in the bladder but the alcohol may throw off your aim...

Posted by: MikeH at January 23, 2015 06:35 PM (4OZqu)

157 Best part of the lawsuit -- they are the wife and ex-wife of Jeff Dunham, the terrorist puppet guy.

New wife sues, claiming ex-wife registered domain names in the new wife's new name http://wapo.st/1t6EVp8

Posted by: Costanza Defense at January 23, 2015 06:36 PM (ZPrif)

158 Or that marxist witch abomination with Penis Van Lesbian. Ugh.

Do you mean Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe, with Tilda Swinton as the White Witch?

Posted by: bonhomme at January 23, 2015 06:37 PM (jhqr1)

159 The problem with the longbow was the quandry of it's shooters getting raped by experts in the crossbow arts.

Posted by: Dr Spank at January 23, 2015 06:37 PM (XVNm3)

160 weigh more than 220 lbs?

No, It's 220# between the staff and the string. Unless he's trying to draw it by hooking it on a tree and hanging from the string.

or did I miss a joke?

Posted by: DaveA at January 23, 2015 06:37 PM (DL2i+)

161 Margaret Thatcher could not be reached for comment.
Posted by: junior at January 23, 2015 06:34 PM (UWFpX)

I'm too busy arm wrestling Stalin in the weekly Heaven/Hell mixer, got him where I want him...

Posted by: Margaret Thatcher at January 23, 2015 06:38 PM (4OZqu)

162 meanwhile, Argentina now claims "rogue" intelligence agents are responsible for the murder of the prosecutor who was to testify the next day on the president's involvement in the bombing of the Jewish center that killed 85 and injured over 200. And Iran was behind that too

Posted by: ThunderB, Professional Ball Deflator at January 23, 2015 06:38 PM (zOTsN)

163 Just to keep things rolling along, the Chinese had invented a semi-automatic assault crossbow about a thousand years ago.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 23, 2015 06:38 PM (9qt0N)

164 154 Any physicists around who can answer me this question? If the bow has a draw weight of 220 lbs, does the guy drawing it have to weigh more than 220 lbs?


Posted by: right wing whippersnapper at January 23, 2015 06:35 PM (ThxKk)


Nah... but if is draw weight is bigger than his actual weight... the bow becomes a flying machine in case of emergency...

Posted by: Acme, Medival Weapons Division at January 23, 2015 06:38 PM (qh617)

165 Lars concludes his video performing the ultimate archery trick, splitting an incoming arrow with one of his own. Heh, the video said, "Don't try this at home."

Posted by: davidt at January 23, 2015 06:38 PM (fBxC6)

166 or did I miss a joke?


Posted by: DaveA at January 23, 2015 06:37 PM (DL2i+)
No, you didn't miss anything; I was just demonstrating my lack of critical thinking skills. If I'd been paying attention, I'd have remembered that weightlifters can lift more than their own body weights. So, shame on me.

Posted by: right wing whippersnapper at January 23, 2015 06:39 PM (ThxKk)

167 I'm listening to Ace's podcast and he really loses it over the Kerry/James Taylor fiasco. He has no more fucks to give, and yet he flings fast furious fucks with abandon. He's halfway into the podcast and still has almost a full quiver of fucks. It's hilarious!

Posted by: All Hail Eris at January 23, 2015 06:39 PM (KH1sk)

168
>>-----------> >>----------->


pew, pew

Posted by: The Jackhole at January 23, 2015 06:40 PM (6/J77)

169 That's the thing. I don't think the Mongols shot like Mr. Andersen there. I think they shot like this, with heavier bows:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4Br7e_D5jY
Posted by: Keith Eppich at January 23, 2015 06:22 PM (V72vb)




Interesting. I am no expert, to be sure.


Side note, Dan Carlin's podcast on the Mongols is worth a listen.

Posted by: Bob's House of Flannel Shirts and Wallet Chains at January 23, 2015 06:40 PM (vgIRn)

170 So has Joey Bidet asked his Saudi National Guard escort anything like oh ... "I know all about Islam, now get me a shot of whiskey and BLT."

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 23, 2015 06:40 PM (9qt0N)

171 Lars Anderson meets Lars von Trier.

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at January 23, 2015 06:41 PM (l3vZN)

172 >>-----------> >>----------->


pew, pew


Posted by: The Jackhole at January 23, 2015 06:40 PM (6/J77)
Heh. I guess 'swish, thud' doesn't have the same ring to it.

Posted by: right wing whippersnapper at January 23, 2015 06:41 PM (ThxKk)

173 I know this is off topic, but we all hate obama so here goes:
the justification for not meeting with Bibi now is that the white house does not want to appear as influencing a "democratic election" - how many of his progressive supporters maintain that Israel is an apartheid state? Can someone shout this from the rooftops that has a microphone? that obama just cleared it up for all of us, this administration is on the record now saying that the elections in Israel are IN FACT democratic and not somehow corrupt or whatever, but definitely not that of an "apartheid" state?

Posted by: Chelsea Danger at January 23, 2015 06:41 PM (SZWTt)

174 see the President of Argentina covered up the terrorist attack by Iranian agents for commercial contracts

a little pay for play on the backs of dead Jewish Argentinians

Posted by: ThunderB, Professional Ball Deflator at January 23, 2015 06:41 PM (zOTsN)

175 How fast will an arrow fly @220 lbs of pull?
Posted by: MikeH at January 23, 2015 06:15 PM (4OZqu)

African or European?


Speaking of ... didja know that Longbowmen used swallowtail arrows to bring down horses?

Posted by: bonhomme at January 23, 2015 06:42 PM (jhqr1)

176 he saw David Cameron shortly before Camerons election

he himself toured European capitals in the run up to his election, both of them

its all a lie

Posted by: ThunderB, Professional Ball Deflator at January 23, 2015 06:43 PM (zOTsN)

177 Posted by: Keith Eppich at January 23, 2015 06:22 PM (V72vb)

I bet the Mongols argued about how to shoot too...

Posted by: BB Wolf at January 23, 2015 06:43 PM (qh617)

178 Speaking of ... didja know that Longbowmen used swallowtail arrows to bring down horses?
Posted by: bonhomme at January 23, 2015 06:42 PM (jhqr1)

They didn't have to do that. All they had to do was start playing those Sarah MacLaughlin ASPCA commercials...

Posted by: Horses at January 23, 2015 06:43 PM (4OZqu)

179 >> I know this is off topic, but we all hate obama so here goes

----

...All of you?

Posted by: Obama at January 23, 2015 06:44 PM (VAsIq)

180 My uncle was killed with a longbow. My family taught me that longbowman were the worst cowards, except for invaders.

Posted by: JohnnyBoy at January 23, 2015 06:45 PM (TPjwz)

181 What, you mean high-capacity quivers don't make them more lethal and all assault-bow like?

Cool stuff.

Posted by: Rolf at January 23, 2015 06:45 PM (H+WqQ)

182 179 >> I know this is off topic, but we all hate obama so here goes

----

...All of you?
Posted by: Obama at January 23, 2015 06:44 PM (VAsIq)

I don't hate Obama, I despise him.

Posted by: MikeH at January 23, 2015 06:45 PM (4OZqu)

183 Anna Puma

in Venice at the museum of the Doge's residence there is indeed something that looks like an "automatic" or machine gun style bow that was created by de Vinci.

Posted by: ThunderB, Professional Ball Deflator at January 23, 2015 06:45 PM (zOTsN)

184 Anna Puma: "Just to keep things rolling along, the Chinese had invented a semi-automatic assault crossbow about a thousand years ago."

And the Mongols sued because it had a handle with a thing that went up. The Hong Kong Times' foodie and economics experts were aghast at the concept.

Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at January 23, 2015 06:45 PM (1CroS)

185 I tried to buy some wooden arrows recently.
They don't seem to make them any more.
Everything is carbon fiber.

I've killed 6 deer with wooden arrows, 60 lb Fred Bear takedown.

I guess I'm too old.

Posted by: jwb7605 at January 23, 2015 06:45 PM (ZALPg)

186 If you are going to talk of the Mongols and their bows, then you better remember the horse that carried them into war - Akhal Teke.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 23, 2015 06:46 PM (9qt0N)

187 177 Posted by: Keith Eppich at January 23, 2015 06:22 PM (V72vb)

I bet the Mongols argued about how to shoot too...
Posted by: BB Wolf at January 23, 2015 06:43 PM (qh617)

You can be damn sure we didn't shoot "hood" style

Posted by: Mongols at January 23, 2015 06:46 PM (4OZqu)

188 Posted by: Chelsea Danger at January 23, 2015 06:41 PM (SZWTt)

Uh... he is head of Parliament... not President.

He is not directly elected by the People... or only like a US Congressman is...

Posted by: BB Wolf at January 23, 2015 06:47 PM (qh617)

189 Everything is carbon fiber.

Including wood.

Posted by: Anderson Cooper's Smoked Sausages at January 23, 2015 06:48 PM (MbqmP)

190
speaking of movies...

The Drop was pretty good.

Posted by: Soothsayer of The Righteous And Harmonious Fists at January 23, 2015 06:48 PM (uEuCw)

191 I feel this Tartar woman is for me, and my blood says, take her. There are moments for wisdom and moments when I listen to my blood; my blood says, take this Tartar woman.

Posted by: John "Temujin" Wayne at January 23, 2015 06:49 PM (4OZqu)

192 ...60 lb Fred Bear takedown.

I guess I'm too old.
Posted by: jwb7605 at January 23, 2015 06:45 PM (ZALPg)

You killed Yogi... you bastard

Posted by: Boo Boo the Bear at January 23, 2015 06:50 PM (4OZqu)

193
anyone here ever find a genuine injun arrowhead?

Posted by: Soothsayer of The Righteous And Harmonious Fists at January 23, 2015 06:50 PM (uEuCw)

194 BB Wolf at January 23, 2015 06:47 PM (qh617)

sure thing, but the point is, white house now official policy is that they don't want to interfere with a democratic election . . . their words

Posted by: Chelsea Danger at January 23, 2015 06:51 PM (SZWTt)

195 He's sorta like the Jerry Miculek of the longbow. And I don't think even Jerry would let someone shoot at him just to see if he could shoot down the other guy's bullet. Grabbing it out of the air and shooting it back is right out of the question...

Posted by: PabloD at January 23, 2015 06:51 PM (W+7p8)

196 Did you see them in the river?
They were there to wave to you
Could you tell that the empty quivered
Brown skinned Indian on the banks
That were crowded and narrow
Held a broken arrow?

Posted by: Kneel Young at January 23, 2015 06:51 PM (zxQ4h)

197 ThunderB, here is a video of a Chinese repeating crossbow. Not at all like de Vinci.

http://youtu.be/ZDeAxTxzorE

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 23, 2015 06:51 PM (9qt0N)

198 anyone here ever find a genuine injun arrowhead?

Posted by: Soothsayer of The Righteous And Harmonious Fists at January 23, 2015 06:50 PM (uEuCw)
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Native American, please. And yes, we used to find them on our property.

Posted by: All Hail Eris at January 23, 2015 06:52 PM (KH1sk)

199 If you are going to talk of the Mongols and their
bows, then you better remember the horse that carried them into war -
Akhal Teke.


Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 23, 2015 06:46 PM (9qt0N) Possible. Akhal Teke's are a bit too tall to be Mongol ponies. They probably rode something more like Caspian horses, which are actually pony sized, but for some reason are called 'horses'.

Posted by: right wing whippersnapper at January 23, 2015 06:52 PM (ThxKk)

200 'Anyone here ever find a genuine injun arrowhead? '

Oh yes many times. It's always a thrill. Some many stories I could tell you about that.

Posted by: freaked at January 23, 2015 06:52 PM (JdEZJ)

201
Redskin.

Posted by: Soothsayer of The Righteous And Harmonious Fists at January 23, 2015 06:53 PM (uEuCw)

202 ThunderB, here is a video of a Chinese repeating crossbow. Not at all like de Vinci.

http://youtu.be/ZDeAxTxzorE
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 23, 2015 06:51 PM (9qt0N)
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Okay I want this.

Posted by: All Hail Eris at January 23, 2015 06:54 PM (KH1sk)

203 201
Redskin.
Posted by: Soothsayer of The Righteous And Harmonious Fists at January 23, 2015 06:53 PM (uEuCw)

Potatoes?

Posted by: MikeH at January 23, 2015 06:54 PM (4OZqu)

204 Well, I posted this on an earlier thread, but this is even more appropriate. NC State champion archer.

Video is from 1957. She is now in her mid 70's. I have by-chance lunch with her occasionally at a local lunch counter.

http://tinyurl.com/o6tlyh4
Posted by: Mike Hammer

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 23, 2015 06:55 PM (028dR)

205 Chelsea Danger@173,

I've put the Obama Administration on permanent mute. I don't give half a flying ckuf what it says about anything. Their words are a meaningless drone of a word salad. Whatever they say is wrong, bad for the country, and, yes, has real consequences; but what can you do at this point? We have to depend on an opposition party that won't really oppose.

So I've prescribed to Fuckitol. When this administration speaks, I turn my head, turn the channel, or jab steel Q-tips in my ears, whichever is most convenient.

Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at January 23, 2015 06:55 PM (1CroS)

206 Just in case the Claymore sword you got gets wedged in a rafter beam All Hail Eris?

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 23, 2015 06:56 PM (9qt0N)

207 That archery chit was sick! Thanks!

Posted by: JohnDoe@AnotherQuidam fka eureka! at January 23, 2015 06:56 PM (3s1Os)

208
they make baby potatoes
ever see these things?
so cute.

Posted by: Soothsayer of The Righteous And Harmonious Fists at January 23, 2015 06:56 PM (uEuCw)

209 Anna that is pretty cool and the design is so simple

Posted by: ThunderB, Professional Ball Deflator at January 23, 2015 06:57 PM (zOTsN)

210 That was one time, Anna Puma! ONE time!

Posted by: All Hail Eris at January 23, 2015 06:57 PM (KH1sk)

211 All of us down at the Brattleboro Women's Reproductive Health Choice
Clinic think President Obama should shut down that horrible school "The Citadel' in Virgina for being racist. We just saw the movie called "The Lords of Dicsipline" and it was so racist against persons of color.

Posted by: Mary Clogginstien from Brattleboro, VT at January 23, 2015 06:58 PM (Sd++4)

212 Well, I posted this on an earlier thread, but this is even more appropriate. NC State champion archer.



Video is from 1957. She is now in her mid 70's. I have by-chance lunch with her occasionally at a local lunch counter.



http://tinyurl.com/o6tlyh4

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 23, 2015 06:55 PM (028dR)

That's pretty cool. Do you know if she still shoots?

Posted by: right wing whippersnapper at January 23, 2015 06:58 PM (ThxKk)

213 Just read this FML, whose the Moron?

Today, I witnessed my husband in the shower singing Chicago's "You're the Inspiration" to his penis while manscaping. I guess that's a bond we'll never have. FML

Posted by: MikeH at January 23, 2015 06:58 PM (4OZqu)

214 All Hail Eris, well look at EC. He set himself on fire once... and what do people now say???

ThunderB, it is pretty nifty for a home defense weapon.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 23, 2015 07:00 PM (9qt0N)

215
6 inches of snow for tomorrow, they say

it'll be our first significant snowfall so far

Posted by: Soothsayer of The Righteous And Harmonious Fists at January 23, 2015 07:00 PM (uEuCw)

216 Manscaping? Probably hector. Does hector have a husband?

Posted by: Anderson Cooper's Smoked Sausages at January 23, 2015 07:00 PM (MbqmP)

217 That was one time, Anna Puma! ONE time!

Posted by: All Hail Eris at January 23, 2015 06:57 PM (KH1sk)
You got a claymore stuck in the rafters? *applauds*I'm having sudden visions of that scene in the first Pirates of the Caribbean movie, where one guy gets a sword stuck in the door so it won't open.

Posted by: right wing whippersnapper at January 23, 2015 07:01 PM (ThxKk)

218 200 posts in and no one has put up avid of the hot, flexible, archery girl???

For shame!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FkxMM9mc1k

Posted by: ashamed of the Horde at January 23, 2015 07:01 PM (LKBn6)

219 But first you will bow me!!!

Posted by: Mel at January 23, 2015 07:01 PM (L6/+u)

220 Does hector have a husband?

Probably married to a non-sacred bloviating bovine full of rancid cud.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 23, 2015 07:02 PM (9qt0N)

221 That's pretty cool. Do you know if she still shoots?
Posted by: right wing
---------------------

No. But when I mined up the video, which she had never seen, she was immediately critical of her release.

Her father's story is pretty cool too. He had to pay his own way to Prague to compete in the World Championship. Just a small town guy, who worked in a paper mill.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 23, 2015 07:02 PM (028dR)

222 Just looked out the window. The White Death comes! Hunker down!

Posted by: All Hail Eris at January 23, 2015 07:02 PM (KH1sk)

223 @197 ThunderB, here is a video of a Chinese repeating crossbow. Not at all like de Vinci.

http://youtu.be/ZDeAxTxzorE
-------------------

Seen them before. It's a neat design.

Warhammer's Dark Elves use a design that's similar, with the cartridge box mounted on top of the crossbow. But their design uses the standard trigger instead of the "pump the cartridge" mechanism that the historical bows used.

I'm not sure how well the fantasy version would work in real life.

Posted by: junior at January 23, 2015 07:02 PM (UWFpX)

224 If its snowing around the Five Sided Puzzle Palace remember what Jack Ryan said in Sum of All Fears, "If they make it they are probably KGB. Shoot them."

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 23, 2015 07:04 PM (9qt0N)

225 where's Jane?

I just went in the back yard and there is an owl back there

whats up with that

Posted by: ThunderB, Professional Ball Deflator at January 23, 2015 07:05 PM (zOTsN)

226 where's Jane?

I just went in the back yard and there is an owl back there

whats up with that


She's attending Hogwarts now, & is going to turn you into a newt.

Posted by: Anderson Cooper's Smoked Sausages at January 23, 2015 07:06 PM (MbqmP)

227 right wing - Her dad has his own wiki entry. Excerpt:

"Smathers was not selected for the United States representation at the 1957 World Archery Championships in Prague, Czechoslovakia, which was the first championships to which the US sent a full team, but paid his own expenses to attend.[2][3] He went on to win the men's championships in the most successful ever World Archery Championships for the United States, winning all three medals in both men's and women's competitions and both team championships, a record that has not been matched since. Smathers became the first US world champion since Donald MacKenzie in 1933."

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 23, 2015 07:06 PM (028dR)

228 That is pretty impressive.

Yes, that's an understatement, but I had to say something.

Posted by: rickl at January 23, 2015 07:07 PM (sdi6R)

229 My Husband and Son both shoot Compound bows.... They bot h got a deer this year. I can't even make the string move at all. Those suckers are hard to pull

Posted by: hello, it's Me Donna ....again at January 23, 2015 07:09 PM (Bn6aD)

230 Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 23, 2015 07:06 PM (028dR)

Neat stuff. I'm fascinated by stories of seemingly ordinary people who work to develop an amazing talent, and at the end of the day, they're still ordinary, except for being amazingly talented at their hobbies.

Posted by: right wing whippersnapper at January 23, 2015 07:11 PM (ThxKk)

231 Those bows sure could take some air out of your balls, eh?

Posted by: Bill Bullichuck at January 23, 2015 07:13 PM (Dwehj)

232
My favorite hobby is crushing conservative balls!

Posted by: Sir Hillary Rodham at January 23, 2015 07:14 PM (P330y)

233 Blow Me Clogginstien and the horse you road in !!!

Posted by: Mary Dipshitstien from Idiotsboro, VT at January 23, 2015 07:15 PM (gPEjB)

234 The best domestic wood for making bows is Beaudarc, also called Osage Orange. The name Beau D'arc is French for "good for bows." They learned it (the technology, not the French name) from the Indians. A lot of people also simply know it as "Bodock", and was used a lot for fence posts because of it's hardness and rot resistance. A lot of time the green wood would root and sprout, and that's why it's usually found along treelines and fencerows. The wood is a strange yellow color, and will make sparks fly from your chainsaw. Also, watch out for the wicked thorns.

Posted by: bergerbilder at January 23, 2015 07:15 PM (8MjqI)

235 "My favorite hobby is crushing conservative balls!"
-Posted by: Sir Hillary Rodham at January 23, 2015 07:14 PM (P330y)

Good thing you're so terrible at it, Shrillary.

Posted by: ColdBeer1 (Slap) (T) at January 23, 2015 07:15 PM (16bOT)

236 Wasn't there a chick features a few years back who really, really loved her bow?

Posted by: Garrett at January 23, 2015 07:16 PM (2Kd4o)

237 Neat stuff. I'm fascinated by stories of seemingly ordinary people who work to develop an amazing talent, and at the end of the day, they're still ordinary, except for being amazingly talented at their hobbies.
--------------

His daughter says that her dad decided that if he wasn't particularly good at anything else, he thought he could be good at archery. He was a humble guy.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 23, 2015 07:17 PM (U93Mr)

238 "The best domestic wood for making bows is Beaudarc, also called Osage Orange. Also, watch out for the wicked thorns."
-Posted by: bergerbilder at January 23, 2015 07:15 PM (8MjqI)

The fruit of these trees are called, colloquially, "Monkey Balls". They are green, softball-sized beauties that are heavy for their size. They are inedible.

Uses for the "Monkey Balls" include:

-Throwing at mailboxes until you get arrested.
-Throwing at street signs until you get arrested.
-Throwing at anything breakable from a '73 Plymouth Scamp...

...until you get arrested.

Posted by: ColdBeer1 (Slap) (T) at January 23, 2015 07:20 PM (16bOT)

239 Sorry, Osage Orange bow linkage:
http://www.osageorange.com/

Posted by: bergerbilder at January 23, 2015 07:20 PM (8MjqI)

240 Huh, I've seen Bois d'arc (bow wood) but not Beau d'arc (bon?). Yea, the osage orange (we always called it hedge apple) is a nasty weed. Good to know it was considered useful for something.

Posted by: Anderson Cooper's Smoked Sausages at January 23, 2015 07:23 PM (MbqmP)

241 Well I went looking for a decent food joint place around Andrews AFB and found out the only thing around Andrews AFB was traffic and lousy neighborhoods. Which left Burger King on base and now I feel like puking

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 23, 2015 07:23 PM (PD4XU)

242 ColdBeer, your Dad must have got pissed putting up bail after a while. And a Scamp? You owe me a monitor!

Posted by: Old Blue at January 23, 2015 07:25 PM (vVSOO)

243 I need this book on Chinese siege warfare:

http://www.trebuchet.com/92904

Love the tagline for the site: Trebuchet: the atomic bomb of the middle ages.

Posted by: All Hail Eris at January 23, 2015 07:25 PM (KH1sk)

244 When I was a lad I actually had a cross-bow. It had an 80 pound pull, and you had to put it on the ground with your foot in the stirrup to cock it (easy here gang).

Problem was, after I bought it, I found out it was illegal to use the damn thing outside of target practice. This was in AZ, and I couldn't even use it to hunt varmints.

Man that pissed me off.

Posted by: HH at January 23, 2015 07:26 PM (Ce4DF)

245 And a beer! And a kleenex. Snorting beer out your nostrils creates all kinds of havoc!

Posted by: Old Blue at January 23, 2015 07:26 PM (vVSOO)

246 As long as I have firearms and ammunition, I won't need to use my bow. I hope.

Posted by: Eromero at January 23, 2015 07:28 PM (go5uR)

247 I think the Air Farce Base in Washighton DC should be renamed for Presdent Obama. That way it will a Base of Peace.

Posted by: Mary Clogginstien from Brattleboro, VT at January 23, 2015 07:30 PM (Sd++4)

248
I believe "wrist-rockets" are illegal here in MA.
a.k.a. slingshots

Yeah, we can't even slingshots. Or nunchucks. Or chinese stars here in MA.

Posted by: Soothsayer of The Righteous And Harmonious Fists at January 23, 2015 07:30 PM (uEuCw)

249 I think the Air Farce Base in Washighton DC should be renamed for Presdent Obama.

Yes. We'll call it Toonces Field.

Posted by: Bill Bullichuck at January 23, 2015 07:31 PM (Dwehj)

250 "And a beer! And a kleenex. Snorting beer out your nostrils creates all kinds of havoc!"
-Posted by: Old Blue at January 23, 2015 07:26 PM (vVSOO)

*HAH!*

*shoves Warsteiner through USB port*

...and a Kleenex.

Yeah... Dad was pissed. I was sixteen and had a landscaping job, though. Between the four of us, we had to pay over two-hundred bucks apiece.

I was simply the driver who called out who hit the "target".

...laughing hideously.

...until we got arrested.

Posted by: ColdBeer1 (Slap) (T) at January 23, 2015 07:31 PM (16bOT)

251 Well I went looking for a decent food joint place around Andrews AFB and
found out the only thing around Andrews AFB was traffic and lousy
neighborhoods. Which left Burger King on base and now I feel like puking


How far did you want to go? Lot's of good Pho restaurants in that neighborhood (within a couple of exits on 495)

Posted by: Weirddave at January 23, 2015 07:32 PM (WvS3w)

252 Sooth, it's ironic that the British got their noses bloodied by trying to take arms away from the colonists living in Mass. Now it sounds like you could get arrested for carrying a concealed weapon if you're found with a straw and a piece of paper. You might make spitwads and shoot them at politicians.

Posted by: Old Blue at January 23, 2015 07:32 PM (vVSOO)

253
Pepper spray is also restricted in MA.

Posted by: Soothsayer of The Righteous And Harmonious Fists at January 23, 2015 07:34 PM (uEuCw)

254 I believe "wrist-rockets" are illegal here in MA.
--------
Oh, my dad gave me a metal wrist rocket as a kid, with a big ol' bag of lead shot. I all that "good parenting", but these days you'd get a visit from CPS. Thank Crom we lived in the sticks.

Posted by: All Hail Eris at January 23, 2015 07:34 PM (KH1sk)

255 "call".

Posted by: All Hail Eris at January 23, 2015 07:34 PM (KH1sk)

256 ...oh. Forgot about the Court Fine. That was another two-hundred bucks.

Many, many mailbox owners were happy to see a bunch of juvenile miscreants get their "come-uppance".

I worked the rest of that Summer, (three Months), to pay that off.

Posted by: ColdBeer1 (Slap) (T) at January 23, 2015 07:34 PM (16bOT)

257 Saracen = Hagarine = Muslim
I think.

I'm reading Ivanhoe and that's the term that Scott uses.

Posted by: bananaDream at January 23, 2015 07:36 PM (vLk7c)

258 My Old Dad used a wrist rocket to protect his strawberries from squirrels. He got pretty good with it to. He could peg 'em between the eyes at fifty feet. Squirrel never knew what hit it. They quit messing with the strawberries after a fair number of casualties.

Posted by: Old Blue at January 23, 2015 07:36 PM (vVSOO)

259 How far did you want to go? Lot's of good Pho restaurants in that neighborhood (within a couple of exits on 495)
Posted by: Weirddave at January 23, 2015 07:32 PM (WvS3w)

It was getting dark, I was hungry, and I was lost. Tomorrow night I'll find a good place. Yeah I never got on 495.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 23, 2015 07:37 PM (PD4XU)

260 Didn't know what a sling-bow was. Duh. Found this $5 sling bow build. Amazing.

http://tinyurl.com/jwgovqz

Posted by: Badda Bing at January 23, 2015 07:37 PM (klaU/)

261
Well, we were shooting bent nails...into whatever. That might've had something to do with the ban.

Posted by: Soothsayer of The Righteous And Harmonious Fists at January 23, 2015 07:38 PM (uEuCw)

262 I worked the rest of that Summer, (three Months), to pay that off.

Posted by: ColdBeer1 (Slap) (T) at January 23, 2015 07:34 PM (16bOT)
---------Builds character. Owning up to your responsibilities and all that. But you can't tell me that it wasn't fun while it lasted. Or until you got arrested.

Posted by: Old Blue at January 23, 2015 07:38 PM (vVSOO)

263 Phenomenal!
Thx, Ace.

Posted by: outarange guy at January 23, 2015 07:38 PM (fWmM0)

264 "Now it sounds like you could get arrested for carrying a concealed weapon if you're found with a straw and a piece of paper. You might make spitwads and shoot them at politicians."

Forget the paper. That's what the wrapper is for. (could save some concealed weapons charges.)

Posted by: bergerbilder at January 23, 2015 07:39 PM (8MjqI)

265 Never knew you could get motion sickness from watching a bird cam. Windy as hell here.

Anyhow, sat next to an old gent at the bar at dinner tonight. Served in the Air Force in missile defense and big boom splodey stuff. Nice old guy.


Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 23, 2015 07:39 PM (FsuaD)

266 Plymouth Scamp ... LOL! Cute story.

Posted by: sinmi on the phone at January 23, 2015 07:40 PM (dlVU2)

267
Found this $5 sling bow build. Amazing.

not bad at all

Posted by: Soothsayer of The Righteous And Harmonious Fists at January 23, 2015 07:42 PM (uEuCw)

268 I'm sitting here floor tillering a shagbark hickory selfbow with a natural recurve. It's gonna be a doozy.

Posted by: Xavier at January 23, 2015 07:42 PM (LRI8F)

269
I would substitute the rubber bands for plastic wire ties.

Posted by: Soothsayer of The Righteous And Harmonious Fists at January 23, 2015 07:43 PM (uEuCw)

270 Anyhow, sat next to an old gent at the bar at dinner
tonight. Served in the Air Force in missile defense and big boom
splodey stuff. Nice old guy.




Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 23, 2015 07:39 PM (FsuaD)
------------------I was working the THAAD (Terminal High Altitude Area Defense) project up until I retired in September. A lot of really great people on that project. I tried to get them to send me to Eniwetok atoll for a missile launch, but they wouldn't spring for the okeydoke. I really wanted to see the big boom splodey stuff.

Posted by: Old Blue at January 23, 2015 07:45 PM (vVSOO)

271 I drove a '68 Valiant. Couldn't get arrested if I tried.

Posted by: bergerbilder at January 23, 2015 07:46 PM (8MjqI)

272 -Posted by: Old Blue at January 23, 2015 07:38 PM (vVSOO)

Like I said, I laughed like a hyena all that night.

...until I got arrested.

At sixteen, when my Dad showed-up?

...I cried. Nothing says "responsibility" like explaining what you've done; to your Father.

I also "sniffled" in court, but my buddies were there. (Stiff upper-lip). We all stood in front of the Mayor and got the list of damages... (over a grand).

At least twenty people who we'd done damage to had shown-up and applauded after the Mayor found us guilty.

I didn't drive that '73 Plymouth Scamp until I had paid-off my debts.

It was a triumph of justice! LOL.

Posted by: ColdBeer1 (Slap) (T) at January 23, 2015 07:47 PM (16bOT)

273 Snowstorm a'comin'! Getting my bread, bacon, beer and cigs! Another great football weekend hunkered down! 2015 has been great so far!

Posted by: White Death! at January 23, 2015 07:48 PM (5voqw)

274 Rose City Archery still sells cedar arrows .

Posted by: awkward davies at January 23, 2015 07:48 PM (Z+Mqb)

275
Learning how to tie knots is on my To-Do List. It's just another important thing that I never bothered to learn in my yute.

Posted by: Soothsayer of The Righteous And Harmonious Fists at January 23, 2015 07:50 PM (uEuCw)

276 ColdBeer, I can truly sympathize with your plight *ahem, personal experience, ahem*. But I have to admit, you've got me laughing.
*Pushes Heineken through USB port*
Cheers! Here's to being young, dumb and full of....you know.

Posted by: Old Blue at January 23, 2015 07:51 PM (vVSOO)

277 When I got my cross-bow, I aimed it at a wooden fence and fired. The bolt went in about a half to three quarters an inch into the wood.

And that was with a blunt tip.

Man I wish I could have tried some sort of hunting with that thing.

Posted by: HH at January 23, 2015 07:51 PM (Ce4DF)

278 " It was a triumph of justice! LOL."

My older brother had a Triumph. He got arrested.

Posted by: bergerbilder at January 23, 2015 07:51 PM (8MjqI)

279 Lars is a fcuking badass! He's also the reason I carry a semi-automatic pistol.

Posted by: Fritz at January 23, 2015 07:52 PM (UzPAd)

280 Hope that thing comes with a warning label--you'll shoot your eye out.

Posted by: Bob from table9 at January 23, 2015 07:53 PM (WNERA)

281 "I drove a '68 Valiant. Couldn't get arrested if I tried."
-Posted by: bergerbilder at January 23, 2015 07:46 PM (8MjqI)

I had long hair. Not only did cops look at me a few times, but dudes thought I was a chick.

I got "pulled-up next to" a few times until I looked over after an engine was revved.

I was never a big dude, so I had to look over like I was "concerned" about their sexuality.

Worked 100% of the time. It was the Eighties.

Posted by: ColdBeer1 (Slap) (T) at January 23, 2015 07:54 PM (16bOT)

282 Man I wish I could have tried some sort of hunting with that thing.
------
A good friend who owns the bowling alley where I bowl a league at. He went up for bow season for elk last fall and got a bull. I told him that bow hunters have to have much more skill to bag their elk than a rifle hunter and I was impressed and glad he got his elk. He thanked me for the compliment.

Posted by: Old Blue at January 23, 2015 07:54 PM (vVSOO)

283 After years of practice a bowman can become proficient at this art.

Yet you can pick up a Colt and make him whistle Dixie and dance for you

Posted by: Josey Whale at January 23, 2015 07:54 PM (6CTxJ)

284 Lars could rewrite the 18' rule.

Posted by: bergerbilder at January 23, 2015 07:55 PM (8MjqI)

285 "Cheers! Here's to being young, dumb and full of....you know."
-Posted by: Old Blue at January 23, 2015 07:51 PM (vVSOO)

Thanks, Brother!

*cheers!*

Posted by: ColdBeer1 (Slap) (T) at January 23, 2015 07:55 PM (16bOT)

286 282 bow season in usually in the rut. Bulls come to the call.

Posted by: Bob from table9 at January 23, 2015 07:56 PM (WNERA)

287 In high skool many of us drove Darts/Scamps/Swingers. Rear snow tires year 'round. FM/AM/Eight-track the way God intended. Much fun and sooooo long ago...

Posted by: Interchangeable Parts at January 23, 2015 07:56 PM (5voqw)

288 I drove a '68 Valiant. Couldn't get arrested if I tried.

Got my permit on Friday, my 16th birthday. Took the drivers test on Saturday morning in a '68 Valiant. Passed. Went home and climbed behind the wheel of my 325 hp Chevelle that afternoon. There was no way I was gonna take the test in my *real* car.

Posted by: SE Pa Moron at January 23, 2015 07:56 PM (zxQ4h)

289 Oh boy, can't wait for the carpet vs. hardwood videos in the next thread.

Posted by: Moderate Salami at January 23, 2015 07:57 PM (hWOkJ)

290 I really wanted to see the big boom splodey stuff.
Posted by: Old Blue at January 23, 2015 07:45 PM (vVSOO)

I ate Burger King tonight. Show up at my room in the Presidential Inn tomorrow AM and I'll show ya splodey

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 23, 2015 07:58 PM (PD4XU)

291 287
In high skool many of us drove Darts/Scamps/Swingers. Rear snow tires
year 'round. FM/AM/Eight-track the way God intended. Much fun and sooooo
long ago...


Posted by: Interchangeable Parts at January 23, 2015 07:56 PM (5voqw)


You forgot to end with, "Get off my lawn!"

Nowadays, parents are buying their hell spawn used (but still) BMWs, Land Rovers, etc. Some friends of ours bought their spoiled brat (beyond belief) a "used" Lexus.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 23, 2015 07:58 PM (FsuaD)

292 If you didn't drive a Pacer Wagon with AM/FM/Cassette/AutoBow, you weren't shit...

Posted by: OG Celtic-American at January 23, 2015 08:00 PM (CNua6)

293 NGU, thanks, but I'll pass. You might want to leave a fiver on the counter for whoever has to come clean the room after you leave. Just a thought.

Posted by: Old Blue at January 23, 2015 08:00 PM (vVSOO)

294 "In high skool many of us drove Darts/Scamps/Swingers. Rear snow tires year 'round. FM/AM/Eight-track the way God intended. Much fun and sooooo long ago..."
-Posted by: Interchangeable Parts at January 23, 2015 07:56 PM (5voqw)

*HAH!*

This was in 1986. I had swapped out the 8-Track for a Sanyo cassette-player and some heavy-duty 12" speakers.

...livin' large.

Posted by: ColdBeer1 (Slap) (T) at January 23, 2015 08:01 PM (16bOT)

295 Oh yeah, the Valiant. IIRC you changed gears by pressing buttons on the dash. A concept that died a quick death.

Posted by: SE Pa Moron at January 23, 2015 08:01 PM (zxQ4h)

296 Sooth, it's ironic that the British got their noses bloodied by trying to take arms away from the colonists living in Mass.

Not really ironic. More like - predictable.

The Massachusetts SJWs at the time, like Samuel Adams, wanted guns when the Tories were ruling over them. Now that Samuel Adams is ruling New England, he doesn't want Tories to have guns.

The Tories saw this coming and ran for it.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at January 23, 2015 08:02 PM (AVEe1)

297 ..."Went home and climbed behind the wheel of my 325 hp Chevelle that afternoon. There was no way I was gonna take the test in my *real* car."
-Posted by: SE Pa Moron at January 23, 2015 07:56 PM (zxQ4h)

Damned 1%-ers.

Posted by: ColdBeer1 (Slap) (T) at January 23, 2015 08:02 PM (16bOT)

298 My first car had one speaker in the dash and AM radio. 66 Bug. Yea I got in trouble in it too. So what? It was fun.

Posted by: freaked at January 23, 2015 08:02 PM (JdEZJ)

299 76 the State Department asked Disney about using the film "Frozen" to teach about climate change


Emotionally unstable princesses with magical powers coming out of the closet freeze the world.

Solution: Keep her in the closet? Keep the parents alive? Abolish royalty?

Posted by: CM at January 23, 2015 08:03 PM (0NdlF)

300 182

I don't hate Obama, I despise him.

Posted by: MikeH at January 23, 2015 06:45 PM (4OZqu)


Just as a reminder: calling someone a racist over his criticism of Islam is dumb, but anyone who dislikes Obama is still clearly a racist.

Posted by: Bill Maher at January 23, 2015 08:03 PM (AFsCH)

301 300,

You're not the only one.

Posted by: SMFH at it all at January 23, 2015 08:04 PM (OsWis)

302 182, I mean.

Posted by: SMFH at it all at January 23, 2015 08:04 PM (OsWis)

303 288 I drove a '68 Valiant. Couldn't get arrested if I tried.


...had a Valiant push button shift. I would rev that summa'bitch up in neutral and then hit the button. Lol! I couldn't blow that damn thing up!

Posted by: Badda Bing at January 23, 2015 08:04 PM (klaU/)

304 287 In high skool many of us drove Darts/Scamps/Swingers. Rear snow tires year 'round. FM/AM/Eight-track the way God intended. Much fun and sooooo long ago...
Posted by: Interchangeable Parts at January 23, 2015 07:56 PM (5voqw)



Bucket seats are sooo overrated.

Posted by: bergerbilder at January 23, 2015 08:04 PM (8MjqI)

305 Heya slap : )

Posted by: SMFH at it all at January 23, 2015 08:04 PM (OsWis)

306 Jane we watched the owl today but not much happened. She was rained in all day. Can't wait until there are chicks.

Posted by: freaked at January 23, 2015 08:04 PM (JdEZJ)

307 Hell, I got in an accident when I was taking my drivers license.

Posted by: HH at January 23, 2015 08:05 PM (Ce4DF)

308 I have voters in low places. nanner nanner.

Posted by: obama at January 23, 2015 08:05 PM (WNERA)

309 NGU, thanks, but I'll pass. You might want to leave a fiver on the counter for whoever has to come clean the room after you leave. Just a thought.
Posted by: Old Blue at January 23, 2015 08:00 PM (vVSOO)

Yeah I tip pretty good. My Dad taught me well

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 23, 2015 08:06 PM (PD4XU)

310 Or owlets or whatever.

Posted by: freaked at January 23, 2015 08:06 PM (JdEZJ)

311 My very first car that I owned outright. 1962 Studebaker Lark. Put in the eight track and speakers in the back deck. I spent more time trying to keep the damn thing running than I did driving it. It did get me back and forth to San Diego a couple of times, though, so it wasn't all bad.

Posted by: Old Blue at January 23, 2015 08:07 PM (vVSOO)

312 So the longbow thing has played out?

Posted by: freaked at January 23, 2015 08:09 PM (JdEZJ)

313 How about Pinto vs Vega?

Posted by: freaked at January 23, 2015 08:10 PM (JdEZJ)

314 Vs Gremlin.

Posted by: freaked at January 23, 2015 08:12 PM (JdEZJ)

315
"So the longbow thing has played out?"


What, you want another shot across the bow?

Posted by: HH at January 23, 2015 08:13 PM (Ce4DF)

316 @313 - Pinto a horrible design but based on proven mechanicals. Vega much better design but design shortcuts (hint: you do not use an iron head on an aluminum engine, and then cheap out on the head gasket) and a lot of manufacturing problems.

Posted by: JEM at January 23, 2015 08:14 PM (o+SC1)

317 Learning how to tie knots is on my To-Do List. It's just another important thing that I never bothered to learn in my yute.

Posted by: Soothsayer of The Righteous And Harmonious Fists at January 23, 2015 07:50 PM (uEuCw)

Lots of good how to books out there, but what I found helpful was to buy two different colors of rope to use in practicing tying the various bends. You can never know too many types of knots!

Posted by: Hrothgar at January 23, 2015 08:14 PM (ftVQq)

318 POTUS knows all about bows. He got started in the 'RAINBOW PUSH,' IYKWIM...

Posted by: OG Celtic-American at January 23, 2015 08:15 PM (CNua6)

319 /loads trebuchet

ALLONS-Y!!!!!!!!

/fires indiscriminantly

Posted by: Brother Cavil, by the Pale Moon light at January 23, 2015 08:16 PM (m9V0o)

320 Gremlins kicked ass though. I remember watching those things race at Mid-Ohio in the 70s.

Posted by: freaked at January 23, 2015 08:16 PM (JdEZJ)

321 I just watched the last thirty minutes of Battleship. Surprisingly pretty good. This part was as good or better as Independence Day's defeat of the Aliens. Might have to watch it from the beginning.

Posted by: Bob Belcher at January 23, 2015 08:16 PM (3jmxp)

322 "Bucket seats are sooo overrated."
-Posted by: bergerbilder at January 23, 2015 08:04 PM (8MjqI)

The Scamp had a bench seat. That cost me another fifteen-hundred bucks.

I took a hard-left around a traffic-circle in a sleepy little development and slid across that bitch.

I wound-up going up on a lawn, (beer may have been involved), and running over a Japanese Maple.

This particular Japanese Maple belonged to a Municipal Court Judge.

As I stopped the car, my buddies yelled, "Go!, Go!, Go!" There was a dude in the driveway of that house who just happened to be the judge's Son.

I stopped because I was concerned about the car and if I ran over someone's tree...

...well. I owed the dude a tree.

Turned-out that it was $1,250.00 for a Japanese Maple.

...and his Municipal Court Judge Father wanted me to donate another $250.00 to Our Lady of Something-Or-Other to keep this "Off the Record".

Yup. That Scamp had stories to tell. Turns out?

...so do I.

Posted by: ColdBeer1 (Slap) (T) at January 23, 2015 08:17 PM (16bOT)

323 That sling bow vid. was very instructive. Thx.
Put me in mind of knife making, T.O.Y.S., and atlatls.
Knife making requires fire in most cases, not all. If you need to keep your IR signature low, then...
T.O.Y.S = Tools Of Your Surroundings: remember Reginald Denny and the LA6.
"Atlatl" is one of the dozen or so words in English from the Nahua language.You prolly use one or more of them every single day of your life. A guy in MT has figured out, again, there's more to them than meets the eye. In fact, they prolly were the technology that enabled the extinction of at least two Genera of NoAm megafauna.
Don't take my word for it. Let Google log your search before they kill the internet in favor of something more profitable.

Posted by: outarange guy at January 23, 2015 08:17 PM (fWmM0)

324 "Heya slap : )"
-Posted by: SMFH at it all at January 23, 2015 08:04 PM (OsWis)

Hiya, Darlin'! How's life treating you?

Posted by: ColdBeer1 (Slap) (T) at January 23, 2015 08:18 PM (16bOT)

325
What's the use of having a sally port if you're never going to sally?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at January 23, 2015 06:21 PM (5EljE)





Sally forphfffff!

Posted by: Evil Ash at January 23, 2015 08:19 PM (VB0Qs)

326 My first car was a lime green 1972 Vega. It used more oil than gas and was prone to overheating.

Posted by: Michael the Hobbit at January 23, 2015 08:19 PM (0RdKg)

327 When was the last time you saw a Vega on the road?

Posted by: freaked at January 23, 2015 08:20 PM (JdEZJ)

328 Gary Larsen has a one framer, a mastodon deader than hell with 4 legs sticking out. Single arrow to the balls, well to my mind it looked like it.

Thag says we need to remember that spot.

Posted by: obama at January 23, 2015 08:21 PM (WNERA)

329 324,

I'm still vertical, not in jail, and no one has pissed me off yet.

Night is still young, however.

How's the back doing?

Posted by: SMFH at it all at January 23, 2015 08:21 PM (OsWis)

330 How about Pinto vs Vega?
Posted by: freaked at January 23, 2015 08:10 PM (JdEZJ)


Northern boy here. My first business trip was to Alabama. I was amazed at all the older cars without a spot of rust. But even the new Vegas and Chevy pickups were rusted.

Posted by: bergerbilder at January 23, 2015 08:22 PM (8MjqI)

331 "When was the last time you saw a Vega on the road?"
-Posted by: freaked at January 23, 2015 08:20 PM (JdEZJ)

Five months ago. That's unfair, though. My buddy and his Father go to the "Cosworth Vega Roundup" every other year.

They've been building, (and rebuilding and rebuilding and rebuilding), Cosworth Twin-Cams since the late Seventies.

Posted by: ColdBeer1 (Slap) (T) at January 23, 2015 08:25 PM (16bOT)

332 "I'm still vertical, not in jail, and no one has pissed me off yet.
Night is still young, however.

How's the back doing?
"
-Posted by: SMFH at it all at January 23, 2015 08:21 PM (OsWis)

*HAH!*

The back is at about 95%. I think 98% is about "as good as it gets", nowadays!

Posted by: ColdBeer1 (Slap) (T) at January 23, 2015 08:27 PM (16bOT)

333 The Ford Maverick wasn't a bad little car either. It seems to have morphed out of the really weak Mustang they started pushing in the late 70's. I'm glad that Ford revamped the Mustang line. I was looking at one last April, a 5.0 liter Boss. The wife told me I couldn't have one and when I asked her why, she said that you'd lose you license between here and the house. We bought an Escape Titanium. At least I still have my license.

Posted by: Old Blue at January 23, 2015 08:28 PM (vVSOO)

334 The cossie Vega was something special and deserves saving. Can't say I've ever seen one on the road though. Lots of black and gold ones?

I did see a Chevette on the road recently. It had a V8 poking thru the hood.

Posted by: freaked at January 23, 2015 08:29 PM (JdEZJ)

335 My Scamp went into a yard one night back in the '70's. Bumped up against a tree so I cut the headlights and backed up - fast. Half hour later the cops were at my parents house with my front bumper in the back seat of their cruiser - Ohio license plate, Ghoulardi sticker and all. Slap on the wrist back then - would be a lawsuit now.

Posted by: Chagrin Falls Nights at January 23, 2015 08:29 PM (5voqw)

336 ..."Lots of black and gold ones?"
-Posted by: freaked at January 23, 2015 08:29 PM (JdEZJ)

The only Vegas I have ever seen have been black and gold Cosworth Twin-Cams.

Posted by: ColdBeer1 (Slap) (T) at January 23, 2015 08:31 PM (16bOT)

337 GM thought the aluminum block in the vega was hard enough that it didn't need iron sleeves. except that aluminum actually oxidizes faster than iron. Aluminum oxide makes a great abrasive. The blocks were fine, but a set of rings would only last about 10K.

Posted by: bergerbilder at January 23, 2015 08:31 PM (8MjqI)

338 My mom's first car was a '52 DeSoto. She bought it used for $150.

Why do I remember details like this but forget where I put my reading glasses?

Posted by: Huh? What?! Speak up, sonny! at January 23, 2015 08:32 PM (6CTxJ)

339 ..."Ohio license plate, Ghoulardi sticker and all. Slap on the wrist back then - would be a lawsuit now."
-Posted by: Chagrin Falls Nights at January 23, 2015 08:29 PM (5voqw)

"Uncle Vic" would have disapproved of the Ghoulardi bumper-sticker ...lol.

Posted by: ColdBeer1 (Slap) (T) at January 23, 2015 08:33 PM (16bOT)

340 There was some John Player connection with the Cosworth Vegas but I don't remember what it was. I suppose I could look it up but ...

Posted by: freaked at January 23, 2015 08:34 PM (JdEZJ)

341 333 old blue,

Eh kinda

I had a straight six 71 Maverick...the old ones werev"grannie" muscle cars and the pist MACH One 'stans were actually derived from the "fuel efficient" stage 2 Mavs...

Posted by: Sven10077 at January 23, 2015 08:34 PM (/4AZU)

342 OMG! Ghoulardi! The is still a Ghoulardi wannabe on Canton TV.

Posted by: bergerbilder at January 23, 2015 08:34 PM (8MjqI)

343 O'Reilly just showed the Carl's Jr. ad from the Super Bowl with a trigger warning. Typical Carl's Jr. ad. All sex with a burger!

Posted by: Old Blue at January 23, 2015 08:35 PM (vVSOO)

344 Look at the Ohio Morons come out in force...

O-H

Posted by: ColdBeer1 (Slap) (T) at January 23, 2015 08:35 PM (16bOT)

345 I snorted a cocktail onto my screen when I read the headline.

Posted by: Gina at January 23, 2015 08:35 PM (28Bvs)

346 We bought an Escape Titanium. At least I still have my license.
Posted by: Old Blue at January 23, 2015 08:28 PM (vVSOO)


Do you still have your house?

Posted by: bergerbilder at January 23, 2015 08:37 PM (8MjqI)

347 Krauthammer is saying that Rubio is most likely to win the nomination.

Is he getting senile?

Posted by: SMFH at it all at January 23, 2015 08:37 PM (OsWis)

348 "There was some John Player connection with the Cosworth Vegas but I don't remember what it was. I suppose I could look it up but ..."
-Posted by: freaked at January 23, 2015 08:34 PM (JdEZJ)

As AtC would say... "I would look it up, but I am being efficient."

Posted by: ColdBeer1 (Slap) (T) at January 23, 2015 08:37 PM (16bOT)

349 Sven, I had the straight six model. Not a bad little car. Speaking of straight six. I had an 88 F150 with the straight six 300. Damn, that thing had some torque. I could put it in 4 low and first gear and climb a telephone pole. Probably one of the better motors that Ford ever made.

Posted by: Old Blue at January 23, 2015 08:38 PM (vVSOO)

350 I-O

Posted by: The Patriots Ball Boy at January 23, 2015 08:38 PM (Dwehj)

351 So about the techie world waking up to the tyranny of SJW



It's weird. Before they feel comfortable complaining about the tactics of the SJW, they feel the need to say something like " of course the conservative do it too " or " conservatives invented these tactics"


Always the false equivalence. And as though they never heard of Saul Alinsky.


Is there any case any one knows of where a right wing blogger completely fabricates a personal history and then has their Twitter minions force the firing of a political enemy unjustly, all the while using Alinsky tactics and displaying obvious mental illness?

Posted by: ThunderB, Sharia Compliance Officer at January 23, 2015 08:38 PM (zOTsN)

352 Does the entry-level Detroit car theme ever morph into movement-to-contact with the enemy discussion?
Or is it just another fashion issue for you, er, guys?
Family? How do you get out?
Single? How do you eff them maximally before you get out?
Both? Counterattack, incl. movement-to-contact?
Or, am I head of the consensus on this award-winning, fey, faux-pirate blog?

Posted by: outarange guy at January 23, 2015 08:39 PM (fWmM0)

353 I saw American Sniper this afternoon and it was excellent. Packed house - show up earlier than I did or you might end up in the first row.

Question for the horde: the movie employs the there are 3 kinds of people: sheep/wolf/sheepdog metaphor. The first person I ever knew who used it was Bill Whittle, in a typically brilliant essay he wrote around 2003 or 2004. I came across other writer who used it, but I always thought it originated with Whittle.

Does anybody know if it predates Whittle? I was thinking it is extremely cool if Bill Whittle's essay was read and the metaphor was picked up by either Kyle or the screenwriter and put into the book and movie, where Kyle's dad uses it.

Posted by: Donna &&&&&& V. (brandishing ampersands) at January 23, 2015 08:40 PM (+XMAD)

354 This thread blows, er bows.

Anything good on TV tonight?

Posted by: OG Celtic-American at January 23, 2015 08:40 PM (XlFLJ)

355 Remember!
If the enemy is in range, then so are you...
unless you're an................

Posted by: outarange guy at January 23, 2015 08:40 PM (fWmM0)

356 "Krauthammer is saying that Rubio is most likely to win the nomination.

Is he getting senile?
"
-Posted by: SMFH at it all at January 23, 2015 08:37 PM (OsWis)

He's not mathematically Conservative. Same goes for George Will. They want "political solutions from candidates That Can Win", ignoring the New Reality.

They are living in 1982.

Posted by: ColdBeer1 (Slap) (T) at January 23, 2015 08:40 PM (16bOT)

357 Do you still have your house?

Posted by: bergerbilder at January 23, 2015 08:37 PM (8MjqI)
-------Actually, yeah. After trade in and discounts we paid about 21,000 (list 34,000). I like it. Lots of bells and whistles. I'm surprised by the 4 cylinder turbo. Pretty peppy and we get really good mileage with it. We did a road trip last summer and I was getting close to 31 mpg with it.

Posted by: Old Blue at January 23, 2015 08:41 PM (vVSOO)

358 Donna it goes way back. How far I don't know but remember it being discussed mid-80's at least.

Posted by: OG Celtic-American at January 23, 2015 08:41 PM (CNua6)

359 "I-O"
-Posted by: The Patriots Ball Boy at January 23, 2015 08:38 PM (Dwehj)

*HAH!*

...you silly bastard!

Posted by: ColdBeer1 (Slap) (T) at January 23, 2015 08:41 PM (16bOT)

360
Emotionally unstable princesses with magical powers coming out of the closet freeze the world.

Posted by: CM at January 23, 2015 08:03 PM (0NdlF)







In a way, isn't this the story of Obama?

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 23, 2015 08:42 PM (VB0Qs)

361 @351
Is there any case any one knows of where a right wing blogger completely fabricates a personal history and then has their Twitter minions force the firing of a political enemy unjustly, all the while using Alinsky tactics and displaying obvious mental illness?
----------------------

None that I've heard of. Though anything's possible.

Wouldn't matter, though. They *know*. Deep in their bones, they *know* that's what conservatives do. Just like they *know* that conservatives (except for the ones they know, oddly enough) are racist. And sexist. And homophobic. And...

You get the idea.

Posted by: junior at January 23, 2015 08:42 PM (UWFpX)

362 I had a 54 Packard Clipper. Open the hood and nothing but a big freakin blick of flathead iron, baby!. What a boat. Great for the drive in , tho. I've owned living room furniture smaller than the seats in that thing... Drifts off to fond memories...

McGyver, Out

Posted by: McGyver at January 23, 2015 08:42 PM (ez3ak)

363 352 Does the entry-level Detroit car theme ever morph into movement-to-contact with the enemy discussion



Easy there Rambo I'm just as bored as you.

Posted by: freaked at January 23, 2015 08:45 PM (JdEZJ)

364 Hmm...

MSN has an article claiming that Scottish researchers have slowed light down. This was purportedly accomplished by firing a photon through a device that changed its shape, and the result was slower than another photon that was fired at the same time.

The results were published in Science Express. Link here for anyone who's inclined in that direction.

http://tinyurl.com/ky64unz

Posted by: junior at January 23, 2015 08:46 PM (UWFpX)

365 Is anyone else ready to kill Kenny Rogers?

Posted by: freaked at January 23, 2015 08:47 PM (JdEZJ)

366 365 not yet you have a good reason?

Posted by: Bob from table9 at January 23, 2015 08:48 PM (WNERA)

367 Geico?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at January 23, 2015 08:49 PM (W5DcG)

368 That stupid commercial. Maybe kill is too strong Slap with a rubber chicken.

Posted by: freaked at January 23, 2015 08:50 PM (JdEZJ)

369
365 not yet you have a good reason?
Posted by: Bob from table9 at January 23, 2015 08:48 PM (WNERA)








Are you saying that "Islands In The Stream" isn't reason enough???

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 23, 2015 08:50 PM (VB0Qs)

370 All I can tell from the Kenny Rogers commercial is that someone may have been able to fix his awful plastic surgery.

Posted by: Vendette at January 23, 2015 08:50 PM (Hh8Up)

371 My first new car came a few years after I got married. A candy apple red '78 LeBaron coupe with a landau roof and 318. Put cusom chromes and white letter tires on it (I worked for a tire company - 60 series Euuro T/A's) Great car. We soldit in good condition when we moved to TN because it has no AC (and we had 6 kids by then).

Posted by: bergerbilder at January 23, 2015 08:50 PM (8MjqI)

372 "Is anyone else ready to kill Kenny Rogers?"
-Posted by: freaked at January 23, 2015 08:47 PM (JdEZJ)

I suppose the poker players in that commercial would have taken care of that with one more note.

...now we get that damned-thing every-other hour.

I'd be willing to discuss it jokingly.

Posted by: ColdBeer1 (Slap) (T) at January 23, 2015 08:50 PM (16bOT)

373 Posted by: junior at January 23, 2015 08:46 PM (UWFpX)

No True Scotsman would attempt such a thing!

Posted by: Hrothgar at January 23, 2015 08:50 PM (ftVQq)

374 Does the entry-level Detroit car theme ever morph into movement-to-contact with the enemy discussion?Or is it just another fashion issue for you, er, guys?Family? How do you get out?Single? How do you eff them maximally before you get out?Both? Counterattack, incl. movement-to-contact?Or, am I head of the consensus on this award-winning, fey, faux-pirate blog?

Posted by: outarange guy at January 23, 2015 08:39 PM

Ok, sure. Whatcha looking for? Desert? Jungle? If it's desert... dunno. If it's jungle... I forget. In any event I'd suggest the M60... the cause of and solution to all oflife's problems.

Posted by: otho at January 23, 2015 08:51 PM (tBSrv)

375 Are you saying that "Islands In The Stream" isn't reason enough???

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 23, 2015 08:50 PM (VB0Qs)


Are you familiar with the Kenny and Dolly Christmas album?

Posted by: Vendette at January 23, 2015 08:51 PM (Hh8Up)

376 Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 23, 2015 08:50 PM (VB0Qs)

You made me laugh, but not sure if that was the plan.

Posted by: Bob from table9 at January 23, 2015 08:51 PM (WNERA)

377 Posted by: freaked at January 23, 2015 08:50 PM (JdEZJ)

Yeah, it's getting on my nerves too.

Posted by: Donna &&&&&& V. (brandishing ampersands) at January 23, 2015 08:51 PM (+XMAD)

378 "King of the Nerds" is on WTBS!

Posted by: ColdBeer1 (Slap) (T) at January 23, 2015 08:52 PM (16bOT)

379 Imagine my shame when I tried a compound bow in a busy Cabela's and could not pull the string...but my wife could. Have not been back since.

Posted by: ObjectionSustained at January 23, 2015 08:52 PM (+OZU5)

380 LOL 379

Posted by: Bob from table9 at January 23, 2015 08:53 PM (WNERA)

381 MSN has an article claiming that Scottish researchers have slowed light down.

All of us down south in England figured that they'd done that long before Hadrian.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at January 23, 2015 08:53 PM (AVEe1)

382 Progressive Flo with her stupid hair and bright red lipstick is the one I'd really like to slap.

Posted by: Donna &&&&&& V. (brandishing ampersands) at January 23, 2015 08:53 PM (+XMAD)

383 this is not the snark you are looking for.

Posted by: Bob from table9 at January 23, 2015 08:53 PM (WNERA)

384 "Imagine my shame when I tried a compound bow in a busy Cabela's and could not pull the string...but my wife could. Have not been back since."
-Posted by: ObjectionSustained at January 23, 2015 08:52 PM (+OZU5)

*HAH!* There is a technique about it, amigo!

Posted by: ColdBeer1 (Slap) (T) at January 23, 2015 08:55 PM (16bOT)

385 Flo has a big butt

Posted by: Dr. Varno at January 23, 2015 08:55 PM (fIv/H)

386 I'd like to know how much cheaper the insurance would be if various companies didn't have large TV ad campaigns. Yeah, there's the issue of wanting to be known, but...

Posted by: Vendette at January 23, 2015 08:55 PM (Hh8Up)

387 'Reno 911' episode with Kenny Rogers is a classic but his movies suck. 'Six Pack' worse than Cosby's 'Leonard Part Six'. Kenny's movie lacks Bill's roofie subplot.

Posted by: The Grey Gambler at January 23, 2015 08:55 PM (5voqw)

388 It is after 5 pm here so I've opened up a fresh box of wine. Yeah living high. bring a glass.


No I'm not sharing my woodford reserve.

Posted by: Bob from table9 at January 23, 2015 08:56 PM (WNERA)

389 @363 NOT bored, just wondering why there Republican don"t understand the technology exists to make them extinct.
I get it. Others?
Btw, fuck Gnosticism. The information is crawling into your personal space.
You actually have to ignore it to be so bleh.

Posted by: some guy way out here at January 23, 2015 08:56 PM (fWmM0)

390 And another thing about these SJW


They are always claiming they have been sexually threatened online. Cements their victim status and gives the moral authority in their world.

Now I don't doubt it happens. I'm sure it does and it's disgusting and scary.

But then we have these SJW in meat space who put nooses on their own desks, write themselves terrifying notes and threats, claim they were raped falsely to score political points. I remember the female professor who used Uber, claimed she was raped, and when the Uber driver said no way, her excuse was that she was "raising awareness".


All forms of character assassination can be papered over with " raising awareness". My problem is that these SJW are the same personality types that fabricate victimhood

Posted by: ThunderB, Sharia Compliance Officer at January 23, 2015 08:56 PM (zOTsN)

391 'Reno 911' episode with Kenny Rogers is a classic
but his movies suck. 'Six Pack' worse than Cosby's 'Leonard Part Six'.
Kenny's movie lacks Bill's roofie subplot.


Posted by: The Grey Gambler at January 23, 2015 08:55 PM (5voqw)


How about the "Gambler" TV movies with Bruce Boxleitner?

Posted by: Vendette at January 23, 2015 08:57 PM (Hh8Up)

392 Really the commercials make me hate them all. Whatcha gonna do though?

Posted by: freaked at January 23, 2015 08:57 PM (JdEZJ)

393 Looked at the pics, tried to make sense of the headline. All I can come up with is if I don't switch to water soon I'll be looking bow ing to the toilet bowl.

Posted by: Molly k. at January 23, 2015 08:57 PM (89Z3e)

394 Old Blue - my one daughter has had acouple oif escapes, and they've been good cars. I'veowned a couple Fords and I like them. The youngest still drives a '02 Taurus wagon se baought 6 years ago with110K for $3500. my only real complaint would be corrosion.

Posted by: bergerbilder at January 23, 2015 08:58 PM (8MjqI)

395 Posted by: ColdBeer1 (Slap) (T) at January 23, 2015 08:55 PM (16bOT

I suppose you're right. Should I have been concerned that afterward my wife and the archery guy spent an inordinately long time together trying on waders in the fitting room?

Posted by: ObjectionSustained at January 23, 2015 08:58 PM (+OZU5)

396 Really the commercials make me hate them all. Whatcha gonna do though?

Posted by: freaked at January 23, 2015 08:57 PM (JdEZJ)

DVR + FF helps a lot!

Posted by: Hrothgar at January 23, 2015 08:59 PM (ftVQq)

397 "I suppose you're right. Should I have been concerned that afterward my wife and the archery guy spent an inordinately long time together trying on waders in the fitting room?"
-Posted by: ObjectionSustained at January 23, 2015 08:58 PM (+OZU5)

*HAH!*

Posted by: ColdBeer1 (Slap) (T) at January 23, 2015 09:01 PM (16bOT)

398 The Fredo Admin while spending Billions on illegal scum are going after the Military Commissary system again. Cock suckers

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 23, 2015 09:01 PM (PD4XU)

399 Why open e-mails from someone you don';t know or have never heard of? of course you're going to find hate mail. (sorry, typing isgetting sloppy, and I don't have time or patience to correct it.)

Posted by: bergerbilder at January 23, 2015 09:02 PM (8MjqI)

400 Why open e-mails from someone you don';t know or have never heard of? of course you're going to find hate mail. (sorry, typing isgetting sloppy, and I don't have time or patience to correct it.)

Posted by: bergerbilder at January 23, 2015 09:02 PM

It might be fan mail.

Posted by: otho at January 23, 2015 09:03 PM (tBSrv)

401
Modern Farmer, the quirky 100,000-circulation quarterly and website that tried to link effete urban farmers' market culture with the practicalities of actual farming, became a magazine without an editorial staff on Friday, when its remaining paid editors walked out its doors.

Posted by: Islamic Rage Boy at January 23, 2015 09:05 PM (e8kgV)

402 -Posted by: some guy way out here at January 23, 2015 08:56 PM (fWmM0)

Yeah... "bone-down".

Posted by: ColdBeer1 (Slap) (T) at January 23, 2015 09:06 PM (16bOT)

403
The Fredo Admin while spending Billions on illegal scum are going after the Military Commissary system again. Cock suckers

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 23, 2015 09:01 PM (PD4XU)

We just can't have Military "Privilege" in this country based on Equal Justice!

Posted by: Hrothgar at January 23, 2015 09:08 PM (ftVQq)

404 Become a franchisee! www.kennyrogersroasters.com. Bigger breasts than Hooters!

Posted by: It's No Gamble with the Gambler! at January 23, 2015 09:08 PM (5voqw)

405 In a few more years most of the military will be illegals wearing the approved obama patch.

Posted by: Bob from table9 at January 23, 2015 09:09 PM (WNERA)

406 Oh lord, Ghoulardi...

Gonna violate some HIPAA rules, but what the fcuk...

Back in the day, my dad treated Ernie for some throat issues. We (my brothers and I) were big fans of the show and had my dad get the obligatory signed pics from Ernie: "Hey you little finks, cool it with the boom booms Ghoulardi"...

Dad had warned Ernie to cool it with the cigars.

So we're watching the show on the next Friday night when we notice Erinie's smoking a cigar...again. I yell for my dad to come and see for himself. Dad calls the station and asks to have a message delivered to Ernie - Cool It With The CIGARS.

The folks at WJW did as asked and, on air, Ernie reads the note. Slight double take, and the cigar falls out of his mouth and he says "Sorry Doc!"

Pretty funny to see and Ernie told my dad he thought it was cool that he would call in to remind him to "cool it".

Posted by: Browndog at January 23, 2015 09:10 PM (H+4bU)

407 'Modern Farmer' - if by that you mean gay dildo bondage parties featuring high 15 year olds and sheep held in barns, ya, thats Modern Farming.

Posted by: OG Celtic-American at January 23, 2015 09:10 PM (CNua6)

408 In a few more years most of the military will be illegals wearing the approved obama patch.

Posted by: Bob from table9 at January 23, 2015 09:09 PM (WNERA)


With the matching "Che" beret!

Posted by: Hrothgar at January 23, 2015 09:11 PM (ftVQq)

409 These "Nerd-Chicks" are really cute this season!

Posted by: ColdBeer1 (Slap) (T) at January 23, 2015 09:12 PM (16bOT)

410 I tried to sell some of the surplus from my vegetable garden this last summer. Giant Eagle would only buy produce from pre-approved, certified organic farms. The local Buehler's chain had no problem taking my dill, parsley, and onions.

"Organic" food is nothing more than a quasi-governmental marketing cartel. Pay to play.

Posted by: bergerbilder at January 23, 2015 09:13 PM (8MjqI)

411 Long bows, definitely. Long meaningful bows so I can sneak a peek under some Saudi's robes.

Posted by: Barack Obama at January 23, 2015 09:13 PM (rGKRU)

412 ..."Pretty funny to see and Ernie, (Ghoulardi), told my dad he thought it was cool that he would call in to remind him to "cool it"."
-Posted by: Browndog at January 23, 2015 09:10 PM (H+4bU)

Wow! That's cool!

-Cleveland Rocks!

...except the Browns. They can do without me.

Posted by: ColdBeer1 (Slap) (T) at January 23, 2015 09:15 PM (16bOT)

413
409 These "Nerd-Chicks" are really cute this season!


Season of what?

Posted by: CM at January 23, 2015 09:17 PM (0NdlF)

414 "Season of what?"
-Posted by: CM at January 23, 2015 09:17 PM (0NdlF)

"King of the Nerds" on WTBS.

Posted by: ColdBeer1 (Slap) (T) at January 23, 2015 09:18 PM (16bOT)

415 After Ghoulardi, Ernie became the voice of ABC. Remember "the Looove boat"?

Posted by: bergerbilder at January 23, 2015 09:19 PM (8MjqI)

416 349 Old Blue,

Old Detroit turned out some awesome engineering....


New Detroit lacks sanitation engineering

Posted by: Sven10077 at January 23, 2015 09:19 PM (/4AZU)

417 China has set up yuan clearing arrangements with 10 countries and regions and signed currency swap agreements with 28 central banks, the PBoC statement said.

In the latest agreement, Switzerland's central bank said Wednesday it had signed a pact with the PBoC to set up clearing arrangements for yuan trading.

The Swiss National Bank said the agreement will facilitate bilateral trade and investment.




Whut? Nothing to see here.

Posted by: Bob from table9 at January 23, 2015 09:20 PM (WNERA)

418 "After Ghoulardi, Ernie became the voice of ABC. Remember "the Looove boat"?"
-Posted by: bergerbilder at January 23, 2015 09:19 PM (8MjqI)

That was Ernie Anderson? I didn't know that.

Posted by: ColdBeer1 (Slap) (T) at January 23, 2015 09:22 PM (16bOT)

419 @407 You're urban, right?
Way out here we don't don't hold with homo: it's more about increase.
You urbanites, if that's not illegal where you're suffering/"living", prolly don't get that.
You got your farmers, and you got your government employees (who love that ethanol, and paid-to-idle s**t).
Most of us out here will gut the Governments if we get the chance.
After Wasioja, and the 2nd Minnesota, at Chickamauga.

Posted by: some guy way out here at January 23, 2015 09:24 PM (fWmM0)

420 Tuscarawas County Buehlers rock! 'Specially the one in Dover.

Posted by: Buehlers? Buehlers? at January 23, 2015 09:25 PM (5voqw)

421 Shitters Full.

Posted by: OG Celtic-American at January 23, 2015 09:27 PM (CNua6)

422 "Tuscarawas County Buehlers rock! 'Specially the one in Dover."
-Posted by: Buehlers? Buehlers? at January 23, 2015 09:25 PM (5voqw)

You're New-Philly, then.

*Pardon us Ohioans*

Posted by: ColdBeer1 (Slap) (T) at January 23, 2015 09:29 PM (16bOT)

423 Cuyahoga here.

I'd rather be Licking.

Posted by: ColdBeer1 (Slap) (T) at January 23, 2015 09:30 PM (16bOT)

424 @419 Donna, I saw "Sniper" last week.Giving Kyle his due, from the directorial standpoint it is a bit of a reprise of Eastwood's "Heartbreak Ridge" (1986), which also is not to be missed.
This week I saw "The Imitation Game", new release (2014).
I don't want to get biblical here on this award-winning, fey, faux-pirate blog, but it takes all kinds to win.

Posted by: more than this at January 23, 2015 09:33 PM (fWmM0)

425 I prefer long bows..., and wooden arrows.

Posted by: Burt Reynolds at January 23, 2015 09:33 PM (U93Mr)

426 Hey Group! Great video on Youtube re: Ghoulardi/Ernie Anderson : Turn Blue. Ernie's son is Paul Thomas Anderson director of There Will Be Blood, Boogie Nights,etc. PTA's production company :Ghoulardi Productions. PS Hoffman played a character in Magnolia named Phil Parma. PTA is married to Maya Rudolph. Ovah dey!

Posted by: Purple Knif at January 23, 2015 09:33 PM (5voqw)

427 "Old Detroit turned out some awesome engineering...."


A friend of mine bought a new F250 in 1995 with a 300 six in it. 5-spd. Basic work pickup. He pulled around goosenecks hauling cows and tractors with it all the time and it did okay.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at January 23, 2015 09:34 PM (g0iKS)

428 "King of the Nerds" on WTBS.

First video I find shows the girl neighing in a unicorn costume.

Dunno.

Posted by: CM at January 23, 2015 09:34 PM (0NdlF)

429 Ohio homes: Cleve. Hgts, Lakewood, Mayfield Hgts, Gates Mills...
We were gypsies. Worst three years of my life were in Lakewood. Only good thing was that I got to meet a number of players for the Tribe when we lived at Winton Place.

Posted by: Browndog at January 23, 2015 09:35 PM (H+4bU)

430 4th generation Akron native now living in Medina co.

Posted by: bergerbilder at January 23, 2015 09:37 PM (8MjqI)

431 I don't believe I even understand most of the recent comments on this thread. Oh well.

Posted by: rickl at January 23, 2015 09:37 PM (sdi6R)

432 @421 There's plenty of protein there for you, bro'.
Get stuck in.
Go Pats. Shit eaters rule.

Posted by: You Know Me at January 23, 2015 09:39 PM (fWmM0)

433 "I don't believe I even understand most of the recent comments on this thread."


Alcohol.


Bewbs.


Guns.


*scratches self, farts*

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at January 23, 2015 09:41 PM (g0iKS)

434 "Ohio homes: Cleve. Hgts, Lakewood, Mayfield Hgts, Gates Mills...
We were gypsies. Worst three years of my life were in Lakewood. Only good thing was that I got to meet a number of players for the Tribe when we lived at Winton Place.
"
-Posted by: Browndog at January 23, 2015 09:35 PM (H+4bU)

Gates and Mayfield have some much better areas than Lakewood. I know all of those areas well.

The only good thing about Lakewood is its proximity to live bands and a shitload of variations thereof.

The bad thing about Lakewood is the rainbow flag over its courthouse.

Posted by: ColdBeer1 (Slap) (T) at January 23, 2015 09:41 PM (16bOT)

435 'I don't believe I even understand most of the recent comments on this thread. '


You and me both. The longbow thing has morphed to mush.

Posted by: freaked at January 23, 2015 09:42 PM (JdEZJ)

436 Posted by: Ricardo Kill at January 23, 2015 09:41 PM (g0iKS)

Well, that covers this week pretty well!

Posted by: Hrothgar at January 23, 2015 09:43 PM (ftVQq)

437
"Perhaps we need a Longbows vs. Crossbows MoMee.

Posted by: All Hail Eris"

That's exactly how the first argument stared Eris, and it had nothing to do with agincourt, it had to do with my amateur history and personal experience, and the other persons historical expertise and amateur understanding of military experience, I sided with the Longbow, for various reasons, and he did too actually, he just wanted to hear my opinion, and then it moved to other variations of military advancement and practice, on a thread that had nothing to do with weaponry at all, which lead to the very unusually developed legend.

As for the second bow, it's a recurve, which is of persian origain, and the Mongols didn't kick mideval armies asses, they kicked constantinian armies asses, and since holy roman armies were either infantry, or horseman so weighted down treating horses as infantry, the light attack skirmisher tacktics won. The midevil armies moved away from cataphract like mounted troups to light armored skirmishers, and the greatest advances that destroyed the nomads was the lance, the stirrup and light leather barding.

Posted by: Douglas at January 23, 2015 09:44 PM (SfYd6)

438 "4th generation Akron native now living in Medina co."
-Posted by: bergerbilder at January 23, 2015 09:37 PM (8MjqI)

I didn't even know you were in Ohio until tonight! I'm in So. Cuyahoga. Right around Strongsville.

Posted by: ColdBeer1 (Slap) (T) at January 23, 2015 09:44 PM (16bOT)

439 "You and me both. The longbow thing has morphed to mush."
-Posted by: freaked at January 23, 2015 09:42 PM (JdEZJ)

It is an Ohio "thing". ...lol.

Posted by: ColdBeer1 (Slap) (T) at January 23, 2015 09:44 PM (16bOT)

440 I don't believe I even understand most of the recent comments on this thread. Oh well.
Posted by: rickl at January 23, 2015 09:37 PM (sdi6R)

*****
Reminds me of an Alan Greenspan testimony to Congress one time.

"And allow me to say that if you feel you have understood anything I have said here today, you are mistaken."

Posted by: ManWithNoParty, unperson from Free Market Jesus Paradise at January 23, 2015 09:46 PM (VHKLL)

441 Slap I graduated HS from Beavercreek HS. North of Dayton.

Posted by: freaked at January 23, 2015 09:47 PM (JdEZJ)

442 That's "Beavercrik".

C'mon.

And really, it's east of Dayton.

I grew up in Dayton, oh those many years ago.

Posted by: Bossy Conservative....in the bleak midwinter at January 23, 2015 09:49 PM (+1T7c)

443 Posted by: ManWithNoParty, unperson from Free Market Jesus Paradise at January 23, 2015 09:46 PM (VHKLL)

Alan Greenspan quotes. For better and for worse:

http://tinyurl.com/prq789w

Posted by: ColdBeer1 (Slap) (T) at January 23, 2015 09:49 PM (16bOT)

444 Hot chicks can't be nerds.

Posted by: Garrett at January 23, 2015 09:50 PM (2Kd4o)

445 Guess which national Pizza Chain is NOT firing a delivery driver for face shooting a robber?

Posted by: OG Celtic-American at January 23, 2015 09:50 PM (CNua6)

446 I don't believe I even understand most of the recent comments on this thread. Oh well.
Posted by: rickl
---------

They are speaking with some mid-westernish accent.

Posted by: Burt Reynolds at January 23, 2015 09:50 PM (U93Mr)

447 Well, we got us an O-I-H-O reunion here.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at January 23, 2015 09:50 PM (g0iKS)

448
Posted by: Douglas at January 23, 2015 09:44 PM (SfYd6)






It's been so long that I can't remember if you were using this handle on that thread or if it was under your previous, and dare I say, legendary crimefighting name.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 23, 2015 09:50 PM (VB0Qs)

449 Well, we got us an O-I-H-O reunion here.


Posted by: Ricardo Kill at January 23, 2015 09:50 PM (g0iKS)



Oh dear.

Posted by: Vendette at January 23, 2015 09:51 PM (Hh8Up)

450 "
Guess which national Pizza Chain is NOT firing a delivery driver for face shooting a robber?"


Papa John's....?

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at January 23, 2015 09:51 PM (g0iKS)

451 Beaverdick Ohio, where men are men and Modern Farmers are incontinent...

Posted by: OG Celtic-American at January 23, 2015 09:52 PM (CNua6)

452 "Slap I graduated HS from Beavercreek HS. North of Dayton."
-Posted by: freaked at January 23, 2015 09:47 PM (JdEZJ)

"That's "Beavercrik".
C'mon.
And really, it's East of Dayton.
I grew up in Dayton, oh those many years ago.
"
-Posted by: Bossy Conservative....in the bleak midwinter at January 23, 2015 09:49 PM (+1T7c)

You guys are more "Cinci" than Cleveland. Thank your lucky stars, I suppose.

Posted by: ColdBeer1 (Slap) (T) at January 23, 2015 09:52 PM (16bOT)

453 Funny thing..., I drove through Zanesville one time.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 23, 2015 09:52 PM (U93Mr)

454 "Hot chicks can't be nerds."
-Posted by: Garrett at January 23, 2015 09:50 PM (2Kd4o)

You sucked at I.Q. tests. Don't blame that on ferbles that are not krells.

Posted by: ColdBeer1 (Slap) (T) at January 23, 2015 09:54 PM (16bOT)

455 I went to college (version 1.0) in Cleveland, then lived there in the mid 80's (Broadview Hts and North Royalton).

Then moved to Canton for a couple of years (where I met my wife).

I've lived all over the state

Posted by: Bossy Conservative....in the bleak midwinter at January 23, 2015 09:54 PM (+1T7c)

456 I went to college (version 1.0) in Cleveland, then lived there in the mid 80's (Broadview Hts and North Royalton).

Then moved to Canton for a couple of years (where I met my wife).

I've lived all over the state

Posted by: Bossy Conservative....in the bleak midwinter at January 23, 2015 09:54 PM (+1T7c)

457 People in W. Virginia call it - "Uh-hi".

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 23, 2015 09:54 PM (U93Mr)

458 Hot chicks can't be nerds.
Posted by: Garrett at January 23, 2015 09:50 PM (2Kd4o)


Wait, so you're saying that bimbos with glasses aren't actually nerds?

Posted by: Anderson Cooper's Smoked Sausages at January 23, 2015 09:55 PM (MbqmP)

459 Fucking wind. At least it stopped raining.

Posted by: The Owl at January 23, 2015 09:55 PM (fBxC6)

460 64 Valiant in 10th grade. 63 Valiant now. 50 years later. Hooahh!

Posted by: Eromero at January 23, 2015 09:55 PM (go5uR)

461 "Funny thing..., I drove through Zanesville one time."
-Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 23, 2015 09:52 PM (U93Mr)

I thought you spent a week circling Columbus on a motorcycle. --?

Perhaps this has been a misinformation operation.

Posted by: ColdBeer1 (Slap) (T) at January 23, 2015 09:56 PM (16bOT)

462 For MUMR:

http://tinyurl.com/l3xbcup

Posted by: OG Celtic-American at January 23, 2015 09:56 PM (CNua6)

463 NE of Dayton. I lived there before they put 675 in, where it crosses the north side. Dad was at Wright Pat. Its very different now.

Posted by: freaked at January 23, 2015 09:56 PM (JdEZJ)

464 Alan Greenspan quotes. For better and for worse:

http://tinyurl.com/prq789w
Posted by: ColdBeer1 (Slap) (T) at January 23, 2015 09:49 PM (16bOT)

*****

Thanks. I knew I blew that quote, but the guy is pretty funny.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty, unperson from Free Market Jesus Paradise at January 23, 2015 09:56 PM (VHKLL)

465 I thought you spent a week circling Columbus on a motorcycle. --?
---------------

It was only one evening..., it *seemed* like a year.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 23, 2015 09:57 PM (U93Mr)

466 446 I don't believe I even understand most of the recent comments on this thread. Oh well.
Posted by: rickl
---------

They are speaking with some mid-westernish accent.
Posted by: Burt Reynolds at January 23, 2015 09:50 PM (U93Mr)



So am I, so that can't be it.

And I'm from Ohio.

Posted by: rickl at January 23, 2015 09:57 PM (sdi6R)

467 Longbow, Crossbow, there's nothing like Elbow

Posted by: kbdabear at January 23, 2015 09:57 PM (GrXXa)

468 I was in the Battling Beaver Band. The drill team was called the Beaverettes.

Yea. Those were the days.

Posted by: freaked at January 23, 2015 09:58 PM (JdEZJ)

469 "The Owl"


Speaking of, I better check on momma owl.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at January 23, 2015 09:58 PM (g0iKS)

470 Haven't called Cleveburg home for almost 35 years.

The mention of Ghoulardi brought back a flood of memories.

It's rare that I weigh in, but I couldn't resist with the one story about Ernie...

Posted by: Browndog at January 23, 2015 09:58 PM (H+4bU)

471 I sent-out the "O-H"...


...and got nothing earlier.

Posted by: ColdBeer1 (Slap) (T) at January 23, 2015 09:59 PM (16bOT)

472 Is that Beavercreek out there?

That's more like Fairborn, isn't it?

The ubiquitous Sven was from Fairborn.

Posted by: Bossy Conservative....in the bleak midwinter at January 23, 2015 09:59 PM (+1T7c)

473 I didn't even know you were in Ohio until tonight! I'm in So. Cuyahoga. Right around Strongsville.
Posted by: ColdBeer1 (Slap) (T) at January 23, 2015 09:44 PM (16bOT)


my youngest son just moved last summer to an appt on the N. Royalton/Strongsville border. He works in Berea.

Posted by: bergerbilder at January 23, 2015 09:59 PM (8MjqI)

474 Yes very close to Fairborn.

Posted by: freaked at January 23, 2015 10:00 PM (JdEZJ)

475 "It's rare that I weigh in, but I couldn't resist with the one story about Ernie..."
-Posted by: Browndog at January 23, 2015 09:58 PM (H+4bU)

And it was a high-quality story! Thanks for checking-in! Stick around, amigo!

Posted by: ColdBeer1 (Slap) (T) at January 23, 2015 10:01 PM (16bOT)

476 Yikes! Those Battling Beavers!

I went to Belmont, the Bisons. Home of the Thundering Herd.

Posted by: Bossy Conservative....in the bleak midwinter at January 23, 2015 10:01 PM (+1T7c)

477 "my youngest son just moved last summer to an appt on the N. Royalton/Strongsville border. He works in Berea."
-Posted by: bergerbilder at January 23, 2015 09:59 PM (8MjqI)

I grew up there, berger. --In that area.

Posted by: ColdBeer1 (Slap) (T) at January 23, 2015 10:03 PM (16bOT)

478 What Bison were ever in Ohio?


At least there were and are actual Bison in North Dakota


Is this like a Pittsburgh Penguin thing

Posted by: ThunderB, Sharia Compliance Officer at January 23, 2015 10:03 PM (zOTsN)

479 My HS had a dance with Joe Walsh and the JamesGang. I never knew the were a national hit until I moved to Nashville 24 years later.

Posted by: bergerbilder at January 23, 2015 10:03 PM (8MjqI)

480 The last elk seen in Ohio was back around 1840.

Posted by: bergerbilder at January 23, 2015 10:05 PM (8MjqI)

481 Pssstt....ONT....

Posted by: ManWithNoParty, unperson from Free Market Jesus Paradise at January 23, 2015 10:05 PM (VHKLL)

482 ONT up.

Posted by: Vendette at January 23, 2015 10:05 PM (Hh8Up)

483 There are Bison in Ohio now.

There are farms that raise them for their meat. There's one just up the road from me.

Historically, there were small herds of bison in Ohio ~ 1000 years ago, but the Indians hunted them out.

Posted by: Bossy Conservative....in the bleak midwinter at January 23, 2015 10:05 PM (+1T7c)

484 There are Bison in Ohio now.

There are farms that raise them for their meat. There's one just up the road from me.

Historically, there were small herds of bison in Ohio ~ 1000 years ago, but the Indians hunted them out.

Posted by: Bossy Conservative....in the bleak midwinter at January 23, 2015 10:05 PM (+1T7c)

485 An elk once bit my sister...

Posted by: OG Celtic-American at January 23, 2015 10:05 PM (CNua6)

486 "My HS had a dance with Joe Walsh and the JamesGang. I never knew the were a national hit until I moved to Nashville 24 years later."
-Posted by: bergerbilder at January 23, 2015 10:03 PM (8MjqI)

*HAH!* No Shit?!?

I only has Michael Stanly growing up.

...and he never came to the High School ...lol.

Posted by: ColdBeer1 (Slap) (T) at January 23, 2015 10:06 PM (16bOT)

487 Okay, ONT up. NEO nostalgia night is over.

Posted by: bergerbilder at January 23, 2015 10:07 PM (8MjqI)

488 Before we moved from Ohio they had just built 675 but it had not opened yet. I used to get out there on my go kart and ride up to Fairborn and turn around and come back. I drove on that stretch of road a few years ago and it was weird with all the traffic. At one time I had the whole freeway all to myself!

Posted by: freaked at January 23, 2015 10:07 PM (JdEZJ)

489 Not that anybody cares but that's ok.

Posted by: freaked at January 23, 2015 10:08 PM (JdEZJ)

490 freaked - I think it's pretty neat.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 23, 2015 10:15 PM (U93Mr)

491 I have another gem to share if that's OK, they pertain to the old man (who passed away far too young at 56):
My dad was invited to a Browns game back in '63, my brothers went with him...I didn't, as I was too young. After the game they were invited to go to the Touchdown Club to meet the players and what not. My dad, who was not at all into sports, was being escorted through the room by a patient/client of his and introducing him to various folks.

Somehow the two of them got separated. So on his own, with my brothers in tow, he worked the room. All was well until he went up to one of the players and introduced himself. My brothers knew immediately who it was and tried to save my dad from what was about to transpire.

"Hi, I'm so and so, a guest of who de who. Who are you and what do you do?

"Well doc, I'm Jim Brown and I play for the Browns..."

My brothers were mortified, my dad's host thought it hilarious, and to this day it is a story that get's told when ever we remember the old man.


Posted by: Browndog at January 23, 2015 10:16 PM (H+4bU)

492 It took about a decade to finish the last mile of I77 through Fairlawn (local politics). It'skinda srange now that we can go 10 miles to I77, and get off 500 miles later and bee 2 miles from my son's place in Rock Hill, SC.

Posted by: bergerbilder at January 23, 2015 10:19 PM (8MjqI)

493 Thanks Mike I thought I was just blathering to the nethersphere.

Posted by: freaked at January 23, 2015 10:24 PM (JdEZJ)

Posted by: Vic at January 24, 2015 03:06 AM (wlDny)

495 >>152 @138 Biden is going with a delegation to pay his respects but will not be able to attend the funeral
In the delegation: James Taylor?

Posted by: m at January 24, 2015 04:00 AM (rn/hC)

496 >>>176 he saw David Cameron shortly before Camerons election

he himself toured European capitals in the run up to his election, both of them

its all a lie
Posted by: ThunderB, Professional Ball Deflator at January 23, 2015 06:43 PM (zOTsN)

This is good stuff. I hope somebody in the press corps comes up with those same points.

Posted by: m at January 24, 2015 04:05 AM (rn/hC)

497 >>>Video is from 1957. She is now in her mid 70's. I have by-chance lunch with her occasionally at a local lunch counter.

http://tinyurl.com/o6tlyh4
Posted by: Mike Hammer

That's lovely; thanks.

Posted by: m at January 24, 2015 04:18 AM (rn/hC)

498 Soo,

Apache vs. Dragon taught me that women just can't drive LOL!

Laser guided missiles, stupid grrl! Why would you LEAD w/ that?!

Not convinced the fcking bullits wouldn't have done some damage to that aerodynamically implausible CGI creation no matter how "tough" the hide.

But, OK lead with the Hellfire Missiles always because...duh HELL fire MISSILES!, I guess...

Posted by: Deety at January 24, 2015 05:22 AM (gSkMY)

499 Most promising. With a massive P.R. campaign, youth training groups, proper adjustment of public school curricula, strategic corporate backing, appropriate tax breaks and a 24/7 dedicated cable channel, we should just about be ready to re-fight the Mogul Hordes in, oh, 2 centuries or so.

Posted by: Wax the Gunter Flog at January 24, 2015 09:55 AM (lqeGC)

500 No Il, it was the old moniker, it was me and Ed Snate, and then others joined in, but me and Ed were the primaries. Both monikers are defunct, and as an aside, or rather in line with the tone of the thread.

How this became an Ohio thread is EXACTLY how that protest against racism thread Ace posted back then became a LongbowVsCrossbow thread. It just happens, and it's what makes this place have the best commenters on the planet.

Posted by: Douglas at January 24, 2015 03:48 PM (SfYd6)

501 Doesnt look like a longbow, maybe a recurve or sumtin...could be what is called a skill.

Posted by: butternut at January 24, 2015 09:24 PM (F6ceQ)

502 Escort girls http://REGMODELS.RU

Posted by: Tina at January 26, 2015 07:25 PM (95udX)

503 If you say longbows three times...

Your daughter shows up at thanksgiving with wickedpinto.

Posted by: mesablue at January 26, 2015 09:58 PM (P1WxQ)

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