Weekend open thread

| October 9, 2015

A large plume of ash and steam rises from the Cotopaxi volcano as seen from Quito, Ecuador, Thursday, Oct. 8, 2015. The Geophysics Institute said during the first week of October the Cotopaxi has shown an increase in emission of ash and temperature, and a noted glow in the crater. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)

A large plume of ash and steam rises from the Cotopaxi volcano as seen from Quito, Ecuador, Thursday, Oct. 8, 2015. The Geophysics Institute said during the first week of October the Cotopaxi has shown an increase in emission of ash and temperature, and a noted glow in the crater. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)

Ex-PH2 sends this video for your weekend enjoyment.

I could update you on our dealings with the DRC, but you’d think I was lying. So, just imagine the most incredible stuff that you can dream up – and that’s the way it is. If I wasn’t looking at actual court documents, I wouldn’t believe it either. You should clear your calendars for January and join us for the circus.

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CLAW131

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CLAW131

Ah, so easy even a knuckle dragging caveman can do it.

desert

Ah, the old druckle nagging caveman trick!

ChipNASA

NOT PAYING ATTENTION!!!
/wah…the streak endith. 🙁

skippy

damn

skippy

second

skippy

Damn

skippy

damn

skippy

damn

ChipNASA

This is Sparks…


Skippy

that’s it ^^^^^^^^

bhwhahahahahahaha

ChipNASA

I mean Skippy……damn, Damn, DAMN!!!!!!
/typo.

CLAW131

DY-NO-MITE !!

2/17 Air Cav

Yeah, John Amos is still alive and well but Florida has been really, really dead since 1998. He got fired. She got dead. I’d say he won.

CLAW131

Well, at age 68, Jimmie Walker ain’t exactly no spring chicken anymore either.

He seems to be getting along pretty well, so best of luck to him.

skippy

damn

Ex-PH2

I could ask, but I want to enjoy my lunch. And the rest of you should enjoy this weekend, because we all live in a free country where we are free to be all that we can be, or just the opposite.

I’m fixing a chuck roast for supper on Sunday. Should be good. LOTS of gravy.

Dave Hardin

I am not coming until you get rid of that cheap ass stove and get something more traditional. I don’t know who chuck is but I dont think I like you rubbing my face in his gravy.

I didn’t think you were the kind of woman that just spread her gravy around for free.

CLAW131

Dave, it should be who chuck “was”, not is.

Hopefully she’s not burning burning chuck alive at the stake, unless he really, really deserved it.

After all, this is 2015, not 1515.

OC

Dave, who said it was free? 😉

Dave Hardin

She insinuated things are free in this country. I thought she said ‘Fixing chuck a roast’ now I have no idea who is eating or what. All I am sure of is she intends on spreading lots of her gravy around.

Ex-PH2

Not just gravy, but mashed red potatoes, a veg mix of peppers, carrots, green and wax beans with garlic and diced bacon.

Accompaniment: garlic-stuffed queen olives; radishes; ciabatta bread w/real butter; a 2011 red Toscano wine.

Popcorn and a good book for dessert.

And for after

Instinct

Popcorn is not a desert. Chocolate Mousse Pie, that is a desert! Cheesecake is a desert!

Popcorn is for movies or reading the antics of the DRC

2/17 Air Cav

There may be no Allah but Allah but there most assuredly is no cheesecake unless it’s New York cheesecake.

Ex-PH2

I stand corrected. I will go see if there is chocolate cheesecake some place.

Nucsnipe

Getting hungry with the food talk may have to make my banana coconut marshmallow cream pie after I get done working on my motorcycle

Dave Hardin

PH2 you are all the sweets any man could ever dream for. Much to sweet to be an EX treat. Honestly, that meal does make me drool a little. Sounds wonderful.

Ex-PH2

It is good, and I would send pictures, but every time I send Jonn pictures of food, he keeps them to himself.

Dave Hardin

Thanks for the heads up. Lets see no sending Jonn food, midget porn, or Asian news caster pictures if you ever want to see them again.

(Should I be jealous of this News Lady?)

Ex-PH2

Oh, you left out cheap cigars and booze, DH.

Dave Hardin

Well, I mean thats obvious just look at the man. His alter-ego’s are more fun to play with anyway.

I think maybe he clicked on the button to post that swooning admission and went ‘Shit, I probably shouldn’t have done that’.

Pinto Nag

You’re kidding, right? Have you forgotten Jonn’s sense of humor?

Dave Hardin

At any moment I am going to see that “Your post is awaiting moderation” comment appear.

Ex-PH2

Did I say you could stop handing out the sweet talk, DH?

Dave Hardin

I am sorry, you are right of course. I just didnt realize he harbored these feelings.

I though him and that HOBO guy had something going on.

Hondo

Nah. Jonn tolerates me here, but he’s not into stank-ass hippies. (Hobos are hippies’ close relatives, right?)

ARCOM

Both of you stop cyber-bulling Jonn. He has an ARCOM you know.

Thunderstixx

He also has at least one of those NDM’s too !!!

MSG Eric

Twelfth!

By Monday, Obama is going to sign an executive order charging that volcano with global warming and send 50,000 troops there to arrest it.

Pinto Nag

Nah, he’s still contemplating his executive order about gun registration before he goes to Oregon. The crater will have to wait.

Roger in Republic

The White House will be a smoking crater if he attempts to enact that stinker. If they come after our guns we will go after their children. There will be no POW’s in the next civil war.

A Proud Infidel ®™

I think FAR MORE HOT AIR emanates from the mouth of B. Hussein 0bama than does from said volcano!!!

MSG Eric

Don’t confuse the issue with facts.

11B-Mailclerk

0bama – More hot air than the Gates of Hell.

Climb to Glory

Good god. Those fucking moronic oxygen thieves are still at it. When will this DRC madness end. Shouldn’t the plane crashing catheter addict be locked up anyway. Hey Birdbath, he who is without mail box door and Dullass, get fucked you bunch of brain dead mutants.

Ex-PH2

Isn’t the score now TAH: 3 to DRC: 0?

I’ve lost track.

sj

Let’s see:
TSO=Jeep
Jonn=Assault vehicle of some kind–I forget
MCPO= Caddy SUV

CLAW131

sj, Jonn’s TAH Urban Assault Vehicle is a full sized Chevy Bow-Tie Prius Crusher.

sj

I salute all 3. Not jealous of their Bernath Bucks given the bullshit they went through to get them and they deserve more. Now I hope others here (and The Legion) are compensated for the sick filth that Bernath posts.

The best reward will be when the DRC members are locked up either by the authorities or by their families when it dawns on them that daddy is a nut case and could be the next guy shown on nationwide TV.

GDContractor

Don’t forget the weiner suit! That cost a lot of bernath bucks!

CLAW131

And isn’t TSO’s new baby’s college fund all maxed out from Bernath bucks?

Speaking of the little one, how is she? Growing like a weed I bet.

A Proud Infidel®™

I wonder who will be next to score some Bernath Bucks®™?

sj

“I could update you on our dealings with the DRC, but you’d think I was lying.”

Awwww…come on, at least throw us a bone (unless OPSEC precludes). As worded it could be interpreted as a good thing or a bad thing.

Ex-PH2

The real question: is there a video, or is the Monty Python bit enough?

MSG Eric

If we knew the real story, I’m sure the Monty Python bit would seem more realistic.

Flagwaver

I am oddly curious, as well. Please, toss the ravenous hordes of your loyal minions some meat.

Ex-PH2

On the other hand, it might be best if the Cinnaminions wait for their Big Treat, with special sauce.

Green Thumb

That’s if they have the energy after singing and playing their favorite game and song: “99 Dildos on the Wall”.

A Proud Infidel®™

I doubt they have any energy left at all after their opening round of Dutch rudder Cocktails (Rubbing alcohol with a hit of antifreeze and formaldehyde for flavor garnished with a lead paint chip) washed down with the T-bird that the Janitor didn’t use for stripping the wax off the floor!

3/17 Air Cav

Article in local paper this morning. Home Depot helping veterans. The article features a Vietnam vet. I’ve gotten so damn skeptical about claims.
Article says the vet served in Vietnam 1965 thru 1967 special ops, Bronze Star, Silver Star, three Purple Hearts. All I’ve got is full name and month and year of birth. I hope the story is true but as I said I’m doubtful.

sj

Every time I read one of these I get the same vibe as you 3/17. A shame. There’s a gun shop here that advertises on the radio that the owner is a highly decorated SGM who was SF, Ranger, Delta, etc. etc. The Bull Shit flag in my pocket wants to unfurl every time I hear the ad but that’s wrong of me…no reason to think it isn’t true except for the clowns Jonn exposes here.

AW1Ed

Except for the part where 99.999% of actual Special Ops folks do not broadcast that information outside the wire.

sj

Interestingly, there is no mention of the owner and his history on his web site…just the radio ad. I’ll try and record/transcribe it next time I hear it.

Instinct

My imagination says that Dullas and Birdbath have finally tied the knot in California after Birdbath admitted his secret love.

Phildo served as the flower girl and party favor for the reception.

Marine_7002

Inquiring minds want to know: who was bending over for who?

CLAW131

Inquiring minds also want to know if a dickmissile catheter was substituted for the bouquet in the traditional toss at the after ceremony reception.

Green Thumb

I would ask the False Commander Phil Monkress (CEO of All-Points Logistics) as I am sure he was invited but I imagine he was hanging out in the men’s room working his balls to the sound of the grunts in the adjacent stall.

sj

House 6 likes the program “How To Get Away With Murder”. I should say, used to like. Aside from today’s obligatory mandate to incl gays/etc, an upcoming episode describes a scene where one of the “guys” tells he the other “guy” to lay on his stomach while the other one gets some lube.

Maybe the DRC “guys” could be stunt doubles for this?

A Proud Infidel®™

Who was Maid of Honor? Forgin’ Frank or The Round Ranger? Maybe turd Bolling?

CLAW131

In October 1993 (I think it was this weekend) a UH-1H helicopter was posted into the outdoor equipment display at AL Post #313 in Fairmount, IN.(Home town of James Dean the actor)

This bird (Ser.No. 68-16504) holds special memories for me because not only is it just the kind of bird I did my flying in RVN in, but I did some of my initial in-country training flying in this very bird.

It is fully marked out with the unit designations of C Co, 101st AVN BN (Blue Diamond on tail boom, Black Widow marking on nose,etc). This bird was assigned to the First Flight Platoon and Bobby Marks (Short Round) was her Door Gunner.

So, if any of you out there happen to be meandering through Central Indiana looking at the corn and soybean fields and happen to pass through Fairmount, stop off and say “Hello” to an old Vietnam War Buddy of mine. Perhaps one of these days I’ll be able to make the trip back there and tell it “Hi” myself.

CLAW131

BTW, I see by the Post Facebook page that their AL Riders made a run last weekend down into Dave Hardin’s area, so making a journey around Indiana is now possible by modes of transportation other than covered wagons pulled by oxen.

Dave Hardin

If I get hit up for free food or beer I start passing out SF180’s, works like a charm.

Anyone is always welcome, it always surprises me when I am told after the fact that someone was in one of my restaurants.

Better stop in while you can, Dave be sailing the sea again soon.

Frankie Cee "In the clear"

CLAW131, check your e-mail for message from me, via TAH6. We have some common ground.

CLAW131

Frankie, saw and read your e-mail. I’m not into doing e-mails, so I’ll just do my communicating here.

Re the 101 Avn Bn. Here’s what happened later on after A Company deployed to Vietnam as an Assault Helicopter Company.

In July 1968, the entire Battalion (as it was configured by the time I got there) was formed by having the 17th AHC become B Company, the 188th AHC became C Company (my company) and the Gun Platoons (with UH-1C Models) from each company were combined to form D Company. Later on all 24 of the UH-1C model Gunships were replaced by AH-1 Cobras in D Company and eight additional UH-1H models were shipped to A,B,and C giving each one of them a full compliment of 24 birds each.

Our company nicknames were A-The Commancheros, B-The Kingsmen, C-The Black Widows and D-The Hawks.

The HHC, A and B Companies were stationed at Camp Eagle and C and D Companies were stationed at Phu Bai.

The entire Battalion returned to CONUS and Fort Campbell in February 1972 when the 101st Airborne shut down in RVN and came home.

Good to know there is another “Wings of the Eagle” trooper out there.

CLAW131

Just as a side note, No, I am not the unit historian for my outfit.

The credit for that goes to a man named Dick (Cherry Boy) Detra who deployed to Vietnam as a Door Gunner in the Gun Platoon (Spiders) of the 188th AHC. He is the one who did all the heavy leg work in putting a unit history together.

A Co,101 Avn (The Commancheros) does have a still up and running web site (if anybody is interested) while the web site for my company (The Black Widows) has now passed into obscurity due to the death of our founder and subsequent loss of the webmaster.

Frankie Cee "In the clear"

Thanks for the update. I am a follower of the Comancheros website. Someone from there sent me a “Winged Warriors” patch that I have epoxied onto my Bamboo cane. We are “The Wings of the Eagle”.

2/17 Air Cav

I have got to find a way to use Chip’s dickmissile catheter line in conversation.

GDContractor

Maybe tell someone you are going to draw a cartoon of a New York Cheesecake, and see where it goes from there. Just brainstorming! 😉

ChipNASA

BBBBWWWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

CLAW131

Maybe there is a conversation on how the DRG uses a dickmissile catheter as sort of a Bat Signal to call their weekly meeting to order.

You know the Justice League of America (TAH) versus the Forces of Evil (DRG) sort of conversation.

GDContractor

Speaking of which (sorta), not sure if it is common knowledge but Alan Funt was Army Signal Corp. He actually came up with the method of “candid microphone” while on AD at Camp Gruber, OK. As the decades evolved, so did his idea which became Candid Camera. I learned about this in a podcast yesterday.

2/17 Air Cav

“I learned about this in a podcast yesterday.”

You and Chip are actively conspiring to kill me aren’t you?

Hack Stone

Earlier this week, I learned that the character Herman Munster served four years in the Army, with one year being at Ft. Benning. Do we need to run a FOIA on him? I have a date of birth for him of June 21, 1815.

Hondo

Navy, I think. Both Wikipedia and biography.com say that Fred Gwynne (the actor who played Herman Munster) served in the Navy during World War II and after.

sj

My bad. I thought the guy on the right was John F’ing Kerry (who served in VN).

CLAW131

Yes, his obituary at Find a Grave says he was a Radioman on a Sub-Chaser from 44-46.

Hack Stone

It was the episode when Herman had to go on a diet in order to fit in his uniform for the uniform. When the doctor, Paul Lynde, started filling out the paperwork because he thought that Herman was dead, Lily said that he was in the Army for three years. Herman then corrected her, saying he served four years, including Ft. Benning. MLTW. Munster’s Lead The Way.

I did not know that Fred Gwynne served in the Navy. Can you imagine telling your kids, or grandkids, that you were in the service with Herman Munster. They would probably think that Grandpa was off of his mess again.

GDContractor

Yvonne DiCarlo was H O T! I guess she liked older men. I was 3.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9kqxLu7liIQ

CLAW131

Yep, she was (for an older gal)

But back in the day, Marylin Munster (Pat Priest) was the hot cheeka to watch on TV.

CLAW131

And also don’t forget that she baked those “little piece of heaven” biscuits for G.W. McLintock.

In a Yukon stove at the settler’s camp, no less. Not even in the kitchen at the big house.

Mrs. Warren had skills.

GDContractor

They were so hot back the. No airbrush, no silicone, no lifts and tucks. Plus, they knew how to cook biscuits, from scratch. I misspelled her name above I guess… Yvonne De Carlo, I tip my hat to you. My condolences to when you thought Herman had died.

GDContractor

My Indian name is “SuBtLe PoDcAsT NiNjA”.
You don’t want none of this.

Roger in Republic

I would hate to think that the DRG news blackout was a response to threatened legal action or some other form of prior restraint. Only cowards would bend a knee to these douche nozzles, and I know there are no cowards here. My vote is to expose them for the twisted lying shits they have proven themselves to be and dare them come and ‘Git sum’.

Ex-PH2

RIR, be patient.

Everything happens in its time and becomes fruit in its hour.

sj

Yeah but some of us are seasoned citizens who would like to go to our final rest knowing that justice had been done.

You young whippersnapers don’t read the Obits every morning and note how many of your age and younger have assumed room temp.

CLAW131

I do that too.

The latest casualty in my small family circle back in Indiana was a female second cousin who passed on September 24th. We graduated from high school the same year and she was five months younger than me.

Time marches on and the circle gets smaller.

RIP Bonnie.

Jarhead

Claw, I just have to ask. A while back I finally realized Dave Hardin lives only 25 miles from where I grew up. Any chance you are from that area? Funny how many Hoosiers (rather, former in my case) post on this site.

CLAW131

Jarhead, nope. Not from that way down south area, although the maternal side of my family did settle in Harrison County for a while after escaping from Ireland during the Potato Famine. They then did go north (after the Civil War) up to where I was born and raised in Pulaski County. That’s about 100 miles north of Naptown and halfway between Lafayette and Michigan City and is very rural. Winamac is the county seat (that’s where Twist is from) and the entire county has a population of less than 12,000 people. Hogs and cows probably outnumber people by 3 to 1.

Jarhead

Good to know another Hoosier reads and posts on TAH site. You were from the damned sure coldest part of the state. Strange, when I grew up, six to eight inch snows were not that rare. Nowadays, uncommon beyond your regular snow days. Going to look up D. Hardin next time I go back. These days as 70 passes by, deeeeep south Al. is
where I rest. What a different lifestyle!

CLAW131

I left that part of Indiana in February 1971 when I enlisted in the Army. Except for a couple of visits during the 70’s after Vietnam and my first tour to Germany, I have never been back.
I guess I could be considered a Westerner now, having lived in either Colorado, Wyoming and now Idaho ever since 1977.

Cold? Yeah, we lived right at the bottom end of the Northern windblown lake effect snow from Lake Michigan. When the roads finally got plowed, the drifts were as tall as the tops of the telephone poles. This supposed cold weather out here in the Western Rockies is like being in Bermuda compared to some of the Indiana winters I endured.

Jarhead

Guess your post about not having been back except for a few visits makes me wonder if the same thoughts ran through your head as mine after RVN. Returned to my smal home town of 3,500 people and refused to be interviewed about my experiences. Did not to wan to go anywhere at all. I had left as a boy and returned a man who shared little with those who stayed back in the States. Just could not relate to the small town high school mentality that went along with that small a town.Went back many years later and it appeared all the houses were closer together. You can’t go home, because “home” is not there anymore. A total of 23 months the first time, then to Quantico where I cold not stand it, and back to RVN for my final nine months. So much had not changed, rather it had stood stale and become something of an abyss for me…..one I did not want to join and fit in with daily. Became a loner by nature, and still am to the core. Let me close with this: if your MOS was combat directed, and you personally saw close deaths and all sorts of events, you should and could easily be connected with the V A. All depends on your MOS and you personal combat stories. Let me know if you are not 100 %. There are right doors and WRONG doors open for you to be shown.

CLAW131

Well, your small town of 3500 was the big city compared to my closest town of 600 souls back then. I guess less than 500 now and that probably includes all the farm folks who use the Zip Code to get their rural mail delivered.

The little town has now all but disappeared. Only the Post Office and a bar left as downtown businesses.

My job in Vietnam was being a crew chief/door gunner in a assault helicopter company. I am 100% good to go, no PTSD issues or service connected injuries and I have never had to do anything with the VA other than registering and being put into a priority group. Thanks for asking, but as far as I know I probably will never have anything to do with the VA.

CLAW131

I think part of the reason why so many Hoosiers post here is because of having neighbors so few and far between back in the day, we are still living up to the notion of being cordial enough to ask “Who’s There” before we either shoot them for trespassing or tell them to “Come on in and meet the family.”.

Jarhead

Those were the good old days. When I was headed home after USMC boot camp in late Dec. ’65, how I was disgusted with the horse hair long coats they gave us to wear. Walking through downtown Chicago looking for something to impress an old girlfriend, the look of that heavy coat did not bother me in the least. Had I been without it, I’d absolutely NOT been able to walk downtown. It was miserably windy and cold. About five years ago we were in S. E. Idaho (Swan Valley) to pick up a large rock cutting saw and ship back here. Absolutely stunningly beautiful out there! Snow was still on top of the mountains in August.
Post card picture perfect! The air was crisp and clean. Loved it! I’m certain many could not understand your comment about the cold winters around the Chi-town area, but it was truly miserable!!!! What was the name of the old hotel called the something or other House where fairly big name entertainers regularly played?
Good memories there now & then. The place is gone, that’s all I remember.

CLAW131

Yep, it’s the humidity that makes it feel so cold. Swan Valley is about an hour’s drive east of me and the west gate of Yellowstone NP is two hours north.
Not much snow left over on the Tetons this year. We had a very dry winter and the reservoirs were really down from their average fill. Weather predictions say this winter will be pretty much the same as last winter, just sweep broom snow for the most part.

Jarhead

The Empire Room at the Palmer House….that ring any bells? Early 1970 living it up in the business world, until that monkey on my back reappeared again. Pissed away nearly two years of my life before it was time to grow up and forget RVN.
Back to idaho….had a friend who lived his last ten or so years in Rupert. Commercial diver as I was. Ever hear of John Crowe by any freak chance?

CLAW131

The Palmer House in Chicago? Heard of it, never went there. I guess it’s some sort of a big re-worked Hilton Hotel now. Went to Chicago a few times for the National Livestock Exposition at McCormick Place with the FFA (where I got to shake hands with Ken Curtis), a couple of Cubbies games by riding the Legion bus from home and flew in and out of O’Hare a couple of times, but that was about it. Flew into Chicago in the middle of February with thinned out Vietnam blood though and froze my ass off trying to get home to the farm down in Indiana 75 miles away.

No Sir, have never heard of John Crowe.

Ex-PH2

1985 was one of the worst and coldest winters Chicago had seen in decades. I was grateful to have a very warm apartment, just because the building held the heat so well.

Jarhead

Claw, consider this from one who thought for many years I don’t need no stink’in VA. Now consider our parallels. I was a tank commander and in my 32 months total in RVN, I saw my share. Your situation presented you the same dangers as mine, but in all honesty, you probably had more bad times than I. Take this as nothing more than a former Hoosier offering to show you the doors than can change your life dramatically. Initially they clipped my PTSD rating at 90 %; but added some other stuff that brought me up to the 100% that is the magic number. The last thing I ever wanted to do was attend group. Did not want to hear a bunch of a__holes complaining about their war stories. Finally I gave it a try, low and behold it was exactly 180 degrees from what I feared. As my wife has told me a number of times, attending Group loosened me up and I began laughing and feeling more relaxed as time progressed. Dealing with the VA on certain issues can be trying, but overall it can be a REAL POSITIVE for your lifestyle. Now for starters, you do NOT go through the VA for help. They are NOT your friend. You instead go through a Veteran’s Service Officer (VSO). There is one in every county in every state to the best of my knowledge. All are former military and do their best to help any that ask. Do what you feel best, but keep me in mind if you ever want at least to discuss the matter and learn your options. For the last six or seven years I have believed it God’s calling for me to help show the right doors to those interested in assistance. One who has been there and still wears the T-shirt such as I do, can make it so much easier for another vet. Again, keep it in mind just in case you might choose to at least take a look at the benefits that are available. No problem if you do… Read more »

Hack Stone

Okay, we know (approximately) when. The big question is where? I can make it to any Monthomery County courthouse with little effort, provided that the elevator in that North Philly tenement is working. I recommend that we have a tailgate party in the parking lot of the courthouse. More excitement than the Super Bowl.

GDContractor

The last time you and I exchanged pleasantries about a beer summit, our conversation got enshrined on an Icelandic website for avgas challenged drooling catheterized beyond the prostate idiots. I guess in the USA, you cannot speak about getting together socially for a few beers and laughs without being complicit in some kind of criminal conspiracy. But, like someone else we all know, I am no lawyer.

Hack Stone

I missed that. Is it still up? My Icelandic (is that even a language?) is not what it used to be. Well, actually, it is like it used to be. I can’t speak squat now, and I couldn’t speak squat then.

Dave Hardin

Hvar eru konurnar? That is the bulk of what I remember.

http://www.msg-history.com/gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=28578

Ex-PH2

Too cute.

GDContractor

Don’t know if it is still up. The last time I looked was on 21SEP. Doctor said I can’t go back until I get booster shots or I might catch the moonbat disease.

OWB

Since this is an open thread, just gonna this out: we here at HQ OWB are learning to consume and love tofu.

Yeah, that’s sorta what I thought, too.

Hondo

Gotta ask: why?

sj

^^^ Amen Bro WORD ^^^

Instinct

I am, according to my allergist, HIGHLY allergic to soy and should avoid it. So, for that I am very grateful.

MSG Eric

Did you lose a bet?

OWB

Oh. Well.

It seems that tofu can confuse small cell cancer cells in blood type A personages. Something about agglutinins, breaking molecular chains, blah, blah. Can find no reason to NOT consume it, so to show support, and possibly contribute to healing, we ALL are eating the stuff.

Turns out, it can be rather tasty. Really.

A Proud Infidel®™

The first time I tried it was when I cooked it sliced and fried in bacon grease and eaten on a sandwich with said bacon, thus I didn’t have any points deducted from my Man Card®™!

Ex-PH2

I have found it very beneficial to reduce the amount of salt I use in cooking as much as possible. One benefit is keeping blood pressure levels at a normal level. But one I did not expect is that reducing salt in cooking bumped up the real flavors of things like bell peppers, potatoes, zucchini, radishes – stuff like that, which would normally be awash in salt. Even fresh or frozen green beans have a sweetness to them that is hidden when they are cooked with too much salt.

While we need salt to stay alive, we don’t need too much of it. We need other minerals as well.

Silentium Est Aureum

I wouldn’t believe what the DRC antics are of late had I not heard, then seen, for myself.

Fuck it. Some steak tips tomorrow after I button up the camper for the season, and then on Sunday, green chile burritos. Pork shoulder, jalapeno, salsa verde, onion, green chiles, cumin, garlic, chicken stock. Simmer for a couple hours. Scoop onto tortillas, fill with beans and cheese, throw a little liquid and cheese on top, nuke for 30 seconds.

New Mexico heaven.

Ex-PH2

My supper was briefly in existence and then disappeared.

It was leftover roast chicken and mashed red taters with a nice chicken gravy and some mixed veggies, and it did not last long enough to discuss it.

GDContractor

Last weekend, butchered a wild piglet. Roasted it on a spit over the fire pit burning oak. Took the meat back to town with me. Last night, cut some of the meat off the bone and chopped it up, put in the stockpot with bell pepper, onion, one can rotel tomatoes, one can of beer, one can cream of mushroom soup, two cups of rice, two cups of water, 3 oz. of apple cider vinegar, and about 3 oz. of soy sauce. Cooked until rice was done. It were good. I would have added fresh mushrooms but I didn’t have any.

Ex-PH2

GDC, can you do that with just plain old piggy as well as wild piggy?

It sounds good, and I could probably put it in either the crockpot or the Nesco cooker.

GDContractor

Yeah, I think it was in an old Louisiana cookbook my Mom had when I was growing up, originally with pork chops. I have used chicken too. Grilling it first, then putting it in the pot adds flavor.

Perry Gaskill

GDC, you see pan browning the meat first a lot in Country French cooking. A typical next step is to remove the meat from the pan, make a roux from the pan drippings with flour, add stock, then re-add the meat and other stuff. It’s a good way to work with cuts of meat that are tough or fatty.

Make all the jokes you want about cheese-eating surrender monkeys; they really do know how to cook…

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Thunderstixx

In all seriousness about the DRG or DRC depending on which post you read, the obvious mental illness of one said wannabe lawyer/not a CPO and general fuckoff is treading a line between reality and having a break with reality.
I can only hope that we don’t read about him going off his meds and pulling some stupid UCC or other free fire zone massacre.
As I said, I believe that there should be some way to make sure that he is not allowed to purchase any firearms and the ones he might already have be taken away and held by a legal team familiar with this kind of behavior.
I believe that as time goes on the likelihood that his cheese will slip off his Ritz at which point he could easily pull some stunt like that
As a nurse with experience in psyche nursing his paranoia in the realm of honest to God schizophrenia.
I hate to say it, but it wouldn’t surprise me in the least to see his name somewhere on a newscast in a story like that we have been seeing so many times of late.
God forbid it would ever happen, but I really do feel it is a distinct possibility and I wouldn’t put it past him or any of his DRG compatriots.

sj

I’ve said several times that his family is negligent in not sending ole batshit crazy Danny to a happy place before he does exactly what you posit.

A Proud Infidel®™

Not just Schizo, but Paranoid Schizophrenia with Narcissistic Disorder. He also does what Psychiatric Professionals refer to as “Projection”, described by Freud as when one feels so afraid of and intimidated by their own thoughts that they “Project” them onto others like a convicted rapist accusing his Therapist of having urges to do what he did. Delusional Disorder could apply to him as well. It all could be coupled with him trying to be what I refer to as a “Manipulator”, one who exhibits symptoms on purpose in order to garner sympathy from others, especially Authority Figures when they’re in trouble as well as trying to manipulate other parties against each other.

Just An Old Dog

In other news, the Round Ranger AKA Derek Church is so fat that his spirit animal is fried Chicken.

sj

Dog: you see my post the other day that I was passed by a truck going the other way with a Ranger plate on it in the same grid square as ole Round? Happened so fast that I didn’t see the driver or the truck color. Maybe it was a coincidence and there’s a real Ranger commuting within a few blocks of Maison Church but…. (I’m ramping up my SA)

A Proud Infidel®™

I can’t picture The Round Ranger driving anything that’s not mostly Bondo® and/or primer-colored!

GDContractor

Yeah, I tried to picture him driving a 70’s muscle car that he built from the ground up… but just I couldn’t do it.

Just An Old Dog

I don’t think theyt ever fixed the suspension from where his hiefer sit on the front fender for their wedding photos.

A Proud Infidel®™

Talk about suddenly needing an overhaul!! That Dependopottamus sow would overload the suspension of a Mack B Model!!

Ex-PH2

Oh, come on! Be nice! Chunky people need love, too.

She’ll adore him until the cash flow stops. Now you all know that!

Ex-PH2

I sent this to HOBO. I will also leave it here.

http://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/north-atlantic-cold-blob-could-affect-gulf-stream-weather-europe-eastern-us/52869594

May I just ask, after you read it, if you can answer this question: what global warming?

Ex-PH2

And then, there’s this BBC weather news feature. It seems that the Atlantic Multidecadal Current has reached its high temperature peak and is now dropping.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/features/34489981?ns_mchannel=social&ns_campaign=bbc_weather&ns_source=twitter&ns_linkname=news_central

If the Thames freezes this winter, I get dibs on a booth during the Ice Faires.

GDContractor

WTF? No more pork on Federal Prison Menus because they surveyed the inmates and the inmates did not enjoy eating pork products.

What’s next? No more shrimp and bowtie pasta in the DFAC’s? No more vegetarian penne pasta MRE’s?

As someone would say, “inmates, asylum, you know the rest”.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/federal-eye/wp/2015/10/09/finally-the-government-has-decided-to-eliminate-pork-from-the-menu-in-federal-prisons/

A Proud Infidel®™

Give ’em a choice, pork or TOFU! Fuck ’em, they’re CONVICTS!!

Dave Hardin

This is just too funny to keep quiet.
(Warning: this many contain language that is inappropriate for some viewers. Feel free to click on the “report comment” button if you are offended and ignored this warning because you are a pissy little prick that likes to complain.)

Ex-PH2

Can we get him to work over here, too?