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Yak, that explains a nagging suspicion of mine! I just needed some bone fide facts to corraborate the little I scually know! Thank You.

I was in the Army with a dude named Jeeter. He was in my, six man cube.One morning, about three AM, someone was trying to get into his locker, and failing. He woke several of us up. My bunk mate said "Hey, Jeeter?" PFC Watson said (in a whisky soaked voice,)"no, it was our first date."

Yeah, I didn't consider how difficult that second end of a pirogue would be! the first went so well, I went ahead and epoxied that last stem joint, started my the four screws, and casually reached for the side. I mean how difficult can it be to bend a ten inch piece of quarter inch ply, sixteen...

Horse shoes come in about eight sizes. and they SHOULD be fitted to the hoof However, there is a style of horse shoeing called "cowboy shoeing". It's an awful method. A size of shoe was selected to fit outside the white line, the shoe was nailed on, and the hoof rasped off to fit the shoe...

I actually met two women in a camp ground years ago, that camped,just the two of them, all over North America. The had a pair of size 16 work boots, that they set outside their tent as security. I don't think a bear would be deterred, but they had camped for years together, and had no human...

Years ago, I got my dried eggs at the health food store. They were NOW brand. I don't think they were freeze fried, but they weren't bad for dried eggs. (of course, I put so much onion and garlic powder, and dehydrated pepper and mushroom in with the powdered eggs, the egg taste was kind of a...

I kind thought it was as well. My experience with Cajun cooking they all start out with one cup of flour and one cup of oil cooked into a peanut butter roux. (Even if the recipe is for an angelfood cake), Then the Trinity- One cup onion, one cup (pronounced "own-yon", one cup bell pepper(...

Bre'r Bear, You have really screwed up story tellin' for the rest of us! I have lead a pretty adventurous life, But I ain't NEVER kidknapped a ship, and sailed into combat, with folks just along for the ride. And not even knowin' where I was goin' nor how to get there. And it's...

Jack, it's been so long since Mitzi's Japanese restaurant has closed, like about thirty years, I have nearly forgotten what misutaki consists of. I just remember, that I liked it so much, that after working my way through the menu, I had it every Thursday night for four or five years. The best...

Jack, you spelled sukosh properly, next thing you know, you will be able to pronounce "Sukiaki", or maybe misutaki. Love that misutaki!! I haven't had any in many years.

My youngest brother was in a Marine corps boxing tournement when he was 18. He had no boxing experience at all, but he made it to the semi finals. His opponent was a few years older a few inches taller and a few pounds heavier, and he made it a racial issue. Little Bro is easy going and fairly...

I was in the Army with a stone cowboy, from Kansas. named Tolbert. He tried to get a few of us to help him rope a moose, tie it to a tree, and help him get a saddle on it. He said he had ridden sheep and goats as a tot, horses and bulls as a teen-ager, and had never been thrown. He thought a...

On a separate, and barely related thread, this reminds me of a true story. In a hamburger joint, in Choctaw Oklahoma, a fire arm was "accidentaly" discharged. The .357 slug went through the mirror of the men's room, and through the dressing rooms of several establishments in the strip mall. The...

Mick, Apparently the Australian pro athetes have more character than a good many American pro athletes. I'm sure most are dedicated to their sport, and do a workmanlike job. but at least once a week, some rectal orifice, who is being paid tens of millions of dollars a year, for what is...

Bear, I did not go willingly to South Dakota. I was dragged from the sunny south as a tot. We came back to Oklahoma, Christmas of 1955. We left Burke S. Dak. driving in an eight foot deep trench of snow, and it was below zero. Arriving at my Grand parents home in Oklahoma, it was 65 degrees. I...

Our ancesters didn't have an excercise program, excercise was the life style of the day. drinking water had to be carried in from a spring or a well. Just going to the john involved a stroll.(As an aside, I learnedI could hold it a long time, in the Winter, in South Dakota. Bathing on the porch...

Chuck, If the heathen hoard chooses to arrive in Atlanta, we have no problem! Not being native, they will all be killed by the traffic within a quarter mile of the air field. Jim

My Mother and I dicussed this "diet" problem at lenth many times , the last few years of her life. My great great grand parents were skinny, My great grand parents were nicely filled out, my grand parents were a little chunky, my Mother was a tad rotund, I am moderately obese. As a preteen, I...

Bearridge, When I was about six, I found a nice straight willow, about an inch in diameter at the butt, and about seven feet tall. I cut it down, using a "Gentleman's fingernail knife"(Don't see those around any more.), carried it home, peeled it, and put it in the rafters of the chicken...

In the early seventies, I was working for"Harry's dock constuction", out of Groveport, in NE Oklahoma. Harry had taken a contract for a new steel dock, with a trade in, waaay up on the grand river. Four of us went up to get the old wooden dock, get the area ready for the new dock, and push the...