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Maybe we can just honor what happened there without castigating generations in a no context argument. The guys who did this deserve whatever accolades they get, the event the attention and respect it gets, and it was an incredible event in pure focus of life, planning and machinery. As always, it never turns out the way it's planned, and in this case especially at Omaha Beach. Still, it would never be done that way now, so the "millenials" can't be put into that context, and their behavior projected. June 6, 1944 was an incredible day that a lot of very young men who did not expect what awaited them counted as their last. Can we just honor that?
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What's Your "Go-To" Dish to Cook?
sherpa replied to NoHuddleKelly12's topic in Off the Wall Archives
Todo bem? -
What's Your "Go-To" Dish to Cook?
sherpa replied to NoHuddleKelly12's topic in Off the Wall Archives
Too much pot. Not enough protein. -
What's Your "Go-To" Dish to Cook?
sherpa replied to NoHuddleKelly12's topic in Off the Wall Archives
'Had our kids," is a bit of odd terminology in a cooking thread," but I got it. If I didn't, hope they're OK and you stick with the low country boil. -
What's Your "Go-To" Dish to Cook?
sherpa replied to NoHuddleKelly12's topic in Off the Wall Archives
Low Country Boil. Easy, good outdoor fun, or indoor in the winter. Simple ingredients: Potatoes/sausage/ corn on cob/shrimp/onion/lemon in Old Bay seasoning. There are others I do that are more complicated, but I've never lost on this one. -
Chris Simms "Josh Allen talks technique"
sherpa replied to SDubills's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
All the chat is moderately interesting, not Simms, but Josh. But the "tell" is at the end in the attempt to hit the crossbar. Allen simply snaps the 30 yard throws. No effort. No time. Just flicks the throws effortlessly. -
I've been to one at Arlington, the funeral of Chic Burlingame, the captain of America 77 that was smashed into the Pentagon on 9/11. A truly moving experience is to be at the American Cemetery at Colleville-su Mer when they play "Taps" as the US flag is lowered.
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First Day of Summer! I hate the Freaking Summer!
sherpa replied to plenzmd1's topic in Off the Wall Archives
The issue in Florida has never been the temperature. Many places have higher temperatures. It is the dew point, which is a measure of moisture in the air, and it is extremely high during the late spring and summer months. Dew points above 63 get uncomfortable, and Florida's dew points are outrageously high. -
Low country boil is perfect for Memorial Day. So is the 15 hour pork shoulder on the Primo XL. Alas, neither is happening here, as my kid is going to come over and do his chicken thing on the grill. So.....Instead of being a grill maestro, I'll be reduced to a "side."
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Its Bob Dylan's Birthday... I Have This...What do you have?
sherpa replied to T&C's topic in Off the Wall Archives
My Back Pages with: Dylan, Clapton, Harrison, Young, McGuin, Petty, Cropper: My Back Pages anniversary -
Buffalo Niagara Airport best medium sized airport.
sherpa replied to PromoTheRobot's topic in Off the Wall Archives
I have a couple of memories/experiences at the Niagara Falls airport. They had a National Guard squadron there that would host me when I was flying in the Navy. When visiting my family, and later when I was dating a Buffalo gal, I would fly there and they would let me park on their ramp. One time, over Christmas holiday, and a week before starting a carrier deployment, I went there with the knowledge that there was a strong snow forecast during the two day period I would be there. Got the OK from the National Guard unit that they would store the airplane in their hangar for the two days. When I landed, late on a Friday, they said they would tow it in on Sat. When I called on Sunday, it had not been towed and was told it had quite a bit of snow on it. Since I was leaving the next day it had to be cleaned up. I got a call at home from some junior watch officer who told me that they had a holiday schedule, and my airplane was not going to be dealt with, and that whomever I talked to wasn't there and my concerns didn't matter. Called back to my west coast squadron. We were leaving for a WestPac cruise aboard Kitty Hawk, and the airplane needed to be back within 48 hours to be prepared for carrier deployment. Anyway, calls were made and I got a call at home that the airplane would be ready for my desired departure time. The other time was more fun. Again, dating a girl from Buffalo, so I was home for the weekend. When I got to the base operations at Niagara Falls on Sunday morning to fly home, there were two other military planes preparing. One was an Air Force T-37, which is a tiny twin engine primary trainer, and the other was a T-2, a Navy basic jet trainer. The National Guard guy who handled our flight plans kind of challenged us to a takeoff competition. I was flying an A-4 Superfox, with the Pacific Fleet Adversaries, and it was really overpowered. Anyway, with family and girlfriend witnessing this, along with the folks from the other two airplanes we agreed. T-37 takes off, does about a 50 degree angle climb and off he goes. Navy T-2 does a little better, but still nothing impressive. I take off, get the gear up at about five feet and level off, hit 320 knots at the end of the runway, and pull to the pure vertical. At about 1000' I did a four point roll, where you roll 90 degrees and stop. Did it four times for the full 360 and I was into the overcast. Tower says, "nice takeoff," and I replied that if anyone complained, (aerobatics in civilian airspace are prohibited), I noticed a flock of birds and had to avoid them. -
The comet was overrated. Like the Texas saying.....all hat, no cattle. The wild mouse was the real deal, and ski ball.....Who could forget ski ball? Those summer nights.......... That aside, I still liked Sherkston better.
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The Wild Mouse misses you. For me, its house-boating on Smith Mountain Lake, VA.
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Buffalo Niagara Airport best medium sized airport.
sherpa replied to PromoTheRobot's topic in Off the Wall Archives
If you bring your own, don't get caught. Quite serious fine. -
SAT (yes that one) to add adversity scoring
sherpa replied to BeginnersMind's topic in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
I think it's a good idea. Now, instead of having to bribe people, falsely claim to being a row crew athlete or paying someone to take the SAT for you, all you have to do is get an address in a bad neighborhood to give your kid that extra advantage. Much less risk of persecution, and a lot cheaper. -
One black. One white. One blonde
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Really small. Watch the Houston comeback game though, and you'll see what a player he was.
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And by the way, and you didn't hear it from me.... Marv Levy used to always "challenge Jim Ritcher to get bigger or end his career. There would be a weigh in at the start of camp/OTA's whatever. They would allow you to wear a baseball hat at the weigh in. Jim's wife used to sew weights into the baseball hat to get Jim a few extra pounds.
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Jim Ritcher was simply not big enough to have the impact to make the HOF, but he certainly made the best of what physical stature he had.
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Its a change in the deployment location for Lincoln. It was operating in the Med and will head east, probably to the Red Sea and east. Stennis was in the area recently. Stennis and Lincoln are changing homeports after their current deployments, Stennis from Bremerton Wa. to Norfolk for maintenance/nuclear refueling, and Lincoln from Norfolk to San Diego, so Lincoln would eventually transit the Indian Ocean anyway, but this is a change.
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I'm not going to write specific answers, because printers have different solutions. Information is easily available by searching. I've got an Epson. http://www.inkpal.com/ink-news/how-to-reset-an-ink-cartridge-not-waste-printer-ink/
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Inkjet printer replacement cartridges. Insanely overpriced to the point where some printer manufacturers lose money on the printer because they know they'll make a bunch on the replacement cartridges. If one gets "low" and low isn't really that low, the printer becomes dysfunctional until all are replaced. Not difficult at all to get around the issue, depending on the type of printer. Easy to find solution at a fraction of the cost.
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New Orleans To Remove Excremental Rebel Monuments
sherpa replied to Tiberius's topic in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
Ya. Like the the overwhelming majority of people here who have lived here for generations and don't give a rip. Never bothered anybody before. Get that? Overwhelming majority. -
New Orleans To Remove Excremental Rebel Monuments
sherpa replied to Tiberius's topic in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
I live in Charlottesville, and the entire process is ridiculous, and the entire issue deserves not one bit of attention. A group of lunatics drove here and tried to do something. Local people objected and one of them got killed. A guy is serving a life sentence for that. The statues are very nice, have been here for ages, and offend no normal person. My proposal was to rename them. Just name them monuments to guys on horses and be done with it. This entire episode is totally wasteful and ridiculous. Interesting, but almost everyone who was in office when this happened is gone. city manager, police chief and a bunch of others.