(September 24, 2017 at 10:27 am)Fireball Wrote: Nice photos! I wish I could take decent pics. I'm working on that. Those gas prices are about 20¢ lower than here in California. That difference is state sales tax, at 9%.

Thanks for the kind words, but it's mainly sheer luck.

(September 24, 2017 at 10:27 am)Fireball Wrote: Nice photos! I wish I could take decent pics. I'm working on that. Those gas prices are about 20¢ lower than here in California. That difference is state sales tax, at 9%.

What! You’re in California?! You just earned an extra cool point.

(September 23, 2017 at 8:43 pm)A Theist Wrote:

(September 22, 2017 at 4:36 am)ignoramus Wrote: I practiced that just now while mumbling the numbers so I don't forget the sequence whilst walking down the street.
One person started throwing his loose coins at me.
Another person called an ambulance
Another call the police

Except the young dude with headphones on and a Motorhead tshirt ...he was copying me ...

I always thought number 4 meant something else.

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Once again history is on the wrong side of truth. For decades everyone has been led to believe that it was Frank Hamer who finally brought down Bonnie and Clyde. Nope. That distinction goes to me....and Melvin Purvis didn't get Dillinger either. That was also me.

I knew you were old, but damn, son.

(September 24, 2017 at 2:34 pm)J a c k Wrote: What! You’re in California?! You just earned an extra cool point.

God damn geographicist.

Edit: Google tells me it's geogracist.

(September 24, 2017 at 2:34 pm)J a c k Wrote:

(September 24, 2017 at 10:27 am)Fireball Wrote: Nice photos! I wish I could take decent pics. I'm working on that. Those gas prices are about 20¢ lower than here in California. That difference is state sales tax, at 9%.

What! You’re in California?! You just earned an extra cool point.

The coolest thing about Cali is I-10 East.

(September 24, 2017 at 7:12 pm)mh.brewer Wrote:

(September 24, 2017 at 2:34 pm)J a c k Wrote: What! You’re in California?! You just earned an extra cool point.

God damn geographicist.

Edit: Google tells me it's geogracist.

I thought if you didn't like the continent of Africa you're a geogracist!

(September 24, 2017 at 7:16 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:

(September 24, 2017 at 2:34 pm)J a c k Wrote: What! You’re in California?! You just earned an extra cool point.

The coolest thing about Cali is I-10 East.

Nah, the coolest thing in California is that stretch of Bouquet Canyon road just east of the bad boy camp. Many a drag race was held there, complete with two Fireball boys getting tickets, many years apart. Fun fact- 48, yes, 48 of us, got tickets for either "engaging in a speed contest", or "being a spectator to a contest". Nobody got it for aiding and abetting, because the popo couldn't prove who set up the barricades. We lined up 3 wide in the road and got our tickets like good little boys going through a turnstile.  I had just parked my Camaro after racing my friend in his Corvette (I lost- #sad). One of my younger brothers got the same citation 6 years later in that same spot. He's 6 years younger than I am. The popo had us cold- they came from both directions on the road, so we had no place to run to. One of the guys who didn't show up told the popo (when asked, where is everybody!), "Oh, they're up by Camp Scudder drag racing".

Nothing like uncorked headers echoing off the canyon walls, and tire smoke still in the air when John Law showed up.

(September 24, 2017 at 3:30 pm)Iroscato Wrote:

(September 23, 2017 at 8:43 pm)A Theist Wrote: I always thought number 4 meant something else.

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Once again history is on the wrong side of truth. For decades everyone has been led to believe that it was Frank Hamer who finally brought down Bonnie and Clyde. Nope. That distinction goes to me....and Melvin Purvis didn't get Dillinger either. That was also me.

I knew you were old, but damn, son.

128 ain't old. That's just middle age.

A couple of recent pics --

-- on a recent rainy day:



-- and today on my porch, after a haircut: