Introduce Yourselves

[workinwifdakids]

OK. I'll play. My wife, Jennifer...

//weeps softly into his hands//

[Aegis]

In addition to Aesop, anyone seen Denis?

[Mo K]

Thanks Jeffro for the heads up on this new forum. I know we've been challenged in finding a new "home" lately. "Gunpowder" was the first, and I will always be grateful to.

Thanks to Chris/CC/Randy/Mike (and anyone else I might have left out)

That's a lot of work outside your normal jobs!!

[SoupOrMan]

I believe Denis is on vacation at the moment.

[Bill Heinbach]

Heh, I missed this thread somehow.

I'm Bill, aka TheOtherBill at the old place. Live in Maine, married, two daughters, one just graduated, the other a senior at ASU. Used to live in NJ but left as soon as I could. Once out of there (where breathing without a permit is illegal), it didn't take long for KdT and Jay G to get me back into shooting. Despite a 15 year foray into IT, I'm a telephone CO guy, retired from The Phone Company and now working for a local ISP/CLEC.

I like Makarovs, coffee, lever actions, zombies, .357s, reading, BHPs, and long legged wimmen.

NRA & JPFO

[Timo]

Hey, Tim the last man in Boulder checking in.

[Aglifter]

Man, that's disgusting (pours a mug full of Folger's 100% Columbian and adds just a drop of JP5 for that unforgettable shipboard flavor), Here, drink this.

I just carry coffee grounds around in a tin and drop a pinch between my lower lip and gums.

My grandfather (spent his life in the navy) did, almost the same thing, except he would crunch up whole beans, and then suck on them... I don't know when he picked it up, but I think he said in enginerooms during WWII.

[morsetaper]

My grandfather (spent his life in the navy) did, almost the same thing, except he would crunch up whole beans, and then suck on them... I don't know when he picked it up, but I think he said in enginerooms during WWII.

My dad enlisted in '42, and spent 30 yrs. in the U.S.N. And I've seen him drink some sludgy sh*t and it didn't faze him. But I don't think I'd ever see him attempt that.

[Aglifter]

Er... well, PawPaw had some interesting stories about WWII -- he was in the landing craft that landed tanks, etc for most of the war.... I think he spent a lot of time w.o. the ability to spare a hand to hold a cup of hot liquid...

He would patch holes in gas tanks w. screws, washers, and pieces of rubber -- essentially, it was the same way he patched holes the NAZIs shot in his boat... then he'd mention how grateful he was the NAZIs didn't believe that the American boats were unarmored, so the shells went through both sides w.o. detonating...

The other story was about having to land through a patch of seaweed in either Sicily or Italy, where it was so thick that he and another guy had to constantly keep cleaning the intake screens, w. parts of the engine starting to glow red from a lack of water...

Then, there were the funny ones about, once he was older, torturing midshipmen and young officers during training drills... (He got bored while working at the shipyards in Philly, scrapping ships, and made up a mock bridge that he could fill w. smoke, shut things down, etc .)

[Netpackrat]

Then, there were the funny ones about, once he was older, torturing midshipmen and young officers during training drills... (He got bored while working at the shipyards in Philly, scrapping ships, and made up a mock bridge that he could fill w. smoke, shut things down, etc .)

Sort of a float simulator?