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Shoxthemonkey

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  1. November 5, 1988, a Saturday. My 12 yr old son and I were back in the timber of our property cutting firewood. My wife has gone to town to pick up our 10 yr old daughter from her mother's house (my MIL). An hour later, my cousin roars through our pasture honking his horn trying to find us. We run out and wave him to us. He lets me know that my wife has been in an accident and it isn't good. I ask a lot of questions but he doesn't have any answers. I don't know if she had already picked up the daughter or not. My son and I jump in my cousins truck and head to my wife's sister's house so I can drop off my son. We get there and she and I take her car and head to town, 15 miles away. On the way, we pass the scene of the accident. My wife's 85 Dodge Charger is in the ditch with a 3/4 ton flatbed farm truck sitting on top of it. The roof of the car is completely collapsed. I see no way that she could survive. We get to our small town hospital just as LifeWatch is leaving the helipad. I run into the Emergency room and our doctor meets me just inside. My wife was a nurse and has worked closely with him for several years. He turns me around and he and I get in his car and head for Wichita. On the way he tells me that she was alone in the car, she is unconscious but has no broken bones or visible trauma. At least my daughter is safe. We get to the hospital and the first person that we encounter is a neurosurgeon who tells me that she is in a coma and might need immediate surgery to relieve brain swelling and I have to sign a mountain of paperwork. This begins a 3 week stay in ICU. They never have to do the surgery but she doesn't come out of the coma until almost Thanksgiving. Once she is conscious again, they are able to assess the level of TBI and set the wheels in motion for the rehab that will follow. She will spend the next 8 weeks in the rehab wing of the hospital learning to speak, walk, and feed herself. I wasn't given any set values for the functions that she would regain so I wasn't sure what our future was going to look like. I was fortunate that our kids were old enough to be able to take care of themselves and be very helpful. My folks lived in Wichita at the time so we set home away from home there. Amazingly, she was able to recover to a remarkable degree and last May we celebrated our Golden anniversary.
  2. https://welweb.org/ThenandNow/NAS Bases.html Scroll down to the story about NAS Richmond (Miami, FL). It was being used to store Navy and civilian aircraft prior to a hurricane in 1945. The hangers survived the wind but caught fire and burned to the ground. That picture might be a "before" picture. None of the other blimp hanger histories that I have found mention storing aircraft. ETA: NAS Weeksville in NC was also used to store aircraft post war. My west coast guess appears to be wrong.
  3. I was going to guess somewhere on the west coast. Folding wings and what I'm guessing is dark blue paint means Navy and I'm also going to guess that this is post war. I doubt that the Navy ever had a surplus of planes like this during the war. Could be wrong. San Diego or San Fransisco probably had blimp hangers too. Google, here I come.
  4. Did anybody else watch that and expect to see a "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy" ending?
  5. That is some glorious slop that I would gladly eat. Well done, Lad. Your glass reminds me that I need some more Pearl Snap delivery. Nice looking dog, too.
  6. I'm going to be in your neighborhood at the end of the month. Do they have braunschweiger at all times or is it special order? Or I could follow the link you so graciously provided.
  7. It's the new market inefficiency. KC is gonna get all the players that can induce a balk and rule the AL Central.
  8. He was a founding member of Spooky Tooth. The album "Spooky Two" still gets a lot of play from me.
  9. Haven't you been to the cafe and heard the news? There will be no harvest this year.
  10. Am I the only one that imagines that Pigmeat was screaming like a bitch all the way to the ground?
  11. Improperly placed Bob Nightengale tweet goes here. Ooops. He says White Sox will put Getz at GM and Moore as Club Prez. Chris Getz and Dayton Moore? Really? I don’t know if Getz is a worthy choice or not but I know DM isn’t. Sorry Sox fans. Get ready for faith based baseballing.
  12. Shifting gears, slightly. Burns is a very small town on Marion County's southern border. https://www.kwch.com/2023/08/16/former-burns-police-chief-arrested-child-sex-crimes/ I am told he is a former MarionCoKs Sheriff's Deputy. If someone with better skills would post this to the drag queen thread, I would be much obliged.
  13. This is where you are wrong. We have people that shop out of town for liquor so that the rest of the townies won't know. Marion Co. Mennonites and Baptists are judgy as fuck.
  14. https://www.kwch.com/2023/08/16/marion-co-record-attorney-says-seized-items-have-been-returned/ Seems that things are afoot. Also, it seems that earlier I spoke out of my ass (hat tip @Brisketexan) about missing funds. They are not missing. The correct amount is $449K and they have been placed in a different part of the budget than they are supposed to be in. The councilwoman and the mayor do not see eye to eye on the legality/appropriateness of this. My bad.
  15. Bad marks for improper plating, I know. Fried Spam, Kraft cheese food slices, dill pickles on a sesame seed hamburger bun. That last pickle from the jar had a lot of skin but the crunch was satisfying.
  16. Not nearly enough underbite. I mean, we're talking bulldog level underbite. You've seen my picture, you're better than this.
  17. This might make a good movie some day but I'm not sure that the death of a newspaperwoman will be enough to grab Hollywood. We will need an attempted murder at the very least for Lifetime to do it. If it does get made, I want Clooney to play my role.
  18. Today's rumor is that the County attorney has the affidavit but won't release it. Is that the office where it would logically be? The town is buzzing. A reporter from the NY Times called one of my buddies, a business owner, and asked a lot of questions about the newspaper folks and the community in general. If the council woman is correct that there are missing funds, it would be great for a large newspaper with forensic reporters to take this and run with it.
  19. Would one of you lawyer types take a look at this, please? I'm confused by search warrent and affidavit of probable cause. https://www.kansascity.com/news/state/kansas/article278245883.html Apparently, Ms Newell posted to Facebook that she and the CoP were NOT sleeping together but it was quickly deleted. Nobody I know took a screenshot so it is just a rumor at this point. Another interesting item is that the city councilwoman that was part of the raided has been trying to get the Mayor to respond to her claim that $600K of city funds is supposedly missing. She claims he has been giving her the run around. Going back to my earlier post about the hotel selling Newell the restaurant, the hotel was purchased by these folks from the city after it had sat vacant for many years. It seemed like a sweetheart deal at the time. Just like an onion.
  20. I had to laugh last night when a local news reporter was interviewing one of the retired farmers from down the road. Wearing his Maga hat, he was actually crying and saying "This is America. We don't do things this way". Wake up, Bob. This is exactly the way your saviour wants it.
  21. The paper did not, in this instance, publish info about the DUI. The information was given to them anonymously, they thought it was a setup and contacted the police. The police shared the information with Newell and she went off the rails. I agree that small town newspapers can abuse their position but in this case they were acting with a lot of caution. Remember that Newell had already kicked the reporters out of a public meeting for a meet and greet with an elected official. In addition to this, the paper had received tips from other anonymous sources that our Chief of Police had been run out of his previous employment in KC under questionable circumstances. Word got back to the CoP that he was being investigated by the paper and you can see why he would be eager to stick it to them.
  22. I laughed really hard at this. More than 50 years ago, KFH-FM "Underground" was giving away a copy of The Who's "Magic Bus" to the first person that showed up at the shopping center parking lot they were parked in. I was 2nd and got a copy of "Mad Birds of Prey" by Influence. Terrible record.
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