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Armybrat

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  1. I was on amiodarone for a heart treatment last year that caused photosensitivity for my skin. But being a lazy homebody I don’t really spend extended time outdoors, so it never was an issue for me.
  2. Maybe I should buy a hat.
  3. Well, this one got cancelled too….
  4. Well yeah, that was 62 years ago.
  5. Not quite the same in my living room….
  6. Strip coconuts ftw.
  7. Valet parking ain’t cheap at that joint.
  8. Bert, when did you trans to a Warthog?
  9. Discreet fanny packs….
  10. Tracy started with a 2 way wrist radio….
  11. Yes it is. Here’s a funny anecdote from a discussion I read elsewhere about the classic western film Cheyenne Autumn: Cheyenne Autumn is a cult classic on the Navajo Reservation, and plays every weekend in Page… because, first of all everyone knows that Navajo actors look and speak nothing like Cheyenne, but mostly because they told the Navajo actors to just say “something” when they are told to speak in the movie, and the actors said some very insulting things (in Navajo) In one of the scenes the General asks an interpreter to ask a scout about a recent raid, and the scout replies in Navajo to the interpreter that the General is an imbecile and has very small genitalia. Everyone in the theater know the funny lines (in Navajo) and repeats them, much like The Rocky Horror Picture Picture Show.
  12. Saw that one at the Texas Theater on the Drag when it first came out. Saw Tom Jones with Albert Finney there too. Many of those ‘60s Brit films were pretty funny and a lot different than the usual Hollywood fare.
  13. The little old lady video poker player at Green Valley Ranch I mentioned in post #5243 said she lost her ass the nexy day, but the wins picked up yesterday…. (She’s at the left in this mini-meet photo with our local Vegas friends. As a result of a nerve disease, she has to get around on an electric scooter- the 3 wheeler kind for handicapped)
  14. Those texags are some real life fucked up window licking morons.
  15. That depends on the wound and immediate response. 12 years ago my son severed his femoral artery in his upper thigh with an electric hand saw. He was alone in a house he was renovating, standing chest deep in a hole in the wood floor cutting some framing when the saw hit a nail and kicked back. He pulled himself out as quickly as he could, laid on the floor with his leg propped up on a box, then took off his belt and used it as a tourniquet around his upper thigh. He dialed 911 on the cell phone we had given him just a few months prior (his wife, a hippie Luddite, had been very reluctant to use such gadgets) and waited for the EMS which luckily was stationed only 3 or 4 blocks away in North Austin. When the responder crew arrived and walked in the door, one of the guys looked at the blood sprayed all over the floor, walls, & ceiling he exclaimed loudly, ”Holy shit!”. The ensuing ambulance ride out of the neighborhood down to Brackenridge Hospital was a miserable pain every time they went over a speed bump. But son owes his life to those EMS responders and the wonderful staff in the ER. Plus his own Boy Scout training. After the surgery the doctor said he had bled out at least three liters, and was surprised he had not gone into cardiac arrest. Son was still white as a sheet of paper when we saw him in the ICU. It took 6 months for him to recover full use of his leg and get back to normal.
  16. But will say, my earliest recollection of a momentous world event was the Berlin Blockade and subsequent Airlift. That was a big topic of conversation between my parents at the dinner table.
  17. In case you missed it, that’s why I bolded the 1945 date.
  18. I remember well when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor.
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