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Armybrat

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  1. I wear white socks with Skechers and drawstring shorts.
  2. My grandpa was a crack shot too. When rheumatic fever caused him to be bed-ridden for a whole year in the late 1890s, his dad gave him a .22 rifle to target shoot out his bedroom window. He became quite proficient, but did get a month time out after his parents came home on their wagon from shopping in town and caught him shooting tin cans off his sister’s head. In his teen years he was banned from the carnival shooting galleries whenever they came to his county periodically because the barkers quickly learned that gangly kid would clean them out of prizes. Anyway, here he is with his last .22 - a Reminigton semiauto that was chambered for shorts only. Lots of squirrels were put on the dinner table:
  3. Oughta throw in a waterfront property big enough for a golf resort.
  4. Better be careful about messin’ with the Canucks…..
  5. Sometimes it amazes me he’s now a senior VP at a regional banking system and is responsible for overseeing $20 Billion in assets.
  6. Bohemia….. haven’t thought about that brew in decades. While living & going to school in Mexico 64 years ago, my classmates impressed upon me that the guys all drank Bohemia and Carta Blanca was strictly for the women. Dos Equis, Corona, & Tecate were considered donkey piss suitable for the campesinos & pobres.
  7. Santa Anna’s march into East Texas was held up for weeks by the construction at I-35 and Ben White.
  8. What every one else has said. ❤️ Loved your fine tribute to him that appeared in today’s AAS.
  9. Miltary version of the Lockheed Electra? I flew on a commercial passenger from Dallas tonKansas City in 1960.
  10. Miltary version of the Lockheed Electra? I flew on a commercial passenger from Dallas tonKansas City in 1960.
  11. 40 years ago when I lost 128 lbs in less than 11 months, it enhanced our sex life.
  12. Some dude on a gun forum said his new wife (whose dad worked for Smith & Wesson) gave him this bottle of vodka for his birthday:
  13. Mrs. Brat’s former high school boyfriend was severely burned when his helicopter was shot down in Vietnam. His upper body & head were badly burned - his nose, ears, & hair were gone. Plus most of the skin from his chest, back, arms & hands. He spent almost two years at Brooke Army Hospital in San Antonio immobilized on a special bed face down half the time recovering. They grew him a new nose by partially cutting a flap of flesh from his arm and attaching it to his face - with his arm strapped up so it would grow in place over a few months and be cosmetically shaped. At the time of the crash he saved his eyesight by crossing his forearm over both eyes. After his recovery, he returned to active duty, got married to a beautiful nurse, and had a productive career in Army Aviation before retiring as a Lieutenant Colonel. He’s quite an interesting guy and a good man.
  14. Top ten selling handguns for 2024:
  15. IIRC - the Lahaina pwer company failed to do that in the tragic Hawaii fire. Please correct me if I’m wrong.
  16. 70 years ago in St. Louis I was walking alone across the ice surface of a frozen swamp pond located in a wooded sinkhole area about a half mile from our home at Jefferson Barracks. One leg broke through up to my crotch, but luckily I was able to extricate myself out quickly and ran home. Leg was damn near frozen with slimy crap, and Mom chewed me out pretty good for being stupid. Just remembering that incident still makes me shrivel up.
  17. One of my great grandads was shooting at Confederates during the Battle of Wilson’s Creek. The other one was probably filling his diaper (if he even wore one).
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