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Armybrat

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  1. saw this elsewhere today: 81 years ago today on June 6, 1944, James M. Doohan of Vancouver(and later Sarnia) was shot 6 times on Juno beach while fighting for Canada on D-Day. He would later go on to become Scotty on Star Trek.
  2. Reveille sniffs their butts?
  3. My Brit friend’s secretary…..
  4. Are they trying to make the local sheep jealous?
  5. Might be useful to get the rust & oil stains off your driveway.
  6. Excuuuuse me, but this Horn directed that operation…. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Osama_bin_Laden#Operation_Neptune_Spear
  7. Looks kinda yellowish. Did the aTm sewage system overflow again?
  8. Just a little Bondo and they’re good to go.
  9. Not really….we were interrupted by a carload of Westlake kids.
  10. This granny had trouble shooting .38 specials out of my New Vaquero. Too heavy she said.
  11. Naw, just VY.
  12. With a burned out hole in the center. The exhaust pipe had apparently been jammed up against it after I had run over a chunk of retread tire on 290 in northeast Austin. My MG looked just like this one….
  13. My 1960 was red, and I called the trunk the trunk. The wood floorboard under my driver’s seat caught on fire once.
  14. Try the trunk deck on a 1960 MGA roadster parked on Red Bud Isle.
  15. Those takedown carbines are cool.
  16. The S&W M&P 380 Shield EZ would be a good choice for a pistol. It’s designed for easier racking of the slide. https://grabagun.com/firearms/handguns/semi-automatic-handguns/smith-and-wesson-m-p-380-shield-ez-manual-thumb-safety-black-9mm-3-675-inch-8rd.html
  17. LEFT shoulder……VY watching the victory confetti come down at the end of the 2006 Rose Bowl.
  18. Greenspoint is referring to the photo behind jff’s left shoulder.
  19. A little while ago I was fiddling with my new iPhone looking at WhatsApp and noticed it has a FaceTime feature. Never have tried that much (only one time long ago), so I touched the button. Lo and behold, it started dialing a number…..and our Brit friend Fiona in Wolverhampton, UK answered - appearing in her kitchen on my screen! The Welsh girl was lookin’ good, busy whipping up some dinner. Had a nice 6 minute chat to catch up. Technology has come a long way since my family was stationed in Taiwan back in the late 1950s. We were pretty much cut off from family & friends back in the USA, what with no telephone service to speak of - and writing a letter to get a question answered took at least two weeks, sometimes longer. Then there was the time my brother (a UT student) back in Austin mailed a package full of Christmas presents to us in Taipei, but it never arrived. Seems the cargo plane went down somewhere in the Pacific without a trace. Disappointing to say the least - maybe some deep sea fish were wondering what my fancy Texas belt buckle was for. We tried once to communicate with brother via shortwave radio - from the US military facility in Taipei, to our ham radio cousin who was a professor at St. Mary’s University in San Antonio. We were trying to “broadcast” in the middle of the night, hoping that cousin’s radio transmitter (a very professional set with worldwide range) could pick up our random calling signal. We had not heard Jim’s voice for more than a year. But apparently the hit or miss conditions were not right, and cousin & brother never made the connection. Mom was extremely disappointed and wept all the way back to out house.
  20. Aggie boycott?
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