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Mel Brooks missed a golden opportunity in his History of The World series, "Christopher Columbusbergman, set sail for India with the Nina, Pinta, and the Mazel Tov. Oy vey, what a missed opportunity. CHIEF

So he was really Christopher Columbustein? CHIEF

Great ride for the apocalypse: CHIEF

I forgot I had a really nice pocket knife in my pocket while entering the Fair, one year, it was probably 2003, so right after 9/11 and the new security. I didn’t want to go back to the vehicle and I didn’t want to loose the knife, so I just pulled it out of my pocket with my keys and wrapped it up in my hand as good as possible. They wanded everything but my hands, just like everyone else. I walked through and put my pocket knife back into my pocket. I have carried one into the Fair ever since. CHIEF

Gravy where you can’t see the CFS just means you are committed. CHIEF

I had to run my blind up to our deer lease on Wednesday. I met a buddy at Mary’s. I got the small gizzards instead of a CFS. It was easily 2.5 lbs. of gizzards. I ate as much as I could, never touched the fries or salad. Brought the rest home to CHIEF Jr. and he ate all he could before putting the rest in the fridge. I told Mrs. CHIEF, who isn’t a gizzard person. I asked her if she expected me to stop back by and order her a CFS. She said she damn sure does. I thought I knew chicken fried steaks. I asked her how she thinks they make it. She said it was marinaded for at least 48 hours in egg, buttermilk, salt, pepper, and a pinch of garlic powder, double dredged in flour, and cooked in butter on a griddle. Which is precise as you can get. CHIEF

Can you imagine actually paying for 72 women to nag and browbeat you for the rest of eternity? CHIEF

Yes, it was discussed very early in this or "the small town gems thread" by me. I believe it is the best "restaurant" chicken fried steak I have eaten. My top three, in order, are Murn's, Jake and Dorthy's, and Mary's. If the Wooden Spoon was still open in Cranfills Gap, it would be right there with Murn's. CHIEF

Yep, your deer are like our deer in Pecan, little to no fear of humans, or manmade objects until you get way too close. I have had deer lay in the shade, up against my front door. When you open the door they absolutely come unglued. We have had people in our neighborhood bottle feed fawns that have lost their mother. If they are buck fawns, they are extremely dangerous as the get old enough to join the rut. They are aggressive, unafraid of anyone and are strong and powerful enough to kill you. CHIEF

Must be Highland Park to afford $1.2 million worth of cereal. CHIEF

Mrs. CHIEF's immediate boss lives two blocks off the beach in Indian Rocks, right south of Clearwater. He is staying in a travel trailer in Nashville, as his house in Florida got a three foot storm surge and needs to be gutted after Helene. Milton will be much worse after only a couple of weeks. We told him he needs to sell it and move back to Pennsylvania. I think we will see a mass immigration out of Florida, as insurance rates will be unsustainable, and people will just leave. A massive market crash is inevitable. CHIEF

Yep. The two businesses, in town, that hired a few dozen people have either gone out of business or don’t need as many people. We usually had a two deep, now they are lucky to have enough guys to field a team. CHIEF

I thought it through, but the opportunity didn’t present itself, and who am I to take the attention off of the family. I would put him in the top five men that influenced my life. I would not be a pilot if it wasn’t for him. I would not have had a job, all through college if it weren’t for him. I would not gotten home if it wasn’t for him. CHIEF

My deceased high school coach noticed we had problems with armadillos digging holes on that football field, a lot of our guys would turn their ankles stepping in them during games and practice. He offered a $5 bounty on any and all armadillos killed on school property. We would sit at the bus barn, which overlooked the football field and shoot them with spotlights. I used a .243, but I had a buddy that used a .270. This was in town, and the neighbors that lived close would shout, "did you get'em?" I've told this story before, but probably the best athlete to come out of our school was a guy named Johnny Rivera, he dropped out his freshman year, and is probably dead, or in prison. His ol' man would get on a bender every weekend. At the time, we still had steel/aluminum down and distance markers and they all had a "bullseye" on top. They lived about 60-70 yards behind the field. When his Dad wasn't locked up for doing it, he would shoot the markers with a .22LR. You would hear the bullet rip through the aluminum, of course, we all would die laughing. Being a small school, the marker guys were always volunteers from town, we could only afford two officials, it got hard to find people to man them for a while. It was funny when they would break out the bullet riddled markers, the other team would get wide eyed, we always reminded them that the chains were ran on the visitors side. The visiting teams spectators would crowd in on the bottom two rows of the stands since he was shooting from a slightly elevated position. What he did would be national news today and considered a school shooter. CHIEF

Well, I had to trek down to Cranfills Gap today for a memorial service for my favorite teacher. I absolutely loved the guy. The "cafetorium" was standing room only. Easily one and a half times the town population. He was always very straight, and you could never tell if he was joking. His middle name was Cornelius, when he told us, we wouldn't believe him, I mean who would name their kid with a name like that. He was born on the morning of December 7, 1941, we always told him that's why the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor that day. Mr. Cox, or Larry, when we weren't at a school function was the epitome of using every gift God gave him to teach multiple subjects at our small school. He taught history, government (civics), coached when needed, and was responsible for any electives that the school district could coerse him into. He also drove a school bus three hours a day, and I rode every mile with him in eighth grade. He was a commercial pilot, so he taught Aviation as an elective, I was his first student to pass the Private Pilots exam, he was absolutely ecstatic. He had a few more, and one of the guys a year behind me, is now a pilot with United. He was a pretty decent guitar player, and taught a guitar class as an elective after I had graduated. He always made any of my family functions, he attended my wedding (a two hour drive), and my father's 70th birthday. My aunt walked in, he turned to her and said, "hello Debbie." She asked him, "have we met?" He told her they had a class together at Tarleton State 32 years ago, and he remembered her. He always could remember anything, and anyone, kinda like Mac Brown remembering your name. The service was really nice, I saw people I haven't seen for 38 years. Some you recognize, some you had to reintroduce yourself. I weigh about 60 lbs. more and now have gray hair, so I was in the introduction crowd. I was so skinny back then, I had to jump around in the shower just to get wet. It was kinda cool seeing the old school. The "cafetorium" wasn't there when I attended. They moved the tennis courts and the football field house is there now. But the best thing I saw all day was the newer "ticket booth" they had acquired: That is the same scoreboard they had when I played there 38-42 years ago, and it was old then. CHIEF

Obama? CHIEF

Obviously not a Surly 1%er, very weak bidet game. CHIEF

CIEF Jr. let a buddy borrow our game cam since he didn't think we would have a lease this year. It is on a tree down in Kerrville. I was kinda pissed. He ended up getting two of the Reolink cameras that can turn 360 degrees, pan up and down, and has a speaker so you can yell at coons. We are putting one at the feeder, and one to watch camp. CHIEF

It is quite obvious that he needs to invest in several bidets, and stop having to wipe his ass like a Philistine. CHIEF

Any WiFi enabled game cam is going to have some type of subscription plan. You can always go with the cheapest they offer. Tacticam is a good one. CHIEF

Yeah, Mrs. CHIEF rolled over and let out a WTF? "Do they expect us to get out of bed, drive to Memphis, TX. and look for the perp?" CHIEF

Doesn't matter how much of a smokeshow she was to all of the other male bears, it only took one, to be sick of her shit. CHIEF

King County ( Guthrie and Four Six’s area).

Well, that big buck I had to let walk due to age a couple of years back on one of the older hunting threads got shot in bow season last night. He wasn't a mile from where I removed my stand and feeder: He is bumping up against a 180 inch score. CHIEF

Exactly. With millions of industrious immigrants entering the country, they would probably do it for less money than what the current union employees are making. They would do it 50% more efficiently, live ten people to a house, and be happy to be making 6-7 times what they were making back in Latin America. Right now is a crazy time for unions to be making these kind of demands. They may get air traffic controllered. My Dad's older brother dropped out of school in the 9th grade. Went to work at the GM plant in Arlington. He retired making $150k/year, with a full pension, 100% medical paid for he and his wife as a union assembly line worker about 20 years ago, and still bitched that he didn't make enough money. He also would boast about how little work he actually did. The shenanigans they would pull would get anyone else fired. Hanging lug nuts by a string inside door panels, intentionally break tools and equipment. It's no wonder manufacturing has been moved out of the country. I realize US ports can't be moved offshore, the ILA took one for the team during COVID, they should be compensated. If the West Coast guys are making $55/hr, offer the East Coast guys something comparable with adjustments for COL. Pigs get feed, hogs get slaughtered. The unemployment numbers are relatively low, but that only counts those who are eligible for unemployment benefits. We now have millions of young men, in this country, that do not even qualify, so they are not even counted. If the Port Authorities offer $25/hour, a green card, and benefits. What do you think would happen? CHIEF