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BabaYaga

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  1. All the new Transformers movies. Mind candy. Still watch them
  2. Megaforce! I thought this was so damn cool as a kid
  3. I remember as a boy, my best friend and I would spend all day hiking all over the ranch with our bolt-action 22s. There was this bluff overlooking a bunch of wheat fields. G-father left the disc plow on the side of the field. We'd sit back and lob 22s into the dirt in front of the discs and try and ricochet them off. 400-500yds maybe? We'd spend hours doing this. So much damn fun. You'd have to elevate the rifle to the point it was like a small artillery piece, anchor it against a tree, then wait for the cloud of dust and the "ping"
  4. Yep. Back in the day, HUGE rivals in both football, and then later basketball - anyone remember the old "strollin' Nolan" days?
  5. "Mumble" rap has entered the chat....
  6. Still have my original pair. Going on the boat, the pool, the beach, working in the yard, even around deer camp when you need to air out your feet, they are awesome.
  7. If you are into the intrigue & subterfuge of the war, check out "Bodyguard of Lies" Everything we've seen has been part of a sequence of events in the war. BOB was invasion and post-invasion. Before the bombing campaigns went into full swing, there was the Battle of the Atlantic and the Kreigsmarine. The point was not just to establish shipping lanes, but the elimination of the U-boat threat. Enigma codebreakers and the US Ultra machines. The sacrifice of boats knowing they could be saved so as not to tip off the Germans that they were on to them. Insane choices that had to be made. The prize of the campaigns was to neutralize the manufacturing capacity of Germany, but also the rail systems that would be used to support troops stationed in France to repel the invasions. That means bombing in France as well. That meant thousands of French citizens perished. As the neutralization of the U-boat threat was an equal prize in the Atlantic, so too was the elimination of the Luftwaffe in Europe. The German Air Intelligence Service (as seen in the episode) was vast and who's sole purpose was confounding Allied air attacks. They could have stopped Neptune if even at a fraction of their capacity and capabilities. Had they had been able to conduct surveillance of Allied tactics, targets, and formations.....with their cryptoanalytics and wireless intelligence activities and their ability to blinding/jamming Allied radar and navigation systems....it could have been game over. That's why the constant attacks had to be waged, knowing full well the losses that would come from them. That's why deception was the Allied game plan. Even with tens of thousands of planes attacking the Germans around the clock, they could have swept the Allies off the beaches had they known when/where. One part I hope they touch on were all the German spies in the UK rounded up. With the codebreakers, they were able to find essentially all of them, turn them with the threat of death, and create their own army of double-agents feeding the Germans what they wanted them to know without tipping them off that their network had been compromised. That meant certain raids were flying into German defenses who knew they were coming....and they sent them anyway. Anyway, long winded, but if you like this stuff, it's a MUST read.
  8. Damn, it's spot on - that's fantastic
  9. NSIAP, but 13 Warriors was awesome even though it seemingly flopped in theatres/critics Reanimator was creepy, dumb, and fantastic
  10. Acorns. Trees. You know the rest. He's a bag of dicks and his dad seems like one and the same.
  11. It's a nightmare everywhere it grows. Only thing it's good for is grilling, as it burns hot. We've had the dozer guy out multiple times, but it's a constant battle as they start to grow back immediately. Guy in town has a Pyrenees, so he cleaned off small tracts with goats. They do a hell of a job, but you can't scale that. We'd just have fatter packs of coyotes.
  12. I was going to say aggie football fans, but that works too.
  13. Same. Most I grew up hunting were framed plywood blinds with canvas bags covering the cutout windows and old carpet on the floor with a sheet-metal roof that made all the racket in the world after a few seasons and it wore itself loose and it was windy. Bugs Snakes Racoons Even an owl that found it and left dozens of pellets all over the floor. Getting actual plexiglass windows that you could open/close was a game changer.
  14. 60-70's era Ruger super blackhawk?
  15. Same boat, but girls soccer. She's 15, and we've been road warriors these last few weeks at college ID camps and showcases. Biggest takeaway from the camps, coaches, and current players is "comparison is the thief of joy" June 15th will come and go. Some will get tons of calls, others few or none. What will 100% happen is their peer groups social media will explode with college stuff. Much of it might be valid, much of it probably isn't. Parents/kids trying to drum up fake demand. Stay the path. Multiple girls from different schools stated they didn't get picked up until their senior year. Factor in the transfer portal and it's even screwier. There are also limited scholies for Title IX sports. Soccer gets 14 scholies for rosters that vary from 28-32. Vball is probably different, but very few get a full ride.
  16. First time in Hollywood.....;)
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