Jump to content

Scheiss Meister

Certifiably Surly
  • Posts

    3460
  • Joined

Everything posted by Scheiss Meister

  1. Oh God, this. I haven't had many, but a couple have been spectacular.
  2. An aggy acquaintance once tried to tell me that aggy was a superior rival for Texas for several moronic reasons. I asked him if he understood the difference between aggy and Okie to Texas fans, and he asked what it was. I told him that aggy is a fart and Okie is a turd. Both stink and are unwanted, but Okie has substance, can occasionally be made to be useful, and belongs in a bowl. He failed to see the humor and truth of the analogy.
  3. The other bad thing about waterborne diseases is that they do not recognize uniforms. If the orc army is getting cholera, so is everyone else in that area. It also threatens Ukrainian forces when they move into the area and start using those water supplies. Bioweapons are terrifying and rarely used for that reason. ETA Damn, too slow.
  4. She looks like the Creature From The Black Lagoon in drag.
  5. Next level evil: hotdog, wrapped in Brussel Sprouts dipped in white chocolate with a second dark chocolate coating and you have no idea what horror is coming. Vienna sausage instead of the hot dog, and a layer of horseradish between the Vienna sausage and brussel sprouts. That is true evil. I also like my youngest brother's shtick of waiting until everyone at a family get together is nearly finished with cupcakes or chocolates, then asking who got the one with the toenail.
  6. I guess that I missed where Jesus told his followers to arm themselves and fight the Romans to save Him and get into heaven. Oh, wait. It says here that he gave instructions to do the exact opposite. Hmmm. I do have to admit that it first made me think of the Crack Suicide Squad from The Life of Brian.
  7. No, Navasota, Texas. Too damn close to aggy, but it's home. I was raised by a mother and grandmother who were avid gardeners and canners. They taught me how to identify, pick, and jelly wild dewberries, black berries, crabapples, and mustang grapes. Store bought jelly can't come close to tasting as good as homemade, and I know everything that's in it. Mama and Grandma would understand my chagrin with an unsealed jar. Grandma would pick on me about it for years. Sadly, both passed long ago. I'd give a nut to put up some jelly or can some green beans with either of them again.
  8. 200 Merkava will definitely have an impact on the battlefield.
  9. When one of the jars of jelly you just canned doesn't seal like it should. I had a streak of over 120 jars of jelly, relish, jalapeño slices, and veggies without a failure to seal going, over several years. Time to start a new streak, I guess.
  10. My wife and I went wade fishing at Port O'Connor several years ago. We got up early to get some shrimp, which I put in a flow-through bait bucket tied to my waist. We hit the water right at first light and started shuffling out. We were just knee deep when my wife stopped short and asked me a question. I stopped, too, and that bait bucket coasted up and bumped me on the back of my right leg, just below the knee. I thought that a shark had bumped me. I'm a manly, tough Marine, so of course I handled it with aplomb: I screamed like a little bitch and started running for the shore. My wife gave me hell for scaring the shit out of her. I am so glad that there was no one else around to see it, and that there were no stingrays in my path. After I got my shit together we went back out. We caught a couple of keeper specks each, I caught a good sized flounder, and my wife caught an angelfish and a pair of needle nose pliers. It was a pretty good wade.
  11. Vladimir Puto, war criminal.
  12. Not the finish any of us wanted, but a hell of a ride to get here. Thanks for the season, Horns. See you next February.
  13. I love seeing the Quaker tanks and guns wasting Russian ammo and time. Keep it up, guys!
  14. I wonder what would happen if a couple of people in different parts of the crowd at tomorrow's rally would simultaniously light off a string of Black Cats each?
  15. This is what I've been waiting for. Blowing bridges is great, but destroying rolling stock is where the pain really starts.
  16. GB didn't write it. New Grass Revival wrote it and had a minor hit with it. Brooks heard it and wanted to cover it, but do it right, so he asked them to back him on the studio recording. That helped them in their career. His mention of Chris Ledoux in Much Too Young To Feel This Damn Old was also calculated to give a boost to an artist that he thought deserved more recognition. Brooks is a good dude.
  17. Counting the little pops as the lid on each of the jars of dewberry jelly you just put up seals. Six half pints, six pops.
  18. Congratulations, Mr. and Mrs. Brat! Live long and prosper.
  19. That video looks a lot like footage from Okinawa in 1945, without the flamethrowers. Corkscrew and blowtorch, minus the blowtorch.
  20. As all of the sediment and pollutants in those flood waters flow into the Black Sea, there is going to be an awful dead zone. I wonder how big it will be, and how many country's fisheries it will affect.
  21. The Germans were prepared to fight companies, battalions, regiments, and divisions with objectives that could be deduced and anticipated. They had no answer for small groups of paratroopers from different units who got together and said, "OK. We don't know where we are, or where our objective is, so until someone gets a handle on the situation, let's just fuck up every German position that we can find."
  22. Two divisions of Marines, including my step grandfather (one of the men for whom I am named), and one Army division landed at Saipan on 15 June 1944. D-Day got most of the press, so Saipan was overshadowed and is largely forgotten, but it was a tough fight in its own right. It lead to the taking of Tinian and other islands from which B-29s could fly to bomb the Japanese home islands. It was an important step in the Pacific War.
  23. The Longest Day is one of my favorite books. Oral histories can be tricky, as memories fade and change, and self-interest is always an issue. Ryan did a fantastic job of sorting through all of that and letting the people who were there tell their little pieces of the big story. One day I would love to tour the invasion area. Pegasus Bridge, Pointe du Hoc, and Sainte Mère Églese are all places on my bucket list
  24. I like the idea of tying the size of the fine to the ability to pay. In the US, huge corporations get away with polluting air and water because the fines are less than the cost to treat, so they chose to pay the fines. Meanwhile a small town with problems at their wastewater plant can be hit with the same size fine, with far, far less ability to pay it.
×
×
  • Create New...