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Lone Star Horn

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  1. On 1/31/2022 at 2:10 PM, Superhero said:

    I’m already thinking about next year’s car. We’ve been looking at pictures and the boy wants someone being shot out of a canon. “Daddy, all we have to do is carve the wood to look like a canon.” 😀

    I want to win this bitch next year. Speed all the way, no aerodynamic drag at all. 

    I just spoke to a co-worker about his daughter's entry last year. He realized that if he had one of the wheels higher (not touching the track) than the other three, it made the car faster. 25% less friction = faster car. She won all her heats, and came in second to the winner, who he swears was a kit built car that probably cost more than $40. 

    Good luck next year

  2. For anyone who knows anything of Critical Role, (the self described group of nerdy ass voice actors playing D&D). They started on Geek and Sundry and have branched off into their own Twitch and Youtube channel. They are currently in their third D&D campaign. The Legend of Vox Machina is from their first D&D campaign. They started a Kickstarter campaign to get an episode animated. It was estimated at $750k, and it was fully funded within at $1 million within the first hour. Within 24 hours, 4 episodes were funded at $4.3 million. At the six week mark, they had $11,385,449 with 88,887 backers. It was the most funded on Kickstarter for TV or film projects. They had the funding for 12 episodes. Then Amazon Prime got involved and they funded a second season. The episodes are being released 3 at a time 30 minutes each, every Friday, starting yesterday, Jan 28. 

     

     

  3. On 1/20/2022 at 3:57 PM, Harrison Bergeron said:

    Doubtful, the U.S. entry was as much as a psychological victory than anything else. The French soldiers were in active mutiny, and the war energy was severely drained in Great Britain. No U.S. there probably a mutual armistice (things were much worse in Germany, A-H, and Ottoman Empire), and the 20th Century is much less screwed up.

    If I remember the history books correctly, the arrival of the US troops to the front stuffed the German offensive. They had all the extra troops from the Eastern Front that were freed up with the Russian surrender. At that point, once the fresh US troops stopped that offensive, and more US troops poured into the Western Front, the Germans were done. It was their last hope of winning the war.

  4. Late 80s, when I was in the Air Force, one of the girls in the squadron was named Salina. Nice name, we didn't think too much on it. Her brother came in for a visit, he was named, Austin. Again, not too bad until we found out their middle names. This was on their IDs as their first and middle names, Salina Kansas and Austin Texas. They had to show us their IDs because we didn't believe them. Yes, their parents named them after the cities they were born in.

     

    My wife wanted to name out daughter Grace, I vetoed it. No way I was going to let her get into high school to have punks say, Amazing Grace, sit on my face.

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