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[GH85Carrera]

Is this a good pistol?

[edgemar]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

Ran when last used!

Resurrected!

[GH85Carrera]

Subway scrimps on meat, inflation is diabolical, tipping is getting out of hand... I'll just make my own sandwich, who wants one?


Moki Dugway in Utah. I have driven it in my 911.




Deltis Post Office, Oklahoma Territory, c.1903. Evidently, it also served as the office of Wild Bill Broncho Buster.


The Davis Motor Mine Cart - Found in an abandoned Gold Mine in Northern California in the late 1970s, the Davis Motor Mine Cart is a home built creation using most of a 1926 Harley Davidson 21c.i. B-Model motorcycle. The machine also features a Ford Model-A transmission, and electric start!


1 Dec. 1965: Complete food supply for the two-man crew of the Gemini 7 spaceflight as it appeared prior to stowage in the spacecraft. The food packages were tied in sequence (though see below!) for 28-manned days or a complete supply for two men for a 14-day mission. The crew of Frank Borman and Jim Lovell orbited Earth 206 times in what would be the longest of the Gemini missions. In their postflight debriefing, they noted that the food rations had been generally of good quality, but they strongly disliked the freeze-dried protein bites and advised against them being included on future missions. They also suggested that more breakfast items would have been nice, to avoid including bite-sized food that could easily produce crumbs that get loose in the cabin, and improving the packaging of some items. Because of the lengthy mission, Gemini 7 had a significantly larger supply of food than previous flights, and the astronauts often found it difficult to remove the tightly packed food containers, some of which had also not been stowed in the correct order for the day of the flight they were intended to be eaten.

[edgemar]

Originally Posted by edgemar

Resurrected!

[GH85Carrera]

I sure did.










31 Jul. 1971: David Scott, mission commander, performs a task at the Lunar Roving Vehicle parked on the edge of Hadley Rille during the first Apollo 15 lunar surface extravehicular activity. This photo was taken by James Irwin, lunar module pilot, from the flank of St. George Crater. The view is looking north along the rille.

[rcooled]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

Is this a good pistol?

Never mind the pistol...what's with those toe nails

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[masraum]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

[Steve Carlton]

[Steve Carlton]

[GH85Carrera]

Nearly 30 years after the release of the screwball comedy, Daniels has admitted to USA Today he initially had concerns over the scene that saw his character Harry tussle with a non-flushing toilet after he had suffered a bad bout of tummy troubles. He feared the scene could "end" his career but decided to take the plunge.
"It's one thing to read the toilet scene, but then the day comes, and we're actually going to do the toilet scene," Daniels said of his apprehension. "I told Jim [Carrey], 'This is either the beginning of my career or the end of it.' Jim, who is fearless, told me, 'It's going to be great. You've just got to go all the way with it.'"
He admitted it took "a couple hours of porcelain gymnastics" to get the scene right, explaining that the "close-up when they pop in tight" on his flushed red face was genuine because he "almost passed out" from filming the now-memorable scene in the lavatory while also heeding Carrey's advice to give it his all.
It was a risk, especially since he had agents warning him that the comedic route could be a wrong move, but one that ultimately paid off because the movie became a box office hit, grossing $247 million worldwide, with praise from fans and peers, including Clint Eastwood, who said he could relate to the scene.
"Clint says to me, 'I just saw Dumb and Dumber and you know, the toilet scene? That happened to me,'" Daniels recalled of his conversation with Eastwood at a celebrity golf tournament. "And then he tells a story about dating this woman that he really wanted to impress, but the shellfish hit him the wrong way from lunch."
Daniels said it made him realise that he had done his job and admitted the toilet scene "will probably outlive us," saying, "It will be funny 40 years from now."


Experimental area of the control room for the 12 million volt EN-1 Tandem Van de Graaff Acceleratorą at the Chalk River Laboratories˛ of Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd., Ontario, Canada (1959). The EN-1 was produced by HVEC the High Voltage Engineering Corporationł of Burlington, Massachusetts, founded in 1946 by physicist Robert J. Van de Graaff⁴ and electrical engineer John G. Trump⁵. The company became a leading supplier of Van de Graaff generators for medicine, industrial radiography, and nuclear research.


Looking up from the very bottom of Jupiter. Seen by NASA Cassini

[masraum]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

Looking up from the very bottom of Jupiter. Seen by NASA Cassini

Thank goodness that's not a photo looking up the bottom of

[GH85Carrera]

[Racerbvd]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

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That goofy CRX trike is local, if seen it at a few cruise ins and have posted pictures before.

[Racerbvd]

Good morning!
Let's start this week off with a bang!

"Horace Smith (October 28, 1808 – January 15, 1893) was an American gunsmith, inventor, and businessman. He and his business partner Daniel B. Wesson formed two companies named "Smith & Wesson", the first of which was eventually reorganized into the Winchester Repeating Arms Company and the latter of which became the modern Smith & Wesson.Born in Cheshire, Massachusetts, Smith was employed by the U. S. Armory service from 1824 to 1842, when he moved to Newtown, Connecticut. He was employed by various gun makers up to the 1840s, when he moved to Norwich, Connecticut. He is then listed as a partner of Cranston & Smith. It is known that while in Norwich, he engaged in the manufacture of whaling guns and he is credited with the invention of the explosive bullet used to kill whales.
Smith and Daniel B. Wesson formed a partnership in 1852 for the purpose of developing the magazine arms later to be manufactured under the Smith & Wesson name. They founded the Smith & Wesson Company, with Cortlandt Palmer, in Norwich, Connecticut in 1854 to develop magazine firearms and the Volcanic rifle, the first repeating rifle. Smith developed a new Volcanic Cartridge, which he patented in 1854. The Smith & Wesson Company was renamed Volcanic Repeating Arms in 1855, and was financed largely by Oliver Winchester.In 1856, the partners left Volcanic Repeating Arms to begin a new company and to manufacture a newly designed revolver-and-cartridge combination. Volcanic Repeating Arms was reorganized as the New Haven Arms Company and eventually as the Winchester Repeating Arms Company.
In 1857, Smith and Wesson formed another Smith & Wesson company, this time to produce a pistol with interchangeable parts, a repeating action, a revolving magazine, metallic cartridges, and an open cylinder. They developed more firearms using their own patents along with patents and licenses bought from other gunsmiths.
Smith sold his interest in the company to Wesson in 1874 at the age of 65 and retired." (Wikipedia)

#horacesmith #smithandwesson #sandw #americaningenuity #americanhistory #echoesofamerica

[Racerbvd]

Good morning!
We're starting off the day with a story of American Immigrants!

"Chang and Eng Bunker are best known as “the original Siamese Twins.” Natives of Siam (modern Thailand) and joined at the sternum, they became a popular attraction with traveling museum exhibitions. In 1839, they bought 110 acres in the Blue Ridge Mountains in North Carolina and settled down. They married sisters, built a successful farm and became naturalized citizens and devoted Confederates. In 1865, Union General George Stoneman raided North Carolina and decided to draft some of the locals, regardless of sympathies; the names of men over 18 were put into a lottery wheel. Eng’s name was drawn, but he resisted the draft. Since Chang’s name was not drawn, there was little General Stoneman could do; the brothers were not only joined at the sternum, their livers were fused. Neither one served in the war, but their eldest sons both enlisted and fought for the Confederacy." (Smithsonian)

#changandengbunker #siam #thailand #siamesetwins #conjoinedtwins #immigration #americandream #northcarolina #tarheels #americanhistory #echoesofamerica

[Racerbvd]

[GH85Carrera]

Air conditioned lawnmower, 1957.
In October 1957, ads went out that demonstrated the “Power Mower of the Future” – the future of lawn mowing equipment.
They built this machine with a bubbled model that sported its own air conditioning. The lawnmower had a five foot diameter plastic sphere in which the rider sits on an air foam cushioned seat.
It had its own electric generating system for operating running lights, a radio telephone, air conditioning and even a cooling system to provide a chilled drink on a hot day. It was also supposed to be multi-purposed. You could mow the lawn, weed, feed, seed, spray for insects, plow snow and haul equipment. It could even be used as a golf cart.
It was more then just a rendering, it was a machine that was featured on the cover of a 1958 edition of Mechanix, however it never made it to production.

[GH85Carrera]

Once-abandoned 1930 L-29 Cord,
Before and after restoration, and lots of money poured in.


I can't see myself taking this 4,731-mile road trip just to get to those three points.


Shrek’ was actually based off of a real person named Maurice Tillet. He was a French wrestler who married an beautiful woman named Olga.
Maurice Tillet was a French professional wrestler, better known by his ring name, The French Angel. Tillet was a leading box office draw in the early 1940s and was twice World Heavyweight Champion by the American Wrestling Association run by Paul Bowser in Boston.


Where do you carry your pitchfork?

[Dixie]

[GH85Carrera]

The driveway in front of a beautiful 1930’s home.


My idea of camping is a motel room with slow WiFi, no TV and a view of the woods.