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This is what happens when you get stuck on our beach and the tide swamps the vehicle. This one has been out here for at least 7 years, though usually we can only see the engine block peeking out under the sand.[/QUOTE]

......of course, what else would this be but a small block Chevy......

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Many years ago a stand up comedian asked the audience "How do you survive when you've done your business and discover there's only one sheet of toilet paper left?" Then he demonstrated with a single square of this paper while describing what he was doing. "First, you fold it diagonally, then again. Then you tear off a little from the point." He unfolds the square of paper with a hole in the middle, and inserts his middle finger through the hole. "You do your business, then wipe off your finger as you slide the paper off of it." Then he takes the little circular piece of paper from the tip and while demonstrating, cleverly says "you can clean under the fingernail with this little piece."

Just paying forward this useful life hack...

When I was a kid, my dad told me that's how they did it in Vietnam. LOL!

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Belted QF 2-pounder "Pom-Pom" 40mm shells being passed up from the shell room to a gun platform on the Tribal-class Destroyer HMS Ashanti in November 1941
QF 2-pounder rounds were 40×158mmR, which were shorter than the Bofors 40x311mmR round.
IWM - Ware, C J (Lt) Photographer

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One less buck in the rut.

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A not-so-little visitor at the campground at Gorges State Park making changes to the appearance of the trailer.

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Saw this yesterday. At first, I thought, I haven’t seen a roll bar on a truck like that in a long time. Then saw that it wasn’t even real.

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Is that the whole 9 yards?

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I shop at that store all the time.

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I edited this quote to only show the pic of the vailed sculpture, that's unreal, I like carvings/sculptures and never heard of that guy. :eek:

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In the past anyone that looked at the top statue instantly knew it was art. The bottom statue is only appreciated by people with an degree in art, and they are the people that proclaim the bottom thing as "art" and not a pile of trash, made by people that call themselves artists.

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USS PILLSBURY.
Members of the boarding party from USS Pillsbury (DE 133) secure the tow-line to the bow of the captured German submarine, U-505. Because the sea was sweeping across the deck amidships, the men of the boarding party were forced to hang tightly to a guide wire running from the conning tower to the bow in moving forward or aft, June 4, 1944. (National Museum of U.S. Navy)

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Speaking of the Lee Highway (Hwy 11), I live right near (a couple of miles) what is called "Dixie Lee Junction". It is where the Lee Hwy and the Dixie Hwy (Hwy 70) meet...

That Ace Hardware is my local hardware store...

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Honeycomb Rocks ~ Highland Scenic Highway
Pocahontas County, West Virginia
These rocks, mostly sandstone and hematite, are an example of quartz boxwork hematite deposits, that are formed over eons of geological folding and weathering.
The folding caused cracks in the rocks which filled with iron-rich water that hardened into hematite.
Time and weather eroded the sandstone, leaving the much harder hematite, forming the raised squares, rectangles, and diamond shapes.

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The old F1 Vegas track and the new track.

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Heck, motorboat month!

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GUADALCANAL.
Captured Japanese Water Purifier, circa 1942
“USEFUL WAR PRIZE--- Marines on Guadalcanal Island captured this Japanese purification unit during a battle. The small unit is carried by the individual soldier on the battlefield. It is especially useful in jungle fighting, where it is difficult to secure water that is not contaminated. It’s handy, too, for the soldier who becomes separated from his detachment and has no way to get regular water supplies.” (Official USMC archive photograph)

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Is that plant looking at me? Don’t make eye contact. Actaea pachypoda, the white baneberry or doll’s-eyes, is a species of flowering plant in the genus Actaea, of the family Ranunculaceae. The plant’s most striking feature is its fruit, a 1 cm diameter white berry, whose size, shape, and black stigma scar give the species the name, “doll’s eyes”. Did it just blink? No. You did.
A variety of birds, which are not affected by the toxins, or the creepy eyeball aesthetic, eat the berries and help disperse the seeds. However, the berries and the entire plant are considered poisonous to humans and can lead to vomiting, delirium, and stomach cramps. On that note, don’t eat it.

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At my old house built in the very early 1950s, the medicine cabinet had a slot in the back of it to drop in razor blades. It also had a "chute" to drop them down through the floor and they dropped on the dirt under the house. When I was under the house running a new phone line, I came across a large pile of razor blades rusting away in the dirt.

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1966 Italian Grand Prix, Monza : Richie Ginther's Honda RA273 3.0 v12 360 bph being checked by Honda mechanics before the race.

Umm, nice. If anyone's got this chicks phone number would you ask her what brand of trolley jack that is in the background.

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jack in the background???

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jack in the background???

Why not, the car is on jackstands. Get the jack out of the way for working under the car.

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If ships were designed by Gunnery rates.. Just Imagine..

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John “Liver-Eating” Johnson was considered one of the strongest mountain men to trap in the West as well as the most feared Western fur trapper because of his vendetta against the Crow Indians.
The movie Jemima Johnson is based on him. When he killed a Crow Indian, he would cut them open and take a bite out of their liver. The Crows believed that it would prevent them from going to the "happy hunting grounds" in the afterlife.

Manhole cover in Xi'an, China

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When I met my in laws, I spied this in the kitchen a case of PBRs

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Lucky me.. when we sat down for my first dinner, My MIL went and opened the case of PBR, grabbed two beers, and placed them in front of me....Warm PBRs...

I had to choke down two warm PBRs with dinner to avoid insulting my MIL

Good Times!

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More Xi'an

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Xi'an is a walled city, one entrance has a Bell Tower, the other a Drum tower.

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