#2. Busted the wall and still didn't make Funniest Home Videos. #5. About 30 years ago in a field exercise, a Texas Army National Guard mech infantry company stuck half a dozen M113 APCs in the muddy woods of Camp Maxey. An M578 recovery vehicle then got stuck going to unstick the APCs. The LTC in charge of the training site came up with the right idea: "Lock 'em up and leave 'em. Nobody's going to be out there. We'll get them when the ground dries out." RA officers would have been hell bent on whatever it took to "get the vehicles out, now!"
#2 No doubt we need the gubberment involved here. I think all homes should have an air bag on the wall at the bottom of the steps, On ascent or descending a helmet required and when descending a bungy cord must be strapped on. Yup, that ought to do it.
The photo of the toucan is actually nowhere near as bad as it looks. The beak looks fierce, but the bite pressure is about as much as you can exert by sticking out your first two fingers straight out and pressing them together. Much more painful when the bird hops up on your shoulder and slaps you in the face with the side of its beak. Especially if you are sitting on a veranda in the Peruvian Amazon blasted on pisco puro.
3 years? HA! I got a jar of jelly in my refrigerator, unopened, from 1995. How do I know? It's advertising the Goofy Movie, which came out that year. Don't know why I've kept it. Everyone in the house knows not to touch the grape jelly. Dave
In 1987 I TC'd an M113 APC in a live fire attack course at Fort Hood, and the .50-cal ammunition came in a can dated 1954. No misfires, so I'd guess the 1964 C-ration dessert might be OK.
Heh. I had #7 happen to me too, but the results weren't anything like as neat as that picture. I was a teenager and I jumped on a beanbag chair in our living room. The bag burst and those tiny beads went **everywhere**. My mother was NOT pleased and made me clean them up, or at least as good as they could be cleaned up. That was back in the sixties and I think my mom is still finding those things around the house.
#2 I have the same hole in the wall at the bottom of my basement stairs.
ReplyDeleteHad that happen to a T-shirt once. I was in it.
Delete#2. Busted the wall and still didn't make Funniest Home Videos.
ReplyDelete#5. About 30 years ago in a field exercise, a Texas Army National Guard mech infantry company stuck half a dozen M113 APCs in the muddy woods of Camp Maxey. An M578 recovery vehicle then got stuck going to unstick the APCs. The LTC in charge of the training site came up with the right idea: "Lock 'em up and leave 'em. Nobody's going to be out there. We'll get them when the ground dries out." RA officers would have been hell bent on whatever it took to "get the vehicles out, now!"
#10. I feel for them. Just had some yogurt that was a week overdue. Who needs explain?
ReplyDeleteRef #10: duh, all the sugar in apple juice is a very effective cathartic.
ReplyDelete#10: That's the stuff I drink the night before a colonoscopy.
ReplyDelete#2 No doubt we need the gubberment involved here. I think all homes should have an air bag on the wall at the bottom of the steps, On ascent or descending a helmet required and when descending a bungy cord must be strapped on. Yup, that ought to do it.
ReplyDeleteThe photo of the toucan is actually nowhere near as bad as it looks. The beak looks fierce, but the bite pressure is about as much as you can exert by sticking out your first two fingers straight out and pressing them together. Much more painful when the bird hops up on your shoulder and slaps you in the face with the side of its beak. Especially if you are sitting on a veranda in the Peruvian Amazon blasted on pisco puro.
ReplyDelete#9: good. Those things are fucking annoying.
ReplyDelete#6: Toucan play at this game.
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Delete3 years? HA! I got a jar of jelly in my refrigerator, unopened, from 1995. How do I know? It's advertising the Goofy Movie, which came out that year. Don't know why I've kept it. Everyone in the house knows not to touch the grape jelly.
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I've got a can of C-ration date pudding in my garage that dates back to 1964.
DeleteIs it still safe to eat?
Ask Steve, the MRE guy. He ate some emergency meat ration from the 1890's. No typo.... Boer War Rats...
DeleteIn 1987 I TC'd an M113 APC in a live fire attack course at Fort Hood, and the .50-cal ammunition came in a can dated 1954. No misfires, so I'd guess the 1964 C-ration dessert might be OK.
DeleteSgtBob - LOL. Actually #2 did make it onto a show. Two dumbasses jumping into the wall. The second hole was miniscule to this one. Idiots.
ReplyDeleteRWC -- I missed that one on TV.
DeleteHeh. I had #7 happen to me too, but the results weren't anything like as neat as that picture. I was a teenager and I jumped on a beanbag chair in our living room. The bag burst and those tiny beads went **everywhere**. My mother was NOT pleased and made me clean them up, or at least as good as they could be cleaned up. That was back in the sixties and I think my mom is still finding those things around the house.
ReplyDelete#5 Might be able to dig himself out. Of course he might make it worse if he tries.
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