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    Your favorite movie quotes

    The Water Diviner: Do you know what the army used to do with the rank and file dead after Waterloo, Crimea, Khartoum? They would dig an enormous bloody pit and rake the whole lot in with a few handfuls of lime. No names. Horse, mules and the men. All turned into fertilizer. This is the first...
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    Your favorite movie quotes

    The Water Diviner: Connor: She wanted them buried in consecrated ground. Lt-Col Cyril Hughes: How much blood do you need for it to be holy?
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    Flame resistance of leather?

    Before WWII the U.S. Army and Navy chose leather and wool jackets because they are fire resistant. They will only burn if there is a direct flame and are both self extinguishing when the flame is taken away! I believe the book Hell Bent For Leather talks about it. Now 50s nylon flight suits...
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    What is your favorite aircraft of all time?

    I was watching The McConell Story the other night. While they got the aircraft all wrong in the different time periods, it did remind me, the P-80 with Fletcher wing tip tanks was a great looking bird! Here is a Colorado Air National Guard P-80, plus the Minute Men of the Colorado ANG.
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    Clean Jokes

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    Safari Express rifle pic thread

    My first reaction was, why didn't they use the action from their successful Kodiak Mark IV rifle? It would be a much more elegant looking pistol!
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    What was the last TV show you watched?

    The Battle Of Los Angeles. A UFO show, about the February 1942 anti aircraft barrage. I didn't realize, the Japanese submarine shelled the California refinery just the day before, no wounder every one was jumpy! Every one makes a big deal of the hand full of eye witnesses that claim to have seen...
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    What was the last TV show you watched?

    I like Marina Sirtis comment on her caricature Counselor Troi on the first episode of STNG. "We inherited my cosmic cheerleader outfit in the very first episode from the original show." A funny side note, showing the show was skewed towards teen boys, her caricature was suppose to have four...
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    Safari Express rifle pic thread

    The author said, "I don’t see any really practical role for this firearm." I think this comes under the old saying, if you have to ask the question, you wouldn't understand the answer! I want one.:D
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    What was the last TV show you watched?

    Can't believe it, but I'm hooked on a Disney show! Periodically, I do a little channel surfing, to see if there are any new channels I might like. I suddenly see this mechanoid, battling some monster, the show is called Mech-X4, not bad. Will have to give it a couple of more watches to fully...
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    The McConnell Story (1955) The story of Joseph C. McConnell, top American ace of the Korean war. Sad that he died exactly the same as Dick Bong Americas top WWII ace! He went up the hard way, started as an Airman in the Medical Corp. They didn't even try to be accurate back then, a C-47 drops...
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    Clean Jokes

    A biker was standing around when his buddy rides up on a perfectly restored 1925 Brough Superior SS100 Alpine. He said, "where did you get that, I know you don't have a couple of million dollars?" The friend said, "funny thing, a beautiful women rode up on it, got off and proceeded to take off...
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Towards The Unknown (1956) Nice to see some of the fabulous 50s airplanes. A little sad to see the Bell Aircraft hanger! I know, the live on as Bell Helicopters, just not the same.
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    The World's End (2013) Simon Pegg and Nick Frost save all of humanity, in a way that only they can!
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    What was the last TV show you watched?

    Did they find him? :)
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    Your Most Disturbing Realizations

    I found this quote about poor Mary: "She was a kind, religious woman whose dignified demeanor fit the strict Puritan mold." http://historyofmassachusetts.org/mary-easty-salem/
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    Armistice Day

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    Show us your vintage home!

    Wow, am I ever jealous! I would settle for a tenth of those records pertaining to the building of my house.
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    What was the last TV show you watched?

    Silent War. Interesting look at the Cold War submarine scrimmages going on. Some nice interviews with Royal Navy and Soviet Navy personnel.
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    One of the documentaries on WWII, was the building of the Al-Can highway through Canada and Alaska. It was built in no small part by 97th Engineer General Service Regiment (colored). They were told not to have contact with the indigenous people, but of course that wasn't always easy. One...

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