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Post by tGreenWay 2024-04-22, 15:10

AvgMSUJoe wrote:Some dude flew a bomber under the Mackinac



I remember reading about this a few years ago. Imagine being one of those two vehicles on the bridge when it happened. I’d need new underwear.
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Post by Cameron 2024-04-22, 15:38

I have smoked a joint while driving across the bridge, but that's a far less exclusive club than flying a damn bomber jet underneath it. Brass balls on that guy.
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Post by DWags 2024-04-22, 15:58

That you might have a defense for drunk driving rarely used.

[tw]1782492673619742872?s=46&t=o_-92Ldle66XHQBlJVUMFQ[/tw]
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Post by Rick Saunders 2024-04-22, 17:02

DWags wrote:That you might have a defense for drunk driving rarely used.

[tw]1782492673619742872?s=46&t=o_-92Ldle66XHQBlJVUMFQ[/tw]

No person is illegal.
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Post by tGreenWay 2024-04-22, 17:24

DWags wrote:That you might have a defense for drunk driving rarely used.

[tw]1782492673619742872?s=46&t=o_-92Ldle66XHQBlJVUMFQ[/tw]




That dude is putting a yeast infection to good use.
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Post by DWags 2024-04-22, 23:19

That Seattle couldn’t reach K9 when they were going to draft him and panic set in.

[tw]1782530891602157770?s=46&t=o_-92Ldle66XHQBlJVUMFQ[/tw]
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Post by tGreenWay 2024-04-23, 00:31

DWags wrote:That Seattle couldn’t reach K9 when they were going to draft him and panic set in.

[tw]1782530891602157770?s=46&t=o_-92Ldle66XHQBlJVUMFQ[/tw]





Great video. Even got an “ope!” from the woman talking at about :32 in. lol
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Post by Floyd Robertson 2024-05-29, 07:58

The story of Twiggs Lyndon.

Today's history lesson!

After a Buffalo club gig in 1970, Allman Brothers bass player Berry Oakley approached  the club’s owner, Angelo Aliotta, hoping to get paid. The band had $1,000 coming, but Aliotta offered only $500 for the two shows that night. Oakley knew this tune by heart (as many of us did if you've ever been on the road).
Oakley went to the band’s hotel and informed the tour manager, Twiggs Lyndon Jr., that they were being chiseled. Lyndon was in no mood.
The up-and-coming Southern rockers had been on the road for five months, crisscrossing the country to promote their debut album “The Allman Brothers Band.”
They had opened for Chicago at SUNY-Stony Brook on Long Island the previous night, then hightailed 500 miles across the state in their Winnebago to make the Wednesday night gig at Aliotta’s Lounge, on Hertel Ave. in North Buffalo.
Lyndon, though just 27, was a veteran rock ’n’ roll road warrior.
He had stumbled into a job as tour manager for Little Richard, a fellow native of Macon, Ga., when he was 23 and fresh out of the Navy. He went on to manage tours for Percy Sledge, then wrangled R&B stars Otis Redding and Sam and Dave for a Stax Records tour of Europe.
When brothers Duane and Gregg Allman put together a band in 1969 for Macon’s Capricorn Records, Lyndon was hired as road manager.
“He was so organized and anal about everything,” Gregg Allman later wrote. “The world was never perfect enough for Twiggs Lyndon.”
No detail was lost on him. For example, he drew up a list of the legal age of sexual consent for each state and made copies for the band. He was fiercely devoted to his musicians.
“Twiggs didn’t have a short fuse, but if it burned down, look out,” Gregg Allman wrote. That night in Buffalo, “Twiggs was gonna make sure we got our money.”
Lyndon stormed out of the hotel, his brown mane trailing behind and the leather sheath of his 10-inch fishing knife bouncing at his hip. Allman said, “Twiggs, maybe you shouldn’t take that knife with you.” Lyndon didn’t listen. He went to the club and confronted Aliotta.
The owner argued that the Allmans were late for their first show. He said he would pony up the other $500 only if they agreed to play a makeup set the following night. Lyndon cursed and whipped out his knife. As six witnesses watched, the two men grappled to the barroom floor, where Aliotta soon lay groaning. Aliotta was dead an hour later, and Lyndon was charged with first-degree murder and locked up without bail.
The Allman Brothers’ Winnebago pulled out of Buffalo that day, bound for Cleveland. But the band made sure Lyndon got a good lawyer, John Condon Jr.
There was no doubt that Lyndon had stabbed the unarmed Aliotta in an argument over money. That was not a narrative a Buffalo jury would have viewed with sympathy, especially when the perp was a long-haired Southerner. But Condon saw another defense: temporary insanity induced by the burnout of a rock ’n’ roll lifestyle.
He asked for a bench trial, without a jury, gambling that it would be easier to convince a judge than a conservative jury that Lyndon had been afflicted with amphetamine psychosis after five exhausting months of babysitting a band.
Managing a rock ’n’ roll tour would drive anyone nuts, Condon said. To prove his point, he called bassist Berry Oakley as an expert on narcotics abuse on the road.
“Did you take any dope in the last month?” Condon asked.
“Uh-huh,” Oakley replied.
“In the last week?”
“Oh, yeah,” the musician said.
"What about in the last hour?"
“You bet,” said Oakley.
Condon’s strategy worked. Lyndon was judged not guilty by reason of insanity. He spent 18 months in jail before trial, then about six months locked up in a psych ward. By the summer of 1972, he was back on the road with the Allman Brothers Band, which toured relentlessly. Later in the 1970s, Lyndon toured with the Dixie Dregs. That's Lyndon on the back cover of Freefall.
Along the road, he became an avid skydiver, logging more than 300 jumps. On Nov. 16, 1979, as the Dregs were meandering toward a gig in Syracuse, Lyndon squeezed in a sky dive from an airplane based in upstate Duanesburg.
At 8,500 feet, Twiggs Lyndon exited the plane. He enjoyed a glorious view of the Catskills to the south and the Adirondacks to the north. His chute didn’t open. It was his last freefall. He was 37.”
(Thanks to Music In Atlanta for this)

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Post by Zurn 2024-05-29, 08:12

Justice eventually served?
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Post by tGreenWay 2024-05-29, 14:57

That’s crazy, Floyd.
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Post by The Pantry 2024-06-22, 09:15

Never heard the term before.

As the U.S. heat wave drags on, experts warn of deadly 'wet-bulb' temperatures. Here’s what those are.
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Post by Motown Spartan 2024-06-22, 09:20

The Pantry wrote:Never heard the term before.

As the U.S. heat wave drags on, experts warn of deadly 'wet-bulb' temperatures. Here’s what those are.

It’s the basis for designing HVAC systems to properly size the cooling capacity of a unit or units. In my previous life I was a design-build commercial construction PM.
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Post by Jake from State Farm 2024-06-22, 11:11

TIL don't go outside without a hat during horsefly season
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Post by DWags 2024-06-22, 16:00

Floyd Robertson wrote:The story of Twiggs Lyndon.

Today's history lesson!

After a Buffalo club gig in 1970, Allman Brothers bass player Berry Oakley approached  the club’s owner, Angelo Aliotta, hoping to get paid. The band had $1,000 coming, but Aliotta offered only $500 for the two shows that night. Oakley knew this tune by heart (as many of us did if you've ever been on the road).
Oakley went to the band’s hotel and informed the tour manager, Twiggs Lyndon Jr., that they were being chiseled. Lyndon was in no mood.
The up-and-coming Southern rockers had been on the road for five months, crisscrossing the country to promote their debut album “The Allman Brothers Band.”
They had opened for Chicago at SUNY-Stony Brook on Long Island the previous night, then hightailed 500 miles across the state in their Winnebago to make the Wednesday night gig at Aliotta’s Lounge, on Hertel Ave. in North Buffalo.
Lyndon, though just 27, was a veteran rock ’n’ roll road warrior.
He had stumbled into a job as tour manager for Little Richard, a fellow native of Macon, Ga., when he was 23 and fresh out of the Navy. He went on to manage tours for Percy Sledge, then wrangled R&B stars Otis Redding and Sam and Dave for a Stax Records tour of Europe.
When brothers Duane and Gregg Allman put together a band in 1969 for Macon’s Capricorn Records, Lyndon was hired as road manager.
“He was so organized and anal about everything,” Gregg Allman later wrote. “The world was never perfect enough for Twiggs Lyndon.”
No detail was lost on him. For example, he drew up a list of the legal age of sexual consent for each state and made copies for the band. He was fiercely devoted to his musicians.
“Twiggs didn’t have a short fuse, but if it burned down, look out,” Gregg Allman wrote. That night in Buffalo, “Twiggs was gonna make sure we got our money.”
Lyndon stormed out of the hotel, his brown mane trailing behind and the leather sheath of his 10-inch fishing knife bouncing at his hip. Allman said, “Twiggs, maybe you shouldn’t take that knife with you.” Lyndon didn’t listen. He went to the club and confronted Aliotta.
The owner argued that the Allmans were late for their first show. He said he would pony up the other $500 only if they agreed to play a makeup set the following night. Lyndon cursed and whipped out his knife. As six witnesses watched, the two men grappled to the barroom floor, where Aliotta soon lay groaning. Aliotta was dead an hour later, and Lyndon was charged with first-degree murder and locked up without bail.
The Allman Brothers’ Winnebago pulled out of Buffalo that day, bound for Cleveland. But the band made sure Lyndon got a good lawyer, John Condon Jr.
There was no doubt that Lyndon had stabbed the unarmed Aliotta in an argument over money. That was not a narrative a Buffalo jury would have viewed with sympathy, especially when the perp was a long-haired Southerner. But Condon saw another defense: temporary insanity induced by the burnout of a rock ’n’ roll lifestyle.
He asked for a bench trial, without a jury, gambling that it would be easier to convince a judge than a conservative jury that Lyndon had been afflicted with amphetamine psychosis after five exhausting months of babysitting a band.
Managing a rock ’n’ roll tour would drive anyone nuts, Condon said. To prove his point, he called bassist Berry Oakley as an expert on narcotics abuse on the road.
“Did you take any dope in the last month?” Condon asked.
“Uh-huh,” Oakley replied.
“In the last week?”
“Oh, yeah,” the musician said.
"What about in the last hour?"
“You bet,” said Oakley.
Condon’s strategy worked. Lyndon was judged not guilty by reason of insanity. He spent 18 months in jail before trial, then about six months locked up in a psych ward. By the summer of 1972, he was back on the road with the Allman Brothers Band, which toured relentlessly. Later in the 1970s, Lyndon toured with the Dixie Dregs. That's Lyndon on the back cover of Freefall.
Along the road, he became an avid skydiver, logging more than 300 jumps. On Nov. 16, 1979, as the Dregs were meandering toward a gig in Syracuse, Lyndon squeezed in a sky dive from an airplane based in upstate Duanesburg.
At 8,500 feet, Twiggs Lyndon exited the plane. He enjoyed a glorious view of the Catskills to the south and the Adirondacks to the north. His chute didn’t open. It was his last freefall. He was 37.”
(Thanks to Music In Atlanta for this)

Pretty wild Shocked


Wow.   Plus the dude died on my birthday during my senior year in hs.

If anyone is curious , $1000 in 1970 would be worth $8094.56 today.
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Post by The Pantry 2024-07-05, 08:25

Maybe I just forgot. There were Andy Griffith shows shot in color. Watching an episode called "Otis, the artist" from 1966.

Also, forgot there were episodes without Don Knotts. The guy who replaced him sucks.
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Post by AvgMSUJoe 2024-07-05, 09:38

Lol, just watched one this morning where a door to door salesman was getting shit from the guy that owned the store. At one point he had his finger in Andy's chest and threatened to get a gun. After he stormed out Andy and Barney busted out laughing... Times have changed.
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Post by gomersbro 2024-07-23, 15:46

7/23/2024 Today I learned that Angelina Jolie's father is Jon Voight
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Post by DWags 2024-07-23, 18:06

gomersbro wrote:7/23/2024 Today I learned that Angelina Jolie's father is Jon Voight


Which comedian said, “ She is so fine, I would suck her daddy’s……,,”?
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Post by DWags 2024-07-24, 09:31

Bruce Springsteen has never had a #1 hit. Closest was a #2, and not one of my favorite songs of his. Dancin in the Dark.
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Post by DWags 2024-08-27, 01:13

That to be considered a berry, a fruit must develop from one single ovary and generally have a soft exocarp and fleshy mesocarp. The endocarp must also be soft and may enclose one or more seeds


That describes a banana. Thus, I learned a banana is actually a berry.
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Post by The Pantry 2024-08-27, 07:15

Why are bananas berries but strawberries aren't?

Now wondering if thimbleberries are berries...?
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Post by Motown Spartan 2024-08-27, 07:37

DWags wrote:Bruce Springsteen has never had a #1 hit. Closest was a #2, and not one of my favorite songs of his. Dancin in the Dark.

America is a stupid country.

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Post by The Pantry 2024-08-27, 07:55

DWags wrote:Bruce Springsteen has never had a #1 hit. Closest was a #2, and not one of my favorite songs of his. Dancin in the Dark.
Probably only got to #2 because Courteney Cox was cute in the music video.
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Post by tGreenWay 2024-08-27, 10:22

DWags wrote: That to be considered a berry, a fruit must develop from one single ovary and generally have a soft exocarp and fleshy mesocarp. The endocarp must also be soft and may enclose one or more seeds


That describes a banana. Thus, I learned a banana is actually a berry.



Wait, so carp are berries?
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Post by The Pantry 2024-09-30, 18:15

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Post by kingstonlake 2024-10-08, 21:05

That Bobby Caldwell was white.

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Post by The Pantry 2024-10-15, 18:55

There are 1.4 million km (870,000 miles) of telecommunication cables on the seafloor, covering every ocean on the planet. Laid end to end, these cables would span the diameter of the Sun, and are responsible for the transfer of 99% of all digital data. But for something so important, they are surprisingly slender – often little more than 2cm in diameter, or about the width of a hosepipe.

The deep-sea 'emergency service' that keeps the internet running

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Post by The Pantry 2024-10-15, 18:59

kingstonlake wrote:That Bobby Caldwell was white.

Yep. The SMB did a version of the song in 1980 or 81.
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Post by kingstonlake 2024-10-18, 19:59

The US sunk over 600 Japanese warships during WWII. Here is a map of them.

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https://www.nps.gov/parkhistory/online_books/wapa/extContent/wapa/guides/offensive/sec6.htm#:~:text=Postwar%20records%20compiled%20by%20the,submarines%20during%201%2C600%20war%20patrols.
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Post by tGreenWay 2024-10-18, 20:19

kingstonlake wrote:The US sunk over 600 Japanese warships during WWII. Here is a map of them.

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We did? No wonder they invaded Pearl Harbor.
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Post by kingstonlake 2024-10-19, 07:56

tGreenWay wrote:
kingstonlake wrote:The US sunk over 600 Japanese warships during WWII. Here is a map of them.

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https://www.nps.gov/parkhistory/online_books/wapa/extContent/wapa/guides/offensive/sec6.htm#:~:text=Postwar%20records%20compiled%20by%20the,submarines%20during%201%2C600%20war%20patrols.


We did? No wonder they invaded Pearl Harbor.

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Post by tGreenWay 2024-10-22, 16:00

TIL there’s a guy in California who started shaming shoppers in strip mall parking lots for not returning their grocery carts to the racks. He turned an unpaid hobby into a six-figure job by posting confrontation videos on YouTube. Oh, and he calls himself Agent Sebastian.

Here he is appearing on Dr. Phil a few years ago.



And here’s the Wikipedia write up about him:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cart_Narcs
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Post by DWags 2024-10-22, 16:49

tGreenWay wrote:TIL there’s a guy in California who started shaming shoppers in strip mall parking lots for not returning their grocery carts to the racks. He turned an unpaid hobby into a six-figure job by posting confrontation videos on YouTube. Oh, and he calls himself Agent Sebastian.

Here he is appearing on Dr. Phil a few years ago.



And here’s the Wikipedia write up about him:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cart_Narcs


I put my card back. However, and I have learned this trust me, I’ve been told by elders that they like the rogue, shopping cart here or there in a parking lot They park by it and grab it and then use it as kind of a walking aid into the store I can attest to that , But yeah, I still locked my car back When I had my clubfoot on, and was just starting to walk again, and it was wet in the spring, I enjoyed grabbing that cart that was loose in the parking lot and walking in with it
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Post by tGreenWay 2024-10-22, 18:09

DWags wrote:
tGreenWay wrote:TIL there’s a guy in California who started shaming shoppers in strip mall parking lots for not returning their grocery carts to the racks. He turned an unpaid hobby into a six-figure job by posting confrontation videos on YouTube. Oh, and he calls himself Agent Sebastian.

Here he is appearing on Dr. Phil a few years ago.



And here’s the Wikipedia write up about him:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cart_Narcs


I put my card back. However, and I have learned this trust me, I’ve been told by elders that they like the rogue, shopping cart here or there in a parking lot They park by it and grab it and then use it as kind of a walking aid into the store I can attest to that , But yeah, I still locked my car back When I had my clubfoot on, and was just starting to walk again, and it was wet in the spring, I enjoyed grabbing that cart that was loose in the parking lot and walking in with it




So you’re saying this man hates the disabled, infirm, and elderly. I agree. He either needs therapy, an antidepressant, or both.
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Post by Nordic 2024-10-22, 18:11

tGreenWay wrote:TIL there’s a guy in California who started shaming shoppers in strip mall parking lots for not returning their grocery carts to the racks. He turned an unpaid hobby into a six-figure job by posting confrontation videos on YouTube. Oh, and he calls himself Agent Sebastian.

Here he is appearing on Dr. Phil a few years ago.



And here’s the Wikipedia write up about him:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cart_Narcs

Dudes being a jackass
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Post by tGreenWay 2024-10-22, 18:12

Nordic wrote:
tGreenWay wrote:TIL there’s a guy in California who started shaming shoppers in strip mall parking lots for not returning their grocery carts to the racks. He turned an unpaid hobby into a six-figure job by posting confrontation videos on YouTube. Oh, and he calls himself Agent Sebastian.

Here he is appearing on Dr. Phil a few years ago.



And here’s the Wikipedia write up about him:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cart_Narcs

Dudes being a jackass



Agreed. It’s really too bad he doesn’t get punched in the wiener more often.
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Post by Floyd Robertson 2024-10-24, 15:51

Elijah J. McCoy, an African-American inventor raised in Ypsilanti, patented the first
automatic lubrication system for locomotives and other machinery, a device so effective that
it was difficult to sell imitations that weren’t “the real McCoy.” Thus, McCoy’s name became
synonymous with anything genuine or authentic.

So it's not from a feud or a Star Trek episode after all.
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Post by The Pantry 2024-10-24, 22:03

Didn't know they were married.

Kevin Kline says the secret to his 35-year marriage to Phoebe Cates is not having a 'Hollywood marriage'
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Post by tGreenWay 2024-10-24, 22:04

The Pantry wrote:Didn't know they were married.

Kevin Kline says the secret to his 35-year marriage to Phoebe Cates is not having a 'Hollywood marriage'



Seriously? When she married that guy my heart shrank a size or two. I’ve been waiting out that marriage and yet nothing ever broke them. Damnit.
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Post by Pervis Muldoon 2024-10-29, 13:51

Gouverneur Morris, the fellow who wrote the Preamble to the Constitution, was quite a player despite having a wooden leg - and he was especially attracted to Dolley Madison, mostly because of her full figure.
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