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No bangpop etc... just blood sweat and tears so to speak.... Have not done a 3 hour stint though... have done 1.5 hours on compressions between 3 of us though...

That's just gay.

Lived,....... with a 20% chance for 2 more years.

A word of advice,.....don't go into debt because of what the doctor says. I ended up having to pay off a $10,000 Ducati 2 years after the doc said I'd be worm dinner.

Doc: You're chit is fugged.

Me: WOOT,...I'm goin' to the bank and then to the Ducati store!

4 years later the bank says: Givvit up!

A pre-op martini?

I gave Chuck Norris an inferiority complex by showing him this thread...

Survived a "widowmaker" heart attack at age 42.

When I was 17, I found a lost hunter in the woods after he had been dead for several days. He was about 4 miles from where his hunting buddies thought that he was and they had called off the search. I saw him while heading to my stand and when I came back after dark, I saw that he was still in the same place, so I went over to ask if he was OK. He wasn't OK and it scared the crap out of me when I shook his shoulder and then realized that he was dead when he tipped over. I walked out of the woods, went to the police station, and then went back into the woods with the F&G guys to recover the body. I neglected to call my parents from the police station to tell them where I'd be, so they were worried that I was lost in the woods and when I got home around 3AM they were both happy and pissed at the same time.

How did you do for the whole winter?



What's a stand?
What's an AR?

A few of those coyotes have funny looking tails..

Northern miner's cats.

Yeah, those things make some great chili.

Those kind with the funny tails are half price

Married a lady 52 years ago that was born the same month, day & year that I was. She is two hours older than me. Seems to cause confusion on insurance paperwork. GW

Yes were from Missouri and not cousins!

Twins?

I was in England to see England beat West Germany in the '66 World Cup, but everybody in England saw that.

Been so close to the Beatles in their "Fab Four" days I could hear Ringo drumming through a stage door.

Used to stand outside the rail station of weekends with a homemade cart offering to carry holiday maker's bags to their B&B but lots of Working Class lads did that.

Tore untold numbers of newspapers in half for my parent's fish and chip shop but every family with a fish and chip shop did that.

Found a greater yellowlegs once on Cape Cod grounded with a mussel shell clamp in its toe, I freed it and let it go and it flew and flew out of site to the far horizon.

Ran up a trail to within touching distance of a big black bear coming the other way in the Adirondacks once, surprised the heck out of both of us.

Lived in my car for three months in New Mexico, ain't a whole lot done that.

Lived in a small African village for three years, no electricity, no running water, no phone, mostly not even a radio, but bunch kazillions of African have done that.

Lived and worked through the aftermath of an African military coup, not many have done that. Sat around at got drunk with a bunch of soldiers sometime in the aftermath of said coup.

Driven a classic LandRover for a vaccination team, including past many roadblocks after the coup.

Been more'n twenty miles out to sea in a dugout canoe off the coast of West Africa, only time I've ever seen the Southern Cross.

Won a five mile cross country footrace in Africa, against Africans, who were trying to beat me.

Walked on foot across 70 miles of roadless bush, came to a town of 1,000 people hadn't seen a White man in five years.

Sat in a Lakota sweat lodge in the Black Hills and when it was my turn prayed in Twi (African tribal language), I believe I am probably the only White guy in history to ever do that.

Met a guy who had been raised by people who were at the Little Bighorn.

Sat around and drank tiswin with people who remembered other Apaches who had been rounded up and held at Fort Sill.

Been unable to leave a women's college dorm room, because of visitation rules, for more'n twelve hours.

Rode a motorcycle 2,000 miles in 48 hours.

Seen far more golden-cheeked warblers than most folks (I used to get paid to count 'em).

Been awarded $27,000 in grants to put up bird houses (long story).

Rode a bicycle 2,000 miles in 30 days.

Seen the Isle of Man TT.

Bicycled across England, Scotland, Ireland and part of France.

Taught in a big city high school for thirty years.

..and just the other day my male betta in the classroom fish tank died. A kid whips out his smart phone and conjures up "Amazing Grace" on bagpipes, other kids follow suit, an impromptu funeral procession forms up out to the garden to bury the fish, carcophony of bagpipes skirling. Hey, we should all get that good of a funeral

Funniest thing I've had in the classroom since maybe twenty years back Toby Rodriguez, sitting in the back, quietly made a giant sperm out of paper and suddenly stands up screaming, holds the sperm wriggling out front by the tail like a divining rod, and it "drags" him towards a pretty girl two rows over

Anyhoo.... that's where I'm at...

...hoping for more to come.

Come on man! Something the rest of us have not done.

We were all twenty something at one time.

Worked on a special KoO rifle built for General Chuck Yeager, circa 1989. A minor bit of stock work, IIRC I got to plane the butt and grip prior to another guy mounting the skeleton hardware. Don't recall if it was an 82 or 84.

It was about this time that the company called a meeting to announce they'd do "drug testing". I spoke up for the woodshop, "Will that be written or oral?" Got a laugh from one half and scowls from the other. Boss man just shook his head and said it'd be urine. LOL.

Certainly unusual: I brought my daughter's dog back to life through chest compressions after the dog got killed in a conibear trap.

No way I was going home and tell her her dog had died......

Not on purpose, of course.