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In another life I'd have called you a Jerk.... But , no, not me any longer, I'd never call anyone a Jerk even though they may be my Brudder from anudder Mudder...A gizzard eating Jerk? Hmm. No not me, I'd never call you a Jerk.... šŸ˜
I want to serve you some alligator gizzards!

I ain't never had gator gizzards, but I would eat them in our big gizzard eating contest! šŸ˜

BBUK you are all right!
 
Went hiking a bit earlier. Drove over to Middlesboro for lunch take-out. Stopped by Lee's and grabbed gizzards. Delicious.

Plan on taking another hike here in a few while weather still nice. Storm clouds moving in a later.
Now I could sit down and eat with Austin anytime, anywhere. Lee's Gizzards are to die for. They are last meal worthy. Our closest Lee's is in Ocala. I drop by often, just for their gizzards.

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He is a good man. If I ever get him down here he will be eating things he never heard of. I bet he would gave a gator gizzard a try, just for the fun of it.

He might even try an alligator gar and eat like a Seminole

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I draw the line at a gar. They are horrible. I know. I had one that had been pressured cooked.

I will eat one if I am starving, but until then I am with BBUK and the gizzards! :cool:

Hell it is worse than carp. Pressured cooked carp is nearly as good as canned salmon but gar is not GOOD.
 
A really sad photo. He caught a machine gun bullet to the head on an island near Okinawa, six days after Roosevelt's death. I've read lot of Ernie's stuff, including his account of Waskow. We don't hear a lot about the campaign in Italy. It was an awful campaign. I had an uncle who served in Italy.

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I thought the part where he tried to enlist in WW1 but his parents wouldn't sign for him, but as soon as he turned 18 he did! I think I saw a drawing of him, where he was wounded in the leg, it had over 200 marked on it?
 
I draw the line at a gar. They are horrible. I know. I had one that had been pressured cooked.

I will eat one if I am starving, but until then I am with BBUK and the gizzards! :cool:

Hell it is worse than carp. Pressured cooked carp is nearly as good as canned salmon but gar is not GOOD.

I caught one of those once, not that large but a big one. I'd have had to waste that bugger if I knew he had a ....gizzard... I let him go...
 
Jan makes lamps out of whisky bottles for her craft shows and then makes an appropriate shade for it. I'd never heard of it, but we came across a Jesse James bottle of bourbon (made in Ca). The crossed revolvers reminded me of it as we were looking for an image to put on the shade. We found a picture of a 45 caliber revolver once owned by Jesse James. Several years ago, it sold at auction for 1.6 million dollars.
 
I draw the line at a gar. They are horrible. I know. I had one that had been pressured cooked.

I will eat one if I am starving, but until then I am with BBUK and the gizzards! :cool:

Hell it is worse than carp. Pressured cooked carp is nearly as good as canned salmon but gar is not GOOD.
Yes they are terrible. Trash food personified. But the Seminoles love them. My grandpa would cut the line if he caught one. He wouldn't even bother "getting the thrill" of fighting with it on his line. Grandpa went fishing to get something for supper. Catch and release was not in his vocabulary.

I will pass with you on gar and eat a baloney sandwich. Fried

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I am listening to the radio and they are listing the best states to retire from 1 to 50. Maryland was 50 and I can't understand why. It seems that should be an ideal place to retire with the water, etc. The Top 3 are SEC states
1. Georgia
2. Florida
3. Tennessee

Bottom 3
48. Kansas
49. Minnesota
50. Maryland

There must be a reason Maryland is so low. Wages are great, weather good and there is the coast. Kansas and Minnesota are places I have no interest in going back to but Maryland is a puzzle to me.
After doing OSUT in Missouri, it would be #50 on my list. It was nothing but one BFR. My flight home from was messed up, so they said I could stay over in St. Louis, or fly on to Pittsburgh and stay there the night. I was off to Pennsylvania.
 
Good morning D, read 40 this morning.

Cloudy here in the Berg this morning, I hope the wind keeps blowing, drying the grass out so I can mow before it starts raining!!!!

Our preacher is doing a study, do Angels exist, very interesting. A couple weeks ago he talked about GOD and satan meeting, had never thought about it, but it's there twice in the Bible about them meeting !

I hope the D, has a great day and Prayers for the D!!!!!

Bureaucrats and politicians are both on my poop list.
About right (Bureaucrat=0) + (Politician=0) < 0 really smells. No doubt about it.
In another life I'd have called you a Jerk.... But , no, not me any longer, I'd never call anyone a Jerk even though they may be my Brudder from anudder Mudder...A gizzard eating Jerk? Hmm. No not me, I'd never call you a Jerk.... šŸ˜
We all jerk in circles here in the D. It's natural for humans to follow the leader. Been doing it since time began.
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Same here in Ohio in my young days. Part (most) of me wishes we still had them. Why can't everything slow down/stop for one day a week? Now they don't even close completely for Christmas....can't wait to open back up even before the day's over to make some $$$$

The revoking of Blue Laws were much like most/all, Dem/lib doings today. Take an inch...then a foot...then a mile.
Remember the 'cry' back then that the older people couldn't get their scrips on a Sunday. We need to open the drug stores! Then it was...well they need gas to get there....so the gas stations opened. Then...but they many need food too. What if they're out of food! Shortly...everything was open.
I remember Blue law discussions in my family. It wouldn't hurt after church . . . what about a man who works 6 days a week taking his son fishing to put food on the table for his family and neighbors.
 
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I draw the line at a gar. They are horrible. I know. I had one that had been pressured cooked.

I will eat one if I am starving, but until then I am with BBUK and the gizzards! :cool:

Hell it is worse than carp. Pressured cooked carp is nearly as good as canned salmon but gar is not GOOD.
Yeah, gar sucks. Tried down in FL a couple times. Not a fan.
 
A really sad photo. He caught a machine gun bullet to the head on an island near Okinawa, six days after Roosevelt's death. I've read lot of Ernie's stuff, including his account of Waskow. We don't hear a lot about the campaign in Italy. It was an awful campaign. I had an uncle who served in Italy.

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Thanks for posting Chief. Ernie was so close to surviving everything from the Blitz in London to North Africa, to Sicily, to the Italian landings, to having the house he shared with other correspondents on Anzio Beach hit by an aerial bomb, to the D-Day landings and the hedgerow battles in France to the end of the Pacific War. It only takes one unlucky moment.

But what a legacy throughout America. When I was a young boy in a town of 900 in Kentucky of the 1960s - twenty years after WW2 - there was a local man who'd been mentioned in a favorable way in one of Ernie Pyle's dispatches. People still singled him out!
 
Thanks for posting Chief. Ernie was so close to surviving everything from the Blitz in London to North Africa, to Sicily, to the Italian landings, to having the house he shared with other correspondents on Anzio Beach hit by an aerial bomb, to the D-Day landings and the hedgerow battles in France to the end of the Pacific War. It only takes one unlucky moment.

But what a legacy throughout America. When I was a young boy in a town of 900 in Kentucky of the 1960s - twenty years after WW2 - there was a local man who'd been mentioned in a favorable way in one of Ernie Pyle's dispatches. People still singled him out!

Have you ever read Rick Atkinson's trilogy on WW2?
 
I like them better but it might just be the location. KFC is not very good down here. We also have Bojangles and they are my favorite.

But I pretty much like all fried chicken
The Church's chicken here went out of business. They sucked. The chicken was bland and tasteless. There were a couple of other chicken places here too including Golden chicken but, they died out too. Popeyes and KFC are the only ones to survive here.
 
The Church's chicken here went out of business. They sucked. The chicken was bland and tasteless. There were a couple of other chicken places here too including Golden chicken but, they died out too. Popeyes and KFC are the only ones to survive here.

I know what that Church's specialty must have been....
 
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I like them better but it might just be the location. KFC is not very good down here. We also have Bojangles and they are my favorite.

But I pretty much like all fried chicken

The downfall of KFC is one of the great disappointments of my lifetime. They tell me there are still some individual stores that are still good but I have not found one in many years. I get up the nerve to try again every couple of years and every time I say never again. KFC once sued the Colonel for badmouthing their food. Youtube has many exposes of the horrors of their food and operations
 
Speaking of fried chicken....the Mrs wanted some tonight so we went to a small town in Western Ohio to a restaurant that is known for their fried chicken. Probably my all-time favorite chicken place. Kind of a German restaurant in a German town...but the chicken is great. They used to also make their own brewed beer but stopped doing that years ago, but still have their brand that is now brewed by someone in another town. Restaurant has been there forever...maybe the '30s.
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Yes I have, Chief. Really terrific work. Especially the middle volume on Italy - my favorite by far. I need to read that again soon.
That volume was the reason that led me to comment on what a horrible campaign that was.

Ian W. Toll has done a comparable trilogy on the war in the Pacific. Have you read those?

I still read a lot of WW2 history. I dabble some on Korea and Vietnam. I like narrative history. My short term memory is pretty much shot so I don't remember much of what I read anymore. I do it for the pleasure of the moment I am reading it
 
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That volume was the reason that led me to comment on what a horrible campaign that was.

Ian W. Toll has done a comparable trilogy on the war in the Pacific. Have you read those?

I still read a lot of WW2 history. I dabble some on Korea and Vietnam. I like narrative history. My short term memory is pretty much shot so I don't remember much of what I read anymore. I do it for the pleasure of the moment I am reading it
I will give you a little unwritten history of Viet Nam. I was assistant ncoic of security at Tan My LORAN station near the village ofTan My. Our planes and ships used it for radar navigation. When the top man was gone, I was in charge. We had some locals doing menial work on base. Encluded was a sweet teenage girl named Bien who I spoke to every day. My job was to protect people and equipment. I was concerned about non military working on base, but it was set up before I got there by people above my pay grade, so I kept quiet. One night the Viet Cong raided the village and killed all those who worked for us to set an example, encluding a sweet innocent teen age girl. This has haunted me every day of my life for the last 50 years.
 
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