Skippity to post that, according to the Buffista Calendar, today is Trudy Booth's birthday.
I'm not going to wish her the generic "happy birthday", because I know the date is not an easy one for her, but I do wish her a wonderful year.
The King of Cups expects a picnic. But this is not his birthday!
Drusilla ,'Conversations with Dead People'
Natter 53: We could just avoid making tortured puns
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Nilly - Sep 10, 2007 10:18:30 pm PDT #9621 of 10001
Swouncing
Sue - Sep 11, 2007 3:45:58 am PDT #9622 of 10001
hip deep in pie
Happy Birthday Trudy!
I think I may have to give up the caffeine again. Even half caf/half decaf is making me a jittery mess. But I love the coffee so.
Tom Scola - Sep 11, 2007 3:47:52 am PDT #9623 of 10001
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500
Happy Birthday Trudy!
Kathy A - Sep 11, 2007 4:02:22 am PDT #9624 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Happy Birthday, Trudy!!
I hope that the medication works for at least a little while, ita.
Love those cat videos, Kristin!!
Since I'm sure you're all curious, it came out in 1906 (hence the ought-six part of its name), but became famous from use in WWI with the Springfield rifle by infantrymen.
If I remember my "Engineering Disasters" documentaries from History Channel right, the US infantry actually didn't use the Springfield rifle during WWI due to some bonehead in Washington realizing that they were better than anything anyone else had, so if they were taken from a dead doughboy, they would lose technological advantage. As a result, the US sent the boys over there with a vastly inferior POS rifle that blew up in their faces more than fired effective bullets into the Germans. The magazines had openings in them, allowing for dirt and mud to get into them and screwing up the bullet feed, and the recoil of the gun was known to shatter cheekbones. They had warehouses full of Springfields in the US getting rusty while they were using these things on the field.
billytea - Sep 11, 2007 4:03:14 am PDT #9625 of 10001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Happy birthday Trudy!
Sophia Brooks - Sep 11, 2007 4:06:27 am PDT #9626 of 10001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Yes, Trudy- have a wonderful year!
The second is a faux interview: Bobo: An Intimate Portrait.
I just laughed until I cried. "stupid fucking dog!" BWAH-HA-HA-HA!
I can't believe that, once again, I am Jesse, in that I think I look good in dark colors, not light colors, but I seem to be able to do Fall colors or winter colors, as long as they are, you know, dark. I just have to change my lipstick color from "toast" to "berry".
I never was able to get a good read on the Color me Beautiful thing because I have a weird color skin, getting weirder the older I get. I am really pale, but sort of olivey, not ivory. Which makes me suspect I am a Fall. But If I let my hair go dark, I get a lot of compliments on really electric colors, and red is one of my staples, so I do not know.
sumi - Sep 11, 2007 4:11:16 am PDT #9627 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
Happy Birthday Trudy!
Jars - Sep 11, 2007 4:12:54 am PDT #9628 of 10001
When I have pink hair I wear far more brightly coloured clothes than when I don't. Which seems a little counterintuitive, I know.
But I can only get away with orange when I'm not pink.
Fred Pete - Sep 11, 2007 4:13:31 am PDT #9629 of 10001
Ann, that's a ferret.
Happy Birthday, Trudy!
tommyrot - Sep 11, 2007 4:15:10 am PDT #9630 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Happy Birthday, Trudy!
ION,
If I remember my "Engineering Disasters" documentaries from History Channel right, the US infantry actually didn't use the Springfield rifle during WWI due to some bonehead in Washington realizing that they were better than anything anyone else had, so if they were taken from a dead doughboy, they would lose technological advantage. As a result, the US sent the boys over there with a vastly inferior POS rifle that blew up in their faces more than fired effective bullets into the Germans.
You're thinking of a machine gun the US had but didn't use. There was a French machine gun that was given to US troops instead, that had an open magazine that tended to get dirt in and jam like you said.