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I have tales about getting lost in Memphis...don't get lost!

If you drop or scatter some primers, make sure you get them all picked up. My ex turned her Kerby Vacuum into a nifty bomb when I missed one in the carpet! Dust and air plus spark equals BOOM

Then there's the time I was living outside Ranchester, Wy, and listening to "Tradio" on the radio. "My dog has a sty in his eye and I need some blackpowder" I couldn't resist...I called...BAD mistake. This old lady lived on the back side of beyond and she said she needed some powder to blow in the dogs eye and that it would get rid of the sty...the finer the better. I had 4f... Got directions..loaded the kids up in "The Big Truck" (4x4 Dodge Van) gathered up the wife and off we went. Two hours later we found it...I gave her some powder...she blew it in the dogs eye. He ran around the house a million times and we went to look at her llamas. She said...you look like a strong fella...I have a bucket in the shed over yonder...could you get it and pour out the dynamite that's in it. Ayup...I didn't just snatch it down though, I got a box and peeked over the edge...3 inches of nitro and a bunch of waxy red sticks. I said I couldn't...wouldn't...touch it but I know some one who would. I called the National Guard and they blew up her shed!

My friend Dan bought a california custom 51 merc...coolest car in town...his friend Ed was home on leave...Ed had just finished Explosives and Demolition School in the Army. He brought home a bunch of Det cord and detonaters. It's Halloween...it's Friday night.. we're a bunch of bored kids from influenical families ( my dad's the Prosecutor, Dan's dad owned the most expensive restaurant in 100 miles, Ed's dad owned a huge farm)...Dan knew where there was a case of dynamite (he didn't mention that it was so old that the ends were wet) Car...kids... Dynamite and detonaters. The Court House lawn had a 155 "long tom" in front of the Flagpole and I had a bunch of wheelweights and a saucepan that "just fit" the bore. This would be mid 1950's. Some time ago I had melted the wheelweights in the pan and I mentioned that the lead plug would fit the cannon...ayup. A couple of sticks down the pipe...wrapped the plug in an old blanket and rammed the thing down the barrel and lit a sloooow fuse. We left and were a couple miles out when it went off. The plug was never found (I need to explain that Main Street is a mile and a half long and it's clear farmland for about 8 miles after. The gun wouldn't train or elevate and the breech and all it's assorted parts were welded shut ... notice the use of the word "were"...) Oh...while this is going on, Ed mentioned to Dan that the dynamite has a wet end and said we were doing the National Guard a favor by getting "rid" of it. This was back when the old country schools were being abandoned and students were being bused. We solved the demolition problem for the county that night. The last thing Ed did was make a little change in a stop sign...He moved it from one side to the other ...seems that his "arch enemy" drove that road drunk on Friday nights...we waited...he came along...stopped...started off..and parked his car in the ditch...passed out...we moved the sign back...after driving drunk Friday nights for 5 years he finally got caught. Ed was satisfied.

I read somewhere that 75% ...or more...of 100's and 50's have been used to snort cocaine...that's going to leave residue. Seems that the only way to carry large amounts of money is for it to be brand new...and those stick together. Oh...wait...that's brand new,,,we need to check the serial numbers to be sure it's not counterfeit.

I stopped going to restaurants when I retired...The only thing holding the line against inflation is my retirement...everything else is going up.

I had that problem at Gander Mountain...and had money in my hand!

I think I might have been 10 or 11 when I somehow got hold of a box of .22 LR. My neighbor across the back lot had died and I was playing on her porch. I had a few cartridges in my pocket and picked one out and threw it as hard as I could at the sidewalk...NEVER tell your kid that a bullet has to have a barrel to shoot, (thanks Dad) the bullet hit the porch post I was hiding next to...not behind...I wasn't that fast. It buried itself about 1/4 inch deep. I keep dredging my memory and coming up with stuff I did as a kid....anyone wanna hear about halloween and the case of very old dynamite?

I have facebook...my wife uses it and I play mousehunt once a day. When I'm in a really good mood I post an off the wall thought and check my responses once a week.

Back before the 20th cent, the hillfolk used to turn 'em loose in the spring and round 'em up in the fall...See Foxfire Book one. You never get them all...they hide out and spread...and now we're paying for it.

When I first got married...1966..the first time...I was deer hunting about a mile from the house...sneaking around a brushy swale when I hear...THUMP!....bang....THUMP!....bang. THUMP! dirt flies...bang. I hollered...THUMP! I started shooting back. Before I could get to where I could see a car I heard it leave. I have no idea who it was...but they were colorblind...You can't wear more orange than I had on!

Yup...hold on now...you don't suppose....naw...it wasn't revenge...I mean...he missed

When I was working with the brother in law in Casper, Wy, He stapled his pinky finger to the overhang...I heard him yell and walked over to his side of the house..."Pull it out! Pull it out!" I shook the ladder and he fell off...then I took him to the emergency room...the staple went right through his knuckle. The scream when they pulled it out reminded me of a girl. Ya know...this is pretty funny...now! Then it wasn't even amusing.

The same thing they did when Wyoming refused to recind the 19 year old drinking law...withhold federal highway and avation funds Kansas had the same problem...so ...for one day they raised the drinking age to 45

I couldn't pay attentkion if it was a quarter

Well...that was interesting

We have one in South Knox and one in Halls. Drat...I shop there every Tuesday.

I'm a Vet but got out in 1960 before TSHTF in Vietnam...sorry you got shot...thank you for doing your duty.

Having had the BB gun adventures I knew what to say when my 7 year old said, "Kin I have a BB gun...Jerry has one." (Jerry was 6 it wouldn't pierce paper but it was a BB gun) "Nope...BB guns are for breaking glass...I'll get you a .22." "Oh GREAT!...pistol or rifle?" "Always pushing ain't ya kid? Pistol...you're kinda little for a rifle." HiStandard Plinker...and a couple bricks of ammo...he got pretty good. then he got a 10/22 Centenial model. We lived on a 66k acre ranch in Wyoming...with prairie dogs. The land owner started buying him a brick a week.

Then there was the time my wife got her mitten caught in the trigger and shot between my legs. And the Browning HiPower that shot two for one pull...the second shot bounced off the first and hit my foot. Didn't do any damage until I picked up the bullet...wretched thing was still hot and it burned my fingers. I hated that gun!!

BB gun fight...at the lake. There was this kid who had a Daisy with a tractor valve spring instead of the standard OEM spring...he had stand on it to cock it. This thing really HURTS. He decided I was the target of the day and kept peppering me. I snuck into the house...got my Benjamin 22 pellet rifle...8 or 10 pumps...shot him through both cheeks... just my luck they healed to be the cutest dimples...drove the girls nuts...I think he got lucky before anyone else in my age group...and I managed it at 14.

Oh Thank you TGO...I sold my Smith and Wesson shotgun for more than I paid for it...and bought my MosinI did ask the guy if he could buy and he said yes...

Wyarno had some great times. I played standup bass in a rock and roll band there...that was the time my kid puked in my Volvo side pocket...

I...as nasty mean as I used to be...never...I mean NEVER...went in the Mint...although I knew some of the girls.

My ex wife's kin are from Eastern Kentucky (5 million people and two last names) and she's a professional story teller..you should hear tell this!!!