monkeylizard

I had the same experience trying my firesteel for the first time. If you're using grass, get plenty of it. Yeah it burns fast, but if you use enough of it it will burn long enough to get small twigs going. The sparks will light cotton balls pretty well.   I saw a cool survival fire thing when searching for something else.Take an old disposable lighter that's all used up and cut the bottom off. Shove in as many vaseline-soaked cotton balls as you can get in there then cap it off with wax. Now you have flamable materials and the lighter's flint to get it going. Small and light and a lot easier than the firesteel, which then becomes a backup to your backup.

  Maybe. He also says something about her complicity/involvement for "years" so he kind of sells her out a bit on that one.

That's too much work putting that on every day. I'm just going to get some of these: http://www.buzzfeed.com/gustonyc/new-product-the-ab-hancer-2nz2

I saw that Goodletsville gun shop had an M&P-15 Sport last week for $675 out the door. You can probably still build one for around that price, but just barely and only if you shop for sales on your parts and are patient.

The only thing about that episode that I saw coming was the end of Gomez. I knew they might kill off Hank, but thought Walt would have made a deal for him. The way they played it out was better. It was fitting for both Jack and Hank to go the way it did.   Walt's phone call was epic. What I don't get is Walt's total failure in operational security. Here's a guy that hides extra cell phones in the air vents, keeps his clean clothes outside the meth-mobile, etc.etc. but talks on the phone like that to his wife when she simply says "No" when asked if the cops are there? Hey dumbass! Yeah, the cops are there! Your son called them saying you tried to stab your wife and she's got blood on her! He also knows his DEA uncle is dead and that his mom and aunt said you're a drug lord. Dontcha think he might mention that to the detectives that show up? Dontcha think that might make them use surveilance of every kind they can get their hands on?   I suspect we'll see less of Walt next week. Something still has to happen to make the house become abandoned. My thought is simply that Walt stays away for a while under his new identity from Saul's guy. Marie spills the beans on Skylar to the cops (of course, why wouldn't she?) so Skylar goes away to lady-prison for a while. The kids go to Marie. I see next week being mostly about Skylar and the kids, and Jesse.     Walt then comes back to town (with hair) in the final episode with the MG and gets the ricin from the old house. Then it's off to finish off some old business/revenge/reclaim his money/whatever with Frank and the boys and probably Lydia (and maybe Jesse if he's still alive by then).     It would be sweet justice if they have Jesse be the one to off Walt.     Frank's a stone-cold killa, but Todd's a freakin psycopath. That dude has "20/20 Special Report" written all over him. Neighbors: "He was such a nice boy. He helped me around the house with chores. I never thought he'd have 27 dismembered bodies hidden under his house"

No, but I saw a neat report on CBS Sunday morning about a year ago where the old timers on some island off the European coast whistle. It's a real craggy island with deep ravines so it takes too long to walk around the ridges to talk so they whistle. They've developed a whole language made of complex whistles that carry really well through the ridges and wind. Like your experience, each person has a unique sound and they can tell one another apart from their sound. It's a dying art there too.

I had gotten behind and have been avoiding this thread like the plague. All caught up now.   AWESOME!!!!   Confession was fantastic.       I'm with Anna Gunn in this one. There's hardly an episode that goes by that I'm not left laughing at something. It's not the ha-ha kind of funny, but the "holy crap! I can't believe they actually pulled that off/it blew up in such spectacular fashion/ or I DID NOT see that coming and it's hilarious! 'Confession' is a great example. I was rolling when I saw Hank and Marie looking totally dumbstruck as they watched the video. Fantastic stuff. Saul's always good for a laugh in the ha-ha kind of way.   +1 bazillion on your second thought.     Still too early to figure out what's going to go down, but my prediction is that Gomie's a goner. Hank's phone call to Marie was meant to be a 'last call' but it was obviously so. Is that because it's the end of Hank so they're sending him off with that, or is it just to throw us off the scent? Nothing else in this series has been what it seems.   The only way the shootout with federal agents is ending is for Hank and Gomie to die or surrender. If they surrender, not sure why the skinheads would let them live. What would be their angle for keeping Gomie and/or Hank alive? The only angle I can come up with is that Walt intervenes saving Hank's life or else he won't cook. Once the cooking's done, Walt has to have a way out that gets him and either Jesse or Hank or both out of there. At the start of season 5 I thought the pig was for the DEA. Now I'm more convinced it's for Frank, Todd, and the boys. The poison is for Lydia. It's going to go in her tea. Walt's realizing that while he may have left the business, he left a business that's functional. He has to wrap that up. Taking out Todd, the skinheads,and Lydia does that.   The next episode is called 'Ozymandias' which is a poem from Percy Shelley:    

  I remember it now that its location is described. It's the same non-compliant sign as Nashville West Costco. "No firearms allowed on property" or something like that.

  You can make flat bread and beer with millet. Forged is inedible.

BTW, the real deal has started...... :rock:   http://www.tngunowners.com/forums/topic/70184-tgo-lowers-action-required/

I'm in.

That wouldn't make it against any law to carry. They can say "no blue shirts on Tuesdays" in their membership rules but that doesn't make it against the law. All they can do about your blue shirt on a Tuesday is ask you to leave and revoke your membership. Same as having a handgun if the only prohibition is in their membership rules.   The only way to make it against any law would be to have a proper sign posted.

  With serial numbers of your choice and your screen name and avatar on the side in your choice of 8 different colors.

I think WND may not be telling the whole story there, but either way, yeah, that story always makes me think twice about keeping my Costco membership. In the end, I rarely go there because I don't really need a 5 gallon jar of pickles and 250 tube socks. I keep the membership because it keeps Mrs. 'lizard happy with her glasses and contacts.

CZ9MM,   What you're missing is that the sellers (or re-sellers to be accurate) are manipulating the supply to drive that equilibrium price up.   Scenario: You and I are the entire buying (demand side) market and we each want some ammo, let's say 2 bricks of .22 each. A store called Wally's represents the entire supply side of the market.   Week 1 - Wally's is happy to sell those to us for $20 each. They know through market research that they can sell them for $25 each, but will sell fewer. They're a low-margin, high-volume store so they set the price at $20. They have one in stock, and should have some more in next week. I get there first, so I buy the brick at $20 and you get none.   Week 2 - I still want another brick and you still want two. You get the brick for $20 'cause you get there first, and we both have a little something to shoot, but we'll have to wait until next week when they expect a larger shipment of 3 bricks to show up to top off our supplies. We'll each plan to get our last brick and there'll be one left for later. Fantastic, right?   Week 3 - When the truck unloads at Wally's a fellow, (we'll call him BBJ) buys all 3 bricks before we can get there leaving the shelf bare. Now BBJ doesn't want to shoot them. For all we know, he doesn't even have a .22 firearm. He tells us in the parking lot that he'll gladly sell us each a box for $50. We say "screw you" and go back to shooting our remaining boolits from our 1st brick.   Week 4 - Wally's gets another couple of bricks in, but whaddayaknow, our old friend BBJ has scooped up both boxes and again offers to sell them for $50 in the parking lot. Now this time, you and I are getting pretty low on our supply and could really use that extra brick, but comeonman! $50? ain't gonna happen so we go home empty handed again.   Week 5 - Wally's doesn't get any on the truck. that's kind of normal for Wally's. Every week doesn't always bring in more .22 because some weeks there's still some sitting around from prior shipments.   Week 6 - 2 bricks arrive and BBJ snakes them both. You and I are both totally out from our 1st bricks. Want to buy some for $50 yet? Sorry...you can't.....this week our buddy BBJ wants $75 a brick.   Week X - Week Y repeat ad nauseum.   So when I finally break down and buy one brick from the asshole, does that mean that $75 is the equilibrium price? Keep in mind that the actual supply to the market from the manufacturer has not changed. Wally's still gets its customary weekly shipment just as it always has.   What about when our neighbor, Mr. Newb, gets a new .22 rifle and needs some ammo for it? This would normally be an honest increase in the demand side. But Mr. Newb heard on the news that maybe the UN, or Obama, or the EPA or Ronald McDonald is going to ban .22 so he goes to get some from Wally's. Finding none for weeks on end, he panics and buys from BBJ. Does that make $75 the new market equilibrium price?   Supply and Demand economics is based on the principle of free flow of product and cash between the maker of a product and a consumer of a product. Prices are bumped up somewhat by a value-added supply chain. Winchester wants to sell 1,000,000 rounds at a time and will sell them for $.03 each and you have to pick them up at their factory. You and I only want to buy 1,000 at a time and can't/won't drive to their factory. Wally's buys the million rounds and resells them in smaller lots closer to us. They add value by doing this for us and we reward them with an extra $.01 per round.   What BBJ is doing is not adding any value. The lot size, location, and product are exactly the same as how Wally's delivered them. Winchester still got their $.03 per round and Wally's made their $.01 per round. BBJ is manipulating the supply by monopolizing it as best he can. He's also manipulating the demand by starving the market of its usual supply to increase the feeling of panic amongst the consumers. That is NOT free-market enterprise. It's price-fixing market-manipulation at its worst.

What KahrMan said....except I know the one in West Nashville has a large "No firearms permitted on property" sign between the entrance and the exit. It's not 39-17-1359 compliant, but the intent is clear. I haven't seen that same sign at the Franklin location.   We used to have Sam's, but switched to Costco. Mrs. 'lizard likes their eyeglass frame selection better.

I heard it was an Official Red Ryder Carbine-Action Two-Hundred-Shot Range Model Air Rifle

    That only works if there's an alternative place to buy. If a bunch of dudes show up with big holding tanks at every gas station every time a delivery truck shows up and bleed them dry at their $3.45/gal asking price, then setup shop in an empty lot across the street selling it for $10/gal, you would just say "oh well....they can ask what they want for it, I don't have to buy it from them." ?

turkeydad, it sounds to me like you took a good opportunity to move some old stock and turn a reasonable profit. I have no problem with that. Even if you had sold at the inflated prices, you'd have only been gouging and not perpetuating the problem because your were moving old stock and actually increasing the available supply (very slightly). The scalpers are perpetuating the current problem by both buying the limited supply and gouging on their resale price.   I've sold some of my old stock to people who were ammo-poor and made a buck or two on a box here and there because the fair market (not crazy market) price had simply gone up since I bought it. I've also given away about as much as I've sold over the years.

  Give it time. We're only on page 4 and the night is young.

Do you know how to make a small fortune in the airline industry?                 Start with a large fortune and buy an airline.

  My first thought was that a sasquatch suit on the far edge of the camera's range would be way funny.

It would have been funny if Fuzzy had said "yeah, but one of my signatures on eBay is worth two of his."

well, yeah. But that doesn't tell me anything about "legislative intent". Do lawyers arguing their cases use "legislative intent" to try to skew the court's interpretation of the written law?

Tinfoil....duct tape....cardboard     Kentucky Conan needs none of that