Murgatroy

The Maryville office is much better.

I grew up on his novels. I lost most of them over the last twenty five years, so I have been working pretty hard to find them all again.   I am missing The Survivalist from #20 up. I still read them to this day though.   I have read several of the collaborations and I find they have more in the way of story and emotion, with Jerry's attention to detail.   Though I have little desire to own a pocket pistol, I wouldn't hesitate to buy a Detonics Combat Master. 

I make them up as I go along.   If I am driving, I make the rules. Even if my wife thinks it is her truck.   Don't touch the radio, the A/C or the windows without express written permission.

The pretrip is the hardest part. If you can drive, you can drive a truck. Shifting might get you if you don't know how to double clutch or float the gears. That might take some time if you can't find an automatically shifting manual to test in. The written test is easy, the driving portion is easy. The health card is all up to you, easy or not based on your health. Vision and certain health issues, such as diabetes can instantly fail you.   The pretrip is a nightmare, something like 140 points they can check you on. You have to all the way around, tires, brakes, air system, fuel, etc, touching, naming and describing good or bad.    My company has used a private tester for years, and that is the route I suggest if you can.

I grew up in Tellico Plains, I have run the Dragon and Robbinsville Road (The Skyway) so many times I have lost count.   I have hosted a yearly meet up there for the last ten years or so.   The Dragon is awesome, but with all the traffic and publicity it gets now, it is a car show. Too many squids and bad drivers trying to make it straight.   To be honest I am kinda glad that I moved a few hours away so the siren's call isn't as bad anymore.

The Turkey Creek Walmart never sold guns that I have known. My wife worked there for years.   Dicks stopped about a year before Academy opened, claimed they weren't making money on them.

Yeah, the focus on the "Lobo" weapon. The tactics, the mistakes made while fighting it, there was a lot to it.   There are a lot of books that don't translate well to film, and I am certain this will be one.   But I will watch it.

Fast zombies would ruin my Zombie Apocalypse really fast.

Rough Texture Frame.   It is the little pyramids they used on some Gen 3s, they had the fish gill serrations on the slide.   I think it is similar to the texture on all Gen 4s.

Bastards put mustard gas in the air duster now, shit is nasty.   Thank god that canned whip cream isn't tainted. However I find a good gourmet food store will nearly always carry whippets.            Joking aside, I had a good friend commit suicide when we were younger after huffing paint. It is sad the lengths that folks will go feeding an addiction. I am thankful I haven't had to fight one.           Now get off my back about my cigarettes!

Truth.   The nationality of the narrator is a moot point, the book covers all over the world, Israeli, Japanese, British, etc...   However, the movie looks to be your typical (other than fast zombies) blockbuster zombie movie.   I am sure I will watch it, but I highly doubt it will live up to the book, unless the trailers are false and only focus on the star power of Brad Pitt to drum up hype.

The wife's Explorer is 3.73 with posi.   Makes that like 235HP 4.0L SOHC feel like a monster.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, slow down there slick, we don't believe in personal accountability anymore. These parents are doing exactly what is expected from them, placing their children in front of the television and letting the schools raise them.

That is pretty awesome.   I was impressed that my daughter got on paper this afternoon at 100yds with rimfire, so maybe she will be shooting at 1000yds next.

But it's for the children.   There is no logical need for an Aqua Rifle that sprays a whole gallon without reloading.

I like Fast and Loud. They do more silly things, but at least they show the grease work.

You ain't from around here are you?   Next you are gonna tell me that you don't own any camouflage britches and your favorite color is pink.

I needed that this morning. Thanks!

Poison Ivy is the one that I remember. I cut class with a friend and we played in the woods behind the school. Actually it was a whole week, but that is another story.   I wound up using the makeshift facilities, and wound up with the worst case of Poison Ivy ever. All over my crotch.   It was agony.         Chiggers were really bad too, Momma liked to put clear fingernail polish on `em but I swear that never did anything for them. I guess Oh SHoot is right and it was just an old wives tale.

Not bad, were I still in TN I would have loved to have been there, looks like a much better turn out than last time we tried this.

I watch it.   I liked the first season, and same for American Restoration. I like seeing it done.   I am not as much for the intro and reveal, I want to see the action. That is what they are removing from these shows now.

Been a car guy since I took my first ride home from the hospital, but be damned if I ever liked a Corvette.   I have been turning wrenches since I learned to grab them, and it never made any sense to me why folks liked a Corvette. I could take a Camaro or Mustang, and with half the price difference, make a car that was faster and handled better. By my math, that left a lot of money left over for gas and cigarettes.   Maybe it has something to do with growing up poor in Appalachia, the chick dug Mustangs and Camaros. Nobody had the money for a Corvette, so no one had one.

Dev, the artist that The Cataracs sampled when they produced the Far East Movement's song is a very talented artist. The original song is Booty Bounce.   I have a sad obsession with her and own everything she has released.               As for a song I hate... I don't know, there is a lot of crap music out there right now.   I have to agree with a lot of the animosity toward Nickelback, I greatly dislike ICP and Slipknot, can't really stand Katy Perry, or any of that boy band crap that seems to dominate the pop airwaves now.         However, if I had to narrow it down, I don't think I could. I could however offer you a solid answer regarding this new genre of reality show where some hack wannabe artist comes out and 'covers' a classic and butchers it all to hades and back.   That pisses me off.   My wife is a big fan of 'The Voice.' She is constantly (even though she knows it makes me physically ill) trying to make me listen to crap they try to pass off as music on this show. The one that was the end for me was some little twit covering Skid Row's "I Remember You," and she and her coach decided it needed to be a country song, and at the same time removed Sabo's lead guitar (which is the equivalent of backing vocals IMO) and then determined that hitting the same high notes that Bach could was not needed.   To add insult to injury my wife's response was "What, I don't even know where the original is from, why are you so upset?"             Another thing I want to know, why the hell is Shooter Jennings not famous? I absolutely love his stuff. It goes to show that in today's market, talent is not marketable.

Good job.   For a kid that was probably sick to his stomach before they even began, I am sure he wanted to die after dropping the cymbal.    Nice recovery.

I have used Virgin's service for over a decade. I have never felt the need to pay more.   I went to a smart phone from them a while ago and am grandfathered into a lower rate, but even at the $40 a month they are the best deal going IMO.   The last 'feature' phones I had from them were Kyocera 2300 (it was called the Loft or some such when I got it) and an LG flip phone that they have discontinued. They did what they were supposed to.