The Original Old Farts Club

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OCD...

Ha ha!!!!!

Never cared for it. Liked coon though.

Never had coon. Don't like balls, tripe, tongue or pig feet.

 

[Hippie420]

Nope, I don't eat guts either. The Old Hen likes liver and chicken gizzards. Yuck.

 

[Unca Walt]

I grew a beard once - keep in mind I just don't have a lot of facial hair.
After the itching stopped, my thinking was "Cool! No more shaving!"
Then it got long enough (took about 4-5 months, iirc) that I realized it was just as much work...what with constant combing and beard oil and...anyhow, I'm back to my regularly scheduled weekly shaves. A 10 ounce can of Barbasol shaving cream goes bad and turns to liquid before I can use it all up. That's how much facial hair I get.

I have a good (GRAY) porn star moustache, though! lol

Just thought of sumpin' -- My grandling, Wolfie (Wolfgang) has a bright red beard.

It gets thicker during a full moon.

 

[Unca Walt]

I love reptiles of all kinds and spent years breeding rat and king snakes.
Don't keep them anymore though I have been thinking of getting a yellow rat snake again as they're my favorite from childhood.

I'm just catchin' up here. I got at least two indigo snakes around the Chateau. And there are a herd of curly-tails that come running to me when I go into the garage**

They are hand tame, and eat little pieces of chicken. They have difficulty telling the difference between my finger and the chicken. Tickles when they bite.

**Herself laid down The Law yesterday afternoon. The peacocks are NOT allowed to hang out in the garage anymore. There is a 3-inch wide, 8-inch long painted brown smear on the garage floor right where you'd step getting out of the car.

 

[Unca Walt]

Ohh-kay. We gone haveta bring ya up to speed. My snakey-thing was that I did a (as far as I know) world-unique way of killing rattlesnakes. I developed it after noting rattlers give a small frisson down their backs about 1/5 of a second before striking.

I'd get my right foot as close to the buzzer as possibobble while holding my trusty Swiss Army Knife in my right hand. Then I'd bring my left hand in towards the snake's head in a jerky motion.

Bottom line, when I saw the frisson, I'd swing the Swiss Army Knife around 10" or so in front of the snake's head while yanking my left hand the hell outa Dodge. My reaction: 1/3 second. Snake's 1/5 second... so I hadda be fast.

The blade would hit the back of his head and stun or kill the buzzer. It was best if it only stunned him. Then I could pick him up.

There was a still posted here from an old video taken of me doing this trick the very last time. Herself put her dainty foot down when I was slow on the penultimate time I did it, and the buzzer's bottom teeth scraped across the top of my hand.

There's a pic somewhere around here showing it. I betcha @BigSur could find it.

Found it:

 

[Unca Walt]

Morning everybody, chance of showers today hope so we need it.

Jeeeebus. Bite cher tongue, or define locale, willya? I haven't been able to have my swale mowed for over a month. I got fargin lilies three feet high growing in it.

 

[Unca Walt]

I rarely use horseradish. What do you do with all of it that you harvested?

The two main uses for horseradish: Mixed with ketchup for shrimp/clams/oysters/yada... and directly on roast beef.

 

[Unca Walt]

That's something else I've never eaten. Possum. Nor turtle. Or armadillo.
I have eaten snake jerky, and ostrich and alligator jerky. Meh.
Love me some fried gator tail, though!

There was an ostrich farm in northern Floriduh right by our hunt club. I got a discarded leg, and made "giant turkey" footprints all over camp, on guys' trucks. The new guys were unaware of the commercial farm. O raffs.

BTW: Backstrap squirrel fried in beer batter is outstanding, not just edible.

 

[Unca Walt]

The group needs a small plane so we can visit each other .
Think of all the money we can write off

I kin be the pilot!!

 

[Unca Walt]

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^^^^^^^^^^
Meh. I wuz learning penmanship with a straight pen, desk inkwell, and flannel wipe in the fourth fargin grade in 1948.

I have been "out of warranty" for several years...

 

[Tattered Old Graywolf]

Good morning rasty old farts and kindly fartesses.

Congratulations on still being able to pass your Airman's physical brother Walt?

 

[joeb631a]

Good morning rasty old farts and kindly fartesses.

Congratulations on still being able to pass your Airman's physical brother Walt?

Good Morning !
Unc ! If they make you take a physical don't forget to mention your prostate.
Dont want to fly with an itchy prostate

 

[joeb631a]

I shall query my CPA wife about such things.
I rather suspect her response won't be pleasurable, though.

Even after the next day it was still a epic comment

 

[Unca Walt]

Good morning rasty old farts and kindly fartesses.

Congratulations on still being able to pass your Airman's physical brother Walt?

I could pass it... in a car.

While we are on the subject, this is very dangerous news, Pilgrims.

US Treasuries, the standard of investment safety... are currently losing money hand over fist compared to NASDAQ. <-- (eg: beyond huge bubble)

To put this in perspective, even at the peak of the 2001 bubble, the largest tech bubble in history, this ratio was ~4.8x.

In other words, the Nasdaq to US Treasuries return ratio is now 70% HIGHER…

Just look at it:

All this "money" floating around in the air... while the absolute standard of safety (eg: US Treasuries) is now a money loser big time.

For those who just see scary charts, lemme tellya what they portend on this Ponzi NASDAQ mess:

Interest rates on just about everything are going to rise. Much higher.

The percentage of credit card and auto loan balances that are rapidly transitioning to serious deliquency have already surpassed pre-scandemic levels. Delinquent housing loan balances will inevitably follow.

From yer Unca and some other worthies here: GET your money out of banks, SWAP it for gold and silver IN HAND. While you can.

Because when -- not if -- it flips, it will be the harbinger of total loss for a great majority of folks.

At least get the hell outa ALL stocks and into Treasuries for now. <-- IMO, Treasuries will last longer than the hyperinflated/unsustainable NASDAQ numbers, and will only turn to dust when BRICS gets going.

 

[Unca Walt]

Good Morning !
Unc ! If they make you take a physical don't forget to mention your prostate.
Dont want to fly with an itchy prostate

No prob. I keep it in a box in my refrigerator.

 

[NewbOldster]

I have also eaten turtle and gator as well. I will try most anything. Except organs.

No organs for me. From the sea, I like clams...especially in chowder, but not oysters or calimari. Or sushi. Never tried eel, and pretty sure I won't. I did eat a big old slab of southern style (corn meal) fried catfish just yesterday, however.

 

[NewbOldster]

Ha ha!!!!!

Never had coon. Don't like balls, tripe, tongue or pig feet.

No to all of the above.

 

[NewbOldster]

The two main uses for horseradish: Mixed with ketchup for shrimp/clams/oysters/yada... and directly on roast beef.

Ah. I don't usually do shrimp sauce...on occasion, but not usually, and I've only had horseradish on roast beef once.

 

[NewbOldster]

Good Morning !
Unc ! If they make you take a physical don't forget to mention your prostate.
Dont want to fly with an itchy prostate

Speaking of prostates...I hate a frackin' thief...

 

[joeb631a]