tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5822869016413307981.post8316494012007531980..comments2024-03-28T18:40:51.572-04:00Comments on Tilting at Windmills: More Hernandez awards, more ground hogs... what a rut!CWMartinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06798867734074134647noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5822869016413307981.post-82677464127840773802013-07-15T10:27:12.220-04:002013-07-15T10:27:12.220-04:00Sony DSC-H90.
BBC has been giving me a lot of mat...Sony DSC-H90.<br /><br />BBC has been giving me a lot of material lately. Seems like all their good proofreaders have been nabbed in the every two-month sex scandals they're having, or something.<br /><br />Here in the US, we try to keep the political involvement of the dead to voting only...CWMartinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06798867734074134647noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5822869016413307981.post-71573608499047460072013-07-15T09:45:40.558-04:002013-07-15T09:45:40.558-04:00CWM:
Wifey was telling me about the Asianic flight...CWM:<br />Wifey was telling me about the Asianic flight names, and after she told me ONE of them I said:<br /> "was the other guy named _____?"<br />And she said yeah. <br />I had not seen the story at all...I just have a skewed sense of humor, and pursued logic.<br /><br />I can't believe the "dead" guy that ran for mayor, either.<br />Maybe they could do that HERE?<br />(I think they already have to some degree)<br /><br />GREAT hawk pictures, too!<br />(I want a camera like YOURS, seriously)<br /><br />I have got to get me up there to get some pics of that M24 tank, too!<br />(on my short list)<br /><br />That BBC story got me laughing, too.<br /><br />A very nice time had, for sure.<br /><br />Stay safe up there.<br />(beware the humidity)Bob G.https://www.blogger.com/profile/09222203353717749897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5822869016413307981.post-8437423593249692832013-07-14T09:27:04.684-04:002013-07-14T09:27:04.684-04:00I was just hoping any of them turned out, with tha...I was just hoping any of them turned out, with that damnable blackbird going off!CWMartinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06798867734074134647noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5822869016413307981.post-58024076658798864272013-07-14T09:26:08.370-04:002013-07-14T09:26:08.370-04:00Yeah, we spent one day with me and my niece litera...Yeah, we spent one day with me and my niece literally limping around, long pants in 80 degree temps to protect our legs, and every line was ten miles long. And I didn't even get a lousy t-shirt out of it!CWMartinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06798867734074134647noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5822869016413307981.post-84363184820799905582013-07-14T05:54:41.476-04:002013-07-14T05:54:41.476-04:00Love the little froggy and tanks in parks are alwa...Love the little froggy and tanks in parks are always cool. The last photo of the Hawk is wonderfulnot displayedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11637174135437423585noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5822869016413307981.post-55067619092500706842013-07-13T22:46:26.836-04:002013-07-13T22:46:26.836-04:00BROTHER MARTIN ~
Well then, it looks like I've...BROTHER MARTIN ~<br />Well then, it looks like I've been holding this Dixie beer cap thirty years for ya. I'll include it with the others (and the Red Dog too, which came from the first bottle of it I ever had - purchased in the bar / restaurant located behind the windows of the building you see <a href="http://www.you-are-here.com/modern/lax.html" rel="nofollow">HERE</a>).<br /><br /><i>>>... I really would have thought Lowenbrau would have been more effective against 'gators, but likely my survival instincts (as well as my desire for adventure) is far less developed than yours.</i><br /><br />I'm sure a case of Lowenbrau would have been effective. 'Cause after a case of it, we simply wouldn't have cared what happened.<br /><br />How about Disneyland? Did you ever get there? I used to almost live at Disneyland - had annual passes. One would have to sell their wife and their firstborn to afford an annual pass today.<br /><br />~ StephenStephen T. McCarthyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00249125637725791567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5822869016413307981.post-80656301021204858082013-07-13T18:23:02.401-04:002013-07-13T18:23:02.401-04:00Wasn't when I was there... see reply to the ne...Wasn't when I was there... see reply to the next post...CWMartinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06798867734074134647noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5822869016413307981.post-21566570403964766922013-07-13T18:22:29.726-04:002013-07-13T18:22:29.726-04:00Hmm... did you know you can't start a reply to...Hmm... did you know you can't start a reply to a comment, then pause to read a link in that comment, and come back and have what you typed still there? Now you do...<br /><br />Anyway, I looked down the magic list and do NOT have Red Dog. I didn't need to look on Dixie- I KNEW I didn't have any of those. I remember the can from when we collected as kids, but never sniffed a cap.<br /><br />I really would have thought Lowenbrau would have been more effective against 'gators, but likely my survival instincts (as well as my desire for adventure) is far less developed than yours.<br /><br />My "Florida adventure" was really the kick off of my cap collection. Spring of freshman year, because Mom had already passed, went down with big brother and his family. Came home with about thirty new caps (more than doubling the nasceant collection at the time), most of the bearing the tax logo "FLORIDA" or a Georgia state seal. And there were a Lowenbrau of each in that bunch, as I recall.<br /><br />Much of the trip, as I recall, involved me and niece Raine peeling large parts of the back of our legs off after an hour's walk along Ormond Beach. Which is ironic to be mentioned on this post, as it made for a miserable (and my only) trip to Disney World. On the bright side, it made for Best Simulation of a hangover, pre-pubescent division.CWMartinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06798867734074134647noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5822869016413307981.post-63208597070188415432013-07-13T17:00:33.148-04:002013-07-13T17:00:33.148-04:00BROTHER MARTIN ~
That Mickey-Moused Mug Shot of Al...BROTHER MARTIN ~<br />That Mickey-Moused Mug Shot of Alexander Pera was really funny!<br /><br />Hey, I got the address again (thanks) and I expect to have the caps mailed this coming Monday. My Bro and I have been sampling a bunch of different beers lately, just so I could score some more caps for you. (Well, that AND because we like beer.)<br /><br />But I have some questions to ask before sending these caps...<br /><br />I don't collect beer caps, but I have saved a few over the years. I'm going to send these few to you if you don't already have them. One I KNOW you don't have because it's from a Phoenix brewing company that no longer exists. (Actually, I think they exist, but all the brewing is now done in Mexico.) <br /><br />But, do you already have a Red Dog beer cap with the red bulldog on it? If not, I'll include it. <br /><br />More importantly... the last time I was in 'Total Wine & More' I went to buy a bottle of Dixie beer (brewed in New Orleans) just to score the cap for you. But I noticed Dixie now uses just a plain gold cap with no printing on it.<br /><br />In 1983, I took a road trip with my friend Eric, driving from New York City to L.A. by way of the Eastern seaboard and the deep South. I wrote a long blog bit about that road trip <a href="http://stephentmccarthysstuffs.blogspot.com/2011/10/goblins-gators-and-things-that-go-who.html" rel="nofollow">HERE</a>. (Mainly because we got lost at night, on foot, in the Okefenokee Swamp and alligators were literally closing in on us.) <br /><br />While we were in the New Orleans area, we bought some Dixie beer. (That was at a time when regional beers could not be purchased all over the country because superstores like BevMo and Total Wine & More didn’t exist yet.) Because I’d never even heard of Dixie beer before that, I saved one of the caps. I’ve had it since that trip in ’83. If you don’t already have one of those caps, I’m going to send it to ya. The cap is gold and “DIXIE BEER” is printed on it in green. <br /><br />I don’t know when the Dixie Brewing Co. stopped printing their name on their caps, but if you don’t already have one of these, I’ll include it with the others I send. So please let me know, Bro.<br /><br />~ StephenStephen T. McCarthyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00249125637725791567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5822869016413307981.post-14086993810680955502013-07-13T14:38:48.264-04:002013-07-13T14:38:48.264-04:00Hey, it is the happiest place on earth, right? :-)...Hey, it is the happiest place on earth, right? :-)viewfromdownherehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06617837422220577661noreply@blogger.com