shaxper
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Post by shaxper on Nov 22, 2016 21:22:10 GMT -5
Starting to get the pins and needles excitement/anticipation waiting on our Grand Dictator for Life of the Classic Comics Christmas to announce this year's topic for the Twelve Days of Christmas. It usually happens after Turkey Day, but I'm looking forward to something joyful to think abut this holiday season and the Twelve Days event always does the trick! -M Kurt has asked me to launch the section this weekend
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Nov 23, 2016 9:07:21 GMT -5
Funny ad for a moving company from Germany. (Not really political). I saw this one when listening to one of my playlists on youtube. An actual funny car insurance commercial.
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Post by brutalis on Nov 23, 2016 14:10:26 GMT -5
Browsing through Amazon (the ninth deadly sin?) and found this for pre-order: 1 of 2 volumesfor those who are interested!
Monsters Vol. 1: The Marvel Monsterbus by Stan Lee, Larry Lieber, & Jack Kirby Hardcover – May 16, 2017 by Stan Lee (Author), Larry Lieber (Author), & 1 more Hardcover
$89.53
From Groot to Fin Fang Foom, Marvel is proud to collect Stan Lee, Larry Lieber and Jack Kirby's monster masterworks in two astonishing Omnibus volumes! Stan "The Man" Lee and Jack "The King" Kirby are known the world over as two of the most influential creative powerhouses of the 20th century. Before they created Marvel's super heroes, they concocted a host of iconic monster menaces! As if driven by atomic power, Lee and Kirby-aided by scripter Larry Lieber-turned out page after page of action-packed classics, many hinting at the famous Marvel heroes and villains to come: Thorr the Unbelievable; a woolly, alien Hulk; the eight-foot-tall Magneto. These tales are the awe-inspiring crucible that created the Marvel Age of Comics!
COLLECTING: MATERIAL FROM STRANGE TALES (1951) 67-70, 72-86; JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY (1952) 51-70; WORLD OF FANTASY (1956) 15-19; STRANGE WORLDS (1958) 1, 3-5; TALES TO ASTONISH (1959) 1, 3-19; TALES OF SUSPENSE (1959) 2-19
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Post by Phil Maurice on Nov 23, 2016 17:22:53 GMT -5
A deer just wandered through our yard. Lovely and majestic, right? No. It was gravely wounded, gut-shot, presumably by some maladroit local hunter. Day ruined.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 23, 2016 17:29:29 GMT -5
A deer just wandered through our yard. Lovely and majestic, right? No. It was gravely wounded, gut-shot, presumably by some maladroit local hunter. Day ruined. How horrible to see that ... I'm so sorry that you get to see it. It would make me cry.
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Post by Phil Maurice on Nov 23, 2016 17:53:01 GMT -5
How horrible to see that ... I'm so sorry that you get to see it. It would make me cry. Thanks, Juggy. Let me also say that I have no moral objection to hunting as an element of our responsible stewardship of the environment. But THIS was not THAT.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Nov 23, 2016 18:55:19 GMT -5
A deer just wandered through our yard. Lovely and majestic, right? No. It was gravely wounded, gut-shot, presumably by some maladroit local hunter. Day ruined. For having cross state delivery jobs for the last 16 years I've only hit one deer and one turkey. The deer died. The turkey didn't so I had finish it. I hated it but would have felt worse letting it suffer. On the other hand they both taste so delicious. But I've never been able to bring myself to hunt. Thankfully my father in law does. Hoping to get some venison tomorrow when we travel there for the holidays.
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Post by Pharozonk on Nov 23, 2016 19:01:46 GMT -5
Starting to get the pins and needles excitement/anticipation waiting on our Grand Dictator for Life of the Classic Comics Christmas to announce this year's topic for the Twelve Days of Christmas. It usually happens after Turkey Day, but I'm looking forward to something joyful to think abut this holiday season and the Twelve Days event always does the trick! -M Kurt has asked me to launch the section this weekend
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Post by Phil Maurice on Nov 23, 2016 19:08:22 GMT -5
For having cross state delivery jobs for the last 16 years I've only hit one deer and one turkey. The deer died. The turkey didn't so I had finish it. I hated it but would have felt worse letting it suffer. On the other hand they both taste so delicious. But I've never been able to bring myself to hunt. Thankfully my father in law does. Hoping to get some venison tomorrow when we travel there for the holidays. I'm not a hunter either, being ludicrously over-sensitive regarding animals since I was a small child. Even if I had wanted to dispatch the deer, the few weapons I have would be insufficient to do the job humanely. Not to mention that I live in a sub-division peopled by quite a few little kids. Opening fire, even with the best of intentions, would be reckless and, hopefully, criminal.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Nov 23, 2016 19:13:48 GMT -5
For having cross state delivery jobs for the last 16 years I've only hit one deer and one turkey. The deer died. The turkey didn't so I had finish it. I hated it but would have felt worse letting it suffer. On the other hand they both taste so delicious. But I've never been able to bring myself to hunt. Thankfully my father in law does. Hoping to get some venison tomorrow when we travel there for the holidays. I'm not a hunter either, being ludicrously over-sensitive regarding animals since I was a small child. Even if I had wanted to dispatch the deer, the few weapons I have would be insufficient to do the job humanely. Not to mention that I live in a sub-division peopled by quite a few little kids. Opening fire, even with the best of intentions, would be reckless and, hopefully, criminal. Yeah in my case it was out on country roads. And if the deer hadn't died there wouldn't have been much for to do either than call the highway patrol. Plus I've only ever shot a gun once at a range so I'd been lucky to hit the broad side of a barn and not another person even if I had access to gun. I also group up with animal lovers and no hunters in the family. Plus growing up in a big city I never had to or knew people that did. Down here in the southern USA there's lots of hunters. So I've had venison, duck, goose, pheasant, quail, bison, ostrich and snake. I'm a terrible terrible hypocrite Phil.
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Post by Phil Maurice on Nov 23, 2016 19:29:10 GMT -5
I also group up with animal lovers and no hunters in the family. Plus growing up in a big city I never had to or knew people that did. Down here in the southern USA there's lots of hunters. So I've had venison, duck, goose, pheasant, quail, bison, ostrich and snake. I'm a terrible terrible hypocrite Phil. Not at all. I'm in North Georgia, a hunting mecca of sorts, descended from a long line of sport hunters. My best friend is a hunter, as are several of my in-laws. Apart from ostrich (never had the opportunity), I've enjoyed all of the meats you listed. When it's done in a sensible, responsible, reverent(?) fashion, hunting is a vital part of conservation.
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Post by The Captain on Nov 23, 2016 19:30:48 GMT -5
A deer just wandered through our yard. Lovely and majestic, right? No. It was gravely wounded, gut-shot, presumably by some maladroit local hunter. Day ruined. That sucks, Phil. We have a small herd of deer that live in the woods behind our housing plan, so I have seen a number of them in the treeline at the edge of my property, and they are just gorgeous. The buck is an eight-point, and there are at least two does; this year, there were a couple of fawns with the does most of the time. Don't get me wrong, I like to eat meat just as much as the next non-vegetarian/vegan (not that there is anything wrong with either of those choices; they're just not for me), but seeing something like that would really be depressing. Hunting isn't something I ever got into, although it is very big in my area as a recreational activity, so the most hunting I've ever done is trying to find the best deal on a package of steaks at the local grocery store.
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Post by Phil Maurice on Nov 23, 2016 19:54:46 GMT -5
That sucks, Phil. We have a small herd of deer that live in the woods behind our housing plan, so I have seen a number of them in the treeline at the edge of my property, and they are just gorgeous. The buck is an eight-point, and there are at least two does; this year, there were a couple of fawns with the does most of the time. How delightful! Though I'm in the sticks, my sub-division has such a dismaying level of noise-pollution, be it Harley revving, leaf blowing, kids shrieking, or family fist-fights that spill out into the street (not kidding) that wildlife sightings beyond the ubiquitous flattened possum are vanishingly rare. You're very fortunate to have such elegant (and uninjured) neighbors.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Nov 23, 2016 20:10:46 GMT -5
That sucks, Phil. We have a small herd of deer that live in the woods behind our housing plan, so I have seen a number of them in the treeline at the edge of my property, and they are just gorgeous. The buck is an eight-point, and there are at least two does; this year, there were a couple of fawns with the does most of the time. How delightful! Though I'm in the sticks, my sub-division has such a dismaying level of noise-pollution, be it Harley revving, leaf blowing, kids shrieking, or family fist-fights that spill out into the street (not kidding) that wildlife sightings beyond the ubiquitous flattened possum are vanishingly rare. You're very fortunate to have such elegant (and uninjured) neighbors. Outside of zoos I've seen 99% of the wildlife I've witnessed here. There was much wildlife, well animal wildlife in St. Louis. The two most memorable, one terrifying; tarantulas migrating across the highway (I even screamed inside the truck) and the other awesome; a real life cougar just yards from outside my truck as I was driving down dirt roads to a drilling rig.
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Post by Phil Maurice on Nov 23, 2016 20:34:05 GMT -5
Outside of zoos I've seen 99% of the wildlife I've witnessed here. There was much wildlife, well animal wildlife in St. Louis. The two most memorable, one terrifying; tarantulas migrating across the highway (I even screamed inside the truck) and the other awesome; a real life cougar just yards from outside my truck as I was driving down dirt roads to a drilling rig. Yikes! I would not have handled the spiders any better than you.
Back in my army days, we visited one of the fishing spots situated on Georgia's Fort Stewart, near Savannah. The cleverly named Pond #4 was a rectangular body of water roughly the size of a football field. It featured a finger of land that allowed one to walk to the center of the pond and cast a line. We walked out there one day and observed a bunch(?) of alligators swimming lazily about the pond. As we watched, they gradually made their way around and behind us, and almost too late we realized they meant to bask on that very finger of land which was our only means of escape. We booked it, screaming, and seconds after we reached safety, no fewer than a dozen disappointed gators were smiling in the spot we had just stood.
Gif related:
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