GoofyIsAsGoofyDoes
If it’s still here tomorrow… I may ignore it again
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Think that’s pretty true for nearly everyone.
Lord knows that everything wrong with me can be traced back to being a young’en.
He’s particularly useful on that level.Sure! He's already done all
the research.
Up until I start bombarding him with useless side-trips and ridiculous roadside attractions.
It’s generally not a good idea to be posting up a map of where you’re thinkin’ about headin’ in any spot where I can get a look at it…
U-995 at the Laboe Naval Memorial near Kiel, Germany
Last one left.
Well, since you’ve done gone and made the mistake of posting up a map of where you’re thinkin’ about headin’ and put it in a spot where I can get a look at it…
When you roll through Bay City, Michigan, there’s the USS Edson (a 1958 US Destroyer) open at the Saginaw Valley Naval Ship Museum
And in Buffalo, NY, there’s the Buffalo-Erie County Naval & Military Park where you’ll come across another Gato-class sub, a WWII US Destroyer (with a sad and interesting history behind its name) and an early Guided-Missile Cruiser.
And that’s just the ships I know of along the way…
I’m sure that’s proof of yet another major flaw in my character…
More similar to your observations on why the USN was upset about the capturing of the U-505…
Once Enigma was broken, in short order they were able to basically locate every sub that was on patrol at that time. If they acted on that tantalizing intelligence too quickly, precisely or thoroughly, then the Germans would have known something was up.
Don’t think so, but I do believe it is available on Amazon Prime if you happen to be a member of that club. We don’t have HBO either (as I refuse to pay extra for it), so I didn’t get to see the series until several years after Hanks and company made it. I got my family to get together and buy me a set of the DVDs as a present instead. I still go back and re-watch them regularly.No.
We don't have HBO.
Hmmm...
I wonder if it's on Netflix now?
Each chapter was written by different folks and done by different directors while the actors remained the same throughout. They did a chapter for the establishment of the space race and then one for pretty much all the Apollo missions focusing on a different aspect of history or the program or a point of view for each one. One chapter shows how media began to change over time, one followed how the program affected the wives and families; another looked at some of what it took to turn very driven test pilots into scientists.
There’s an excellent chapter on the aftermath of Apollo-1 and of course the one about the LEM that I was on about (one of my favs to watch). Some are sobering, some are more fun depending on the focus and the writing. My favorite is actually the one about Apollo-12 titled “Is That All There is?” Imagine how different it was for the second ship to land on the moon (especially in a country that only cares about being first). I mean, who remembers them (other than me and a few other loons). That one is just absolutely fun to watch.
I was unaware of that bit of history until somewhat recently as well.
It’s exactly the kind of thing that gets buried and overlooked.
I’m glad someone took the time to tell the story.
I’m sure that’s true for a whole lot of cities if not most of them, but there are lots of options here.
Of course, I’m fairly easy to please so there may well be some connoisseurs of the various cuisines that will vigorously disagree with my assessments.
Now then…
It must be time to actually comment on your current chapter
(and after that I believe there’s an inbox-conversation that needs attention as well)
Well, then I’ll offer some quick replies.
How dirty they’ll be depends on the set ups encountered…
Of course always remembering that this is a “family board”.
Sounds like a description of my life…
We all have our priorities.
An overt act of politeness in an attempt to not have her purposely drive you off a cliff?
Naaaaa, I’m good…
You know very well that I’ll stop at places that most others find supremely uninteresting.
Think I’ll just sit here in my glass house and enjoy the photos.
Besides, I like pretty gardens and natural areas too.
So the old vinegar vs honey idiom actually works, then
I can see the appeal
And I do believe I’ll agree with that observation as well
Well, that stinks…
What this situation called for was the same armor that allowed you to survive the perilous and fiendish IASW encounter.
(And I’d have to re-suggest a little AC/DC as the primary insulator in this instance as well)
And we appreciate the effort.
Depends…
What was the background music like at this point in the film?
Or trying to figure out if you worked for any kind of government agency…
I heard that it went more like this…
There they were; three of the biggest sharks you’d ever seen come down the pike.
They were covered with muscles…
One says: "Hey, shrimp, don't you come trollin' around here."
What a bunch of crabs…
They were steamed…
You could see the anchor…
in their eyes.
On porpoise, you decide to bait them.
You reel off a snapper of a comeback…
"Abalone, you're just bein' shelfish."
Well, now you knew there was going to be trouble.
So did the grounds keeper as he was already on the phone to the cods.
The biggest one hits you with a sucker punch…
You fluidly land him with a left hook.
He eels over.
It’s was a fluke, but there he was
lying on the deck flat as a mackerel
Kelpless…
On seeing this, the other two sucked air like a couple of blow fish…
The tide had turned and after a minnow or two,
they begin to fathom that they were in the deep end and way over their heads, here.
Under a lot of pressure, they turned tail and made a run back up stream.
Meanwhile, the big kahuna was floundering around like a drunken sailor.
Nursing a terrible haddock from the blow that hit him like a tsunami.
You call out to the grounds keeper:
“Forget the cods, this guy's gonna need a sturgeon."
You had to yell pretty loud too ‘cause he was hard of herring.
Well, at this point everyone left standing decided they need a breaker…
So you headed over to the local Oyster Bar.
It was a real dive…
But you knew the owner, Gil.
He used to play for the Dolphins
Having a whale of a time laughing at the poor sucker back on the beach,
everyone bellied up to the sand bar
Gill, poured your usual…
Rusty snail, hold the grunion
Shaken not stirred
With a peanut butter and jellyfish sandwich on the side
Heavy on the mako
You slipped him a fin for his trouble.
You were feeling good about now…
So you even dropped a sand dollar in the box for Jerry's squids
For the halibut…
(with much respect offered to Doctor Demento)
Not surprising…
Lot of folks down this way need two syllables just to pronounce a single letter of the alphabet.
N = “ee – in”
R = “are – ra”
S = “a –yes”
Well there ya’ go…
Couldn’t be any plainer than an Amish man on his day off…
(with much respect offered to “Mayor Shinn”)
Seems like you’ve said plenty.
Moving quickly through my legal “home” state, I see.Today's map:
You even stopped in the capitol city where I was born.
Of course, we left by the time I was two, so I don’t much count it as home.
Although…
If I’d have known you were traveling through Huntington,
I’d have suggested a short detour to “Hillbilly Hotdogs” for a spot of lunch.
And…
A drive along US-60 out of Charleston with a stop at Hawk’s Nest might have been entertaining.
(remember… don’t show me maps.)
Nice tag…
Somehow what I remember was borscht, which isn’t even German, but probably stuck in my head since I thought it looked awful (these days I would try it but as a kid I remember thinking my mom was nuts for eating it lol)
D'oh!
