Thought for the Day

Discussion in 'The Good Life' started by gorgo2, Aug 13, 2016.

  1. RetLEO-07

    RetLEO-07 likes his penguin deep fried, with pink sparkles

    Casey to his barber prior to getting a shave:
    "Don't cut my throat, I may want to do it later myself."
     
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  2. wchnu

    wchnu Duck Season!

    Don't forget, incoming fire has the right of way."

    "You can say 'stop' or 'alto' or use any other word you think will work but I've found that a large bore muzzle pointed at someone's head is pretty much the universal language."

    A couple of my favorites from Clint Smith.
     
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  3. Screwtape

    Screwtape A Shaving Butterfly

    Ignoring the politics completely, regardless of which side of what issue they were arguing, gentlemen in the English-speaking world from the 17th to early 20th century really knew how to give an memorable oration. In many cases, completely off the cuff too. And often for hours at a time. Impressive talent.
     
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  4. wchnu

    wchnu Duck Season!

    Now they just jaw back and forth like they are on the playground.
     
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  5. RyX

    RyX DoH!

    Had lunch with dad today after dropping mom's car at the tune up shop.
    Fortune cookie from lunch.
    Fortune 04202017.gif
     
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  6. RetLEO-07

    RetLEO-07 likes his penguin deep fried, with pink sparkles

    :happy088:
     
  7. RetLEO-07

    RetLEO-07 likes his penguin deep fried, with pink sparkles

    He used to be the Head Instructor at Gunsite Ranch wasn't he? I went there for Basic Pistol in '82.
     
  8. RetLEO-07

    RetLEO-07 likes his penguin deep fried, with pink sparkles

    +1
     
  9. RetLEO-07

    RetLEO-07 likes his penguin deep fried, with pink sparkles

    "Throw out your conceited opinions, for it is impossible for a person to begin to learn what he thinks he already knows."- Epictetus, Discourses, 2.17.1
     
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  10. wchnu

    wchnu Duck Season!

    I think he owned the joint. Could be wrong though.
     
  11. Screwtape

    Screwtape A Shaving Butterfly

    Gunsite originally belonged to Jeff Cooper, didn't it? Did Clint Smith take it over after the Colonel died?
     
  12. wchnu

    wchnu Duck Season!

    Clint smith is Thunder Ranch not Gunsite.
    I mixed up the two. I do not know if he taught at Gunsite.
     
  13. RetLEO-07

    RetLEO-07 likes his penguin deep fried, with pink sparkles

    Yeah, he was Head Instructor when I was there in '82.
     
  14. Paul Turner

    Paul Turner outside the quote(s) now

    Billy Martin and any umpire were great at doing that-but on the baseball diamond.
     
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  15. wchnu

    wchnu Duck Season!

    Awesome. I have never done anything like that!
     
  16. RyX

    RyX DoH!

    Acknowledge, Accept & Move on. Very Stoic.
     
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  17. '65 G-Slim

    '65 G-Slim Well-Known Member

    "I'm gonna have to fight traffic when I get off at 6 o'clock. So what? I finally get to sleep in the next two days."

    Me
     
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  18. RyX

    RyX DoH!

    Better Austin than Atlanta.
     
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  19. RetLEO-07

    RetLEO-07 likes his penguin deep fried, with pink sparkles

    Well, at that time I had four yrs. on the Job and we at that time were only qualifying once a year. So I spent my own money and went out to Arizona. Class was only 15 people. There were 7 cops; two from San Antonio PD, two from some timber company that had police powers on it's property and two agents from the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. The other eight were doctors or pharmacists. I brought my duty gun(S&W Model 15 .38) and duty rig. The two San Antonio cops brought their .41 City wheelguns. Everybody else had .45's. Col. Cooper taught all the classroom plus he did come out to the range too. It was a great week!
     
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  20. RetLEO-07

    RetLEO-07 likes his penguin deep fried, with pink sparkles

    Some days you eat the bear...Some days the bear eats you.
     

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