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Re: Confession #2
#86903 03/26/05 04:54 AM
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>>And Bridgman. Put the guns back. That dog is even scarier.

You're right. It's even creeping me out...


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Re: Confession #2
#86904 03/26/05 12:16 PM
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Yeah, it looked like a Wookie after spending a weekend with Nick Nolte!



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Re: Confession #2
#86905 03/26/05 05:30 PM
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Gun Story.

I was in my early 20s and working for a civil engineering company in Hamilton Ontario. We were building the 403 highway west from Hamilton up the escarpment to Ancaster.

We worked out of a very large "field office" near the golf course at the start of the job. It was on a residential street with houses on the opposite side of the road.

This "office" was made out of three prefabed buildings joined end to end. The first was an office, the second was for storage and contained an oil burning stove, the third was a lunchroom. As the story goes on make sure you remember the stove.

My boss was from Yugoslavia and was a total gun nut. One day he bought a hand gun to work and set up a target in the lunchroom. He then went into the front ofice and from a distance of about 35 feet dropped 5 or six shots right into the center of the target.

He then asked me if I had ever fired a gun, I said "no". Encouraged by my experience he loaded the gun and handed it to me. Squeeze the trigger slowly was all he said.

First two shots lodged in the back wall and the third shot blew the stack off the stove. Shots 4, 5 and 6 never happened.

Every time I think of this I start humming Eric Clapton's" I Shot The Sheriff", substituting "Stove" for "Sheriff".




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Re: Confession #2
#86906 03/26/05 06:50 PM
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Remind me not to rely on you in a firefight, will ya?

When I was In Nam, being a soundman in a motion picture crew and having a big ol' Nagra tape recorder slung over my shoulder, I was NOT issued an M-16 rifle. OH NO! I carried a Colt .45 on my hip (you can see it holstered below). Much as I liked it, every time I looked at it, all I could think was "If the enemy ever gets close enough that this thing is effective, I'm gonna be in DEEP TROUBLE!




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Re: Confession #2
#86907 03/26/05 06:55 PM
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Unless you are fighting stoves. lol


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#86908 03/26/05 07:41 PM
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Ford,

You don't realize how lucky you were having taken that stove out with the single shot. If you simply wound a stove, they get really annoyed and will turn and charge. Many hapless stove hunters have lost their lives because they didn't understand that!!

Re: Confession #2
#86909 03/27/05 01:27 AM
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Hate to say it guys but Jack's pic of a gun beat the hell out of all of you. Take a look at the Cannon behind him in the pic.

Re: Confession #2
#86910 03/27/05 01:33 AM
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In reply to:

Take a look at the Cannon behind him in the pic.


105mm Howitzer.


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Re: Confession #2
#86911 03/27/05 02:06 AM
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John, the aria is Ebben? Ne andro lontana from Alfredo Catalani's opera La Wally. There's a couple of recordings of the complete opera available on CD, but beyond that one aria you might be disappointed in much of the remaining two hours. Your Toronto library has the CD of the Diva soundtrack and also several CDs containing Ebben?, by far the most popular part of the opera. Besides the soundtrack, the #1 soprano CD set, with Renata Tebaldi singing it, looks like something worth taking a listen to.


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Re: Confession #2
#86912 03/27/05 02:36 AM
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>>105mm Howitzer.

Well, sure, but Mark and I bought our guns with our own money (lame excuse, huh ?)

>>John, the aria is Ebben? Ne andro lontana from Alfredo Catalani's opera La Wally.

Thanks, John !

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