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From: Rune Allnor on 19 Apr 2010 15:14 On 19 apr, 02:16, Rick Lyons <R.Lyons@_BOGUS_ieee.org> wrote: > >Lena picked up my .22 Winchester Model 190 rifle cold, and fired a > >pattern of ten shots you could cover with a quarter. What a lady! > > Yes, I agree, and Dale Dalrymple's "pattern" was also about > the size of a quarter. The best shooting I ever did, was during the military service. Thursday was pay-day, so everybody went out to get soaked. Some of my room-mates got seriously soaked, to the extent that somebody believed there were other, more serious chemicals involved than mere alcohol. It was not, but one of the guys had a seriously low tolerance for alcohol. A pint of beer and he was out. He would have had three or four pints that night. At one point we found him sleeping with a headset from the stereo at full volume, a data program playing in the cassette deck. Not surprisingly, the Officer Of The Watch heard strange rumours from some of the guys who had partied with us, and inspected our room in the middle of the night. The next day, Friday, the first item on the schedule was a shooting contest. Assault rifles modified to .22 cal on an indoor 50-m range. During my worst hangover to date, I was top ranking - and I *did* shoot way better than I ever did before or after - when the MPs raided us, to try and find out exactly what had been going on the night before. They did find out - nothing illegal or out of the ordinary had happened - but we never got to finish that shooting contest. Oh well. Rune
From: Rick Lyons on 19 Apr 2010 20:32 On Sun, 18 Apr 2010 17:37:08 -0700 (PDT), brent <bulegoge(a)columbus.rr.com> wrote: >On Apr 18, 7:32�pm, Rick Lyons <R.Lyons@_BOGUS_ieee.org> wrote: > >> >> A compliment, definitely! �"Penultimate", what a great >> word. �Boy oh boy, am I glad I wore a clean shirt >> the day that photo was taken. >> > >Penultimate is my favorite word. > > It actually means : second to last. > > So while calling you the penultimate cool guy sounds great, it >actually is not so great. Ha ha. Well you "got" me on that one. I'll remember that definition. >> >> >> � "I know what you're thinking. "Did he fire six shots or >> >> � �only five?" Well, to tell you the truth, in all this >> >> � �excitement I kind of lost track myself. But being as >> >> � �this is a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the >> >> � �world, and would blow your head clean off, you've got >> >> � �to ask yourself one question: Do I feel lucky? Well, >> >> � �do ya, PUNK?" >> >> Brent, do you know from where the above quote came? >> If you do, then I have a another quote for you >> to consider. >> > >I know it is a Dirty Harry quote, but I don't recall seeing it myself. >But Everyone likes good Clint Eastwood quotes, so fire away. Oh shoot. If you didn't see "Dirty harry" then that quote will have little meaning. You should consider renting the movie sometime. You won't be sorry. Well, my other quote is NOT from a Clint Eastwood movie. Here's the other quote: "You don't seem to want to accept the fact you're dealing with an expert in guerrilla warfare, with a man who's the best, with guns, with knives, with his bare hands. A man who's been trained to ignore pain, ignore weather, to live off the land, to eat things that would make a billy goat puke. Overseas his job was to dispose of enemy personnel. To kill! Period! Win by attrition." >(BTW - In Clint Eastwood's latest movie "Gran Torino" there is a >scene where he gets shot and the police cars are from Highland Park, >MI [ sort of a city encapsulated in Detroit]. I was born in Highland >Park, MI and I have the birth certificate to prove it!) I haven't seen that movie. Was it worthwhile? (I have a daughter who lives in Royal Oak. I wonder if Royal Oak is near Highland Park. >> >I just took my wife to the shooting range. She was tearing it up in >> >there. >> >> Ah ha. You're in the same situation as Vladimir. >> I haven't yet decided whether it's a good thing or a bad >> thing to have your wife be an expert shot with a handgun. >> >> Brent, your posts have tickled me. �I now declare that I officially >> owe you a bottle of the finest Czechoslovakian pilsner beer. >> >And I still owe you for getting me up to speed in DSP, although I am >not in the same category as the posters here . > >> Pilsner beer did NOT originate in Germany. �Pilsner beer, >> as far as I've read, originated in Pilzen Czechoslovakia. >> > >> The original Budweizer was a Czech lager beer, **NOT** that >> rice-based slop sold in America. �(I can't bad-mouth >> the American Anheuser-Busch Company's Budweizer too much. � >> They were forced to start using rice in their beer during >> the grain shortage of World war II.) >> >> I happen to have a souvenir bottle, empty of course, of the >> original Czech Budweiser shown at: >> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Budvar_UK.JPG >> (When I die, sadly, that souvenir bottle will be thrown >> in the trash.) > >Cool. Sadly, if you had a Billy Beer can , it probably would not be >thrown in the trash. If you know what Billy Beer is, then you're revealing your age Brent. See Ya', [-Rick-]
From: Heinrich Wolf on 20 Apr 2010 16:06 Rick Lyons <R.Lyons@_BOGUS_ieee.org> writes: > Brent, your posts have tickled me. I now declare that I officially > owe you a bottle of the finest Czechoslovakian pilsner beer. > > Pilsner beer did NOT originate in Germany. Pilsner beer, > as far as I've read, originated in Pilzen Czechoslovakia. Rick, you have taught lots of people DSP and I grew up only about 100km from Pilsen: so allow me some notes on European history. Since medival times the kings of Bohemia have been prince-electors of the Holly Roman Empire which was the German Reich, except that nationalism was not yet invented in those days. (See e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince-elector ) The Czech aristocrates called German-speaking craftsmen and merchants into their country, were they settled especially in the towns, to develop the industries. Thus Pilsen, Budweis, and even Prag (the capital) had mostly German speaking citizens for a long time. Until 1919 Bohemia has been a part of Austria which again has been part (and head) of the German Reich and German Confederation until 1866. In 1938, when the Sudetenland, the mostly German speaking part of Czechoslovakia, came to Germany, Pilsen stayed in the Czech state, a few kilometers from the new border, while Budweis came to Germany. Let me add that my family has its roots on both sides of the modern border between Bavaria and the Czech Republik; a great-grand-mother of mine was a Czerny and a distant relative to the Czech composer of that name ... > The original Budweizer was a Czech lager beer, **NOT** that ^^^^^ A German word again meaning here "store" or ``storeable''. I.e. a beer that was filtered/cleaned especialy well such that it could be stored for a while w/o getting a bad taste. This was something special still even in the thirties --- my ancestors ran a village brewery. > rice-based slop sold in America. (I can't bad-mouth -- hw
From: Jerry Avins on 20 Apr 2010 18:38 On 4/20/2010 4:06 PM, Heinrich Wolf wrote: ... > In 1938, when the Sudetenland, the mostly German speaking part of > Czechoslovakia, came to Germany, Pilsen stayed in the Czech state, a > few kilometers from the new border, while Budweis came to Germany. Thank you for the interesting history. When visiting Berlin on business, I has some (German) Budweiser in a Kneipe I had been brought to one evening. I pronounced it far superior to its US counterpart and was told by several people there that the Czech Budweiser was even better. With Budweis part of (then)* East Germany, how is that? ... Jerry ________________________ * But not for long. The Berlin wall was coming down. Our colleagues at Seimens gave us hammers and chisels. We came home with souvenir chunks. -- "It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are 20 gods, or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg." Thomas Jefferson to the Virginia House of Delegates in 1776. ���������������������������������������������������������������������
From: brent on 20 Apr 2010 20:53
On Apr 19, 8:32 pm, Rick Lyons <R.Lyons@_BOGUS_ieee.org> wrote: > On Sun, 18 Apr 2010 17:37:08 -0700 (PDT), brent > > > Oh shoot. If you didn't see "Dirty harry" then that > quote will have little meaning. You should consider > renting the movie sometime. You won't be sorry. > > Well, my other quote is NOT from a Clint Eastwood movie. > Here's the other quote: > > "You don't seem to want to accept the fact you're > dealing with an expert in guerrilla warfare, with > a man who's the best, with guns, with knives, with > his bare hands. A man who's been trained to ignore > pain, ignore weather, to live off the land, to eat > things that would make a billy goat puke. Overseas > his job was to dispose of enemy personnel. > To kill! Period! Win by attrition." > That has gotta be Rambo. But I do not recall the scene. But somehow I am starting to sense these quotes are being directed towards me - haha > >(BTW - In Clint Eastwood's latest movie "Gran Torino" there is a > >scene where he gets shot and the police cars are from Highland Park, > >MI [ sort of a city encapsulated in Detroit]. I was born in Highland > >Park, MI and I have the birth certificate to prove it!) > > I haven't seen that movie. Was it worthwhile? > (I have a daughter who lives in Royal Oak. I wonder > if Royal Oak is near Highland Park. > > Royal Oak is very close. My dad spent most of the spent part of his youth in Royal Oak. > > >> >I just took my wife to the shooting range. She was tearing it up in > >> >there. > > >> Ah ha. You're in the same situation as Vladimir. > >> I haven't yet decided whether it's a good thing or a bad > >> thing to have your wife be an expert shot with a handgun. > > >> Brent, your posts have tickled me. I now declare that I officially > >> owe you a bottle of the finest Czechoslovakian pilsner beer. > > >And I still owe you for getting me up to speed in DSP, although I am > >not in the same category as the posters here . > > >> Pilsner beer did NOT originate in Germany. Pilsner beer, > >> as far as I've read, originated in Pilzen Czechoslovakia. > > >> The original Budweizer was a Czech lager beer, **NOT** that > >> rice-based slop sold in America. (I can't bad-mouth > >> the American Anheuser-Busch Company's Budweizer too much. > >> They were forced to start using rice in their beer during > >> the grain shortage of World war II.) > > >> I happen to have a souvenir bottle, empty of course, of the > >> original Czech Budweiser shown at: > > >>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Budvar_UK.JPG > >> (When I die, sadly, that souvenir bottle will be thrown > >> in the trash.) > > >Cool. Sadly, if you had a Billy Beer can , it probably would not be > >thrown in the trash. > > If you know what Billy Beer is, then you're revealing > your age Brent. > > See Ya', > [-Rick-] |