On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 9:52 AM, wrote:
> Mercy killings? Did they split up his gear?
>
Yeah, Ted, that's the kick in the ass: They didn't split up the dudes
gear--or even their lamps and batteries or Clif Bars.
--Ediger
Place:Scurry Old Fields around Snyder in west Texas
Time: '50's (1950's)
Long hours waiting in the "dog house" at tank batteries could get boring. My
dad made a game of catching flies in his hand. He would sweep his cupped hand
an inch or two above the subject and more often than not the fly
It is dissertations such as this that keep me on this list! Thanks for the
entertainment.
Sheryl
On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 2:59 PM, Rod Goke wrote:
> I don't know about those Red Ryder BB guns, but my old single shot, hand
> pump style pellet gun used to work great for shooting flies inside the
>
I am here in Brenham and just met the camp manager at Camp Happy Hollow,
and we discussed the Cookout.
If anybody wants to know the details, e-mail me privately.
As far as I can tell, he has no problem with cavers doing the same thing
we did last year.
He is the kind of old-timer that still does
texascavers Digest 10 Feb 2011 23:21:16 - Issue 1244
Topics (messages 17110 through 17123):
Re: Bear Grylls related
17110 by: Andy Gluesenkamp
17111 by: tbsamsel.verizon.net
17112 by: Tim Stich
17113 by: Fritz Holt
17114 by: Mark Minton
17115 b
More importantly he did it exactly that way in Cormack McCarthy's book "No
country for old men".
McCarthy has written some excellent novels about the West. "Blood meridian",
"All the pretty horses", and even the recent "The road", the last two made into
movies.
Don's iPhone.
On Feb 10, 2011,
A variation of this was also one of the novel ways Anton Chigurh (played by
Javier Bardem) utilized to dispatch people in the excellent Coen Brothers Oscar
winning movie, "No Country For Old Men".
Remember the tank with the hose attachment we used to also open doors with?
Great movie and, wo
For armchair cavers:
Satori, by Trevanian (nee: Rodney William Whitaker), the prequel to Shibumi, is
due out March 7.
Sadly, Mr. Whitaker passed away Dec. 14, 2005. A posthumous release, this is
likely this is the last of his novels. Check Amazon.com for the synopsis of the
book. It appears no
Some folks report that their emails to Elida have gotten bounced. Please use
this email. If you get bounced, please let me know and I'll forward your
request.
Thanks,
Geary
Geary M. Schindel, P.G.
Chief Technical Officer
EDWARDS AQUIFER
A U T H O R I T Y
1615 N. ST. MARY'S
Folks,
Edwards Aquifer Authority is pleased to announce that Dr. John Mylroie,
Professor of Geosciences at Mississippi State University, will be the
Authority's next Distinguished Lecturer. The lecture will be held on
Wednesday, April 13 at Southwest Research Institute from 9AM to 4 PM. The
I got good enough with my Benjamin to shoot wasps off the trough. They would
land on the water for a drink, and I'd snipe them from the porch deck chair.
The minnows learned a meal was coming and would wait under the wasp.
Don's iPhone.
On Feb 10, 2011, at 2:59 PM, Rod Goke wrote:
> I don't
I don't know about those Red Ryder BB guns, but my old single shot, hand pump
style pellet gun used to work great for shooting flies inside the house. It
worked much better than a fly swatter. Fly swatters have two drawbacks. One is
that flies quickly learn to avoid them. In many cases, it's har
I worked at a Ford dealership in the fifty's and remember when Ford came out
with the 1957 hardtop convertible. I remember them being troublesome! They
weren't the first. I think there were a few in the 30's. I've got a '78
International Traveler convertible - the whole top unbolted. I rigged a
The first convertible hardtop that I know of was a 1957 or 58 Ford Fairlane
500. They are highly collectible today.
Fritz
-Original Message-
From: Mark Minton [mailto:mmin...@caver.net]
Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2011 1:50 PM
To: texascavers@texascavers.com
Subject: [Texascavers] Re:
At 01:44 PM 2/10/2011, Tim Stich wrote:
I see they have a folding sheath knife. Uh, kind of defeats the idea
of a knife that is rigid that you keep in a sheath. Why not just
call it a lock blade? Du.
I want my convertible hard top.
Hey, there have been hard-top convertibles for d
So did Ted Williams.
F.
From: tbsam...@verizon.net [mailto:tbsam...@verizon.net]
Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2011 12:36 PM
To: Fritz Holt
Cc: dlocklea...@gmail.com; texascavers@texascavers.com;
mandy.h...@ers.state.tx.us; jennyh...@anthonytravel.com
Subject: Re:
I see they have a folding sheath knife. Uh, kind of defeats the idea of a
knife that is rigid that you keep in a sheath. Why not just call it a lock
blade? Du.
I want my convertible hard top.
On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 10:25 AM, Fritz Holt wrote:
> WATCH OUT! My daughters and I own Red Ryd
And Sir Edmund Hillary used to shill for Sears.
TFeb 10, 2011 11:26:25 AM, fh...@townandcountryins.com wrote:
WATCH OUT! My daughters and I own Red Ryder BB guns. We shoot holes in cans, not birds or other creatures.
I am a Bee Gee fan. They make good music.
Fritz
From: tbsam...@veriz
Someone needs to.
You'll shoot your eye out.
Fritz Holt wrote:
>WATCH OUT! My daughters and I own Red Ryder BB guns. We shoot holes in cans,
>not
>birds or other creatures.
>I am a Bee Gee fan. They make good music.
>
>Fritz
texascavers Digest 10 Feb 2011 17:26:07 - Issue 1243
Topics (messages 17094 through 17109):
Re: Custom Duo inserts
17094 by: David Ochel
The Underground Moon
17095 by: Mark Minton
Re: Sten Charger
17096 by: Mark Minton
17098 by: Mark Minton
slide show
You'll shoot your eye out.
Fritz Holt wrote:
>WATCH OUT! My daughters and I own Red Ryder BB guns. We shoot holes in cans,
>not birds or other creatures.
>I am a Bee Gee fan. They make good music.
>
>Fritz
>
>
>From: tbsam...@verizon.net [mailto:tbsam...@verizon.
WATCH OUT! My daughters and I own Red Ryder BB guns. We shoot holes in cans,
not birds or other creatures.
I am a Bee Gee fan. They make good music.
Fritz
From: tbsam...@verizon.net [mailto:tbsam...@verizon.net]
Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2011 11:55 PM
To: dlo
Mercy killings? Did they split up his gear?
TFeb 8, 2011 05:50:04 PM, jpbrook...@sbcglobal.net wrote:
"Not a dive trip"? Huh? Nullabor was very much a cave diving trip/expedition. They used large underwater sleds (aka big diver propulsion vehicles) to haul massive amounts of tanks over lon
I slightly revised my less than favorable review of the movie Sanctum that
I posted here earlier this week and posted it on TAG-Net (Tennessee,
Alabama, and Georgia) yesterday. Here's are the two responses from TAG-Net this
morning:
1) Sanctimonius
By: David Drake (Falkville, Alabama)
Fall factors are by definition dynamic shock loads. The
tests on cows tails and slings that I posted were definitely done on
dynamic falls, not static pulls.
Mark Minton
At 12:45 PM 2/7/2011, James McLane wrote:
Material tests on rope, cord, webbing and even tensile tests on
metal ar
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