Posts made by BigDub

A different sort of thing for me.....very vintage, and cropped because it was part of a larger irrelevant area.

@Niner said in A little humour:

This joke stream...and judging by what happened at the old lamented site......will become probably the most posted string on this new board. And like the old site, a lot of guys make up jokes rather than steal them from someplace else. Some...without my pointing them out.... are really awful. This cries out for an adjustment to the "reputation" arrow that always points up. Really bad jokes should run the risk of getting a reputation vote that goes down.

I don’t always make them up. Sometimes I repeat bad ones, too.

@Niner said in A little humour:

Now this is pretty corny...for a corn soloist.

But it's from a hundred years ago. https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045433/1919-08-11/ed-1/seq-4/

Obviously one must play by ear, all the time. If, there was music written for it, those players from North Dakota, or Carolina would use treble clef, and of course, those in South Dakota and Carolina, bass clef, naturally.

Once again,I think it must be said. Common sense is not.
It should unofficially be declared an oxymoron.
I find very few people who possess common sense.
It seems to be going away with so many instructions, help lines, YouTube DIY videos, and on and on.
When I was a boy, the men could almost all build their own homes. Probably 85% of them.
Now maybe 10% of men could build their own home. And none of those men I was first referring to.......they are way too old now!

Ole ( the Minnesota Norwegian ) would sometimes need to have his wife Lena help him fix the car.
"Lena, I need to have you look at the blinkers and tell me if they vurk, ok?"
"Okay"
"Yust stand beck dere and tell me ven I try it. Ready?"
"Yah, I’m ready"
"Here, ve go, now tell me if the left one vorks"
"Yah-no-yah-no-yah-no............."

@Dr-Mark said in Marching Season and Triple Super C:

Hi BigDub,
But it's true, life itself reminds me daily that there is a big gap between educated and smart. I wish I had a quarter for every degreed person I've met that couldn't pour piss out of boot with the instructions on the heel. I have a feeling I'm not the only one that has experienced this.

I have to agree about that. My Dad would consistently make mincemeat out of highly “educated” people. He did not graduate from High School, went straight into WWll at 17, but he had Brooklyn Street smarts and grew up a motherless boy since the age of 6. I don’t come across many people who have more common sense than my Dad had.

@Dr-Mark said in Marching Season and Triple Super C:

Hi BigDub,
While its true, I am educated, I never said I was intl......intelge…....smart.

Honest, Dr Mark, I didn’t aim that at you one bit. I was just caught up in the flow of nonsense and wanted to add to it. Heh. Heh.

I am thinking of writing a book called “Gullible's Travels”.
I think I have sufficient material now.
It would be the sequel to “The Blonde's Book of Common Sense”

Here is one from the Northwest Coast of California. Photo provided by my son in law.. Redwood National Park, I believe. His goal is to visit every national park he possibly can.

@moshe said in countries / states represented here?:

@BigDub said in countries / states represented here?:

@moshe said in countries / states represented here?:

@BigDub said in countries / states represented here?:

@moshe said in countries / states represented here?:

30 years ago I was interested in Ham radio.
I obtained my Advanced Class license, but never had the money to buy a radio "rig".

Anyway,
a tradition in ham radio was to obtain confirmation of contacts
with as many states and countries a possible.

How many states and countries are represented here ?

I born in California, Missouri.
Raised in Grandview, Missouri, a suburb south of Kansas City.
Moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota,
then Dallas, Texas,
then Bowling Green, Ohio.
Then I moved to Louisville, Kentucky, in 1992 to take a job in the engineering department of a TV station.

I have lived in Kentucky longer than in any other place in my life,
but I will never feel at home here.
I often joke that I am not a low-class Kentuckian,
because I am a high-class Missourian with culture and sophistication, as Harry Truman was famous for.

One woman once complained to Mrs. Truman,
"Your husband is always saying "manure"".
Mrs. Truman replied,
"It took me 30 years to get him to use that word".

Then there was the time that a reporter criticized the concert of Truman's daughter.
Truman threatened to whip his...

See, we Missourians have class...

Morris / moshe

I think we have folks from the Netherlands, Austria, Australia, France, Germany, Norway, Sweden, Nigeria, Canada? I am not 100% certain of all of these.
Me? Born in Norwegian Lutheran Hospital, Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, parents both Norwegian American. Now I live in Hillsborough, NJ.

You would have felt right at home in Minneapolis.
Full of Swedes and Finns and other Scandanavians.
An old woman taught me how to do the "skoni" accent,
which she always laughed at.
The accent of stereotypical Swedes as seen in movies.

As a person of German Baptist ancestry, I too found it amusing.

Morris / moshe

Hold on here, a minute. I see no mention of Norwegians. Just saying.

I wasn't born yesterday.

I did a Google search.

There is no such place as North Weegia...

Morris / moshe

"you can tell if a man is from Norway, when his head cannot fit through the doorway"
that has always been my guide.
There are two kinds of people in this wide big world.
Norwegians, and those who pine away wishing they were.

@barliman2001 said in A little humour:

@BigDub I met that guy when he came home from the African safari - we met at an airport whie we were waiting for our connections. He told me that apart from seeing that elephant,he had a close encounter with a lion that entered his tent. He took off at speed, not wanting to be a lion's breakfast. And so they ran - the guy in front, the lion behind. Until the guy could not run any more. He just stood there and faced the lion, "and suddenly, the lion slipped and fell down". - "And you just stood there? Wow! I would have sh*it my pants." - "Well, what do you think the lion slipped on?"

Ooooooooh, no

@SSmith1226 said in Practice Drones:

@BigDub
And I thought my band had the corner on that market.

Actually, we had a great night. Good attendance by the band, fairly good crowd who truly enjoy our band.
We seemed to be really together and making good music, too.

@moshe said in countries / states represented here?:

@BigDub said in countries / states represented here?:

@moshe said in countries / states represented here?:

30 years ago I was interested in Ham radio.
I obtained my Advanced Class license, but never had the money to buy a radio "rig".

Anyway,
a tradition in ham radio was to obtain confirmation of contacts
with as many states and countries a possible.

How many states and countries are represented here ?

I born in California, Missouri.
Raised in Grandview, Missouri, a suburb south of Kansas City.
Moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota,
then Dallas, Texas,
then Bowling Green, Ohio.
Then I moved to Louisville, Kentucky, in 1992 to take a job in the engineering department of a TV station.

I have lived in Kentucky longer than in any other place in my life,
but I will never feel at home here.
I often joke that I am not a low-class Kentuckian,
because I am a high-class Missourian with culture and sophistication, as Harry Truman was famous for.

One woman once complained to Mrs. Truman,
"Your husband is always saying "manure"".
Mrs. Truman replied,
"It took me 30 years to get him to use that word".

Then there was the time that a reporter criticized the concert of Truman's daughter.
Truman threatened to whip his...

See, we Missourians have class...

Morris / moshe

I think we have folks from the Netherlands, Austria, Australia, France, Germany, Norway, Sweden, Nigeria, Canada? I am not 100% certain of all of these.
Me? Born in Norwegian Lutheran Hospital, Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, parents both Norwegian American. Now I live in Hillsborough, NJ.

You would have felt right at home in Minneapolis.
Full of Swedes and Finns and other Scandanavians.
An old woman taught me how to do the "skoni" accent,
which she always laughed at.
The accent of stereotypical Swedes as seen in movies.

As a person of German Baptist ancestry, I too found it amusing.

Morris / moshe

Hold on here, a minute. I see no mention of Norwegians. Just saying.

@SSmith1226 said in Practice Drones:

@BigDub
It looks like you have the audience marching in formation.

To the exits?

@moshe said in countries / states represented here?:

30 years ago I was interested in Ham radio.
I obtained my Advanced Class license, but never had the money to buy a radio "rig".

Anyway,
a tradition in ham radio was to obtain confirmation of contacts
with as many states and countries a possible.

How many states and countries are represented here ?

I born in California, Missouri.
Raised in Grandview, Missouri, a suburb south of Kansas City.
Moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota,
then Dallas, Texas,
then Bowling Green, Ohio.
Then I moved to Louisville, Kentucky, in 1992 to take a job in the engineering department of a TV station.

I have lived in Kentucky longer than in any other place in my life,
but I will never feel at home here.
I often joke that I am not a low-class Kentuckian,
because I am a high-class Missourian with culture and sophistication, as Harry Truman was famous for.

One woman once complained to Mrs. Truman,
"Your husband is always saying "manure"".
Mrs. Truman replied,
"It took me 30 years to get him to use that word".

Then there was the time that a reporter criticized the concert of Truman's daughter.
Truman threatened to whip his...

See, we Missourians have class...

Morris / moshe

I think we have folks from the Netherlands, Austria, Australia, France, Germany, Norway, Sweden, Nigeria, Canada? I am not 100% certain of all of these.
Me? Born in Norwegian Lutheran Hospital, Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, parents both Norwegian American. Now I live in Hillsborough, NJ.

@moshe said in A little humour:

@BigDub said in A little humour:

@moshe
A friend of mine recently went on a fantastic African safari vacation. One morning Bob was able to get up before everyone else and get a great shot ( photo. PHOTO ) of a bull elephant while still in his pajamas.
How that elephant fit into his pajamas I'll never figure out!

Proof that vaudeville and the Marx Brothers will never die !

"Who are ya gonna believe? Me, or your lying eyes?"

Morris / moshe

Exactly!

@moshe
A friend of mine recently went on a fantastic African safari vacation. One morning Bob was able to get up before everyone else and get a great shot ( photo. PHOTO ) of a bull elephant while still in his pajamas.
How that elephant fit into his pajamas I'll never figure out!

I know this is a different kind of drone, but in case you thought I was telling a tall tale, here are the drone shots of our concert at the Hopewell, NJ train station on Monday 8/5. The person who took them was ironically a mutual friend of one of my FB friends. We, the Blawenburg Band, are in the red shirts sitting in front of the station. It looks like a model train setup, doesn't it?

Things believed by some blondes, ( Maybe, because I tried to convince some of my younger sister's friends of these myths growing up.)

1. If you are driving in thick fog, turn on your high beams and drive faster. The heat generated from your headlights along with the wind created by your higher speed will push away the fog where you need to drive.
2. Pigs are really just shaved sheep.
3. The Moon, of course, is the closest planet to the earth.
4. We ( the US ) own the moon. Our flag is there.
5. New Mexico is part of Mexico.
6. Before 1960, EVERYTHING was black and white. no colors existed.

Sadly, I was only able to convince them for a short time.

@J-Jericho said in Artist on BOARD:

@BigDub said in Artist on BOARD:

Switch email?

I knew you wouldn't need three guesses!

Haha. I may chance sticking with it. Sometimes when a company makes a big blunder like that, they are super careful and diligent afterwards.......