Motivational Poster Thread (warning content)

I THINK that I shall never hear
A poem lovely as a beer.
A brew that’s best straight from a tap
With golden hue and snowy cap;
The liquid bread I drink all day,
Until my memory melts away;
A beer that’s made with summer malt
Too little hops its only fault;
Upon whose brow the yeast has lain;
In water clear as falling rain.
Poems are made by fools I fear,
But only wort can make a beer.

as Ben Franklin is once said to have opined - Beer is proof that God loves us.

 

First, I watch Women's volleyball - it was OK, even my (much younger) sister had a full ride scholarship for playing volleyball. It was fun to meet her teammates.

The I discovered NCAA (college) Beach Volleyball.



much more fun-er.

 

We used a coat hanger, rubber bands and a piece of t-shirt fabric. Low-tech and less powerful, but I can attest that they still could break a window.

 

Photoshopped, but funny!!

 

In 1970's Detroit we'd use a 2x4, some radio antenna, fence staples and a screen door latch and spring to build . 22 Short zip guns. Very effective, for what they were. Not as much fun as shooting hundreds of tightly rolled paper caps with a BB gun or smashing them with a brick. That was our version of Tannerite. . I was lucky to survive my childhood.

 

And their backs!

 

We had a horse when I was a teen, actually my sister's horse. I rode a motorcycle. But, with livestock comes mice. I had a singleshot boltaction Stevens 15 in .22LR. I would remove the bullets from .22LR cartridges, dump out half the powder then load in a .22 pellet. Worked fairly well, up to a few yards, and the pellet wouldn't ricochet if it hit concrete, just splatter like hot solder. I bagged a few mice with it. Fed them to our chickens, those 'minidinosaurs' ate anything they could catch. Many years later I discovered the Colibri primer-only .22 loads, essentially the same idea but much more reliable.

 

Infinity = a drive across TX, in the summer - in a VW bus.

 

Lots of memories in a '76 Trans Am. (That looks like a '77)