Very Important Day In History

[Leo Tanner]

They prolly is still alive with them genious minds a theirs.

     "Attention luftwaffe, we realize that  marking our planes with an insignia that fits perfectly into crosshairs was a bad call the last time around.  This time we will add some extra lines and that should confuse the enemy.  I have spoken with our pals out in the Pacific and they have assured me they would be painting large bulls eyes on their aircraft.  Victory is eminant..."


Leo  

[Texas Lawdog]

We have met the Enemy and they are OURS!

[Leo Tanner]

If ya ever went ta the carnival an tried ta shoot the star out of that card...aint an easy task. 


Leo

[Ozark Tracker]

I always wanted one of them little bb machine guns,  be fun to play with,  might mount it on the handlebars of the ma 4 wheeler, 

[Texas Lawdog]

I've always wanted one of those 22 cal Gatling guns.

[Texas Lawdog]

George Washington helped lay the cornerstone of the Capitol Building in Washington  D C.

[Delmonico]

On this day in 1908 (One hundert years ago) the first Ford Model T's came off the assembly line.

[Leo Tanner]

Any color ya want so long as it's black.


Leo

[Texas Lawdog]

DEL, My Dad traded a Colt Single action revolver for a 1914 Model T Panel back when I was a little kid. He sold it in about 57 for a lot of money then, not near as much as it would be worth today.  The people from Ford Times came out to Dumas in about 52 and took a picture of the Model T parked next to a new phone company Ford panel truck. I sure would like to have one of those pictures.

[Delmonico]

Any color ya want so long as it's black.


Leo

Not in the Brass years (1909 Model to 1914 Model) and not again after the 1923 Model.  Early production was not as fast paced so he could use other than the faster drying black.  The later years Nitrocellulose Laquer had been developed.  BTW it was developed to be a use for surplus WWI era nitorcellulose powders.  Yep a lot of old cars were painted with Smokeyless powder more or less.

[Texas Lawdog]

Poland surrenders to the Nazis.

[litl rooster]

George Washington helped lay the cornerstone of the Capitol Building in Washington  D C.

It's still there

[Texas Lawdog]

Sir Robert Peale organized the London Metro Police on this date.

[Delmonico]

Sir Robert Peale organized the London Metro Police on this date.

And they have been Bobbie ever since.

[Texas Lawdog]

YESSIR!

[Leo Tanner]

Gotta be wierd bein a cop without a gun.  Things are so different over there.
     
"You there, robbing that store, stop or I'll be forced to blow this whistle then perhaps strike you with this club!"

I imagine it takes a good set of cajones ta go on duty like that every day.


Leo

[Texas Lawdog]

In the old days, they would use those batons to signal each other by hitting the bricks. This is beginning of that saying.

[Arcey]

Me 'n a pard were walkin' Granby. Beautiful evenin'. Standin' on a corner, I started bouncin' the stick off the curb stone. Then he started.

Sergeant called askin' if we were ok 'n where we were. Told us ta stay there. He drove up 'n reamed us a new one.

No one ever told either of us that was a call for help.   

[Texas Lawdog]

Arcey, Well the Skins beat the Cowboys today. I didn't watch the game or the race. I heard JJ won, so I didn't miss anything. The Cowboys were due for a bad game. It should have been last week at GB. They should have been flat after the Philly game.

[Lucky Irish Tom]

In the old days, they would use those batons to signal each other by hitting the bricks. This is beginning of that saying.

My Aunt has the nightstick, with a plaque beneath it, that my Great Grandfather used to win a competition doing that in NYC!