Vielleicht some of our Deutsche Freunden can "splain 'dis:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRsqZL7u9Ug

Too much free time and alcohol.

Can you say, Like watching paint dry.

Grizz

Ich habe keinen worten.....

Warte mal, there's more!



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7hIotQb05c

Just another day in Bavaria..

Kinda reminds me of the scene where the SD are beating the crap out of the bar owner in 'Cabaret'.

Bill
You have not made the acquaintance of a local Native American or Bruja that is teaching you about the flora, fauna and cactus of the region have you?

Referencing what one may find in certain "medicinal" properties in the cacti.

Surely those "dances" are based on some mind altering substances.

No, TC, but the cacti are teaching me, and they are stern lecturers!

Just a little concern for a fellow AR member and the entertainment choices one can find in Alamogordo.

The cacti are stern lecturers indeed. My kids grew up here in the prickly pear capital of central Texas. It was a constant battle as they refused to wear shoes in the summer = ran roughshod over everything (including cactus)Then one brother would push another into the cactus patch.We would have to lay them facedown on the work bench + use hemostats on the big ones;now here is helpful hint # 101. For the tiny hair spines,get a piece of duct tape + roll it stickey side out around your hand;then you can pull all the tiny spines out if you get to it right away.In the beginning the duct tape is stronger than the flesh adhereing to the spine;catch it quick + you will get them all out + tell the crying kid to just shut up.They will do it again of course.

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Originally posted by NormanConquest:
The cacti are stern lecturers indeed. My kids grew up here in the prickly pear capital of central Texas. It was a constant battle as they refused to wear shoes in the summer = ran roughshod over everything (including cactus)Then one brother would push another into the cactus patch.We would have to lay them facedown on the work bench + use hemostats on the big ones;now here is helpful hint # 101. For the tiny hair spines,get a piece of duct tape + roll it stickey side out around your hand;then you can pull all the tiny spines out if you get to it right away.In the beginning the duct tape is stronger than the flesh adhereing to the spine;catch it quick + you will get them all out + tell the crying kid to just shut up.They will do it again of course.

thats actually an accepted medical proceedure. i learned it in far west tx.

Hunting in Wy, I jumped a mulie out of a little gully. I sat down for a steady shot. And sat right in a batch of prickly pear. We were way the Hell and gone, and my buddy, bless his heart, pinched the spines out using two nickles as tweezers.

Well John C. we never knew it ,just figured it out in our country kind of way. OH + BTW,we always use duct tape to cap a flow. C'mon,I have a sheet metal shop;people will get cut.I came to find out that the duct tape mfg. ( Poliken)makes medical bandages..... hmmm,perhaps something in their glue? I am here as a witness that over the last 40+ years I have had wounds that ordinarily would reqiure hospital care but was cured by duct tape.I still several rolls around because they DO work.

Here's a funny one. well deserved bastard too.

Back in '76 five convicts escaped the CO state pen. Three were killers. They stole one of Dad's pickup's. He watched 'em while having the sheriff's office on the phone.

They went east and dropped the last two off and the driver headed back by the house. One of those many mile long cross country ditches 15' wide and 8' deep. Two miles West of the house a deputy just about met the guy. Then chased him a couple miles hoping he'd drown it. instead he missed a curve and ran across the prairie dropping it into the head of a gulley. He got banged up and got out to start crawling across the pasture and ended up face down in a big patch of pear cactus. About that time the deputy got there and mostly stood on his back for a long time until backup got there.

Bean was his last name, another got to Kans City and killed two guys before they were all five rounded up. Massey was the one that killed those and some prior to their escape.

The most disappointing part of the whole deal was. He hit that gulley less than 1/4 mile from a bluff that would have dropped him about 150 feet to the Arkansa river. Some people do get lucky.

George

I got the giggles Bill. It reminded me of the scene in European Vacation with Chevy Chase

Tony, one almost wonders if their heads are shaped like their hats. The Germans are not especially known for their sense of humor, eh?

Those crazy Germans

Bill,that reminds me of a copy of a 1976 National Lampoon called "unwanted forigners".They attacked every race,but on the Germans was partially said was,Vicious,non humorest, clappers in union,have the need to go to war every 20 years or so;their women wear their legs upside down. Good points,they kill many french.If you can find a copy it is hilarious.The krauts are really getting off light y how they describe the other races.