And if you're thinking sawset , trust me, you're not alone, but it would be way out of place on this board, and I think our minds have been conditioned by too many whatzits!
Well, if you flip that picture around, you're close to giving the Cub Scout salute, a gesture of Serbian nationalism, the Uttarabodhi Mudra sign for supreme enlightenment, or shooting a finger gun. Which do you prefer?
Ding ding ding! Honey, methinks.
Ha! We had a flight surgeon whose nickname was The Shocker and whom we constantly accused of wearing his class ring during physical exams.
Close - if you ignore a little geography!
Link not working for me, but guessing Lakehurst based on google maps pix
Ahh! You caught me in a preconceived notion--focusing on the clear blue sky and sand colored building and ignoring the green grass and the multitude of trees in the background. You've mentioned traveling to Fort Huachuca in the past and it does have the occasional tree.Close - if you ignore a little geography!
errr... not sure about the bar, but the hunting scenes were filmed up near Mt. Shuksan in the Cascades.
Boy, you really wanted to know the identity of that tree going into Google Earth surveillance mode!
Snerk. Lest you forgot, I was born and raised in what I have zero shame in calling Pennsyltucky, so I know hick when I see it.
Most people think the colorful antiquated nicknames are just fun until it hits summer and you start to see the "Shoobies Go Home!" and "Bennies Go Home!" signs going up in the yards of disgruntled Clamdiggers' houses. I was just home for the funeral of a childhood friend and the urge is very strong. Thomas Wolfe was wrong!
Oh, ruffed grouse get lots of trees shot, for sure, and you and your dog if you're not careful. They're dang hard to find to begin with, dang hard to see if you find them, and they have a tendency to flush fast, turn hard, swoop right at you, turn again, climb, and be gone. State Bird, if you didn't know it.
...the church below, where I tended altar until I was 16 years old, is the same denomination.
Still go TDY there almost every month. It was a good guess. Seriously. And much greener than the rest of the state, especially after monsoon season. Gotta love the small old posts that survive BRAC.
Yeah, the first time I watched it, that location suspended my suspension of disbelief. There are craggy ridges here and there where trees have a hard time concealing the underlying geology, but I had never seen such a mountain in PA. Now, nearly a half-century later, I still haven’t.
When my kids were in school in Ohio, I used to joke that I drove over a higher elevation ridge (every day to work) than the highest point in Ohio, which is a bump on a high plain.
Yes, and I think it was intended as a complete kit. There's a good range of combo wrenches (5/8" to 1" on the left) and the six missing sizes were all smaller than that. The nut drivers go from 3/16" to 1/2". Decent complement of screwdrivers, including one each regular and Phillips with screw holders. And the black oxide shanks are Torx from -15 to -30.
All the tools are branded ProKit, from Taiwan. Never heard of it, of course, and I don't make a habit of buying foreign tools, but the whole thing was just too perfectly Time Capsule irresistible. Based on the case - plywood with vinyl, the hardware and the breakdown hinges, and the COO, I would've guessed classic 1970's import, but the tools seem slightly newer than that to me, so I'm not sure. Quality is actually pretty good.
Gravity says yes.
HAHA! Well, hopefully you guys weren't picturing me holding them in that position and wondering why they kept dropping.
(What I meant was the strap wasn't tight enough to hang them by the short legs.) But yes, they would definitely rest and stand up on the bottom if the board was reversed, so my apologies to the designers at the unknown Taiwanese manufacturer. (EDIT: I may have to take that apology partially back. It clearly seems designed to go the other way around, but there is only one button on the back of the board for the snap inside the top of the lid, and that's where it's located. Apparently a factory mistake.)Hey, cool. That's it. For $5, I would've bought it empty if it had the tool boards with outlines. Those were the only reason I bought it. Almost none of the tools were hanging and I was wondering how many in the rusty jumble would be original. The seller initially said $10 and reduced it to $5 before I even had a chance to say yes. Later, my buddy joked that if I had delayed a little longer he might've paid me $5 to take it.
To be fair, he was packing up and it was a heavy, filthy, overstuffed mess.Makes sense. Taiwan firms were good at copying and rebranding our products, "ProKit" as an abbreviated portmanteau of "Professional Kit" is so on brand for their blatant strategy, and that confirms my feeling that the case just seemed a little dated for the tools to me. I searched GJ for ProKit and didn't get any hits, which surprised me a little - there are plenty of modern Taiwan tools and Made in Taiwan tool proponents up on the General Board and I expected someone had some tools if not this particular toolkit. I also searched Google Books on ProKit and couldn't find anything definitive.
In the words of Kramer, “crackers!”The Acquisitions Dept came home from the flea market this morning with this vintage attache case. The Curator has been working on making it presentable off and on all day long. Anyone want to guess what was inside?
I had to ask my wife and one of my sons, who are both bonkers (reruns, t-shirts, coffee mugs, etc) for the show, and they cracked up. Then they asked to see the briefcase, and cracked up some more.
(Sorry for the delayed reply - I forgot to relay the experience soon after you posted.)
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