From my understanding of the account, not at all. It ran out of fuel and the mission, while a valiant effort, sucked, because it ran out of fuel. ??
Kind of. It ended up not having an effect on the war, which continued for 2.5 years afterwards. The biggest factor in its failure was the delay in waiting at the one station for the tracks to clear. That allowed the pursuers to catch up. Otherwise...
I was going to say the same thing. Unintentional, but nice from a photographer's point of view.
Glad you liked it!
It always does, doesn't it?
I'm glad you pointed it out, so I don't have to.
Always the first thing I think about when I write something--"How are all the smart-alecks going to jump on this statment?"
This. This is why we read TRs and make friends. It's about way more than trips to Disney.
Nope. I can't even count the hundreds of dollars we invested in Brios. Added to the original purchase costs, we paid hundreds of extra $$ to cart them to and from Central Asia a few times. Totally worth it.
Fun for hours! Of course, with my kids, they'll ignore the table at our home but be drawn to them everywhere else.
Huh! One I wouldn't mind seeing!
I'd like to watch it sometime, too.
So far, so good. Might I just say this is absolutely genius strategy?
It made a lot of sense, if they could pull it off.
I"m curious, and the fam want to know. Was it coal-fired or wood? I know it's a wood car, but was that for display or ????
I tried to look it up and couldn't find it. I want to say it was wood-fired if I remember the book correctly. I think they eventually ran out of wood at the end of the chase. But it's been several years since I read it.
I'll stick with Tommie's.
I wonder where that great debate was held... ??
And being that I ate Taco Bell for lunch and Strip Steak with sauteed onions and shrooms for dinner... I'd say I fall squarely in the bouncing category.
You and Alison and pkondz...
But this is where I draw the line.
Happy as a clam to be rightly wrong.
More for me, then! You can have the snot rocks.
I can't tell if this is a "Good Lord, that looks amazing!" or a "Good Lord, I want to hurl."
Nothing can go exactly as planned, right?
No thanks. I don't even like Coke.
Cool. You can come with us to the train museum instead.
That sounds like a pretty interesting stop!
I thought it was worthy!
I think I'd even have fun with that.
Lots of buttons to push! Fun for hours!
Nope. Never heard of either of them.
I guess we have some cinema-watching to do.
Sounds like an interesting story.
I find it odd the way you use the name "The General" and then the feminine designation.
i realize that many vehicles are referred to in the feminine, ie, "She's a beauty", but it still struck me as funny.
A little odd, huh? Many Navy ships are named after men (USS Nimitz, etc.) but I'm sure they're still referred to as "she".
Not according to the latest study. Congratulations!
You and Liesa and pkondz.
I thought you were talking about me here....
But see i like chicken & waffles!
I was trolling everybody with that one!
Well at least you're not paying for film!
Thank goodness! Digital really revolutionized the photography world.
To me i think it strikes me more like the cronut and diminishes both in the combination. But since I read this before going to a grocery store, we are now having French Toast for breakfast tomorrow morning. I even bought special bread sliced just for making French Toast. I bet it's good for Texas Toast as well. We're having Frito Pie on Monday night, so I think a slice of homemade Texas Toast will go nicely with that instead of the storebought version!
Julie always make the mistake of sending me shopping for food when I'm hungry. It never ends well. I really loved that peach french toast, though.
Those look strange, at Roscoe's they give you real waffle and your choice of bone in fried chicken next to it. Maybe they have boneless, but I've never ordered it. Always like my fried chicken cooked on the bone. More flavor.
This tasted awfully good to me! I'm not real picky when it comes to fried chicken.
Nope. I've had yogurt covered pretzels, but I'm not a fan of pretzels unless they're the baked kind like the Mickey ones you get in the parks served with mustard or cheese sauce.
That makes you and pkondz as the two people I've met who don't eat chocolate-covered pretzels.
Even served in that funny way, I'm sure it was still good.
OK, so I need to retract something that I told you on you last bonus Texas TR. I suggested an author Ben Rehder and his Blanco County mysteries as a book series that I thought you might enjoy. Now we started listening to this series of books on CD long before I met you. I had no idea that he had written new books until after I said that you should listen to them. We just started listening to some of the books in the series we missed quite a few years ago. While you may still enjoy them, I'm not sure how much they are up your alley. You seem to be mostly a nice sort of guy and while you enjoy fart jokes and jokes at the expense of Taco Bell and stuff, I'm not positive you would enjoy storylines based on black mail with (rhymes with corn) and folks (bad guys) using lots of drugs and other debauchery. I had forgotten that in addition to larger than life Texas characters, the books are rather edgy and there were quite a few things that (while they don't bother me so much as I'm a reckless gal raised in hippie loving California), you may not find them as run of the mill. Then again you may like the series regardless. Just don't get the audio books and listen to them with your kids in the car. There is also a lot of swearing. Not as much as Deadwood or Game of Thrones, but you have been warned.
Well, I might surprise you there. We of course try to live and preach good clean living and family values. Much of this of course derives from our faith. But unlike many of my brethren who seem to be trying to separate themselves or close themselves off from the rest of the world, I think that's a poor approach. I think the world has to be seen as it is. So while I try to conduct myself and raise my kids to be kind, generous, forgiving, etc. (and many times I fail miserably at these things), we're not going to shelter ourselves, either. Bad things happen. People act this way. Someday, you have to learn to deal with it. And people in the worst situations need to be met where they are and helped, not turned away because they're not "wholesome". I also am not perfect in my own behavior, and try as I might, there are just a few situations where a certain profane word is just the perfect word to describe them. So I'm no angel, anyway.
So, all that to say I don't really censor a lot when it comes to the entertainment and art I consume (certainly, I still censor what the kids see). I have watched Breaking Bad and Deadwood and found a lot of artistic and redeeming value in them, no matter how dark or edgy they got. Sometimes the darker, edgier stories really do reflect the world as it is, and there's value in seeing that in an honest way. I gave up on Game of Thrones because it just felt like too many characters and a lot of spinning their wheels plot-wise. And I did have to fast-forward a few scenes that were just over-the-top gratuitous. I just read a book by Don Winslow all about our War on Drugs that was about as violent and extreme as you could imagine, but it felt like a truthful account of the many failures in that war and the horrors it has led to. So the edgy content becomes journalism--you're forced to confront the evil of the world.
Where I draw the line in entertainment is when it feels like it gets to a point where the dark, edgy content is there just for shock value or becomes the only entertainment. For example, I won't watch the torture-type horror movies where they're just about creative ways to kill people using the most gory means possible. I don't see any redeeming value in that.
That was probably a much longer response than you had ever hoped for!
All that to say, I wouldn't necessarily be scared off by content alone. I'll try and check Ben Rehder out sometime. And I'll avoid the audio books.