January 2011 - Argghhh!

More fractured history from a grumpy old iracund curmudgeon (Department of Redundancy Department Epic Fail Word Abuse Alert) this one regarding college kids and their damn pranks.Back in 1827 (that's a long time ago for around here), in those halcyon days of a misty prehistory in Kansas, Fort Leavenworth was founded when Colonel Henry Leavenworth came along with four companies of the 3rd Infantry and decided to liberally interpret his orders and establish the Fort on the western bluffs overlooking...

So, here ya go, the ultimate whatziss... Hey, c'mon. It's exactly the sort of thing you guys accuse me of all the time...

1920: One year after the ratification of the 18th Amendment to the Constitution, starry-eyed idealism knows a brief triumph over human nature as Prohibition goes into effect. Shortly thereafter, gun violence spikes as criminals vie for the booze trade. The gov'ts response? Impose a tax on machine guns and short-barrelled weapons. That worked well. From Constitution.net:21st AmendmentIt would be a disservice to say that the 18th Amendment was completely ineffective. It would also be a disservice...

Let's start with a quick Caption Contest: There's more over the fold...

Obviates the need for a thousand words - as long as you understand the directional component of the sign's vector is serving to reduce the sign's distance from the center of the earth. This is a good thing, of course.

My Canyon Run post last week evidently inspired JMH, the Castle's Resident Treadhead, TechnoToy Expert, and Maple-Syrup Maven, to heightened Googling efforts.In case my vid gave you the view-from-the-cockpit bug, here's one that'll give you the full dangling-from-the-skid-and-flapping-in-the-breeze experience.And it's interactive, to show you how you'd feel if you forgot to stabilize yourself in the slipstream.No maple trees or red plaid shirts were harmed during the making of...

And no, we're not talking about caskets for these people. We're talking jargon for the style of ammo cans used by Warsaw Pact and now former Warsaw Pact nations for bulk shipping ammunition. [Warning - if you're allergic to cats, there is a *lot* of cat hair in this post. A *lot.* Really. I mean it. A whole lot.]We speaking of cans which we people who have the habit, as Skip noted in this post, "of turning money into noise" call, "spam cans." Why that moniker? Because...