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General Category => QSLs Received => Topic started by: ChrisSmolinski on August 09, 2018, 2311 UTC

Title: Fess Parker Radio eQSL
Post by: ChrisSmolinski on August 09, 2018, 2311 UTC

Thank you very much for QSL #1

(https://i.imgur.com/aMrhJeY.png)

Title: Re: Fess Parker Radio eQSL
Post by: aurora on August 10, 2018, 2213 UTC

I received mine too - Thanks for #3!

Title: Re: Fess Parker Radio eQSL
Post by: PirateSWL on August 10, 2018, 2310 UTC

I received #2, thank you so much !

Title: Re: Fess Parker Radio eQSL
Post by: Pigmeat on August 14, 2018, 0533 UTC

Cracker Barrel still sells coonskin caps so you guys can be properly attired for "The Ballad of Davy Crockett" sing-alongs. Ol' Fess didn't even have to change clothes for his role as "Daniel Boone" in the 60's.

Davy Crockett was roughly 5'4". Fess and John Wayne who played him in the movies were in the 6'5" range. Quite a stretch, literally.

Title: Re: Fess Parker Radio eQSL
Post by: Fansome on August 14, 2018, 1033 UTC

https://www.fessparker.com/

I used to live a few miles north of here, and his wines were readily available in the local markets. It was pretty good, although a bit pricey. It's beatiful country, too, not far from Neverland.

Title: Re: Fess Parker Radio eQSL
Post by: Pigmeat on August 14, 2018, 1127 UTC

Now Al, you know Fess Parker only drinks corn squeezins. Wine is for sissies and bums.

Now that I think about it, California is overrun with both. Fess is just making money off of them. Dollars to donuts the still is around back.

Title: Re: Fess Parker Radio eQSL
Post by: Josh on August 14, 2018, 1656 UTC

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiM-RzPHyGs

Title: Re: Fess Parker Radio eQSL
Post by: Pigmeat on August 15, 2018, 0203 UTC

I knew a guy who was in the Army when they were testing those things. He talked about he and his buddies being trucked out to desert test sites, given heavy duty googles, and herded into slit trenches to test the effects on troops from the firing position. He said the exposed areas of their skin got a bad "atomic sunburn". He was ate up with cancer from his mid 40's on and died in his early 50's.

I miss him, he was hoot. He had bear's head he kept in his freezer.  He would ask first time visitors, "Wanna go see the bahr?" The reaction of those drunkards and stoners when he opened the freezer was always the same, "Gawddamn! It's a f'in bear!"

Title: Re: Fess Parker Radio eQSL
Post by: Josh on August 15, 2018, 0455 UTC

Yeah, the prompt rads from being that close to one of those things can't be good for ya. I read an account by a guy who was at one of the tests. They were lined up several guys deep at a survival range away from the device and when they lit that thing off he could see into his arm through uniform and skin and see his muscles and the blood flowing through his veins, he was so shocked he dropped his arm from in front of his eyes and he saw inside the guy standing in front of him. Freaky stuff. I'm gonna get me a coon skin cap to wear this winter, the William Henry Harrison House carries them so I don't need no stinkin amazon or ebay.

http://www.grouselandfoundation.org/