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Bacon, BBQ, Beef, And More / Re: Roast Chicken a la Jacques Pepin

« on: August 07, 2017, 0319 UTC »

www.thermapen.com

$99 ?!?!

Does it carve for you also?

Plus I don't see any knobs.

He goes to the Hollow Earth last week, hang's out with JFK and Marilyn Monroe, and now he's cooking expert. Sheesh!

I use the "Fork Method". Stick a fork in it when looks about done close to the bone, if it comes out easily it's done. If not, cook it a few more minutes until it does. It hasn't killed me yet.

Thermometers! You're trying to cook it, not checking if it's running a fever! Grandma would've bopped the bunch of you in the head with a cast iron skillet and flung you and your thermometers out the window.

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General Radio Discussion / Re: Items from a historic Arizona museum are up for auction

« on: August 07, 2017, 0253 UTC »

How was the trip into the Hollow Earth?

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Huh? / Re: Papilio Polyxenes

« on: August 06, 2017, 0057 UTC »

1. The other day I was going to work and as I was getting into the car I noticed a wasp atop a mantis, I was thinking wasps don't hump mantis do they so wtf is going on? The wasp had apparently stung said mantis and was eating it from the rear end forward while the mantis feebly tried to stop the proceedings. Insects have no compassion.

2. The other other day I was getting into the car and had picked up a hitch hiker, a little green baby mantis rode along to work, at hiway speeds, on the open window sill. I named it "Spencer". I suspect the mantis are in the tree I sometimes park under.

3. Does anyone have a recipe to take the bitterness out of mature monarchs? The milkweed diet makes them tangy.

Wasp venom liquefies other insects from the inside out. The wasp was eating the tasty goo filling.

I had large monarch go by when I was out picking peppers this afternoon. I've seen a bunch of them over the past couple of weeks working on my wife's flowers and the neighbors hummingbird feeders, but they couldn't hold a candle when it comes to the  size to the one I saw today. The black-eyed Susan's really seem to draw them in and the honeysuckle blossoms keep them around.

I'd cut the honeysuckle vines, but Al ties them to his ankles to land dive from the top of the beech tree when he visits. It's his people's customary sport. When explorers rediscovered him in New Guinea he was All Island champ. He still tries to claim he's Michael Rockefeller, but that's another story.

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General Radio Discussion / Re: The Ghostly Radio Station That No One Claims To Run

« on: August 06, 2017, 0027 UTC »

Jimmy Carter beat those guys to the punch with the neutron bomb forty years ago. We told the Soviets we were going to stop development, but it remained part of the black budget. We've got neutron bottle rockets that our troops can deploy anywhere they can find bottles, cans, or an old hunk of pipe. We're still experimenting with Neutron Roman Candles. At the moment it's in the "Getting rid of that S.O.B. that mows his lawn at 7 a.m. on a Sunday morning" testing stage.

It worked on the guy across the street, but I don't know how it's going for the other beta-testers? Anyone want a slightly radiated, self propelled push mower? BTW, he mowed his lawn in shorts, dress shoes, and black socks. A timeless suburban style statement. Sometimes he did it with the same footwear and in a bathrobe. Children don't need to be traumatized by a sight like that on the way to church. It was either shoot him or nuke him after he went to the robe option.

There's a man shaped spot in his yard where the grass won't grow, not even the finer hybrid's derived from test plots from Bikini Atoll will take. One thing about landing a direct hit on your subject is they disintegrate on impact. No evidence.

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Other / Re: Marine Net 8.076MHz USB??

« on: August 05, 2017, 0324 UTC »

You used to hear missionaries in S. America running similar nets, but I haven't heard one in years.

I always had mixed feelings about the P.B.T.A. They give the locals radios that generally only tune to their frequency. That being said they've inadvertently done tremendous work in documenting and recording little known languages that are quickly disappearing.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: KIPM, 6925 AM, 0252, 8/5/17

« on: August 05, 2017, 0311 UTC »

you hear that do you

that is only 4w peak. it would be nice to hear a recording.

the show is titled ENTROPY

They shouldn't be hard to find, with these SDR guys around.

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Clandestine Stations / Re: An apparent new Biafra station

« on: August 05, 2017, 0032 UTC »

I knew that they'd been working on this for the last couple of years, but I never thought it would see fruition.

I had two very close college friends who served on the Biafran side as boy soldiers. The tales the told would curl your hair and churn your stomach. One is a MD here in the State's, the other one went back to Nigeria after getting a degree in International Relations to work as a govt. official. I haven't heard from him since the mid-80's and with the coup's and violence that has taken place, I worry about him. He and the Doc were like brothers. The guy fell off his radar in the same period of time.

The Doc was the first cousin of a regional Prince from the Cross River State, a strange one, he's now a King and probably as loopy as ever, who went to school with us. The Doc was sent over with another member of the local nobility to keep an eye on him. The Doc had applied for med school at Vanderbilt, in Nashville. He wanted to know if I'd like to run down with him. It sounded like a good time to me. The guy had a ton of money and he liked to spend it.

We're just south of the metropolis of Horse Cave, KY. when Kentucky State trooper nabs us for speeding. He looks in this Mercedes, and sees a foreign Black guy and a longhaired White kid with out of state plates. Neither of us look like we had any business riding around a new car like that. I'm thinking this, "This ain't good." He shows the cop his license and the registration, the cop looks at it funny, and orders him back to the squad car. Off they go, and I'm getting worried, this has gone to "worse" very quick. I'm so busy running things through my head that I don't realize the car is rolling backwards? By the time I do it's too late, "bang!", the car had rolled right into the cruiser. I was sure we're going under the jailhouse when that happened.

All of a sudden I look up in the rearview. Here comes the Doc. Before I can ask him what happened, he crumples up the ticket and throws over it his shoulder into the road. That cop blows out of there shooting darts at us with his eyes. I lose it then, yelling, "Are you f*****g crazy! Do you want us to go to jail? Hell's Bell's this is Klan country, we might not even see the inside of a damned jail! You don't deliberately piss off a cop, especially if you're a Black guy! Didn't they clue your ass in before they sent you over here?" He's going "Calm down, calm down..." and shows me his license and passport. He had diplomatic immunity due to his status back home as regional nobility and his role in keeping an eye on that loopy cousin of his.

And here I'd been rubbing elbows with Royalty for years. If I'd known he had immunity we could got away with lots more fun stuff.

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Huh? / Re: Papilio Polyxenes

« on: August 03, 2017, 1553 UTC »

When I was in fourth grade we had a science project on praying mantises. It was sponsored by the state dept of Agriculture. We were sent out gather mantis egg cases off plants and hatch them out in the spring. The cases were left in boxes in a closed, unused, unheated classroom until the spring when we would bring them into our room at higher temps to hatch out and open in terrariums.

As that was the last year the school was to be open, the school was being serviced by rotating maintenance men and janitors as the former janitor had retired the spring before. They came in a few days before Christmas break was over to fire up the boiler and turn on the heat. They turned the heat on to ALL the rooms. When the cooks and teachers came in bright and early on the first day of the second semester, there were mantises all over that school. They had to call in the exterminators. We got an extra week off until the building was declared insecticide free after a good airing out.

It didn't do a lot of good, we were still catching mantises until they shut the place down in June.

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General Radio Discussion / Re: The Ghostly Radio Station That No One Claims To Run

« on: August 03, 2017, 1520 UTC »

Just another FanCo subdivision. Currently we're using it to track Al and his pal from Pasadena on their cruise through the Hollow Earth. Wait until they pop out in Antarctica in a few days. Boy, is Al gonna be surprised when he finds out what's waiting for him there! Surface dwelling beings much higher up on the Fansome Scale than the Morlocks and Moho Men they expected to encounter on the inside.

Boombox, isn't the "dead hand machine" operated via a spring loaded roll up window blind connected to a straight key in the deserts of Australia?

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Bacon, BBQ, Beef, And More / Re: Eat The Butter

« on: August 01, 2017, 2205 UTC »

That's how we heathens have been outliving those pesky Baptists and Methodists for decades. As a neighborhood coot and former terror told a preacher trying to get him to convert as he was escorting the Man of God off the property, "See ya in Hell, preacher. We both know we're goin'. You're gonna get there early if you don't lighten up."

Why don't Baptists have sex standing up? Someone might see them and think they're dancing.

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MW Loggings / Re: WGH 1310 khz Newport News Va

« on: August 01, 2017, 2146 UTC »

"You can hear us in Bermuda any night with a big signal, Mr. Johnson. That's six hundred miles!"

"That's nice, son, but my car dealership is in Petersburg."

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Huh? / Re: This Guy Is Looking For Radio Illuminati !

« on: July 31, 2017, 1544 UTC »

That or the drug of choice in S. Florida, Flakka.

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MW Loggings / Re: KIP761 Flight 93 Memorial TIS Bedford, PA 1710 kHz 0000 UTC 28 Jul 2017

« on: July 31, 2017, 1539 UTC »

Flight 93 went down in Somerset County, Bedford must be claiming the shortest route to the site as the counties border. The short-wearing Yoder's of  Somerset Co. will be hitching up the wagons and loading up the flintlocks to teach Bedford usurpers a lesson!

I wonder if the King of Hollsopple will lend them his knights? It's an affront to the honor of County and the Kingdom! (Check the Wikipedia entry on Hollsopple, I triple dog dare you. It was still a Monarchy as of yesterday.)

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Huh? / Re: This Guy Is Looking For Radio Illuminati !

« on: July 31, 2017, 1528 UTC »

I dunno, maybe because people pay porn stars to take their clothes off.  Everyone else has to do it for free  

+-RH

LOL! My late Uncle used to get Playboy TV, one night it's on in the background while we're shooting the bull and drinking beer. On the screen, their interviewing these ditzy porn chicks at the CES in Vegas about their ideal "date" and what it took to seduce them. It was fairly insipid. Then they went to this hard looking blonde, whose name I can't recall, as this has been nearly 30 years ago. She goes, "Pick up a pizza, give me 1200 bucks, and I'm yours for the night." Uncle Jim yells out, "Finally, an honest porn star!"

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Bacon, BBQ, Beef, And More / Re: Don't believe the American Heart Assn.

« on: July 29, 2017, 1911 UTC »

Josh, I got the headaches and light flashes for years before I was diagnosed with epilepsy, they were often precursors to very mild seizures or migraines, migraines and epilepsy are believed part of the same disease spectrum. I thought they were weird "spells" caused by a head cracking whack in a car wreck in my early 20's. Until I was in my 40's and had one of the whoppers, I had no idea I had epilepsy? I avoided diet soft drinks like the plague due to pure machismo until I was in the hospital for my last seizure eleven years ago and was told about the borderline diabetes. I've been drinking them since. The little lights and the migraines have been gone since I first went on seizure meds.

Ka, those investment guys run the same game that "Sports Betting Services" and their grandaddy's, the racetrack tip sheets and touts have been running for decades. It's nice to see a simple short con go long.

Eh, you play the hand your dealt. Epilepsy is better than penguiphenia. Poor Al.