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  1. 27 hours straight as a roustabout on an offshore rig.  Worked my normal 12 hour tour (6 am to 6 pm), workboat came in right at the end of it to be unloaded, then the damn shale shaker got clogged up and we worked the rest of the night on getting it cleared out and running again.  6 am rolled around again before we were done.  After we got the shale shaker fixed up, the toolpusher took mercy on us and told us to disappear for a few hours.  Found a cool shady spot below the helodeck and slept for about 3 hours and then went back to work until 6 pm.  My ass was dragging at the end of that tour.

  2. It's bizarre how life experiences can change people's views on race.  My uncle was a proud member of the KKK in Ouchita Parish, Louisiana, where he and my dad grew up.  My uncle never left Ouchita Parish.  My dad joined the military and served 28 years including fighting in two wars.  He was the most nonracist man I have ever been around.  I remember my older brother dropping the n word and my dad got in the middle of his shit about it.  He tended to separate people into classes of sorry sonsofbitches and good folks, regardless of skin color.

  3. So, I was checking out his career on IMDB.  Guy had a 60 year career of steady work as an actor.  Amazing.  Best part is reading some of his personal quotes, like this one talking about the rape scene in Deliverance:

    [on the rape scene in Deliverance (1972)] The day before we shot the scene I noticed [Bill McKinney] hovering beside Ned [Ned Beatty] and sat down between them. I wanted him to see I was Ned's friend. No different than in the script. Then I asked him how he planned to handle the rape scene. McKinney turned out to be a pretty good guy who just took "The Method" way too far. Staring straight at Ned, he whispered, "I've always wanted to try that. Always have." Ned shouted, "John! Oh, John!". In his brilliance, [John Boorman] reassured Ned but also brought in several additional cameras, knowing Ned wasn't going to give him a second, third or fourth take. Ned was only going to do the brutal scene once. When it came down to shooting it, [Herbert 'Cowboy' Coward] and McKinney were hands-down brilliant. Scared the shit out of everybody who saw the movie. People crawled out of the theater. None of that creepy "squeal, piggy, piggy" stuff was in the script. But McKinney, I swear to God, really wanted to hump Ned. And I think he was going to. He had it up and he was going to bang him. It's the first and only time I have ever seen camera operators turn their heads away. Finally, I couldn't stand it anymore. I ran into the scene, dove on McKinney, and pulled him off. Boorman, hot on my tracks, helped hold him down. Ned, who was crying from both rage and fear, found a big stick and started beating him on the head. Half a dozen guys grabbed Ned and pulled him away. We separated the two of them and let things cool off.

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