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CHIEF

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  1. They should really wear bowties, and sing "Buffalo Gal Won't You Come Out Tonight." I'm sure they get all of the "Dames." Pomade guys, for sure, not quite cool enough for Dapper Dan. CHIEF
  2. I'm a 9 1/2B. My favorite boot is my Redwings sized right with the white gum soles. My momma bought me a pair of new Tony Lamas. Full quill, in black. She finally said something profound, "these should last you the rest of your life." CHIEF
  3. Has a very 1930”s Munich beer hall vibe to it. CHIEF
  4. Well, CHIEF Jr. is happier than a pup with two peckers. Palmetto still had the best price but the $899 sale was over, so $1250 later he got what he wanted. I spent enough on the gun, it will be up to him to rig it out like he wants. That is a 22 round capacity mag, also has a flush mount mag that still holds 15 in a double stack. The trigger pull is amazing. 10mm ammo wasn't quite as big as I was expecting. CHIEF
  5. "In the land of aggieland"? Seriously? CHIEF
  6. That was noticeable against Clemson. He threw balls that would be contested to a spot that the receiver was either gonna make a contested catch or draw a DPI. CHIEF
  7. We went to our local sushi joint last night. We know the whole family that owns it. We always sit at the bar to bullshit with them. They are from Hong Kong originally. Of course, they have Christmas music playing, and "Deck the Halls with Boughs of Holly" came on. In true A Christmas Story style Mrs, CHIEF belts out "fa ra ra ra, ra ra ra ra ra ra". I gave her a kick, should have seen the look on her face when she realized what she had just done. Our buddies from Hong Kong just died laughing as she desperately explained that it was from a movie, then they told her to be sure and drink her Ovaltine. CHIEF
  8. I can't wait for aggy to claim they are among the elite in college football, only for the Netflix narrator to say, "Elite? Aren't y'all slightly above average, usually 8-4, with no championship of any kind this century?" CHIEF
  9. The only Lexus to get is the five liter. They are a dinosaur, which I love. The last N/A sport sedan built is the IS 500. I will own one till they don't make them anymore. When I bought the GS-F in 2019, I could have bought an M5 with about the same miles for a couple of grand cheaper. BUT, Edmund's has a feature that shows estimated repair bills, and estimated trade-in value at 100k miles. The Lexus was estimated to have almost $20k less of repair bills and a $20k difference to the positive on trade-in value. It is truly the most cost effective investment in a depreciating asset that I have ever owned. Boring? Probably to some, but not to the other 90% that have never been in a sub five second zero to sixty, 150 mph+ automobile. Ours isn't a garage queen weekend warrior, it's our everyday family hauler, momma's work car, and the primary transportation, to Austin, for football games. So for us, it is practical and dependable. CHIEF'
  10. Yep, page 2. I use two of the oven bags, in case one breaks (they come in a two pack anyway). Drop it in the water till all the air is gone. Cold smoke 2-3 hours afterward. My smoker will still make a crust at a low temp. If yours doesn't may want to put it on a high temp grill and sear it on each side for a couple of minutes between turns. CHIEF
  11. I thought the Earth was flat, but couldn't be a disc, because how can you banish anything or any one to the "four corners of the Earth." CHIEF
  12. Here is a drone operator that says if it were civilians, there would have been arrests already, and a statement made by government officials. If it were aliens, or adversaries they likely would not have lights, and the government would be much more alarmed than what they are projecting. He 100% believes it is our own government operating them. But let's face it. A statement of "The drones are ours. Their mission is classified, but they are there for your protection" would never fly, especially in Jersey. CHIEF
  13. To put this in prospective, I can remember where I watched the game the last time aggy won a conference championship. Mrs. CHIEF, and a six month old CHIEF Jr., and I had gone with my BIL and his pregnant wife to Tequila Texas at the bottom of the hill going up to Jester Estates. My niece, who my pregnant ex-SIL was pregnant with is now a degreed mother with an 18 month old of her own. CHIEF
  14. That middle coin isn't very big. I guess its a "Little Caesars"? CHIEF
  15. That is kinda the rule in rural America, you take what you can get. My F350 spare is still a Michelin take-off of a ranch truck. It is a highway tire, that was taken off of a 6666 Ranch truck in exchange for mud grips. You have a flat in Guthrie, Texas, and you will take anything. CHIEF
  16. I've been guilty of running a harder compound when I want to get more mileage out of a tire. Mrs. CHIEF and I have had soft compound tires on our cars for nearly 30 years. The seller may have thought that you aren't gonna use it in tight corners and don't want you to come back on him as buying tires that wear too fast. This was a common practice in the 80s and 90s in the area where I lived. I remember buying 17" Z-rated tires for $234, a lot of money at the time, and getting 6-8k miles on them, so $2k worth of tires per year, over 25 years ago. CHIEF
  17. Does the car run expensive tires? Maybe he is getting a car with the same tire size, the expensive ones had plenty of meat left, so he removed them and put cheap Chinese tires on it. That cheap bastard. Looking at only 12k miles on the first set, are they soft compound? I know from experience those fuckers ain't cheap. We usually get 10-12k on my wife's car before having to go pay $1200/set for new ones. CHIEF
  18. If not, here is a good Christmas present for your youngest, my son's first gun: https://www.academy.com/p/heritage-rough-rider-22-caliber-revolver-200023427 That is even the same price that I paid for CHIEF Jr.'s twenty years ago. It has had about a million subsonic rounds through it. Pretty quite, and great for plinking. CHIEF
  19. That's why I think there was a hangup with the FAA. Pilots and air traffic controllers would be panicking if they were seeing things on their radar with no visual confirmation. Military was put in a "no win" situation on that. You couldn't keep this under wraps, pilots and air traffic controllers aren't going to sit on that information. CHIEF
  20. This is kinda where I'm at. But, I possibly think there could be something going on that they just can't tell the public, like a "for sure" dirty bomb threat that the intelligence agencies can't disclose without panicking the public. I mean, "radiation detection" has been floated out there. Maybe these drones have such good detection systems, they are scanning planes on final approach and taxiing. As for the lights? Maybe an FAA hangup. It could also be testing radiation detection drones for when Russia collapses and all of their arsenal gets pillaged and goes to the highest bidder. Run the drones in during the initial chaos and confiscate anything you can find. It may be a kinda like a MIB movie, where we come close to annihilation every day, and we are completely oblivious to it, as the intelligence agencies eliminate the threat and we never know. CHIEF
  21. If frog legs are on the menu, my son is going to order them every time. We have access to a ranch with several large stock tanks on it, absolutely filled with huge bull frogs. He and the ranchers son don't use gigs all that much, but throw buzz baits and smaller frog imitations into the bull frogs territory which they attack. He brings them back, and I don't care how many frogs he has, will have his mom fry them up and eat the whole batch himself. I'm lucky to get one leg. If I make an online order to Cajun Grocer, I absolutely have to order frog legs as well. CHIEF
  22. And the name of that cheap, generic, Chinese tire? You guessed it, Bang Ding Ow. A wholly owned subsidiary of Sum Ting Wong. CHIEF
  23. I've been lucky enough to see three. Two smaller ones and a "muy grande" sitting on the side of the road in a snowstorm south of Post, Texas. I was driving a small car, and his eye level was higher than mine. I have not seen the ones, here, in my neighborhood. But our Nextdoor page has probably a dozen photos of them that I do not know how to cut and paste. One of the photos is a big mountain lion sunning on one of my good friend's back porch, in the middle of the day. Someone took the photo of it from the 7th fairway. CHIEF Jr. and one of his buddies used to hunt in some really rough country across the river from us back in junior high. They were young enough that his buddy's dad or myself would drop them off and pick them up. I picked them up after an evening hunt one day and asked them if they saw anything. CHIEF Jr. saw zip, but his buddy said he watched a mother mountain lion and her three cubs play under his stand for over an hour. I was really proud of him as he didn't want to shoot the mother and leave the cubs to starve. I told him that he may be the only person alive to ever get that opportunity in the wild. I've posted this story before on another thread, but can't remember which one. CHIEF
  24. Yes, he was the first to use them, here, in Texas, and was credited with introducing them to the state. He had kennels and about 40 dogs for sale all the time. He never had problems with coyotes but every few years, he would lose a dog or two when they got in a scrape with a mountain lion. As far as melanistic mountain lions, they do exist, I watched one for about 15 minutes walk up our driveway at the ranch. The local game biologist for TPWD told me "black panthers" don't exist, but I know what I saw. It wasn't huge, but probably still weighed 60 pounds. That was about 35 years ago. CHIEF
  25. When I and Mrs. CHIEF first met, we still owned the ranch in Bosque county. It was Angora goat country, so there were plenty of mountain lions. We went to go sit in a blind for an evening hunt. As we got close to the blind I could smell a goat carcass across the fence. We hoped over the fence to inspect it. It was about half eaten and had cat prints all around it, and the tracks were huge. The neighbor had Commodore dogs and some donkeys for guarding the goats. But cougars are smart, they appear in the front of the goat herd, and when the dogs and donkeys run up to protect the front of the herd, they will sneak around to the back of the herd and pick off a goat. Mrs. CHIEF was a young, naive, city girl, and had never much heard a donkey bray, so when one of the donkeys went off about a hundred yards away, I had her convinced that it was the mountain lion upset that we were near his kill. She was absolutely mortified. She was in tears thinking we were gonna get attacked on the way back to the truck. I felt so bad, I finally fessed up that it was a donkey. Still cannot, to this day, believe that she didn't know what the sound was. CHIEF
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