KeesKennis

We spend a splendid afternoon at Grandad's.
Did you know that he was Lawman?
The hospitality was the best that I have experienced in a long time.
I never knew that skunk was that tasty.
I loved his old police dogs.
Long Dog of the Law is something to behold.
His other dog Sniffer, that he used to smell out crack with, gave the neighbours daughter a scare though.

I was allowed to post a comment at MC's place.

mostly cajun said...
I am pleased that somehow I have brought a small joy into your day...
MC
Saturday, March 29, 2008 3:59:00 AM

A commenter said here "There aren't many poles that bright at the top"
Well I can tell that as a "Typical white Pole" I move in higher Polish circles that he does.
Daminsky.
Plosavsky.
And so onsky.
And so I went to an optometrist for a a checkup and was asked to read a diminishing chart of letters.
When we got to the last rows that read :

I exclaimed:
"Of course I can read that, I also know the man and I did not sleep with his Wife, like it says there, I only visited his mother, scouts honour.

Two baby seals walk into a club.

Comments:
Bwah-hah-hah-hahhhh! I am so stealing that joke.
No: borrowing.
Because I'll give you credit. Or blame, as needs be.
Elisson Homepage 04.01.08 - 6:51 pm #

GUYK said...
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA you are about as weird as I am
Saturday, March 29, 2008 3:03:00 AM



Love it! I'm going to be telling it lots come Monday morning.
Erica Homepage 03.29.08 - 4:41 am #

Comments:

Grandpa-Old Soldier said...
That is amazing. Tie a line on it's leg and let the bird do all the work.
Friday, March 28, 2008 5:21:00 PM

BobG said...
Some damn good photography there.
Friday, March 28, 2008 7:10:00 PM

KeesKennis said...
9 cameras including two underwater at a different location about a month later.And voila!"

They all look the same to me", comes to mind.
Friday, March 28, 2008 10:45:00 PM

maxx said...
Very cool pic. If I can get a pic of some Loons with their young this summer I'll send 'em to ya.
Saturday, March 29, 2008 2:32:00 AM

Joan of Argghh! said...
Actually, she's 3 short for my auld household.I'm glad to be here. I wish I could comment more, but your sidebar comments overrun the frame and block me from being able to select the comment feature on the current posts. It's prolly my Firefox out of date again.
Saturday, March 29, 2008 3:54:00 PM

"I'd better find my Rittelin or I'll kill myself"

"I just don't know where I put it"

For my heading to be correct I presume that the streetlamp is working with 220 or 110 volt.

Is this person on her way to play knives with Yabu or Eric?
Obviously she is as keen as a blade.

Comments:
Ole Phat Stu said...
Wrong motorcycle though!She should be riding a Fireblade or -preferably - a Katana ;-)
StuPS:
have a knife day ;-)
Monday, March 24, 2008 7:07:00 PM

Yabu said...
My kind of woman...for sure...
Tuesday, March 25, 2008 12:48:00 PM

I like her already.
# posted by george.w : Saturday, March 29, 2008 10:36:00

Bill Hiltons commented that this photo by his wife was Hobbes like

The fact that Bill Watterson drew him with stripes is so wrong.

Some other nice cheetah shots, by the Hiltons can be found here.

Slhas's take on the whole Hobbes is a tiger thing.

Nobody in this world can call Bill Wattererson "ignorant" but as to whether Hobbes is a tiger or a cheetah is equal to Weismuller riding an Indian elephant in the first Tarzan movies

THIS IS THE SECOND POST THAT I REFERED TO IN THE POST BELOW

One man is always a minority.
I am lonely because my wife is not with me.
The body politic of the USA does affect my life.
From my blogroll, that I chose to put up, there are two sides.

THREE ACTUALY (MAYBE EVEN FOUR or FIVE)

THE LEFT
Winston is for B. Obama.
So is that other big brain, George Wiman, masquerading as Decrepit old fool.
Barista, a voice of reason from Australia would like B'OB to win.
My sister living in Salt Lake City and operating as a professor of Gender Studies, is most prrobably torn between, the first Black President and the First Woman president.
Hey if Stu could vote he would not vote for a bigger mac(ain), I'd say.
Besides my Sis these boytjies have got brains, what is it that I miss.
That girlie has got brains where you think hair grows.

THE CENTRE
Elisson, besides not getting killed on Easter weekend, he has no pollitics.
Eric, My favourite marine since "leftenant" Julie, in 1978 in Angola, is mute about his politics.
Vman is most likely going for the meat, but who knows?, the pickings might be slim.
Bonita: My Take: She loves freedom, and might vote right, because of that.

THE RIGHT
Sub heading : IT IS McAIN OR WHAT?
Rodger, supported by a certain Barn Army Scout, likes holding our noses and voting GOP, except I don't vote in this election.
Guyk will be pinching his nostrils as well.
The other "Typical White Persons" might vote for Mcain as well.
Mad Ogre
Ms Joan
Kim
Denny, might at a pinch, go for the mCain, you never know if these ex IBM chaps get the spelling right.
Ed, is a typical white pervert and I expect him to vote such.
A Surrprise, we might even have a female Yewish person like the Broeklenette voting for the Mac(ain)
Jimbo, this is a guess, never stated, but a person that thinks right.
Blob, is a very troublesome one, I have only won a single competition over at that blobly place despite an "exelant" and other high comments, and now that he is not controlled by a ferret rash anymore, he might just wake up in time to vote right, the asshole.
Jim, as a judicial officer in Yersey (hey mate I did not name you as a fucking laywer, be gratefull) and as a worldwide pundit on Brooklyn Nudes, I think that he will vote for the Mac come November
Libby, ?:?
Mostly Cajun, a rock and a hard spot at the same time, older than me , but a lot of fun, dislikes stupid stupid peeps and is a ringer to vote for anybody that he alows to comment on his blog, that excludes me.
Grandpa is rock solid and will vote for the Mc or die while holding his breath
Once the Hog stops shooting 7 inch 2 inch groupings he might just realise that a target is not a store and that we have to be still for 9 seconds at least, before we vote, fuckitttt.
Oh. I have now ridden in a Prius. May God have mercy on my soul. A very brainy righty, I would say

OTHERS
Bane, will not be counted, as he will have to make the time to vote in between maiming and killing others and shooting deer at ridicules distances and making love to his wife etc, whilst choosing oppertunities when the goddess is quiet and he is the boss arround the place, ye gods, I wish I had that much time.
Kim, the Kim with boobs and other things, shall we say, that make her more, touchable. I mean the one that is tired of campaigning allready, not to be confused with Kim above, she also has, or the ca thas her by the balls, so to speak, yoy get my drift, speak to the horses mouth.

I DON"T EVEN KNOW HOW TO GRADE YOU IN THIS POST
Maeve, me and the Cats Mother are rooting for you, girl, you go.

All I can say is that I refer you back to my Previous Post, and that yoused all take notice, that is if y'all can fuckin read.

Comments:
Jim - PRS said...
You've got me right. I would vote for Satan before I would vote for Hillary or Obama.
Sunday, March 23, 2008 7:06:00 AM

Kim said...
Holy crap. I'm grouped with Bane. I'm sure he'd not be pleased. However, I do like the "not so certainly counted" aspect. Because, I can't be depended on to vote one lockstep way. We're fairly screwed on many issues in this election. My main thing is the basics-protect our country and stop fucking with the rest of it. I worry that a couple of them aren't capable of that.
I think I posted in the wrong thread earlier.
Sunday, March 23, 2008 7:39:00 AM

Winston said...
How did you know? You obviously read many more conservative blogs than liberal blogs, else your Left list would be much longer.
Jim acknowledges in his comment that McCain is Satan.
Interesting...With so many diverse opinions, it is good that we can sit down at the end of the day, have a few beers, and laugh it off. Well, most of us can...
Sunday, March 23, 2008 3:07:00 PM


GUYK said...
yep, you got me pegged right although holding my nose may not be enough..they may have to come into clean up the puke after I vote for McCain.
The irony is that the dim-a-crits are probably gonna lose one they should have won simply because the party leaders thought Hillary had a lock on the nomination and didn't try to support a middle of the road..Reagan type..democrat.
The party has swung so far towards socialism that this election may well be its last grab at the gold ring..and I figure they will miss it.
But they shouldn't despair..McCain is father to the left than was Harry Truman..the last of the democrat presidents that had the ability to understand that without capitalists socialist will have nothing to eat..and McCain understands that as well.
Sunday, March 23, 2008 3:28:00 PM

Awww... come on! I can't be THAT much older...
And I just redid the spam blocker on my blog, so you may be able to get through now...
It's letting GuyK and Decrepit Old Fool in...
And you're just my brother on the other continent, so you KNOW you're always welcome...
MCmostly cajun Homepage 03.23.08 - 6:00 pm #

BobG said...
What GuyK said goes for me.
Sunday, March 23, 2008 4:58:00 PM

george.w said...
LOL Yep, you pegged me and I'm glad you did 'cause Winston stopped by to say hello!
I voted for Reagan but he cured me and I have voted Democrat ever since.
GUYK is probably right I'll be pleasantly surprised if the Democrats don't manage to screw this one up and let McCain win...
Sunday, March 23, 2008 5:41:00 PM

Ole Phat Stu said...
Of course I'll be voting in the merkin election! Everywhere there's a Diebold machine, there's a back door for us furriners to hack in ;-)
Sunday, March 23, 2008 8:06:00 PM

george.w said...
"Of course I'll be voting in the merkin election! Everywhere there's a Diebold machine, there's a back door for us furriners to hack in ;-)
"Ha-ha... good one, LOL! (Looks worried) ;-)
Saturday, March 29, 2008 10:41:00 PM

Maeve said...
HA! I always knew I was in a class by myself!Oh no, wait. I got you & the cat's mother!Suhweeet! We'll have a good time for sure!!
Tuesday, March 25, 2008 7:31:00 AM

Bonita said...
I'll vote for anyone who will refuse to be president - if asked to run.
Tuesday, March 25, 2008 7:51:00 AM

... I'm actually slightly to the right.... I just don't blog about it because it gets me angry.... and hey, my blog is all about being my happy place...... hey, the peach tree is blooming!....
(which is much more interesting than politics).....
Eric Homepage 03.25.08 - 4:09 pm #

I hate maudlin but everytime I depart for out of country work, I get maudlin.
This is the third day without my premier Pumkin and I already hate the whole world.
Elisson got me partly cheered up when he gave me the sing along here, that "Yay, team!" sent me down a cliff though.

Another take

Wockyjabber

Hilbert Schenck, Jr.

'Twas finite, and the polar cusp,
Orthogonal to the secant lay.
The semi-tacnode operates onT
he Gudermanian of A.

"Beware the integral, my son,
With shape of non-symmetric bell,
Beware old Van der Pol, and shun
The curious vector del."

He took his program in his hand.
Long hours the real root he sought.
Then rested by the storage drums,
And sat awhile in thought.

And as in tedious thought he sat,
The integral without a name,
Rose from a skewed, conformal map,
Diverging as it came!

Pi-e, Pi-e, and x, y, z,
The digital went clicky-clack.
He found the norm in series form,
And brought the work sheets back.

"Oh, hast thou solved the integral?
Here is a raise, my brainish boy!"
He threw his time cards in the air
And clapped his hands with joy.

'Twas finite, and the polar cusp,
Orthogonal to the secant lay.
The semi-tacnode operates on
The Gudermanian of A.

Schenck, Jr., Hilbert, "Wockyjabber". In Fantasy and Science Fiction, May 1960. © 1960 Mercury Press, Inc.

Wow what a sight for sore eyes.
A photo like this takes my breath away.

Stu says
Quoting Einstein on PI day ;-)
and
Almost finished with PI?

DOF says
Talk like a physicist dayYarr!
Elisson says
The Pi-Rate.

Kees says
PI is round and not "circumferance = pi are squared"
And the grammer is wrong
Except maybe for vegetarian pies.
"© Stu Savory, 2004.
= 3.14159 26535 89793 23846 26433 83279 50288 41971 ...
is the ratio of the circumference of any convex curve of constant diameter to that diameter. Usually a circle is stated, but this more precise definition includes e.g. Wankel rotors, and others of that ilk with more than the Wankel's three lobes :-) "

Kees at the wheel again: " Whaaat?" (I like my frontal lobes and do not want frontal lobotomy)

When Kees was about 7 years old he developed a need for PI.
How can this be?
Easy.
Me and my younger brother was playing at developing the biggest circus and thus the biggest tent in the world.
(that world would have included all of Marikana, a share of Rustenburg and a small part of Pretoria)
But I digress.
As we knew that, unless you wanted your tent to blow away, you had to put a peg to hold it down every 2 yards. (these yards were real yards as SA only went metric after this)
(Obviously our tent have blown away recently)
The big Question was, "How many pegs do we need"
We pondered this for some time.
My brother, only 5 at the time, retired when my Mom called us to come and bath.
I didn't like bathing then as I don't like bathing now, and I stayed out.
Forming circles and tracing bigger and bigger circles in the dust.

Then I twigged.
There is a constant that relates a circle's diameter to it's circumferance.

It is as simple as that

My Dad was sent out to fetch me in.
He found me with my boyish brow all furrowed up and thinking deeply.
Dad: "Why didn't you come in when your Mother called"
Keesie: "Will a circle always be 3 times longer on the outside than across?"
Dad: "Whaaat?"
Keesie: "Dad you are so not listening to me, this is important"
Dad: "Please repeat that question"
Keesie: "OK, you have this circle, like a tent, if you make it bigger will the around yards always be 3 times the across yards?"
Keesie: Strugling: "No I do not want be picked up and turned upside down and kissed like this"
Dad: "Let's go and bath before your mother kills both of us and I will answer your question"

Thus cleaned of dirt and allowed to stay up I got my early grounding on PI.

Thus 46 years later I can give you Mi version of PI.


What do you want to use it for?
To calculate the number of pegs you need for your round tent of 2 meters diameter?
PI=3 x 2m= dia = 6 m will be the circumference and you will do do fine.
IE. 1 peg every meter plus two for the door = 8 pegs, simple.

To calculate the number of Gold coins that you can pack on the circumference of a circle that is 1 yards, 22 and a three quarter inch in diameter will (depending on the price of gold) need something that Stu uses.

For all of us it is mostly a number, to some of us it is magic and to others a pleasure.

To calculate the volume of a relativly low cost product like "Compacted earth" I use 3.142 as the price of compacted earth is low enough that it makes no commercial diff's one way or the other.

For Concrete and more costly Items like Steel and Lead I still use 3.142 as 3.1419 will give me less.

I'm a whore and PI proves it.

NOTE:
None of the information should be tried at home without the supervision of a sexy math teacher.
All complaints will be investigated on the provision of the photos of the sexy math teacher.



We still can't calculate hoe many trumpets to blow to crumble one yard of wall as they did not give us the diameter of Jericho.

Comments:

Grandpa-Old Soldier said...
I am sure you know that PI is equal to the center of the equinox devided by the labor of all that is not. But on the other hand it is also the same. Judgeing from what the elevation of the sum of =/2 to the 3rd power it all is the sum of the negative of the rest. Thus pi is squared.
Friday, March 21, 2008 8:16:00 AM

Elisson said...

e^^x dy dy

e^^x dy

cos sec tan sin

3.14159

Yay, team!

- Mathlete's Cheer
Friday, March 21, 2008 7:21:00 PM

Ole Phat Stu said...
Sir,

I bear a rhyme excelling

in mystic force and magic spelling

celestial sprites elucidate

all my own telling can't relate ...

Friday, March 21, 2008 11:08:00 PM

My friend Rex has a daughter that has started to blog, go and give her a high five.

Comments:

Editor said...
thank you, all the kids love your great pictures.They also marvel that you are the only person they actually know that has shot and killed a dinosaur.
Thursday, March 20, 2008 9:31:00 PM
KeesKennis said...
You and I should start sh*t producing factory, we will make millions.
Thursday, March 20, 2008 11:19:00 PM

With some help.

Comments:
ROFLMAO!
Maeve Homepage 03.20.08 - 6:07 pm #

Thanks MaeveI also thought that was pretty funny.
keeskennis Homepage 03.20.08 - 11:12 pm #

Guns.
Booze.
Under thirty's.
The above three is a scary group.
I the Afrikaans community in SA it was common that if your nickname was "Horse", your younger brother would be called "Foal", regardless of the characteristics that gave you your name.
So it was with "Perd" and "Vulletjie", the elder "Horse" about 27 years old and the younger "Foal" 19 years old.
Kees was a very mature 23 years old "Kees".
I must add here that despite my wild, wild nature, older people loved and respected me, and Perd and Vulletjies Father and Mother was no exception.
Perd and myself was the best of friends, hunting, whoring and womanizing together.
We dragged Vulletjie along to a couple of these happenings and he tended to grow up far beyond his years.
So, as it always happens, Perd had to depart to other shores. I promised and he made me promise, that I would look after Vulletjie.
A group of 19 year olds, Vulletjie amongst them, planned a Big Booze up and Braai (Barbeque) on the banks of local river, to celebrate their last days at school.
None of the parents was going to let this happen if they were not there, and none of the youngsters were going to be there if their parents were there.
Stalemate.
Enter Kees
Someone suggested that I host that party. Everybody including myself agreed.
Many mothers and Fathers came by and told me tidbits about their sons and daughters, and how to control them. I listened and learned.
The party was a huge success, we had drunkenness, nudity, fisticuffs, sex and the whole lot.
I was the great controller.
Before the parents came back the next afternoon, all the bottles/condoms/pot pipes, panties and other evidence, have been removed.
OH, I must add that, as the controller, I confiscated all car/bakkie/van keys and all firearms, body searches were involved.
So the class of 19 - - was cleared and ready to go elsewhere.
I suppose we could all sing now, as they say in the bible when there is a musical break.
"Sela"
But, about ten of the "older than their years suggest" youngsters had another party orginised for the next night at the same grounds.
Again I was asked to supervise and I had a co-supervisor, a very sexy 26 year old girl/woman thrusted apon me, I accepeted gladly/lustily.
As I was used to looking after people less responsible than me, I took my duties very seriously, I unpacked and searched every bag and car for drugs, firearms or alcohol.
I did not consficate all but used my judgement and that was why I was asked time and again to perform these duties/pleasures.
This after/after party, with this sexy cohost, Margie was her name, made me drop my guard a tad.
I was mostly thinking of THIS THING when Vulletjie smuggeled a .22 Star pistol into the inside arena, past me.

I would normaly make vast amounts of money by selling alcohol to those who attended these parties, and this night was no exception.

The party was wild, the co-hostess was performing to expectations and more.

Finaly the lights were dimming and Kees was looking forward to some sleep and sex and the whole scene was dying down and we were preparing to sing "Ould sang lye" when it all fell apart.

A very drunk Vulletjie produced this . 22 Star and pointed it wavingly at his temple.

"The whole world sucks"

"You all suck"

"I want my brother Perd"

"I am going to shoot my brains out"


Lots of stunned silence and a lot of slurring ensued.

We were all sitting in a circle around a fire, Ms hot-co-host, Margie, between me and Vulletjie.

Kees, being fairly sober, until a hour or so ago, leans back and grabs the first piece of wood that he finds, a 3 feet by 2 inch dia piece, and whacks Vulletjie from behind, with a mighty blow to the skull.

"Thank God I didn't kill him."

He slumps to the ground, bleeding from a two inch gash to his head.

While I rush the now bubbling/bleeding patient to the hospital Margie guides the rest to their tents.

Luckilly I know the doctor, Henk, at the local hospital and he quickly stitches up the gash in Vulletjies head and puts him to sleep for another 4 hours.

A blissfull late morning ensues, the co-host proclaims it a woody success.

No complications and I retain my crown.

Fast Forward one year.

Both Perd and Vulletjie and their parents and other parents and participants have come to me and said I have handled the situation well.

Then, Henk, the doctor at the hospital, and I, meet at a fuction and we talk about this and that and then he tells me about that incident:

"Next time, if you can't find a smaller piece if wood, and it is a .22, let him shoot himself, it will cause less damage"

Henk then introduces me to his newly aquired wife.
Henk: "Margie, please meet Kees, he is the one that used that big piece of wood"
Margie: "Yes I know, he'll have to find a good doctor to stitch up the wounds every time, hallo Kees"

"Sela"

A big piece of wood

"Sela"

Comments:

Bane said...
Very nice writing, Keesie.
Wednesday, March 19, 2008 2:43:00 AM

BobG said...
"Next time, if you can't find a smaller piece if wood, and it is a .22, let him shoot himself, it will cause less damage"I was thinking the same thing...
Wednesday, March 19, 2008 4:45:00 AM

Ralphd00d said...
Good Story!
Wednesday, March 19, 2008 7:46:00 PM

Elisson said...
This may be the best post you've ever written, Keesie. It's a great story that tells us a lot about you. Plus it has violence. And a big stick of wood.

Heerlijk!
Thursday, March 20, 2008 4:53:00 AM

Eric said...
... actually, it is good that you hit him in the head.... that .22 would have been the end of him....
Thursday, March 20, 2008 3:40:00 PM

No wonder, no wonder, no wonder I grew up all screwed up.
My anointed, is that appointed?, teacher Elisson can please explain how, your, yours, your's, youre, youre's, yous all, you's all, ya all and your'es, should be applied, sounds like a lot of yoos to me.
Inveigling me I will shut up about.

Comments:
BobG said...
Erica has a better idea; "all youse" works for almost every situation.
Tuesday, March 18, 2008 2:17:00 AM
Joan of Argghh! said...
no wonder I grew up all screwed up.Why? What was in YOUR pants?:o)Oh, and here in the South, ya'll works for most everyone.
Tuesday, March 18, 2008 2:35:00 AM
BobG said...
Of course it depends on which part of the South; in some places "ya'll" is singular, and "all ya'll" is plural.
Tuesday, March 18, 2008 3:46:00 AM
Elisson said...
"Show me yours."Superfluous apostrophes will be the death of us all...and if there's anyone left, they will choke on my fifty-cent words.
Tuesday, March 18, 2008 1:19:00 PM
KeesKennis said...
Done
Tuesday, March 18, 2008 6:14:00 PM
Ole Phat Stu said...
See also http://poosk.com/wp-content/themes/poosk/images/YoureNext.jpg
Tuesday, March 18, 2008 8:22:00 PM
Ralphd00d said...
I like the lil girl saying "This is what I am going to control you with when we're older."
Tuesday, March 18, 2008 9:01:00 PM
old soldier said...
Hey mine is bigger than yours, oh where is yours
BobG said...
Or maybe the boy said, "Whew, what's that smell?"
Friday, March 21, 2008 3:54:00 AM

You know I wouldn't do that even if I used one of the arms lying in the foreground.
Don't worry, it is all window dressing after all.
Maybe Rodger can do better with the picture, maybe I stole the picture from him, I can't remember, but who cares, a link is a link.

Like Rex (where I stole the piccie from) I will admit that Guyk still has a problem or two.

The old but very fast Keesie rendered this

With Blob running such a 16 and under blog, my chances of winning is 1 : 999,999,993

Visit him and judge for yourself, and of course try to change his incorruptible mind.

You are not allowed to enter your own, better, more up to date PS yourself.

UH OH !!

That first picture is not from Blob but another bloggers entry in the PS competion.

HERE COMES PLAN B

The real picture that the Blob gave us

And then I had to quickly do a new PS as the time was flying (only about 1 day and 12 hours left before judging) Blow is my new labouriously crafted new entry.

With Blob still running such a 16 and under blog, my chances of winning have increased to about 1 : 999,999,991 as the Blob must give recognition for fast action.

Keesie has once again proven that he can opperate under severe stress.

AND NOW AFTER ALL THAT WE RELEASE THE MOVIE
===

Comments:

GUYK said...
BAWAHAHAHAHA
Sunday, March 16, 2008 8:14:00 PM
Cowboy Blob said...
Kees, it's a good thing I saw this at a friend's house, cuz it takes forever to load on my dial-up. :)
Tuesday, March 18, 2008 4:10:00 AM

I found the sign above rather funny but ......

Yabu, Guy, Dax, Rodger, Vman, Eric, MC, Maeve, H2O, Erica(she of the Clock 22 in 40 cal), Hah, Rex (not so much) and others from my "Bloggers I read" sidebar and those that actualy visit here every now and again that comes to mind, that I do not want to fuck with. And I do mean that in a manly physical sense, as SWG has expressed the desire to kiss me.
And the fact that Jim, Eli, BobG and others can slew my ass into jail without the use of arms or force, makes me not to fuck with them either, but as I was new Eli did mention the sweaty madness of Bane.

Now you must realise that I have spent a lot of energy teaching peeps how to live, and I have had no fucking success. This will prove no exception, except, hopefully, that he will go forward believing that we/he/she are not alone.

And most chicks can kick my ass, but he cannot write and publish this shit without a NO,NO

So I take on the biggest, bad-assest, old fucker on my sidebar, the fact that he has only given me one link is immaterail, really.

HE STATES. Tuesday, March 11, 2008

I Guess...

My answers or comments in italics and bold

I Guess...
...that I just must be some kind of a freak. I read lots of gun blogs because, hey, I like guns, and I hear guys confidently claiming that certain guns won't shoot certain things at certain distances.

We all hear that at some stage.

Making claims about accuracy that sound like point blank shooting to me.
Makes me feel like some sort of idiot savant.

Idiot, I don't know, savant, yes, my drooling cousin can do that.

One morning, I think I was about 19 or twenty, I woke up to a bunch of Bluejays in a cherry tree out in my yard, screeching over all of the cherries, and dammit, I had a damn hangover, and was still slightly pasted, so I grabbed my 18 shot Winchester .22 I kept next to the bed, and shot them all through the screen, in a matter of seconds. And fell back into my coma.
18 birds, in less than 18 seconds. They didn't have a chance.

What, it took you 18 seconds?, my oldest savant cousin could do it in 2 seconds if they had the proper double barrelled shotgun, maybe it was the coma.

What, you can't do that?

YES?, NO?.

Not my problem.I tell people I killed many a deer, many of them out to 100 yards or so, with that .22, and they scoff.

Maybe I am not people, I have killed deer and Buck to up to 150 meters, (not yards) with a 22 and 222, all mine were at the break off dawn when the sky is not distorted by heatwaves.

Again, not my problem.
I grew up with a slingshot in my back pocket at all times.

At 54 I still have a pair.

Because of my weird eyes, I could follow the trajectory of the various projectiles I fired. When I graduated to bullets, I found that I can see them, as they fly towards whatever I'm shooting at.

This is the minimum that we expect from a SA sharpshooter.

I'm good up to about .308, and then I can only sense where they go, not see. And I thought everybody could do it.

At somany foot per second our natural eyes fail us, I have proved a motoring offence wrong in court because I could judge speed in a BIG TRUCK better than the radar equipment the cops had.
(I can Never prove this again)

I don't think I ever missed a baseball in PE class. They just slow down, and I whack them.

There is a curved ball out there for even Bane, hit them while you can.

Wanna take a swing at me? Fine. I'll watch it come, watch your whole body for that matter (all movement comes from the spine) and then

(I am inserting this comma)

I'll decide if I want to fuck you up, and how badly.

Your wish and how badly you want it, your move.

And I thought everybody could do this.
Now that I know different, it still keeps me humble, in case I meet someone else like me.
Pain sucks.

And it should keep you more humble

Hey, the list of shit I cannot do is far longer than the list of what I can.
I suck at math.
Hate it.
I see an equation, and I have to go crap.

I love Math, go and crap until your ears are clean enough to listen.

I know biology, but I hate it, memorizing all of that irrelevant shit.
I enjoy astronomy, but beyond the moon, and the Big Dipper,
I don't know shit.

Very True

I have always admired the Samurai tradition, and thus can cook, sew, paint and draw, write poetry, and...
I can pick up any weapon, even one I've never held before, and fire a bolt or a bullet through your eyeball and into your brain with it.

You think?
YOU ARE NOT, and please write on, I like you're style.

And I literally thought, for the longest time, that everybody could do that.

A lot of peeps can, really.

Bane could get me back of course, except I don't write as good or as long.
TOUGH SHIT