Ron G.

Eggs Ozarkia Take a pound of ham, a pound of pork loin, a pound of venison loin and a pound of bacon and grind and mix them altogether with some salt, black pepper, sage and oregano making a sausage. I keep about ten pounds of this sausage in the freezer all the time. Take about a half pound or whatever it takes to feed your family, crumble it up in a skillet with some chopped onion and fry it up. Then take about a half cup or so of flour,then mix it up real good with the fried sausage until it's soaked up the grease. Put in some milk, get the skillet good and hot, and mix it all up, stirring constantly until it becomes gravy. Don't let it come to a boil. Take a nice hot biscuit, split it in half, butter it lightly, then cover the halves with your sausage gravy. Put a fried egg on top of each biscuit and then a slice of extra sharp cheddar cheese. Stick it in the broiler until the cheese melts and eat. Goobered Hash Browns (to go with the eggs Ozarkia) Get some potatoes and grate them into a skillet with hot fat, add some chopped onions, a cup or so of UNSALTED dry roasted peanuts and some chopped sweet green bell pepper. Fry it all up until the potatoes are golden brown, then place them on the plate next to the Eggs Ozarkia. Eat. Best cooked over an open fire and best enjoyed with coffee perked on a campfire. This breakfast is popular those cold November mornings in deer camps here in the Ozarks.

A physician claimed that the following are actual comments made by his patients(predominately male) while he was performing a rectal exam: 1. "Take it easy, Doc. You're boldly going where no man has gone before!" 2. "Find Amelia Earhart yet?" 3. "Can you hear me NOW?" 4. "Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet?" 5. "You know, in Oklahoma, we're now legally married." 6. "Any sign of the trapped miners, Chief?" 7. "You put your left hand in, you take your left hand out..." 8. "Hey! Now I know how a Muppet feels!" 9. "If your hand doesn't fit, you must quit! 10. "Hey Doc, let me know if you find my dignity." 11. "You used to be an executive at Enron, didn't you?" 12. "God, Now I know why I am not gay." And the best one of all... 13. "Could you write a note for my wife saying that my head is not up there."

MTGal... Our Cubs did day camp last week, too. I missed it cuz I was at Boy Scout Camp, but kept tabs. I have a dual identity...on Fridays, I'm the intrepid Assistant Scout Master and on Mondays, I'm the Webelos Leader. Andrew crossed over last May, but I have to remain Webelos leader for at least another year. I have blue epaulets on Monday and red ones on Friday. I'm thinking of velcro on my patches. Remember MTgal...never forget... It's ONLY one hour per week. My 2nd year Webelos' earned 3 activity pins each last week and two will have their Arrow of Light by the time Blue and Gold rolls around. Maybe I'll meet you in a year or two since I'm on the waiting list for Philmont.

No, it means you do as that old Chuck Berry song says and enjoy your ding-a-ling.

When I was in college, I had a sign on my dorm room door that read, "Knock softly and firmly because I like soft and firm knockers." Ahhhh, those were the days!

I was surprised to see the Harry Potter debate still raging. I thought after all the movies to date and and how everyone had been exposed to it, most folks resigned themselves to accepting it as relatively benign. I got to thinking that the debate will likely never go away because Harry Potter books are a symbol. They're symbolic of a greater cultural war going on that's affecting the most primal parts of our psyches...A war for the hearts and minds of our progeny. People take their symbols very seriously. Remember when a great number of Way folks slapped that green logo or a dove on their Bibles, bumpers, windows, lapels, walls, etc. etc.? Then they faithfully attended fellowship, ABS'd, listened to their leaders, obeyed them and directed their lives to be what that symbol represented. There were other symbols like VPW's voice, LCM's style etc. (How many read their Bibles and had the words they read go thru their minds in VPW's voice with his delivery? or LCM's?) People also despise, with equal passion, symbols they perceive as "opposing"? I remember a fellowship one evening in a suburb of San Antonio when, after the coffee and cookies, the guys walked to a nearby construction site where a church was being built, and relieved themselves on a cross that was laying on the site waiting to be put up on the roof of the church. Harry Potter books are symbolic of the pagan/secular/progressive worldview which is seen as dangerous to those who hold an opposing worldview. They're written for children making them not only symbolic of that worldview, but symbolic of the much more deeply felt assault on young minds. They're symbolic of all the evil mentioned in the lead post, in many peoples minds, and for that reason, this debate probably won't end, but rather escalate as the other evils increase. /phsychobabble mode off

Now that my truck is running good, Andrew and I want to come if it's not too far. I wanna try Sudos stew and bring some of my prize winnin chili and some smoked venison. The Buffalo National River, in the heart of the Ozarks, is beautiful in the fall with canoeing, kayaking, white water and fishing.

I wonder if they'll offer a delicious haggis on their menu?

People are still debating Harry Potter books?? Actually, I discourage Andrew from reading it, tho I don't tell him he can't. It's not because of the content, but because books written since 1990 or so have a much, much lower literacy level (Raf might refer to this as "fog level"). The older kids literature is, the more sophisticated the writing, style and vocabulary. He's been reading H.G. Wells, Jack London, Poe and, just so he can feel cool and have something to talk to his buds about, an occassional H.P. Lovecraft story. I recently bought him a biography of William Wallace (remember the movie "Braveheart"?) by G.A. Henty. It was written in the 1890s, I think, and is tedious reading by anyones standards, tho he's doing okay with it. I, personally, think kids should be allowed to read freely (within the parameters of common decency) with lots and lots of parental oversight. I seem to recall...back in the 80's and early 90's...for all the Way rhetoric about secular vs. Way literature...there sure were a lot of Wayfers with their noses stuck in Stephen King books.

Offensive (to some) language contained herein: Mods feel free to move this to a more appropriate forum, if need be. *Hitler[AoE] has joined the game.* *Eisenhower has joined the game.* *paTTon has joined the game.* *MacRthr has joined the game. * *Churchill has joined the game.* *benny-tow has joined the game.* *T0J0 has joined the game.* *Roosevelt has joined the game.* *Stalin has joined the game.* *deGaulle has joined the game.* Roosevelt: hey sup T0J0: y0 Stalin: hi Churchill: hi Hitler[AoE]: cool, i start with panzer tanks! paTTon: lol more like panzy tanks T0JO: lol Roosevelt: o this ****in sucks i got a depression! benny-tow: haha america sux Stalin: hey hitler you dont fight me i dont fight u, cool? Hitler[AoE]; sure whatever Stalin: cool deGaulle: **** Hitler rushed some1 help Hitler[AoE]: lol byebye frenchy Roosevelt: i dont got **** to help, sry Churchill: wtf the luftwaffle is attacking me Roosevelt: get antiair guns Churchill: i cant afford them benny-tow: u n00bs know what team talk is? paTTon: stfu Roosevelt: o yah hit the navajo button guys deGaulle: eisenhower ur worthless come help me quick Eisenhower: i cant do **** til rosevelt gives me an army paTTon: yah hurry the **** up Churchill: d00d im gettin pounded deGaulle: this is ****in weak u guys suck *deGaulle has left the game.* Roosevelt: im gonna attack the axis k? benny-tow: with what? ur wheelchair? benny-tow: lol did u mess up ur legs AND ur head? Hitler[AoE]: ROFLMAO T0J0: lol o no america im comin 4 u Roosevelt: wtf! thats bull**** u fags im gunna kick ur asses T0JO: not without ur harbors u wont! lol Roosevelt: u little bitch ill get u T0J0: mac i'm totally kicking ur foot MacRthr: BRB AFK Hitler[AoE]: wtf Hitler[AoE]: america hax, u had depression and now u got a huge ****in army Hitler[AoE]: thats bull**** u hacker Churchill: lol no more france for u hitler Hitler[AoE]: tojo help me! T0J0: wtf u want me to do, im on the other side of the world retard Hitler[AoE]: fine ill clear you a path Stalin: WTF u asshoel! WE HAD A ****IN TRUCE Hitler[AoE]: i changed my mind lol benny-tow: haha benny-tow: hey ur losing ur guys in africa im gonna need help in italy soon sum1 T0J0: o **** i cant help u i got my hands full Hitler[AoE]: im 2 busy 2 help Roosevelt: yah thats right bitch im comin for ya Stalin: church help me Churchill: like u helped me before? sure ill just sit here Stalin: dont be an foot Churchill: dont be a commie. oops too late Eisenhower: LOL benny-tow: hahahh oh **** help Hitler: o man ur ****ed paTTon: oh what now bitch Roosevelt: whos the cripple now lol *benny-tow has been eliminated.* benny-tow: lame Roosevelt: gj patton paTTon: thnx Hitler[AoE]: WTF eisenhower hax hes killing all my **** Hitler[AoE]: quit u hacker so u dont ruin my record Eisenhower: Nuts! benny~tow: wtf that mean? Eisenhower: meant to say nutsack lol finger slipped paTTon: coming to get u hitler u paper hanging hun .... Stalin: rofl T0J0: HAHAHHAA Hitler[AoE]: u guys are ****in gay Hitler[AoE]: ur never getting in my city *Hitler[AoE] has been eliminated.* benny~tow: OMG u noob you killed yourself Eisenhower: ROFLOLOLOL Stalin: OMG LMAO! Hitler[AoE]: WTF i didnt click there omg this game blows *Hitler[AoE] has left the game* paTTon: hahahhah T0J0: WTF my teammates are n00bs benny~tow: shut up noob Roosevelt: haha wut a moron paTTon: wtf am i gunna do now? Eisenhower: yah me too T0J0: why dont u attack me o thats right u dont got no ships lololol Eisenhower: **** u paTTon: lemme go thru ur base commie Stalin: go to hell lol paTTon: **** this **** im goin afk Eisenhower: yah this is gay MacRthr: k back! *Roosevelt has left the game.* Hitler[AoE]: wtf? Eisenhower: **** now we need some1 to join *tru_m4n has joined the game.* tru_m4n: hi all T0J0: hey Stalin: sup Churchill: hi tru_m4n: OMG OMG OMG i got all his stuff! tru_m4n: NUKES! HOLY **** I GOT NUKES Stalin: d00d gimmie some plz tru_m4n: no way i only got like a couple Stalin: omg dont be gay gimmie nuculer secrets T0J0: wtf is nukes? T0J0: holy ****holy****hoyl****! *T0J0 has been eliminated.* *The Allied team has won the game!* Eisenhower: awesome! Churchill: gg noobs no re T0J0: thats bull**** u ****in suck *T0J0 has left the game.* *Eisenhower has left the game.* Stalin: next game im not going to be on ur team, u guys didnt help me for **** Churchill: wutever, we didnt need ur help neway dumbass tru_m4n: l8r all benny~tow: bye Churchill: l8r Stalin: **** u all MacRthr: **** u commie!!! MacRthr: ur next bitch! tru_m4n: shut up commie lol *tru_m4n has left the game.* benny~tow: lololol u commie Churchill: ROFL Churchill: bye commie *Churchill has left the game.* *benny~tow has left the game.* *MacRthr has left the game.* Stalin: i hate u all fags *Stalin has left the game.* paTTon: lol no1 is left paTTon: weeeee i got a jeep *paTTon has been eliminated.* paTTon: o ****! *paTTon has left the game.*

R.I.P. James Doohan AKA Montgomery Scott

I remember when I lived in San Antonio, there was a huge Polish population. I really enjoyed shooting their weddings (I R a photographer) though there was little difference between a Polish wedding and a Mexican wedding. They both like to form a big circle and dance around the photographer and hand him drinks while he happily snaps away. Loved it, loved it, loved it!!! The highest expression of true multiculturalism was in New Braunfels at Oktoberfest where you get bratwurst or knockwurst with saurkraut and hot salsa wrapped in a tortilla and wash it down with a Corona or Dos Equis. Of course, Sunday morning, you have to get a barbacoa taco with some onion, tomato, cilantro, jalapenos and a little horseradish or the experience just isn't complete. Ya GOTTA love south Texas!! Okay, back to our regularly scheduled thread... Teevee really sucks when you can go to a really cool Mexican or Polish party (reception), take pictures and get paid for it. Who needs teevee, anyway?

Died this evening. Go with God, Westy.

Andrew and I just returned from summer camp. We walked and sweated and walked and swam and walked and made things and walked and learned things and walked and ate camp food and walked and guzzled water and walked and slept and then walked some more. At summer camp, I'm no longer just Andrew's daddy, but Mr. Ron the Scoutmaster of 4 boys. I'm not to give Andrew more attention than the rest. etc. etc. I'll post some pics soon. Did I mention that we walked a lot? We are The Roadrunners Patrol of Troop 111 (This was our designation at camp...the rest of the time, we're the Roadrunner patrol, Troop 150) By the way, did I mention we walked a lot...uphill and downhill...that may have something to do with why I'm spending the day in front of my computer.

Yes Garth, POLKAS. As deeply southern as I am, I have to admit a closet yankeeness that involves polkas, horseradish, bratwurst, galumpka etc. shhh...don't tell anyone. However, if you ever listen to a Mexican radio station (and I do when I can cuz I like the music and understand enough of the lingo to get by), they play a lot of polka music. Okay, I like Dixieland jazz more, though.

Since I got my DirecTV Satellite system, I've found LOTS of high quality reality teevee that's very useful for both Me and Andrew. The RFD channel offers up tractor pulls, antique tractor shows, ag "how-to's", lotsa good horse training info, Campfire Cafe that offers lotsa great dutch oven recipes for campfire cooking, Cajun Cooking,and for enterainment there's Big Joe's Polka show. The Outdoor Channel has great hunting and fishing info. Boom has old Popeye cartoons where Popeye still eats his spinach and clobbers Bluto, old Looney Tunes, old Tom and Jerry...not this new stupid politically correct crap. Sci Fi has good stuff from time to time...especially old Twilight Zone reruns. Penn and Tellers show called Bull****! is EXCELLENT!!! It's there...ya just gotta look for it.

...And cops genuinely wonder why no one respects them anymore. The lifeguard union will be ****** off, also. http://www.falfiles.com/forums/showthread....threadid=143780 Houston swimmer's rescuer ends up in jail Associated Press SAN MARCOS - A San Marcos man was arrested after rescuing a swimmer from the swirling waters near a restaurant on the San Marcos River over the weekend. Police say Dave Newman, 48, disobeyed repeated orders by emergency personnel to leave the water. The police report does not mention Newman's rescue of 35-year-old Abed Duamni of Houston on Sunday afternoon. "I was amazed," Newman said after getting out of Hays County Law Enforcement Center on $2,000 bail Monday morning. "I had a very uncomfortable night after saving that guy's life. He thanked me for it in front of the police, and then they took me to jail." After being handcuffed and put in a Texas State University police squad car, Newman was taken to jail and charged with interfering with public duties. Duamni, who said he did not see any signs warning swimmers of the dangerous currents, jumped into the water several times before the current caught him. He had just finished eating at the restaurant when he decided to go for a swim. "I reached a point where I said, 'I'm dead,' " Duamni, who was visiting San Marcos, said from his Houston home Monday night. "There's was nothing I could do. I thought, 'That's it, I'm over, I'm gone.'" After reaching Duamni, Newman said he swam with him under a waterfall and deposited him on the shore opposite the restaurant. He could hear law enforcement personnel telling him to come back to the shore by the restaurant. According to the report, Newman smirked and seemed annoyed by officers' requests. He stood in the water for about 15 seconds before swimming downstream, to avoid the turbulence from the waterfall, and across the river to the officers, the report said. "When he came across the river, the officer stuck out his hand like he's going to help him out of the water, and he put cuffs on him," said the Rev. John Parnell, pastor of St. Augustine Old Roman Catholic Church in Fort Worth. According to the police report and witness accounts, the crowd that had gathered to watch the rescue was upset when they saw the police arrest Newman. Parnell and another man blocked the police officer's path to the squad car while other members of the crowd yelled at the police, telling them Newman had saved Duamni's life and should not be arrested. University spokesman Mark Hendricks said he did not know whether Newman rescued Duamni. Hendricks said it was his understanding that Newman was uncooperative with authorities. When Duamni got out of the water, he saw Newman in handcuffs and asked who he was. "I said, 'What's the deal,' and the police said, 'He got you out,'" Duamni said. San Marcos resident Bob Ogletree said he understood why emergency personnel wanted to clear the water, but didn't understand why Newman had to be arrested. In 1999, Texas State University, which owns the dam and the land around it, erected a fence to prohibit access to that part of the river. Later that year, the City Council enacted a swimming ban on that portion of the river. But Newman led a successful campaign to get the fences around the swimming hole removed and the ban relaxed. In April, 22-year-old Jason Lee Bonnin, and a Texas State University student, drowned after he and three other restaurant workers jumped from the eatery into the river.

What would happen if I pulled your finger? (Note to Admins...Was that too political?)

This is a true story with names omitted. It will explain everything... A fifty-ish woman was at home happily jumping on her bed and squealing with delight. Her husband watches her for a while and asks, "Do you have any idea how ridiculous you look? What's the matter with you?" The woman continues to bounce on the bed and says, "I don't care. I just came from having a mammogram and the doctor says I have the breasts of an 18 year-old !!! The husband said, "What did he say about your 56 Year-old foot?" "Your name never came up," she replied.

I noticed there's a basketball team called the Boston Celtics. I also noticed that not very many of them look Celtic. Maybe it's just the owners.

Paul Winchell, Voice of Tigger Dies LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Paul Winchell, a famed ventriloquist best remembered as the voice of the irrepressible Tigger in the Winnie the Pooh series, has died, an associate said on Sunday. He was 82. Winchell died on Friday in the Los Angeles area, according associate Johnny Blue Star and a Web site operated by Winchell's daughter, the actress April Winchell. Winchell was a fixture in American children's television in the 1950s and 1960s in a string of shows featuring him giving voice to the sidekicks he created and made famous, the dummies Jerry Mahoney and Knucklehead Smiff. But it was his voice work on a wide range of cartoons and animated features that captivated a later generation of viewers, including turns as Gargamel of "The Smurfs," Dick Dastardly of "Wacky Races" and Fleegle on "The Banana Splits Adventure Hour." Winchell was most famous for his voicing to the hyperkinetic Tigger in a series of appearances in Walt Disney Co. Winnie the Pooh productions for over three decades beginning in 1968. He won a Grammy in 1974 for "Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too," including the movie's signature song "The Wonderful Thing about Tiggers." On the award-winning soundtrack, Winchell gives a throaty, bouncy rendition to the memorable lyric: "The wonderful thing about tiggers, is tiggers are wonderful things! Their tops are made out of rubber, their bottoms are made out of springs!" Jerry Mahoney, who began with an appearance in a 1936 radio audition, was inspired by ventriloquist Edgar Bergen and his sidekick, Charlie McCarthy, Winchell said. In 1986, Winchell won a nearly $18 million verdict against Metromedia Inc., which he claimed destroyed the only surviving tapes of his "Winchell Mahoney Time" children's show from the mid-1960s after a dispute over ownership rights. Born in New York City in 1922, Winchell devoted energy in his later years to pursuits like publishing on Christian theology and promoting fish farming in Africa, said Johnny Blue Star, who collaborated in a screenplay based on the autobiography "Winch." Winchell was also an inventor with a patent for a prototype artificial heart he built in the 1960s in the same workshop in which he created his ventriloquist dummies, Blue Star said. He also created an "invisible" garter belt, a flameless cigarette lighter and an early version of the disposable razor. "He was more or less a self-taught renaissance man," he said. (Reporting by Paritosh Bansal in Los Angeles) © Reuters 2005. All Rights Reserved.

Since Mickey's gone, there can be no passing of the Mantle.

I'm disappointed. I thought this thread was gonna be about a new movie where Brooke Shields and Tom Cruise were going to square off and duke it out. You know, like Alien vs. Predator or Jason vs. Freddy. Oh well :(-->

I just noticed he's a Cub Scout, not a Boy Scout. At age 11, he must be a Webelos, I'm a trained Webelos leader and he's required to have parental supervision at all times (if an overnighter)...ESPECIALLY doing something like rock climbing. He's to have a buddy at all times and a minimum of 2 trained Scout leaders watching at all times. I don't have any "special needs" boys in my den so I've never had to deal with that. It's my last year as Webelos leader as next year I become Scoutmaster for the Pack. We do have some "special needs" boys there so I'll need some special training for that. I go to Scoutmaster training in July and Wood Badge in Sept, I think. Anyway, the two deep leader rule and buddy system are universal throughout the entire Scout program, so now I'm starting to get curiouser and curiouser about how Brennan got lost in the shuffle like that. I wanna know what went wrong so it don't happen to us.