vBCms Comments

Welcome To Hunting Country

    Site News & Announcements (34)
    New Member Introductions (142)

General Hunting Forums

    After the Hunt - Recipes / Cooking (59)
    Waterfowl, and Small Birds (15)
    Big Game General (47)
    Turkey Hunting (60)
    Small Game (11)
    Whitetail / Mule Deer Forum (149)
    Pigs & Exotics (11)
    General Gear and Hunting Accessories (59)

Archery & Bowhunting

    Archery Gear Talk - Compounds (80)
    Archery Gear Talk - Accessories (28)
    Bowhunting (153)
    Archery Gear Talk - Crossbows (7)

Shooting Sports

    Gun / Rifle Target Shooting (17)
    Archery Target/Tournament Shooting (5)

Manufacturers' Corner

    Product Announcements (2)
    Promotions and News (6)

Firearms

    Black Powder (1)
    AR Talk (15)
    Guns & Rifles (88)
    Reloading (12)

Classifieds

    Fishing Gear (1)
    General & Misc (3)
    Archery Equipment (17)
    Guns & Firearms (11)
    Camping & Hiking (0)

Not Hunting / General Chit Chat

    Podunk Corner (1588)
    Photography (118)
    Fishing Chat (46)
1.) DParker - 01/14/2016
Only 2 weeks into the new year and we've lost David Bowie, Pat Harrington ("Schneider" on [I]One Day At A Time[/I] in the '70s), several well-known actors you know on sight but whose names you'd never recognize, and now one of my favorites....Alan Rickman (An awesome actor. I didn't even know he was 69, let alone battling cancer).

By Grabthar's hammer, by the suns of Worvan...he will be avenged!



ETA: Natalie Cole and Wayne Rogers ("Trapper John" on the M*A*S*H series) just missed the list, passing on Dec. 31, 2015.
2.) Swamp Fox - 01/14/2016
Ch Ch Ch Changes...


I was surprised no one said anything about Bowie until now.

Apparently Rickman was quite something.

Absolutely could not stand[I] MASH[/I], but enjoyed Wayne Rogers' later career.




Yippee ki yay, all...and I mean that in a nice way.
3.) Deerminator - 01/14/2016
:pray::beer:
4.) bluecat - 01/14/2016
I don't think technically Bowie is dead. He's just offline for awhile.
5.) DParker - 01/14/2016
[QUOTE=bluecat;38186]I don't think technically Bowie is dead. He's just offline for awhile.[/QUOTE]

Care to speculate on Keith Richards' status?

6.) bluecat - 01/14/2016
LOL, wow, just shaking my head.


I do see a couple of shortcuts and shipping routes that I never knew existed.
7.) bluecat - 01/14/2016
[QUOTE=DParker;38180]


[/QUOTE]

The good news is that maybe now he can get those detonators.
8.) bluecat - 01/14/2016
[QUOTE=DParker;38187]Care to speculate on Keith Richards' status?

[/QUOTE]

I see a line of cars and they're all painted black.
9.) luv2bowhunt - 01/14/2016
You can tell Keith has really been working out over the years.
10.) Swamp Fox - 01/14/2016
LOL...


This is a tough crowd. :-)



This is Major Tom to Ground Control
I'm stepping through the door
And I'm floating
in a most peculiar way
And the stars look very different today

For here
Am I sitting in a tin can
Far above the world
Planet Earth is blue
And there's nothing I can do

Though I'm past
one hundred thousand miles
I'm feeling very still
And I think my spaceship knows which way to go
Tell my wife I love her very much
she knows








11.) bluecat - 01/14/2016
Can't forget his other important contribution

12.) DParker - 01/14/2016
The good thing is that whenever I think of David Bowie I think of him singing [I]Cat People[/I]...which conjures images of Nastassja Kinski.

13.) bluecat - 01/15/2016
14.) bluecat - 01/15/2016
The Love Boat will never be the same.
15.) Swamp Fox - 01/15/2016
Is that a [I]Titanic [/I]reference?

I thought that song was never going to go away.

By the way, ten sticky thumbs up for the [I]Paint It Black[/I] reference in a thread about death, LOL.


Somebody has to clue me in on DParker's picture of the kid sitting in the easychair, though. :-) (after the Farrah references)
16.) bluecat - 01/15/2016
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;38206]Is that a [I]Titanic [/I]reference? [/QUOTE]


There's a rumour going round that he used to captain the Love Boat before becoming a french multi-million dollar music manager for Celine.






[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;38206]
By the way, ten sticky thumbs up for the [I]Paint It Black[/I] reference in a thread about death, LOL.
[/QUOTE]

:-)




[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;38206]
Somebody has to clue me in on DParker's picture of the kid sitting in the easychair, though. :-) (after the Farrah references)[/QUOTE]


I have no idea what DParker was up to there. It probably had to do with some rare imported vodka most likely.
17.) DParker - 01/15/2016
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;38206]Somebody has to clue me in on DParker's picture of the kid sitting in the easychair, though. :-) (after the Farrah references)[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=bluecat;38207]I have no idea what DParker was up to there. It probably had to do with some rare imported vodka most likely.[/QUOTE]

Are you seriously telling me that neither of you slack-jawed.....er....gentlemen....have ever seen this movie?



Look, it's like I tell all of the highly educated immigrants I interact with on my job: In this country we communicate in terms of pop culture references (movies, hit songs, etc). If you're going to speak the language, you've got to spend time in front of the tube.
18.) bluecat - 01/15/2016
Looks like I've got some homework.
19.) DParker - 01/15/2016
Damn...another one gone. Dan "Grizzly Adams" Haggerty, age 74.

20.) bluecat - 01/15/2016
Which one?
21.) DParker - 01/15/2016
[QUOTE=bluecat;38213]Which one?[/QUOTE]

The one with hair all over his face...duh.
22.) DParker - 01/19/2016
And now, [i]The Eagles[/i] founder Glenn Frey, age 67.



What he looked like when I saw them at the Las Vegas Convention Center in 1975:

23.) Wild Bob - 01/19/2016
[QUOTE=DParker;38196]The good thing is that whenever I think of David Bowie I think of him singing [I]Cat People[/I]...which conjures images of Nastassja Kinski.

[/QUOTE]

That was one freaky flick back in the day...I was young when it came out and seeing it in the drive-in scared me for life. :wink
24.) DParker - 01/19/2016
[QUOTE=Wild Bob;38333]That was one freaky flick back in the day...I was young when it came out and seeing it in the drive-in scared me for life. :wink[/QUOTE]

I was going to make a joke about seeing a naked woman for the first time.....but I like you Bob. :grin:
25.) Wild Bob - 01/19/2016
Hahahhahhaa!

I guess I would have deserved that if you did... with a lead in like that! Thanks for sparing me though. Her naked; now I was pretty into that... I was more focused on remembering that freaky physical transformation into the cat.

I'm sure if I watched it today it wouldn't have quite the same impression (the transformation, that is). :-)
26.) DParker - 01/20/2016
What got me was the scene where Malcom MacDowell scarfs down a last chunk of flesh right after he makes the transformation back to human form after killing and eating that girl.
27.) DParker - 01/26/2016
"Tell Mike it was only business. I always liked him."

[URL="http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/abe-vigoda-sunken-eyed-character-actor-dead-94-36528884"]Abe Vigoda, Sunken-Eyed Character Actor, Dead at 94[/URL]

28.) bluecat - 01/26/2016
The good news is that the ear hair was donated to "Locks of Love".
29.) Swamp Fox - 01/26/2016
Interesting that when you click on the link, there's an ad for Hormel meats talking about preservatives, or lack thereof...:wink

Remember when everybody thought he'd died about 30 years ago? LOL
30.) bluecat - 01/29/2016
Jefferson Airplane’s Paul Kantner dies at 74


[url]http://www.sfgate.com/music/article/Jefferson-Airplane-s-Paul-Kantner-dies-at-74-6791483.php[/url]



God is really creating a super band now.
31.) bluecat - 02/01/2016
32.) DParker - 02/05/2016
[URL="https://www.yahoo.com/music/earth-wind-fire-founder-maurice-223647351.html"]Earth, Wind & Fire Founder Maurice White Dead at 74[/URL]

If you have any appreciation for brass at all you have to admit that EW&F put out a great sound. In fact one of the best musical performances I ever saw on television was when they got together with Chicago and did a bunch of both group's tunes. It was Hornapalooza.



Yeah, the costumes were goofy. But it was the '70s, so shut up.

[video=youtube;Gs069dndIYk]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gs069dndIYk[/video]
33.) bluecat - 02/05/2016
[QUOTE=DParker;38931]

[/QUOTE]

That burlap shirt looks itchy.
34.) Swamp Fox - 02/05/2016
I never could get too enthused about EWF when they were coming up but they had a pretty big hill to climb against Merle Haggard, Jethro Tull, Led Zeppelin, etc. :wink

Now that I'm older I can appreciate them a bit more...I said a bit more. :-)


I'll see if I can come up with something they did that I would vote for. I'm sure there's something. Hell, even England Dan and John Ford Coley get SOMETHING. LOL



I tried to come up with a White Rabbit joke when Kantner died, but failed, so I kept my mouth shut. Once again, like Bowie, I didn't hear a lot about it on the tube. Kind of a shame. He deserved a bigger send-off.
35.) Swamp Fox - 02/05/2016
Okay, I missed the September video the first time.. I can get behind that.




36.) DParker - 02/05/2016
Old farts kickin' some brass:

[video=youtube;XzFPG4UtVko]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzFPG4UtVko[/video]
37.) Swamp Fox - 02/05/2016
:-)

Chicago...even a bigger hill to climb, LOL, but they were everywhere, so it's hard not to have some good memories without them in the background.
38.) Swamp Fox - 02/05/2016
I bet Billy has some Jefferson Airplane stories...I saw him lurking a while ago.

Also, Joan Baez...:wink


How's it going, you old coot! :wave:
39.) DParker - 02/05/2016
I heard that Beethoven once made an insulting remark at Billy's expense, so Billy gave him a hard smack upside the head...and that was when the composer went deaf.
40.) Swamp Fox - 02/05/2016
All I know about Billy is:


"His words carry weight that would break a less interesting man's jaw."


:wink
41.) DParker - 02/05/2016
And he can speak Russian....in French.
42.) bluecat - 03/01/2016


Lost a good one.
43.) Swamp Fox - 03/01/2016
"You sure know your boxing."
44.) bluecat - 03/01/2016
:-):-)
45.) Swamp Fox - 03/01/2016
LOL...

It was between that line, and "Sex, Frank?"


(After I decided not to put you all through the car wash scene....:wink)
46.) DParker - 03/01/2016
[QUOTE][B]Cockpit qualified young man:[/B] [after the plane gets out of the ditch] "The instruction book said that was impossible."

[B]Joe Patroni:[/B] "That's one nice thing about the 707. It can do everything but read."[/QUOTE]

For some reason that line from [I]Airport[/I] is the one of his that has stuck with me all these years.
47.) bluecat - 03/01/2016
I thought he was great in [I]The Dirty Dozen[/I].
48.) bluecat - 03/01/2016
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;39904]LOL...

(After I decided not to put you all through the car wash scene....:wink)[/QUOTE]

Yeah, thanks...
49.) Swamp Fox - 04/07/2016
Merle died today, on his birthday.

"Are the good times really over for good?"








50.) DParker - 04/07/2016
Considering his partying habits of the past it's amazing ol' Merle lived so long.
51.) bluecat - 04/21/2016
The artist formerly known as Prince is now formally dead.
52.) DParker - 04/21/2016
[QUOTE=bluecat;41001]The artist formerly known as Prince is now formally dead.[/QUOTE]

I'm mourning by washing down some leftover gumbo with a purple Gatorade.
53.) Swamp Fox - 04/21/2016
You don't own a raspberry beret, do you?


Oh, and by the way, thanks or making me click on that Kohl's link. Now I have lollipop shirts and cotton candy pants advertisements all over my computer...LOL
54.) bluecat - 04/22/2016
When I was driving to work, I saw two doves crying.
55.) DParker - 04/22/2016
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;41004]Oh, and by the way, thanks or making me click on that Kohl's link. Now I have lollipop shirts and cotton candy pants advertisements all over my computer...LOL[/QUOTE]

56.) bluecat - 04/22/2016
Looks like it might have been the purple haze that did him in.
57.) bluecat - 04/22/2016
I wonder if he is just going to have his symbol on his headstone?
58.) DParker - 04/22/2016
[QUOTE=bluecat;41040]Looks like it might have been the purple haze that did him in.[/QUOTE]

Wrong guy. That one was a musician.
59.) bluecat - 04/22/2016
[QUOTE=DParker;41045]Wrong guy. That one was a musician.[/QUOTE]

+10 :grin:
60.) DParker - 04/22/2016
[video=youtube;fjwWjx7Cw8I]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjwWjx7Cw8I[/video]
61.) DParker - 04/22/2016
Proof positive that blues truly are a universal language.

[video=youtube;vsV_7JW_kCU]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsV_7JW_kCU[/video]
62.) bluecat - 04/26/2016
Now that the artist formerly known as Prince is gone there is a question that has been on my mind.

Will we continue to see Little Sweet? Did anyone ever see those two together. That's what I thought too.



63.) Swamp Fox - 04/26/2016
Wow...I need to get out more...LOL
64.) bluecat - 11/29/2016
Florence Henderson, 'The Brady Bunch' actress, dies at 82




[url]http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2016/11/25/florence-henderson-brady-bunch-actress-dies-at-82.html[/url]
65.) Swamp Fox - 11/29/2016
I never was a Brady Bunch watcher. Maybe it wasn't on when I was allowed to watch TV, which was not often, LOL. It was going to rot my brain, or something. Stupid parents! LOL

If the Brady Bunch aired against The Monkeys or Get Smart or Batman or Magilla Gorilla or a slew of other shows I can think of, it was a red-headed stepchild. Looking back on it today, it was very "California," which was lost on me, although Marsha seemed like a goddess at the time. :wink
66.) DParker - 11/29/2016
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;45639]I never was a Brady Bunch watcher.[/QUOTE]

You just went on someone's list of undesirables and possible commie sympathizers.
67.) Swamp Fox - 11/29/2016
LOL...Speaking of which, have you seen some of the comments from various idiots on Fidel Castro's downward journey to the next dimension? Obama's was absolutely amazing for its blockheadedness, but Jill Stein's was revolting. Don't get me started, LOL.

However, if anyone's feeling lighthearted and would like to see how Canada's prime minister is getting roasted for his special brand of stupidity, go here :-):


[url]https://twitter.com/hashtag/trudeaueulogy?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw[/url]



It helps if you know what Trudeau said about Castro and just a tiny bit about Castro, but I'll let everyone look that up for themselves. :co:
68.) DParker - 11/29/2016
LOL! Some of those are pretty good. I particularly like memorializing Pol Pot as the inventor of "Skull Jenga".
69.) Swamp Fox - 11/29/2016
Up there toward the top for me is praise for Saddam for supplying the Kurds with free mustard, LOL.

Here's a similar hashtag, just plural, with different posts.


[url]https://twitter.com/search?vertical=default&q=%23trudeaueulogies&src=typd[/url]




At either page, you can look at the "Top" posts (most popular) or "Newest" (by which you can scroll through every single damn one of them since the beginning, if you want).


Don't say I never did anything useful around here...:wink