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awesome movieYou know I just watched The guns of navaronne not too long ago
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Foxy wouldn't have hesitatedawesome movie
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You know I just watched The guns of navaronne not too long ago
Loved the movie, and I had the Navarone mountain play set as a child.awesome movie
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Yeah, decade too early for me, but I had/have a ton of plastic soldiers set up in armies of the main combatants in WW2It was.
In the 70s.
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We did a garden in our backyard when I was a kid and would always get a delivery of dirt each year for it. Before we distributed it, I'd build my own "Navarone" in the dirt pile, get in the back of my dad's El Camino with my Crossman 766, to play sniper. Took the heads off of a few of them, and had a radioman (the thickest of them) that had a copper BB lodged in the middle of his chest. It was a warm time of year, so the plastic got a little more malleable and less brittle outside.Yeah, decade too early for me, but I had/have a ton of plastic soldiers set up in armies of the main combatants in WW2
There would be battles, usually involving golf or tennis balls, maybe dirt clods, and, occasionally, firecrackers.
Of course now kids can get arrested or expelled from school for finger guns or biting a sandwich or poptart into an "L" shape.
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Boys will be boys ehWe did a garden in our backyard when I was a kid and would always get a delivery of dirt each year for it. Before we distributed it, I'd build my own "Navarone" in the dirt pile, get in the back of my dad's El Camino with my Crossman 766, to play sniper. Took the heads off of a few of them, and had a radioman (the thickest of them) that had a copper BB lodged in the middle of his chest. It was a warm time of year, so the plastic got a little more malleable and less brittle outside.
There would be battles, usually involving golf or tennis balls, maybe dirt clods, and, occasionally, firecrackers.
I must have been 11-12 and my brother 5-6. We used fireworks in the sandbox to simulate artillery and mines with our GI Joe's. . . Until one of the neighbours told on us and we had to stop "Before we blew our fingers off" pff
They didn't have the Red Army...Yeah, decade too early for me, but I had/have a ton of plastic soldiers set up in armies of the main combatants in WW2
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Yeah, WWII was still big when I was a kid. In the Southern Midwest it was almost an obsession still in the 70s. There was barely a time of day or night when at least one of the 5 TV channels wasn't showing a WWII movie. Of course there were still veterans of that one everywhere you looked back then.Yeah, decade too early for me, but I had/have a ton of plastic soldiers set up in armies of the main combatants in WW2
One afternoon, when the adults were all overfed and drunk we basically made an improvised grenade - emptied out a few hundred Black Cats worth of gunpowder into an old pop can, ran a long fuse down and then stuffed the rest with ... something, don't remember. Anyway, there were bits of Red Wagon everywhere and a small fire.Boys will be boys eh
I must have been 11-12 and my brother 5-6. We used fireworks in the sandbox to simulate artillery and mines with our GI Joe's. . . Until one of the neighbours told on us and we had to stop "Before we blew our fingers off" pff
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EchoFoxtrot ... quick question ....
what does Wanished mean
is that a foreign language for vanished ?
sorry i had to mess with ya .. ya know
what does Wanished mean
is that a foreign language for vanished ?
sorry i had to mess with ya .. ya know
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Cleary he's just talking about those pesky Wabbits wanishing.EchoFoxtrot ... quick question ....
what does Wanished mean
is that a foreign language for vanished ?
sorry i had to mess with ya .. ya know
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It's the Latin pronunciation of "vanished" (if "vanished were actually a Latin word...). He just forgot to use italics to show that it was a phonetic spelling of the word rather than the actual.EchoFoxtrot ... quick question ....
what does Wanished mean
is that a foreign language for vanished ?
sorry i had to mess with ya .. ya know
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EchoFoxtrot ... quick question ....
what does Wanished mean
is that a foreign language for vanished ?
sorry i had to mess with ya .. ya know
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Chekov, that's who talks like that, as in "Kiptan the Romulan ship just wanished"
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That was pretty sad. Something like he left it in drive or neutral without setting the parking break, walked down to check his mailbox or open a gate or something, and it rolled down his driveway and pinned him against a post, or somesuch. Been a few years, but I recall it was something like that - just bad luck with a little minor stupidity rolled in...