In the Ear? Really???

[Packrat 6]

In the meantime, tell you all a true story as was descibed to my by djones in a PM.

After working his farm every day, Coy Franks rarely had time to enjoy the large pond in the back that he had fixed up years earlier with picnic tables, horseshoe courts, and benches. So one evening he decided to go down and see how things were holding up. Much to his surprise, he heard voices shouting and laughing with glee. As he came closer he saw it was a group of young women skinny dipping in his pond.

Being a somewhat of a gentleman, he made the women aware of his presence and they all went to the deep end. One of the women shouted to him, "We're not coming out until you leave."

Coy just looked at them and said, "I didn't come down here to watch you ladies swim or make you get out of the pond naked. I only came down to feed the alligator."

Quick thinking, Coy!

Packrat

 

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For those of you logging onto this thread still looking for an intellectual discussion, well sorry, this is about as good as it gets until djones finally wades out of the outhouse and contributes something to the discussion or posts some pictures. Even if they are just flood pictures.

Hey that's an idea, how about it Coy and Djones, or any other Texans checking in. How about some pictures of the flooding or rain damage in your areas!

Packrat

It's the lack of intelligent discussion that keeps me coming back to this thread!

 

[djones]

took a while to adapt to the changing weather conditions. then i had to learn the hogs' new hiding spots. i will say they are a lot easier to drag into a pile under water tho.

 

[Packrat 6]

djones
Finally some dead hogs. I do have to ask about that truck though....Is that what they call an alternative fuel truck in your picture?

Got a few questions though!



Can we fix Coy's truck to run on alternative fuel instead of the moonshine he now runs it on? Do we really want too?

Are you and Coy getting out of the Cattle business and starting to raise fish?
I can see a problem since he usually sticks a hose up a cows butt and fills it up with water before he sells it, to increase it's weight. How's he going to do that with fish? Using air bubbles defeats the purpose. Would simplify catching them though, just fill em up and they'd float to the surface where they could be corralled real easy! Of course you've got to get close enough to stick an air line up their butts.

I'd kind of like a real answer though, Blowing smoke up my *ss doesn't do anything for me except leave nicotine stains in my shorts!

Packrat

 

[Coy Franks]

LMFAO at djones. Tru dat!!!!

I've been putting up fence at water gaps lately and when I walked down the creek to find the wire I spotted a dead hog. The sucker drowned!!! He probably weighted 50 lbs or more.

In 2009 after a big rain I took my dogs in the Ranger down to the river to check fence and cornered a sounder of hogs against the river and the fence. About twenty hogs from 200 on down ran by me all except three little pigs probably two weeks old. They were confused as to what happened to their mama so they bunched up in a pile. The dogs made a run at them and they jumped in the water. At this spot the water was about four feet deep and fifty feet wide and was roaring scary loud. I thought I would get to see the little fellers drown but I could see them when they would ride up the rollers and they was making great progress getting to the other side. After they made it they ran up the opposite bank upstream to about 50 yards above me and jumped in again. They made it across with no problem and came ashore at my feet and the dogs had a great time after all.

Pigs can swim and swim very good so for a decent sized pig to drown he must have had a very violent ride.

 

[Packrat 6]

took a while to adapt to the changing weather conditions. then i had to learn the hogs' new hiding spots. i will say they are a lot easier to drag into a pile under water tho.

In taking a second look at that picture, i notice that while in a salt water environment you don't have a mask on. Does it get in the way of the scope? Also, you've got to quit trimming your toenails so short as your feet are flat across the front and I see you're up to your old tricks with the wildlife, and have already got a fish whispering in your ear! What'd you promise it? A fin?

I'm also real curious about the validity of using a suppressor underwater.

Guess Ill never know frm the way you answer questions!

Packrat

 

[Packrat 6]

Just a little something to make you think and for all us old timers to remember.

First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they were pregnant. They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can and didn't get tested for diabetes.Then after that trauma, we were put to sleep on our tummies in baby cribs covered with bright colored lead-base paints, even at the Hospital.

We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, locks on doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had baseball caps not helmets on our heads.

As infants & children, we would ride in cars with no car seats, no booster seats, no seat belts, no air bags, bald tires and sometimes no brakes. Riding in the back of a pick- up truck on a warm day was always a special treat.

We drank water from the garden hose and not from a bottle. We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and no one actually died from this.

We ate cupcakes, white bread, real butter and bacon. We drank Kool-Aid made with real white sugar. And, we weren't overweight.. WHY?

Because we were always outside playing...that's why! We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on.. No one was able to reach us all day. And, we were OKAY.

We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride them down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem.

We did not have Play Stations, Nintendo's and X-boxes. There were no video games, no 150 channels on cable, no video movies or DVD's, no surround-sound or CD's, no cell phones, no personal computers, no Internet and no chat rooms.

WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them and learned to socially interact with other people!

We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no lawsuits from these accidents.

We would get spankings with wooden spoons, switches, ping pong paddles, belts or just a bare hand and no one would call child services to report abuse.

We ate worm and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.

We were given BB guns for our 10th birthdays, made up games with sticks, wooden swords and tennis balls and, although we were told it would happen, we did not poke out very many eyes.

We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just walked in and talked to them.

Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!

The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law!

These generations have produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever. The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas.

We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned how to deal with it all.

If YOU are one of them, CONGRATULATIONS!

You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before the lawyers and the government regulated so much of our lives for our own good. Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't it?


Packrat

 

[Packrat 6]

Continuing with the stuff my brother sent me, a few of the better ones are down nelow:

If a busload of lawyers goes over a cliff, and there are no survivors, that's known as a pity. If there were any empty seats, that's a shame.

Isn't it a shame how 99% of the lawyers give the whole profession a bad name.

There are two kinds of lawyers: Those who know the law and those who know the judge.

NOTE:
Around 1992, Citizens of the State of California finally got a referendum on the ballot that would have required all laws from then on, to be written in 6th grade English so everyone could understand it without studying Latin or having to hire an attorney. The American Bar Association spent over 360 million dollars to defeat it in the election and it was determined afterward that most of the claims made in their advertisements were false.

When the protests over the false advertising died down, the U.S. government, Trans-nationals and progressives adopted it as a standard procedure.

Packrat comment: While defeated in California, several states in the present day are considering putting it on the ballot again in their respective states. If your state is one of these, support it as best you can.

Today, approximately 1 out of every 300 people in the U.S. is a lawyer.

With almost 1.3 million lawyers — more by far than any other country, and more as a percentage of the national population than almost all others — the United States is choking on litigation, regulation, and disputation. Everything is grist for the lawyers' mills. Anyone can be sued for anything, no matter how absurd or egregious. And everyone knows how expensive and overwhelming a legal assault can be. The rule of law is essential to a free and orderly society, but too much law and lawyering makes democratic self-rule impossible, and common sense legally precarious. In addition, of graduating law school students approximately 1/3 cannot find employment within the legal system and gravitate to Federal or other governmental employment.

Packrat

Note: 1 out of every 5 Government employee's earn more than $100,000.00 per year while the average non-governmental employee wage has decreased to 1986 levels in terms of real purchasing power.

 

[Packrat 6]

Just a note, while it may seem that I am really down on Lawyers, that is not really the case. In spite of my cynical kidding, there is a need for specialists in the field of law, however a small portion of those specialists have given the remainder an overall bad name. That same small portion also gives me something to target as a whole very easily. AND I do have friends and relatives that are bottom feeders, myself.

I AM down on bureaucracies. the majority of these seem to be headed by "Empire Builder" personalities and continue to grow at a unsustainable rate. At an example, the EPA has tripled in size over the last 6 years and what bothers me the most is that the bonus system inherent in the system is based on the number of new policies or laws, no matter how illogical, that can be implemented by the organization as a hole. The impact of these laws or processes have impacted everyone within the population both physically and financially.

I am also against political processes or laws that exempt the politicians or other special interest groups from being accountable under that same process or law. if a law is required to be implemented, it should apply straight across the board, not just to the general population.

Anyway, didn't want any special group, in this case lawyers, to feel slighted, will get around to you others later.

Packrat

 

[Packrat 6]

Well, didn't get any pictures of Texas flooding from viewers, so I guess the trolls have scared everyone off. Don't know about trolls? Trolls are Government viewers whose job it is to review all of the shooting sites and try and and attach a name and what they are shooting to their lists. I have been told by a reliable source in the Govt that they are monitoring ALL shooting or Rifle and gun sites on the internet, and have been for quite a while.

Anyway they already know that the packrat has a Remington 700, a M1A and a Shotgun so guess t's too late to hide anything! haven't heard if my coulsin has gotten the 7.62 LaRue yet so still waiting on that.


Also waiting on the Non-profit organization paperwork of the "Weapons for Warriors" program.

Anyone got anything to say? Now's a good time to post it, just even for comic relief.

Packrat
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[Packrat 6]

Any truth to the rumor that Amarillo is trying to get it's own Pro something team to be called the Amarillo Hogs?

Packrat

 

[Packrat 6]

OK, brushed my teeth agaain, changed deodorant and underwear and used mouthwash!

Doesn't anyone have anything to say?

Packrat

 

[Packrat 6]

There can't be THAT many Lawyers out there I offended!

Packrat
Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons.

 

[djones]

In a trial, a Southern small-town prosecuting attorney called his first witness, a grandmotherly, elderly woman to the stand. He approached her and asked "Mrs. Jones, do you know me?" She responded, "Why yes I do know you since you were a little boy, and frankly you've been a big disappointment to me. You lie, you cheat on your wife, and you manipulate people and talk about them behind their backs. You think your a big shot when you haven't the brains to realize you'll never amount to anything more than a two-bit paper pusher. Yes I know you.

The lawyer was stunned. Not knowing what else to do, he pointed across the room and asked, Mrs. Jones, do you know the defense attorney?

She replied, "Why yes I do. I've known Mr. Bradley since he was a youngster, too. He's lazy, bigoted, and he has a drinking problem, He can't build a normal relationship with anyone, and his law practice is one of the worst in the entire state. Not to mention he cheated on his wife with three different women. One of them was your wife. Yes, I know him."

The defense attorney nearly died.

The judge asked both counselors to approach the bench and, in a very quiet voice said:

"If either of you idiots asks her if she knows me, I'll send you both to the electric chair."


ps - i have hog pics. i'll post them as soon as i can photoshop coy out and put myself in.