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chuckie
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re: Vader’s Model Desk: British A34 “Comet” Cruiser Tank
Posted by chuckie on 3/16/25 at 6:06 pm
Strong work
re: How will tariffs affect overseas travel this summer?
Posted by chuckie on 3/6/25 at 9:22 pm
I’m sorry. I wasn’t clear. My question was more about how exchange rates will be affected not about the politics. We are going to Great Britain this summer. We’ve already bought airline tickets and I was wondering if our budget is going to get blown up or not?
How will tariffs affect overseas travel this summer?
Posted by chuckie on 3/4/25 at 2:29 pm
Or will these changes affect us at all?
re: Drivers Ed taught by high school coaches
Posted by chuckie on 2/28/25 at 10:07 am
Took drivers ed from coach Carter at Broadmoor in the 70’s in the summer.
Daily trips to athletic House to pick up equipment for practice.
My Dad had already had me practicing and I felt comfortable on the road.
They had started building streets and infrastructure but got caught in an economic downturn and there weren’t any houses. We would drive the streets with almost no traffic. No maintenance done and tall grass everywhere . Drove down a street with a circle at the end and some guy was railing this old girl on the trunk of the car. Dude never stopped my old man just said keep on driving. LOL
Daily trips to athletic House to pick up equipment for practice.
My Dad had already had me practicing and I felt comfortable on the road.
They had started building streets and infrastructure but got caught in an economic downturn and there weren’t any houses. We would drive the streets with almost no traffic. No maintenance done and tall grass everywhere . Drove down a street with a circle at the end and some guy was railing this old girl on the trunk of the car. Dude never stopped my old man just said keep on driving. LOL
re: Feb 8, 1943 marked the end of the Guadalcanal campaign
Posted by chuckie on 2/10/25 at 5:41 pm
My old man was an artillery officer on Guadalcanal. First action after he got commissioned. Never said much about it. If I asked any questions he would shove a book in my hands and tell me to read up. A” history of the first Marine division in World War II” or Sledges book. But never answered any questions.
re: Mom is going to a nursing home (Updated pg 7)
Posted by chuckie on 1/26/25 at 6:17 pm
I think I’ve told this story before. My mom got a brain tumor and Dad almost died trying to take care of her at home. So we moved them to a retirement community. Very nice place. Mom very quickly got too bad for them to take care of.. in the mean time… dad hooked up with a woman who was part of the welcome wagon. We were told mom had 18-24 months. She died inside of a month after the moving in debacle. Within 2 weeks of her death, welcome wagon and Dad wanted to get married.
It was a scandal at the retirement community. End result was they eventually did get married and had a few good years together. I didn’t care for her but Dad seemed happy and she spoiled my daughter.
I could and did swallow a lot of shite for those two things to be true.
You just never know how things might go
It was a scandal at the retirement community. End result was they eventually did get married and had a few good years together. I didn’t care for her but Dad seemed happy and she spoiled my daughter.
I could and did swallow a lot of shite for those two things to be true.
You just never know how things might go
re: My Dad Bribed an Entire Surgery Staff Today (Wholesome Story)
Posted by chuckie on 12/16/24 at 6:35 pm
My old man was the same. He was in heart cath recovery and he kept smelling something good. They kept it real cold in there. The staff had a hot plate and were warming their gumbo lunch. They had to bribe my Dad with gumbo to keep quiet about it.
When my Mom was in the hospital, he always brought donuts or cookies or something. My old man got a lot of good will doing that stuff
When my Mom was in the hospital, he always brought donuts or cookies or something. My old man got a lot of good will doing that stuff
re: Pilot in deadly Iowa, LA helicopter crash had student license
Posted by chuckie on 11/19/24 at 4:25 pm
Whose helicopter was he flying?
re: What can you baws tell me about The Woodlands?
Posted by chuckie on 11/13/24 at 1:19 am
All the above. Enough good restaurants, HEBs aplenty. The woodlands pavilion has enough good music. Clean, very little crime, much less traffic than Houston. Easy to get around. If it wasn’t for a certain grand daughter being born, we would still be there.
When we moved there, I thought we would go downtown often. Way less than I thought we would. It’s not hard to plan special trips for special events
Would recommend .
When we moved there, I thought we would go downtown often. Way less than I thought we would. It’s not hard to plan special trips for special events
Would recommend .
re: So businesses just want to do away with direct phone call?
Posted by chuckie on 10/15/24 at 2:13 pm
Doctors are doing the same thing. Anything to save money and not hire enough help.
re: Anyone ever burst out laughing at a funeral?
Posted by chuckie on 8/18/24 at 10:44 pm
Old country church with my wife. Not a member of the choir is under sixty.
They barely keeping it together in a normal singing voice when the chorus goes up a couple of octaves. None of them could get anywhere close. Not only that but as they tried to get up there, they ouldn’t get up to the same place, al of them off key but in different off keys. I lost it. Couldn’t remotely keep my shite together. And being an old school church,bthey had to sing the whole song, 5 verses. So we had to sit through that several rimes. Each time was worse. You could see it coming around and there was nothing I could do. But laugh.
Caught my wife up in the giggles and a few others.
They barely keeping it together in a normal singing voice when the chorus goes up a couple of octaves. None of them could get anywhere close. Not only that but as they tried to get up there, they ouldn’t get up to the same place, al of them off key but in different off keys. I lost it. Couldn’t remotely keep my shite together. And being an old school church,bthey had to sing the whole song, 5 verses. So we had to sit through that several rimes. Each time was worse. You could see it coming around and there was nothing I could do. But laugh.
Caught my wife up in the giggles and a few others.
re: How many Lawyers in Lake Charles or Lafayette would you say pull in $1,000,000+ a year?
Posted by chuckie on 6/1/24 at 4:11 pm
A lot of lawyers have salaries like yo-yo’s. Depends on what walks in the door. I know a small town lawyer had a slip and fall at Walmart where they clearly didn’t follow their own rules for spills. Made bank. Of course, the client had several back surgeries to get through. I wonder if he would say it was worth it
re: What's the closest you or a family member has been to a part of history?
Posted by chuckie on 5/4/24 at 12:49 am
My father was in the 1st Marine division and landed on Guadalcanal. Island hopping and then to Australia.
Moved to another division to train for the Japan invasion. Was on a troop transport when some bombs were dropped and they became an occupying force.
Davy Crocket is also my gggg grandfather through my father’s side.
My wife also had a relative who died at the Alamo. What are the chances.
Moved to another division to train for the Japan invasion. Was on a troop transport when some bombs were dropped and they became an occupying force.
Davy Crocket is also my gggg grandfather through my father’s side.
My wife also had a relative who died at the Alamo. What are the chances.
re: Passenger dies mid-flight after liters of ‘blood erupts from his mouth and nose’..
Posted by chuckie on 2/20/24 at 12:49 am
A football helmet. And a Blakemore tube. Just found out who the old school ICU person is!
re: Funeral Worker Robs House of Deceased to Steal Sex Doll
Posted by chuckie on 10/16/23 at 5:03 pm
If you’ve ever known people who worked in the funeral business…
You realize this story isn’t really a stretch of the imagination
You realize this story isn’t really a stretch of the imagination
re: Prayers and Help for my Daughter Requested Please (update pg 5)
Posted by chuckie on 10/3/23 at 8:26 pm
You are living my worst nightmare. Prayers up boss,
Oh, she’s a real cutie. Too.
Oh, she’s a real cutie. Too.
re: The Race to Drill America’s Longest Oil and Gas Wells
Posted by chuckie on 9/10/23 at 5:36 pm
I don’t know what the deepest well is but I was on a rig right outside Port Allen south of 190 that drilled to 31,000
Feet in 1981-82.
They hit their targets and kept drilling just to see what the E Logs might show. Back in the days when they didn’t really give a damn about how much money they spent
Feet in 1981-82.
They hit their targets and kept drilling just to see what the E Logs might show. Back in the days when they didn’t really give a damn about how much money they spent
re: Best Singer/Guitarist duos of all-time.
Posted by chuckie on 9/1/23 at 11:27 am
Townsend and Daultrey
re: Rewatched The Pacific...
Posted by chuckie on 7/30/23 at 8:28 pm
I think Band of Brothers is the better show by a little bit. But I’m drawn to The Pacific because (humble brag) my father was a marine corp artillery officer in the 1st Marine division on Guadalcanal.
When I asked questions about it he gave me books to read, 1 was a history of the 1st marine division in Ww2 and WTOB by Sledge.
When I asked questions about it he gave me books to read, 1 was a history of the 1st marine division in Ww2 and WTOB by Sledge.
re: Companies/Plant/Refineries that could've been in Louisiana
Posted by chuckie on 7/20/23 at 9:12 pm
Shell oil originally was thinking Lake Charles would be what the Houston ship channel has become but the locals wanted more control than Shell was willing to give.
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