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Craiglxviii wrote: ↑Sun Oct 26, 2025 5:59 pm Armoured Battle Boars? Hell yeah.

Can you imagine Peter Dinklage, armored up, with lance and shield and such, riding a fully armored one? GLORIOUS!

They say the apple doesn't fall far from the tree. It should be no surprise then, that my childhood experiences with hogs were not so different from dads, and God knows what Grandpa's were like. Dad would get atop the farrowing house (the hut type on skids) and wait for one for one of the hogs to em...

Nope, not joking. Why not? Humans have, over the millennia, bred animals for all sorts of things. Horses in all shapes, colors and sizes, dogs from utilitarian to ridiculous, and pigs to make them much fatter. Pigs have proven themselves to be domesticable, unlike, say, Zebras. They are incredibly i...

Somewhere I have a list of CG specific ones I'll have to try to find. I can still identify with many of those, I went from a sea going Cutter to my last unit, which was a Port Security Unit, where we had to learn to dig rifle pits, etc etc, in addition to manning and patrolling harbors and elsewhere...

I'm very disappointed in that article. For something where they're talking about how influential and important Bill Perlmutter's photos were, to be only showing one of them is inexcusable. At least link to a gallery or something. That said, there's a really interesting thing on the right side of th...

Very similar to stories about the TVA. One of my ancestral graveyards is now isolated and very remote due to this. Fortunately it wasn't uprooted. As to Ashokan reservoir, the song about that area, popularized by Ken Burns "The Civil War" series, is without a doubt one of the most haunting...

Been checking in here for quite awhile, haven't been active for some years. Found out today one of my Legion comrades passes, and a few short hours later, one of the forum members, Rich Hunt (1BigRich) passed last year. I searched for months for his address when we noticed his absence over on the Pr...

It is with great sadness I must tell you that one of the forum members, of many years, passed last year. I just found this out a moment ago. Richard Hunt, who went by 1BigRich, has preceded us across the waters. Link to obituary below. https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/name/richard-hunt-obituary?...

I'm enjoying re-reading this. I first read it when I was on that other board where you posted it, and enjoyed it immensely. Please do continue as time permits!

I keep getting a "Board attachment quota has been reached" msg. What am I doing wrong?

Sweet! I'll post some more later tonight if the amount of rum I ingest is suitable.

SS Lee A. Tregurtha, summer of 1998.

Well I don't think it can be any kind of AA structure, as it's brick vice reinforced concrete. A warehouse of some type? Or some kind of establishment that doesn't want windows to prevent folks seeing in or out. Leaves alot of room there. Have you tried putting the address into Google and seeing wha...

Hello All, Things look a bit different here than they used to. Not as many of us around now it seems.... I'm sitting here in this 20 F outside weather, wishing it were spring or summer again, trying to get the gumption to get off my ass and go get some cigars, then do some needed work. In the interi...