DO YOU REMEMBER WHEN…?

All the girls had ugly gym uniforms? It took five minutes for the TV warm up? Nearly everyone’s Mom was at home when the kids got home from school? Nobody owned a purebred dog? When a quarter was a decent allowance? You’d reach into a muddy gutter for a penny? Your Mom wore nylons that [...]

We Have a New Convert

We have a new convert to the Harley touring club…  He passed his initiation ride this past weekend, covering 800+ miles through sun and rain, over hill and over dale.  Haven’t figured out his road name yet, but it will come to me in a vision soon.
For more pictures of the initiation ride go to [...]

United States Marine Corps #3

 
“They told (us) to open up the Embassy, or “we’ll blow you away.” And then they looked up and saw the Marines on the roof with these really big guns, and they said in Somali, “Igaralli ahow,” which means “Excuse me, I didn’t mean it, my mistake.”
 Karen Aquilar, in the U.S. Embassy; Mogadishu, Somalia, 1991

United States Marine Corps #2

 ”Our Country won’t go on forever, if we stay soft as we are now. There won’t be any AMERICA because some foreign soldier will invade us and take our women and breed a hardier race!”
General Lewis “Chesty” Puller

So True #2…

HOW TO WRITE GOOD

 My several years in the word game have learnt me several rules:
1. Avoid alliteration. Always.
2. Prepositions are not words to end sentences with.
3. Avoid cliches like the plague. (They’re old hat.)
4. Employ the vernacular.
5. Eschew ampersands & abbreviations, etc.
6. Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
7. It is wrong to ever split an infinitive.
8. Contractions aren’t [...]

So True…

Today’s Safety Tip!

Bloody crimson smear.
Epidermis on the road.
Road rash is not cool.
Doctor shaking head.
Square meter of oozing meat…
Wear your leathers, man!