Recent content by cls12vg30

Wow, what a hard-fought game. Those last 2 minutes were a nail-biter no matter which team you were rooting for. Damn, and I was going to go to the RBC Center to tailgate and watch on the Jumbotron, the arena is about 5 minutes from my house, but I ended up at work late, had a bunch of other...

Hey I've seen that hippo with the "Splatter Zone" sign, it's at a small park in Homsassass Springs, Florida. I went there to see the manatees about 10 years ago. They also have the "Good Dog" signs at the North Carolina State Fairgrounds.

Don't post here that often, but had to get in on this one. Carolina / Edmonton is turning into a great series. I figured the Oilers would HAVE to win Game 3, back on home ice with their backs against the wall. I take 'Canes in 6. The national media are clueless with their cracks on the...

Anybody remember the Microsoft game Crimson Skies? It was pretty big a few years ago, there were PC and Xbox versions. That game featured a bunch of strange piston-driven aircraft designs, some obviously based on planes you might see at Luft46.

As a through-and-through American who spent his formative years in close proximity to Canada, I feel qualified to comment. I always felt that the differences between the two sides of the border were pretty cosmetic. At least as far as everyday life was concerned. Little details like...

Sunny and 77 degrees F here right now. Spring seems to have arrived in force over the last week. pbfoot, I grew up in Buffalo, and I remember other years when the ice bridge never formed, especially since they started installing the ice boom upriver to keep large chunks of ice from going...

Some U.S. versions of the Countach did have hideous add-on bumpers on the front to comply with US regulations. I've always loved older Japanese hatchback cars, here's my 88 Nissan 200SX SE V6: It's the S12-series, you guys outside North America may know them as 180ZX, Silvia, or Gazelle.

The weather is ridiculous here right now. 66 degrees Ferenheit, on January 12th. Even for North Carolina, this is uncommonly warm. And it doesn't look like the temperatures are going to return to normal until at least next week.

That was a very good collection. Midway has always been my favorite story to come out of WW2. Such crazy circumstances led to the sinking of the Japanese carriers. I think Herman Wouk said it best in War and Remembrence: "It was a perfect coordinated attack. It was timed almost to the...

Hey guys, I haven't been on in awhile, thought I'd swing by. I've been watching and listening to all the covererage of Katrina and the aftermath, the horrible human suffering, the looting and breakdown of civilized society after the storm, ineptitude at every level of government, then of course...

Haven't been here in awhile, guys, nice to see the place is still active. To get this thread back on topic, here's a what if that I find intriguing: What if the United States had remained divided after 1861, and was still divided in 1939? I know there has been a series of books written...

Hey guys, I haven't been on here much but I thought I'd tease you all. I'm planning a day trip up to Washington, D.C. this coming Saturday. It's less than four hours from here by car so I will drive up early in the morning and drive back in the late afternoon or evening. Anyway, the #1 item...

The greatest damage Nagumo could have done with another attack was the destruction of the oil depots around Pearl. That was a vital target that the attack missed. The main goal, destroying battleships, was for the most part achieved. Since the American carriers were not present, from a...

Yeah, that is cheaper, even if we're talking about 1940's pounds vs. 1960's U.S. Dollars (the $28 number came from the Vietnam era) the Sten still would come out cheaper.

Well I'm not sure about the actual production time per gun, but like the Sten the M3 was made mostly of stamped steel. It was extremely easy and cheap to manufacture, and yet extraordinarily reliable and controllable for an SMG due to its relatively low cyclic rate of fire. The M3 quickly...