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Congrats to your daughter John, glad you had a nice night out...……….glad to hear you bagged the security gig at Kings X; that said, if you hadn't, I don't think Andy would have had any worries of looters trying to go through you to get at some little metal army guys in his store, that would have been a major mistake on their part...………fatal actually...…...you would have been flinging looters around like rag dolls.
Go for Broke
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Stocky is not a bad word and yes, stocky can be muscular. I also said he could defend King X with a water bottle. It was just, I couldn't recognize John from the earlier pics to this current one. Maybe, somebody could post the older pics of John.
mikemiller1955
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awwwww....
I'm just kidding with him...
and with you...
John is a good guy...
one of my favorite people at the Texas Show...
and he is a big guy...
not someone that would be easy to man handle...
Go for Broke
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Never met the guy, but his posts are very witty. Articulate and amusing at the same time.
Desertkiwi
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Terrific family snap John!
Always a special moment seeing the kids graduate. They seem to grow up so fast too! :salute::
Always a special moment seeing the kids graduate. They seem to grow up so fast too! :salute::
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They sure do grow up fast, my oldest son turned 30 last week!
Horus
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Hey John
Thanks for sharing photo. Congratulations to your Daughter.
One of my Nephews along with so many others of his final year has missed out on doing any exams and prom, luckily for him he has a college place already confirmed.
Best wishes to you all and stay safe !
Steve
Thanks for sharing photo. Congratulations to your Daughter.
One of my Nephews along with so many others of his final year has missed out on doing any exams and prom, luckily for him he has a college place already confirmed.
Best wishes to you all and stay safe !
Steve
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GFB,
I'll take stocky and don't worry my feelings aren't hurt. I mean at you could have said I was fluffy or something, then maybe I would have been a little butt hurt. Oh, and I'm 6'3, but Mike Miller is like 6'6 and upon first look I wouldn't want to get Mike Millers drink order wrong. I think if one did not know we were toy solider collectors, nice guys and saw us together you may think we were two hitman or cops. Yeah, Mike and I are a motley crew.
Mike,
Thanks for brining the funny! And yes slinging concrete in the backyard does wonders for the physique. I'm working on pallet number...4 I think? The wife is trucking along and we had the pre-surgery meeting with doc yesterday. Looks like surgery and reconstructive surgery will be at the end of July. Its gonna suck and we are not looking forward, yet we are just to get past this chemo crap. Your boy graduates in August a year early and I'll send a graduation pic of him to you guys as well. Its funny because since he is graduating early, he walks the stage with all the district flunkies (like me when I was in school) who either were on the 5 year high school graduation plan or just coming out of juvie or d-hall. Maybe a few of them are early grads, but for the most part it will be a hodgepodge of kids graduating. When I look back I don't know how I graduated at all. That was back when, if you were 18, you could sign yourself out of school and just leave if you wanted to. I remember signing myself out one time cause "I was feeling ill" and went to a Stevie Ray Vaughn with Double Trouble concert in downtown San Antonio.
George,
Yeah, my protest/protection detail was thwarted by a higher authority and since I respect authority I decided to stand down. Even though I had plans to go down un-armed, I was going to take a couple of No. 2 pencils with me...I was trained that you can do a lot to man with a No.2 pencil. Hell, you can do a lot to rioter with a bottle of water and I ain't talking about handing them out to drink. Thats why I was going to take a few that were frozen solid. I mean in the name of protecting Kings X and toy soldiers I think I could get a pass for saying "I didn't strike him, the water bottle did" Now, I'm just talking chit, so let me shut up now.
OZ,
I never imagined this day. It was just yesterday when they were little and we were playing "goba-ment" with their toy figures and voting in and out Spongebob or Batman as President of the "homies". Plus, airing out grievances from the "toy community" about what time to go to bed, snacks and room cleaning. It was fun little game and my kids still have their toy figures somewhere in a box waiting to be opened for the next town hall meeting. They have long forgot about them, but I haven't. Its a cherished memory.
Well, my friends apparently 20,000 new cases were reported in a single day yesterday and so the COVID-19 pandemic is still surviving and not magically disappearing. In fact, I read this morning that the departed George Floyd tested positive for COVID-19 which means now the cops who were arresting him have all been exposed and need to be isolated for 14 days. I did not see them or him wearing masks in the video, but now them, the paramedics and anybody else who came in contact with George Floyd has been exposed. Hence, the virus may claim more lives because of this situation which could have been avoided. Its a double tap if I have ever seen one and yup COVID cases are going to spike because of the riots, protests (peaceful or not) and large gatherings that are taking place right now.
These protests could have a devastating effect on the national health and though good intentioned (the peaceful ones) the result may be devastating.
Thanks for the accolades my friends,
John from Texas
I'll take stocky and don't worry my feelings aren't hurt. I mean at you could have said I was fluffy or something, then maybe I would have been a little butt hurt. Oh, and I'm 6'3, but Mike Miller is like 6'6 and upon first look I wouldn't want to get Mike Millers drink order wrong. I think if one did not know we were toy solider collectors, nice guys and saw us together you may think we were two hitman or cops. Yeah, Mike and I are a motley crew.
Mike,
Thanks for brining the funny! And yes slinging concrete in the backyard does wonders for the physique. I'm working on pallet number...4 I think? The wife is trucking along and we had the pre-surgery meeting with doc yesterday. Looks like surgery and reconstructive surgery will be at the end of July. Its gonna suck and we are not looking forward, yet we are just to get past this chemo crap. Your boy graduates in August a year early and I'll send a graduation pic of him to you guys as well. Its funny because since he is graduating early, he walks the stage with all the district flunkies (like me when I was in school) who either were on the 5 year high school graduation plan or just coming out of juvie or d-hall. Maybe a few of them are early grads, but for the most part it will be a hodgepodge of kids graduating. When I look back I don't know how I graduated at all. That was back when, if you were 18, you could sign yourself out of school and just leave if you wanted to. I remember signing myself out one time cause "I was feeling ill" and went to a Stevie Ray Vaughn with Double Trouble concert in downtown San Antonio.
George,
Yeah, my protest/protection detail was thwarted by a higher authority and since I respect authority I decided to stand down. Even though I had plans to go down un-armed, I was going to take a couple of No. 2 pencils with me...I was trained that you can do a lot to man with a No.2 pencil. Hell, you can do a lot to rioter with a bottle of water and I ain't talking about handing them out to drink. Thats why I was going to take a few that were frozen solid. I mean in the name of protecting Kings X and toy soldiers I think I could get a pass for saying "I didn't strike him, the water bottle did" Now, I'm just talking chit, so let me shut up now.
OZ,
I never imagined this day. It was just yesterday when they were little and we were playing "goba-ment" with their toy figures and voting in and out Spongebob or Batman as President of the "homies". Plus, airing out grievances from the "toy community" about what time to go to bed, snacks and room cleaning. It was fun little game and my kids still have their toy figures somewhere in a box waiting to be opened for the next town hall meeting. They have long forgot about them, but I haven't. Its a cherished memory.
Well, my friends apparently 20,000 new cases were reported in a single day yesterday and so the COVID-19 pandemic is still surviving and not magically disappearing. In fact, I read this morning that the departed George Floyd tested positive for COVID-19 which means now the cops who were arresting him have all been exposed and need to be isolated for 14 days. I did not see them or him wearing masks in the video, but now them, the paramedics and anybody else who came in contact with George Floyd has been exposed. Hence, the virus may claim more lives because of this situation which could have been avoided. Its a double tap if I have ever seen one and yup COVID cases are going to spike because of the riots, protests (peaceful or not) and large gatherings that are taking place right now.
These protests could have a devastating effect on the national health and though good intentioned (the peaceful ones) the result may be devastating.
Thanks for the accolades my friends,
John from Texas
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Well lucky me; tonight a protest is planned for Taunton...………….I went out today and everyone is boarding up their store fronts...………...just unbelievable, watch the **** hit the fan now right in my ****ing back yard.
I saw a number of police cruisers along with a LARGE number of National Guard vehicles in a convoy heading to the downtown area, this thing has been all over Facebook apparently, there will be dorks coming here from all over the place to stir **** up no doubt.
Just great.
I saw a number of police cruisers along with a LARGE number of National Guard vehicles in a convoy heading to the downtown area, this thing has been all over Facebook apparently, there will be dorks coming here from all over the place to stir **** up no doubt.
Just great.
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It's bizarre that the folks at the Pentagon are objecting to the use of the military to quell the riots in DC but they have no problem with using the military to police Afghanistan, Syria, and Iraq. Perhaps indefinitely. Any time it is suggested that perhaps the military forces be withdrawn from those places the military leaders and establishment politicians go berserk. There must be an enormous amount of money flowing to private entities to support those endless endeavors which rebounds to the politicians via lobbyists. They apparently don't want to kill that golden goose.
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Suppose to be a march in the town I work in today.So far the marches in the towns around here have been peaceful except for some punks throwing bricks off the overpass.March starts at 5 right when I get out of work.Lucky me!
Mark
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Well, probably they think that if they use the army, the US would look like the Chile of Pinochet or another fascist south american dictature of the 70ies, don't you think so?
In the US there is still an important racial problem, especially in the police; even if recently, many police officers have shown they have understood that a crime,a racial murder in cold blood was committed. As a european, I am amazed and disgusted to see that in 2020 a police officer in a western country suffocates to death an arrested guy laying on a street. Honestly, such a thing would never happen in any european state.
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Unfortunately it has happened in the UK and I don't suppose we are the only European country to have it happen in.
Steve
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Thanks, I'll roll by tomorrow and hopefully there won't be little metal army guys scattered all over the pavement...……………..today it looked like the National Guard and the Taunton PD were getting ready for some heavy duty action.
I love our chief here, he does not **** around.
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