Tell us something we don't know....

[benenglish]

Terminal illness occurs when you are sick at the airport.

Good one.

• Herpes simplex is what you get from sex with an infected person.
• Herpes complex is what you get from sex at an infected orgy.
• Hopees is what you get from sex with an infected Native American.
• Whorepes is what you get from sex with an infected prostitute.
• LeSeurPeas is what you get from sex with the Jolly Green Giant. It doesn't matter if he's infected or not, you get Le Seur Peas and you damn well deserve 'em!

That's my time. You've been wonderful. Remember to tip your servers and I'll be here all week.

 

[benenglish]

Seriously, though...

Terminal illness occurs

...theoretically, no one in the United States dies of old age.

In every state, death certificates are supposed to cite a clear and etiologically distinct sequence of causes that led to the death. Only in rare outlier cases should a physician fall back on "undetermined natural causes." Old age doesn't meet any of those criteria and the age of the decedent is reported elsewhere on the form so it's of no use when trying to cite a cause of death.

It's true that some physicians don't care about their state guidelines and still insert "old age" as a cause of death. They're not supposed to do that. No one in the U.S. has officially died of old age in decades; any recent death certificate that cites old age as the cause of death is legally flawed.

 

[nlam01]

Seriously, though......theoretically, no one in the United States dies of old age.

In every state, death certificates are supposed to cite a clear and etiologically distinct sequence of causes that led to the death. Only in rare outlier cases should a physician fall back on "undetermined natural causes." Old age doesn't meet any of those criteria and the age of the decedent is reported elsewhere on the form so it's of no use when trying to cite a cause of death.

It's true that some physicians don't care about their state guidelines and still insert "old age" as a cause of death. They're not supposed to do that. No one in the U.S. has officially died of old age in decades; any recent death certificate that cites old age as the cause of death is legally flawed.

Very true

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[easy rider]

Seriously, though......theoretically, no one in the United States dies of old age.

In every state, death certificates are supposed to cite a clear and etiologically distinct sequence of causes that led to the death. Only in rare outlier cases should a physician fall back on "undetermined natural causes." Old age doesn't meet any of those criteria and the age of the decedent is reported elsewhere on the form so it's of no use when trying to cite a cause of death.

It's true that some physicians don't care about their state guidelines and still insert "old age" as a cause of death. They're not supposed to do that. No one in the U.S. has officially died of old age in decades; any recent death certificate that cites old age as the cause of death is legally flawed.

That explains Moonpie.

 

[Moonpie]

Down in Fayette county there is a tiny crossroads community known as Muldoon.
It sits at the junction of FM 154 and FM 2237.
Pretty much the middle of nowhere.

The town of Muldoon was named after Father Michael Muldoon, a clergyman who briefly served Stephen F. Austin's first colonists. He was the only non-Hispanic member of the Monterrey, Mexico Diocese and was probably assigned his duties because he spoke English. He was born in County Cavan in Ireland and later ordained in Spain.

In 1834, Muldoon travelled to Mexico to visit Stephen F. Austin during Austin's confinement there. Later, he assisted William Wharton in his escape from a Matamoros prison in 1837, after which the town of Wharton, TX was founded.
Muldoon was openly pro-Texan, which led to his own brief imprisonment by the Mexican government. However, he was eventually released, and even travelled back to Texas following the revolution, making an appearance in 1842 during which he was given a letter of appreciation from Texas President Anson Jones.
Afterward, Father Muldoon disappeared from history and his final resting place is unknown.

 

[Moonpie]

That explains Moonpie.

 

[Texasgordo]

Long read but interesting;

The year was 1943 and England was mired in World War II. U-boats attacked supply vessels, choking off badly needed supplies to the island nation. But oil was the commodity they needed the most as they warred with Germany.

England had but one oil field, in Sherwood Forest of all places. Its meager output of 300 barrels a day was literally a drop in the bucket of their requirement of 150,000 barrels a day to fuel their war machines.

Then a top secret plan was devised: to send some Americans and their expertise to assist in developing the field. Oklahoma based Noble Drilling Company, along with Fain-Porter signed a one year contract to drill 100 wells for England, merely for costs and expenses.

42 drillers and roughnecks from Texas and Oklahoma, most in their teens and early twenties volunteered for the mission to go abroad. The hands embarked for England in March 1943 aboard the HMS Queen Elizabeth. Four National 50 drilling rigs were loaded onto ships but only three of them made landfall; the Nazi U-boats sank one of the rigs in route to the UK.

The Brits' jaws dropped as the Yanks began punching the wells in a week, compared to five to eight weeks for their British counterparts. They worked 12 hour tours, 7 days a week and within a year, the Americans had drilled 106 wells and England oil production shot up from 300 barrels a day to over 300,000

The contract fulfilled, the American oil men departed England in late March 1944. But only 41 hands were on board the return voyage. Herman Douthit, a Texan derrick-hand was killed during the operation. He was laid to rest with full military honors and remains the only civilian to be buried at The American Military Cemetery in Cambridge.

"The Oil Patch Warrior," a seven foot bronze statue of a roughneck holding a four foot pipe wrench stands near Nottingham England to honor the American oil men's assistance and sacrifice in the war. A replica was placed in Ardmore Oklahoma in 2001

It is by no means a stretch to state that without the American mission, we might all be speaking German today.

Very cool!

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[Moonpie]

The Oil Patch Warrior statue.

 

[easy rider]

Puget Sound Naval Shipyard Statue in Bremerton, Wa. I own one of the bricks in the walkway behind the screw.

(On the statue's hardhat is 92 usually meant as which shop or code the person is with. There is no shop 92, the 92 was to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Puget Sound Naval Shipyard)

 

[easy rider]

USS Turner Joy: The ship that fired the first shots at the Battle of the Gulf of Tonkin at the beginning of the Vietnam War.
It was given to Bremerton after Pearl Harbor was awarded the USS Missouri and left Bremerton for good. (near the boardwalk where the statue is located in the previous post)

 

[SloppyShooter]

Pirates eyepatches, ( also worn by other sea captains ) served a purpose. As the captain headed below deck ( to the dim light), he would swap eyes with the patch, having a ready adjusted eye.

 

[Kar98]

Pirates eyepatches, ( also worn by other sea captains ) served a purpose. As the captain headed below deck ( to the dim light), he would swap eyes with the patch, having a ready adjusted eye.

Uhm... nah. Bullcrap.

 

[easy rider]

Uhm... nah. Bullcrap.

Elaborate......

 

[SloppyShooter]

Or Google Captains eyepatch, and look for "Mental Floss".

 

[baboon]

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Pirates eyepatches, ( also worn by other sea captains ) served a purpose. As the captain headed below deck ( to the dim light), he would swap eyes with the patch, having a ready adjusted eye.

Now days he would be sporting a PVS-14

 

[nlam01]

Uhm... nah. Bullcrap.

It's the honest truth
Google it

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[Shotgun Jeremy]

That's what they told me in Navy bootcamp when they were going over traditions of why we do things the way we do. That was more in the historical category, rather than current traditions.

 

[SloppyShooter]

Yeah , they actually can't substantiate it due to the lack of eyewitnesses ( no pun intended), but some of us are old enough to have been there, (JK).

 

[easy rider]

I was one of the first to tour it when it became a museum, they had one of the crew at that time telling us about it.

 

[C_Hallbert]

You all are too young to know about this. After I hunted down the last dinosaur, me wife fried it up the way I likes it...........Wait for it:

It tasted just like chicken!


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