nascarmike Posted December 17, 2023 Share Posted December 17, 2023 2 hours ago, Jimmy Snacks said: Jimmy Doolittle = Massive Cojones 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Platinum Contributing Member Jimmy Snacks Posted December 18, 2023 Platinum Contributing Member Share Posted December 18, 2023 On Sep 13, 1944, a princess from India lay dead at Dachau concentration camp. She had been tortured by the Nazis and then shot in the head. Her name was Noor Inayat Khan. The Germans knew her only as Nora Baker, a British spy who had gone into occupied France using the code name Madeline. She carried her transmitter from safe house to safe house with the Gestapo trailing her, providing communications for her Resistance unit. Wireless operators in France had a life expectancy of six weeks. Noor was actively transmitting for over three times as long. While she was in France, every other wireless operator in her network was slowly picked off until she was the last radio link between London and Paris. It was "the most dangerous and important post in France." She was offered a way back to Britain and refused. In fact, in her transmissions to London, she once said that she was having the time of her life, and thanked them for giving her the opportunity to do this. She was captured by the Gestapo, but never gave up; she made three attempts at escape. One involved asking to take a bath, insisting on being allowed to close the door to preserve her modesty, and then clambering onto the roof of the Gestapo HQ in Paris. Her last word before being shot was, "Liberté!" 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Platinum Contributing Member steve from amherst Posted December 18, 2023 Platinum Contributing Member Share Posted December 18, 2023 This morning Easton Maine , Aroostick county 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Platinum Contributing Member Jimmy Snacks Posted December 19, 2023 Platinum Contributing Member Share Posted December 19, 2023 ”That same year (1979), after the regular season, we played together in the WHA All-Star game against the Moscow Dynamo. There was this one Soviet who wouldn’t stop hooking and chopping at me. I didn’t know what to do about it, so Gordie said, ”The next time down the ice, when you see him coming, flush him off to the right and get the hell out the way.” So that’s what I did and when I looked back, the Soviet was laying flat on his butt, half out of it. Whatever Gordie did, I’m glad I didn’t have to watch it.” - Wayne Gretzky. 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Platinum Contributing Member steve from amherst Posted December 20, 2023 Platinum Contributing Member Share Posted December 20, 2023 Rye harbor after mondays storm 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DriftBusta Posted December 20, 2023 Share Posted December 20, 2023 On 12/18/2023 at 8:11 AM, steve from amherst said: This morning Easton Maine , Aroostick county The town that my dad was born and raised in right in the New Brunswick border. HIs brothers kept the potato farm going until the late 70s, when they sold it to a couple doctors who turned it into a horse farm. The farmhouse he grew up in later made the cover of Down East magazine. 14 hours ago, Jimmy Snacks said: ”That same year (1979), after the regular season, we played together in the WHA All-Star game against the Moscow Dynamo. There was this one Soviet who wouldn’t stop hooking and chopping at me. I didn’t know what to do about it, so Gordie said, ”The next time down the ice, when you see him coming, flush him off to the right and get the hell out the way.” So that’s what I did and when I looked back, the Soviet was laying flat on his butt, half out of it. Whatever Gordie did, I’m glad I didn’t have to watch it.” - Wayne Gretzky. Man for such a tough guy on the ice, he was the nicest guy off the ice. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Platinum Contributing Member Jimmy Snacks Posted December 21, 2023 Platinum Contributing Member Share Posted December 21, 2023 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DriftBusta Posted December 21, 2023 Share Posted December 21, 2023 Someone had a bad day. 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Platinum Contributing Member Skidooski Posted December 21, 2023 Platinum Contributing Member Share Posted December 21, 2023 Yikes! Pic from FakeBook 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Platinum Contributing Member Rigid1 Posted December 21, 2023 Platinum Contributing Member Share Posted December 21, 2023 Just now, Skidooski said: Yikes! Pic from FakeBook Saw that yesterday too, wouldn't want catch that skiing down a Hill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Platinum Contributing Member Skidooski Posted December 21, 2023 Platinum Contributing Member Share Posted December 21, 2023 41 minutes ago, Rigid1 said: Saw that yesterday too, wouldn't want catch that skiing down a Hill And that's on the corduroy too.....Crazy! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Platinum Contributing Member Steve753 Posted December 21, 2023 Platinum Contributing Member Share Posted December 21, 2023 Tropic of Capricorn in southern Madagascar. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Platinum Contributing Member Rigid1 Posted December 22, 2023 Platinum Contributing Member Share Posted December 22, 2023 (edited) Kinda a rare one in the shop today Edited December 22, 2023 by Rigid1 Better pic 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Platinum Contributing Member Steve753 Posted December 22, 2023 Platinum Contributing Member Share Posted December 22, 2023 1 hour ago, Rigid1 said: Kinda a rare one in the shop today R8 ? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Platinum Contributing Member Rigid1 Posted December 22, 2023 Platinum Contributing Member Share Posted December 22, 2023 9 minutes ago, Steve753 said: R8 ? No, an S6 Quattro 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deephaven Posted December 22, 2023 Share Posted December 22, 2023 25 minutes ago, Rigid1 said: No, an S6 Quattro Fun cars. Mines a beast. 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Platinum Contributing Member Rigid1 Posted December 22, 2023 Platinum Contributing Member Share Posted December 22, 2023 23 minutes ago, Deephaven said: Fun cars. Mines a beast. Sounds very nice, has a cat back system on it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deephaven Posted December 22, 2023 Share Posted December 22, 2023 4 hours ago, Rigid1 said: Sounds very nice, has a cat back system on it. Yep, makes a huge difference. Every time I start it any car guy anywhere nearby smiles Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Platinum Contributing Member Rigid1 Posted December 22, 2023 Platinum Contributing Member Share Posted December 22, 2023 1 minute ago, Deephaven said: Yep, makes a huge difference. Every time I start it any car guy anywhere nearby smiles It is one glorious sounding car for sure..👊 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doug Posted December 23, 2023 Share Posted December 23, 2023 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Platinum Contributing Member steve from amherst Posted December 23, 2023 Platinum Contributing Member Share Posted December 23, 2023 Amherst NH , thursday evening 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Platinum Contributing Member Jimmy Snacks Posted December 23, 2023 Platinum Contributing Member Share Posted December 23, 2023 48 minutes ago, steve from amherst said: Amherst NH , thursday evening Beautiful.👌🏻 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gold Member 800renegaderider Posted December 23, 2023 Gold Member Share Posted December 23, 2023 Few pics of the light from last night at nhms 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Platinum Contributing Member Jimmy Snacks Posted December 24, 2023 Platinum Contributing Member Share Posted December 24, 2023 Walmart and Costco carry this jam and I felt that this story needed to be shared and you will feel the need to too ❤️ *The incident took place in a supermarket in New Jersey. The tweet is by Michael Perino @ProfessorPerino* “At the supermarket today, I found a small, elderly woman standing in front of a high shelf holding @BonneMamanUS preserves. She was having trouble finding the flavor she wanted because the jars were set back on the shelf. She couldn’t read the labels. She could barely reach them. I offered to help. After I handed her the raspberry preserves, she thanked me, paused, and then asked, “Do you know why I buy this brand?” I laughed and replied, “Because it tastes good?” “Yes, it tastes good.” She paused again. “I am a Holocaust survivor.” This was not the conversation I expected on a Sunday grocery run. “During the war, the family that owns the company hid my family in Paris. So now I always buy it. And whenever I go to the store, my grandkids remind me, ‘Bubbe, don’t forget to buy the jelly.’” I told her that that was the best reason I ever heard to buy any company’s product. And then we both smiled behind our masks and went our separate ways.” ***************************** Someone else on Twitter looked into the story and indeed, the town that Andros Company, the makers of Bonne Maman, comes from, hid and saved Jewish families in WW2. It was called Biars sur Cere, which then had about 800 villagers. From an article, “You have to understand what it was like then. There were posters on the walls, from the Nazis and from the collaborators, and they said that if you are found to help a Jew, a freemason, a communist, a socialist, or a pervert, you will be shot on sight.” Despite the great danger in which helping them put the villagers in, still they kept the children safe.” A good reason to buy Bonne Maman products. And a poignant reminder that when we look out for each other it can change lives, and that there are good and selfless people in the world. ♥️Bonne Maman! 🇫🇷 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Platinum Contributing Member Jimmy Snacks Posted December 24, 2023 Platinum Contributing Member Share Posted December 24, 2023 A North Vietnamese Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17 making a firing pass at a U.S. Air Force Republic F-105D Thunderchief over North Vietnam on 19 December 1967. The action was filmed by the gunsight of another USAF F-105. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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