I really have nothing in particular for y’all today, so how ’bout I share this amazing clip of a javelina racing through Tucson, Arizona?
Now I understand how a hunter can be killed by a feral pig.
And with that, the comments are yours.
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Get The Picture · Bloviation for the Dawgnation
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Booch getting in shape to take over S&C?
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Looks like Sam Pittman is already improving Arkansas’ team speed and he hasn’t even had a full recruiting cycle yet. Yessssssiiiiiiiirrrrrrrr
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I once had a blind date with a pig – I ran that fast to get away.
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That’s why you tote a few ears of corn,man. Toss a few her way and run like hell. That’s opposed to toting corn to attract ’em as some the of boys used to do. I had a buddy who so bad about sticking it in anything that his mom wouldn’t keep Swiss cheese in the fridge.
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We’re talking about people, right?
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Some would consider it debatable. Mr Swiss Cheese was a damn yankee who retired in Savannah. That’s where I saw a sign outside a bar that read “No Dogs No Rangers”. So yes sir, whether they’re people or not is open to discussion.
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‘If the Great Spirit had not intended me to have cats and ugly women, he would not have made them so easy to catch” : Coyote (Ancient Native American trickster-god.)
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Did y’all go to the Blind Pig? At least get a good burger out of it.
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The Cuban Steak was my favorite there. Maybe my favorite sandwich of all time. Spicy and wonderful.
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On his way to the market?
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Them dudes are bad weather. Ol’ Yeller and Travis Coates are the ones to ask about ’em.
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Ahem… A Javelina is actually a Collared Peccary. Which is a rodent.
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Yes. A vegetarian. Eats roots and plants.
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Vegetables are what food eats
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Yep, not related to hogs at all. A hog is also bigger. Javalinas are native to Texas, and the mascot of Texas A&M-Kingsville.
https://tpwd.texas.gov/education/resources/keep-texas-wild/alien-invaders/feral-hogs-vs.-javelina
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Welp. Time to add Frank Zappa’s “The Adventures of Gregory Peccary” as a soundtrack to the clip.
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You are correct that it is a peccary, but peccaries are most definitely NOT rodents. They are also not pigs. Distinct from both.
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Kevin Sumlin out at Arizona is calling Saban to inquire about some of that famed rat poison he’s always talking about.
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Too late to ask Robert Baratheon if animals like that can be dangerous?
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I ran across a pack of these while hiking the south rim in Big Bend National Park. A fascinating creature, genetically distinct from pigs for over a million years. Would that I had made out like Gene Hackman, but alas.
https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.pinterest.com%2Fpin%2F323062973254563194%2F&psig=AOvVaw1e5vjfprB0Npz–LT6xTSU&ust=1582831324221000&source=images&cd=vfe&ved=0CAIQjRxqFwoTCPi1vqr47-cCFQAAAAAdAAAAABAD
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But can you BBQue them?
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But does he have hands?
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This pig discussion got me thinking and remembering. When I was in flight school (Mineral Wells Texas) we had these events put on by the base commander. It was part of the training to becoming a responsible officer.
They would bring in a busload of young ladies from some school in Denton Texas. They would be dressed in their old prom dresses and we in our dress blues. We would assemble in the mess hall for a dinner and dance after the meal.
Once we realized they were all somewhat ugly we (a group of renegades) decided to have some fun. We all put $5 bucks into a pot the idea was to win the pot. To win the pot the girl you grabbed as they departed the bus had to be judged the ugliest by your fellow candidates. The arguments went deep into the night – I never won 🙂
As a group we had some wild times when allowed off base. Our attitude was “what’s the worst thing they can do – we are already going to be killed in V.N.”
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How uncouth! It must’ve been that blue belly yankee uniform that brought out your inner carpetbagger. 😉
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Speaking of dress blues, you know how someone makes a joke and you don’t get it until years later? I was married in my blues in ‘85. My grandmother and her sister were there. They spoke in that soft, Southern purr that Hollywood attempts but can’t imitate and seems to be almost extinct.
Grandma says,”Why aren’t you handsome in your…blue suit.”
My Great Aunt told me,”Turn around so I can look at you. Hmm, when did they stop putting that yellow stripe down the back?”
It was over 20 years later watching The Searchers that I realized those old unreconstructed Rebel ladies were insulting me. They would’ve been fine with my becoming a Marine Officer as they had comported themselves well during the late unpleasantness. But the yankee Army Officers had no honor in their estimation.
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I was in Jittery Joe’s in 5 points back when the Navy School was still here. A Marine came in wearing his dress blues and the young lady at the counter said “I love a soldier in uniform”!
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Speaking of yellow know the “story” of the 1st Cav patch?
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The story I heard was First Cav was overrun in Korea and lost their colors. They weren’t allowed back to CONUS until they regained their honor in Vietnam. It’s something I should research rather than spread a rumor.
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Yea, the conventional wisdom is that it’s not true. They trained as the 2nd Air Assault at Banning and then switched colors with the 2nd ID before I got there in 67. The story was that they couldn’t come back to the states until they won their colors back in combat but it’s probably not true. “Following the battle, there were disparaging rumors about the 1st Cavalry Division’s fighting abilities, including a folk song of the time called “The Bug-Out Ballad”.[7] The series of engagements were rumored to have given rise to the song were due (at least partly) to the myth that the division lost its unit colors.[8] Other Army and Marine units disparagingly described the division shoulder insignia as representing ‘The horse they never rode, the river they never crossed, and the yellow speaks for itself’. Another version goes: “The shield they never carried, the horse they never rode, the bridge they never crossed, the line they never held, and the yellow is the reason why.” The aforementioned ballad only lasted until the Division which changed leadership proved itself in the months to come and during operation Crombez when the fifth relived Chipyong-ni. ref[9]
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We were merged with C 1/9 for a few months – the joke at the time was the horse they don’t ride the line they don’t cross and the color speaks volumes.
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I might add the combination kicked some serious ass – those guys were a fun group after hours.
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The 7th ID had a similar situation at the Chosin. They were widely denigrated for years but eventually were recognized for being instrumental in the survival of the Marines who spent the “Freezin Season at the Frozen Chosin.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/2000/12/11/50-years-later-an-army-force-gets-its-due/7a49d39b-0c39-4242-b062-a89a57add4f6/
“The Army units were initially included in paperwork for the Presidential Unit Citation that was given to the 1st Marine Division in 1952, but Gen. O.P. Smith, the commander who led the Marine breakout, directed that they be removed.
“Smith denied honors to the unit that fought itself to death protecting the flank of the Marines,” Needham said.
Smith made the decision not knowing the full extent of what the Army faced or accomplished, senior Chosin veterans now say.
“At first, the Marines had nothing but contempt for the 7th Division,” McCaffrey said. “They now understand if it hadn’t been for that group of leaderless kids fighting up there for their lives, they probably would have been overrun.”
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I was in one of the last units to ship as a unit. We departed Mc Cord and touched down in Honolulu to refuel and they let us off the plane so a couple of us went in a little garden area and fired one up, what were they going to do to us, send us to the Nam??
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There were very few choppers in Korea when I was there, this is one of the few coming into our compound.
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That is a Hiller OH 23 Raven. I thought only the Bell OH 13 was used in Korea – learn something every day. The OH 23 was what I first learned in – it was a bitch because of the 180 degree lag in the rotor system.
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This was 1967-68. I figured it was also used in training. I have a buddy in Athens who flew H-21’s in the early days in the Nam. When they shipped they couldn’t even tell their families where they were going! He’s always on the field for the “Purple Heart” ceremony at Dawg Games.
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http://www.118ahc.org/ThunderbirdLounge.htm
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I’m sure you were all “Magazine Covers” yourself… And your wife or daughter are models
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Those things look thinner, longer and lighter on TV when they throw them around in the Olymplcs.
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They look longer, thinner, and lighter when you got the beer goggles on too….
Oh wait..
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.Hunted Javelina in AZ in the 70s. Part of the hunting grounds were next to the Apache Reservation and they were the wiliest animals I ever hunted – spooked easily in arroyos and it was a science trying to figure which direction tracked animals would spook, one that we never got correct. We found several squadrons (had to refresh the memory with Google since I knew they weren’t packs or other associated groupings), but never got an open shot at any. Eight guys (mostly vets just back from ‘Nam), two jeeps and about 16 cases of beer later with nothing to show but a weekend of camaraderie and a broken jeep windshield from sharing a beer with my companions by tossing over my head to the trailing jeep at about 50mph in a dry river bed. We had a small tete-a-tete and came to an agreement that all full and unopened beer cans would be passed by hand from then on. They voted down my argument that the trailing jeep should drive faster because I gave it enough height for a clean catch.
No animals were hurt during our weekend javelina hunt.
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When I came home I went to Tempe to hang with a hs buddy who was on the gymnastics team at ASU. He had a jeep and we went out in the desert with that fucker and wailed in those river beds. A guy in the back flew out, landed on his head and just shook it off. Ah to be young again!
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Had several weekends with a large vet’s group from ASU. We just found unoccupied desert landscape near Canyon Lake and partied until the sun came up. Nearly everyone just celebrated living and many had the view that they wouldn’t flinch from living dangerously simply because they had survived the big attempt on their lives in ‘Nam. We journeyed together to Mexico (Santa Rosa, beach below Tucson) during Easter, enjoyed ganja and drank beer like there was no tomorrow, raced a couple of rails on walls inside the huge natural sand funnel formations and bonded with the local gendarmes. When a group tried to take over one guy’s Bronco he had driven down the beach, we had to call on “El Capitan” from Santa Rosa to chase them away(several hundred people) who were taking it over because a similar Bronco had killed a little girl there the week before we arrived, as explained by the police Captain. The adventure took another semi-dangerous turn, but that’s a whole ‘nother story.
When our caravan of six fully loaded cars came back through customs, they pulled our car out for search. Although I was in the back seat, the customs officer directed his remarks towards me to take the back seat out ( I was the only one with a beard). When I told him it wasn’t my car, he threatened to have the engine disassembled and leave it on the ground. The driver asked me to assist and we dismantled the seats and everything in the interior to placate their search for the drugs they assumed we had brought from Mexico. When we rejoined the others awaiting us on the roadside about 200 yds away, Customs could hear the loud laughter when we told them why we were held up. We had agreed before the trip that we would take ganja to Mexico because no one searches you going in – only going out. We smoked it all before leaving Santa Rosa’s beach. That group of vets from the Tempe area were a hoot.
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Forgive my indulgence but I am 52 today. Thoughts:
Got Sr. will be 71 Monday. Having my Old Man as a confidante, friend, and partner in crime is truly priceless. We bought each other half of a harrow to celebrate.
Smart women are attractive at any age.
A 529 plan is a much better investment in a child’s future than travel sports.
As I grow older my circle of friends becomes smaller.
It’s a good time to be a Georgia Bulldog.
Being outside doing shit is good for the soul.
I heard a blender, could be margaritas. I must investigate. Cowdog out.
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Amen to smart women, although that brings a whole set of problems on its own. Totally worth it, though.
Most of the time.
Okay, call it 50/50.
Happy birthday. And nothing beats having a good dad. And I fear those of us who do might occasionally take it for granted.
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Happy Birthday Cowdog. Enjoy yourself all week. I agree with all those thoughts.
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Those are fun to shoot.
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