Author Topic: Of cannon, Ships, and the Sea (Read 2469 times)

Victor3 · « **Reply #30 on:** August 09, 2009, 11:37:01 PM »

I'd have to agree with you here, Dan.

As far as nudity on war machines go, I'd never post pics of some of the ladies depicted in US WWII aircraft nose art on a family forum, but what you show falls into a different (and harmless) classification IMHO...

Double D · « **Reply #31 on:** August 10, 2009, 03:20:00 AM »

Your picture is just fine Dan.

Marine Dad · « **Reply #32 on:** August 10, 2009, 04:54:57 AM »

Am I missing something?
I only saw a nude Cannon...

Cannoneer · « **Reply #33 on:** August 10, 2009, 05:21:42 AM »

I would like to take this opportunity to inform everyone that I now see the errors of my licentious ways, and from here on out, I vow to close my eyes tightly, whenever I happen to find myself in a situation where I'm confronted with the sight of any cannon that is not fully clothed.

thelionspaw · « **Reply #34 on:** August 11, 2009, 02:07:09 PM »

I haven't sold my wife on the idea yet (I'm cogitating Boom J) but this is one of the sinks in our home. It's an english 19th c. piece of gold plated excess. Another sink we have, reads, "Potters to Her Majesty the Queen" (obviously Victoria). The bowl was originally gold plate over copper.

This dolphin and its mate would look nice if brazed on one of my barrels. Pat thinks it would look too foppish.

rc

RocklockI · « **Reply #35 on:** August 11, 2009, 02:26:57 PM »

dan , i must agree , nothing compares to those old bronze guns . each one was a work of art and labor .

my paorrt is a great shooter , but nothing holds a match to them .......unless of course you would like to actually hit something .

Cannoneer · « **Reply #36 on:** August 11, 2009, 07:43:16 PM »

Quote from: thelionspaw on August 11, 2009, 02:07:09 PM

I haven't sold my wife on the idea yet (I'm cogitating Boom J) but this is one of the sinks in our home. It's an english 19th c. piece of gold plated excess. Another sink we have, reads, "Potters to Her Majesty the Queen" (obviously Victoria). The bowl was originally gold plate over copper.

This dolphin and its mate would look nice if brazed on one of my barrels. Pat thinks it would look too foppish.

rc

Foppish is an understatement! Good grief, is that faucet supposed to represent a peacock? Maybe this King Richard stuff is more serious than I thought; who do you think you are the "Last Emperor," you know how he ended up, don't you? You've got to get this "stuff" out of your abode before the anti-ostentatious patrol comes knocking on the door. Tell the wife in no uncertain terms that those fishish thingages (Rocklock is really starting to have an effect on my brain) are going to be brazed onto your new cannon, and the peacock is going to be a yard ornament.

I'm glad you've finally made a post, these week long nappages are getting out of control; remember that a post a day will keep the doldrums away.

Victor3 · « **Reply #37 on:** August 12, 2009, 12:19:41 AM »

"You've got to get this "stuff" out of your abode before the anti-ostentatious patrol comes knocking on the door."

10-4 Boom J..... I copy. Assembling team now. Will drop in via chopper through the stained glass skylight, equipped with pipe wrenches. Hope we don't get tangled up in the ruby chandelier...

thelionspaw · « **Reply #38 on:** August 12, 2009, 04:37:36 AM »

I only live in an 'umble cottage with 2 plain glazed skylights Victor3 and they're not over the "ruby chandelier". Anyway, it's iron, so get a tetanus shot before you drop in

To conform with company policy Douglas, I had my wife hold a powder can for scale at the library window. Use any of the doors when you visit; the windows are for the "suits" to use.

Boom J: What "peacock"

That's a conch shell, drain control. The other dolphin is to the left and out of the picture.

So am I to understand that you men do not stop everything for afternoon tea as we do and prefer to rough it?

O.K., so my nappy is over John and I'm hanging in again (?). Two weeks of tests and I can get back to my build in a month or so. Yesterday was nuclear test day and they told me to avoid pregnant women, infants and small children because I glowed in the dark and was like a microwave oven. I asked if that means that I can do hamburgers in my armpits. Gross; right? I tried to be. They were all so dead serious.

Serious, is for behind the wheel and around guns.

rc

RocklockI · « **Reply #39 on:** August 12, 2009, 06:03:39 AM »

wow thats some nice diggs .

KABAR2 · « **Reply #40 on:** August 12, 2009, 06:58:30 AM »

Ok Sir Richard,

You need to show a few more photo's I see helms and pole arms in the distance on the wall with the skull.

mention cannon's so it will be cannon related....

thelionspaw · « **Reply #41 on:** August 12, 2009, 10:06:29 AM »

In defense of my medieval black powder cannon, "The Lion's Paw", I maintain a collection of clutter associated with my beast. My wife likes flowering plants and her extensive gardens spill over into our rather large (for an 'umble cottage) dining room.

So here Allen, you have some of what you just requested. I don't wish to abuse the rules so the images are limited but I did include the 6'4" 8lb 2 hand sword that served to protect the cannon and the colours.

It is positioned with a sculpture I made of Iwo Jima and no, I wasn't a "Jar-Head". It has always bothered me that history has swept aside the actual flag raisers. My sculpture represents the ghostly first flag raisers as they fade-away into oblivian but their solid flag still waves as the later assembled solid group, raises what I have depicted as a ghost flag.

My wife's aunt's nephew was Sgt.Strank of the second flag. He never made it off the hill. He and my M-I-L both came to America from Jarabina, Slovakia.

Cannoneer · « **Reply #42 on:** August 12, 2009, 12:21:44 PM »

Quote from: thelionspaw on August 12, 2009, 04:37:36 AM

Boom J: What "peacock" That's a conch shell, drain control. The other dolphin is to the left and out of the picture.

O.K., so my nappy is over John and I'm hanging in again (?). Two weeks of tests and I can get back to my build in a month or so. Yesterday was nuclear test day and they told me to avoid pregnant women, infants and small children because I glowed in the dark and was like a microwave oven. I asked if that means that I can do hamburgers in my armpits. Gross; right? I tried to be. They were all so dead serious.

OK, I can see they're supposed to be shells now, but you can't blame this on me, you know it's kinda hard to make out details, when you're being blinded by the glare from all that gold.

It sounds like you earned a couple naps, I'm glad you're done with taking your atomic test, you'll weather it fine.
Medicos precribed a "nuclear pill" for my Aunt, so we took her to the hospital, and after it had been administered, the tech gave us a sheet of do's & don'ts. As I read the sheet my jaw dropped: Do not get within X feet of pregnant women, infants, or children, after using the bathroom make sure the toilet is flushed at least three times etc.; this stuff must be pretty potent! Anyway, she didn't experience any ill effects whatsoever from taking the pill.

Alright, now that you're back to hangin' on the board, let's turn our attention to somebody else; where the heck is El Cazador?

Hey Rich, I just had another thought; if your head starts to glow to brightly, and the glare begins to irritate your wife, you can don one of the suit of armor helmets, and the only rays escaping would be from the eye cut-outs and air holes.

I just checked El Caz's profile, and he was last active 7/28, so he's probably just taken some kind of vow of silence or something.

RocklockI · « **Reply #43 on:** August 13, 2009, 06:34:14 AM »

It sounds like you earned a couple naps, I'm glad you're done with taking your atomic test, you'll weather it fine.
Medicos precribed a "nuclear pill" for my Aunt, so we took her to the hospital, and after it had been administered, the tech gave us a sheet of do's & don'ts. As I read the sheet my jaw dropped: Do not get within X feet of pregnant women, infants, or children, after using the bathroom make sure the toilet is flushed at least three times etc.; this stuff must be pretty potent! Anyway, she didn't experience any ill effects whatsoever from taking the pill.

did it say anything about yelling '..unclean..unclean..'

most of these silly drugs and pills ".....it works great ...side effects could include , three headed monkeys will fly out of your ..ears

.... , a small tumor may appear on your forehead ,not to worry we can treat it so that it only becomes a third eye ....instead of some alien crawling out ... bot fly style

then with your more than four hour problem you go to the hospital ........tee hee tee hee

i would never load something like that into any CANNON of mine .....but i am ordering 50 more steel balls for the 'tart' ...might to have to look into zinc ....shipping is the killer with steel balls ....

btw the mill ball industry is going downhill fast ...not as much concrete being used = less mill balls ordered so on and so on . they are good peoples.

Victor3 · « **Reply #44 on:** August 13, 2009, 11:01:40 PM »

"I only live in an 'umble cottage with 2 plain glazed skylights Victor3"

Wish I had me an 'umblatial estate like yours to call home

"As I read the sheet my jaw dropped: Do not get within X feet of pregnant women, infants, or children, after using the bathroom make sure the toilet is flushed at least three times etc.; this stuff must be pretty potent!"

At the port of Los Angeles recently, a longshoreman taking similar pills set off one of Homeland Security's radiation detectors. Operations at the dock he was working at were suspended until they figured out what the source was.

thelionspaw · « **Reply #45 on:** August 14, 2009, 03:21:27 AM »

Yup! There are some draw-backs but the hamburgers came out fine

Cannoneer · « **Reply #46 on:** August 14, 2009, 03:46:25 AM »

Quote from: thelionspaw on August 14, 2009, 03:21:27 AM

Yup! There are some draw-backs but the hamburgers came out fine

Yeah, but are they edible by those of us that aren't glowing!

BoomLover · « **Reply #47 on:** August 14, 2009, 05:19:12 AM »

Richard, your stained glass, Helms, and Polearms are beautiful, like a museum there within the walls of your "umble cottage"! Congrats on your collection, and the Mary Rose is a beauty, too! BoomLover

thelionspaw · « **Reply #48 on:** August 15, 2009, 10:54:38 AM »

The flat spot is so obvious, it's painful. Simple! It's to hold the cannoneer's cigarette while the piece is being loaded. All the cannons in Brooklyn have them

Terry C. · « **Reply #49 on:** August 16, 2009, 12:36:37 PM »

Down here in the south, we leave the lit cigarette dangling from the corner of our mouth whilst we prime our artillery.

Terry (who doesn't actually smoke)