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Rocklock French lessons
« on: September 27, 2009, 08:54:19 AM »
Gary,

How are your French lessons coming?


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Re: Rocklock French lessons
« Reply #1 on: September 27, 2009, 09:23:21 AM »
coming along OK .

wee ,oui ,poly voo ? .  dont shoot i give up  ???!

but thanks for asking !



it a good thing you didnt post that photo B4 ...... i might have submitted it for a month on the calender !!!

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Re: Rocklock French lessons
« Reply #2 on: September 27, 2009, 10:17:20 AM »
French lessons..............only Frogs and North-North Americans speak that hee haw.......hee haw gibberish.
Scottish by birth and by heart.

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Re: Rocklock French lessons
« Reply #3 on: September 27, 2009, 11:32:30 AM »
it a good thing you didnt post that photo B4 ...... i might have submitted it for a month on the calender !!!

That there is a great looking picture.
I would have voted for that.
Would have been a good cover photo.

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Re: Rocklock French lessons
« Reply #4 on: September 27, 2009, 01:17:25 PM »
     Hey, French 75 gunner.  I'm sure that you fired that beauty by now;  how loud are they with a proper service load anyway??  Can you get a real BANG out of that model?  I read somewhere about how an American artillery battery of French 75s started a large bombardment in WWI and another 75 battery 7 miles away heard those first shots!  How far away do you think yours could be heard with a maximum, safe, charge?  The real McCoy was known to have a really sharp 'Crack!', does yours?

Sure is a nice looking gun; be careful.

Mike and Tracy
Smokin' my pipe on the mountings, sniffin' the mornin'-cool,
I walks in my old brown gaiters along o' my old brown mule,
With seventy gunners be'ind me, an' never a beggar forgets
It's only the pick of the Army that handles the dear little pets - 'Tss! 'Tss!

From the poem  Screw-Guns  by Rudyard Kipling

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Re: Rocklock French lessons
« Reply #5 on: September 27, 2009, 02:59:19 PM »
"..you got some nerve .........nilly billy ....! "

how loud did it sound to you ?......wisenhiemer ......?????

ehhh ? , whats that ,,  ? .. . .?    ,. . .,?  .   (thats the sound of three minds melting ,,,,koan ,i geuss)             can you hear me now ?         
 ' *#$ ** '  ? ,(larry) ;)   ' *#@ ^ '  ? , (moe)  :P  ' & **> ' ? (..yep , curley),   :( ...   UHHHH ? ?

you'd make the three stooges look like a strech goal ........! :o

any questions ...? hummmm ?   ..... ?

have a nice trip ...!   say hi to the ocean for me .   ;D

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Re: Rocklock French lessons
« Reply #6 on: September 27, 2009, 05:35:42 PM »
Humm sounds like we need a "Paul Harvey Moment"

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Re: Rocklock French lessons
« Reply #7 on: September 28, 2009, 05:16:08 AM »
Hey Rock,

Nice picture of you and your Frenchie.. Oh ya!! love that shirt.. All you needs is a nice frosty pina colada.. Boo yah!!

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Re: Rocklock French lessons
« Reply #8 on: September 28, 2009, 05:32:19 AM »
I also need a pina colada
but ok captain morgan and pepsi will also do
thats what I usually get from my captain when Im working on his cannons  ;D
Dan Pettersson
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interested in early bronze guns

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Re: Rocklock French lessons
« Reply #9 on: September 28, 2009, 05:56:42 AM »
Humm sounds like we need a "Paul Harvey Moment"

'rest of the story ?'  suffice to say that dom 75 'can be' very loud ......... 

where is that pic of the cannon held upside down like a dead trophy ?

that sure was a good shoot dd ............now that MT are outta my hair for a while , maybe i can git something done !  ;D

nice day here ......... lets just move on , you know ...look foward ......

suffice to say .....'impact flats' or whatever kunze called it is closed till further notice ! for cause .
"cause" i like my liberty to walk around freely ......without certain vehicals driving through nieghborhoods looking
for the reason the 911 operator was ...alerted ! two tone cars ...... u NO dee jauns  8)

thanks elcaz66 on the shirt , pretty much my full time uniform . ummm pinia colata .....?

dan AWSOME ,now i know what you bean up to .  8) todays is go day ...i had to wait for mt to leave !

"I've seen too much not to stay in touch , With a world full of love and luck, I got a big suspicion 'bout ammunition I never forget to duck" J.B.

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Re: Rocklock French lessons
« Reply #10 on: September 28, 2009, 10:57:17 AM »
Do you mean the picture just before my dog bit you?



or the one after we bandaged the dog bite up.



These pictures were taken by George and  posted here without his permission...Thanks George.

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Re: Rocklock French lessons
« Reply #11 on: September 28, 2009, 12:39:22 PM »
that ugly wound came as a result of corker wading boots on slippery granite ...... ::)

i was panning a week earlier when i landed hard on my ass ....and slid down the slope of granite and would have plunged into the water .........which was nice and cool .

instead the broken end of a branch stopped my impending fall of maybe 8 inches into nice cool water ....

by imbedding itself in my shin .....at least i didnt get wet ....although i was saoked b4 i got back to the car .....    cold water takes blood right out of socks !

that dog retrieved that dead frenchie  ;D good boy . clearly he is about to futher defile the vanquished foe

i told him ' see there ? we'll make the record fer shure ...look at the neck on that one sparky' he responded
  ' it needs some hydrant i'm tellin ya '

thanks george/dd
"I've seen too much not to stay in touch , With a world full of love and luck, I got a big suspicion 'bout ammunition I never forget to duck" J.B.

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Re: Rocklock French lessons
« Reply #12 on: September 28, 2009, 01:18:21 PM »
Ah, it's a girl dog and she was just growling at your picture...:)

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Re: Rocklock French lessons
« Reply #13 on: September 29, 2009, 03:38:01 PM »
RocklockI,  It's great to see you are enjoying your doorprize and putting it to good use.