“It’s Saturday”
In St Petersburg.
Its Rugby game day.
The Prodigal’s team, The Pelicans take the field.
He’s not starting today because he just recovered from a broken hand (game injury), and hasn’t practiced all month.
Pictures:
My beautiful bride
The Pelicans and opponents shortly after a ‘scrum’.
Thank you for reminding me. I wanted to talk about our post-show hangout in Memphis and here it is:
Shoot-Don’t Shoot
Back in the Stoneage, when I strapped on a gun and pinned on a badge. We routinely had to go through ‘Shoot-Don’t Shoot’ scenarios.
This was accomplished, in those days, using a real revolver. A large white sheet of white paper, and a sound controlled projector.
The revolver was loaded with shells that had only a ‘large pistol primer’, with no powder. They then took a 1/2” thick block of Paraffin wax, and pressed the open end of the shells into it.
Therefore when fired, a .38 cal 1/2” chunk of wax would be the projectile.
A large 10”x10” sheet of paper on a giant pad was mounted on a wall of a room. It served as a movie screen for the sound controlled projector.
Several different scenarios would be projected onto the screen. The projector would play them. When and if the revolver was fired, the video would freeze at that instance. Further, the wax projectiles would punch a hole or mark the paper where they struck it.
The only iffy scenario I had involved the following;
I’d ...
Leslie posted this over on Greg's Locals website:
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