Bob Zimmerman belays good morning. Bleeker Street style.

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Bobby Zimmerman belays a - gooooood morning - gooooood morning - gooooood morning….. (As substituted for Blue Morning.)

That would be a…….(even though the sun is shining)………….

Village voice style - slimy, wet, bum on the sidewalk, workin' girls just getting home, trash hauler's findin' bodies, used syringes on your front stoop, bus fumin', head-a-bangin' from too much Tequila, MD 20/20 and Icehouse Malt - Lower Manhattan, broke artist (All my paints and brushes were stolen with my bicycle, because I parked it and forgot where it was until I came down from My 3-day crack binge.) - moanin' morning………..

Bleeker Street style.

A beautiful day to be flat-out busted and makin' art in NYC.

The Times They Aren't A Changin'
 
There's something going on but you don't know what it is. DO you, Mr Jones?
 
Morning Sparky

I guess thats what makes NYC the most interesting place in the world to live.The finding of a severed head is a page three article. Up here Lloyd Robertson would be breaking in to regularly scheduled programming to alert us about it.

Overcast and grey in Freddy Beach this morning, about 20C. I'm licking my wounds and welts after paintball yesterday (got one on my neck that looks like the hickey from hell). On a happy note we're only days away from the new NHL season and the ice goes in the rinks here in about a week. Time to get the blades sharpened and relive my youth:)

What the fuck happened here on the weekend? Sounds like all kinds of unholy hell broke loose. I leave for a couple 'o days and the whole operation is in a shambles;)

Oh, and Sparky, could we get some consistency in the thread title. Its monday morning and I along with most people are at an intelectual nadir at this point in the week, make it easy for us would ya?
 
Hit with a Tippman?

Sure Exp. The Zimmerman shit was for other's to remain curious about. Many might huh.

Anyway, paintball! My 17 year old's on two teams down in VA. One, he's the only kid, all the other's are grown-up Jar Heads from Quantico. They got a couple of sponsor's but nothing huge.

He's got a custom (aren't they all)Tippman (I think) and claims to have about $2.5K in custom parts and stuff. Must admit it's pretty awesome. Course he didn't pay that much - he has been working at a store and making deals.
 
I want one!

However that kind of $$$ outlay for something I only play 2 or 3 times per year seems slightly excessive. I'll just remain a "Rental Rambo" for now.

It is a ton of fun though. Except when you get it in the grill .... that stuff tastes pretty awful. I woulda said "tastes like shit" but then the Raymond Burr references would have begun to fly.
 
Hey Expertise and Sparky, I love paintball war and I'd just die to get you two in the woods and put one in your ass.

I have a Talon with a Viewloader. Not the latest in technology but does me just fine, because it's a matter of strategy not weaponry.

I particularly like playing in the snow and the cold, where I can track and brains become more even more important than brawn. Those CO2 cartridges only last about five shots and the paintballs, especially the yellow ones, don't splatter when they hit, but dang do they make bruises, even if you're wearing a heavy coat.

Let's see, I think I'd want KillerMuffin on my side (if we can't shoot you, we'll just make you road kill with our trucks.) I bet she can kick ass. If you get say FlamingoBlue and Bobtoad on your team, I'd want like Gingersnap and Siren. I'd take Laurel but she doesn't seem to have enough of a mean streak. This is fucking war!

Anytime you dudes are ready we can do a "survivor" show.
 
Winter paintball is fun stuff Deborah. The bastards hurt like hell when you get zapped though. Once played in -10C conditions and couldn't move my hand for a few days after getting "tagged" by one.

I'll take my chances with Sparky, he used to be (I know Sparky once a marine always a marine) "One of the few, the proud, the dead on the beach". Besides, with you being three feet taller than your car and possesd of huge shoulders you make a rather inviting target.

BTW. No head shots no groin shots.
 
Yeah could be much fun....

My consternation voiced to my kid was always - "you know, very cool but just not real enough for me."

Too much ammo. (Wish it was limited like real life stuff.) Bright shiny weapons. (Give me cammo or black. Don't want my enemy to see me.) Body armor? (Bah, only eye protection and helmet, let it hurt more.)

And where's the mortar's and grenades? A simple water/paint balloon could work.
 
Good Morning, Sparky, everyone, paintballers, beautiful day in the northern plains, had some weather over the weekend, blew some colored leaves off the trees, nice today, love this time of year, had a little R and R. Man the threads were nasty over the weekend. I much prefer the weekday crowd, lookin' for a good day.
 
"Grenades" are available though not particularly effective, Sparky. No body armor for us, other than goggle/mask combo and a "cup".

Believe me, if you play in the winter you don't want it to hurt more. Imagine Clemons or Ryan throwing a marble at you and multiply it by three. It smarts.

I fucking hate mortars BTW.
 
Here's a fun thing - Egg Mortars

I grew up a bit of a pyro - always burning shit - flaming arrows into gas soaked long jump pits and the like.

Egging too - so I get this idea for an, "egg mortar."

4 foot section of 1.5inch PVC (it's good cause it's so smooth down the inside) or EMT will work too. We used corn meal to let the egg slide even better. Makes for a cool launch to - powder in the air.

A Burns-O-matic torch with a hosed nozzle and spark-lighter.

Eggs.

Place egg in front/launching end of tube - gently let it slide to the rear where you make sure it doesn't slide out. Again, gently, insert the torch nozzle, pushing the egg up the rear of the tube a little, nozzle resting on the but of the egg (oh, sharp dome of the egg toward the nozzle. Now, you can, if you feel it correctly, it's easy - let gas into the tube, up against the egg without igniting the gas, you just ease the trigger in so the spark doesn't light - you let the gas build up - then you click the trigger to make it spark - Puuufffffff!!!!

Egg Mortar!!!!!

It's best as a two man operation.

We were launching'em about a hundred yards or so.
 
Reminds me of a "Coke can cannon". Before they canged the design of pop cans (soda) here you could jam several together after removing the ends of all except the "base", one end of which was left intact save for a pinhole. You poured in some lighter fluid rammed in a tennis ball carefully ignited it and watched the thing fly a few hundred yards down range. Usually a "single shot" weapon.
 
Paintball? Damn, that brings back memories! Ahh, the good old days of single shots, co2 cartridges, and "making every shot count". Brings back some wonderfully fun thoughts of hanging out with the guys. I never played, but was the team "mascot" and gofer. LOL Also a good shot myself. I have the patience of a sniper, and the mean streak Deborah mentioned. :) Now where did that .68 Special get off to? *wandering off*
 
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