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Title: Calling all patriots - let's all do this!
Post by: The Miner '49er on April 15, 2025, 01:01:19 PM
My wife is is a proud member of the Clough Valley Ohio chapter of the DAR. Below is a portion of an email she received today from her chapter Regent. We're going to participate and we hope you will too. You don't have to be a DAR member nor a Buckeye, just an interested patriot. If it doesn't rain, we will post a picture. Anyone else?

Title: Re: Calling all patriots - let's all do this!
Post by: cwgrizz on April 15, 2025, 07:57:16 PM
I think it would be great if FB and other sources could be flooded with this as stated.  Let's see if we can have a BRIGHT GLOW seen from space.

 :hairy  :yessir:
Title: Re: Calling all patriots - let's all do this!
Post by: The Miner '49er on April 18, 2025, 12:12:41 AM
I just a few hours from now, but exactly 250 years ago on this date, the famous night ride of Paul Revere, William Dawes, Sam Prescott, Israel Bissell, Sybil Ludington and about forty more brave souls began. I urge all modern patriots to light up the night on Friday April 18 to honor them. They risked their lives for us. Please participate. If not you, who?
Title: Re: Calling all patriots - let's all do this!
Post by: RedOneFive on April 18, 2025, 09:10:33 AM
We'll have 2 glowing here in Nebraska!
Title: Re: Calling all patriots - let's all do this!
Post by: BEAVERMAN on April 18, 2025, 09:59:53 AM
We have 2 lanterns ready to go
Title: Re: Calling all patriots - let's all do this!
Post by: Nessmuk on April 18, 2025, 10:56:18 AM
Two oil lamps ready to light!!  :bl th up :bl th up :bl th up
Title: Re: Calling all patriots - let's all do this!
Post by: The Miner '49er on April 18, 2025, 12:19:21 PM
OK now we're cooking! That makes four. I must admit, except for you guys, the response here has been discouraging. Same thing on the five shooting forums in which I participate.   ;banghead;  C'mon all you buckskin wearing, muzzleloader shooting, HC guys. Get off the couch and join us. It's a lot safer than standing on the green facing ranks and files of British Regulars drawing down on you. All you need are lights or candles. Please?
Title: Re: Calling all patriots - let's all do this!
Post by: dmarsh on April 18, 2025, 02:29:14 PM
My lanterns are set to go.   :hairy
Title: Re: Calling all patriots - let's all do this!
Post by: The Miner '49er on April 19, 2025, 08:44:28 AM
RedOneFive, BEAVERMAN, Nessmuk, dmarsh, cwgrizz and anyone else . . . Did you put out two lights? Got photos?
Title: Re: Calling all patriots - let's all do this!
Post by: dmarsh on April 19, 2025, 09:17:08 AM
Yes, I put them out but have no pictures.  :bigsmile:
Title: Re: Calling all patriots - let's all do this!
Post by: BEAVERMAN on April 19, 2025, 12:08:02 PM
RedOneFive, BEAVERMAN, Nessmuk, dmarsh, cwgrizz and anyone else . . . Did you put out two lights? Got photos?

No pics,
Title: Re: Calling all patriots - let's all do this!
Post by: The Miner '49er on April 19, 2025, 12:16:25 PM
Here's what we did.
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Title: Re: Calling all patriots - let's all do this!
Post by: Bigsmoke on April 19, 2025, 08:17:36 PM
Now I know why I always have two lights burning at night.
Who knew?
Sorry, no photos.
With the powder horn and the two lanterns in the window, it looks like a strange smiley face.
But it is a great looking display, just the same.
John
Title: Re: Calling all patriots - let's all do this!
Post by: The Miner '49er on April 19, 2025, 10:59:16 PM
Yep, I see the face too. I suppose we both suffer from pareidolia. How about that $5 word? First time in my life I ever used it!  :)
Title: Re: Calling all patriots - let's all do this!
Post by: Bigsmoke on April 19, 2025, 11:11:01 PM
Yep, I see the face too. I suppose we both suffer from pareidolia. How about that $5 word? First time in my life I ever used it!  :)

What a coincidence, this is the first time I ever heard the word as well.
Kind of reminds me of Honors English class my senior year in high school.  The teacher threw some really strange words at us, but I don't think pareidolia was one of them, but that was 62 years ago, so I might have forgotten it.  Why not, I have no doubt forgotten the rest of them, and probably have never used any of them either.  Why do they waste our time with silliness like that?  Just because they can, I guess.
John
John
Title: Re: Calling all patriots - let's all do this!
Post by: The Miner '49er on April 19, 2025, 11:47:51 PM
A while back I found this on the internet. Enjoy!
Title: Re: Calling all patriots - let's all do this!
Post by: Bigsmoke on April 20, 2025, 10:36:37 AM
Thanks for that.
I'll be turning 80 in a few months and am constantly amazed with how much I don't know yet.  I did know three of those words, but the rest left me scratching my previously hair covered head.
John
Title: Re: Calling all patriots - let's all do this!
Post by: Nessmuk on April 20, 2025, 11:59:23 AM
as an inveterate puzzler, i knew most of these words. They're just taking up space in my brain, I seldom use them. you must admit INTERROBANG is a fun word.
Title: Re: Calling all patriots - let's all do this!
Post by: doggoner on April 20, 2025, 12:22:27 PM
It is always fun to see how far a post can slide from the OP's original words. This one is a "doozy".

doggoner
Title: Re: Calling all patriots - let's all do this!
Post by: The Miner '49er on April 20, 2025, 12:32:07 PM
You nailed that one, for sure!  Now, here's how horseshoe nails are made . . .  :stooges:
Title: Re: Calling all patriots - let's all do this!
Post by: The Miner '49er on April 20, 2025, 12:38:30 PM
as an inveterate puzzler, i knew most of these words. They're just taking up space in my brain, I seldom use them. you must admit INTERROBANG is a fun word.
I agree, and I think overmorrow is a great word too. I wonder if it ever was used very much and if so where.
Title: Re: Calling all patriots - let's all do this!
Post by: Bigsmoke on April 20, 2025, 05:56:49 PM
as an inveterate puzzler, i knew most of these words. They're just taking up space in my brain, I seldom use them. you must admit INTERROBANG is a fun word.

Not only had I never heard of the word, I don't recall ever seeing a question mark followed by an exclamation mark.
Will wonders never cease?!
Title: Re: Calling all patriots - let's all do this!
Post by: Hank in WV on April 20, 2025, 06:01:44 PM
I knew a few of them, but I've got to wonder if some of them need to exist.