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(14,782 posts)If any?
Aristus
(66,075 posts)I have a bit of a man-crush on him...
I know conventional wisdom says Connery is the best. But a read-through of the novels might suggest that Craig and Timothy Dalton came closest to Ian Fleming's character.
brush
(53,467 posts)I wasn't sold on Craig at first but he won me over with his performances. I rate him and Connery as the top two Bonds, with Brosnan a close third.
Botany
(70,281 posts)n/t
Aristus
(66,075 posts)I Googled it; sorry.
GP6971
(31,013 posts)for Christmas. Very nice!!
I hear it's spendy.
But is it good? Is it worth the price?
GP6971
(31,013 posts)But I wouldn't buy it....too much $$$. Never had it before...have had JW Gold and Silver on Korean Airlines which are also very good.
Two shots and then it gets locked away.
For a question...never understood MLB's Rule Five Draft.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,267 posts)Aristus
(66,075 posts)forcing the runners to advance into a possible double or triple-play.
Sophiegirl
(2,338 posts)What is baseballs tool of ignorance?
No Googling allowed.
Aristus
(66,075 posts)I'm just not that well-versed in the rules of baseball...
Sophiegirl
(2,338 posts)Learning is fun.
The tools of ignorance is a nickname for the catchers equipment.
Yes.....I am a baseball geek!
<who won the World Series this year???
Aristus
(66,075 posts)Sophiegirl
(2,338 posts)Your correct answer!!
Aristus
(66,075 posts)I got it off Wikipedia...
Sophiegirl
(2,338 posts)I actually won a contest and got a 1956 Washington Senators pennant as the prize for that answer. Its the coolest Nationals memorabilia I own.
Aristus
(66,075 posts)mucifer
(23,367 posts)Aristus
(66,075 posts)Sorry; you missed it...
California_Republic
(1,826 posts)Aristus
(66,075 posts)I used to be the fabled 'angry young man'. I took pride in it. I hated more than I loved.
I had to give it up. It hurt too much.
Love is better...
California_Republic
(1,826 posts)kimbutgar
(20,871 posts)What was the most awesome place you have ever been?
Mine was Venice, IT. Im so sad about the flooding.
Aristus
(66,075 posts)I was deployed to the Gulf in February, 1991, not long before the ground war started. We tank crewman who had been stationed in Germany were used to training in an environment much different from the Saudi desert. So we had a five-day training exercise out in the hinterlands prior to the planned move to the front afterward.
Of course, the ground war ended so quickly, after only four days, that it was over by the time we returned from our training exercise. So we literally dodged a bullet through not being sent to the front.
Anyway, I got to know our piece of Saudi Arabia very well. The desert has a haunting, awe-inspiring beauty, both day and night. Night especially is when the desert comes alive, in every sense of the term.
The full moon on the Saudi desert is in the top-five of the most amazing things I've ever seen.
At the end of a training day, we parked the tanks in a clock formation, with one each at 12, 3, 6, and 9. And one crewman from each tank would stay awake on guard while the others slept. And an additional tanker would walk the perimeter of the clock formation until relieved. The wild dogs came out of the desert and sniffed at us curiously, but were perfectly harmless. There was something so primal about being so far from any man-made thing. The silence was almost overwhelming. The cold breeze (it gets cold at night in the desert!...) made the only sound. If it wasn't for my tank crewmates, it would have been the loneliest feeling ever.
Once, while driving our tanks in a wedge-shaped attack formation, we came upon a herd of camels. Four sixty-eight ton monsters coming at them at top speed didn't even faze them. The looked our way, chewed their cud casually, and then ambled slowly out of the way.
Not long after, we were met with the improbable sight of a nice, green field of grass sprouting up out of the sandy aridity of the desert. Being tankers, we dismissed the oddity of the sight, and drove right over it.
We happened upon a tiny, poor village way out in the boondocks. How they made their living is unknown to me. But the population was large enough to require their own mosque, which was made of tin siding.
Obviously, I could write a book. Not having served in combat, though, would make such a book less readable to anyone who picked it up hoping for a Gulf War memoir...
kimbutgar
(20,871 posts)I really visualized what you wrote. As a teacher I would give you an A for what you wrote. I always try to tell my students to write from your heart. You did that very succinctly.
Thanks for sharing.
Aristus
(66,075 posts)I myself would probably have given it a 'B'. The composition is a little disjointed, but I wrote it in a hurry in order to post the reply to your question.