They're broadcasting the Today show from the new Dallas Cowboy's Stadium this morning. Wow, what a building and at $1.12 billion a pricey one at that. Huge at 3 million square feet and has 1,700 bathrooms. They showed them opening the retractible roof too which was awesome.
The stadium also has the largest HDTV screen in the world. You can fit 2,000 - 52" TV's on each side and it weighs the same as a 747 jet. 
That HD TV would do for an entire neighborhood.
Hey.....gang.....I've got to try and send you this funny.....if I can get it to copy and paste. May not work. I make no claims to the historical accuracy.....but it's funny.....I think. Let me know if it doesn't show up correctly.
LITTLE KNOWN TIDBIT OF NAVAL HISTORY...
The
U. S. S. Constitution (Old Ironsides), as a combat vessel,
carried 48,600
gallons of fresh water for
her crew of 475 officers and men. This was sufficient to last six
months of sustained operations at sea. She carried no evaporators
(i.e. fresh water distillers).
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hpmsrm wrote:That HD TV would do for an entire neighborhood.
Hey.....gang.....I've got to try and send you this funny.....if I can get it to copy and paste. May not work. I make no claims to the historical accuracy.....but it's funny.....I think. Let me know if it doesn't show up correctly.
LITTLE KNOWN TIDBIT OF NAVAL HISTORY...
The U. S. S. Constitution (Old Ironsides), as a combat vessel, carried 48,600 gallons of fresh water for her crew of 475 officers and men. This was sufficient to last six months of sustained operations at sea. She carried no evaporators (i.e. fresh water distillers).
However, let it be noted that according to her ship's log, "On July 27, 1798, the U.S.S. Constitution sailed from Boston with a full complement of 475 officers and men, 48,600 gallons of fresh water, 7,400 cannon shot, 11,600 pounds of black powder and 79,400 gallons of rum."
Her mission: "To destroy and harass English shipping."
Making Jamaica on 6 October, she took on 826 pounds of flour and 68,300 gallons of rum.
Then she headed for the Azores , arriving there 12 November. She provisioned with 550 pounds of beef and 64,300 gallons of Portuguese wine.
On 18 November, she set sail for England . In the ensuing days she defeated five British men-of-war and captured and scuttled 12 English merchant ships, salvaging only the rum aboard each.
By 26 January, her powder and shot were exhausted. Nevertheless, although unarmed she made a night raid up the Firth of Clyde in Scotland. Her landing party captured a whisky distillery and transferred 40,000 gallons of single malt Scotch aboard by dawn. Then she headed home.
The U. S. S. Constitution arrived in Boston on 20 February 1799, with no cannon shot, no food, no powder, no rum, no wine, no whisky, and 38,600 gallons of water..
GO NAVY
if i remember correctly i did someome re-enlisrnent on.
It's funny already Phil and what a thirsty crew! 
Not seeing any pics yet and don't know if they have to approved first. There's just a red dot/ in a small box in upper left corner of the blank photo box.
My wife drinks rum like an old pirate and have told her that. Her answer, "I always wanted to be a pirate!" Guess she even wore a pirate outfit as a kid during Halloween trick-or-treat. 
If the troops could drink in the two wars we are in now they would be over.
Good post Phil even without the pictures.
On another topic
The USB mouse on my computer has been acting up for months and it failed last night. It turned out it was the conductors in the cord going open. It was breaking down where it came in the front and made a 90° turn. It now comes out the side with splicing beans on the wires. All the stuff I learned at work finally came in handy.
Well...fortunately the pictures weren't really necessary. After I posted it...they were there.....then the first one disappeared.....now neither one is there. Hmmmmm. It was a straight copy and paste from an e-mail so I really did not expect them to show up. At least the text did.
Fabulous weather here in Missouri. We had a low of 46.5 degrees last night and now it is up to 79.7 deg. under bright sunny skies. And the grass just keeps growing....
Yeah Phil, that pink rifle with at least a 30 shot clip jumped out at me too.
You may be going to 2 stores Phil since Shirley can't be totin around a girly gun like that without a pair of pants/jeans with a peace sign on them. Strange family and the comments in SKP's link are quite funny.
Only in Texas:
Jerry Falwell reincarnated.
Chris
Please NO SD stretch-o-vision or 480 SD HD Channels
1-800-983-2811 to avoid Mr. Voice Recognition
YRMV IMHO Simply a U-verse user, nothing more
Phil, also noticed the truck with the Texas ad. My 89 year old Mom emailed me that video and I thought the title was very funny/misleading.
I personally don't believe in feeding wildlife except for birds and maybe squirrels. It causes a lot of problems, especially for the animals that get used to humans, and then may be hunted or become dangerous. And like you said about all the scat left behind and who's going to clean it up? Think the goose crap in the parks, and anywhere near water, is a nationwide problem too. Don't need to be feeding those fowl to bring even more of them in.
Think it's great you clean up after Alfie and I do the same with Charlie. We even provided rolls of plastic bags at the pet trail heads of the parks I worked at. Every conscientious pet owner should clean up after their pets.
The park district I worked for had a strict "do not feed the wildlife" policy that people could not understand and would constantly break this rule. They would hand feed the deer potato chips and other junk food. Here's a good example why this is not a good idea.
One of our naturalists was taking a group of 30 preschoolers (4-5 yr. olds) on a fall leave hike on one of the trails. All the kids had plastic grocery bags for collecting colorful leaves off the ground. It just happeded to be during the deer breeding season (rut). A large doe came walking right up to them thinking the rustling bags were full of chips/snacks. The naturalist caught a movement out of the corner of her eye and there stood a huge 10 pt buck. The doe wanted some chips, the buck wanted the doe, and there stood a bunch of little kids right between them. The naturalist yelled "run" and they dashed down the trail as the big buck ran full speed between the kids. A scary situation and luckily nobody was hurt.
Really, where has spd gone? Miss his late night rapid post wit.
Escapee wrote:
Where is SPD his last post was 09-16-2009 11:44 PM ?
No new computers here, been cleaning up my messy office! Got rid of old W2K Dell (slow processor) and CRT monitor. BB charges $10 to recycle, but gives you $10 gift cards, so better than nothing. Nobody wants old desktops or monitors, I tried. BB allows 2 items per day. Sold the old Dell flat panel for $25, again, better than nothing. Really like new monitor, it's WS, so no more tireless scrolling left-to-right!
Sold all cassettes, VHS, and some old books at Half Price Books...not for much, but better than nothing...
Now to disassemble a big table I no longer need...more room for cat boxes. 
Roof is on, Leo is back in gen-pop, LOL! Biopsy next Mon.
