Super Hard Bullet Recipe

[L Ross]

I enjoyed the BF but apparently I need to read Vaughn.

 

[Ian]

I enjoyed the BF but apparently I need to read Vaughn.

Prepare for sticker shock.

 

[L Ross]

Prepare for sticker shock.

There's always inter library loan.

 

[Ian]

I didn't think of that. I was only able to afford it through inter-member loan from a generous and trusting person.

 

[RicinYakima]

Since I read a lot of old stuff, it was almost like a light switch from those going to college before 1895 and those after. I think that when four years of both Latin and Greek were no longer required for a BA degree, the writing became useable. Teddy Roosevelt was the last of the popular writers from the 1880's. When he told his cowboys to "hasten forth swiftly" to chase a calf, he realized that he was not going to be a popular writer unless he changed his style.

 

[462]

That reminds me, I should re-read Roosevelt's "Hunting Trips of a Ranchman and the Wilderness Hunter".

 

[RicinYakima]

Those were the books that remade him as a writer. Recommend then both highly forsuth!

 

[Bret4207]

Reading writings from the 1800's can get difficult. I can't handle some of it, James Fenimore Cooper for example, just too much of the verbose I guess. I can handle the more technical writings easier but even then they do seem to try to use 50 words where 10 would suffice. I have some metal working and agriculture books from the 1870/80 era that can throw you for a spin for sure. One big volume is from a British writer and that guy loved to use as many words as possible as often as he could. I mean, come on guy! You're talking about spreading manure on a field or turning over sod, it's just not that complex! Maybe they got paid by the word even back then?

 

[CZ93X62]

Maybe they got paid by the word even back then?

We have a winner. This must be the reason.

 

[L Ross]

I'm sure there was a certain pride in demonstrating one's erudition.

 

[RicinYakima]

I'm sure there was a certain pride in demonstrating one's erudition.

Did you know that Erudition was a very common high school class subject until the early 20th century? Before electronic communications, public speaking was next to print for sharing information. Our little city of Yakima had 12,000 people in 1910, but the newspaper had announcements of lectures every day of the week and multiples on Fridays and Saturdays.

 

[fiver]

there was actually a speaking/lecture circuit that run clear into the 60's.
you could go listen to everything from gardening to a doctors dissertation on a specific operation if you were so inclined.

 

[L Ross]

I actually enjoy public speaking and did a lot of it at my first agency. Also media stuff and instruction. When I hear that some people fear public speaking more than death I wonder what a good forensics program could do for kids in grade school already to help prepare them for adulting.

 

[RicinYakima]

I taught at the local Jr. College Vocational Education program at night for LE, FF and EMT's for about 15 years. Then did HazMat for local, state and feds for another 15 years. It is all in preparation.

 

[L Ross]

I taught at the local Jr. College Vocational Education program at night for LE, FF and EMT's for about 15 years. Then did HazMat for local, state and feds for another 15 years. It is all in preparation.

I took extemporaneous speaking in high school forensics. My coach and later friend and mentor enlisted me to the team with blandishments that stroked my need for praise as a teenager. I can pull stuff outa my butt on a moments notice. I ofter create rhymes on the fly and using existing melodies create songs out of thin air, often of a ribald or political nature. I am blessed with an eclectic and somewhat eidetic memory, although as I age I struggle with the sense that I may be losing some of that ability.

 

[fiver]

when i was a kid i had a long period of not even being able to order food at a fast food place because people were around.
gradually that worked itself into a pretty stubborn self sufficient streak and had to do everything myself.
eventually [shrug] public or group speaking just come along and i actually found it could be fun to be in front of a captive audience.

 

[RicinYakima]

I took extemporaneous speaking in high school forensics. My coach and later friend and mentor enlisted me to the team with blandishments that stroked my need for praise as a teenager. I can pull stuff outa my butt on a moments notice. I ofter create rhymes on the fly and using existing melodies create songs out of thin air, often of a ribald or political nature. I am blessed with an eclectic and somewhat eidetic memory, although as I age I struggle with the sense that I may be losing some of that ability.

That I could never do! Everything had to be prepared and practiced.

 

[RicinYakima]

when i was a kid i had a long period of not even being able to order food at a fast food place because people were around.
gradually that worked itself into a pretty stubborn self sufficient streak and had to do everything myself.
eventually [shrug] public or group speaking just come along and i actually found it could be fun to be in front of a captive audience.

My first was as an acting Drill Sargent at Ft. Lewis in a basic training brigade. I taught first aid, map and compass, and bayonet. Forty students who were told they were going to die unless they learn what I was teaching was a prime motivator for them.

 

[Bret4207]

I stink at public speaking. My mouth gets ahead of my mind. Add in my natural obnoxious streak and it can get just awful.

I've read some of the old speeches that people of note gave. Language can be a gift or a terrible thing, depending on how it's used. Some of the stuff that was said by politicians was so obviously garbage for the sheeple to feed on. Then you had guys like Lincoln or Churchill that were at another level altogether. You just don't see that anymore.

 

[RBHarter]

In grade school I died of embarrassment at least a dozen times . By highschool I had figured out how to talk to just a few in the room . I was never a solo in band until right at the end when I was the only one in my section ...... Hated that .

Years later a girl I went to school with was flagging for road construction and we talked a little about school " why wouldn't the girls talk to me ?" , "You were just so self confident , it was really intimidating . Most of us probably would have dumped a steady if you'd asked directly a second time ." That explains a lot ...... I don't know how a nonconfrontational semi introvert can be intimidatingly confident but it seems to have something to do with how I carry myself . Highschool would have been more fun with that tidbit . I probably wouldn't have the family I do know though so it all worked out .

I still hate public speaking , sales and CS are 2 places not for me . I can do it but I'm better at bolstering those around me to do it . Sort of a company Sargent that likes the Louie but has 2 Corporals to keep the paper squared away and the privates are scared to death .

I find doing things myself easier than relating how to do them . So a teacher I'm not . Wanna know how to do it , watch this . Good try this . There you go , polish the act you got ........or , yeah this way ain't happening for you , move along .