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[ARC]

Morning Tnet crew.

 

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[Rookster]

Morning forum folks

 

[Rookster]

Morning ARC
See ya later Simon

 

[Simon1]

Morning Rook

 

[RustyRelics]

Morning guys. Gotta take my dad to the dentist this morning. Yay.

 

[Simon1]

Good morning RR.

 

[RustyRelics]

Found some interesting stuff last night.

Oscar Trautman, possibly the only WWI vet in my family tree, died 1918 of the flu. It's hard to say if he was actually in the army, or what.

James Hunsinger, a cousin, was a WWII, Korean war and Vietnam war vet, in the U.S. Navy. He is buried in Arlington National Cemetery.

And then not so cool news, my great great great grandfather was a very pro hitler, American nazi. Great.

I was talking to my grandmother last night, and she gave me the names of some people in our family that served, but I won't find in my book. I'll have to get working on that.

She also told me about Jay Troup, the radio gunner that got shot down and captured (one of my great great uncles). She says she remembers the night his wife got told the news that he was a POW. She was frantic, screaming, crying, "The Germans have him! They'll kill him!". My grandmothers dad tried consoling her as much as he could. When Jay came home, it was an extremely happy tearful reunion.

She was also telling me that when she and her sister were young, they visited Jays farm post war. He was preparing chicken that night for dinner, so He went to cut the head of the chicken... After the head was cutoff, the body jumped up, and ran around chasing my grandma and her sister around the farm yard, while they were screaming bloody murder. I woulda loved to have seen that.

 

[RustyRelics]

Morning Simon.

 

[bill from lachine]

Good morning ARC, rook, Rusty, Simon and the rest of the gang.

 

[Simon1]

Good morning Bill.

 

[Simon1]

Sounds like a cruel way to go RR, but I remember my grandparents telling me similar stories of the headless chickens. It is a way of life.

 

[Toecutter]

Good mornin!!

 

[RustyRelics]

Sounds like a cruel way to go RR, but I remember my grandparents telling me similar stories of the headless chickens. It is a way of life.

The chicken is actually dead, its the nerves that make it go.

 

[Rookster]

Morning bill, Simon, Toecutter and RR

 

[worldtalker]

The chicken is actually dead, its the nerves that make it go.

Like most of humanity!

 

[Simon1]

The chicken is actually dead, its the nerves that make it go.

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Yep, I can't recall where it was exactly, ( maybe Japan ? ), but a chef was cooking a specialty dish which involved a cobra. He had cut off the head but somehow he was to die from a snake bite from the severed head

 

[bill from lachine]

Good morning toecutter.

 

[bill from lachine]

Good morning Chris.

 

[worldtalker]

Good morning Chris.

Howdy ALL.

 

[Simon1]

I found the article.

[FONT=&quot](NEWSER) – A chef killed a snake — but the snake had enough time to kill him back.[/FONT][FONT=&quot]Chef Peng Fan, of Guangdong Province in China, cut off the head of a spitting cobra as he prepared to dice its body for a soup, the Daily Mail reports.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]But 20 minutes later, as Peng was tossing the head in the trash, the head was still functioning. That's when the venomous creature bit the chef, who died before anti-venom could be provided. "We ... could hear screams coming from the kitchen," says one restaurant guest.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]The bite results in paralysis and asphyxiation, the Daily Mirror notes.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]"It is perfectly possible that the head remained alive and bit Peng's hand," says an expert, adding that reptiles can usually function for up to an hour, even after being decapitated. "By the time a snake has lost its head, it's effectively dead as basic body functions have ceased, but there is still some reflexive action. It means snakes have the capability of biting and injecting venom even after the head has been severed."[/FONT]