Be careful what you wish for. Last week or so, the Great and Magnificent Og left a comment about jonesing for a Whatzis.
So, today - a Very Oggian Whatzis. Some common item, taken out of context. Oh, you'll figure out what it *is* easily enough. As for determining what it's *for* - and getting the right purpose for this multi-purpose item - will be the challenge. Of course, the better you know me, the easier it will be. But it won't be easy.
But knowing you guys, it ought to be funny.
So, today - a Very Oggian Whatzis. Some common item, taken out of context. Oh, you'll figure out what it *is* easily enough. As for determining what it's *for* - and getting the right purpose for this multi-purpose item - will be the challenge. Of course, the better you know me, the easier it will be. But it won't be easy.
But knowing you guys, it ought to be funny.
My. The Echo is bad today.
Remember that scene on the dock from the "Usual Suspects"?
Kaiser Soze!
I snitched the key to the lock box while Her Extremeness is prepping for her India gig.
NSA says there's still a lot of ruffled feathers over there from all of Michelle's "Push Start" jokes...
That's a tie-down used to secure a tripod for a .50 to the hood of a jeep cause the floorboard is too worn to support a gun pedestal.
It looks like a tow rope for pulling How-wizzers out of the muck and mire after a rain. I think it goes along with the other pioneer stuff for the new/old Jeep (Commanders Vehicle)
it looks as though it's sitting on a uniform sleeve but it's too coarse to be a fourragère. It's almost hanked like a piece of hoochie cord, but it's sisal, and I never saw hoochie cord made of anything but poly (though that may just be my age)
It's not a uniform sleeve.
{snaps stopwatch} 12:14 PM
Frankly, it took you all somewhat longer for Hunter's option to show up than I expected. I figgered by 9AM, tops.
There's something sisal is good for?
(All I know is that's a rope, and you could use it for all sorts of stuff. Since it's sisal, for instance, you could rip it apart and make tinder...)
You guys are going to throw tomatoes tomorrow when I do the reveal...
And it's just easier to grab 'em by a horn. You can control them that way. Lasso 'em and they just behave like bluefin tuna on the line, and it takes forever to tire 'em out.
It's a leftover from the days when John was regularly torturing his sister
Ahhh yes... the good ol' days.
Jon's right though- I prefer the fur-lined version these days. Rope is ROUGH.
Izzat a hoochie cord, or a hootchie-cootchie cord?
There's a difference, yanno.
2. "The Armourer tied up his arguments in a neat bundle, using a rhetorical device not generally understood by gunners."
Cheers
foreground: demonstration of how NOT to tie a clove hitch.
John, actually my comment about the Goat Rope was a pun about the fact that you DO have goats at the Castle now, and an old Navy term for a cluster ****. :-)
Actually, I would have guessed at about a 3/8" Diameter. I used to use a lot of that stuff for lashing down tarps. Does the digicam background have something to do with the use?
We used this size of sisal rope for a ground-egress escape rope for the pilot compartment and tail gunner compartment of the B-52D. Sisal has the advantage of being able to be gripped by the gloved hand better than nylon, and it's lack of flexibility is not an issue with escape ropes.
It may have been used by the Army as the helicopter snatch-rope for light observation helis when they were used for rescue work. It would have been stored on the outside of the machine, but near enough to the control cabin that the crew could unfasten it and dangle it down for a rescue, after which it would have been used to lash the rescued to the skid.
It might have been used on a Coinfidence Course also as a climbing rope.
You acquired the Rope of Saddam's Blessing? Wonder Woman's Cat Herder? AFSister's Pantasy? Carborundum's Bill Saver? My Mum's Stay and Eat Your Dinner? SWWBO's Instant Stall Customer Assistant?
No need for rope. If the hole was big enough to see somebody, it was big enough to hover down into and pull the guy inside. *No* way to secure anything to the outside of a Loach, BTW -- trying that was just begging to have it fly into the rotor system -- and rather than go into the physics involved, we'll just say that attempting to pick up an offset external load without a counterbalance will lead to interesting (and instantaneous) forces at the rotor hub. The technical terminology is "a sudden and catastrophic loss of structural integrity"...
And we used 1+" rope for McGuire rig work with Huberts...
3/4" by 6' length of braided sisal rope to be used with one end of an Army shelter tent.
Each shelter half comes with a guy rope (shown) 4 pegs and a sectional pole. Two sets are needed to make one tent (each soldier carrying one set).
Either that, or it's an accessory for his new jeep.
respects,