Hi y'all!
I'm Hal, originally from Paducah, KY, and I currently live in Springfield, Illinois.
My partner in crime, MrC (aka SquirtTheCat) informed me that I should formally introduce myself here...
KyNOLA lives a couple doors down from my "sweet baby sister" in Kentucky. Small world ;-)
I love cooking, Kentucky basketball, betting the ponies, and having an occaisional medicinal sip of Maker's Mark.
I have a Smokin' Tex electric smoker (cheaper clone of a Cookshack).
It's pretty much idiot-proof.
But, If I want really good Q, I just have MrC do it in his OBS...
My dream machine is a Stump's Stretch, so, if y'all feel like pooling your resources and giving me a really nice welcome...
MrC has the shipping address (he drops by my trailer park once in a while)
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"Until you go to Kentucky and with your own eyes behold the Derby, you ain't never been nowheres and you ain't never seen nothin'" - Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb
W E L C O M E to the Forum hal4uk!
FL... I'm almost afraid to ask...
What is that you're riding? And where do you put your beer?
Hal,
Great to formally welcome you to the forum.
Folks, this guy is no newbie. He has been around smokers, grills and Maker's Mark for a LONG time.
Hal, gonna have to bust you on the Irvin Cobb quote though. Now that you're here I'm pretty sure that are now exactly 2 people on this forum who have heard of Irvin Cobb without performing a Google search. :D
KyNola
Quote from: hal4uk on November 15, 2009, 05:42:07 PM
FL... I'm almost afraid to ask...
What is that you're riding? And where do you put your beer?
It's a recumbent bicycle. I keep my beer at the store, less calories that way.
That bike is a Vision R44. Vision was a Seattle based bike company that went out of business a few years back.
We also have a Rans screamer. That is a tandem recumbent bicycle.
KyNOLA,
Uh Huh... (type, click...)
I figgered you'd spot that!
"recumbent"...
"rec" i.e "recline"?
Stay safe on that!
Welcome Hal - glad to have ya! Seems the Midsouth is under represented. The first question that comes to mind is "Why stop with the Stretch? Why not a Platinum 6? Saw a trailer mounted one at the Jack.
Quote from: hal4uk on November 15, 2009, 05:53:24 PM
"recumbent"...
"rec" i.e "recline"?
Stay safe on that!
Think lawn chair with wheels.
CS,
You don't know Hal. Please don't encourage him! :D :D
KyNola
Well, Caney...
Believe me... The ONLY thing between me and that P6 is your lack of charity!!!!
Where you at?
Originally a Red neck from Texas, but now a Redneck from Tennessee - yes there is a difference! Lately, since it is hockey season, we call it Smashville (beat them Habs last night), sometimes Loserville when the Titanics are losing, Music City USA is what some call it, and because of Vanderbilt, it is sometimes called..............errrrr, actually Vandy doesn't count - we choose to ignore them - they don't belong in the SEC. A few country singers live around here. Due to my unfortunate underemployment, the P6 isn't on my list either. Looking for another trailer mounted smoker I can modify and make mine!
CS, I found you... (checked your profile)
My old man is your neighbor! He's "livin' GOOD in GOODlettsville"...
Welcome aboard, Bubba. Don't be a stranger. This place has folks cooking in cajun microwaves, tin cans, open flames, discarded oil drums, outhouse looking contraptions and some up-until-recently alien device called a "pellet pooper".
We'll see what we can do about that Stump's clone. Baby Steps, my friend... (we first need to bribe some out of work coal mine welders)
CS, you forgot "Guitar Town".
Glad to see some other rednecks here (like there's a better place to find 'em)
KyNola is a redneck too... Now that he cut his hippie pony tail... ;-)
STC, They ain't got nuthin' on me. Sometimes I send flames over the roof... and I ain't even cookin'...
Quote from: hal4uk on November 15, 2009, 06:14:42 PM
CS, I found you... (checked your profile)
My old man is your neighbor! He's "livin' GOOD in GOODlettsville"...
Was up in that neck of the woods this afternoon - well actually Hendersonville, but close nonetheless. Actually I'm a Green Hillsbilly - south of town not too far from the old 100 Oaks Mall.
Quote from: hal4uk on November 15, 2009, 06:20:38 PM
CS, you forgot "Guitar Town".
Boy, you are right about that - seems like a guitar store on every corner - and even more guitar players with stars in their eyes and even a few that have $$$$ behind their names. BTW, I still haven't googled Irvin Cobb - I'm curious - only a matter of time!
Well, it's a small world indeed!!!
If you're in Green Hills... You've got a neighbor that used to live right by KyNola's house in KY...
Ever heard of Restless Heart? Lead singer, Larry Stewart, grew up in Paducah (like two blocks from KyNola's house) - lives in Green Hills last I heard...
His daddy, Buddy, was my daddy's best friend all their lives. Buddy died young (I think he was 45).
Buddy was one of my favorite people on earth.
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100 Oaks... only mall on earth that is smack dab by the interstate... and no way to get there!
(unless you find a local that knows where Thompson Lane goes)
CS, at one time, albeit a long time ago, Irvin S. Cobb was the highest paid writer in the world.
He was a humorist who wrote many books, articles for newspapers, etc... wrote for the Saturday Evening Post...
Nowadays, nobody even knows his name.
Born and buried in Paducah, KY.
Moral: If you waste your time becoming famous, the best you can hope for is mention on a BBQ forum.
Caney,
Since you mentioned Hockey you ever hear of an old team called the Dubuque Fighting Saints or their replacements the Dubuque Thunderbirds?
Hal I can't remember if I said Welcome Aboard in another post or not but welcome
I think one of our draftees went through there a few years back. I think they are a Junior League team.
Quote from: hal4uk on November 15, 2009, 07:13:31 PM
Well, it's a small world indeed!!!
If you're in Green Hills... You've got a neighbor that used to live right by KyNola's house in KY...
Ever heard of Restless Heart? Lead singer, Larry Stewart, grew up in Paducah (like two blocks from KyNola's house) - lives in Green Hills last I heard...
His daddy, Buddy, was my daddy's best friend all their lives. Buddy died young (I think he was 45).
Buddy was one of my favorite people on earth.
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100 Oaks... only mall on earth that is smack dab by the interstate... and no way to get there!
(unless you find a local that knows where Thompson Lane goes)
Restless Heart - didn't they all attend Belmont Univ.? He probably lives in the other end of the Green Hills - I live in the Red Neck end.
I'll have ya know, that 100 Oaks has an exit now - sorta - called Armory Drive. But now the mall has been bought by Vanderbilt and they've remodeled it and put in lots of their clinics with a few retail stores on the ground floor. The original developer made the head of the DOT mad and he didn't get the exit.
Quote from: hal4uk on November 15, 2009, 07:30:01 PM
CS, at one time, albeit a long time ago, Irvin S. Cobb was the highest paid writer in the world.
He was a humorist who wrote many books, articles for newspapers, etc... wrote for the Saturday Evening Post...
Nowadays, nobody even knows his name.
Born and buried in Paducah, KY.
Moral: If you waste your time becoming famous, the best you can hope for is mention on a BBQ forum.
Ok, I googled him, and now I know why Ivrin S. Cobb sounded familiar (don't think I've seen his middle name spelled out.). I was born on same day as he was and have seen his name in lists of famous people born on my birthday. You don't see Caneyscud on that list ;D ;D ;D
CS, Yep.. I think you're right; most of 'em went to Belmont...
Jerry Don Crutchfield (another Paducah native) produced them (I'm pretty sure)...
I know none of this has anything to do with Q...
But you're dredging up old memories for me ;-)
Anyhow... I remember one day when I was a kid, we heard this horn outside.
Sounded like an 18 wheeler, but it was a BUS...
Larry's daddy, Buddy, was sitting behind the wheel...
I ran out there with my dad, and Buddy said, "C'mon, get in..."
Buddy knew everyone in the country/western/gospel music business...
(as well as the car business - or anything that rolled)
This old bus was a trade-in from the Blackwood Singers.. (are they still around? they were a gospel group)
My dad said we had to do something else (?)...
Of course, I was looking at that big ole bus and saying, "C'mon dad... let's go for a ride in the bus!"
Buddy was sayin', "C'mon, let's just go around the block..."
Finally, my dad went inside and told my momma we'd be right back...
So, we climbed in this big old bus...
and went to Cape Girardeau, MO...
That was about 40 years ago. Momma's still p*ssed off.
Welcome Hal4uk...you"re gonna fit in fine here...sorry I'm late to the welcoming party... :) (Interesting handle there Mister....) from the United Kingdom? :D
CS, that's why I spelled out his middle name...
Among those folks that have heard of Irvin S. Cobb, hardly any can tell you what the "S" stands for ;-)
KyNola... did you know his middle name was "Shrewsbury"?
Thanks for the welcome, La Quinta!
No.. I'm from the Commonwealth of Kentucky...
UK i.e. Kentucky Wildcats!
(now I'm gonna get you back...)
"La Quinta"... are you from next door to Denny's?
(Sorry, I just couldn't help it...)
Hal welcome to the forum
HR
Welcome Hal!
Quote from: hal4uk on November 15, 2009, 06:23:34 PM
Sometimes I send flames over the roof... and I ain't even cookin'...
I'm not taking that bait.. (yet)
Folks, suffice to say.. When Hal and I get together to cook (or whatever), we always have one of these within reach:
(http://lh4.ggpht.com/_CbvAIVzmFFM/Sv21RaYFMEI/AAAAAAAA_3A/bWfBfy10L_4/s288/photo.jpeg)
Now that's my kind of cook out!