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moose eater

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We are feeling lost

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I was leaning more toward passively frustrated..
 

moose eater

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Either way I think we will survive.
I don't know.

My wife had to gently but persuasively talk me back inside from the window ledge to reply to this post. It was becoming dire.

On the bright side, I believe the Alaska Legislature is considering legislation that would/could legalize an already huge existing craft market that has people selling craft, homemade foods at local farmers' markets, FB, etc. without full DEC inspections, licensing, etc.

Maybe soon, gone could be the days of authorities disguised as people with munchies searching out the black market purveyors of tasty tamales, etc., etc..
 

moose eater

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Stupid law. We have a large Hispanic population here and tamales and burrito vendors are common.

Plus I am glad you came in from the ledge. What was it about a 5' fall? Ha ha!
No, my house is 36' tall, so the top floor windows would avail themselves to a good attempt at self-destruction when the ground is hard.

At the moment, however, there's a couple ft. of snow out there, so I'd have probably just gotten bruised and died slowly of frost-bite... assuming my wife didn't hear the "Good-bye cruel world!" as I exited, and investigate for outcomes.. She -is- busily typing, after all.
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That's to some degree the joke of the whole craft food vending issue; I've known of ONE person to get hassled over the lack of DEC inspections and a business license over the last 30+ years, and it was a Hispanic family in Valdez who made some of the best Northern Mexican tamales, salsa verde and red, pungent, mole' sauce I've ever tasted.

Having been in their home, I'd have literally eaten off of their floors (the place was -that- clean), and the complaint was filed by a bimbo I worked with at the mental health clinic there, who'd just, coincidentally, bought a cafe' with her significant other, and they had virtually nothing to do with Mexican cuisine.

Pure green-eyed jealousy and resentment over someone who was successful with minimal overhead, selling a superior product and doing well with it.
 
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moose eater

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Make that TWO people I know of personally.

There's a wonderful elderly Mexican woman who now sells tamales, Mexican elephant ears, and churros from a drive-through coffee-stand type place in North Pole, Alaska.

She makes them at home, and sells out every week. Only open about 3 days/week. She's kind and generous.

Her business is called, "Outlaw Tamales" for a reason.

When first I met her a good number of years ago, she was selling fresh, hot, good-size, awesome tamales wrapped in foil, from the trunk of her car, in the early winter, in the Walmart parking lot.

She got hassled for the same violation, so when she became a more legal tamale vendor, she named her now-legal biz, "Outlaw Tamales".

You can find her on Google, etc.

 
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unclefishstick

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Make that TWO people I know of personally.

There's a wonderful elderly Mexican woman who now sells tamales, Mexican elephant ears, and churros from a drive-through coffee-stand type place in North Pole, Alaska.

She makes them at home, and sells out every week. Only open about 3 days/week. She's kind and generous.

Her business is called, "Outlaw Tamales" for a reason.

When first I met her a good number of years ago, she was selling fresh, hot, good-size, awesome tamales wrapped in foil, from the trunk of her car, in the early winter, in the Walmart parking lot.

She got hassled for the same violation, so when she became a more legal tamale vendor, she named her now-legal biz, "Outlaw Tamales".

You can find her on Google, etc.

i shudder to think of the quality of chiles available in alaska...back when i would drive up to alaska in the spring i would bring along a cooler full of frozen hatch green chile,turns out one of the ak/canada border guards was from el paso...turned out to be a good thing as one year i got caught with eagle feathers i had picked up on the beach on katchemak bay...i had no idea how wildly ill-eagle (see what i did there!) that was...like a crazy big fine,especially considering i had like 40 of them...he let me dump them in the woods which was good since i also had a qp of matanuska thunderfuck...
 

Boo

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I needed to clean one of my suppressors that I received not too long ago, so I’m out on the back porch, tearing it down, and I was quite surprised to find 20 single pieces comprised the suppressor interior… lots of little pucks… I love the way they make on firearm sound
 

moose eater

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i shudder to think of the quality of chiles available in alaska...back when i would drive up to alaska in the spring i would bring along a cooler full of frozen hatch green chile,turns out one of the ak/canada border guards was from el paso...turned out to be a good thing as one year i got caught with eagle feathers i had picked up on the beach on katchemak bay...i had no idea how wildly ill-eagle (see what i did there!) that was...like a crazy big fine,especially considering i had like 40 of them...he let me dump them in the woods which was good since i also had a qp of matanuska thunderfuck...
Yep, eagle feathers in possession of a non-First Nations person, no matter how they were acquired, are major no-no's.

Other birds' feathers can lead to similar outcomes, too.

The fellow who taught my youngest son wrenching on boats, ATVs and snowmobiles has a wife from New Mexico, and when they would visit her family there, they'd roast New Mexico Hatch chilis over charcoal and bring them up frozen in qt. zip-locks in coolers.

I still have some of them in the freezer, and when I make a big batch of Tex-Mex chili, I put a bag or so into the pot..
 
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moose eater

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I needed to clean one of my suppressors that I received not too long ago, so I’m out on the back porch, tearing it down, and I was quite surprised to find 20 single pieces comprised the suppressor interior… lots of little pucks… I love the way they make on firearm sound
A series of 'wipes' is what makes them tick.

We played with Sionics suppressors for MAC-10 sub-guns decades ago, among others, but the best suppressors at that time were made by a dentist in Phoenix, Az., who likely had a very interesting black book of past customers.
 
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Boo

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I have a pair of bear claws hanging from my rearview mirror. They were given to me by a friend and they’re quite beautiful. They’re encased and tipped in sterling, silver and hanging from a sterling chain. I was passing through the Cherokee reservation years gone by and I had a Cherokee cop grill me on the possession of those… I purchased some artwork that was made out of moose antlers off the reservation and luckily I remembered the name of the artist. That name got me out of some hot water.
 

bigsur51

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@Unca Walt

For a quick moment, imagine you were born in 1900. When you are 14, World War I starts, and ends on your 18th birthday with 22 million people killed. Later in the year, a Spanish Flu epidemic hits the planet and runs until you are 20. Fifty million people die from it in those two years. Yes, 50 million.

When you're 29, the Great Depression begins. Unemployment hits 25%, global GDP drops 27%. That runs until you are 33. The country nearly collapses along with the world economy. When you turn 39, World War II starts. You aren’t even over the hill yet.

When you're 41, the United States is fully pulled into WWII. Between your 39th and 45th birthday, 75 million people perish in the war and the Holocaust kills six million. At 52, the Korean War starts and five million perish.

At 64 the Vietnam War begins, and it doesn’t end for many years. Four million people die in that conflict. Approaching your 62nd birthday you have the Cuban Missile Crisis, a tipping point in the Cold War. Life on our planet, as we know it, could well have ended. Great leaders prevented that from happening.

As you turn 75, the Vietnam War finally ends. Think of everyone on the planet born in 1900. How do you survive all of that? A child in 1985 didn’t think their 85 year old grandparent understood how hard school was. Yet those grandparents survived through everything listed above.

Perspective is an amazing thing. With so much happening right now and as 2023 ends, let's try to keep things in perspective, knowing that we will get through all of this. In the history of the world, there has never been a storm that lasted forever. This too shall pass👌
 

moose eater

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I have a pair of bear claws hanging from my rearview mirror. They were given to me by a friend and they’re quite beautiful. They’re encased and tipped in sterling, silver and hanging from a sterling chain. I was passing through the Cherokee reservation years gone by and I had a Cherokee cop grill me on the possession of those… I purchased some artwork that was made out of moose antlers off the reservation and luckily I remembered the name of the artist. That name got me out of some hot water.
Those are typically legal unless they're being shipped or transported from Alaska to the Lower-48, or shipped overseas. The Lacey Act has snared many an unsuspecting shipper of big game parts.
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A former friend in the bush had me attempt to ship a finished black bear hide for him to a woman he'd befriended in Finland.

What a comedy of turns that investigation into procedure took. That was one COMICAL discussion with a US Fish & Wildlife officer over the phone.

By the end of the call, I'd poked fun so heavily at the absurdity of the amount of information they wanted about the bear that he asked me where I lived.

Time to say, "Have a nice day."
 
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SubGirl

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@Unca Walt

For a quick moment, imagine you were born in 1900. When you are 14, World War I starts, and ends on your 18th birthday with 22 million people killed. Later in the year, a Spanish Flu epidemic hits the planet and runs until you are 20. Fifty million people die from it in those two years. Yes, 50 million.

When you're 29, the Great Depression begins. Unemployment hits 25%, global GDP drops 27%. That runs until you are 33. The country nearly collapses along with the world economy. When you turn 39, World War II starts. You aren’t even over the hill yet.

When you're 41, the United States is fully pulled into WWII. Between your 39th and 45th birthday, 75 million people perish in the war and the Holocaust kills six million. At 52, the Korean War starts and five million perish.

At 64 the Vietnam War begins, and it doesn’t end for many years. Four million people die in that conflict. Approaching your 62nd birthday you have the Cuban Missile Crisis, a tipping point in the Cold War. Life on our planet, as we know it, could well have ended. Great leaders prevented that from happening.

As you turn 75, the Vietnam War finally ends. Think of everyone on the planet born in 1900. How do you survive all of that? A child in 1985 didn’t think their 85 year old grandparent understood how hard school was. Yet those grandparents survived through everything listed above.

Perspective is an amazing thing. With so much happening right now and as 2023 ends, let's try to keep things in perspective, knowing that we will get through all of this. In the history of the world, there has never been a storm that lasted forever. This too shall pass👌
Yes 1900 was not the best year to be born for sure. More should stop and imagine these words…
 

Janborrego

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Carnivore diet can stress your liver and cholesterol levels (cholesterol is depending on type of meats). running high protein, which I've done in the past, and do now, has your liver sorting through a LOT of meat protein, and for some can contribute to fatty liver disease, which is a lot like a non-drinker's cirrhosis of the liver..

But if you're a meat-lover, it tastes really good.
If you do a carnivore diet or low carb you have to drink lots of water to flush everything
 

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