[AT] Off topic , kind of

[Spencer Yost]

Being from areas that have crawfish you wouldn't bother to eat,  I was nearly 40 before I ate one.  When I did it was one of the most authentic eating experiences I ever had.  It was near Mobile Bay AL.  I was on a business trip meeting with some folks in the cargo container shipping business. One of them found out that we had never eaten crawfish before. A big smile came on their faces and the game was on.

They took us to the middle of nowhere on a long shell road beside a tidal marsh/brackish creek. We finally arrived at a building on stilts that looked like it would blow over with a good sneeze.  There were no other signs of civilization around.  Outside were 30 pickups and inside were 50 people and two items on the menu: crawfish and Budweiser.  I never could stomach sucking head but I pinched plenty of tail.   And Anheuser-Busch stayed in business for another day.  (-;

Great video of the Bessemer - sorry to see the whoopin' you took. And like Thomas said - you were pretty calm - I would've been jumping and hollerin' (-;

Spencer Yost

> On Mar 16, 2017, at 7:11 PM, Thomas O Mehrkam <tmehrkam at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> 
> Wait a minute now I found it.  Right in front of my eyes.
> 
> You were mighty calm with the hose whipping about. :-}
> 
>> On 3/16/2017 1:36 PM, Bo Hinch wrote:
>> Just a short note to let the world know how stupid we as humans can be at
>> times .On saturday march 11th , I had a little gathering at my home  / shop
>> to have a crawfish boil ( 500 lbs ) , 20 racks of pork ribs , 40 lbs.
>> catfish along with fries and all the trimmings . Photos enclosed if your
>> interested , just click on the link . As in the past years , all of the
>> children and grownups can`t hardly wait till about 2pm to start and run the
>> old ( 105 years old ) 20 hp Bessemer engine . As in the past , I have been
>> trying to teach some of the younger folks to get it ready to start ( oil  ,
>> heat hot tube & hook up propane bottle ) and when it is ready , I work the
>> air valve to roll it over and control the fuel valve  . To make a long
>> story short , it did not want to run , it would try , BACKFIRE , run a few
>> rounds on its on then quit . After about 10 minutes , it backfired back
>> into the air starting tank and blew the air hose off giving me the worst
>> whipping I`v had in a many years , BETWEEN my leggs . After the second time
>> doing this , it was getting to be serious business so we quit . Monday the
>> 13th after doing a lot of thinking , I finally figured out WHY it wouldn't
>> run . They failed to REMOVE the 2" pipe plug on the air intake side so the
>> engine couldn't get any fresh air . Plug is there to keep out bees and
>> anything else when just sitting up . I think there is a short video of the
>> hose coming off and giving me my first whipping .  I have since made up a
>> startup check list which I should of had in the beginning .
>> 
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