The American Dreadnaught – from 1968

A little dated – but pretty good stuff . . .

Nobody in their right mind – or even their left mind – wants to go toe to toe with a “battleship” with ANYTHING LESS THAN A BIG GUN SHIP – remember folks – they never traveled alone – they operated in what was called ( using modern acronyms ) a Battleship Battle Group [BBBG] – which to put it simply is a world of hurt showing up on your doorstep – and the Iowa class ships never went out to sea without a nuclear powered hunter / killer sub with it as well ( the subs were utilized for their ASW – they were just too damn noisy to be an effective ASW platform ) and when utilized with a carrier battle group ( CARGRU ) – OH MY . . .

The elephant in the room for “The Big Gun Ships” was the simple fact that the weapon system was designed for just one thing – to seek out – engage – and prevail against other “Big Gun Ships” -and make no mistake about about it – the entire ship was designed as a “system” – they were / are expensive to operate and even more so if you are trying to re-task them because there are no more battleships to fight . . .

But God help you if you were unfortunate enough to be within roughly 23 miles of one – you are having one bad day and chances are it will not end well . . .

Have Fun! – Run the Gun! – and remember – Fish Heads are Cheap!!

Friday Music – Dean Martin Special

After catching a few clips of Dean while putting together the Carol Wayne post the other day – it wasn’t to hard to put together a Friday Music post . . .

Let’s start with his cover of The Duprees great hit “You Belong To Me” – I actually did a Friday Music Post on just that song – this song was covered by just about everybody that was somebody . . .

I was resigned to the task of posting a whole bunch of “stuff” when I ran across these next two – sit back and enjoy about two hours of Dean at his best . . .

And since we started with Dean’s cover – here’s the original for YOU! ( no extra charge )

Have Fun! – Run the Gun! – and remember – Fish Heads are Cheap!!

If they just made it in a REAL caliber instead of europellets . . .

Still a decent review from sootch00 – go check him out . . .

I’m not brand conscious per se – but if it ain’t in .45 caliber – as God handed down to St. Browning – it just ain’t a 1911 – at best it’s a copy . . .

I’m not as hardcore as some folks out here that say if it doesn’t have THE 4 LETTERS / C – O – L – T / on it it’s not a 1911 – but it needs to be in God’s Chosen caliber – just saying – LOL . . .

Have Fun! – Run the Gun! – and remember – Fish Heads are Cheap!!

And here’s another look at Carol Wayne

Here she is in one the roles she played on thee “Tonight Show” . . .

And another “Tonight Show” appearance – she was on the show app. 100 times . . .

Carol as an actual guest on the “Tonight Show”

And one more Tonight Show” – it’s a quickie – so watch fast – LOL!

And don’t tell me you didn’t see that coming . . .

And on “Bewitched” – A Bunny for Tabitha . . .

And on an “I Spy” episode . . .

And she was on the sitcom “The Girl with Something Extra” . . .

And Sally Fields finally hit it out of the park with Burt Reynolds in “Smoky and The Bandit”

Not the happiest Hollywood ending for her . . . – while your at WIKI – look at her credits – she worked quite a bit in Hollywood for the better part of 20 years . . .

Have Fun! – Run the Gun! – and remember – Fish Heads are Cheap!!