R.D. Dye

Born an Okie • Vinyl & Music Promo Poster Collector • Chaos IS NOT Politics • Oklahoma, Colorado, Texas, Hawaii, Idaho • 🎶🎧🏈🐈🇺🇸

[Wonder of Science @wonderofscience]

The Northrop YB-49 was a prototype jet-powered heavy bomber that first flew nearly 80 years ago. Edwards Air Force Base in California is named after test pilot Glen Edwards, who was killed when one broke up during a test flight in 1948.

[Jim Acosta @Acosta]

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[Fascinating @fasc1nate]

In 1942, German submarines were sinking ships all through the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico. Ernest Hemingway, living in Cuba, had a plan.

He fitted out his 38-foot fishing boat, the Pilar, with a radio, machine guns and grenades, and crewed it with friends, among them a jai alai player and a Cuban fisherman. The US embassy gave its approval and fuel.

The idea was that a U-boat would stop the Pilar to seize its fish and water. When it did, Hemingway's crew would pull alongside and toss grenades down the conning tower hatch.

They patrolled on and off for more than a year. They never engaged a submarine.

His wife, the war correspondent Martha Gellhorn, was unimpressed. She suspected it was mostly an excuse to go fishing on rationed gasoline.

More iconic historical photos: https://t.co/dQjceOPkrz

[Stephen King @StephenKing]

Q: If Mississippi wore her New Jersey, what would Delaware?
A: Idaho, Alaska.

[Tom Hennessey @Tomhennessey69]

A woman survived an incredible 200-250 foot jump near the Belle Plaine Love’s travel stop in Kansas. See replies.

[R.D. Dye @Dye_Tryin]

@EvanKirstel @MarkMantis @IfSixWere9 “Parkour! Parkour.”

[R.D. Dye @Dye_Tryin]

@OU_Football @isaiahsategna1 #2 is not afraid of contact. 💥 Nice block! #oklahomadrills

[Tennessee Football @Vol_Football]

For Dolly. 🦋

A commemorative helmet sticker will be worn to honor Dolly Parton for every game this season.

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

This is actually hilarious

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

I needed to move a sofa.

I mentioned this to an American. He said, "You know anybody with a truck?"

I did not know anybody with a truck.

He looked at me with real concern. Not pity. Concern. The way you look at a man who has told you he does not have a name.

"You gotta know somebody with a truck."

I asked how one acquires such a person.

He said, "You just do."

This is the third time I have received that answer in this country. It is the answer to everything here. You just do. There is no process. There is only the eventual fact of having.

He said, "Ask Kevin."

I do not know a Kevin. He said Kevin like I should. He said it the way you say a shared uncle.

I met Kevin four days later. Kevin owns a truck. Kevin does not own a truck for himself. Nobody owns a truck for themselves. Kevin owns a truck for a fifteen mile radius.

Inside I said: THIS MAN HAS TAKEN A VOW. HE DID NOT ANNOUNCE IT. HE SIMPLY PURCHASED A BED AND ACCEPTED THE CONSEQUENCES.

Kevin arrived on Saturday. He brought the truck. He also brought a second man.

I had not asked for a second man.

The second man's name is Tony. Tony came because Kevin came. Tony did not know me. Tony did not ask what we were moving. Tony brought gloves.

They moved the sofa in eleven minutes.

I offered them money. Both of them laughed at the same time, which felt rehearsed and was not.

I asked what I owed them.

Kevin said, "Buy the pizza."

That is the price. That is the entire economy. The truck costs one pizza and the pizza is not negotiable and the pizza is also not expensive and everyone knows what size.

Inside I said: THE FEE IS FIXED ACROSS THE ENTIRE NATION AND WAS SET BY NO ONE.

We ate on the floor because the sofa was against the wall and none of us wanted to be the first to sit on it.

Tony told me his daughter plays soccer. I asked if she is good. He said, "She's aggressive."

I still think about that.

Three weeks later, Kevin texted me.

"You free Sunday? Helping Tony move a fridge."

He did not ask if I wanted to. He informed me of a fridge.

Inside I said: I HAVE BEEN CALLED UP. I DID NOT ENLIST. THE PAPERS WERE FILED ON MY BEHALF.

I went. I moved the fridge. I have no truck. I contributed only arms.

Afterward, a man I had never met asked me if I knew anybody with a truck.

I said, "Yeah, I got a guy."

I have a guy.

I am somebody's guy now, too. Tony has told two people about me.

He describes me as "the guy who's strong for his size."

I have never been prouder of a sentence in my life.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

30,000 hours of footage, equivalent to 3 years and 7 months, were filmed to capture the blooming of 77 types of flowers, and the result is spectacular.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

How old were you when you learned this?

[Skyler Higley @skyler_higley]

damn they invented the gentrification laser

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

A guy filming the incoming tsunami on Kamchatka with his mobile phone while on a walk with his dog.

[R.D. Dye @Dye_Tryin]

@billwarddrums @sabbathfans Love you, Bill! 🦇🤘🏼🔥

[R.D. Dye @Dye_Tryin]

@madmaxbible @justinboldaji THE Ayatollah of Rock And Rolla! 🎙 🔊⛽️

[Mad Max Bible @madmaxbible]

With great sadness I regret to inform you that Kjell Nilsson who played The Lord Humungus has passed away. Kjell lived a colorful life on his own terms, with unwavering conviction, an adventurous heart, and a spirit that refused to surrender. He was 76 years old. Rest in Peace.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

For the people who like to say they could take on a bear and win. No you can’t.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

A woman posted a video of her burned-out car, showing her Stanley thermos still intact with ice inside.

The clip went viral as an unintended ad, and the company offered to replace her car.