Herbert Nowell, Yet Another S-list Writer

Writer, gamer, Belegrim, model railroader, rail fan. In general I like cats more than people. I post writing, cat memes, and general shenanigans.

[Herbert Nowell, Yet Another S-list Writer @PulpHerb]

No More than 51 Bad Stories -- Author's Notes: Camel Claim https://t.co/9xdsRJ8fue

[Herbert Nowell, Yet Another S-list Writer @PulpHerb]

I now know what the homes of elves look like.

[History Knowledge @historyvidos]

A 300-year-old yew tree tunnel in Ireland

[Eleison @variacarmina]

@LAChas77 The loss of hobbies is far more than a loss of hobbies. Few understand this

[ZUBY: @ZubyMusic]

@LAChas77 Most people don't have hobbies anymore. Fortunately, you don't have to be most people.

[Herbert Nowell, Yet Another S-list Writer @PulpHerb]

This is why I hold on so tightly to in person trivia on Thursdays, fighter practice in Sundays, and every other week tabletop gaming Saturdays.

It keeps me grounded.

[Jon Root @JonnyRoot_]

Norway's World Cup team photo may be the greatest team photo of all time.

📸: 433/David Yarrow

[Herbert Nowell, Yet Another S-list Writer @PulpHerb]

@frenchfried63 @TheCriticalDri1 We all know it is really Sponge Bob's crew.

[Critically Thinking & Drinking 🧐 🥃🧉🍸🍹🤪 @TheCriticalDri1]

The most humiliating ass beating of all time, wait for it 😂😂😂

[Herbert Nowell, Yet Another S-list Writer @PulpHerb]

"I write this not for the many, but for you: each of us is enough of an audience for the other."
- Epicurus

[Herbert Nowell, Yet Another S-list Writer @PulpHerb]

Heart breaking news.

[Variety @Variety]

Anthony Head, the British actor best known for his roles in “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” and “Ted Lasso,” has died at 72.

His daughters shared in a statement that he “passed away peacefully of complications due to pneumonia, surrounded by his family.”

https://t.co/TOTGKcKLzx

[Dudes Posting Their W’s @DudespostingWs]

Why women live longer than men

[Hidden History @HiddenHistoryYT]

82 years ago today, eight American sailors jumped onto a sinking Nazi submarine in the middle of the Atlantic.

What they pulled out of it changed the war. And the Navy buried the whole story for years.

First, you need to know that U-505 was already cursed. German sailors called her the unluckiest boat in the fleet. In October 1943, during a brutal British depth-charge attack, her own captain shot himself in the head in the control room, in front of his crew. He remains the only submarine commander in history known to have killed himself underwater in combat. His second-in-command calmly took over, rode out the attack, and sailed her home.

Eight months later, her luck ran out completely.

June 4, 1944. Two days before D-Day. Captain Daniel Gallery's hunter-killer group, built around the escort carrier USS Guadalcanal, had been stalking U-boats off West Africa. Gallery had an idea his superiors considered borderline insane: don't sink the next one. Capture it. No US Navy crew had boarded and taken an enemy warship on the high seas since 1815.

The destroyer escort USS Chatelain caught U-505 on sonar and fired a salvo of hedgehog bombs. The U-boat broke the surface 700 yards away. Gunfire raked the conning tower, wounding her captain. He gave the order to abandon ship.

The Germans rushed out so fast they botched the scuttling. The sub was flooding, but her engines were still running. She was circling the battle at six knots, empty, sinking, and very possibly rigged with demolition charges.

So Lt. Albert David and eight men from USS Pillsbury chased her down in a whaleboat, leaped aboard, and climbed down the hatch into a dark, flooding submarine that could explode or go under at any second. They shut the scuttling valves, disarmed the charges, and stopped the flooding.

Down there they found the prize: Enigma cipher machines and roughly 900 pounds of codebooks and charts. Current settings. The keys to the German navy's secret communications.

But here's the catch. The treasure was only valuable if Germany never found out. One leak and Berlin changes every code overnight.

So the Navy ran one of the great cover-ups of the war. The sub was towed 1,700 miles to Bermuda and given a fake American name: USS Nemo. Around 3,000 sailors were sworn to total silence. The 58 captured German crewmen vanished into a POW camp in rural Louisiana, hidden even from the Red Cross. Germany declared U-505 lost with all hands and notified the families. The dead men were alive in Louisiana, and their boat was working for the US Navy.

The secret held until the war ended.

Lt. David received the Medal of Honor, the only one awarded in the Atlantic Fleet in all of WWII.

And the submarine? In 1954, Chicagoans raised $250,000 to bring her home. She was towed across Lake Michigan and dragged through the streets of Chicago to the Museum of Science and Industry.

She's still sitting there right now. You can walk through her.

[Herbert Nowell, Yet Another S-list Writer @PulpHerb]

@OriginalGrogna1 Holmes. It is where I started with Christmas money from 1977.

I have lots of notes trying to write successor books to Holmes. Maybe I should get them back out.

[Zampy @zampy68]

Thanks for the appreciation ♥️
#Fern #Frieren

[Herbert Nowell, Yet Another S-list Writer @PulpHerb]

Then we know where to concentrate investigative resources. I don't disagree that it's harder to bust the management and anti-discrimination laws create a damned both ways for managers, especially in smaller businesses.

That doesn't mean smarter enforcement efforts aren't the right thing to do.

[Herbert Nowell, Yet Another S-list Writer @PulpHerb]

It is very much what I voted for...until the employers face a penalty for this it won't stop.

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

🚨HOLY CRAP!!!

ICE has just confirmed that it ARRESTED THE EMPLOYERS of 48 illegal immigrants in South Carolina!!!

Both the Plant Manager and HR Coordinator for a casting company in Abbeville SC were ARRESTED and face years in prison.

IS THIS WHAT YOU VOTED FOR?!!!!!

[Herbert Nowell, Yet Another S-list Writer @PulpHerb]

The generous interpretation is he hates to say it because he wishes it wasn't true.

I ride MARTA 2-3 times most weeks and I hate the conditions on it at certain times and stations. At least once a month some boards that pits me on alert until one of us gets off.

I dislike having to say that because I hate the conditions are like that. I will say it because that's the start of the only to fix it. That doesn't mean saying it isn't unpleasant.

[Herbert Nowell, Yet Another S-list Writer @PulpHerb]

@ASFleischman @TheLawyerOwl Learning to fight is like planting a tree.

It is also a basic life skill. I'd take this as a signal it is time to learn at least some basics.

[Herbert Nowell, Yet Another S-list Writer @PulpHerb]

@earlyvotedata History has shown it is never too late for a Democrat to drop out.

[Herbert Nowell, Yet Another S-list Writer @PulpHerb]

@Jaimo62 @TheStormRedux The lawyers should have taught him that rule.

Hell, I'm a programmer and just know from decades of Perry Mason, Mattlock, and Law and Order.

[Herbert Nowell, Yet Another S-list Writer @PulpHerb]

@dsawyer @JoshuaSteinman Good...but still surprised.

[Herbert Nowell, Yet Another S-list Writer @PulpHerb]

@SarahAHoyt @KiltCat So, grab one or both of these silver linings: a new book series you haven't read (and then explore the rest of the author's work) and one of the most interesting scifi channels on YouTube talking about the series.

[Herbert Nowell, Yet Another S-list Writer @PulpHerb]

I'm seeing a lot of discussion of the cancelling of the new Stargate before it is made.

[Herbert Nowell, Yet Another S-list Writer @PulpHerb]

@SarahAHoyt @KiltCat The older is the idea of SG-1 as the conspiracy and what that could mean.

https://t.co/9zjzhRn5As