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Comment on: Gray Ghost Country

On the Funnier (?) Side

39 Comments
Tuesday, March, 24, 2009 5:07 PM BrianR writes:

Hahahahaha!



Looks like a great place: lovely, tranquil, quiet, beautiful.....


Defenseable perimeter, good water supply, long sight lines and fields of fire, plenty of resources including wood for heat...

How's the local ammo supply?

You may need it, at the rate things are going....

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Tuesday, March, 24, 2009 5:25 PM Mrs. AL (Always Learning) writes:

Mr & Mrs Gray Ghost

Thanx for sharing the pics and vacation notes! This is a lovely setting. Brian nailed it for me -- tranquil.
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Tuesday, March, 24, 2009 5:56 PM BrianR writes:

LOL, Mrs. AL


Yeah... tranquil.

It'll take a while for the "outraged" mobs to get there.....

Time enough to set up a perimeter.

LOCK AND LOAD!
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Tuesday, March, 24, 2009 6:07 PM Gray Ghost writes:

BrianR

The only check of the "local ammo supply" I made while there was when I acquired another "Zulu" knife. One of the stores in Gatlinburg (The Smith's) ocassionally gets them in. I have been buying them at this store for over 10 years.

The shop owner makes pocket knives (extremely expensive, with semi-precious stone handles; approx. cost of $2000.00 each). But the owner also has a friend in Africa that finds antiques and ships them to him. The knives range in age from 120 to 150 years old (about the age of the events shown in the movie "Zulu").

I now have 3 "Zulu" knives, 1 "Zulu" throwing knife, 2 "Zulu" spears, and 1 West African sword.
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Tuesday, March, 24, 2009 6:09 PM Gray Ghost writes:

Mrs. AL

It was tranquil. My wife and I needed it.

She and I have been using Gatlinburg to "re-charge" since the early 1980's.
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Tuesday, March, 24, 2009 6:20 PM Gray Ghost writes:

BrianR and Outraged Mobs

The only "outraged mobs" we saw while there were in the Murder Mystery Dinner Theater. We had alot of fun. The theme was "Murder on American Idle" and I was selected one of the audience judges (Dr. Harry Bottoms was my "stage" name).

The audience participants in the singing competition ranged from bad to horrible. Some of the singing was so bad that the audience was booing while the song was being performed. It was a "lively" audience with about 8 couples our age, 20 or 30 college age kids on Spring Break, and about 10 young couples who were recently married. Was I ever that young?

The economy seem pretty good; but everyone that we talked to who lived in this area was worried.
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Tuesday, March, 24, 2009 9:39 PM Redhead writes:

It's been a couple of years

And it's getting harder to drag now 4 kids there, but we've tried to go every year since we "discovered" Gatlinburg in 2001.

And since I'm originally from NW Arkansas, it reminds me a lot Branson, MO, where my family used to go.

If you drove I24 from Chattanooga across to Nashville before heading south, you passed right by me!
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Tuesday, March, 24, 2009 9:59 PM Gray Ghost writes:

Redhead

We drive I40 across the state (Memphis, Nashville, Knoxville). But my younger sister used to live in Chattanooga. Have you been to Lookout Mountain and Rock City?
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Wednesday, March, 25, 2009 12:41 AM Gar Swaffar writes:

Gray G

Tranquil is good, sharp, pointy weapons are almost as good and getting re-charged is priceless
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Wednesday, March, 25, 2009 9:24 AM Gray Ghost writes:

boaz

If you have ever seen a Zulu knife, "tranquil" is the last description of them you would use. They are hand forged, very large bladed weapons (12" long by 5" wide at the base).

The blade almost looks like a "large spear point"; but that is not a real good description.
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Wednesday, March, 25, 2009 10:34 AM BrianR writes:

New one up at my place


Drop by.

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Wednesday, March, 25, 2009 10:40 AM Eric writes:

that is a nice place

man, I'd have spent some time in that heated pool. With a nice cool day outside, it'd be a great relief. What a cool place.
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Wednesday, March, 25, 2009 9:29 PM freemanredneck writes:

Beautiful country looks just like home!

Nice pictures looks like where I live North Idaho. Thanks for the nice comments my only needs are being computer challenged. I am still trying to master creating web pages for dumbies but they need a Forest Gump version for me to understand. My purpose in writing that story was first veterans coming home need help, and I was angry over the contamination of veterans now facing HIV. One of these days I will have a veterans web site who will get politically involved as soon as I learn how, or, I drop dead...LOL
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Wednesday, March, 25, 2009 11:19 PM Sue writes:

Gray Ghost

Wow - that place looks great. Nice and relaxing. I hope you guys had a great time!
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Thursday, March, 26, 2009 8:26 AM Gray Ghost writes:

Eric

It was nice. Really nice.

Thanks for stopping by.
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Thursday, March, 26, 2009 8:28 AM Gray Ghost writes:

freemanredneck

"One of these days I will have a veterans web site who will get politically involved as soon as I learn how, or, I drop dead...LOL"

Let's hope its the former, not the latter.

Thanks for stopping by.

I will be back by your site.
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Thursday, March, 26, 2009 8:29 AM Gray Ghost writes:

Sue

Yes, we had a great time.

Thanks for stopping by.
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Thursday, March, 26, 2009 2:08 PM buck writes:

Wow! A swimming pool right in the Cabin

Now that's roughing it!
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Thursday, March, 26, 2009 4:21 PM Gray Ghost writes:

buck

What can I say. When the going gets tough, the tough go swimming in a heated, indoor pool.

Lying on a raft in the 85 degree water and sipping a cold glass of ice tea, I asked myself, "I wonder what the 'poor' people are doing?"

I would go deeper into the uses my wife and I made of the pool; but this is a family web site.
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Thursday, March, 26, 2009 9:44 PM Gar Swaffar writes:

GG

I wasn't communicating clearly - rather common for me actually, sorry about that.
Tranquil area- Yes.
Sharp and pointy - not tranquil
I looked around at some of the Zulu's. Toe to toe knife fighting with those is no way to maintain ones youth and charm. Looks sort of like a short machete, and kinda cool.
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Friday, March, 27, 2009 8:50 AM Sgt Relic writes:

Ah!

Lifestyles of the evil rich! Indoor swimming pools! It looks like a great place to relax.

Are Zulus a big problem in your area? Is that why you need so many zulu knives? Surely your not considering taking a knife to a gun fight?
LOL!

BTW, new post.
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Friday, March, 27, 2009 11:57 AM The Interface writes:

Excellent!

But I have to ask, is there a reason that you are not in any of the photos, and that the one photo in which Mrs. Gray Ghost resides is so small that we can't possibly see her without digital enhancing software available only to the military? (And no weak excuses like "I had to take the pictures so I couldn't be in them!" We all know about camera timers, and you already listed all the other people who were around who could have snapped one for you...!)

;->
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Friday, March, 27, 2009 2:24 PM Gray Ghost writes:

Boaz, The Zulus Were The Spartans of....

African.

I have always ben interested in them since I watched the movie "Zulu" with Michael Caine.

Their military expertise was very high. If, during the 1800's, they had had access to modern guns they would have conquered Africa.
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Friday, March, 27, 2009 2:28 PM Gray Ghost writes:

Sgt Relic

"Life Styles of the Rich and Famous"

Yeah, I wish.

As for Zulus, I was a Boy Scout.

I'll be by in alittle bit. I'm just back from Greenwood, MS.
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Friday, March, 27, 2009 2:32 PM Gray Ghost writes:

Interface, Remember My Interface Name

How many pictures of ghosts have you seen?

Plus, I could be so ugly as to break the camera.

I also loved the book, "The Scarlet Pimpernel".

(Maybe some day, I will place an early photo of myself on line. Believe me, I have only gotten uglier as I have gotten older.)
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Friday, March, 27, 2009 7:16 PM davecatbone writes:

Ghost

the story of the Zulus is well told in the book by Michener about South Africa, "The Covenant" . You've got to check it out....
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Friday, March, 27, 2009 9:23 PM Gray Ghost writes:

davecat

Hey, thanks for stopping by.

I have not read the book you suggested ("The Covenant"). I have read several of Michner's other books and enjoyed them. I'll check it out.
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Sunday, March, 29, 2009 10:35 AM clyde writes:

Gray Ghost

Nice spot to recharge. Good for you both.
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Monday, March, 30, 2009 12:10 PM BrianR writes:

Ghost


Just put up a new one.

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Tuesday, March, 31, 2009 11:21 PM dawndawn writes:

Ohhhh!

What`s funny about it, GG? Sounds and looks very peaceful and romantic to me! Thanks for sharing, you big lug!
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Wednesday, April, 01, 2009 8:17 AM Darvin Dowdy writes:

Wow GG....

...what a blessing. I, at this moment, am trying hard not to envy you. We're not supposed to, you know. So instead I'll just be thankful that such places as this are still available. Praying that one day I could take my family there for a vacation. Dream, dream. DD
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Wednesday, April, 01, 2009 8:18 AM Gray Ghost writes:

Clyde and Dawndawn

It was very relaxing and the indoor pool was useful.

Thanks for stopping by.
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Wednesday, April, 01, 2009 8:21 AM Gray Ghost writes:

DD

This was our first vacation in over 6 years. And our first vacation that didn't include our daughter, son-in-law, and grandchildren in over 9 years.

I highly recommend the Gatlinburg area as a place to "recharge".

Thanks for stopping by.
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Thursday, April, 02, 2009 11:44 AM Gunny "knuckles" G© writes:

NICE!

I could use about two weeks there!
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Thursday, April, 02, 2009 1:23 PM buck writes:

"Iced tea"????????????????????

Ohhh, man. Are you wasting an 85 degree indoor pool!

I would suggest a little Weller and water.
or
Barring that, being in Tennessee, I know a guy not too far from Crossville who...knows a guy who has some realllly good clear as water stuff...
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Thursday, April, 02, 2009 2:28 PM Gray Ghost writes:

Gunny

I wish we could have had two weeks there!

Thanks for stopping by.
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Thursday, April, 02, 2009 2:33 PM Gray Ghost writes:

buck

This being a family site, I said iced tea.

Perhaps I did have some of Kentucky's oldest (Evan Williams).

But I also said some other things in this thread about the uses of this pool (in a discrete manner, of course). If I had been more specific, Sgt. Relic, BrianR, and some of the older posters would have accused me of bragging. And as a gentleman, I will not say more.
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Friday, April, 03, 2009 1:14 PM BrianR writes:

Ghost


I just posted a new one; stop by for a chuckle or two.
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Saturday, April, 04, 2009 9:51 AM Gray Ghost writes:

BrianR

After looking at the length and number of my comments at your site (and per your invitation), I am sure you are now regreting this post.
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