So there I was.......

[Panzer Grenadier]

...because i had it pawned for an old camstick which...

 

[Haggis]

... had hardened and was full of sand.  Once I warmed it over the stove....

 

[PMedMoe]

....it melted into the pressure cooker which was okay because.....

 

[Michael OLeary]

... I was defying the Mythbusters warning not to try this at home ...

 

[Shec]

...after I regained consciousness...

 

[Michael OLeary]

... in a small room in St Jean, remembering nothing after that drink the Recruiting Sergeant offered me ...

 

[Shec]

...just before I was escorted to the wall at the break of dawn...

 

[Haggis]

... I lay there, wondering what the symbol tattooed on my arm really meant... and what was that bump under the skin on my neck?

 

[211RadOp]

...and why I was wearing the afore mentioned hot pink pleatherette chaps...

 

[Shec]

..."when out of the night which was 40 below and into the din and glare there stumbled a miner fresh from the creeks, dog dirty and loaded for bear..."

 

[Haggis]

....There are strange things done in the midnight sun by the men who moil for gold.  Some of them even wear chaps while they...

 

[R. Jorgensen]

...wait in Departures at Calgary International Airport...

 

[Gunnar]

...where they look like a man with one foot in the grave, and scarcely the strength of a louse....

 

[kkwd]

.... pondering whether to watch reruns of "Tales Of The Gold Monkey" or poke sharp sticks in their eyes all the while ...

 

[211RadOp]

..sucking on an Extra Large Tim Horton's Double Double..

 

[kkwd]

.... bucket of extra thick seat cushion juice and eating ....

 

[Shec]

..."then I ducked my head, and the lights went out, and two guns blazed in the dark"...

 

[kkwd]

.... it was the League of Extraordinary Kumquat Farmers of Upper Alberta but they missed and I ....

 

[Michael OLeary]

... ducked into a nearby 24-hour tanning salon and tried to blend in, luckily the other men were also wearing chaps ....

 

[kkwd]

.... made from the skin of the extremely rare honest politician skinned and tanned by his peers because ....