charles-smythe
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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Manufacturing |
| Occupation | retired |
| Location | Dallas, Texas, United States |
| Introduction | BESIDES THIS BLOG, I now have a web-site (www.charles-smythe.com) that I'd like you to visit...25-years in Tae Kwon Do-during which I meet Chuck Norris & Bruce Lee.spent 2-years on the USS Shangri-La (CVA-38) as an aviation ordnanceman..just before I got off the ship I had to train a clumsy young man named Eugene Rotenberry..understand that years later he started writing si-fi..at a gun show I once played with Conan's sword..at another gun show I held Buffalo Bill Cody's nickle plated-ivory gripped-1860 Colts pistol with a Thornson conversion--at another gun show I was allowed to wear the cowboy hat that John Wayne wore in 'Sons of Katty Elder'--met Patrick Wayne @ a gun show and he let me hold his father's SAA Colts .45... |
| Interests | reading-writing-watching TV |
| Favorite Movies | 'Who Shot Libery Valance' or almost an John Wayne movie...any of the Louis L'Amour western staring Tom Selleck and Sam Elliot |
| Favorite Music | oldies (50s & 60s) |
| Favorite Books | anything by Louis L'Amour, Sue Grafton, Dick Francis, Robert Heinlein, Robert Parker to name a few. |