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Recent content by mwelch8404

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    FS: Size 7 1/8 Brill's 15 back bow black fedora $60 shipped

    Please e-mail me at mwelch8404@yahoo.com about pmt methods you will accept. tx
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    Royal Geographic Society or "The Great Game"

    Or, the best fiction EVER, the book Kim by Rudyard Kipling... It is the great game and Kipling was there... ;)
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    Avirex "US Postal Service" A2 for sale, 2XL

    Well, I'm still looking for one to replace the Reed and Taylor that my son mooched frm me that got snatched... Can you please post a measurement around, ahemmm, ummm errr, the "belly?" ;-)
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    Avirex "US Postal Service" A2 for sale, 2XL

    Scott, Nice. Thanks for the heads up. Do you have any pix you can post? My googlefu is poor today, and I can't find any on the interwebs. Mark
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    US Wings Cowhide "Hero" jacket, 3XL

    Damn, I finally lost enough weight that a 3x drownds me. Mark
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    Just TRY not to laugh...:-)

    We had a gal (early 20s) at work who was a natural light blonde. She came in to work one day with all her hair a mouse brown. The other super said "IQ in a bottle?" Turns out whe also worked at a truck stop part time... She said that the mousy hair and makedown instead of makeup kept her...
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    The Great Beer Thread

    Mmmmm Orion... Haven't had one in 30 years. I hope it's still as good. :-)
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    The Man Who Designed America

    What about Clarence Birdseye? Not really about "design"per se, but what he did for modern distribution.
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    Misconceptions of World War II

    In some ways true. But look at the photos in Alstair Cook's America of late war US and German aircraft factories. One picture is worth a thousand words. Edited to add, after reading the thread to see if it was mentioned: FDR knew the Japanese were going to bomb Pearl Harbor and "let it...
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    Misconceptions of World War II

    Meh, what's killing 50 million of your own people to stay in power got to do with it? ;-)
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    Pocketwatches

    How is the Avalon holding up? Does it keep good time? I'm looking at one for my son based on some good reviews.
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    Intresting link

    Apparently two hours north of me, in Richfield, Utah. Gonna have to make a trip this spring ;-)
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    Basic personal possessions of the 1930's American male

    Colonel, is that the Duluth Trading AWOL bag?
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    How many Brits are here?

    Some of us Yanks, at least me, are not "British" or "English," but "American." However, we don't deny our heritage, either, name: David DICKSON gender: Male birth: 1754 Apr 11 Selkirk, Selkirk, Scotland christening: 1754 Jun 9 Selkirk Parish, Selkirk, Scotland death: Oct 1837 23...
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    Everyday Fellows of the Golden Era?

    well, 7 overseas stripes at 6 months each, for 42 months. The photo gets too pixelated for me to ID the collar tabs and ribbons.

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