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    You know you are getting old when:

    As I celebrated my 27th wedding anniversary yesterday, I marveled at how it was possible, inasmuch as I am only 28 years old :)
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    Today in History

    I'm a bit late to the party here, but I'm surprised that the Doolittle Raid was not mentioned on April 18th. 50 years after I heard it, this bit of doggerel still comes to mind. "T'was the 18th of April in '42, and we waited to hear what Jimmy would do. Little did Hiro think that that night...
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    Show us your Guns!

    Just a question for those of you who are able to exercise your constitutional right to carry, and for any current or former LEO's. I understand the concept of collecting firearms for all of the reasons that people normally cite, but do you carry all of your different ones or do you have one or...
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    If something was burnt or very dark in color, my dad would say that it "was blacker than a supply sergeant's heart"
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    Show us your Guns!

    My wife has one like that, and for the price, it is a good shooter, and feels good in your hand. It is a PPK knockoff.
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    "On their uppers", now thats a term that has gone by the wayside. I always liked it. The uppers here are the bits that cover the upper part of a boot or shoe. The implication is that the soles have worn out and that the person concerned is reduced to a pair that consists only of uppers — quite...
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    Which watch

    I've a Tissot chronograph with a metal bracelet, and like it very much. Their bracelets are not clunky at all.
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    Show us your Guns!

    You can wrap the stock in a black plastic bag and put it in the sun for a few hours, it'll sweat the Cosmoline out. Wipe it off and repeat if necessary.
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    What happened to small towns?

    The way I've always heard it was that Jews don't recognize Jesus as the son of God, Methodists don't recognize the pope as the head of the church, and Baptists don't recognize each other in the liquor store or at Hooters.
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    Burma-Shave signs without rhyme?

    I did hear that, If I recall, his name was Frenchy something or other, and he was a druggist or store owner who collected the jars from customers in the name of "Help Send Frenchy To Mars". Burma Shave got a lot of publicity out of it, and he and his wife remained friends of the owners from that...
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    Burma-Shave signs without rhyme?

    The Midnight Ride Of Paul For Beer Led To a Warmer Hesmispehre
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    Burma-Shave signs without rhyme?

    Free, Free A Trip To Mars For 900 Empty Jars! Her Chariot Raced At 80 Per The Ambulance Picked Up What Had Ben Hur At ease, she said Maneuvers begin When you scrape that stubble Off your chin!
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    No, Its a Buick Electra 225, hence the Deuce and a quarter (pronounced quota!)
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    Is Swearing a Vice?

    "Profanity is the linguistic crutch of an inarticulate em effer"
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    Vintage grocery stores

    "White Heat" and "Double Indemnity" both have scenes in a grocery store of the times.
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    One more medal for Audie Murphy?

    A state medal? Seems seriously anticlimactic to me... Not if you are a Texan.
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    Forbidden items in my home...

    They are "Gal-Waas"
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    Do you think there could be a second Great Depression?

    The fourth estate is FAR less interested in reporting the news than they are in creating it.
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    Pro and Cons of Mortgage Strategic Defaults.

    One of my clients is a bond broker, and her comment in '08 was "if you treat your house like an investment, don't be surprised when it acts like one"
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    The War Lover

    "Everything But The Flak" is a great story, a bunch of larger than life personalities doing something that could never happen today. As a kid, I wanted to be like them, as an adult, well, I wanna be like them!

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