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    Old Time Boxing

    Some people have written that Johnson agreed to take it easy on Ketchel until Ketchel decided to test him. Not his most brilliant move. Johnson was a monster in the ring. Too bad the racism caught up to him. Ali was great, sure but when speaking of Johnson, Ali said, " I'm a bad man but he was a...
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    Paper Burns

    I love the newspaper, too, but have watched the Seattle Times slowly die and am beginning to see it like an athlete that has stayed too long in the field. It has become tired and watching it fail more often than succeed is sad. I recently re-upped my subscription but only because the comics is...
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    Winston Churchill

    The problem is you have a bunch of bleacher bums who will never play the game so they shout from the sidelines. It's happening big time with FDR as well as Churchill. Obviously, there's no need to dieify anyone and all are open for criticism, but they played in the bigs and no one plays there...
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    Why do I hate the 1970s so much?

    Just as I was a McGovern supporter/liberal when I was 14 years old in 1972and little has changed in 39 years. Consistency, inconsistency and the right to be either is one of the great things about democracy.
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    Hand gun ownership in the U.S.

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    What Are You Reading

    Just finished With Amusement for All by LeRoy Ashby. The author looks at US amusements from 1820 to the present and does a sterling job of creating a fun read that deserves much wider play than the book gets. He writes about how plays became more acceptable to family audiences, the development...
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    Hand gun ownership in the U.S.

    Don't have a gun; don't want a gun. Would like to see all guns deep sixed but realize this country isn't mine alone. What I would really like to see is the moderates from both side come to an agreement on how to get guns away from the bad guys.
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    Your most non-vintage preference or attributes ...

    The absolute causalness of the intolerence of the time is the thing I find hardest to gag down. I read a Life article from 1939 which rated the ability of different races to laugh at themselves. What a surprise to find the white race was rated as the race which found it easiest to laugh at its...
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    What Prepares You?

    I see a movie most every week, but like ShooShoo it's got to be at the cheap theaters. Mostly, I look at reviews. Yeah, I get suckered sometimes, but thems the breaks. I do avoid movies that are recommended as "wrenching" or "soul searching" but otherwise I'm willing to go along for the ride...
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    Catch phrases

    I know we've done radio show openers but what about catch phrases. What are those short little phrases you had to know the show in order to understand the joke. For example: Someone Bawl for Beulah? Taint funny McGee. (Fibber McGee and Molly) Now, cut that out! (Jack Benny) You get...
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    Female Crooners

    Probably not the right era, but from the 50's: Chris Connor Anita O'Day and especially, June Christy ("Something Cool")
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    What Are You Reading

    I've been working my way through the presidents as well. If you find anything decent on Hoover let me know. Franklin Pierce and John Tyler are really tough gets, too.
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    D-Day 6th June 1944

    It won't be very many years and the last to have been in on the invasion will have passed. At that point, it truly will just be just memories.
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    FL brain storm request

    Bowling, doggone it, bowling!
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    Who do you RESPECT most?

    Great thread. We need more heros. Most have already been mentioned: TR FDR John Brown etc. Two that haven't: Elizabeth Cady Stanton Warrent Officer Hugh Thompson, Jr. who saved the lives of many at My Lai
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    They Say Em' From the Golden Era - Slang & Memorable Phrases

    "There's frost on the pumpkin," was one of my grandfather's favorites. I've always liked mutts as in, "All right ya mutts, listen up."
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    What Are You Reading

    Great book. His first book Tipping Point was also a thought-provoking read. It's so rare to have a writer who is readable tackle a sociological theory backed by scientific research. The guy who wrote Freakonomics is another Gladwell type. Wish there were more.
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    Should tobacco usage scene's be deleted?

    Not to hijack the conversation, but ...I agree that PC can be and has been carried too far. I also believe that freedom of speech is a corner stone that we don't want to yield easily. However, I have also seen women fired for turning down advances and people not hired due to their ethnicity. I...
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    Should tobacco usage scene's be deleted?

    Am opposed to smoking. Support most things PC as usually it means we ought to think twice before we say anything that causes needless hurt or carries on prejudicial thinking. But the past is the past and changing it to suit the times is a slippery slope.
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    Fun Literary Meme

    "When it gets to Third Avenue, or Ninety-fifth Street, he thought, I won't hear it any more." The Thurber Carnival - James Thurber

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