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Then there's that... 😄🙄

Yes, they are. Non-Frankenstein'd "Singer" rifles are very sought after.

There are many. https://accenteraser.com/blog/homophones/ "Accent eraser" huh?

Ok, Singer only made the receiver, which were used by the Underwood [Typewriter] Corp to assemble rifles. . .

Remington made typewriters. Singer made M-1 Carbines. International Harvester made Garands.

As Savage did with the Striker. Remington also got it "wrong" with the XP-100.

Play along... During middle east "conflicts" the AV-8B has proven itself over and over in lots of roles: Close Air Support, Armed Recon, Battlefield Interdiction, etc. And it's V/STOL capabilities allow it to operate from forward operating bases with limited facilities (short runways). Norman Schwarzkopf named the AV-8B among the seven weapons — along with the F-117 Nighthawk and AH-64 Apache — that played a crucial role in the war. The AV-8B is being replaced by the F-35B. This year the last squadron operating the AV-8B will transition. Fast forward to 2031 (or when ever it actually happens) and the AF brass got their way and the A-10s are retired. The AF looks around and goes, "Oh sh!+. There's a huge gap in our capability!" The AF orders F-35Bs. Wanna bet? . .

And the last A-10 trained pilots just graduated. So four years is about right for the "extension".

Never heard anyone pronounce Don & Dawn the same way. Even here in the south where damn can be three syllables. Literally the water cooler would be closer to a scuttlebutt. But even in the days of the wooden water barrel scuttlebutt meant gossip

While I'm sure there's a few telco COs out in the sticks that still have legacy equipment, support for pulse (rotary) dialing is pretty much a thing of the past - even for telcos that still support copper.

Overlay area codes "fixed" that.

Interesting. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_(weapon) Reminds me of the Lochaber axe from my ancestral homeland. . .

"Partridge style front sight" Square or rectangular front post.

Yes they are. Patridge sights, named after inventor E. E. Patridge, a 19th-century American sportsman, consist of a square or rectangular front post and a flat-bottomed square notch and are the most common form of open sights. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_sights#Open_sights

Not a fan of that ambi cylinder latch release. But I'm not left handed.