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Interesting; maybe a regional thing...never seen 'bogo' though we have such sales of course all the time. Though it's 'buy one, get one free', which would yield bogof I suppose....

I have six or seven Italian guns and they are real good!

Vegas is one of those places you either like or don't. I have no trouble understanding why people like it, but I've only stayed there once, at a small covention at Caesar's Palace 21 years ago. Everything was good but the city in general put me off. Haven't been back. Reno I lked better and went there three times over the years, mostly in connection with skiing.

What is a BOGO?

I don't like the fact that it's become hard to 'look people up'; friends and colleagues one hasn't seen in a long time, for example. You'll get names, but addresses and phone #s are treated as state secrets. No problem the other way, for me. I'm easy to find by old pals; only one or two of me in the country..... Hereabouts, I remember in the '80s, folks coming here from California had 'unlisted phone numbers'. Seemed normal to them, but not to us. But then that changed as time went by.

The old telephone book (remember that?) had my name, my address, and my phone number in the white pages. Just below my residence, it had my business name, address, and telephone number. Never thought of that as secret information, myself.....'course, it ddn't list my purchases..... My dad's and grandad's info was just above mine. No secret there, either.

Many congratulations! At 57 years married we hope to get there too. God willing. A great milestone for you and your bride!

I don't know.

An yet those on the Gaza border a year ago were unarmed. I was very surprised by that; not what I had thought at all.

For a 'Western' thread, we'd need some rules. For example, 'No Country for Old Men' and 'Hell and High Water' are not Westerns.

Exactly. I endorse that. We often talk about favorite Westerns, lists of the 'greats', etc., but seldom talk about the various elements specifically that make a particular Western good, or great. I'd jump into such a discussion. I've always thought that it's not enough to say 'that's a great movie' and just fall back on personal preference. Why is it good? Why is one better than another? The actors. The theme. The directing. Many things. It's not all subjective. We can discuss objective reasons for comparison. Start the discussion. It'd be a great thread!

Well, he wasn't a particularly good President, but then most of us never even made President in the first place. That takes some ability.

I've had maybe 20 since my early 20s (I'm now 76) so I got used to the drill. Haven't had one for several years. I do disagree with a couple of the above pards about narcotic painkillers for stones. They work great, where nothing else does. When the pain is gone, you stop using them. It's not complicated at all. The side effects of drowsiness and others mentioned are mild and worth the analgesia.....

His glory days were my era and I too am sad to see him go.

Part of Finland.....

Starting with the US consumer, to whom price means everything. I represented an old American company that sold what I'll call widgets. Their production was US based and they strongly wanted to remain so. Their widget hung next to the Chinese widget at the hardware store. Theirs was better, but the Chinese one was reasonbly good. Theirs was 22 dollars, the Chinese 18 dollars. The America-first working man started buying the Chinese product instead of theirs. Eventually, they had to move their production to China. True story.

Not only a person of high conservative principles, he was a man of charm and ease of manner; a true gentleman. He busted the USSR. A great sense of humor. And a uniter, never a divider, notwithstanding bitter opposition from the Left (which continues to this day). The proof of that: He won the 1984 election by 525 electoral votes to 13. (Mondale won only his home state, Minnesota, and DC). The biggest landslide since 1820 and the largest margin of any Republican. We won't be seeing that again.....

I saw the movie in the theater last Saturday. I regard President Reagan as a great man, and descibe myself as a Reagan Republican, in distinction, among other things, to the current standard bearer. Dennis Quaid is great; a spitting image of Reagan in many ways. As a film though, it's more of a documentary than an actual movie. It differs from the usual documentary in that it is acted throughout, rather than consisting of the historical film clips and narrative usual to documentaries. But as such, it lacks drama and dramatic impact. At 2 1/2 hours, it's too long. It does have some great moments. It is worth seeing, though.

Here the State will continue to pay.

A teaser title....

YaYaYa....Ya sure, you betcha' it doesn't!

It's all here: Blackbeard The Pirate in 2 Minutes (Arrr!) (youtube.com)

Was it 'news'? Doubt it. If the issue is 'crashworthiness' then I think it's pretty realistic.

How often was that scene copied of the townsmen and women scattering in panic, drawing their shades and shutters, as the good guy(s) and bad guy(s) confronted each other in the street before the saloon? For that matter, the shootout itself? Must have been copied thousands of times! And what was the original? There are no new stories. Everything is a copy to some degree.

Several years ago I took the deposition of a orthopedist at the University of Washington medical school who was a nationally-recognized specialist in the reconstruction of lower extremity traumatic injuries. The case involved huge injuries to the feet and legs in a high-impact accident. He said that they never used to see such extensive injuries from auto accidents, because the forces required to produce them had invariably been fatal to the occupants before the introduction of air bags and other crashworthiness improvements.