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A meme I posted about "riding at dawn" has morphed into a discussion of Dawn Wells and Mary Ann and coconut cream pies. I decided I would take this somewhere else. Let the meme go back to being memes. Murder mystery - don't remember if it was a book or a movie or what - and the dead girl's name was Dawn. They had the suspect in and asked if he knew Dawn Smith, and he said he had never heard of her. Cops jumped on that - how do you know it's a her and not a him? I thought about that. I do not pronounce Don, like Dandy Don Drysdale, the same way as I pronounce dawn like Dawn Wells (although the sun coming up and the girl that played Mary Ann ARE pronounced the same). Don sounds more like hot, while Dawn is somewhere between ah and awe. There is an online quiz to determine "how much of a rebel are you". Part of it is what you call specific items - is it a water fountain or is it a drinking fountain or is it a bubbler? Is it soda or is it pop or is it Coke? - because different parts of the country have different terms for things. But part of it is how you pronounce words. I remember one of the questions was "do you pronounce cot and caught the same way". I don't.

Does that mean you do not shoot it - you just have it?

Well you know, Dawn did not make coconut cream pies. Mary Ann did. Do not want to get the two girls confused. One was a Kansas farm girl that like to bake while the other was in Nevada beauty queen. Totally different people.

I read that. Years ago - Soldier of Fortune magazine? Maybe? Don't remember where I read it, but I remembered the story.

I think it would depend on where you are carrying it. If i, a right-hander, have it in the front under my left leg, I would have it sights up because I just grab the wrist and pull it straight out and I'm ready to shoot. If I have it in the back under my right leg, I would also have it sights up, and again would grab it by the wrist and pull it out and I will be ready to shoot. But if I have it in the front under my right leg, and I have it sights up, I would either have to pull it out and then swing it all the way across my body while rotating it, or pull it out and use two hands to turn it over. So I would most likely have it sights down. But I would not carry it there anyway, because that's where my rope goes. And you don't get the rope fouled with the gun, but even more so if you need the gun you don't want to get it fouled on the rope. And while on the subject of carry, I do not believe it is wise to carry it at the back of the saddle, even though many Western movies and television show them carrying there. If you are going up a hill, gravity might come into play and you won't find out that you no longer have your rifle until many miles later. If you have it in front of your saddle you can see it at all times. If you are going down a hill and gravity starts to pull it out you can quickly reach out and push it back in. I also think - and remember I don't ride so this is just thoughts off the top of my head - that the best way to place it is on the off side perfectly vertical. Then you don't have to worry about it sliding out of the scabbard. You don't have to worry about the weight of the rifle messing with the sights. otto does not know how to spell SIGHTS. He mostly spelled it SITES, but several times he spelled it SIZED, once he spelled it SIZE, and in my last sentence he said SCYTHE.

Either that or they did not want to be real close in case the other ship blew up when it was shot. Same reason you don't shoot your steel targets from 5 ft away. Don't want to be hit by anything coming back at you.

Some science fiction book I was reading one time. The survival rations in the spaceship lifeboat was so nasty, deliberately, so that the survivors would only eat enough to stay alive.

Because there was no option. You bought a new revolver with an infernal lock, or you did not buy a new revolver.

Is the mistake you're referring toWILSON instead of WESSON Or the fact that the line drawings of the revolvers are Colts?

Hopefully someone watched this more than I did - so much that dialogue stuck in their memory. How did Bones refer to non-white people? The dead guy in the episode I was watching tonight was a "male caucasian". Every time the dead guy is white he was a Caucasian. But someone else in tonight's episode called Angela "that Asian chick". Just got me wondering whether she said negro and Oriental or she said African-American and Asian? There was a show with a policeman from Tokyo who was a friend of Booth, and his sister who was here in the states had disappeared. He came over to help find her. He brought a forensic anthropologist with him. The cop was not Asian - he was Japanese. The anthropologist was not Asian - Dr Tanaka (Dr Tanaka was not male or female - Dr Tanaka was simply Dr Tanaka) was Japanese. The dead girl was not Asian, she was Japanese. And at one point during that show Dr Tanaka referred to Angela as "your part Chinese woman". Again, not Asian. Very specific.

Remember - Harleys do not leak oil. They just mark their territory.

Place I used to work paid pretty good for around here. Overtime after 8. We had a quota, and if we beat the quote of that day, by whatever percentage we beat the quota -like the quota was 100 and we did 120 so that was a 20% over - we got paid that much more for that day. And every 3 months we got a profit sharing check. Guy I worked with - he and his wife had expenses. Chunk of land with a house. Two kids in private school. Two cars, two boats, three motorcycles and two four wheelers. So he worked and she worked, and she sold Avon on the side. But she didn't know about the profit sharing check. That was his play money.

That was interesting. In so many ways. 1911. Seven rounds in the magazine. Fully loaded shotgun. But the most interesting thing was how smoothly that Spencer worked, with no jams.