Alpo
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I remember when the Big Mac came along. I was in Boy Scouts. 12, maybe 13.
It came in a paper ring - a thin fiberboard ring. And it was wrapped in red foil. The hamburger came in white wax paper and the cheeseburger came in yellow wax paper. But these have that thick paper ring circling them to keep it from getting squished accidentally. And wrapped in red foil. It was really something special. And it cost 50 cents. That was a lot of money. I think minimum was about a dollar and a quarter at the time, so 50 cents was a heap of money for a damn sandwich.
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The McDonald's All American.
I just did a search on it, and it's a basketball game. But not in 1963.
I was eight, maybe. Renee's birthday party. And the entire party went on the Old Professor's Cartoon Carnival. Live kiddie show. Maybe a dozen kids watching cartoons, and the television weather man dressed up in a frock coat and a top hat as the host.
After the show was over, all of the kids were given a coupon. It was good for a free All-American.
At the time McDonald's only sold hamburgers and cheeseburgers. French fries - one size only. And for beverages you got your choice of coffee, milk, soda pop, or a "McDonald's triple thick shake", which came in three flavors. That was it. That was all they sold. No fish, no chicken. No big hamburgers no double deck hamburgers. Hamburgers cheeseburgers french fries and drinks.
An All American was a hamburger, french fries, and a McDonald's triple thick shake. Cost 50 cents.
While trying to find out if the internet knew what it was, I found discussions about it. Up until the 80s. And they all agreed it was a small cheeseburger and a small fry and a small drink. But that ain't what it was. If you wanted a cheeseburger that cost you another nickel. They were 19 cents and 24 cents.
I did find a "secret menu hack" where they talk about the All-American Burger. Not the All American, which was an entire meal. Just the burger. And all it is is a hamburger. Big whoop.
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Okay. Now it makes sense. Thanks Joe.
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He said if making it at home make sure your pan is deep enough. I understand that. He's got 4 pounds of cheese in there. It ought to be about 8 inches high when he gets done.
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I didn't watch it. I don't know how long it is. I don't know what it's about.
But when the second video got over, this was one of the ones they suggested I go watch.
Secret vault under the Vatican opened after 5,000 years?????
I'm not the greatest religious scholar out there, but I'm pretty sure the Vatican hadn't been around 5,000 years.
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24 minutes ago, Tall Tale Todd said:
Mine were just delivered
So were mine. I wonder how much quicker we would have got them if they had shipped yours from California and mine from North Carolina?
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Another case of words have changed their meaning.
Back in the sixties I came across the phrase "making love", and it was obvious from context that that meant "having sex". If you were making love with a woman you were making the beast with two backs.
So I was fairly shocked while in the 8th grade I was reading a Zane Grey novel - I believe it was THE UP TRAIL - and we have this girl and we have this guy, and we have these two other guys. And the two other guys left the room. So the guy is kind of looking around confused - where the heck did they go - when the girl looks over at him and says, "They thought we wanted to make love".
What? Sex in a Zane Grey novel???
But back in the twenties when he was writing books, making love was smooching and cuddling. Pitching woo.
I started to add that it was "petting", but that's another term that has changed over the years.
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I doubt that ATF has any authority over migratory game birds. More likely a federal game and fish department.
These people.
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8 hours ago, Sedalia Dave said:
The book they mentioned - there's a website.
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There's a scene in The Horse Soldiers. That little Southern Belle had listened in on their plans, so they couldn't leave her behind to tell the Confederates. Their choice was either kill her or take her with 'em. So they fetched her along.
She was a good little girl, and lulled her guards into relaxing, and then she made a break, galloping off across the swamp. She tried to make a turn and her horses feet slid out from under them, and they went kasploosh.
So they had her stripped down and she is wrapped up in a blanket while they build a fire and was drying her clothes off. And they took a little break.
I don't know whether it was Duke's gun or it was Bill's gun, but it appears to be a brand new 6½" Model 29 44 Mangle-'em. And they took some target practice during the break.
I believe Constance is just at the left edge of the picture. That's her blanket wrapped leg.
I believe the show-off there is a security guard. I have another picture from that afternoon, but it has a copyright stamp on it so we won't look at it. And in that picture you have a full face view of that man and his hat appears to have a badge on it. So cop, or security guard.
And they was teaching her. Since Bill seems to be the one teaching her, I'm guessing it's his gun.
And she appears to be left handed, right eyed.
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When I was in 11th grade - 71, I think it was - the band went to Disney. On the way back we stopped off at Six Gun Territory. I don't know if they're still in existence, but it was a old west Ghost Town kind of place down by Silver Springs. And while we were there I bought a 22 blank pistol. Used them acorn blanks.
I also had a Marksman air pistol. Looks kind of sort of like a 1911. Spring piston. You do not dry fire a spring piston air gun. I bought this used and it had apparently been dry fired muchly. While it still shot the BB, you could see the BB flying through the air at you.
One day my little brother and I were having a fast draw contest. The object was to see whether I could pop the blank before he could hit me with a BB. Out in the front yard.
Cops showed up. Apparently somebody had called them and said that there was two boys shooting at each other. Nothing got confiscated. Nobody got arrested. But I was just stunned. We were playing in the yard and somebody called the police.
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Anybody remember this?
in SASS Wire Saloon
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This menu board is supposed to be from 1960.
Those prices would make an All-American cost 45¢. But this birthday party was three or four years later, so maybe they had gone up a little. Or maybe our local franchiser charged more.