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Alpo

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  1. Have they changed the rules when I wasn't looking, or have I been confused all these years? Neither that rifle nor that shotgun has the action open. I thought that was a requirement when guns were in gun carts.
  2. Makes perfect sense to me. It has a motor. That makes it a motorcycle. Does not matter whether the motor is internal combustion or electric. It's still a motorcycle. And motorcycles are not allowed on bike paths.
  3. I wonder where he would get a screen door spring in the South Pacific during World War II?
  4. So that's different from American bread pudding? Mama used to make bread pudding all the time. A cheap dessert using stale bread.
  5. MASH - the first book - is the only one where they are in the military. There were approximately 13 sequels, where Hawkeye and his friends go to various places all around the world. I believe this was in the first sequel - MASH goes to Maine - but I could be mistaken. It has been several years since I read the MASH books.
  6. In one of the MASH books, Hawkeye had grown annoyed with the postage paid cards that were in magazines, so he shows up at the post office with a wheelbarrow full of bricks, wanting to know if it is true that they would charge first class postage for the weight of that card. When told that was correct he started taking bricks out of his wheelbarrow. Each brick had one of those postage paid cards taped to it with fiberglass strapping tape. I thought that was a nice bit of business for a story but I didn't think that the post office would really accept them.
  7. Couple of days ago it's pouring down rain, and I can hear a semi out in front of my house. I look. There is a Lowe's delivery truck delivering some lumber to the house next door. And the truck is parked so it is blocking my driveway. It took about a half an hour for them to unhitch the forklift, take the lumber off the truck and put it in the yard, then put the forklift back on the truck and restrap the rest of the load down. I have a circular driveway. If I needed to go somewhere, I could just drive out. But if I had a normal driveway, I wonder if they would have blocked it anyway? Or if they figured it was okay to block my driveway because I had another exit?
  8. I used to get a letter. Had a piece of paper in it. On one side of the paper was printed a picture of a piece of cloth. This was a "prayer shawl". I was supposed to write on the back of the piece of paper what my prayer was - what my request was - and return it (along with my love gift) in the postage paid return envelope. And the scam-artist-pretending-to-be-a-preacher would pray for what I asked for, thereby sending my wish directly to God. I would put as much paper - other junk mail, newspaper, anything - in that postage paid return envelope and mail it back. He eventually quit sending them to me.
  9. Context. An Arab terrorist captures an Army lieutenant and holds her prisoner for 9 months. Using physical and psychological torture on her. She is rescued, and he is supposedly killed in a drone strike. Now it is a few years later, and she is sitting at the bar in a restaurant. He comes up behind her and orders a drink. She recognizes his voice from her 9 months of captivity. She calls him by the name he was using when he was her captor. Then she punches him. Then she punches him again. A couple of people from the restaurant jump on her and she elbows one of them in the face and is trying for him again when he turns and runs out the door. Is that enough context? But truly I don't see where context matters. You're standing in a restaurant and someone calls you a name and hits you. Do you retaliate or do you turn around and run for your life? Why they hit you is unimportant. I know why he ran. He's the Arab terrorist and did not want to be caught. But it just puzzled me that nobody seemed to wonder why he ran. It just seemed like either fighting back or yelling at the attacker would be the normal response.
  10. As I mentioned in another thread, I'm reading a Ron Howard biography. It says that while making Happy Days his ambition was to direct movies. He needed money for this. It says he thought about making a commercial to play on Happy Days, asking his fans to send him money. And was annoyed to find out that that was illegal. Why would that be illegal? Televangelists do that all the time. Is that another example of "most of the laws do not apply to churches"?
  11. And yes this question came from a TV show. You're in a restaurant. You're talking to somebody and you turn around and someone else is staring at you. You ask if you know them. They call you a name. Then they jump you and they punch you. Other people leap into the fray to pull them off you. Would you stand there in the restaurant holding your sore jaw and yelling, "what the f*** is your problem you a******??" Or would you turn around and run out of the restaurant like your coattails were on fire? The guy in the TV show ran off. That's what made me wonder, because I would be standing there screaming at the guy that hit me. Or maybe, since 3 or 4 people were holding on to him, I'd go over there and kick him in the huevos, and then scream at him. But I certainly wouldn't beat feet out of there.
  12. Got a target lock on the bogey. CHECK FIRE! CHECK FIRE!
  13. This question sort of reminds me of Tarzan. The book Tarzan, not the movie Tarzan. John Clayton Sr and his wife Alice had expected to raise their child, and had brought many children's books and primary school books to teach a child. So young White Skin - John Clayton Jr - upon finding the cabin and the books taught himself to read. He could not speak human language, but he could read English. Near the end of the first book he meets a Frenchman, and the Frenchman speaks to him but he has no idea what he's saying. And he goes and gets a paper and pencil and comes back and writes, "do you understand this?" The Frenchman, who does read English, proceeds to teach young John Junior had aHOW TO talk. But because he is French, he thought it would be easier to teach Tarzan French. So Tarzan speaks fluent French and reads fluent English. But he thinks in mangani.
  14. "The chalice from the palace has the pestle with the poison. The flagon with the dragon has the brew that is true." I don't know how many movies he made, but I can remember seeing at least a half a dozen. The only one I didn't really like was when he played Red Nichols. That one wasn't funny. It was a serious movie. A biopic. But that man was a hell of a comic. I really like this scene, but I must say Gary Cooper and Barbara Stanwyck did it better.
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