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So if my father, who died in 1998 - his name is Ed, does that mean that my grandfather, who died in 1932 - his name is also Ed (Daddy was a junior)? And my great-grandfather, who died in 1917 - his name is Steven? How far y'all gonna go back with this?

I knew that looked familiar.

It's Father Kit's fault. He posted a picture of Tarzan and Jane. He said he and his lady were going swimming. I immediately wondered if his lady would be skinny dipping like Jane was in the movie that picture came from. Then I remembered that even though Jane was swimming naked Tarzan was in the water still wearing his knife. Thus leading to the question - why isn't Tarzan's knife rusty? See - it's Father Kit's fault.

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I don't believe stainless steel has been invented in the late 1890s when Tarzan's father got marooned on the coast of Africa. Not a bad answer though.

Blame otto. He's good about deleting words. Sometimes I think he would rather delete a word or two then misspell a word or two. Anything to make the post confusing.

I don't recall that. In the first book, where little 9 or 10-year-old White Skin finds the knife, he has it in his hand as he is going back to where the tribe is. And he is attacked by the gorilla. And the gorilla almost killed him before he, accidentally, stabs the gorilla. Kala, his mother, finds him and takes him back to camp and nurses him back to health. When he is well he goes back looking for the knife. And he is very upset to find it is now all red and orange. From the blood and the tropical rainforest. And he cleaned it off. It doesn't say how but I assume that he used dirt - poor-man's sandpaper. But I don't recall any other mention of the knife being stained or rusty or anything like that. Just that first time, when it was left out in the weather for a week or so.

That first picture brought up an interesting question. Interesting to me, anyway. Why isn't Tarzan's knife a rusty hunk of junk? Tarzan swims. He is the only great ape that swims. When he's going to go in the water he will take off his bow and quiver of arrows, and grass rope (I'm talking about the book Tarzan, not the movie Tarzan). But he doesn't take off his knife. He also doesn't take off his loin cloth. So he jumps in the water, wearing his knife. It is carried in a leather scabbard. When he gets out of the water, the knife is wet and it is still in this leather scabbard so it stays wet. For a long time. Tarzan does not have a towel to dry his knife. And neither does he have a handy dandy can of 3-in-1 oil to wipe the blade down with. So why is Tarzan's knife not a rusty hunk of junk?

I think you left out a word. At least, to me, the sentence makes more sense with that word in it.

So you think that instead of there being 217 threads, each one about a separate weird question, there should be one 20-page thread with all 217 questions in it. Go ahead, if that makes you happy. Start one. Don't expect me to play in it though.

There's a gingerbread house. Has a small fenced yard. And around the yard is a huge residential neighborhood. A witch is standing at the fence talking to her across the fence neighbor. "I remember when this was all woods."

That's totally idiotic. Rival, for example. Rival make small kitchen appliances. So they want to sell a griddle to Walmart, but Walmart onceWANTS it priced so cheaply that Rival can't afford to make it and make it good. So they make it junky and it lets you down a month after you bought it. Are you going to say I BOUGHT A GRIDDLE FROM WALMART AND IT WAS CRAP, or are you going to say THAT DAMN RIVAL GRIDDLE I JUST BOUGHT WAS GARBAGE? You're going to remember that it was a RIVAL, and not so much that you bought it at Walmart, and you will never buy another Rival kitchen appliance. They might still make the cheap garbage griddle to sell to Walmart. But they won't put their name on it. They'll say it's an Equate griddle - Equate being a Walmart store brand. But it won't say anywhere on it it's a Rival, so when it fails you won't have bad thoughts about Rival. No major company is going to sell junk with their name on it. Their name is too valuable. If RCA, for example, buys their televisions from the Shing How electronics company in Shanghai China, and they have a really cheap crappy one made especially for Walmart, they will sell it to Walmart with the name Shing How. But they're not going to put RCA on the box. The name RCA is worth too much money to put on garbage.

https://ar15discounts.com/products/winchester-ammo-wsp-108-small-pistol-primers-5000-count/ $200. With the shipping and hazmat and tax and all the other happy horse caca it was $268.03.