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Nalley's may certainly have been a real company. But that doesn't mean that ad is real. Colt is a real company. But this ad is fake. And so is this one.

Pretty sure that's a joke. It comes in sour butter flavor. Cat radish. Savory yam "Nalley's is adequate"???

Did a telegram have a return address? Let's say I'm in Chicago and I send a telegram to somebody in Detroit. Would there be anything on the telegram to let the guy in Detroit know that it came from Chicago? If I mailed him a letter there would be a Chicago postmark. Was there anything like that on telegrams? I'm watching a movie made in 1949, and the guy is trying to let his girl know that he's all right, but doesn't want anyone to know where he's at. And my first thought was he should send her a telegram, but then - do they say where they came from? Because if they do that would defeat the purpose of sending the wire.

I thought all the French they taught in pulp fiction was it a quarter pounder with cheese was a "Royale with cheese" (although it seems to me that should be a Royale avec fromage), and a Big Mac was "Le Big Mac"

So all his gun gear came from Midway?

They said that was "kid's funny comment". What was funny? I thought that was a great answer.

The book I'm reading has these child prodigies. Remember Doogie Howser? TV show about a super genius kid who was the medical doctor and he was about 14. Same kind of thing. The two girls - one 16 and one 17 - have masters degrees and have flown their own plane to some place in New Mexico, and they are having trouble getting a hotel room because of their age. And I remember back in the late eighties I was out on the beach doing something and this kid came up and asked me if I would rent him a hotel room. Spring break. He said he'd pay for the room and he would give me a hundred bucks for doing it. But he couldn't get a room because he was too young. But then I was remembering back in the 70s, when I was in the high school band. We went out of town several times and spent the night in a hotel or a motel. These 15/16/17 year old kids. And they rented those rooms. And if we trashed the room, who would be responsible? The school? School board? Band boosters? This was 50 years ago and I never wondered about it, until reading that story tonight.

I'm aware that means the speed limit is 26.01 mph. I didn't make up the sign. It probably should say √625.

Ah. So it is. That is funny.

A Tippi poster or a telephone booth? Or the two combined?

I haven't looked at any of those yet. However - many years ago when I was a wee small child I would file and I would saw the same way - back and forth. And then someone pointed out to me that both file blades and saw blades had teeth that only cut in one direction. So if you apply pressure on the backstroke, you not only are not doing any cutting, but you are actually dulling your blade. And I noticed that many YouTube videos show people filing. And they're putting pressure on both the forward stroke and the backstroke. And they're supposed to be professional metal workers.

Would that be the Carolina Belles?

Something I found interesting on those rifles listed. I have thought, for many years, that the standard barrel length for the Winchester rifle was 20 inches for the carbine and 24 for the rifle. And all of those guns are a half inch shorter. Saddle ring carbine - 19 and a half inch barrel. Rifle - 23 and a half inch barrel. They have several listed that are longer than the standard 24 inch, but thenTHEM I understand. Winchester would make it as long as you wanted, for an additional dollar an inch. But still - just looking at the three Father Kit asked about - 23.5 inches, 25.5 inches, 23.5 inches. It almost makes me want to run a cleaning rod down the barrels of mine, and measure them. I've always assumed that they were 24 inch.