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I had to thread the other day about parents of kids that make a lot of money, possibly spending the kids' money. And many people responded saying they were laws against that. Can the kids handle their own money? There was a show years ago called Family Ties. Two Democrat liberal tree huggers had three kids, and the boy was a staunch Conservative Republican. Alex P Keaton, 15 years old, played by 23 year old Michael J Fox. Mr Fox, at that age, was an adult and therefore should be expected to be able to take care of himself and his salary, so of course he can spend it however he wanted. His little sister in the show was 12 or 13, so as a child she would be too stupid to be trusted with her own money. Right? I'm reading Marcia Brady's memoir. When she was 16, her brother went to Europe where he met a German girl and fell in love. When he came home the German girl came with him, and she and Maureen became friends. When the German girl went back home to Germany she invited Maureen to come spend the summer break with her. So 16 year old Maureen flies to Europe. Also 16-year-old Maureen, now with a driver's license, wants a car. Her father's insistence upon "safety for my little girl" to the salesman has her driving away with a large diesel Mercedes sedan. And also 16-year-old Maureen's brother wished to start a nightclub. He had seven grand, and borrowed three more from the credit union, and his parents loaned him 10, and Maureen loaned him five. So there in that one year she flew to Europe, which probably cost a thousand to fifteen hundred dollars, and bought a Mercedes which probably cost six or seven thousand (this was 1972), and gave her brother $5,000 for his nightclub. The Brady kids were making a big $1,100 an episode, so that was maybe 30 grand a year. It appears she spent a lot of that $30,000 that year. And that just got me wondering if there was laws saying that kids earning lots of money like that have to have it put away. You can't let him spend it because he'll blow it. Ronny Howard got an allowance of 50 cents a week while he was playing Opie. While he was playing Opie he made over $100,000 a year. And it got put in the bank. But that seemed to be his father's idea, not a requirement.

And pineapple?

Why? Have you put iocane powder in it?

I took the dog out for a walk after supper, and we saw one of our neighbors walking down the road. He told me, "I just walked all the way from O'Reilly's". Auto parts store about a mile and a half away. He said that when he got up there and went inside, he locked his keys in the truck. And he locked his phone in the truck so he couldn't call for his wife. You know, I bet you that if he told the people at the counter, they would have let him use their phone to call home. Probably didn't occur to him. My first automobile was a 64 Ford Fairlane. You could not lock your keys in the car, because the only way to lock the car was to use the key. My fifth automobile was a 69 Ford F100, and again you could only lock the door with the key. Now somewhere between number one and number five I locked my keys in the car once. Once. And for the last 40 years, I treat my car door like my front door's deadbolt. I lock it with the key. It does not matter if you can just push the thing down and then slam the door. I don't do that. I use the key. If you use the key, it is impossible to lock your key in the car.

Cookie - a girl ahead of her time.

That guy is impressive. But I think the one I like the best is that safe in the brick wall.

So is that Shawn Bhawn, or Seen Bean?

You thought the dog clapping was stupid. Check out this gigantic salmon.

Everybody in California is a member of the Pink Pistols?

You didn't know about that? You can take a solid piece of iron or steel and hit it with a hammer, and if it is solid and homogeneous, it will ring like a bell. But if there's a void in it - an air pocket - it just kind of goes WHAP! One of the early methods of non-destructive testing. I've read of colonial gunsmiths doing the hammer test on a barrel to make sure that their welds were good. It's similar to bouncing a silver quarter on the countertop and listening to it ring. A clad quarter will not bring the same as a silver quarter. And a counterfeit coin will not ring like a silver coin or a gold coin.

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