Alpo
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Web comic, and the guy is texting the girl pictures of dicks.
Dick Nixon, Dick Tracy, Dick Van Dyke, Moby Dick. Then he sends one of Robin and she replies, angrily, that that was obviously Damian Wayne, and not Dick Grayson.
Who? So I Google him. He's the FIFTH Robin.
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We had millionaire Bruce. Dick's parents died and Bruce just - took him in. No muss no fuss.
Dick grows up, decides he is tired of being a sidekick. No more Robin - Nightwing.
Bruce finds ANOTHER young orphan of trapeze artists to replace him. Not that easy now. Can't just take him into your house. CPS gets involved. Bruce a FIT guardian? Courts and lawyers and judges.
And that's about the time I quit reading Batman, so that's the last I knew.
#2 also grows up, becomes Redbird.
New kid, like Skippy in The Incredibles, decides to prove to Batman he's got what it takes to be the new Robin. It works, but later Joker murders him. #3 dead.
Girl, daughter of master criminal, becomes crimefighting vigilante The Spoiler, but eventually becomes the fourth Robin, and then later the THIRD Batgirl. The she goes back to being The Spoiler.
Meanwhile, #3 is NOT REALLY DEAD. He now becomes the adult superhero Red Robin.
Confused yet?
There's a serious SERIOUS super-badguy. He has a daughter. Also a badguy. She and Batman have a son. He grows up as a badguy, like Mom and Gramps, but switches to good (I think) and becomes Robin #5.
Five Robins? Ywo of whom have grown to adulthood? Just how old IS "millionaire playboy philanthropist Bruce Wayne" anyway?
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I know this is from Brave New World. I have not read it. Have no desire to read it.
In the book I am reading, the term is being used insultingly - "a group of gamma minus girls in her home room were picking on her".
Google is no help. No matter how I phrase the search, they can't tell me what on is.
I understand that the fetuses are designated alpha beta gamma delta or epsilon. I understand that alphas and betas get good jobs while gammas deltas and epsilons get crappy ones.
It's the MINUS part that's throwing me.
Can someone explain just exactly what a gamma minus is?
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His problem seems to be that he wasn't wearing spikes. Or if he was, they were the "kinder gentler" rubber ones. If he'd dug his steel spikes in, he would not have slipped.
Also, leastways the way I was taught, you don't HAVE to take a Mulligan. You GET to take a Mulligan.
Shot was crappy, so you call a Mulligan and get to take it again. No harm, no foul, no stokes on your score. "Do-over".
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Weeellll, I guess that explains why folks don't get arrested for them "souvenir" penny-squashing machines.
But when my grandparents' hired man would shave down a penny to use in a coke machine, that was not only a state crime (stealing from the coke company), but the federal "mutilating money" thing, huh?
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Not interested in whether it would work or not - just the legality.
I had a DREAM.
In the dream this guy was making a movie and printing it on two-dollar bills. When the show started it would be a long shot of a greenish rectangle, them zoom in until you recognize that it is money. And in the middle of the bill, covering the portrait and serial numbers, is each frame of the flick.
And I woke up wondering if that would be legal.
Isn't there a law about mutilating money?
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After the rabbits - was that a bat?
I didn't yawn, but the puppy almost made me.
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Would this be a rampant halo? 0
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Every automatic pistol has a "disconnector". This pevents the gun from firing until the trigger is released and repulled.
If you are holding the trigger back and trip the slide release, the gun thinks you have just fired, so will not shoot again until the trigger is released AFTER the slide is closed.
The reason the 97, the 12, the 1890 22 (and its copies) and the Ithaca 37 will "slam fire" is because they were designed without a disconnector.
A gun of any type that has a disconnector will not "slam fire", unless something is broken.
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Remember the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers?
Fat Freddy's Cat was known to poop in bedroom slippers now and again.
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Cat - Toys for Tots is a Christmas thing. Why would they be having it in May?
That should be the first clue that the chainmail is bogus.
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Vermont (the first state to not require a permit) lets anyone carry there - resident or not.
According to Handgunlaw.us, Vermont residents can also carry in Alaska, Arizona, Kansas, Oklahoma, Maine,
Mississippi, and West (by God) Virginia, just by showing proof that they are a Vermont resident - driver's license or state-issued ID card.
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None.
They solved that problem with Alaska. You don't NEED a permit to carry in Alaska. But they still HAVE permits, so you can get one if going to other states that honor it.
Will Missouri still issue permits, even though you won't need one? If so, it would be good in Kansas and Arkansas and Florida (and many others), but if you don't have a permit, how could Arkansas recognize it?
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Duke cop(ish) movies.
Brannigan. Chicago cop gone to London to extradite a hood.
McQ. All I remember is a green Firebird and a MAC9 submachine gun.
Big Jim (somebody). Him and Matt Dillon. FBI agents in Hawaii in the 50s, chasing Commie spies.
Were there others?
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Seldom, I guess I did not not put it right.
She is La. resident, temporarily in Georgia on a migrant construction job. Took class in Georgia, then went back home to Louisiana and got La. permit using Georgia class training.
Not "Georgia resident with Georgia permit moved to Louisiana".
As to how many - depends on the size, but averages two or three. And I'm often reading several at the same time.
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Choose? As a bettet actor? A better man? A friend? Choose for what?
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Book. Fiction. But if it was REAL, would it work?
Girl and boyfriend are in Georgia on a construction job. While there she "took the classes".
She now had a permit and carries, unbeknownst to boyfriend.
But she's a Louisiana resident. Would Louisiana accept a Georgia carry-class cert?
Florida would. All Florida cares about is that you've had SOME kind of training, and know which end the bullet comes out. They accept participation in some type of organized shooting event, in lieu of classroom training, so SASS matches are good. Girl in the book is an Army vet, so she could include a copy of her DD214 showing she had firearms training in Basic, and she'd be good to go. In FLORIDA.
But I don't know about Louisiana. Would they accept an out-of-state class, or is state-sponsored required?
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Maybe he's thinking of The Outlaw Kid.
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They do right fine on a waltz, too.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=M-Kp42g-Doo
Just 'cause I'uz lookin' fer somebody playin' a tee-fer. Didn't find that, but I found these folks.
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I loved the dancing bass player.
Then this one might cause you some heart palpitations. Same group, minus the old man.
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Dis old guy wit' the git-tar. He talks funny. Hard to unnerstand his talkin', and his singin' is even more so.
I do like that fiddle, though.
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Didn't like the girls' shoes, though. And the song sounded vrry familiar, but I can't place it.
I need the commission. 
Whiskey advice
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Mayobard nailed it. I don't drink, and that stuff's good.