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So were mine. I wonder how much quicker we would have got them if they had shipped yours from California and mine from North Carolina?

Another case of words have changed their meaning. Back in the sixties I came across the phrase "making love", and it was obvious from context that that meant "having sex". If you were making love with a woman you were making the beast with two backs. So I was fairly shocked while in the 8th grade I was reading a Zane Grey novel - I believe it was THE UP TRAIL - and we have this girl and we have this guy, and we have these two other guys. And the two other guys left the room. So the guy is kind of looking around confused - where the heck did they go - when the girl looks over at him and says, "They thought we wanted to make love". What? Sex in a Zane Grey novel??? But back in the twenties when he was writing books, making love was smooching and cuddling. Pitching woo. I started to add that it was "petting", but that's another term that has changed over the years.

I doubt that ATF has any authority over migratory game birds. More likely a federal game and fish department. These people. https://www.fws.gov/program/office-of-law-enforcement

The book they mentioned - there's a website. https://www.theoutlawgunner.com/

There's a scene in The Horse Soldiers. That little Southern Belle had listened in on their plans, so they couldn't leave her behind to tell the Confederates. Their choice was either kill her or take her with 'em. So they fetched her along. She was a good little girl, and lulled her guards into relaxing, and then she made a break, galloping off across the swamp. She tried to make a turn and her horses feet slid out from under them, and they went kasploosh. So they had her stripped down and she is wrapped up in a blanket while they build a fire and was drying her clothes off. And they took a little break. I don't know whether it was Duke's gun or it was Bill's gun, but it appears to be a brand new 6½" Model 29 44 Mangle-'em. And they took some target practice during the break. I believe Constance is just at the left edge of the picture. That's her blanket wrapped leg. I believe the show-off there is a security guard. I have another picture from that afternoon, but it has a copyright stamp on it so we won't look at it. And in that picture you have a full face view of that man and his hat appears to have a badge on it. So cop, or security guard. And they was teaching her. Since Bill seems to be the one teaching her, I'm guessing it's his gun. And she appears to be left handed, right eyed.

When I was in 11th grade - 71, I think it was - the band went to Disney. On the way back we stopped off at Six Gun Territory. I don't know if they're still in existence, but it was a old west Ghost Town kind of place down by Silver Springs. And while we were there I bought a 22 blank pistol. Used them acorn blanks. I also had a Marksman air pistol. Looks kind of sort of like a 1911. Spring piston. You do not dry fire a spring piston air gun. I bought this used and it had apparently been dry fired muchly. While it still shot the BB, you could see the BB flying through the air at you. One day my little brother and I were having a fast draw contest. The object was to see whether I could pop the blank before he could hit me with a BB. Out in the front yard. Cops showed up. Apparently somebody had called them and said that there was two boys shooting at each other. Nothing got confiscated. Nobody got arrested. But I was just stunned. We were playing in the yard and somebody called the police.

I wish they had tried with a cheetah. While they look like a cat, I read many years back that they were closer related to dogs. The scientist making this statement based it on the fact that she is do not have retractable claws. They are out all the time, just like a dog's toenails.

In the color shot, someone should have told that gray-haired fella holding the bat that wrist watches were anachronistic. That is a puzzling picture. Kind of makes me wonder if anyone knows the definition of the word uniform? We have everyone wearing red socks, except the guy that's wearing black and white striped ones. And everyone is wearing a red hat with white stripes, except the guy wearing the white hat with red stripes.

They were mounted in a small boat - a punt - which was why they were called punt guns. You would lay down in the boat, paddling out with your hands like you were on a surfboard. And you shot the ducks while they were sitting on the water. You pointed the boat at them.

This year. Jacksonville. Cop shot a high school kid playing assassin. Hard to tell it was a water gun in the dark. https://www.jacksonville.com/story/news/crime/2025/02/12/jacksonville-student-playing-senior-assassins-is-shot-by-fdle-agent/78474111007/

1987. I knew it was many years back but I didn't realize it was that many. California. I thought it was Texas. https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-04-09-mn-363-story.html

My understanding is you salute the medal. If you see a man you do not know and he is wearing a plush bathrobe and bunny slippers, you don't know that he's a three-star General and you don't salute him. Unless, like Carroll O'Connor's character in Kelly's Heroes, you've got your stars pinned to your bathroom. So if you see Corporal Johnson walking down the street and he doesn't have any ribbons on, you ignore him unless you are an officer, in which case you expect to be saluted. But if you see Corporal Johnson walking down the street and he's wearing all of his ribbons and you see that little blue one with the white stars, you salute him.

You got dat right

I wonder why the catcher has two gloves? I love that catcher's mitt. But he also has a glove - appears to be fingerless - on his right hand.