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I don't see why he would be "not so bright". Kind of like pointing out to a Jew that he's still got his hat on in church. Wouldn't be not bright. Just not know that Jews wear their hats in church. I'm 68. And I consider myself fairly bright. I have heard the term Ash Wednesday. Until a couple years ago I had no idea what it meant. It has something to do with Catholics and Lent, and since I wasn't Catholic and didn't do Lent it didn't really matter. So if I saw someone with a spot of ash on his forehead, I might point it out - hey Joe, your forehead is dirty.

I saw that in a movie. The girl is trying to get the point across to the college professor that she will do anything to pass tomorrow's test. He asked her if she would be alone that night, and she said that she would, that her roommate had gone out of town. He told her "good - there should be nothing to disturb you when you study".

Back in the late seventies I was a security guard at a hotel on the beach. One night somebody in the parking lot out front fired a few shots across the street into the bar. When the cops arrived I showed them the 9 mm brass lying on the ground. They weren't interested in it. With my limited knowledge of law enforcement, based on TV shows and movies , it seem like that would be important evidence, and would quite possibly have the fingerprints of the guy that loaded the gun. But they didn't want it. So I ended up taking it home and giving it to my brother who had a model 39 Smith and he reloaded it.

Okay, how about this? I wonder how many juries don't believe the expert witnesses because they don't have all the wonderful forensic evidence that they show on CSI? I see many cops, on many different boards, complaining about how juries believe that crap you see on the television about the irrescapable evidence using fingerprints and DNA and all the other happy horse caca that Abby uses. They figure if CSI can do it and if NCIS can do it, then the local police department should be able to do it too, and if the local cops don't have that then obviously the defendant is not guilty.

So says someone who has never been blessed enough to have eaten oysters out of Appalachicola Bay.

It's a good story. Except, he was not in two different centuries. The 20th century started in 1901. The last year of the 19th century was 1900. That's the way it works. Those people that was going crazy back for Y2K - yaaaay, a new millennium --- not until 2001.

Do you suppose they still make the 950B? Joe's is a 950B. This is a 950 BS. Notice the obvious difference? This one has a thumb safety. The S in the name for STATES (I've also heard the S stands for SAFETY). Had to have a safety so it could be imported. If I wonder if they gave up on making the B, and all of their 950s are BS now? Like everyone has quit making 4-inch revolvers. They're now 4.2. Because some places have decided that 4 inches and smaller are illegal. So instead of making the new Colt Python in 4.2 inch barrel for the places where 4 inches is illegal, but also making it in a 4-inch barrel for those of us that want the correct size, they just make the 4.2. But Walther had a similar problem. The PPK was too small for importation in the states, so they dreamed up the PPK/S - PPK/States. A version large enough to be importable. But they still made the PPK for sale everywhere else in the world where they didn't have totally stupid idiotic laws.

Televised cop shows - CSI, NCIS, shows like that. The medical examiner always gets bent if anyone has touched the body before he gets there. They had an early NCIS. A SEAL team is repelling down a cliff, and a piece of gear breaks and one of them falls to his death. When the team shows up, both Ducky and Gibbs are pissed because it's obviously the body has been moved. And the SEAL team Commander said that the other members of the team were trying to see if he was still alive. Another episode, there was a drug dealer shootout offshore. And there's two or three bodies washed up on the beach. When Ducky and Gibbs get there, there's an army CID guy and a DEA guy just standing there looking at the two bodies on the beach. And it's obvious from the lack of footprints that nobody has walked over to the two bodies. Ducky is ecstatic. "This scene is pristine!" But if nobody has walked over to the two bodies, how do they know they're dead? Maybe they were still alive 20 minutes ago, when the cops showed up, but nobody came near the body cuz they didn't want to disturb the crime scene. So I can see it now. Something violent happens to someone. They get shot, they get stabbed, they get hit by a car. And no one goes to help them because they don't want to disturb the crime scene. Of course maybe if they went to help, they could have stopped the guy from bleeding out and he would still be alive.

If that show had been made these days, when he told the woman to keep his cigar burning, she would have taken a puff.

I have drunk ginger ALE, off and on, my entire life. Some was stronger than others - had more of a bite. But it was all good. In the "imported" section of a grocery store one time I found some ginger BEER, from England. I did not like that at all.

I've been trying to figure out why it's illegal in, I believe, all 50 states, to carry at a polling place. Y'all remember when the Kenyan was running the first time, and black thugs showed up at the polling places to run off white voters. I don't really see a difference in that and in Klansmen showing up at the polling places to run off black voters 60 years earlier. But in neither case could the voters defend themselves against the armed thugs, because it was illegal for them to carry.

https://www.sazerac.com/our-brands/sazerac-brands/rich-rare-reserve.html https://www.drinkhacker.com/2011/10/23/review-rich-rare-reserve-blended-canadian-whisky/ Apparently it's a cheap Canadian that's actually bottled here in the states. The second link is a price, but that link is 12 years old, so the price is kind of out of date. I found a liquor store in Jacksonville Florida that is selling it for $13 a fifth.