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I think this was Louis L'Amour. The walking drum. I think. But he was explaining why Muslim patients survived more than Christian patients. The Muslim doctors would pray before doing the surgery. And before you pray, you wash your hands (and your feet, but that's irrelevant to this). So they would go into their medical thing with clean hands.

There's an online story I read a few years ago. This guy had somehow gone back through time to Las Vegas in the mid-1960s. And he's looking up stuff over the internet on his laptop, and he is calling people on his cell phone. And I'm reading this and thinking - just how stupid is this latest generation?

The problem with that question is that while there are many things I would like to invent for the folks, I don't know how to make them. Repeating firearms. Smokeless gunpowder. Non corrosive primers. All three of them things would be wonderful to have at 1145, but I don't know how to make them.

This is true. But, for example. I have an H&k squeeze cocker. With one spare eight round magazine. And while it would make sense to carry more than one $150 8 round magazine (ve are H und K. Gif us money. Ve HATE YOU!!) I don't have any more. So carrying four or five loose rounds to top off a magazine I'd fired a few from sort of makes sense. I believe in the army they carry several loaded magazines in pouches at their waist, and then they carry rounds on stripper clips in bandeliers hanging around the chest to top off the magazines when they've fired. Same theory.

You are carrying an automatic pistol. You shoot two or three rounds. Now your gun is not completely loaded. You can do a "tactical reload", but now your spare magazine is two or three rounds short. Would you carry three or four loose rounds, just for topping off a magazine? Novel I was reading one time. They did not have the key to the gate. The one guy pulls out is 45 and shoots the lock off. Took two shots. Then he drops that magazine and replaces it with a full magazine, reholsters the gun. Digs down in his pocket and comes up with a handful of loose rounds and tops off that magazine. I have never carried loose rounds when I was carrying an automatic. But it seems like a semi-intelligent thing to do.

One of Louis lamour's Hopalong Cassidy books. Written in 1947 I believe. Which is a little bit prior to the movie. Man is looking for somebody to get his cows out of the chaparral. Hoppy has got a good cow dog, a heavy leather jacket and some heavy leather chaps. And he pipes up and tells the man, "I'm your huckleberry". I read this back in the '70s - also prior to the movie - and is the first time I ever heard the term. Like in Dave's link - it means I'm the best man for the job.

I've read his speech. A few times. And I've heard people give it many times. Everyone I've ever heard do it ends it the same way. They are almost bellowing - GIVE ME LIBERTY, OR GIVE ME DEATH!!!!! But when I read it that's not the way I hear it. Obviously I don't know how Mr Henry did it, but in my mind he would have drawn more people to pay attention if at the last part of his speech he had lowered his voice. Quietened it. People would be cupping their ears to hear what he would say. "I know not what course others may take. But as for me ---- (long pause) give me liberty.(full stop) Or give me death." (A little extra emphasis on death, but no extra volume)

War with Canada. Movie. I thought you were talking about South Park.

That's why you should never change the country of origin of a joke. It usually ruins the punchline. That's a British joke. The guy wished for a long legged bird that was agreeable. But people had to make it American. A tall chick? An ostrich isn't a chick.

I'm watching Heat. Deniro, Pacino, kilmer. Pacino is a cop and came home to find his wife cooking breakfast for another man. And he took his portable television and stomped out of the house. Said it was okay to have sex with his wife and lay on her couch but couldn't watch his television. Later that night he's going to his hotel, and he's driving down the road with that 10-inch portable TV in the passenger seat. Stops at a traffic light. On the corner there is a bus stop bench with three or four people. There is also a wire mesh trash container. And he suddenly reaches over and opens the passenger door and kicks the television out into the road where it breaks into a few pieces where it lands. Then he drives off. People at the bus stop looking at him incredulously. And if he drives off the camera pulls back and you can save the three or four people there and there's the trash can. And nobody did it. But I just wondered if anybody, in reality, would go pick up them pieces of busted glass out of the road and toss them in the trash can. Or would they leave them there for somebody to drive over and blow their tire?

How's that work? If I watch your video, do I need to watch all of your video? Or is just the fact of me opening your video get you paid? There are so many out there now that are narrated by AI. And as soon as I realize it - which generally happens very early in the video - I back out of it. Because it's just so annoying. That video about the airplane. "In World War eye eye". I would not be surprised if they had said that the plane flew in the year one thousand nine hundred and forty two. I've heard that many times. Like the one thousand nine hundred eleven automatic is chambered in a point four five cartridge. It reads everything. It doesn't combine stuff. It's like a translator, or maybe a telegrapher. And I don't like to hear it. So when I realize it's an AI I shut it down. I'm sure there are other people that do that, based on comments I've read on various videos. So why, I wonder, do they continue to use it?

"World war eye eye"