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  1. When Daddy got out of the Navy, in '61, he went to college on the GI Bill. And he worked part-time at the hospital. Got a dollar an hour. Mama was a registered nurse. She was making $2 an hour.

     

    When he graduated - it was a junior college so it was just an AA - he told his boss that he was now a college graduate and needed more money. They bumped him to a buck and a quarter, but told him not to tell anybody, because everybody else working in the office still only made a dollar.

  2. There was a Bogey/Bacall movie. Dark Passage. He was convicted of murdering his wife and sent to prison. He escaped and is hiding with Bacall. He had complete plastic surgery.

     

    https://i.pinimg.com/originals/cb/a1/a8/cba1a8033babf4ce7a6ecb610d506dce.png

     

    The doctor told him to drink through a metal tube.

     

    https://c8.alamy.com/comp/F4P9C2/humphrey-bogart-lauren-bacall-dark-passage-1947-directed-by-delmer-F4P9C2.jpg

     

    And if he wished to smoke to use a holder.

     

    https://storage.canalblog.com/45/59/799134/70261370_p.jpg

     

    That one seems to be a few inches shorter than the one that FDR used.

  3. 1 hour ago, Warden Callaway said:

    Don't let the screen door hit you in the a$$ on your way out. (Ellen DeGeneres)

    On Hannah Montana I heard her tell somebody one time, "Don't let the door hit you where the good Lord split you".

     

    Funny, but the way I always heard it was don't let the door hit you on your way out.

  4. Mama died. This was in '08, but the memory came crawling back.

     

    Both my brothers and their families and my daughter and her family came down. There was 11 of us. And a friend of Mama's come over bringing a crock pot full of chicken and dumplings.

     

    And seeing how many people were there she asked if we had enough food in the house.

     

    And my brother says, "Sara, have you ever been in Mama's house?"

     

    'Cause Mama had a fully stocked pantry and a full deep freeze.

     

    And it was decided that we would donate all of this to charity. My brother called Mama's church. Told them that we had a deep freeze full of food that we wished to give to them along with the freezer. And they said they would love to have it. And when could we bring it to them.

     

    So he hung up and he called the Catholics. Told them the same thing. They asked him the address and said that they would send a truck.

     

    Many years ago when I was a little boy the next door neighbors loved to fish. I don't know if they liked to eat them all that much but they really loved to catch them. And they would give fish to anybody that would take them. I recall one time they gave us five Spanish mackerel. We had one for supper and Daddy put the other four in the flower bed. We don't eat fish that much.

     

    So one day they went out and they caught about 60 or 80 bluegill. Offered Daddy as many as he wanted. He declined. So they was thinking about putting them in their garden and Daddy asked if they had considered the Salvation Army.

     

    They called down there and told them that they had about 70 or so fresh-caught brim, and would the Salvation Army like to have them. The reply was that they would always like to have cleaned fish, and when could he bring them down.

     

    He hung up and called the rescue mission. Told them the same thing. Reverend Joe asked for his address and said he would send a truck.

     

    I don't know if they still do that at the rescue mission, because Reverend Joe's been dead about 20 years. But when he was around, if you said you had something to give to him - especially if it was food - they'd come fetch it.

     

    "When can you bring it down?" People that respond like that must be used to getting a whole lot of donations. People don't get so many - yeah bubba, we'll come get it. Where you at?

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  5. There is a series of books written back in the '70s, probably. "MASH goes to ..." I think about 15 of them. MASH goes to Vegas, MASH goes to New Orleans, MASH goes to Morocco, MASH goes to London etc etc.

     

    In, I think it was, MASH goes to Texas, they talk about this tobacco company. They mostly made cigars. Now when you make a tobacco product you are only supposed to use the leaf. But these people used the entire plant - leaf, stem, roots. It was all tobacco, and it made their cigars cheaper to make. Then they were going with the idea that if it grew in the tobacco field it was tobacco, so any plant that was growing out there got chopped up and turned into cigars.

     

    This was fiction, but it sounded awful believable.

  6. I'm glad you mentioned that.

     

    For the past few years I have had a pair of fiskars scissors stuck to that magnet with the church key.

     

    Then I broke down and bought an actual pair of kitchen scissors. Took the fiskars off and put the new ones on.

     

    That reefer is one of those with the refrigerator on one side and the freezer on the other side. And the kitchen trash can sits in front of the freezer side because I don't get in it that often. That is also the side that the magnet is on.

     

    So I go out to take a picture of the church key stuck to the magnet and the first thing that comes to mind is - where the hell's them new scissors at?

     

    They are heavier than the fiskars. They pulled off the magnet and landed in the trash can. Which is pretty full and I was thinking I need to go out and dump it. And if I had not specifically been looking at that magnet, I think I would have thrown my new scissors away.

     

    Thank you for your comment Joe. B)

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  7. This is a most excellent book. I read it over and over. I've got the movie and I watch it at least once a year.

     

    Judy, who is an orphan and lives in an orphanage. One of the trustees of the orphanage frequently sends boys who show intelligence to college. Never girls, just boys. But for some reason Judy has impressed him, so he sends her to college.

     

    The matron of the orphanage told her that the trustee, "whose name is not John Smith but that is who you will address your letters to", requires only one thing from her. That she write him a letter once a month telling him how things are going. The matron told her that she should think of it repayment for the loan that's putting her through college. Instead of sending the bank a check she sends Mr Smith a letter.

     

    But she doesn't write him once a month. She writes him sometimes every week, sometimes every day. Sometimes she writes letters that last a week to write - start it on Sunday and then stop at bedtime, pick it up Monday, stop at bedtime, write some more on Tuesday.

     

    And in her sophomore year she tells him about the terrible thing that happened to her. When she ran away from the orphanage because she was punished for stealing cookies.

     

     

    "Do you know about that one scandalous blot in my career—the time I ran away from the asylum because they punished me for stealing cookies? It’s down in the books free for any Trustee to read. But really, Daddy, what could you expect? When you put a hungry little nine-year girl in the pantry scouring knives, with the cookie jar at her elbow, and go off and leave her alone; and then suddenly pop in again, wouldn’t you expect to find her a bit crumby? And then when you jerk her by the elbow and box her ears, and make her leave the table when the pudding comes, and tell all the other children that it's because she's a thief, wouldn’t you expect her to run away?


    "I only ran four miles. They caught me and brought me back; and every day for a week I was tied, like a naughty puppy, to a stake in the back yard while the other children were out at recess."

     

     

    Dayum.

     

    Anyway. Daddy Long Legs. Jean Webster. 1912. A most excellent book.

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  8. There was a Richard Burton movie. NIGHT OF THE IGUANA. Took place in Mexico or maybe Central America. All I really remember about it was Burton was a preacher - maybe a missionary - and this one scene.

     

    There's an American woman down there. And she ain't got a whole lot of money. She takes out a pack of cigarettes and is about to take one out when Burton asks if he could have a cigarette. And she hesitated a minute - these were the cheapest brand of cigarettes sold down there but still giving away one was expensive. But she handed him the pack and then look shocked as he wadded it up and threw it away.

     

    He told her she should not smoke those. Poor people picked up cigarette butts out of the street and sold them to this company, and that's where the company got their tobacco to make cigarettes from. And then he pulls the pack of American cigarettes out of his pocket and told her to have one of his.

     

    There's a book on The Faded Page. I was reading the blurb that told what the book was about - see if I wanted to download it. These four or five English guys have decided to spend the winter in France. And everything is going fine until they run out of English cigarettes. So they're trying to figure out how to get some more cigarettes from England without having to pay duty on them when they go through customs.

     

    I never thought about that. About only wanting your countries cigarettes. I read of different types of cigarettes in all kinds of books. English cigarettes, French cigarettes, Turkish cigarettes, and of course American cigarettes. World War II books where German soldiers are smoking American cigarettes they took off of American captives.

     

    But they're usually using the cigarettes as some kind of example of wealth. In Hong Kong they were smoking cheap yellow Chinese cigarettes. The one Frenchman would be smoking Gauloises, but the wealthy Frenchman next to him would be smoking Players. And if he was really rich he would be smoking Winston.

  9. 17 minutes ago, Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770 said:

    Actually, the top pistol looks like a Dragoon with a Walker gripframe on it. 

    I agree. The Walker loading rammer is kind of pointed at the end and it does not attach to the barrel. I've seen several pictures of people using the repros and they've got a loop of rawhide shoelace loosely tying the rammer to the barrel. Otherwise it drops down under recoil and locks up the cylinder.

     

    The one with the square trigger guard in my picture attaches to the barrel.

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