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There’s no such thing as “knots per hour”. That’s like saying “3:00 am in the morning”. 1 knot equals 1 nautical mile per hour. These writers need to do their homework. Grrr… Despite the claimed glowing environmental benefits, the bottom line is whether this ship can make money for its owners. I’m betting it doesn’t, due to its cost & operating expenses, and likely has a lot of government money behind it.

Lever action is legal.

I LIKE this man!

I have a nice Garand, a Colt 1911 and a (repro) M1 Carbine. A BAR would round out my meager collection.

But you are historic, therefore it is. 😊

There’s something really elegant about those, especially the first one. Are the calibers the same?

Since I probably can’t really have a Ma Deuce, a BAR would be really cool. Select fire of course. 😎

Wrong thread

Ma Deuce

Call me in the morning.

Sounds like the “convenience fee” Ticketmaster applies to the purchase of a ticket.

In England, if the gun for sale fails the re-proof test, who absorbs the loss? Buyer or seller?* *I’m assuming failing the test means the barrel is destroyed or damaged?

So did we, it’s one that the two that crapped out. Down to one now. Pretty happy with it too, but alas, consumer electronics are disposable these days. The sad news is that DVDs are going the way of VHS tapes and the selection of players is meager. Welcome to the world of streaming…

And on American, even though you paid for it, they don’t give you the full contents of that little liquor bottle either.

I remember right after 9/11 being at the St. Louis airport and ordering a burger. I wanted to cut it half and saw we weren’t given knives, so I asked for one. Nope, “security” was the reason. I said, “how about a plastic one?” “Nope, security.” After some stern words from me, he took it back to the kitchen where someone cut it - and probably spit on it too.

They don’t give full cans on American Airlines flights. Our experience has been the same as Alpo.

Our blu-ray dvd player died, so I went shopping online. Average price seems to be in the $87 range, but there are several in the $200-$600 range. I even saw one over $1,000. What do those do that an $87 unit doesn’t?

Author and character name together will get you there quickest. Occasionally the character name is similar to other people so you might get multiple leads, or the dreaded Google question, “Did you mean…” and Otto fills in a suggestion.

Please define warp speed. Does it have a meaning outside of Hollywood?

Kinda like “customer service” and corporate mission statements… 🙃

Shipping and handling? Honestly, I don’t remember there ever being a time in my life where there wasn’t a fee attached to producing/providing a government-related document.

That’s one of things that bugged me about “The Hunt for Red October”. Skipper of the American sub, Scott Glen boards the Russian sub with his most experienced sonar operator. First of all, why the skipper? And secondly, what expertise does a sonar operator bring to a boarding party? Seems you’d want keep those two aboard the US sub in case the SHTF. Similar thing in the Carey Grant movie, “Destination Tokyo”. He’s the skipper who disarms an unexploded bomb instead of someone else, who likely would have more expertise. Hollyweird.

I’m betting the funeral industry lobbied the legislature to require an urn for burial, just to add to their bottom line.

I’ve often wondered why people spend so much money on very expensive, decorated things for the sole purpose of being put in the ground, never to be seen again. If it’s important to put the departed on display in one’s home, a nice urn makes sense. If not, an old ammo can will do.

With a jaundiced eye I look back on the whole affair and would not be surprised if the coffin requirement wasn’t a fact. The coffin was far too nice to have been required for kindling and was probably reused for another corpse. We never saw it again, so how would we know? Since we didn’t buy an urn (another extra charge), the ashes we received were in cylinder wrapped in brown paper and was the size of a 2 pound coffee can. Coulda been an old Folgers can for all we knew. But I’m pretty sure its volume was too small for human remains and a casket.