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I'm ignorant, I admit it. Zakir Naik is a real person. I had to search for him. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zakir_Naik One can wish the story was true. It's funny even if not true.

My father was Roy, his twin brother was Ray. My wife went to school with twins Charles and Charley.

Not understood by so many; so easily forgotten by so many others. Thanks.

I expect most on this forum agree with much, if not all, of the opinion expressed in the article linked in the original post. How could we get to that goal from where the US is today? I don't see a path.

The movie is available on FreeVee; you can sign in with your Amazon account. Neal Hefti soundtrack...good stuff.

How to Murder Your Wife; Jack Lemmon, Virna Lisi, and don't forget Terry Thomas. Thanks for the reminder; I will enjoy it again!!

Everyone loves to play the Kansas City Royals... they're so easy to beat!!

I am. Got nuthin' to do with coffee.

I learned to read at age 4 by having mom read comic books to me. I could follow along while she read the dialogue bubbles out loud. Repeated words like BANG were easy to recognize. About 5 years before TV came to town. So comic books and the newspaper funnies were actually educational.

Not the best choice for blackpowder guns, but works dandy for that new-fangled smokeless stuff.

Microscopic animals are commonly found on veggies. So a vegan eating veggies is probably still consuming animals, just small ones, the hypocrites! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzo_sWnaTUo

I can no longer compete due to arthritis. This is a fine club and a fine range and you will have fun. Proximity to all the Branson entertainment is a wonderful bonus. Rusty Hammer and his crew will ensure that you enjoy your time here! Give them a chance if you haven't been here in years past.

Mizzoorah too!

Forwarded to my nephew the cop. Just trying to help the police.

There is something wrong with adults in positions of authority who hit kids. I'm not taking about self defense situations involving a a young criminal. Public school employees who try to maintain discipline by hitting students should lose their jobs.

My current loading manuals don't list the .38 High Power (.38/44) so the internet was searched. That old souped up .38/44 pushed a 158 grain bullet to 1150 fps or so, depending on which article you read. By comparison, the 2nd edition of the Lee Modern Reloading Manual lists recipes for a 158 grain .38+P giving velocities from the low 700s to the high 900s; only two loads out of 23 crack the 1000 fps mark. Almost all of the recipes for the .357 Magnum and 158 grain bullets of various types produce velocities over 1100 fps. It appears to me that the old .38/44 ammo was more potent than the .38+P, and produced velocities and energies comparable to some .357 Magnum loads. I would shoot .38+P in my K Frame Model 15 without worry, but I would not shoot any .38/44 loads in it.

The 38/44 was created in 1930 in response to law enforcement requests for a cartridge that would penetrate cars. Apparently the .38 Special was sufficient for crooks on foot or horseback, but wouldn't go through car doors or other car parts reliably. So S&W souped up the .38 Special with more modern powders and made a heavier N Frame revolver to handle it. Unfortunately, some folks tried to use the souped up cartridges in their smaller regular .38 Special guns, resulting in dangerous spontaneous disassembly. So in 1935 S&W lengthened the .38 Special case by 1/10" to prevent chambering in .38 Special guns, and called it the .357 Magnum. The early .357 Magnum revolvers were the "Registered Magnum", quite expensive. The 38/44 revolvers remained popular with police departments because they were just as powerful and lots cheaper. 38/44 revolvers were manufactured from 1930 to 1966 (except for the war years 1941-1946), when less expensive .357 Magnum revolvers became available.

I'm glad these mementos are now cherished by someone who will care for them appropriately. Thank you for your custodianship.

You and your Dad handled it the right way. I needed therapy in my 40s.

Mr. Berry was a brutal a.....e like your coach. He used a thick oak yardstick to apply a full baseball swing the butts of the students who dared to offend him in some way. I was completely intimidated and never got spanked. I wish I had your courage to oppose him when he brutalized my friends in class. I regret that I didn't confront him. These days he would be fired, in jail, and the kids with bruised gluteals would be rich with taxpayer money after the lawsuits. Rightfully so.

I gave our daughter a Spyderco Delica when she was a high school senior. She kept it in her car, complying (mostly) with the 'no weapons at school' rule. As a student council member, she was involved in a number of after school projects. While making decorations one day after classes, the group needed a knife to cut some thick cardboard. She got permission from her teacher to bring in her Spyderco. She opened it one-handed as I had taught her. The boys were awestruck: Katy!! How cool!! I got some points for that.

Do you remember, as I do, that one of the early justifications for getting computers was they would eliminate paperwork??

My best friend's mother was an elementary school teacher. After she retired in the 1960s she sent out a monthly mimeograph newsletter letter to family and friends. They came to be known as the "purple horror", a name she thoroughly enjoyed.

This is a tradition in our family, to avoid "cutting the friendship" between the knife giver and knife recipient. My mother in law, a southern girl, insisted on it. You are the only other person I have heard it from!

Words fail me. I had my doubts, but that was a Hollywood ending for sure.