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On 3/9/2019 at 2:14 PM, Rube Burrows said:

Nice channel. Just subscribed.

Thank you so much!
Here's one for you bench shooters.....

We hit the mark on this one!
 
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Dinah, get outa the kitchen and get back to work!
 
https://youtu.be/iu21vLvbTYs
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Thank you, Flatwater!

Here's this week's:
 

Grab yer coat and grab yer hat. Leave yer day job on the doorstep...
 
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Don't loose sight of this video!

https://youtu.be/y3hu3osLAB8

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Do you know what a plethora is, Jefe?

https://youtu.be/PSH6NSJO--o

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Hey Santee, if I suggest a topic on this forum, and you do it, does it rate a mail sack drop in the video?

Don't have any suggestions right now.  Just thought I'd ask.

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Enjoy watching all your videos, informative and funny.

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Thank you both. I have did one early one about dynamite, but may re-hash that in a mining video soon. 

 

Put this one on the books!
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Smokin' sixgun of the era!
 
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The title says it all!

 

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Put yer thinkin' caps on and hit them books!
 

 

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Not all of them stink.

 

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Let's tap into some history!
 
 
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Howdy Santee, love the telegraph vid!

Might mention that with modern Morse Code, it's a series of tones -- a long tone for a dash (or dah), short tone for a dot (dit) ...

In period, in the Old West, it was a series of clicks.

One click for a dot, two clicks close together for a dash.

There's a ham radio term -- "lid" -- for a suboptimal operator, and this dates back to the Old West telegraph.

You'll remember the oval Prince Albert tobacco tins... if an empty tin is lodged behind the telegraph sounder, it acts as an amplifier; add sand to the can, to an optimal level (this changes the pitch) and helps the increasingly hard of hearing operator continue to earn a wage.

The tin's lid was left thrown back -- from this, the term "lid" ... it became a term of contempt, indicating a less than optimal telegraph operator, kind of like calling a kid with glasses "Four Eyes."

As Paul Harvey used to say, "For what it's worth."

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Linn, thanks for the additional info! Awesome.

Climb outa that saddle and get you some grub!
 

 

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