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  1. green papaya

    What are you snacking on?

    Planters Honey Roasted Peanuts, and some home made Beef jerky
  2. green papaya

    Old smells, that immeditately transport you back in time?

    the Old Butcher shop smells the smell of dry Salami hanging on a string, the sound of the saw while they cut the meat the butcher shop use to have saw dust all over the floor for easy clean up, I remember the smell and sliding through the thick saw dust all over the floor, this was behind the...
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    Old smells, that immeditately transport you back in time?

    The smell of Hobos fresh off the rails, they smelled of urine, sweat, vomit, alcohol, very dirty, they use to really smell back then, probably never bathed, maybe once in a while they would take a bath in the river in the summertime. The smell of a field of cattle, the urine, the fresh smell of...
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    DILLINGER [theatrical release 1945] Former Indiana farmboy John Dillinger also knew where the money was. And his string of early-1930s heists, murders and daring jailbreaks were so bold and notorious he became Public Enemy #1. Dillinger, Oscar-nominated* for its screenplay, is the bullet-paced...
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    You Know You Live in a Small(ish) Town When...

    when your woken up in the middle of the night because the house is shaking from the freight train going through town late at night at full speed.
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    How would you earn a living?

    I would probably be an "Old Salt" a US Sailor patrolling the "Yangpat" or Yangtze River Patrol of the 1930's The exotic Yangtze Patrol Force was one of the navy’s most sought-after postings.
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    You Know You Live in a Small(ish) Town When...

    you go to watch a movie at the local theater and your the only person in the whole theater, and they dont even start the movie on time because they're hoping more customers show up and they have some high school kid running the projector that comes down to check if there are any people waiting...
  9. green papaya

    What's for Dinner?

    Im going to make a fried bacon & egg sandwich on a sandwich bread roll, maybe add some lettuce & tomato slice, like a BLT.
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    If you had a conversation with a person in 1770 would they understand?

    Im sure there are plenty of respectable people living in trailors, but there is another lower level also known as "low life" or degenerates, they dont always live in trailors, they may also live in apartments, motels, SRO [Single Room Occupancy] these are the bottom of the barrel types of...
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    If you had a conversation with a person in 1770 would they understand?

    "Red Neck" or Hillbilly have become more of a compliment these days , it's just slang for "Country Boy" but it also depends how you say it, it can be used in a insulting tone or a friendly more complimentary way for a country boy
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    If you had a conversation with a person in 1770 would they understand?

    in California they have a lot of people known as "Trailor Trash" types, these are the lowest class, meth head, drug addiction, thief, welfare queens, pure garbage, ex convicts, people that spent time in prison, they usually have a long criminal history. they are way below a Red neck / hillbilly...
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    You Know You Live in a Small(ish) Town When...

    scene from STAND BY ME in the junkyard, the old man says I know who you are, I know your fathers, and they're all going to get a call from me.
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    You Know You Live in a Small(ish) Town When...

    this reminds me of the scene from the movie "STAND BY ME" when a group of boys from a small town in the late 1950's tries to take a short cut through a old junk yard / car wrecking yard and the owner scolds one of the boys and says he knows who he is and knows who his father is. Milo: I know...
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    You Know You Live in a Small(ish) Town When...

    when you can step on your back porch and fire your guns in your own back yard without having to worry about somebody calling the Sheriff you know your in the sticks when you can just walk outside and do some target practice out back with your own private range.
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    You Know You Live in a Small(ish) Town When...

    When WALMART is the BEST store in town it's so nice, people actually have a wedding at WALMART If you havent seen an old friend in a while just hang out at your local WALMART , you always run into somebody you know or havent seen in a while if you go to WALMART, it's like a family reunion. I...
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    You Know You Live in a Small(ish) Town When...

    when everybody knows everybody's business, lots of gossip just go to the local barbershop to get the latest news
  20. green papaya

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    The Wrong Man 1956 starring Henry Fonda True story of an innocent man mistaken for a criminal.
  21. green papaya

    What are you snacking on?

    smokehouse roasted almonds
  22. green papaya

    If you had a conversation with a person in 1770 would they understand?

    my grandmother was born back in the 1870's and she was easy to understand
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    You know you are getting old when:

    When your talking with a group of teens or millennials and they dont know who John Wayne was or any other of the Legends from the Golden Era like Jimmy Stewart, Clark Gable, Humphrey Bogart, others I was talking to a tourist at a place where a movie was filmed in San Francisco with a young...

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