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    9mm or 45cal

    I've never been shot at but I imagine that if I were, I wouldn't be thinking much about what caliber it might be.
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    Wonderful painting. The screen door effect is a nice touch, too. I think screen doors are a thing of the past, just like back porches and porch swings. I can remember lots of little details from most of the places I've lived and worked but not everything and what I do remember is starting to...
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    The Adventurer's Gear Thread

    Now, that looks like a place worth going to. I take it you weren't alone. As far as adventure gear goes, I just acquired a new 50-year old rucksack, a small one. Although it was advertised as an Italian alpine rucksack, I'm pretty sure it's Norwegian. I have another one, slightly larger. I love...
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    Supposedly, we learn things more easily when we're little kids (except maybe when we're actually in school). That's why the children of immigrants pick up the language so quickly and their parents never quite lose their accents. Then, too, one's childhood, say, from birth through around the end...
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    The thing about passwords is that they sometimes have to be changed every three months or so. But I can still manage to come up with a system for generating passwords that mean something to me.
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    Weapons in the Movies

    There was an attempt to reintroduce the Merwin & Hulbert revolvers a few years ago but apparently nothing came of it. The originals only went out of production the same year my father was born. Actual production was by Hopkins & Allen, I believe. Sometimes in old TV westerns or B-movies, you...
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    I can remember lots of numbers from when I was a child in the 1950s, although they were all short numbers. The telephone number was the longest. The house number was three digits, the post office box number was three digits. The post office, by the way, was a very impressive building, too...
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    The Golden Age of the Streetcar

    If nothing else, that was a good time to be in San Francisco.
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    Perhaps but I wonder. I have an incredible number of passwords that I'm supposed to remember. Mostly I don't, however, but my fingers somehow remember. Some I have to write down, though. In fact, they're all written down somewhere but you're not supposed to do that with passwords. That's sort of...
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    Weapons in the Movies

    For a while, Colt reintroduced a line of their older percussion revolvers and picked up the serial numbering where it left off in the 1860s or 1870s. That was probably decades ago and I never saw one in a store. For that matter, there are lots of gun models that I've never seen new in a store. I...
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    Weapons in the Movies

    I'm not all that knowledgeable. But not only were some converted, there were so-called transitional models produced for a few years. They had the open top frame but were actually manufactured to use metallic cartridges. But I don't know what it would have taken to convert them. The hammer would...
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    Weapons in the Movies

    In real life, swords were virtually always carried on the left side, at least the long ones were. So when revolvers began to be carried in belt holsters they were naturally carried on the right side. The army used reverse draw holsters from the 1950s down to the 1940s. In fact, I have a photo of...
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    You Know You Live in a Small(ish) Town When...

    "Classic shoelaces"?
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    Weapons in the Movies

    Something I have really only noticed in still photos from old Westerns, mainly B-movies, is that while not necessarily authentic, the holsters and other leather goods like saddles were sometimes clearly well-used. The so-called Hollywood holster has been around longer than you think but they...
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    Where in Northern Virginia do you live? I live in West Springfield. I have sometimes seen...

    Where in Northern Virginia do you live? I live in West Springfield. I have sometimes seen someone walking along with an antique rucksack something like yours and I wonder if it was you.
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    Show us your Vintage Rucksacks!

    That rucksack from GJ Nord looks to be an original WWII German alpine infantry rucksack.
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    One New Yorker acquaintance of years ago would say "Get out of here!" as an exclamation of disbelief (or something). But as far as the "Your mother wears army boots" goes, there is a joke about a Russian saying that to another Russian and not in a kindly way. The other Russian looks at him with...
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    Doesn't get that cold here. I have had problems with overheating, though.
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    I was only referring to actually getting the inside of the car warmed up. I never spent any time getting the engine warmed up before driving away but it still took four or five miles to where the heater would actually put out heat. That has been true on almost all the cars I ever had. I imagine...
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    I have been subjected to sermons that could only be described as tantrums. I know you're supposed to fear God but some preachers are pretty scary, too. I also recall, and I've almost certainly mentioned this before, a local TV program called something like "Ask the pastors." There was a...

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