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    The wonderful foods of the Golden Era

    In some movie or TV show with Brian Keith, there is a scene in the show (at the very end) of him sitting on the front steps of some city townhouse eating bread with sugar on it, if I remember correctly, with some not very well-off folks he had made friends with earlier in the story or something...
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    The wonderful foods of the Golden Era

    Didn't know there was such a thing, edible packing foam. However, it doesn't sound much worse than a mayonnaise sandwich (This is, bread and mayonnaise).
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    Weapons in the Movies

    Tony Curtis!!!!!!!
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    9mm or 45cal

    My father, an infantry veteran in WWII (captured in Italy, too), told me that a .45 bullet would knock you down if it hit a finger. I had no reason to doubt him at the time, although it seemed to me like one would be very unfortunate to be hit in the finger--or is it the other way around? He...
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    Weapons in the Movies

    Fencing sabers have frequently been used in movies and on television. The best example I can think of is Zorro, on TV. Totally inaccurate. But I didn't catch the differences in those film clips. However, real swords aren't all that heavy. A typical renaissance period rapier weighs little more...
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    Lunch, Anybody?

    Some of these things remind me of country-style "all-day meeting and dinner on the grounds." The collect is for nice, warm weather; generally held in May. A word on the words here. "Dinner" here means lunch. What some folks call dinner, others call "supper." And still more people who may resent...
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    The wonderful foods of the Golden Era

    I understand that many of the things we eat have no nutritional value, yet probably would not fall in the category of pica. Such things are usually just called junk food. However, to some people, that even includes hamburgers.
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    You Know You Live in a Small(ish) Town When...

    Many places all over the country grew rapidly during some peak period of economic activity, such as when mines were opened, railroads built, and finally, when factories were built. They were all generally accompanied by significant migration to the boom towns were the jobs were. Some, like...
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    You Know You Live in a Small(ish) Town When...

    Large cities can sometimes have a lot of small-town characteristics, too, you know, perhaps more so in the past than at present. But the present is so difficult to see as it always has been. One's vision is colored or clouded by looking both at the past and forward to the future. Be that as it...
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    You Know You Live in a Small(ish) Town When...

    The phenomenon of being invisible while being in plain sight out in public occurs in other ways and in other places. Bums and homeless people are completely invisible to most people, I think. Pretending they don't exist is the easy way out. Only slightly more difficult is getting them to move to...
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    You Know You Live in a Small(ish) Town When...

    Most people have no idea what you drink at home, so go ahead and drink whatever you like. But chances are, they will know that you drink. Although I can understand how you might get a little better attention in a store if you are dressed up, it would be more accurate to say that it depends on...
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    You Know You Live in a Small(ish) Town When...

    The county where my hometown is has a population of 57 people per square km and the whole state is only 30. But where I live now, the population density is 1,086 people per km². Yet I have seen more wildlife where I live now than anywhere I have ever lived. My boss's wife is from Wyoming (they...
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    You Know You Live in a Small(ish) Town When...

    One of the nice things about small towns, most of them, anyway, is that you can wear whatever you want and nobody cares. The people there saw you grow up and they know you. So whatever you wear won't make any difference to them. That is a kind of freedom.
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    You Know You Live in a Small(ish) Town When...

    One of my relatives claimed it was easier to get parts for an older vehicle, a pickup truck in his case, than a more recent model, which I imagine shouldn't be that surprising. On another forum, one contributor who was retired mentioned that once he went to the bank or some such place in his...
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    You Know You Live in a Small(ish) Town When...

    While I said that people want to be like other people as well as wanting other people to be like them, there still remains the competitive nature inherent in most people. But you only compete within your class, in a manner of speaking. The expression is keeping up with the Jones. But the Jones...
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    You Know You Live in a Small(ish) Town When...

    I date myself (frequently) but any drinks that cost that much should be accompanied by dancing girls not overly dressed.
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    You Know You Live in a Small(ish) Town When...

    At the local grocery store where we buy not only beer, wine and Coca Cola, one can also buy bottled water imported from Fiji. I haven't bought any, haven't tasted any, so all I can say is, it must be really good water. One can also buy Perrier, available even in this country since before WWII in...
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    9mm or 45cal

    I would say it is unwise to do anything else. However, I would hardly suggest anyone go around telling people that they intend to kill someone. That will only make people afraid of you but not necessarily make any potential assailant refrain from doing you harm. My father said that the person...
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    Weapons in the Movies

    Well, here is the result of a little internet research. The Danish movie I mentioned was "Reptillicus" and it came out in 1961. That was two years before the first beach movie, so there's no excuse for not having seen it. Anyway, there are dozens of Madsen machine guns in the movie, many of them...
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    Weapons in the Movies

    There are many obscure weapons, even though they were manufactured in the tens of thousands. They were never featured in newsreels or war movies. So they're merely obscure to us as Americans. But now and then they pop up here and there. One such old weapon is the Madsen light machine gun...

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