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    You Know You're in Canada When...

    To me, English as spoken in England sounds like the speaker is using a special accent for the benefit of the tourists. But that is only true of some of them. The rest I don't understand. But on the other hand, I sometimes can't understand my mother-in-law's accent and she's from Lynchburg...
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    Vintage Police Uniforms

    Awful lot of uncontrolled facial hair in some of the photos throughout this thread, especially the photos from the turn of the century. Obviously the police had way too much freedom.
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    A-3 Pants?

    Although I understand the point being made, there needs to be a better word besides "breathe" when talking about the skin of a dead animal. Ventilate might work. By the way, if you have a canvas garment, like a thick Carhartt jacket or a dry finish Filson tin cloth garment, hand wash it with...
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    How would you earn a living?

    A good driver is a good driver, not a good mechanic. I have an idea of how an internal combustion engine works but there's no way I can fix very much on either of our cars. And on our previous cars, replacing the headlamp is a job for a ten-year old girl because my hand is too big. But as far...
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    Weapons in the Movies

    I saw a still, somewhere, from an old movie, a Western made either in the 1930s or 1940s. It showed a scene being filmed and it actually included a real rifle being fired for effect on the ground. Elmer Keith mentioned real guns being fired off-screen but I didn't think he knew what he was...
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    You Know You're in Canada When...

    You know you're in Canada (and nowhere else) when you can't understand either the English or the French. To some degree the same thing happens in Maine, I understand. The English sounds sort of like the way it's spoken in England and the French sounds like it was learned in French class in an...
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    You know you are getting old when:

    I sort of agree about old movies but I won't go so far as to say I can watch them over and over again. But I can enjoy a very ordinary 60-minute B-movie that I've never heard of as well as more well-known movies. The reason is because it's fresh and compared with new movies, it doesn't feel like...
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    Weapons in the Movies

    Another movie that somehow managed to get the gun details correct, if nothing else, was the Charles Bronson movie "Death Hunt." It was based on a true story about a trapper in the Yukon who shot a policeman who was sent out to question him about some complaints about trapping violations. In real...
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Peter Schickele said, in so many words, it doesn't matter what kind of music it is as long as it's good music. There is such a thing as American folk culture, although it certainly didn't spring forth from the earth here without any influences from anywhere else. So what? Nothing is all that...
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    Weapons in the Movies

    Well, the Colt 1905 was quite different from the Government Model. It was very similiar to the .38 ACP models and had the same overall shape. It was made only for a short time but one website, which I cannot refer to (a Colt collector's information site, not a forum), has photos of all of them...
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    A hackbrett band? There is so much good music on Youtube, it's amazing. And much of it is by amateur musicians, many of whom are excellent. Of course, some (relatively) well-known musicans still have day jobs, too. It is also interesting to note that the popularity of some styles of music is...
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    Automats and restaurants

    There was a time when I did things like that but that was 40 years ago. But we go out more than we did at first. I've mentioned before somewhere that bars are now family friendly. Technically, they're restaurants but right in the middle is a real bar. Think of a sports bar.
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Well, "music of the people" is generally thought of as folk music and "real" folk music may or may not be popular and it may or may not be any good, either. The so-called folk music popularity beginning in the late 1950s had its roots far in the past but it's questionable whether or not it was...
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Almost any kind of music can be made popular by increasing the sound level, giving it a pounding beat and dressing the musicians in clothes most people only wear to clean out the garage, hence the term garage band. It even helps a little if the audience has to stand for the whole performance...
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    Automats and restaurants

    Obviously you miss half the point of going to a bar.
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Thought that was Mark Twain.
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    How would you earn a living?

    I doubt I could do all that may of the requirements to be even a second-class girl scout, although I lack the most basic of qualifications in the first place. And I even spent three years in the army. Naturally the expections are a little different. I was a boy scout for a while (I at least met...
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    How would you earn a living?

    Some people can't imagine delicate creatures like women (or "girls") doing manual labor, even when that involves mostly operating machinery. They should know some of the women I have known. Even a hundred years ago, Horace Kephart, in his handbooks on camping, said any woman should be able to...
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    How would you earn a living?

    I've noticed women driving trucks but I don't really see construction workers, in spite of there being projects going on everywhere around here. You should feel lucky to be living where there is new construction. Where I'm from, they're tearing things down. Traditionally, workers have ultimately...
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    How would you earn a living?

    The thing is, I believe, most people have a narrow view of life. That includes me, of course. We base our ideas and opinions on our own experiences, the experiences of our parents and sometimes our children, and generally things we see with our own ideas. We broaden it a little by reading and...

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