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  1. tonyb

    Draft card

    So I take it your paternal grandfather was mortally injured in France, with your maternal grandmother pregnant with your father back home?
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    Draft card

    Dear old ma tells me that her dad, a father of four and a worker in an essential occupation who was therefore all but exempt from conscription, would occasionally during the war get a snootful and announce that he was gonna go down to the recruitment center and sign up.
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    Draft card

    Look what came in today’s mail. It’s my grandfather’s draft notice. The particulars, which I’d rather not share with the world, are on the reverse. My dear old ma has, in recent years, been sending me old family mementos — photos, mostly. She suspects, I think, that I am the likeliest among...
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    What's the worst coffee worldwide?

    Drip coffee can be quite strong. All it takes is a higher ground coffee-to-water ratio. A finer grind would help, too, although too fine a grind might not allow the water to drip through the ground coffee, which, if it isn’t caught in time, will result in a BFM. I have seen this happen with...
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    What's the worst coffee worldwide?

    Chocolate-covered dark-roasted coffee beans ain’t bad. You wouldn’t want to eat a handful of ’em, but three or four make an interesting delivery system for a mild drug effect.
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    What's the worst coffee worldwide?

    And I believe that he believed that. Seasoning, you might call it.
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    What's the worst coffee worldwide?

    Part of me is a little jealous of that. Life was simpler when coffee came in two not particularly distinct varieties — the percolator stuff at home and the drip from the Bunn-o-matic at the restaurant or the donut place. Remember when “coffeehouse” was likelier to conjure images of a Denny’s...
  9. tonyb

    You know you are getting old when:

    “Pedestrian underpass,” is what I’ve heard ’em called. They’re not so common around here. Good to see efforts toward a safer co-existence between wildlife and humans in motorized vehicles. Out here in the Wild West there are still vast stretches of very little human habitation. The go-fast...
  10. tonyb

    You know you are getting old when:

    Perhaps another sign of getting old is accepting that very few of us will leave a lasting mark outside of our own small circles. Even most celebrities will be forgotten not long after they’ve croaked. The desire to be “important” seems more an affliction of men than women. I have a long-time...
  11. tonyb

    What's the worst coffee worldwide?

    Starbucks uses only arabica coffee, which most aficionados find superior in flavor to robusta. Arabica is, however, much lower in caffeine than robusta. Robusta is what you find in most of the canned coffee at the supermarket. (Almost all the more expensive whole-bean coffee in the supermarket...
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    What's the worst coffee worldwide?

    Trash-talking Starbucks is a popular pastime among some of my hipper friends and associates in Seattle, where Starbucks got its start and where it is still headquartered, in what used to be the “main” Sears store. Starbucks certainly didn’t invent coffeehouse culture, but they brought it to...
  14. tonyb

    What's the worst coffee worldwide?

    The drip coffee at Starbucks — the Pike Place Blend or whatever they call it — is, to my taste, worse than the stuff from 7-Eleven that’s been sitting on the warmer for a couple hours. But the espresso ain’t bad — perhaps a bit over-roasted, but it stays on this side of burnt. Their systems are...
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    What's the worst coffee worldwide?

    My dear old ma started a mobile espresso business way back before she retired, going on 30 years ago. She sold at state fairs and rodeos and gem shows and carnivals, etc. Her eldest grandchild now owns the business. She limited her offerings to what was on the menu — no bespoke coffee...
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    What's the worst coffee worldwide?

    An old gal I once knew, who shuffled off 20-some years ago a few days shy of her 80th birthday, made what amounted to her own instant coffee. It was a cold-brew method, the particulars of which I never really learned, but as I recall it involved steeping a substantial amount of finely ground...
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    What's the worst coffee worldwide?

    ^^^^^ It’s been so long since I’ve had burnt pencils that I can’t say with any certainty how any coffee compares. My mother had me addicted to the stuff in utero, although I didn’t resume the habit until a few years into breathing on my own. Coffee was and is ever-present in my world. The...
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    Larry McMurtry

    He handled a difficult-to-write bio of Crazy Horse quite well, considering how little reliable documentation on his subject there was to work with.
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    Clean Jokes

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    You know you are getting old when:

    ^^^^^ i came across a simple hardwood cane, the kind with a crook, at a junktique mall a couple-three years back. I’m a long-legged sort, and people in general were shorter in generations past, so the opportunity to buy an antique cane long enough for my use, and at a reasonable price (10 or 15...
  22. tonyb

    You know you are getting old when:

    I got one of those cordless trimmer/clipper gizmos. No fellow of a certain seniority should be without one.
  23. tonyb

    What's something modern you won't miss when it becomes obsolete?

    Has anyone mentioned fax machines? They’re almost obsolete now.

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