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Merry Christmas everybody!!
Same. Here's wishing you and yours the best holiday season you've yet had.- plain old dave
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- Forum: Hats
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What was the last TV show you watched?
Doctor Who. The Time Meddler, Part Four. I love vintage DW; they do almost everything with the plot instead of effects.- plain old dave
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- Forum: The Moving Picture
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Show us your Guns!
Newest target with a 32-20 made when H. L. Mencken was at the top of his game, and two choices for a Threepersons holster. Thinking about the black one with retention strap like the brown one. Sent from my SM-J700T using Tapatalk- plain old dave
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- Forum: The Display Case
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A Vintage Christmas..
Seemed like a good idea for this time of year. What are some ways the Forum brings the Golden Age into the holiday season? For us: -A Christmas Story -It's A Wonderful Life -Charlie Brown -Several others -One somewhat non-conformist thing we do is we turn on every last light we have on...- plain old dave
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- Forum: The Observation Bar
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What Are You Reading
Various essays by H. L. Mencken and his "My Life As Author and Editor." What Chet Atkins was to guitars, the Sage of Baltimore was to Golden Age American prose; the American language through Mencken's one typewriter was an instrument in the hands of a master.- plain old dave
- Post #7,658
- Forum: The Reading Room
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The 80s, myth and reality?
Well, as a child of the 80s, I have a few comments; graduated high school in 1989. -Firstly, so much of what's in the media is honestly cartoonish. Sure, all the girls at Knoxville Central had big hair, and I remember the strong odor of Ultra Net outside the girls' bathrooms. All told, though...- plain old dave
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- Forum: The Observation Bar
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What Are You Reading
The Impossible Mencken, a collection of his work compiled by a Ms. Marion Elizabeth Rogers. I had completely forgotten how much I enjoy his work.- plain old dave
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- Forum: The Reading Room
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What are you listening to?
This might just be the perfect bluegrass tune. Easiest music in the world to drive fast to. Sent from my SM-J700T using Tapatalk- plain old dave
- Post #15,924
- Forum: Radio
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H.L. Mencken
About the only area in this regard HLM could be criticized for is not recognizing Nazism for what it was for a VERY long time. Probably colored by his German-American upbringing, enthusiastic support for Germany in WW1 (including a reporting venture through Germany in 1916-17) and concurrent...- plain old dave
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- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Show us your Guns!
[/URL] New wood on the 88. Sent from my SM-J700T using Tapatalk- plain old dave
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- Forum: The Display Case
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H.L. Mencken
I used The American Language in college to try to satisfy the language requirement by studying American. Sent from my SM-J700T using Tapatalk- plain old dave
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- Forum: The Observation Bar
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H.L. Mencken
Read Hills Of Zion. You don't see contempt for the plain people so much as you do pity. He loathed Bryan, but simply pitied his followers. Sent from my SM-J700T using Tapatalk- plain old dave
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- Forum: The Observation Bar
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H.L. Mencken
Agree, in general. Probably a combo of disdain for Babbitts, Roosevelt II, and the New Deal provoked HLM to batten down the hatches and wait for better days. He had, after all, been an active reporter for over 35 years and was in his later 50s in 1936, and retirement was probably in the mix...- plain old dave
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- Forum: The Observation Bar
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H.L. Mencken
While HLM did withdraw from political discourse in the 30s, I have always thought it was more based on his instinctive hatred of the New Deal than any idea of his persona getting long in the tooth. He was one of Ayn Rand's favorite writers. "On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the...- plain old dave
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- Forum: The Observation Bar
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H.L. Mencken
Old post, but a few thoughts. Good points made on trying to pigeonhole the man. While he admired Nietzsche, his idea of the superior man was more based on individuals than races. He was one of the most savage critics of lynching active in the Jazz Age, and regularly called racism "Ku Kluxery."...- plain old dave
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- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Show us your Guns!
1892 Erfurt Gewehr 88 "Commission Rifle. " in it for hilariously little money. Sent from my SM-J700T using Tapatalk- plain old dave
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- Forum: The Display Case
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Show us your Guns!
Cleans up pretty well. Same 11-48. Sent from my SM-J700T using Tapatalk- plain old dave
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- Forum: The Display Case
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Show us your Guns!
Poly. Sent from my SM-J700T using Tapatalk- plain old dave
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- Forum: The Display Case
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Show us your Guns!
1952 vintage Remington 11-48, or 11-'48 by the manual. 20 gauge gun. Sent from my SM-J700T using Tapatalk- plain old dave
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- Forum: The Display Case
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Show us your Guns!
Just back from the shop. The 1903 had a carryup issue, and the 1905 was just loose. Shooting both later today. Sent from my SM-J700T using Tapatalk- plain old dave
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- Forum: The Display Case
