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("I wondehed about'at meat ya Ma give us when we was oveh t'eah," comments Joe. "I guess now I kn..." "Whatcha mean?" interrupts Sally. "I c'n tell ya 'zackly 'bout t'at meat. It's hawrsmeat." "Hawrsmeat?" gulps Joe. "Soitn'ly," replies Sally. "We wen' oveh t'Newehk onna bus one day while you was sleepin'. Wen'na t'at 'Man 'a Wawr" jernt an' picked out s'm steaks." "I ate HAWRSMEAT?" Joe repeats, the color draining from his face. "Yeah, ya did. An' ya said 't'is is t'swelles' steak I had in yeeahs,' if I recall c'reckly. Now, what was you implyin' about Ma?" "What kin'a hawrs was it?" stammers Joe. "I dunno," shrugs Sally. "T'ey didn' have nametags on'm a' nut'n. Prob'ly some ol' milk wagon hawrs a'sump'n." "Oh," sighs Joe. "Whassamatteh?" asks Sally. "T'eah's a wawr on, y'know. If ya gotta eat a hawrs, y'can't be too p'ticuleh 'bout what kin'a hawrs it is. Y'can't go askin' f'innehductions." "I s'pose," Joe concludes. "I just wouldn' wanna eat a hawrs I mighta, you know, bet on..." "What?" "Nut'n.")
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"'specially if he paid off." "What?" "Nut'n."
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An Army sergeant from Brooklyn who from a Corregidor telegraph key tapped out the last poignant messages before the island fortress fell to the Japanese last spring has been reported alive in a Japanese prisoner of war camp. Twenty-two year old radio operator Irving Strobing, of 605 Barbey Street in East New York was last heard from on May 5th, when his final message describing the last hour of shelling as "too much for the boys to take" was received. Since then nothing was heard from the young sergeant, but yesterday his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Strobing, received official notification from the Army that their son is alive. "I could feel that he is alive," declared Mrs. Strobing. "Call it a mother's intuitiion."
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"Of the 27,000 Americans taken prisoner by the Japanese, a shocking 40 percent died in captivity, according to the U.S. Congressional Research Service."
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(Shaw's a piker. My winter coat is 82 years old.)
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Was that your mom's or grandmother's coat? I thought you were in the market for a vintage winter coat?
A well-made suit that is well cared for has at least two decades in it. I have a tweed sport coat that is entering its forth decade of life. It's a Harris Tweed one that I bought on sale in '91 or '92 and, other than replacing the lining once, it's still going strong.
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(Don't worry folks, I'm sure by now they've found all the unexploded bombs...)
There's a pretty good old TV show, "Danger UXB" that centers around a bomb disposal unit's work in London during WWII. Here's its IMDB page: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078593/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
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That's IT? C'mon, Gould, we know you can do better than this. Remember Krome? Remember Little Face? Where's the swarm of bees???
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No kidding, at minimum, Gould should have had the shard of glass cut Prune Face's carotid artery and have him bleed out. Any writer could do a flesh wound of the wrist.
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"Goot Evening?" Don't they give these spies elocution lessons?
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Based on what we see in the comics, half the population of the United States is made up of German spies. The Abwehr had to be working overtime to meet the demand from the comicstrip writers alone, so some poorly trained ones were bound to slip through.
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Jeez, Jimmy -- took ya long enough.
It's nice to see that most people get what's going on.