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  1. green papaya

    Your TOP Bogart movie..?

    Treasure of the Sierra Madre, because it has lots of action & adventure the young Mexican boy selling newspapers was actor Robert Blake.
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    9mm or 45cal

    Ive seen farmers kill livestock with one shot from a .22 to the head on cows, pigs , a .22 can be very deadly in the right spot , plus makes less noise. last summer I saw a guy slaughtered a full grown cow and he shot it with a .22 rifle to kill it , I think it only took one shot to the head.
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    PATHS OF GLORY starring Kirk Douglas A World War I French colonel defends three soldiers picked to be shot for a general's blunder. Directed by Stanley Kubrick
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    Things that make you smile

    I hate the rainy season, I prefer long dry seasons , less chance on flooding, safer a drought is more pleasant, less green grass to worry about, I prefer the dry desert / brown look. rain causes mud slides , road hazards, fallen trees, flash floods sunny dry weather = :)
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    What's for Dinner?

    pork chops, rice, bok choy , kimchee
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    You Know You Live in a Small(ish) Town When...

    when the town turns into a "GHOST TOWN" historic tourist attraction like a little place called "LOCKE , CA" http://www.locketown.com/ Locke, also known as Locke Historic District, is an unincorporated community in California's Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta built by Chinese immigrants...
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    The wonderful foods of the Golden Era

    I remember eating lots of Liver & onions, meat loaf, spaghetti dinners, Chicken ALA KING with chicken peas & carrots, white gravy served over wide noodles. Also Chicken & Dumplings , fried chicken livers & gizzards, cow's tongues, cow's brains, beef tripe, tuna & gravy on rice
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    GUESS WHO'S COMMING TO DINNER? starring Sydney Poitier, Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Katharine Houghton (1967) When Joanna Drayton (Katharine Houghton), a free-thinking white woman, and black doctor John Prentice (Sidney Poitier) become engaged, they travel to San Francisco to meet her...
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    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    The traditional funerals do seem to be on the decline? possibly because of the high costs of a funeral and burial, many are choosing no services and cremation, either way the remains are going back to the earth, except with cremation it's much faster and cheaper.
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    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    never hear of bomb shelters / fall out shelters anymore? do they even have the old duck & cover drills at schools these days? the fear has changed from the threat of nuclear war to the threat of school shootings / mass shootings & violence society in general has become much more dangerous...
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    John Wayne in "McQ" Police Lieutenant Lon McQ investigates the killing of his best friend and uncovers corrupt elements of the police department dealing in confiscated drugs.
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    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    I would wear double socks or stuff some newspaper in the toe to make big shoes fit, I wore the same jacket from 4th grade to the 8th grade until it started getting too small for me, other kids use to say your still wearing that same jacket from 4th grade?
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    What's for Dinner?

    Chinese take out: House Special Chow Mein , Shrimp fried rice, Sweet & Sour Pork, egg rolls.
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    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    The Old Fashioned barbershop, when they use to always finish your haircut with hot lather and a straight razor and cut around the neck and ears, then finish it off with some hair tonic and then combed neatly , they would hand you a mirror so you could see the back and ask if it's OK? a real...
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    You know you are getting old when:

    you know your getting old when the guys no longer ask a mother & daughter if they are sisters? some mothers & daughters actually look like sisters if the mother had a child at a young age [17 - 20] then when the daughter is 18 the mother is 35 and some women still look like they are in their...
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    TO CATCH A THIEF starring Cary Grant & Grace Kelly When a reformed jewel thief is suspected of returning to his former occupation, he must ferret out the real thief in order to prove his innocence. To Catch a Thief (1955) - locations. To Catch a Thief (1955) was primarily filmed on location in...
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    What's for Dinner?

    chicken wings, rice, vegetables, Bud Light
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    Show us your Vintage Rucksacks!

    US Marine Corps M1941 pack system. This was issued starting in mid-1942 to replace the overly complicated and inefficient M1928 Haversack.
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    Your favorite movie quotes

    FALLING DOWN starring Michael Douglas public park scene: Bum: That's a hell of a way to treat a vet, man. Bill Foster: You're an animal doctor? Bum: No, a VETERAN. I was in Nam. Bill Foster: What were you, a drummer boy? You must have been 10 years old. Bum: I meant the Gulf. I meant to say...
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    You know you are getting old when:

    While watching the movie "LIFEBOAT" a 1942 Alfred Hitchcock story, I remember a scene when a lady on the boat makes a remark about one of the other passenger's numerous tattoos, she said she could never understand why people would make a billboard of their body with those markings / letters, etc...

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