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    What was the last TV show you watched?

    There was an exchange in "Frazier" that ranks as one of the shortest/funniest/cleverest bits of dialogue in any sitcom. To set the scene, Frazier and Lilith had one son while they were still married. After their divorce Lilith moved away from Seattle. In this episode she has come back to...
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    He wasn't the only one... There was an article in the local paper about the retirement of the mayor of a small town in our vicinity who was named "Richard Head". It was a complimentary article and the people they quoted seemed to like him. Still, a politician named "Richard Head" seemed a bit...
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    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    Speaking of bookcases, I was going to comment that we had so many used book stores here in Nashville that I was running out of bookcases to keep all the old books in that I buy. In addition to the exclusively book stores, almost all the "antique" stores (and we have a lot of those) have several...
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    Show us your Guns!

    It took me years of looking to find my 1917 Commercial. Very rare around here. I had to buy two 1917 S&W's from the same guy (one military and one commercial) to get it.
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    Show us your Guns!

    I'm glad you didn't take offense. There is a similar situation concerning a Garand I bought a long time ago. I would not cut up a good Garand myself, but I did buy one that someone else had converted to .308 and which used M14 magazines. That was the time I originally thought off the puppy...
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    Films and shows that COULD NEVER Be Made Today!

    I thought about making the same sort of comment when the "Beverly Hillbillies" was mentioned as a show that could not be made today. As a southerner I was always pleased that the Clampetts were portrayed as honest, caring, and quite civilized people despite their poor financial origins and lack...
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    Show us your Guns!

    It's a free country and you can do what you want, but the idea of cutting off the barrel of an antique S&W, regardless of condition, gives me a real pain. If someone told me they were getting a new puppy and planned to amputate one of his legs, I'd have the same reaction.
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    Sears might be going belly up

    Around here, the upscale and larger-size malls are doing booming business - lines of cars are a mile long just to get into the parking lots. (Personally, I wouldn't sit in a line that long if they were giving the stuff away.) The smaller/cheaper malls have already died and been demolished or...
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    My Three Sons (tv show fiction i'm writing)

    In the original series, Steve Douglas was an aeronautical engineer. As one who did some time as an aeronautical engineer myself, the idea that he or I would be able to change anyone in any significant way (including gender) is comical. I suspect old Steve had trouble enough just to get the...
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    Jodhpurs / Breeches

    Since it's the 100th anniversary of WWI, there are a number of us doing WWI reenacting. That means that you need to wear puttees sometimes, and my verdict is that they were a mistake from the word "go". A nuisance to put on and a worse nuisance to keep on... I avoid the issue whenever possible...
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    Films and shows that COULD NEVER Be Made Today!

    It doesn't get much better than the the black-and-white Fleischer Popeyes, even for modern audiences. Each year I show "Lost 'n Foundry" to my Manufacturing Processes class of engineering seniors to illustrate industrial safety (or the lack thereof). They always laugh in the right places...
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    Old gas stations

    "Yank" didn't have the slightly-sexy tire ads, but it did have its famous full-page pin-up in every issue. Some were movie stars and some were "girl-next-door" types. Probably the origin of the "I only buy "Yank" for the articles." excuse...
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    Chronic Illness

    This is an outsider's opinion, but a nearby outsider: I suspect that the proximity and collaboration of Vanderbilt Hospital, which is literally right next door to the Nashville VA, helps with keeping the VA's treatment-quality up. Vanderbilt is rated in the Top-10 and at least used to share...
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Paladin was, I think, unique in being a college-educated (West Point) hired-gun. He quoted the classics on a regular basis and I always felt a bit lacking in education by not recognizing most of them.
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    Show us your Guns!

    I think I will retire and move to South Carolina. Those kinds of guns at those prices is amazing. A Model 10 in that condition would be near $400 here (Nashville).
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    Pants to go with my A-2

    As a long-term reenactor (and history enthusiast) myself I think you'd enjoy it a lot. Around here (mid-South) as a female reenactor you'd fit right in. We have both civilian/Home-Front and military (shooting) events. For the more military events the female reenactors can be French Resistance...
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    Favorite Uniforms

    In addition to reenacting I have been "collecting" WWII uniforms and field gear for a long time and wear it sometimes in reenacting and sometimes just for day-to-day. That Arctic version of the M41 that you mentioned is noticeably better than the plain M41 and I always felt it was what should...
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Since Otter's father was in the Home Guard, this sort of personal insult seems below what I thought was expected from Fedora Lounge decorum.
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Do you know if it was a US Enfield 1917 or a Pattern 14? They looked identical, since the Model of 1917 was an "Americanized" version of the Pattern 14 (British design). The Home Guard used both, and the Model of 1917 rifles in Home Guard service had a band of red paint near the front of the...
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    Dating for Fedora Loungers?

    Yes

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