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    Show us your Guns!

    I also fired on the small arms range with ROTC when I was a freshman and it, too, was inside the stadium somewhere, just across the street from where I lived the whole time I was in school there. That was at WVU. The mascot of the school was the Mountaineer who would shoot off his muzzleloader...
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    Democracy

    Those words have no meaning when people like that use them. It's like honor among thieves. Patriotism, I think, might be confused with loyalty to the government, to the party, to the party leader and so on. But during the American Revolution, the patriots were on one side, the loyalists on the...
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    Tourist cabins, auto and motor courts

    I don't know anything about those pads. However, there are still sea-side trailer courts on the Outer Banks of North Carolina, though no more than three or four, if that many. It's an awfully hot and (usually) dry place in the summer and they don't look like inviting places to stay. There are...
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    Tourist cabins, auto and motor courts

    One such place was Treasure island Mobile Home Park in Laguna Beach, California. Given the value of beach front land in California, it's surprising that it lasted until 2003. The whole area is thoroughly developed now with very expensive house on top of one another. The whole place is on a cliff...
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    Tourist cabins, auto and motor courts

    Oh, I think you do have something very similar in the U.K. and on the continent. The Sea Breeze auto court is pretty much the same as the little holiday villages along the Atlantic coast. There are differences, of course, and the Sea Breeze may be unusual in being located (I guess) near the...
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    Democracy

    The Klan worships a long-gone civilization that they were probably never a part of, although the percentage of the free who owned slaves was much higher than is claimed in several states. The South worships honor. The North worships freedom, at least as they see it. The West also worships...
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    9mm or 45cal

    I see you like the old-style grips, same as I did, although I never had any like that. I also note from the condition that it's actually been used and carried in a holster. I also note that it appears to be a five-inch barrel, which I also like. They're hard to find, though.
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    9mm or 45cal

    I would never let a state police agency's choice of a handgun influence my choices. That's not to say nobody has. I probably came closest to having most of the guns Skeeter Skelton preferred. As far as the cost of the ammunition goes, if that were the overriding consideration, the only choice...
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    Democracy

    That's easy for you to say.
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    Did the Rules of Etiquette Provide a Greater Sense of Safety For Women?

    My mother-in-law's cousin lived past 100. My mother-in-law is 95, though not in as good a shape as her cousin was. My son-in-law's grandmother (on his father's side) served in the R.A.F. in WWII and is still alive. It's a long lived family. The one who was in the RAF has interesting comments...
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    Old gas stations

    I did not know that Quonset was a brand name. I learn something most everyday. I do know, however, that people in my hometown of around 7500 people depending on the year complained about the traffic and the lack of parking in the downtown business district, if you can call it that (about four...
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    Old gas stations

    I'll bet people complained about how awful the traffic was, too. Notice the "One-hour Martinizing" sign on the right beyond the vertical "value" sign.
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    Did the Rules of Etiquette Provide a Greater Sense of Safety For Women?

    You certainly have a way with words.
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    Did the Rules of Etiquette Provide a Greater Sense of Safety For Women?

    Good luck to you. I'm 71 this month and I haven't retired yet. I would like to but I'm not sure if I ever will, for a number of reasons.
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    Did the Rules of Etiquette Provide a Greater Sense of Safety For Women?

    Traditionally, women generally worked alongside men. That is, among the "working class." That didn't apply to the ruling class, of course, or very rich merchants. Most people were working class. It isn't something to be proud of, exactly, because it was hardly an achievement. That's what you...
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    Did the Rules of Etiquette Provide a Greater Sense of Safety For Women?

    I never knew anyone, man or woman, who played golf, cards, or tennis, did volunteer work, helped kids with homework or gave parties. The kids tended to be better educated than their parents before they graduated from high school. There are indeed, class differences. I also find comments about...
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    Did the Rules of Etiquette Provide a Greater Sense of Safety For Women?

    Well, it would only have seemed that way. But instant communication doesn't necessarily complicate your life, although having to deal with people a long distance away and being expected to do so quickly will, I suppose. The information overload, as you put it, is something else, though. It makes...
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    Did the Rules of Etiquette Provide a Greater Sense of Safety For Women?

    When I moved to the Washington, D.C., area, I saw a notice in the paper about some Scottish Country Dance groups and I went to one. And then to another one that met on a different night. I was hooked. It was the center of my social life for several years. The people I met and got to know changed...
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    Did the Rules of Etiquette Provide a Greater Sense of Safety For Women?

    Oh, I had a lot more freedom when I was in my late teens and twenties. That was my whole point. Power? No, I didn't have any power then and I don't now. Life has gotten easier, to be sure, and most of the problems have finally disappeared. We have zero debt, two cars less than two years old...
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    Did the Rules of Etiquette Provide a Greater Sense of Safety For Women?

    Fair enough but today and for a long time since, there are those who aren't part of the local community. It's the "race of man that don't fit in." That's tolerated more in some places than in others, of course, possibly due to a lack of any real social control that enforces group solidarity or...
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