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Not a real member - just an ordinary guy who appreciates being able to hang around and say something once in awhile.
Happily Trapped In the Past (Thanks, Joe)
Not only a less than minimally educated person, but stupid and out of touch as well.
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Shirts made from cow feed sacks. 50 lb bag was material and could be made into shirts, dresses, etc.....
Some mornings, it just does not feel worth it to chew through the straps!~
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life before the internet, color tv, mandatory seat belts, and unregulated big tobacco.
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Cars and trucks made before the dreaded check engine light. I never will for get my Father opening up the hood on his Cadillac and asking me what he was checking for, the engine is there and looks fine.
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Charter Member Ancient order of the 1895 Winchester
"It's an insecure and petite man who demands all others like what he likes and dislike what he dislikes." szihn
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Campfire Savant
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Campfire Savant
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I remember swats cause I got a bunch, feed sacks made into shirts too.
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Campfire Outfitter
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Sheets and pillow cases from flour sacks! memtb
You should not use a rifle that will kill an animal when everything goes right; you should use one that will do the job when everything goes wrong." -Bob Hagel
“I’d like to be a good rifleman…..but, I prefer to be a good hunter”! memtb 2024
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Walking to the store alone as an 8 year old and buying your dad a pack of Winstons.
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Walking to the store alone as an 8 year old and buying your dad a pack of Winstons. We lived about 2 blocks from the corner store, I remember pushing the push lawnmower to the store to fill up with gas and pick up a pack of Lucky Strikes for dad.... I think he gave me two quarters for both.... I drove a truck to school that had floor board starter button..... I remember my brother and I found an old wooden barrel, took it apart, picked two nice staves, drove a nail in each(so your shoe would stick) threw one end of a rope over the horses neck, tied a stick to the other to make a T-handle..... we each took turns 'driving' and 'skiing' behind a horse across a Florida pasture... surprisingly no arms or legs were broken.........
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"...A man's rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box and the cartridge box..." Frederick Douglass, 1867
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Our gardens were organic because we couldn't afford fertilizer or DDT. We used chicken manure, and picked the bugs off by hand. Kept us kids busy. All our eggs were free-range, our beef was grass-fed, our pigs ran the river swamp and were rounded up once a year to notch the new ones' ears. Chickens tasted like chicken. We grew and canned most of our fruit and vegetables. You could hunt anywhere in the woods and swamps without asking permission. We were expected to be respectful of all adults, and heaven help you if you got in trouble at school and they found out about it. The teacher or principal gave you licks for whatever sin you committed, and the parents gave you more for being an embarrassment to the family.
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Taking your new shotgun to school in your car to show your buddies..
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Teachers in grade school asking to borrow your knife for a minute.
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Penny candy - and the drug store clerk fuming while you made up your mind over a nickel's worth.
Had a real soda fountain too with Green River.
(Getting old but not THAT old. Like 1st grade in a small rural town where things like that die slowly.)
Also picking up things for Gramma at the local grocer and having it put on a tab for Grampa to settle when the paycheck came in.
The key elements in human thinking are not numbers but labels of fuzzy sets. -- L. Zadeh
Which explains a lot.
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Walking to the store alone as an 8 year old and buying your dad a pack of Winstons. I was about that age, when I walked into a Beer Joint and got my Dad.
I'm here to increase my social credit score and rub elbows with some of the highest rollers on the internet.
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Waiting in line for polio and small pox vaccinations at school. OUCH ! Extra milk was .01¢ in the school lunch line. Camel brand tube patch kit's for bicycles.
James Pepper: There's no law west of Dodge and no God west of the Pecos. Right, Mr. Chisum? John Chisum: Wrong, Mr. Pepper. Because no matter where people go, sooner or later there's the law. And sooner or later they find God's already been there.
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Campfire Kahuna
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Campfire Kahuna
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I put bagged seed corn in today. Paper bags, not cloth, those were before my time. Feed, and flour in cloth bags yes.
Saturdays morning Radio shows.
These premises insured by a Sheltie in Training ,--- and Cooey.o "May the Good Lord take a likin' to you"
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Gunny sack for a fish stringer.
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Mercury in thermometers, you could break then and play with the shinny liquid, coat dimes etc. How come we didn't all die?
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Sodas/pop in glass bottles....and not that Mexican [bleep].
I'd get a Bubble Up on Saturday or Sunday when Dad took me to the farm.
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