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Curiosity Killed the Cat & The Prairie Dog âMolon Labeâ
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I found a walter payton rookie card but it was in a trailer, so I guess that doesnât count
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Wall full o' razor blades.
abusus non tollit usum
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Wall full o' razor blades. Behind the medicine cabinet when they used to have a slot for razor blade disposal?
Fight fire, save lives, laugh in the face of danger.
Stupid always finds a way.
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I have never found anything of value in an old house, cabin, or barn. A friend of mine (who is gone now) was buying up farms in the late 50's and early 60's. If there were buildings on the place he would take a look in the attics and crawl spaces if they had one and if nothing was there he would doze it in a pile and burn it. One farm he bought had two Winchesters in it. A Model 12 12 ga. built in 1924 and a 1895 lever action in 30-40. They were in a closet in the living room of the farm house just leaned against the wall in plain site. He used the model 12 as a pheasant and duck gun for years.
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Wall full o' razor blades. Behind the medicine cabinet when they used to have a slot for razor blade disposal? Yes, and I've even seen those slots in fairly recently construction.
abusus non tollit usum
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Not a find, but rather what we had to clean up. My uncle used to move mobile homes before he died. One Saturday, he took us to a mobile home he was to move and gave my cousins and I some cleaning supplies and told us to clean the âketchupâ off the floor. Ketchup my ass, it was blood as a husband had murdered his wife there and we cleaned up her blood. We didnât know for quite a while what we actually had cleaned up that day. Probably couldnât get away with that now. That was over 30 years ago.
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My parents bought an old shack that we tore down and put a cabin on in Minnesota in 1979. There were whisky bottles stashed all over that house and the surrounding lot. One pile seemed to keep on until we were digging a couple of feet down in the dirt, so we finally quit digging. In one of the closets I found a stack of Walt Disney comics from 1950-1952. Probably about 15 of them. Not a whole lot of value, I think one was listed at about $600 the last time I had them appraised. I have kept them all these years, not sure what I'll do with them yet. Too bad that kid didn't like Marvel comics.
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Under the house once owned by a short Italian immigrant that drove a Cadillac and owned strip malls, I found desiccated rats. I got a Beretta 25acp from his descendants in the trust fund, for $175 in 2002. They called 380s, "cannons" and would not own one because of recoil.
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. -Ernest Hemingway The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.-- Edward John Phelps
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