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post #4591 of 4983
5/17/09 at 2:29am

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No, I mean the actual model 102 as posted above.
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post #4592 of 4983
5/17/09 at 9:11am

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I got to thinking about The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance this morning. Here's a story about a greenhorn lawyer and a violent type played by the Duke. Sounds an awful lot like my household here: me for the lawyer and my kittie for the Duke. And there's a lot of similarity between Mr. Peabody and my journalist brother.

The film played out as a conflict between the rule of law and self-defense. Fortunately there's no conflict in this household. I'm the lawyer who fancies himself as being handy with a shootin' iron. Although sadly neither side got the girl.
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post #4593 of 4983
5/18/09 at 12:18pm
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Fortunately there's no conflict in this household.

C'mon.... You expect me to believe that? You've got TWO cats!

Can I represent the Marshall Appleyard character?!? Andy Devine's cool!

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post #4594 of 4983
5/18/09 at 1:41pm

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Of course it's possible even in film to be a trial lawyer and a good shot.



"Didn't you know your daddy was the best shot in this county?"
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post #4595 of 4983
5/18/09 at 1:57pm
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What kind of rifle is dear Atticus holding? Looks like something you'd use at a carnival game to knock down ducks spinning on a wheel...
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post #4596 of 4983
5/18/09 at 2:20pm

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I actually just got through looking it up. It's a Krag - the kind the Marines carried approx. 1892 - 1910 when replaced by the 1903 Springfield. That funky side-mounting magazine really gives it away.

Theodore Roosevelt's men carried Krags charging up San Juan hill - although TR himself brought along his 1895 Winchester.

http://www.theodoreroosevelt.org/lif...rs%20rifle.htm

The "Mockingbird" rifle is missing its wooden forestock forward of the sling attachment - must have been a "sporterized" military surplus rifle.
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post #4597 of 4983
5/19/09 at 9:40am
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Looks like something that would have an orange tip if seen today...

I think it's the side-mounting magazine which is one of the things that makes it look "not real" to me.
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post #4598 of 4983
5/20/09 at 6:23am
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You see Henry's "woot" thread this morning?
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post #4599 of 4983
5/20/09 at 3:15pm

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Sadly Woot is such that if you don't check them yourselves early in the AM you will miss any real bargains they post. Normal on-line price for that set is $40 so a $20 woot is a bargain. I might have bought a few to keep in my gift locker.
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post #4600 of 4983
5/20/09 at 8:57pm

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So are Ronbo or Parker going to get us a tour of the White House HT?

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post #4601 of 4983
5/21/09 at 7:53am

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I still can't imagine what 2 FEET of rain in a day must be like.

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post #4602 of 4983
5/21/09 at 7:55am

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Furglisher double post.
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post #4603 of 4983
5/21/09 at 12:53pm
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RL & KC FoD 1989

DK: LiR 2009

RZ & HC, Jr. NIT 2009

MD FD 1993

Cast DW 1986
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post #4604 of 4983
5/21/09 at 7:17pm

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Well I didn't get up too early this morning. I decided to take a drive in the Miata. I left home about 11 AM and by about 1:45 PM was in a nice place for a picnic, so I ate lunch. Afterwards I decided to go for a hike. It was OK but the trail got swampy - covered with either 6 inches of water or maybe a foot of old snow. So my hike only lasted about an hour and a half. At least there was a nice looking pile of rocks to look at. After that I took some pictures and drove home.



Quote:
Almost heaven, mid I-da-ho
Sawtooth mountains, mighty Salmon river
Life is old there, older than the trees
Younger than the mountains, blowing like a breeze

Country roads, take me home
To the place, I be-long
Old I-da-ho, mountain momma
Take me home, country roads

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post #4605 of 4983
5/21/09 at 7:56pm
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I'm not sure...but I think you might've changed a word or two in them there lyrics.

Idaho has its own Stonehenge?


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post #4606 of 4983
5/21/09 at 8:38pm

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The Anasazi people in New Mexico did in fact build a solar observatory similar in function to Stonehenge. But as far as I know none the local tribes here did such things.

http://www.geocities.com/cvas.geo/archaeoastronomy.html

Mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the noonday sun - or build Stonehenge.
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post #4607 of 4983
5/21/09 at 10:47pm
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I suppose if Idahoans were to build a Stonehenge...

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post #4608 of 4983
5/22/09 at 7:29pm

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Did you like my suggestions for baseball?
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post #4609 of 4983
5/23/09 at 6:20pm

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The Simplot family have unveiled their plans for the 4 square blocks they own downtown.



It's convention center facilities and an ag museum. The tall side is to the north so the sun will hit the plants in the "infield".

My first reaction was that it looked like a baseball field, with home plate at the upper right of the "infield".
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post #4610 of 4983
5/24/09 at 9:25pm

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I really like the graphic for "Hopzilla".

http://tablerockbrewpub.com/images/Beer_Menu.pdf
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post #4611 of 4983
5/25/09 at 5:25pm
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I really like the graphic for "Hopzilla".

I dunno. I took a look and had a hankerin' for an Orange Blossom Special!

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The Simplot family have unveiled their plans for the 4 square blocks they own downtown.



It's convention center facilities and an ag museum. The tall side is to the north so the sun will hit the plants in the "infield".

My first reaction was that it looked like a baseball field, with home plate at the upper right of the "infield".

Not altogether too dissimilar from the one square city block in Boston that became Fenway Park back in 1912:

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post #4612 of 4983
5/25/09 at 7:22pm

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Fenway always bothered me as a name: a "fen" is another word for a "swamp". Doesn't sound right as a baseball stadium name.

San Jose is the largest city in the US with neither an NFL or a MLB franchise. Right now the SF 49'ers and the Oakland "A's" are in negotiation to move there. The farm club in San Jose is the "San Jose Giants" which amuses people living in San Francisco.

I'm wondering what they should call any expansion MLB club for Boise. It's not necessary to name a MLB club after a city's farm club: the SF Seals went away. Since Walter Big Train Johnson was the most famous baseball palyer in Idaho history, how about the "Boise Big Johnsons"?
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post #4613 of 4983
5/25/09 at 9:27pm
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Who wouldn't want to play on the Boise Big Johnsons?!?

There is an actual park in Boston known as the Fens. Our friend, Frederick Law Olmstead was, of course, involved. He had his hand in most municipal parks built at the turn of the last century.
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post #4614 of 4983
5/26/09 at 1:51am

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And of course Vaughan Williams wrote "In the Fen Country".

In the Fen Country - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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post #4615 of 4983
5/28/09 at 1:12pm

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post #4616 of 4983
5/28/09 at 1:53pm
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He better run for his life!
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post #4617 of 4983
5/30/09 at 6:57pm
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KW & LD RR 2008

Ginnifer Goodwin, JA, JC HJNTIY 2009

MF G 1989

Macha Méril Une femme mariée 1964

DH TG 1967

A. Fox & Bertille Noël-Bruneau The Fox and the Child 2007
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post #4618 of 4983
5/31/09 at 1:38pm
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Dennis: Check your PMs.
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post #4619 of 4983
5/31/09 at 3:05pm

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I'm a guy: no pms here.
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post #4620 of 4983
5/31/09 at 3:35pm
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You should always keep a check on them.
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