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...unless they sell it on the courthouse steps for back taxes, or take it by E.D. to build a highway, lake, or wall across it, or some prosecutor claims a portion of it was paid for with ill-gotten gains...

I believe most of the mortality happens before they're an inch long.

I saw a caravan of RVs with Minnesota tags headed north Saturday. Pretty sure it was the same gaggle of vagabonds I saw headed back south today. Guess I better bring some wood in tonight.

That's easy enough to solve, just Google "spanking for hire". It looks like there's a decent sized industry serving folks that don't think they got spanked as much as they deserved...

That would have been a fairly safe assumption from the early '70s thru 2016.

...not seeing a shad tank anywhere...?

Cool! I told that exact same story as a younger man, only I used "smugglers" instead of "malcontents". Got some pretty good mileage out of that one. 👍

A response that is surprisingly appropriate in a wide variety of pre-Christmas situations; "You'll shoot you eye out, kid."

The Prelinger Archives are a relaxing diversion for me. Historical to hilarious, with lots of stuff I remember from grade school in the '60s. You may find, as I did, that some of the propos that impressed you as a kid were really pretty hokey on review.

Bet there's more than a few here that don't have a clue what you're referring to... I do... those slicky pages really sucked in the wintertime!

A couple hours of that and I'd have to put myself on suicide watch. I'm driving till the wheels fall off and burn!

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I've been lucky enough to get invited to some friends T day dinner for the last several years since I have no family left in the area. Last year I talked them into skipping the ham & turkey and letting me fry catfish for a change of pace. They loved it. This year they asked me to do it again, but one of the brothers insists on bringing a ham too. I'm gonna bring him a loaf of bread so he can make sammiches with all his leftover ham. ☺️

My first encounter with them was below Bagnell back in the '90s. Caught a dozen in about 10 minutes. Must have been hundreds there. My second experience was a misunderstood order I placed at a local taco joint. Not sure how you get 'tilapia ala diabla' from 'camarones ala diabla', but they did. Neither experience was particularly enjoyable.

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