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What are You Listening To? September '24
When my boys were little I used to torture them by playing George and Melba in my pickup until eventually they learned to like it. Melba has the most hillbilly accent in all country music. She sings like I do. Melba also did the best female version of Another Bridge to Burn.- Briar Lee
- Post #292
- Forum: General Discussion
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What are You Listening To? September '24
Jim Reeves and Dottie West tore up the old honky tonk standard cheating song “Love Is No Excuse”.- Briar Lee
- Post #291
- Forum: General Discussion
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How Do You Remove Rust?
If there was something better than Naval Jelly then my old dead philosopher, genius, machinist, pilot, yachtsman, inventor, and raconteur buddy Jack (who invented the orange balls you see at the ends of every runway on earth warning pilots of low wires) would have found it. Jack always wondered...- Briar Lee
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- Forum: General Discussion
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Why We're Doomed, aka Paying for a Pizza
The Amish, Mennonites, and old order Scottish Christian Church (Campbellites) are extremely close theologically (i.e. we are more or less closed cults) yet the Amish resist technology and we Campbellites simply revel in it. I patronize all the Amish stores I can for everything I can buy there...- Briar Lee
- Post #137
- Forum: General Discussion
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Esteli Nicaragua cigars
It would be in the best interest of everyone in America and in Cuba to normalize our trade relations. The Cubans still operate our cars from the fifties. We have to be content with Dominican, Honduran and Nicaraguan cigars. We’d both come out winner. But last night I was with a group of...- Briar Lee
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- Forum: Cigar Discussion
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Why We're Doomed, aka Paying for a Pizza
There are 195 nations in this world that print postage stamps. That’s how the bean counters keep track of nations. America has the finest post office in all the recorded history of mailing a letter. The stamps we buy today, have no denomination. They’ll mail a one ounce letter until...- Briar Lee
- Post #101
- Forum: General Discussion
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Why We're Doomed, aka Paying for a Pizza
I love going to political rallies because it makes me feel young. At sixty six I’m still of the younger generation. This is JC. He was a young schoolteacher fifty years ago that used to be up on the walks above my head at the Cattleman Auction and he never disparaged us boys who ran the...- Briar Lee
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- Forum: General Discussion
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Esteli Nicaragua cigars
My father and his fellow Grade A milk producers made the best tasting whole milk on the planet, fifty or so years ago. There were some fortunate minerals and nutrients in the prairie grass of South West Missouri that made the milk taste good. The best filler for cigars still comes from...- Briar Lee
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- Forum: Cigar Discussion
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Esteli Nicaragua cigars
I’ve become addicted to Bouy Gold tobacco. It’s not only ridiculously dirt cheap its a ridiculously good Virginia bright leaf forward blend. At the tobacco shop in Versailles today where I was buying two pounds of Buoy Gold for about $25 there were Odessey hand rolled cigars on the counter...- Briar Lee
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- Forum: Cigar Discussion
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Why We're Doomed, aka Paying for a Pizza
Thanks to the efficiency of agriculture, and a really crackerjack public school, and brand new four lane roads leading to Springfield Missouri, Humansville has become a poor rural ghetto today where fat mothers sit on porches and scream at little kids to get out of the way of traffic. Dollar...- Briar Lee
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- Forum: General Discussion
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Why We're Doomed, aka Paying for a Pizza
I remember sitting in the barber shop once and the old men were making the usual gripes on how bad times were, how lazy kids were, and what an awful world it was in general, unlike the Great Depression times they grew up in. One old man took out his can of Prince Albert and said This costs a...- Briar Lee
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- Forum: General Discussion
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Why We're Doomed, aka Paying for a Pizza
Because my mother and father took me to the Humansville Christian Church three times each week from birth, and because I read and discussed the red letters in the Gospels countless times, and learned all those old ballads, and because I had wonderful school teachers at Humansville Schools, I...- Briar Lee
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Why We're Doomed, aka Paying for a Pizza
The best part about being young, was when they sold the retired bucking bulls for hamburger, I was the only kid quick and spry enough to stand there and listen to the bulls banging the bars on the sale ring, and the auctioneer bantering with the ringmaster over the open microphone Watch out...- Briar Lee
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- Forum: General Discussion
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Why We're Doomed, aka Paying for a Pizza
Missouri’s minimum wage today is $12.30 an hour. The people who have a business plan profitable enough to pay $25 an hour can get the same pick of young employees as when minimum wage was $1.60 an hour and they paid me and JD Bobinmeyer $2.50 an hour, plus cheeseburgers and Pepsis served by...- Briar Lee
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Why We're Doomed, aka Paying for a Pizza
Across the road from the largest cannabis grow factory in Missouri, if not the entire planet, north of Humansville is the Cattleman Auction Company, which fifty years ago was the largest auction barn in the Quad County area, and as brand new then as the reefer factory is today. The nephew of...- Briar Lee
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What are You Listening To? September '24
Sunday Morning Coming Down is one of the most pathetic examples of the high cost of low living ever recorded. One of the reasons I never became a drunkard was these lines in this masterpiece. I woke up Sunday morning with no way to hold my head, that didn’t hurt The beer I had for breakfast...- Briar Lee
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Power Matic IV Tax Beating Machine Review
Aside from the delicious taste of Buoy Gold the economics of using a Powermatic IV are amazing. 20 pounds of Buoy Gold and 10 five packs of Golden Harvest tubes cost $320 online, and make 10,000 cigarettes, or 50 cartons. 50 cartons of tailor made American Spirit cigarettes cost about $5,000...- Briar Lee
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Cheap Walkie Talkies Work!
Sorry, nauzetobserve, but commercial links from new posters get deleted. I see you've joined here two years ago, so a belated welcome! But step up a post a year and become involved! Maybe start with an introduction. Technological development is a rachet. Once upon a time in Humansville...- Briar Lee
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Power Matic IV Tax Beating Machine Review
One of my other passions is firearms, and about a dozen years ago I bought a pair of Ruger Flattop 44 Special 4 3/4” barrel revolvers and a thousand cases from Starline at Sedalia Missouri for them to load. I still own 44 Magnum and 357 Magnum revolvers but Elmer Keith was right about the...- Briar Lee
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What are You Listening To? September '24
Hee signature song and the title of the movie about her is Coal Miner’s Daughter, but like many other hillbilly boys I’ll always regard The Home You’re Tearing Down as Loretta Lynn’s best song: Beginning with a crying steel guitar, there’s the line— Once some happy faces, would have met you at...- Briar Lee
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- Forum: General Discussion