Good read! Thanks for sharing this Jim. There is so much lore that has grown up around the Black Sox it is nice to have info debunking many of the myths.
I have been matched with an active long time member who just never posts about their tobacco preferences or weighs in on threads re a particular blend. Oh well - flyin blind I guess.
Or when you could tell your mom you didn’t call to say you’d be late because you didn’t have a quarter (or a dime depending how far back we want to go)
I remember when my mom bought us a set of encyclopedias at the grocery store. Each week when she did the shopping she came home with a new volume. I was always worried they might run out and we’d be left with an incomplete set.
I went to Catholic school and our principal had a good sized leather paddle strop that we students ccalled “the strap”. If you really messed up you’d have to hold out your hands to receive a few lashes.