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    Who died? (Celebrity Deaths)

    We didn’t go for the religious stuff but in the early 80s when my wife and I were looking for something to watch on TV, (we could only pull in 5 or 6 channels) we would pause and watch Jimmy Swaggart because he had one of the tightest gospel/old timey/bluegrass bands around. Good tunes.
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    The "What song is this?" thread

    Gary Owen There’s lots of versions of this tune. It’s the March of the 7th Cavalry so it gets associated with Custer and the Little Big Horn but I think it was originally an Irish Jig brought to America in the early 1800s so I chose that version.
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    Rate Movies You've Recently Watched.

    Today is the anniversary of the beginning of the reign of Richard the Third and that reminded me of a movie I watched a couple of weeks ago on Acorn TV called 'The Lost King'. It's about a woman named Philippa Langley and her devotion and work to find the remains of King Richard III. It's a bit...
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    The Phoenician Scheme

    Whelp. I slept through most of this today.
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    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    The park down the street we went to as kids had one of these and a rack for the empties.
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    The Video Thread

    I had no idea…
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    Who died? (Celebrity Deaths)

    Lou Christie
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    Happy Fathers Day

    Happy Father's Day 1988
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    Who died? (Celebrity Deaths)

    Very Sad
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    Home Improvement

    Personally, I would just go down to the local big box and get a 1/3hp Badger or whatever the house brand is. Maybe 1/2hp, but 1/3 has always worked for us. Don’t spend a ton on a “quiet” model. It’s only on for 10 secs at a time once or twice a day, anyway.
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    Dental Problems

    I was going to contribute to this thread and talk about implants but I think I’m going to go and throw up instead.
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    Who died? (Celebrity Deaths)

    I know. It’s a stupid song, but that chick…
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    Who died? (Celebrity Deaths)

    RIP Rick Derringer
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    Home Improvement

    I'm not an electrician. I've got all the parts together to do this and on the surface it's a pretty simple task for a handy kinda guy like me! There are four things that are keeping me from doing this although I will eventually get around to it. 1) The breaker for the generator needs to be in...
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    Funny, Strange, Random Pics