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For what ever part I have played in bringing this telling to light, I must
say that learning so much and the occasional visits from Heinrich have been
such a joy. Ample payback. I feel honored to be part of the team.

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KD may have maintained a humble existence to most eyes, but so much
remains to be made known. A second slice of raisin pie is called for, for
all those researchers who endeavor to bring this tale to light !

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Heinrich wants to remind the viewers that Dimsdale Klamitboffer Jr. got the nickname "Horner" from his well known trusty steed. Jr. was drawn to the horned beast at a young age, after seeing how well it handled deep water crossings with a snorkel. He worked an entire summer sorting punctuation at th...

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Thanks, Steve.

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Strong amethyst headlight lenses ?

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Thanks, super sleuths ! Good intel !

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Dimsdale always looked old for his age. He was just 19 in the above photo. Some said it was on account of having two left feet. Others said it was the mushroom moss. KD suspected a misfiring kaphistulator, and redid the windings in odd/even increments. This helped with the paunch and wrinkles, but c...

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A friend found this. Is enough showing to make a PID ?

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I sure enjoy seeing the dedication some here have to saving/rebuilding stuff.

Thanks for sharing.

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I'll take the coil box, if it is still available.

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No one is looking at the positive side here. Greased brakes provide
far less squeaking, and wear far longer !

You guys need to quit being so negative !

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I bought one of these when they were being developed. What a brilliant
idea that looks like a period part, so as not to distract from the vintage
appearance of our T's. Why do some T people always try to "go around" a
good product and not support those who do good things for the hobby ?

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Based on the color I see, I would say the whole thing is
pie I would not eat !

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So the difference boils down to simply, a comma.

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Having old junk around the place creates a nice ambiance. Signs are always fun,
especially if they are relevant in some way. My Great-Great Grandfather was a
builder and worked with these guys in the late 19th Century to do interior finish
of the places he built.

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I can't imagine why anyone would live in a place like L.A. if Model T's were a big part of their life, but members here often relate fears of taking their T's out, for all the traffic and nutters. Eastern Washington and Oregon are wonderlands for the early car operator. 1000's of miles of backwater ...

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As a kid, Buff Pucker took a shine to the pickled ferrets and began raising them himself. Ma Pucker was quick to see the opportunity to serve pickled ferret, and designated the Tuesday dinner menu at the Pucker House to it as the main course. It was Fogg who suggested selling the product in the road...

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Pickled ferrets are still a favorite around the Tri-Burg area today.

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Funny, but my old man didn't like Model T's. He found them unadaptable for the "hotrods" he and his friends wanted to build, with junkyard V-8's and other go-fast ideas of his time. For him, the Model A was a far better choice. I never had the speed bug. In fact, while he envisioned wild rides and b...

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The thunder mug racers tore their organization apart over the debate of whether the mug be filled with waste matter during the race. Purists held that the mug MUST be full of fecals, while the more safety conscious of the group maintained that accidents were messy and posed a health hazard. The issu...

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A cursory search of the Institute records shows Carborundum swept
the Chugwater 500 in 1911, racing in the Nude Guy, Playing Piano, on
a Motorcycle Sidecar class. I think you all have seen the photo. The
piano sidecar is part of the Institute collection and is regularly run in
the Regatta parade.

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Heinrich told the crowd at last Tuesday's meeting that Elvis
Pelvington came back from the war with Marvis in tow. It is
well known to many that towing a Marvis is no small matter.
The slide show was both entertaining and amazing.

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"Poisoning the minds of youth". Probably not a one of us that wasn't
"poisoned" this way to end up here, reading this.

I do it every chance I get.

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The confusion comes from Henry's dabbling in the frozen snack
market. His original Fudgesicle was eaten and never recovered.

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Rapid really took their steering wheels seriously !

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I think running it without tires is going to prove exceeding dangerous
in the curves, and really hamper getting your built engine's power to
the pavement.

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Buff took his wife's name of Orpington when they married. He was the
8th eldest of the ten Pucker boys. He always felt the name was uncomfortably
close to that of Buff Smucker, inventor of the strawberry.

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And that is the Law of Fortune ! ...... Figures !

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And then there is that .... I paid 8K for my TT. It was pretty much what I wanted. Three weeks later, a friend offered me his near identical truck for half that. Was I stupid ? Bottom line is, I got what I wanted for a price I was willing to pay, and the pleasure I expected to derive from the spendi...

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I have home movies of camping there in the summer of 1963. This is where life went "all wrong" for me. Traveling about in the Sierra foothills in the early 60's, ... it was a wonderland of old mining and logging and ghost town relics and things to poison the minds of youth. I caught it bad, and now ...

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We have a pat answer to MANY questions and situations in my world. For those who are reasonably quick on the uptake, it explains all and makes perfect sense. "Cuz boobs" Personally, I like it for its honesty. It cuts right through the crap and gets to the point. I hear endless smoke-and-mirrors defl...

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Cuthbert began making mean sandwiches after he discovered high grade mean ore in the tailings dump at the Alphabet mine. Mine management was so focused on language elements, they never thought to assay their raw ore for spirit and intent. KD liked the mean sandwiches, because he said it brought bala...

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When I rebuilt my wheels, I clanged on my drums to hear the bell sound.
I know exactly what you mean.

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One of the Iranian leaders declared that the vaccine causes the receiver to
become homosexual.

Just thought I'd pass that along so you folks know what's coming.

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Most interesting indeed. Cuthbert was interviewed for the bit about Humphrey, Dalton, Pucker, and Futz' involvement in the rocket project, in the June, 1933 edition of Hair and Organs magazine. Naturally, this led to comments about the limericks, and Cuthbert confided that he hid the more risqué one...

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Well, that didn't take long ! Thanks, sleuths !

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At one point, KD, in an uncustomary fit of frustration, loaded up all Cuthbert's stale old jokes into the rocket, and sent them over the mountain to Saddlestring. Heinrich says the ground is still littered with them, all around the landing silo. But it was Cuthbert who had the last laugh on KD.... a...

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The high hood and low hinge line, with that super crisp body line
is quite distinctive !

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Kalamity Dick's rocket research predates all other work in the field by decades. Unlike others doing work on this subject later, Kalamity Dick was motivated by commerce, not war. Moving the mushroom moss outside the Chugwater waterway was a costly proposition, and one night at Ernie's, under a mild ...

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Any of our super sleuths able to say what make of car this is ?

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Heinrich happened by on his surrey today and shared this photo, capturing the bucolic scene of the bridge over the barnacle beds at Puckersville. Interestingly enough, Kalamity Dick's seldom photogrpahed or talked about kaphistulator-based rocket is seen on the launch pad, somewhat hidden by the tre...

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TT's have a weird market niche. I offered a friend's nice truck here and other places, ultimately bringing the price down to $3750.00, before it sold. This was 5 years ago. I had just paid $8K for mine, and regretted not finding my friend's truck first, as they were comparable. I paid $1000 for my r...

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The "click bait" comment above nails it. Editor walks in and throws out an idea for the writer to produce 500 words on. The writer doesn't know jack squat about the subject, but does some scratching around and puts together the requested 500 words, just getting "kinda close" to the factual details t...

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As a kid, in the 60's and 70's, a few of the Depression era hoarders that kept EVERYTHING, including ancient trucks and heavy equipment, still lingered around our area. These big, ugly, brutish trucks, built with ZERO thought for looks or aesthetic "balance" never really impressed me, and I regret t...

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*groan*

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Ma Pucker taught evening classes on which side to butter. Cuthbert graduated
with the 1926 class.

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That butter under the bridge is precisely why the Pucker barnacle beds were
so fertile. Others tried to raise good barnacles, but lacked both the butter and
the bridge.

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Fogg had always asked Ma to do her reading on the steps of Fergler's General Merchandise Store, but it was something of folly to even ask, as Ma wanted a front row, corner seat anyway. Fogg's reason was any appearance of conflict of interest and to avoid any suggestion of Russian collusion or electi...

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This book is no good. All the numbers are out of date and Ford doesn't
even offer a car like this anymore ! Sheesh !

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My brother's unit has a seat, much like a bicycle. Not a treadle.

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No saying when I would be able to photo my brother's unit. I am not out
at his place much these days. Moreso when the weather is better. I can
certainly take pix of mine, but being hand cranked and table-mounted, it
will have none of the foot-powered parts in common.

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I recently helped my brother rescue an upright boiler from a barn
and am utterly fascinated with it. It looks like it would take little
work to build it back to functional as shop power or something similar.

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I have a similar example (table top version) in my shop. My brother has
the larger pedal-powered type. Mine is not a MF. Can't remember the mfr.
of my brother's.

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They sure were a chipper bunch, in spite of the mismatched seating. Historians have often commented that no mention or complaint was ever recorded of guests being given unbrewed coffee, straight out of the can. Ma Pucker found the whole brewing process offensively akin to the distilling of alcohol. ...

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The Puckers were well established above the rapids when the Chugwater & Northern pushed their rails toward the headwaters of the mighty Chugwater drainage. The railroad bought the right-of-way of the Humphrey & Dalkins Toll Road and Stage Line and proceeded to upgrade the route to railroad standards...

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No one was unhappier than Fogg Pucker, when the City Council created the trotting tax that forced people like Dr. Muffbonne to seek other options. Soon, trotting was the thing of tax dodgers and outlaws, something that really steamed Fogg. And no one was happier than Fogg about the barnacle cauteriz...

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Of the ten Pucker boys, Horace was the eldest of the three. He married Eunice Wimplewonker (seen holding the secret recipe, at right) in 1904, at Our Lady of Perpetual Sorrow, seen behind Eunice here. Horace was a professional cat juggler and played first chair triangle in the Saddlestring Symphony....

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What kind of crazy person owns a TT anyway ?

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With the braking dynamics of more modern brake systems, what kind of stresses
are transferred to the wheels that were not designed for such stress ? I can see
torqueing spokes right off the hubs, that can now lock up with serious brakes. Am
I all washed up ?

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Clearly, it was rocket fuel. Just look in the background, left ! Duh !

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Last time I checked, Maine and Vermont are next to each other, and upon investigation, the two sellers are only 45 minutes drive apart ! Go figure. I live in Maine and I can tell you that Vermont is not next to Maine. You have the entire State of New Hampshire in between us! :D Keith ==============...

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I purchased two antique like-items recently. One out of Maine, the other Vermont. I am about as far away from these two places as one can get without getting on a boat or crossing a border. I sent checks to each. Both were to send the item once the check cleared. The Maine item arrived here two week...

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Fragrant mound condensor ?

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Good Lord ! THAT is a BRUTE !

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Ask Noah how he gets such good rates. When I sent my bare wheel parts to
him, it cost twice as much as it did for him to ship the completed wheels back !

We both shipped via UPS, but I am quite sure complete wheels weight more than
just the metal parts. He must know a secret.

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" ... Neither were dyed-in-the-smelt but studied and practiced extenuation." A longstanding bit of local wisdom across Calhoun County, often heard around places like Ernie's and the Terminal Café was "He, who smelt it, dealt it". The Puckers considered this low brow humor, but were seasoned in the a...

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The tophat guy looks strikingly like Kalamity Dick. The three in white shirts are undoubtedly Puckers, as listed in the 1910 Annual. As mentioned before, they were a clean lot, even when working. In the cabin photo, the subject in the chair holds that upper arm pose that Cuthbert was often known to ...

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The Pucker clan were stand up folks, and were a bulwark against the moves and machinations of the Spadaford Gang in any upriver operations, forcing them to either go around or abandon such ideas. Fogg Pucker kept Slug Spadaford's left ear, two big toes, and a piece of his tongue on display in the Ar...

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My grandparents' generation, and earlier, had a strong penchant to value their money and possessions for their practical use, not as a statement or fashion, like marketing and advertising have groomed the public to do since. I find it hard to imagine ANYONE today hanging on to their cars or tools or...

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Everything gives you cancer
There's no cure. There's no answer ...

Few acknowledge the cancer risk from carcinogenic music.

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Gonna give that idea a big "NOPE !"

The 70's had so much more to offer !

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I consciously left the area I grew up in, knew, and had built my life, so I could pursue a life amongst the roads where horse and early auto speed might be considered. My profession and pleasure activities were purposely chosen because they could be lived at a horse-drawn pace. I marvel at friends a...

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The coincidence of bringing up clever plots while on the subject of the Pucker clan is amazing. Picker Pucker began dredging the marshes above the rapids in 1904, after discovering a clever plot near the water's edge. The Pucker Plot Co. was incorporated the following year when assay tests proved th...

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I have nothing on Art Fogg. Fogg Pucker was KD's go-to source for curves and circles. KD was lazy that way. But the two enjoyed a decades long friendship and trade partnership, trading curves and circles for arrows and darts, which Pucker had a hard time with. All the Puckers, including Fogg's mothe...

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The is currently an "H" headlight lens on eBay for $800.00

If I bought it and installed it on my truck, my truck would then be worth
at least $600 !

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Had it not been for the strict adherence to the 39% conformity rule, Garvelpatzer would have struggled to achieve interpunction, let alone a full hearkening. Yet in 1919, an outbreak of interpunctionary hearkening caused more than a few Upper Terrace residents to experience high rates of exfoliation...

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Rich mentioned above, the speeds these trucks worked at. Not a lot of us around these days that worked with, or even rode horses and other draft animals. When I got my TT, it had the farm gears and wanted to shake itself apart at any speed north of 15. Even so, as I drove around, wanting to go faste...

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I have been in the General Contracting business, specializing in historic restoration stuff, now for 40 years. I do a LOT of repair and much consideration goes in to keeping wood nice, with minimal maintenance, .... which leads straight to paints and stains. I tell my clients to always use low body ...

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I was very pleased with my entire transaction with Noah. From phone
conversations to final product. It would be hard to have better customer
service and product.

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This is hardly "American". Study the history of business and mercantilism,
currency, and banking.

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A recent poll showed that Tri-Burg area residents had a 39% conformity approval rate, when it came to horn issues. Wilbert Precast is current President of Local 21, United Conformists Union, E.I.E.I.O. Calhoun County Fashion Gazette's Advisory Board recommends a 3º forward tilt of the horns, to the ...

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1969. Got a Model K engine for $50 in the the back field. Had to roll it
in the mud all the way back to Ohio.

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Back this up a little ....

How many eggs are you getting out of those cats and dogs ? Got pix ?

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As requested, a couple photos of the installed OF on the Old Dog.

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Tonight is night three of installing an Anderson manifold and Stromberg OF to the Old Dog. Night One got the old manifolds off, areas of concern cleaned up, and the new carb and manifold installed. I discovered the source of the exhaust in the cab was about 1/3 of the head pipe flange was broken awa...

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Oh, Boy ! The "I've become the old man, yelling at kids to get off my lawn" topic ! :lol: I never learned to type seriously until these comptrometers became an unavoidable nuisance to simply get through life. Like the original poster, I struggled. But like anything, if you work at it, you get better...

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Uncle Lumby was known to summer his sheep down at the lake.

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Does this Original Smith feller know much about keeping crows in
good working order ?

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When this sort of discussion comes up, my brain turns to that old late might TV screen of "snow" and test patterns (remember the indian ?). I have always been an aesthetics-driven old car nut, and based on this foundation, IMO, the last cars rolled out of Detroit about 1970, and everything made sinc...

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Were all 09's red ???

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Kill me now.

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There were many - I had a wrecking yard - but a few stick out: 1960 DeSoto Fireflite coupe. Special built car for a dealer's kid. Bare bones stripper except for 383 X-ram, 3-onda-floor T-85 manual, 3.23 Sure Grip, and 12" drum brakes. 1957 Dodge CHP pursuit car. 325 4bbl Hemi and all the special CHP...

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Noah told me 10 weeks turnaround on my TT wheels. He called much sooner
and said they were done. I think I had then done and back in hand in under 10
weeks. It took me longer to box them up !

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Kalamity Dick was instrumental in the retrofitting of the Chugwater Naval fleet for mucus navigation when Mt. Stinkmore threatened to erupt again in 1922. His side-churn screw-drive propellers were an adaption of the transorbital twist units he built for the Helix Mill, and easily handled the heavy ...

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People have been using dogs like this for centuries.

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Amazing to think of all the things that transpired since Ferdinand Flackenpoth first landed on the shores of Lake Chugwater. Doubtful that he could have ever dreamed that rail mounted gilderflukes would be invented, let alone just a normal thing, as seen here at the Farkle crane, behind the Vestibul...

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One of KD's many organs.

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Am I the only one who finds it hard to believe that cats can maintain
any level of muscle tone ???

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Heinrich just sent a telegram to correct an earlier comment I made. In spite of the "Monthly" name, Hair and Organs magazine was a weekly publication, not a monthly. He states that both hair and organs were quite popular at the time and demand was high. The Chugwater & Northern dispatched unschedule...

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What does your Overachiever's Award look like ?

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