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RDCanecutter

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  1. He's a lil outlaw ain't he...
  2. Bumped into a 1968 25 pesos Olympics coin today. Not perfect but still good-lookin. Just a smidge more than 1/2 oz asw at 16.2 grams silver. One of the nicer looking snake n eagles. "Independencia y libertad" struck on the rim, fakes usually have a plain milled edge like a US Quarter or dime. In 1968 the exchange rate was 12.5 pesos to a dollar, so this coin would have been $2 bucks US then, or about $20 now.
  3. On my street we "big kids" would hijack the little kids' Big Wheels, and while we couldn't sit in them, we could stand on the back, get some speed going, then KICK the Big Wheel at its target, usually another kid on a bike. When we weren't back in a vine-choked mass of brambles, cutting tunnels with machetes. The tunnels were part of a "fort" system that we would test by convincing the little kids to get inside, then we'd shower the area with railroad track rocks.
  4. YARD SALE!
  5. Latinx = "I took a year of Spanish and now I am going to fix your culture."
  6. What he said. Maybe stick an accent in tenían so we don't look too chunti. But my main question is why are Springfield Haitians speaking Spanish?
  7. ... and we've almost got enough.
  8. Hell him and the hogs banded together against the Pit People, why'd you think I had him out there in the first place?
  9. So who was he in there skinning?
  10. When I was 5 I would walk "alone" a couple of blocks to Kindergarten, while my mom stayed in our yard and confirmed that I was stopping and looking both ways at streets. They were very un-busy streets but good training. Elementary school I either walked or rode bike about 2/10s of a mile, cop at crossing, no big whoop. By age 9 for sure I was walking alone to Mr. Griffin's store, about 1/2 mile away by road, but I'd cut that in half by ducking down the railroad tracks. Savagery.
  11. I figured once my boy was strong enough to break the chain keeping him in the pit out back, then there weren't no harm in him wanderin because he was likely the meanest cuss in the neighborhood.
  12. So all the billionaires suddenly become millionaires?
  13. Since nobody would spend their gold or silver before they spend their fiat money, isn't this just another stab at letting people liquidate their stack without paying capital gains?
  14. Elon reminds me of one time I went down a rabbit-hole of watching youtube videos about people building life-size stuff with giant Lego blocks. Young trustafarians building houses, functioning cars... sort of interesting but vaguely sickening, I think it was their high-pitched squeals. They squealed. Once heard it could not be unheard.
  15. A Man of Culture such as yourself should have easily recognized the Non-Southern Theater Kids Doing Cat on a Hot Tin Roof accent. I swanee.
  16. I see a real shortage of childhood memories about getting to ride on top of the tool box in the back of the truck. Good times. I'm surprised Daddy didn't give me a cigarette to smoke while I was back there.
  17. Or at least entertaining us as they squabble.
  18. I need to take a week and just hang out in San Antonio. Or Mexico City. Dunno.
  19. If this is the direction of MTG's evolution, I wish her a long congressional career.
  20. Paris/North-Central France are quite pleasant in winter compared to the NE US. Maybe a dusting of snow, except by saying that probably I've doomed you to freakish Arctic blasts. Dress like you're going to a mildly cold San Francisco, multiple warm layers, waterproof shoes with soles that don't slip on wet surfaces, a windbreaker, and a thick wooly scarf. If you don't have a scarf on you might as well be wearing a bone in your nose. The climate rewards wearing scarves. Avoid berets with monogrammed names. I saw one beret in a year in France, and that was on a guy who ran a comic book store. But he was bald and the store was not warm. Maybe you can buy one of those tiny French baseball hats with tight-fitting skulls and long bills, giving the impression that one is a baby bird, or perhaps interested in trying Zima. Enjoy!
  21. Seems like that'd be the best reason to depart.
  22. Preparation. If you do even one psychotically violent thing in your youth, you can live the rest of your life being that easy-going friendly guy that nobody fucks with.
  23. I heard they're switching to giant Lego blocks. Let kids do all the work.
  24. Negs are the licorice-flavored jelly beans of endorphin hits. Still got a jelly bean.
  25. We have a small colony here. One lady has a gallery where I show some stuff. If even the tiniest thing sells she'll text me all excited over a few bucks, but I guess that's Real Money back home. Knowing that, I feel obligated to show appreciation for it. I was talking to this other woman, her uncle is a heart surgeon back in Argentina, she says he makes a buck-fifty an hour.
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