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Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Austin, TX
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Concealed Carry Permits are issued for a person, not a weapon. So the cops don't know what firearms you own when you apply for the license. I can't speak for Maine, but I can speak for Texas and I suspect it's similar: licenses are sold in stores that sell hunting goods (I usually buy mine at Academy, which is a local hunting/camping/fishing/sporting goods retailer). The clerks don't check if I own appropriate weapons and as a point of fact I don't own the right weapons for deer-hunting. (I have to buy a general license with some upgrades to go pheasant hunting, but I don't go deer hunting so that portion of the license is unused.)
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Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Austin, TX
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Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Rural Utah
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I don't know about then, but now, Maker's Mark is, if on a scale of 1-100 with 100 being top shelf, about a 25-30. At least that's how it is considered in my area. It is priced comparatively. If Glenlivets (about a 45 on the scale) is $80ish (now) for 18 year old for a fifth, Maker's Mark is about $30.
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Iceland*
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What was playing in diners or gas stations, if you can remember? Do stereotypical Mainians in this extremely rural part of the state listen to country music? Classic 60s rock?* Stuck-on-a-time-loop Jukebox that offers the flower of the most lily-white music of the 40s, from Glenn Miller and the Andrew Sisters to Bring Crosby? Edith Piaf? *By the way, exactly when did 60s counter-culture become an acceptable staple of conservative dad-types? By 1988, can a conservative FBI agent in his late 40s listen to the Rolling Stones and be a boring old fogey for doing so, rather than an edgy rebel rocker? Quote:
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Don't you hear some sort of Acadian French influence in the accent if you're in the Saint John Valley, i.e. at the border with a part of Canada that's pretty heavily Francophone? The 'biggest' town near my adventure area is Fort Kent and that seems to be a stubbornly French-speaking town, American though it may be. Quote:
Right. That sounds like a lot of the US, actually.
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Join Date: Oct 2009
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I was just pointing to the most widely sold American whiskey for middle class types. Johnnie Walker is a slightly higher end Scotch, but it and downmarket Jim Beam would both definitely be common. Chivas would be seen as an old man's liquor in the 1980s, and Maker's Mark is mostly a Kentucky drink until somewhere around the turn of the century.
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Join Date: Feb 2009
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Would Crown Royal be a thing?
From my memories of snow driving as a child (in NE Ohio snow was very popular) I am amazed people survived . . . . traveling over snow and ice was less a matter of specialized technology than it was people simply not bothering to acknowledge that their car had any deficiencies, of course your RWD Camaro is the ideal winter commuter Aside from the general disappearance of convertibles and motorcycles the vehicles that you saw in winter were the same ones you saw in summer One of my more vivid winter driving memories of that time period involved my dad taking me to school in our old 74 GMC pickup, a hill was iced over and we watched cars get partway up then slide back down, so my dad turned our truck around, drove back away, then turned back to the hill and charged it with the truck floored so we hit the base of the hill with the speedometer pegged and powered all the way up and over |
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Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Rural Utah
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Yes, they were quite popular for their dice bags even in the early 80s.
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I'm still using mine from that period. Never tasted Crown Royal, but the bag -- now there was a valuable product. These days, you can order them online, minus the liquor, and with custom embroidery. |
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Join Date: Apr 2015
Location: Pennsylvania
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9) While most people are saying "PC", the Wintel machine had not cemented it's dominance yet. Other options that she may have:
Commodore Amiga. The Amiga 2000 was a top model at the time, and included a lot of expansion options. The Atari ST is also an option. Especially for someone into the Music and "Demo" scene. An Apple Macintosh, either an SE or a Mac II if she was more upscale. Also on the Apple side, she could have a IIgs, but a Mac would be more hipster. As far as PCs go, IBM was still in their first generation of PS/2 systems, which had just been released in 1987. Only the highest of high end systems ran with 80386's, most folks made do with 8086/8088 machines, or might spring for an 80286. You could still make do without a hard drive for day to day use. DOS was at version 4, Windows was only at version 2. Most PC work was at the command prompt, while the other machines listed all had fully realized GUIs. Online work was with a modem, and given the area, long distance calls. BBSs were still a very big thing, Compuserv was the biggest name in what would become online services. Quantum Link had just changed it's name to America Online in Oct or Nov 88 after launching "PC Link" in August. GEnie was around also. Dial in speeds would be 2400 bits per second at most. ARPANET was just starting to become the Internet, but Berners-Lee wouldn't start work on HTML for another couple of years. She'd be much more likely to use CompuServ or GEnie or even FidoNet for "Email". |
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