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Pastimes : Don't Ask Rambi
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To: jpmac who wrote (13872)10/22/1998 5:12:00 PM
From: Gauguin  Read Replies (1) of 71178
 
Back sometimes in The Past, in Some Places, they had private fire departments; several to a city. You had to subscribe. The Insuring Fire Protection Company put a medallion on your house like "Sears", or "Wendy's", so that the hook and ladder horse-boys could be sure you were feeding them when they got there. If it wasn't their medallion, they didn't do squat, and left or got in the way, pretending to "watch".

If your house was two doors away but was a Colonel Sanders customer, they wouldn't even open their doors.
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