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To: nihil who wrote (50054)5/4/2000 4:48:00 PM
From: Ish  Respond to of 71178
 
<<Everymorning before they went hunting turkeys (which actually, it seems, are late model dinosaurs (I'm not making this up!)), >>

Since you left Illinois we have a large population of wild turkey now. Really neat to see a large flock of them.

<<The belt around the pilgrim's hat was to keep the hat from slipping down over the pilgrim's eyes >>

And now 300 years later we use a smaller belt on the one-size-fits-all gimme seed caps.

<<Mr. Pigrim would pour a shot-glass full of black powder (that's where "shot-glass" came from) down the blunderbuss muzzle, and then a shot glass of shot (or black-eyed peas) down the muzzle,>>

You left out the over powder and over shot wadding.