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   Hi Dave,   
      
    RH> You disappeared off the board for a few days, got me wondering if all   
    RH> was OK. Good to see you back.   
      
    DD> I've just graduaated from "The dog ate my homewoek" to "The dogs atee   
    DD> my internet".  Bv)=   
      
   I've had those times, glad I have a resident computer guru/geek on   
   premisis. (G)   
      
      
    DD> That's the sweet part (pun intended) I won't have to play Joe Friday   
      
    RH> Easier to find in some places or times of year than others. When we   
    RH> were in AZ, we weren't too far from the border. I went over once, with   
    RH> some friends (had been over the border in TX in the 80s) for some   
    RH> shopping (not for Coke). Downside of living that close was the problem   
    RH> with illeagals; had some friends in law enforcement that had been shot   
    RH> at.   
      
    DD> That's why the nabs carry guns - so they can shoot back.   
      
    RH> Got that one right! Seemed like every other day there was an article in   
    RH> the newspaper or story on tv news of what illeagals had done.   
      
    DD> Which is how the media work. "Good news" does not sell papers/get   
    DD> clicks/ have people tune-in. What they peddle (no matter their   
    DD> political leaning is the lyric from the old Hee-Haw3 song "gollm,   
    DD> despair, agny on me. Deep dark depression, excessive misery".   Bv)=   
      
   I remember that one, and the phrase "If it bleeds, it leads" which is so   
   often true in all forms of media.   
      
    DD> Sadlt, there is *always* something to vie with alarm.   
      
   All too true.   
      
      
    DD> I did discover a Dr. Pepper product Iquite like,mthough. Sugar free   
    DD> Pwppwe mixed with Cream Soda. Apparently other like it as well   
    RH>      ****** ?????   
      
    DD> Fat fingers. should have been Pepper   
      
    RH> OK, I know there's a new brand out called Poppie so wasn't sure if you   
    RH> were referring to that or not.   
      
    DD> If you don't sk questions you don't get asnswers. I put Dr. Pepper at   
    DD> (about) #8 on my soft drinks list. And cream soda even lower. But the   
    DD> combination .... WOW! Right up there with Coke Zero.   
      
   I like cream soda; I do not like Dr. Pepper. I'll probably never try the   
   combination tho.   
      
    DD> I don't understand how soda route drivers think. Their pay is based   
    DD> partly on how much "profuct" they move. If I was delivering a product   
    DD> that sold out every week I'd leave more and smile all the way to the   
    DD> bank. I was   
      
    RH> They're not all like that. Steve's last civilian job before he went in   
    RH> the Army was filling soda machines at Marine Corps Air Station, Cherry   
    RH> Point. He had an established route, don't know how often he had to fill   
    RH> specific machines. Came home with some interesting coins from Marines   
    RH> who tried scamming the machines--he would replace them with quarters of   
    RH> his own and the odd ones got added to an informal coin collection.   
      
    DD> The Mexican cinco centavo (nickle) coin used to was the same   
    DD> size/weight as the US 25c coin (quarter) but worth (in exchange) about   
    DD> 1/3 of a US cent. Las Vegas slot machines were flooded with them until   
    DD> the US mob had a meeting with the Mexican mob - who then got the   
    DD> Mexican gummint to "re-design" their nickel so it wouldn't fool US   
    DD> coin mechanisms.   
      
   In Steve's case, he got more Korean and European coinage.   
      
    DD>      8<----- SNYP ----->8   
      
    DD> Any money left in my accounts goes (split equally) between St.   
    RH>  Jude's DD> in Memphis and the Shriner's Cripplped Childrens'   
    RH> Hospitals.   
      
    RH> Both good causes.   
      
    DD> I was in the Navy, stationed at NAS Memphis when Danny Thomas broke   
    DD> ground for St. Jude's. He done good.   
      
   We've driven by it various times either heading out west or coming back   
   from a western trip. Also seen enough fund raising appeals on syndicated   
   tv channels.   
      
      
    DD> What do you use as a "traffic" radio? Is it part of your GPS or a   
    DD> Sirius/XM channel? Or the good ol' CB radio (if such exists any   
      
    RH> Sirius/XM; had it in the first Escape we bought and have continued with   
    RH> it. Steve likes to listen to talk radio (usually Patriot channel 125)   
    RH> when driving, will switch to Bluegrass Junction, No Shoes Radio or   
    RH> Willie's Roadhouse also. Listening to Andrew Wilkow on Patriot Radio   
    RH> intoduced us to Aaron Lewis; at the ham raido get together a couple of   
    RH> weeks ago, grand prize in the raffle was an autographed special made   
    RH> for him guitar. No, I didn't win it.   
      
    DD> If I'm not listening to Real Jazz or 40s Junction I can be found   
    DD> getting on on what "the Shadow Knows" on old time radio channel. They   
    DD> did Orson Welles' 1939 "War Of The Worlds" on 31 October.   
      
    RH> We've listened to old time radio sometimes but it's harder to follow   
      
      
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   Ruth   
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