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    Quote Originally Posted by Adelaide View Post
    The Friendly Persuasion sounds familiar.
    I don't think I've ever seen the film, but I know that it was Oscar-nominated for Best Picture. West wrote other books with the Quaker life as a theme, I believe.

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    Why do they call you Hoosiers?
    No one really knows, but there are a number of theories. By the mid-Nineteenth Century it seems to have been assigned to residents of Indiana almost exclusively, but I was reading a book called 'A Texas Cow Boy' by Charles A. Siringo recently, published in 1885, and in it he refers at one point to somebody criticizing something he was wearing as making him "look like a Hoosier" - and in that context it seemed to mean a hick or yokel.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Chris View Post
    My regular doctor visit tomorrow will not be in office but over online video meet because of covid19 precautions. I went in for lab work Monday so I guess that's all they need.
    Maybe write down any questions you have first. They tend to want to speed through it because it's inconvenient.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Standing Wolf View Post
    I don't think I've ever seen the film, but I know that it was Oscar-nominated for Best Picture. West wrote other books with the Quaker life as a theme, I believe.



    No one really knows, but there are a number of theories. By the mid-Nineteenth Century it seems to have been assigned to residents of Indiana almost exclusively, but I was reading a book called 'A Texas Cow Boy' by Charles A. Siringo recently, published in 1885, and in it he refers at one point to somebody criticizing something he was wearing as making him "look like a Hoosier" - and in that context it seemed to mean a hick or yokel.

    Sounds sort of like Canuck. It's kind of interesting how those things come to be without anyone really fully understanding how/why.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Adelaide View Post
    Outside. Heat helps, but it's too warm out to blast it like that.
    I use a window squeegee, blade on one side, sponge thing on the other.

    A quick run around the car with that, turn the A/C on the windshield picto and in a minute or so, I'm clearing the runway (driveway).
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    Quote Originally Posted by Adelaide View Post
    Maybe write down any questions you have first. They tend to want to speed through it because it's inconvenient.
    Yea, no, it'll be routine. I need something stronger for allergies but they say I'm too old for more.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Adelaide View Post
    Sounds sort of like Canuck. It's kind of interesting how those things come to be without anyone really fully understanding how/why.
    I've been a Captain Canuck fan since the '70s.



    He even got his own stamp, along with a few other Canadian superheroes. (Superman was included in the issue because co-creator Joe Shuster was originally from Canada.)

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    "Canuck" is considered a derogatory term by many social "engineers". It might not be around much longer.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lummy View Post
    "Canuck" is considered a derogatory term by many social "engineers". It might not be around much longer.
    Whatever.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Adelaide View Post
    I refused to read that in grade 10. I wrote an essay about why it was stupid and communist to make us all read the same stupid book. Aced it. Had a funny teacher, though - that wouldn't have been okay with my other English teachers. It probably helped that I wrote in the essay "I could just use spark notes but I will not cheat" and then half the class got caught cheating and got zero. Should have just admitted they had no intention of reading it...

    I saw a very accurate movie of the book as a kid on the Late, Late Show. It was in B&W. Really weird, and very true to the book.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Retirednsmilin308 View Post
    I saw a very accurate movie of the book as a kid on the Late, Late Show. It was in B&W. Really weird, and very true to the book.
    That would have been the 1963 version. Said to be very close to the novel. While it was a one and off for most of the boys, at least one of the child actors from that film, Nicholas Hammond, is still a working actor. He played Sam Wanamaker, the director of the Leo's 'Lancer' episode in last year's Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood. And back in the late '70s he played Spiderman in a short-lived t.v. series.
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