Betty by Gary Delainey and Gerry Rasmussen for April 19, 2024

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    rheddmobile  7 months ago

    I can remember when every household had someone who could play piano! It wasn’t that long ago. My grandmother’s generation grew up during the first days of radio and recorded music, when entertainment was a thing you made yourself.

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    fuzzbucket Premium Member 7 months ago

    The west was settled by every type, not just the undereducated.

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    Ubintold  7 months ago

    This is why Westerns died out.

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    Cpeckbourlioux  7 months ago

    And a piano tuner?

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    luca.debus creator 7 months ago

    I just wish they never got rid of spittoons. What a fun word for such a nasty little object.

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    Carl  Premium Member 7 months ago

    There was a reason for player piano piano players.

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    markkahler52  7 months ago

    Kazoo players weren’t in great demand…

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    NRHAWK Premium Member 7 months ago

    To the first question no, you only ride hard and fast to put some distance between you and the posse or town. Then you rest your horse at a walk and keep your eye on the horizon for sight of the posse to maintain your distance until they give up and go home. It was extremely rare for a posse to continue to pursue you into another jurisdiction. But then the telegraph came into being which allowed the sheriff or marshal to notify surrounding law enforcement to be on the lookout for you. Making it to Mexico was your best bet but then again, the Federales might have been notified so you may have to ride for Argentina and Bolivia like Butch and Sundance. But then again that really didn’t help them either because they wouldn’t stop robbing, so they ended their story in Potos. I read a lot of westerns as a kid. rheddmobile already answered the second question

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    DawnQuinn1  7 months ago

    Jr is getting VERY annoying … as usual.

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    RadioDial Premium Member 7 months ago

    ..and why don’t they show anyone ever having to go to the bathroom?

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    Happy Tinkerbelle Premium Member 7 months ago

    my mother in law was required to play piano for teaching 1st grade

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    car2ner  7 months ago

    I wondered if the horsed minded being traded from rider to rider.

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    And So It Goes  7 months ago

    After five days of Jr. pointing out the absurdities of old western movies, I’ll never be able to watch a western movie without being cynical.

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    tammyspeakslife Premium Member 7 months ago

    My cousin trainer her horse for mounted shooting. She had to work with her to gradually be used to and not rear when the rifle went off. They do rodeos in Alberta

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