Could it be good?

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melville wrote: And yet as much as we want to insult Kentucky, we must recognize that modern oral health started in Kentucky.

Clearly, if they had been invented anywhere else, they would be called 'teethbrush' and 'teethpaste.'
How long have you been waiting for this opportunity....
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Kurt Vonnegut was a Hoosier.
In Cat's Cradle (1963) he uses being a Hoosier as an example of a "granfalloon"

From Wikipedia: A granfalloon, in the fictional religion of Bokononism (created by Kurt Vonnegut in his 1963 novel Cat's Cradle), is defined as a "false karass". That is, it is a group of people who affect a shared identity or purpose, but whose mutual association is actually meaningless.

"My God," she said, "are you a Hoosier?"
I admitted I was.
"I'm a Hoosier, too," she crowed. "Nobody has to be ashamed of being a Hoosier."
"I'm not," I said. "I never knew anybody who was."
– Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle

Hmm, is the Boxerworks forum another example of a granfalloon?
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Airbear wrote:
Hmm, is the Boxerworks forum another example of a granfalloon?
Seems to fit. We'll know in a little while, when the Major logs on.
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LOL!

Sounds about right to me.
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Major Softie wrote:LOL!

Sounds about right to me.
Phew! Passed the Softie test.
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Those were some of my most favorite years - reading Vonnegut, listening to Jazz Flight 105 and riding my CL360.
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Rob wrote:Those were some of my most favorite years - reading Vonnegut, listening to Jazz Flight 105 and riding my CL360.
I still love to read Vonnegut. All my old paperbacks have fallen apart and there are strange greenish crumbs caught between the well-yellowed pages. I recently acquired the entire Vonnegut collection - novels, short story collections, letters and speeches - in ebook form to read on my tablet. Being of somewhat advanced age and having a somewhat tenuous memory thingy, all those books are fresh and new each time I read them.

So there can be some advantages to getting old. YMMV
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Airbear wrote:
Rob wrote:Those were some of my most favorite years - reading Vonnegut, listening to Jazz Flight 105 and riding my CL360.
I still love to read Vonnegut. All my old paperbacks have fallen apart and there are strange greenish crumbs caught between the well-yellowed pages. I recently acquired the entire Vonnegut collection - novels, short story collections, letters and speeches - in ebook form to read on my tablet. Being of somewhat advanced age and having a somewhat tenuous memory thingy, all those books are fresh and new each time I read them.

So there can be some advantages to getting old. YMMV
I've been re-reading books for decades. It's why I actually buy ones I really like. I'm not of advanced age but I'll admit the tenuous memory.
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Airbear wrote:
Rob wrote:Those were some of my most favorite years - reading Vonnegut, listening to Jazz Flight 105 and riding my CL360.
I still love to read Vonnegut. All my old paperbacks have fallen apart and there are strange greenish crumbs caught between the well-yellowed pages. I recently acquired the entire Vonnegut collection - novels, short story collections, letters and speeches - in ebook form to read on my tablet. Being of somewhat advanced age and having a somewhat tenuous memory thingy, all those books are fresh and new each time I read them.

So there can be some advantages to getting old. YMMV
My collection went to my daughter when she requested them.

I'm so proud! :')
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