‘If my boy says he can eat fifty eggs he can eat fifty eggs!’

i’m old enough to remember smoking sections on airplanes. Not to be dramatic but, I felt like I was going to die!

Frederick Douglass met with Daniel O’Connell in Ireland in 1845. Several other abolitionists travelled there as well.

To me he always looks like one of those old, colorized photos, or maybe a ventriloquist dummy. Maybe it’s the rosy cheeks, I dunno.

Let the eagle soar!

Yes- people are constantly worrying about the wrong things. Maybe they should be wary of lighting, because there are much greater chance of harm there than vaccine reaction (somewhere between 12-53 per million doses) and airline crashes (chance is .090 per million, or 1 in 11 million).

I accept this. I saw these when they premiered- like lining up outside the theatre and everyone cheering, etc. That was in middle school and high school and it was a true experience at the time. So, I’ll always have a soft spot for them, but you’re basically correct.

Similarly, my friend’s Grandpa had a neighbor in Burbank, CA who was the ‘Hamburgler’ for McD’s. TV Commercials, etc. She was a diminutive woman.