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Turn it to 11 ...

N/m. Removed for thread drift.

Ricardo wouldn't be caught dead in anything that didn't have "fine Corinthian leather" ...

Probably a good thing that Vandy doesn't play actual football ...

I think his post was a bit tongue-in-cheek, as the Tennessee fans seemed to outnumber the Vandy crowd on their home field ...

No, but as a Vandy fan you must be prepared to be disappointed regularly ...

Vandy ...

Substitute "guns and zombies" for whatever is relevant and you've just described pretty much every TV drama showing ...

N/m - wrong quote

His M39 has the two-piece interrupter/ejector, which were never used on the M91's. The early style interrupter/ejector was a one-piece unit, which proved to be one of the most common failure items in all the early Mosin variants. Either style will fit and work in any Mosin, but the one-piece units are hard to find and more failure prone anyway ... And I agree, from appearances it seems your interrupter has been modified or worn to the point that it's no longer capable of doing its job ...

It's what I expected, when I saw him go down. The mechanism was the classic scenario for an ACL injury ... True. I spent more than 30 years coaching high schoolers, and saw more than my share of injuries. You always hated it for the kids ...

And 12 years and 11 seasons later, it ends ... This one proved to be somewhat prescient, but the deviations from the story ultimately seemed to be more about who left the show over time. Full disclosure, I never read any of the comics ...

Reminds me of the time when we had our own wretched hive of scum and villainy here. It was often quite entertaining. I really miss those days ...

The local doughnut shop had a two-for one sale going on at the same time ...

That's because you're not wearing your hat right ...

Yes, today was ugly, but necessary. It's painfully obvious that the Fed is going to have to raise rates to much higher levels to beat inflation, better to crush the ongoing "irrational exuberance" in the markets now, rather than later ...

Looks like what happens when a typical bear market rally collapses. Most of the factors which drove stock prices down over the last 8-10 months are still in place, inflation hasn't abated, and the Fed is signalling every way they can that interest rates are going to continue to rise. In most prior instances where the Fed set out to conquer inflationary cycles, they had to raise rates beyond the actual inflation rate. We're still a long way from there ...

I would support banning constipation ...

Severability clauses are quite common in bills ...

Remember, ultimately it was his failure to pay income taxes that finally brought Al Capone to justice. In the case of illicit income, paying taxes is an essential component of covering the source of the money ...

Exactly. It's a dog and pony show for the upcoming elections, in which all those who oppose this bill will be portrayed as enablers of the child-killing mass murderers. This will play well in reliably blue districts and among the donors to the sponsors, those who would vote against the representatives supporting this would do so anyway. It has zero chance of mustering 60 votes in the Senate, and everyone who voted for it knows that already ...

Ah, I see. I guess it depends on how you define "overpaid" and "common". I didn't post this auction as an example of either, as PE snipers are virtually unknown outside of museums. This one is a (mostly) original and complete example, and therefore highly desirable among those who know these firearms. As for overpaying, that's debatable, as the supply of these is essentially none and the demand relatively high among Mosin collectors. The buyer is well-known in that community and knew exactly what he was buying, as did his chief competitor in the bidding. I meant it more as an example of how high prices can go for some of the uncommon examples of Russian/Soviet weapons today ...