@opipeman Sounds like pipes, tobacco, and their accoutrements would count too😬.
One of my friends was always talking about claiming his dog as a dependent on his taxes. Interestingly, apparently you can deduct guard dogs and mousers upkeep on your taxes….not sure about the specifics though.
@mapletop Too many people, no snow…or very little, copperheads and cottonmouths (the snakes). Not enough open spaces like here on the prairie, the trees close in around me. The only real redeeming feature would be being near my longtime friend and his wife, but then I would have to leave behind a friend and his wife that I’ve know even longer, and most of my family.
@RockyMountainBriar I know what you mean; my wife and I lived in (of all places) Lubbock, TX for nearly 4 years. My wife never really adapted to the landscape of the Llano Estacado, but I loved it. Not in Lubbock, mind you, but outside of Lubbock its really pretty with wide open skies and few trees and even a couple of large canyons nearby. Just south of Lubbock, in the mesquite hill country getting down toward San Antone, it's even nicer...even my wife would have lived there permanently.
@Londy3; If this works and gets Biden reelected, bury your guns in the backyard and through your pipes and tobacco away. Freedom as we have known it is over.
There's always been some debate as to whether EH had deep seated socialist, even communist, ideals; in a class on the history of economic thought I took at Chapel Hill, we debated this very quote and I even wrote a paper on it for a project in the same course.
Hemingway was definitely a communist (in my opinion) or at least sympathized with the communist cause, that said, how does one interpret this quote? Well, you can interpret it as a knock on 'legacy' politicians, political classes, and what are known as 'political business' cycles, yet at the same time, a knock on capitalism as the entire point of a 'free-market' is in fact, "economic opportunism"...at least this is how I interpreted it for the paper I wrote in that course, and I continue to hold that opinion of it.
On the other hand, a million people can interpret this quote a million different ways...and I think EH knew that and got a laugh from it every time someone asked him about it.
@vtgrad2003 I just like to picture EH coming up with that quote while in a drunken haze bobbing off the coast of Cuba in a fishing boat with his bar buddies hoping to find a German U-boat to toss a firebomb down it's coning tower. Love him or hate him the man sounds like he knew how to have a good time.
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Sounds like pipes, tobacco, and their accoutrements would count too😬.
Sure, why not!
Too many people, no snow…or very little, copperheads and cottonmouths (the snakes). Not enough open spaces like here on the prairie, the trees close in around me. The only real redeeming feature would be being near my longtime friend and his wife, but then I would have to leave behind a friend and his wife that I’ve know even longer, and most of my family.
I know what you mean; my wife and I lived in (of all places) Lubbock, TX for nearly 4 years. My wife never really adapted to the landscape of the Llano Estacado, but I loved it. Not in Lubbock, mind you, but outside of Lubbock its really pretty with wide open skies and few trees and even a couple of large canyons nearby. Just south of Lubbock, in the mesquite hill country getting down toward San Antone, it's even nicer...even my wife would have lived there permanently.
That's funny as shit!
But its a proud tradition.
🤣😂🤣 Absolutely hilarious
I don't miss that white stuff not even for a second.
If this works and gets Biden reelected, bury your guns in the backyard and through your pipes and tobacco away. Freedom as we have known it is over.
”Boating Accident….Boating Accident”😬
Feds: "where are your guns"
Me: "They fell into that damn woodchipper again!"
You must have a beast of a woodchipper😉
Hate to say it, freedom is hanging by the last American thread from the flag of our once great country.
People need to wake up. This ain't the normal "Shit Show".
There's always been some debate as to whether EH had deep seated socialist, even communist, ideals; in a class on the history of economic thought I took at Chapel Hill, we debated this very quote and I even wrote a paper on it for a project in the same course.
Hemingway was definitely a communist (in my opinion) or at least sympathized with the communist cause, that said, how does one interpret this quote? Well, you can interpret it as a knock on 'legacy' politicians, political classes, and what are known as 'political business' cycles, yet at the same time, a knock on capitalism as the entire point of a 'free-market' is in fact, "economic opportunism"...at least this is how I interpreted it for the paper I wrote in that course, and I continue to hold that opinion of it.
On the other hand, a million people can interpret this quote a million different ways...and I think EH knew that and got a laugh from it every time someone asked him about it.