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  1. SamSam
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    Jeez, don't show that to Doug Lord!
     
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    :D I don't know if he hangs around here.
     
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    Sam Sam - I was delighted to read the supposed origin of Mark Twain's name whilst poking about on t'internet looking for information about the history of depth sounding today. You are likely familiar with it, but it was new to me:

    "On the Mississippi River in the 1850s, the leadsmen also used old-fashioned words for some of the numbers; for example instead of "two" they would say "twain". Thus when the depth was two fathoms, they would call "by the mark twain!". The American writer Mark Twain, a former river pilot, likely took his pen name from this cry. The term lives on in today's world in echo sounding, the technique of using sonar to measure depth.[3]"

    from: Depth sounding - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depth_sounding
     
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    blared ALFA

     
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    blared ALFA

     
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    Here is his book "Life on the Mississippi" where he learns all about 'mark twain' and more.

    Life on the Mississippi, Complete, by Mark Twain https://www.gutenberg.org/files/245/245-h/245-h.htm#linkc12
     
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    Angélique aka Angel (only by name)

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    Alabama, 1956
    [​IMG]
     
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    If they're not toys, then it is or was a pretty brave photographer . . :eek:
     
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    When baggy pants and boxers were a consequence of handmedowns rather than fashion statements.
     
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    Those are heavily decorated. Definitely toys.
     
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    Angélique aka Angel (only by name)

    Maybe these are some of those from the 1956 Alabama picture, and they got the blues from it . . ;)

    ​

    [​IMG]
     
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    Now that looks kinda odd to me, I've grabbed the above CD cover pic from Amazon, and it turned out there are very different prices and stocks between the UK and the US, while I thought it could be easily shipped worldwide...

    https://www.amazon.co.uk/Bomb-Shelter-Sessions-Vintage-Trouble/dp/B006TX264A/

    Audio CD: 1 Used from GB £ 5.72 (US $ - €) - 4 New from GB £ 7.99 (US $ - €)

    https://www.amazon.com/Bomb-Shelter-Sessions-Vintage-Trouble/dp/B006TX264A/

    Audio CD: 2 Used from US $ 32.79 (GB £ - €)

    P.S. - The mentioned prices were all copy pasted from the linked Amazon web pages at the time of posting here.
     
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