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Post by ed » Tue Jan 07, 2020 12:34 pm

Anaxagoras wrote: ↑
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My first thought too. At least the woman remembered her pearls.
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Post by Abdul Alhazred » Tue Jan 07, 2020 3:15 pm

Anaxagoras wrote: ↑
Tue Jan 07, 2020 12:34 pm
 Where do they poop?
Fallout shelters has 55 gallon drums with toilet seats (not pictured).
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Post by Abdul Alhazred » Tue Jan 07, 2020 3:16 pm

ed wrote: ↑
Tue Jan 07, 2020 12:34 pm
 My first thought too. At least the woman remembered her pearls.
She will have something to sell other than herself ... after.
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Post by Rob Lister » Tue Jan 07, 2020 4:00 pm

Abdul Alhazred wrote: ↑
Tue Jan 07, 2020 3:15 pm
Anaxagoras wrote: ↑
Tue Jan 07, 2020 12:34 pm
 Where do they poop?
Fallout shelters has 55 gallon drums with toilet seats (not pictured).
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My father was going to build one (himself) after my oldest sister was born; 1955 or so. He never got around to it because his company kept moving him from place to place. I've seen his plans. It was a concrete L shaped structure about 20'x6'x6 for the long side, 10x6x6 for the short side. All living was done in the 20' span, all storage and 'personal' done in the 10. It had one entry, like shown in your diagram. I don't recall a radiation detector or air filter, or even a 'hatch', but there must have been at least one of the three.

I would like one with internet.
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Post by robinson » Fri Jan 10, 2020 3:33 pm

That part hasn't changed
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Post by Abdul Alhazred » Sun Jan 12, 2020 1:16 pm

Thieved of course.
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Post by Abdul Alhazred » Sun Jan 12, 2020 9:12 pm

Interesting.

BTW, The King James translation was already slightly archaic English in 1611 as a deliberate stylistic choice.
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Recycling German army helmets (1946):

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The more you think about it, the stranger the convention becomes. People used to think "of course the drug store has a restaurant." It's like someone today saying "Of course McDonald's sells aspirin and garden hose."

The restaurant had the "Standard seven-sandwich menu."
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http://www.atlantatimemachine.com/downt ... maddox.htm

Back in the day when we were not risking our little pink, brown and black butts to keep the windows of the captains of industry clean,we had ground work.

The above link is to a store this rather strapping long haired Hippie boyo encountered Lester Maddox opening around 7am while cleaning his store front windows.
Me : "Morning governor"
Lester: Nods enters and locks the door
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