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EdGy's avatar

is a replica of Fenway Park available also?

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Jennifer Elsea's avatar

Apropos Hell, I imagine the entire conversation consists of people standing around commenting, “but it’s a dry heat!”

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Sasquatch's avatar

Could that chair be an actual sized reproduction of the glove that the Mets had Rawlings design for Dick Stuart?

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StorytellerTimLivengood's avatar

Clarence Thomas, despite his numerous faults, really did rise from low economic status to his current position. Thus, I take some small pleasure in the fact that Harlan Crow must curry favor with a commoner. Of course, it appears that the cost of such currying is pretty low, really, by comparison to what Crow gets out of it.

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Roger DALRYMPLE's avatar

If Mr. Crow is looking to spread the wealth, I have several ideas, including hiring a full time barber to fix the hideous mess that is Donald Trump's hair; teaching Rudy Kazootie (that's actually his given name, before he changed it) how to apply hair dye; and creating a personality for Marjorie Taylor Greene (did you know that she is known to friends at MarTayGre? I am literally not making this up.

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Dale of Green Gables's avatar

Gene, Gene... Steve Wolf's replica of Ebbets Field, circa 1955, is something to delight over. Not a grandiose artifact from the Evil Empire. https://live.staticflickr.com/7429/10124174266_ac939ecd53_b.jpg

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Helena Handbasket's avatar

A "one-eighth-size replica"???? The footprint of this thing would hold maybe 15 people. If you had 7 more of these, you could fit about 120 people. Even though that's about as many people who occupy those yawningly empty lower boxes at the new stadium, the old Yankee Stadium probably held more than 230 people back in the day.

Maybe you meant one-8,000th-size or something?

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David P's avatar

I had a similar ???

From the Hammacher site, it’s “1/8 scale”, using a convention meaning 1/8 *inch* on the model represents 1 *foot* of the original stadium.

So it’s smaller by factor of 96 (8 x 12)

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Helena Handbasket's avatar

Thanks, David, for that explanation.

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Gene Weingarten's avatar

Hm. True. It is 9 feet by seven feet, so eight times would be, I guess, 72 feet by 56. Not Yankee Stadium.

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Dale of Green Gables's avatar

Gene Weingarten leaves newspaper. It gets pissed on. Full stop.

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Dale of Green Gables's avatar

Disappointed I am --- that you would presume to ask Harlan "Straight as the crow flies" Crow to put your tuchus in a Rawlings, when the proceeds of the sale of his vial of Hitler's saliva (Sportpalast speech, Berlin, September 4, 1940) would endow The Gene Pool in perpetuity. Talk about selfish. And here we continue to be concerned you'll have to launch an OnlyFans site to pay the freight. You might also remove that smug look on your face --- understand there's an ongoing investigation into the possibility of a fake official scorer for the '61 series.

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MitchF's avatar

Was it a coincidence that today's Barney and Clyde appeared on the same day as this? https://www.gocomics.com/barneyandclyde/2023/07/17?ct=v&cti=2094586

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Gene Weingarten's avatar

It was, indeed, a coincidence. We wrote that two weeks ago.

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Leslie Franson's avatar

My parents had a dachshund who shared Murphy's habit, and my Mom gave it to another family after about three days.

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Melissa's avatar

The Dick's Sporting Goods store just reopened after a remodel and I see they have a couple of those mitt chairs. Maybe you could just hang out there? There's a climbing wall, too, and batting cage and putting green...

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Jon Carter's avatar

I once got a dog from Denver’s basset hound rescue organization; their newsletter: The Long and Short of It.

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Kitchen Cynic's avatar

Does OJ Simpson have the Rawlings chair? "If the glove fits, you must sit."

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Shawn Freeman's avatar

Thanks for making me smile this morning.

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Gary E Masters's avatar

"Not a problem?" Of course they say this. But the next step is: "We are lost. It is too late to do anything at all."

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Gregory Dunn's avatar

Except buying a few more thousand rounds of ammo, just in case.

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