SteveR Loc: Michigan

But what happened to all the great jokes?

StanMac Loc: Tennessee

THE rule to live by: Never talk Politics or Religion among friends or family. The second amendment falls into both of those categories.

Stan

sjb3

I've never seen the play or the movie, but I did read the book by John Buchan which was quite good. I got it from Project Gutenberg.

sippyjug104 Loc: Missouri

There was a time that I would play in the Attic. Thankfully, medication and therapy helped me find the key to getting out of there.😜

I'm joking of course. I have learned that it is not good to have heated conversations through social media and be frustrated over what someone I have never met or know of has written. It was letting them live "rent-free" in my mind by thinking about them and becoming angry when they most likely could not care less about me or what I thought.

SteveR Loc: Michigan

Better yet, I saw the Sesame Street version.

https://video.search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?fr=yhs-iba-3&ei=UTF-8&hsimp=yhs-3&hspart=iba&p=Sesame+Street+39+steps&type=sdff_9527_FFW_ZZ#id=1&vid=46e4129303c466bc169d7855ea800a92&action=click

GeneB Loc: Chattanooga Tennessee

Great story. I saw similar stories while in the Army.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

And yes to 39 steps.

wrangler5 Loc: Missouri

I've always thought of it as early Hitchcock (1935), but I just looked him up and found he had directed over 20 films in the 12 years before it. The 39 Steps is well worth finding, if you haven't seen it.

neillaubenthal

Not just the second…the interpretation of any amendment (well, probably a few re specific enough to not need it) or even the basic constitution is a controversial subject. Left, right, and center disagree about it…and there’s really no obviously correct answer on strict vs loose construction or legislating from the bench or the meaning of specific words therein.

I wasn’t found in 2013 so will accept that things have improved…

robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

kenJN

I am not a doctor, but I played one on TV.

My rehab was only twelve steps.

DirtFarmer Loc: Escaped from the NYC area, back to MA

All the houses I have ever lived in except the current one had stairways with 13 steps between floors. The current one has 14 between the first and second floors and has moderately high ceilings. 13 steps lead to the basement. I never lived in a split level house, which would probably have had a different standard.

My stepdaughter bought a house in CO that has 15 steps between first and second floors. She has really high ceilings. 13 steps to the basement.

I have always viewed 13 steps as the standard. Maybe I just have to live in some more houses.

Jim Plogger Loc: East Tennessee

I joined in 2012. I was attacked, and I do mean attacked, on my very first post. It is so much better now.

robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

Attics can be fun!

My Grandparents' farm house in Western Kentucky had gone through many remodels since the original log cabin in 1791.
Add on rooms to the cabin, then right after the Civil War damage to part in a fire so the whole thing got a remodel removing the room that had been the log cabin and adding a second floor. Then after WWI when Grandma and Granddad got married none of her brothers wanted to be farmers so they took over the farm (his brother got their family farm a few miles away) and did another remodel. The second floor became an attic and the large back porch that had replaced the log cabin/room got enclosed with huge tilt up windows to open it to be a porch on nice days. Then in the 30's when TVA's power grid reached the area the whole house got wired for electricity.
That attic was one of my favorite places on days when the weather kept me inside during visits. It had become an attic but still had all four windows from when it had been two upstairs bedrooms, so lots of light. Old clothes and army uniforms (Halloween costumes), Great Uncle's WW I helmet, trunks full of old things that fascinated me (hand painted porcelain dolls) and finally a trunk full of old school books of Grandma's like McGuffey's Readers - yes I read them all, different writing style and word usage but good stories. And my youngest Aunt's collection of 40s and early 50s Sci-fi magazines, which I read and then was told there were more in the closet of the bedroom that was hers in high school. Found two more large boxes full and read those also. I should have stashed those and kept them when I got older. Today's collectors market...!!!

Yes, attics, esp in old houses with in the farm's case over a century of "stuff" can be fascinating.

UHH's Attic can be fascinating at times, but also a bit repulsive at times. I used to argue and get sent there a lot, but I gave that up years ago.