Trivia Question

The answer will be at the bottom - no peeking

You find yourself trapped in a hermetically-sealed concrete room. There is concrete on the ceiling, all walls, and the floor. There are no windows or doors. All that is in the room with you is a flashlight, a wooden table, and a mirror. How do you escape?







Give up?




OK,
First, you look at the table. Then you turn around and look through the mirror at the table to see what you saw. You then go pick up the saw and cut the table in half. Two halves make a hole, and you climb out through the hole.

More from the Saginaw News Courier

Circa Friday, 2/13/1920:
Tire Prices - $8.50 - $19.60. Separate prices for inner tubes.

A comic from 1920 - Freckles and His Friends. A story on the right notes France is denying any alliance negotiations with Serbia/Jugoslavia. Another story is about the Romanian Jeanne d'Arc - Ecaterina Teodoroiu, as related by Romanian Military Attache Major Livinius D. Teiusamau.

The sports page.


And the famous Mary Pickford will be starring in Pollyanna. Fatty Arbuckle is starring in Fatty's Jitney Chase.
Circa Friday, 2/13/1920:

Interesting Discoveries

While my aunt was cleaning out the cabin, she found some interesting things, such as this newspaper from Saginaw.

I don't know if you can read the date on there, but it reads Friday, February 13, 1920. Headlines read differently then than they do now:

I haven't read the whole paper, in part because I didn't want to touch it too much - lest it disintegrate, but I did leaf through it briefly. I saw this ad for a $27.50 suit.

Mostly, I thought this was pretty neat. I held on to it for posterity's sake. I'm into collecting odd little things like this.

Tag!

It's been a while since I've been hit with a Meme. I can't actually say as I remember the last one that got to me. Therefore, it was a bit of a surprise when Bookworm stopped by and tagged me, though a welcome one. Here are the rules:

1. Link to your tagger and post these rules on your blog.
2. Share 7 facts about yourself on your blog, some random, some weird.
3. Tag 7 people at the end of your post by leaving their names as well as links to their blogs.
4. Let them know they are tagged by leaving a comment on their blog.
5. Present an image of martial discord from whatever period or situation you'd like.

Let's get started:
1. I've gone skiing one time. I'm pretty sure I dislocated my thumb, though I never went to the doctor about it. I spent the day with a giant tear in the crotch of my trousers, and didn't realize until about 30 minutes before we left the park.
2. Technically, I have traveled to or through 26 states. I say technically, because I don't know if you can count Colorado (at the Denver Airport), Nevada (at the Las Vegas airport, though I was there long enough to lose $20), or when I "went" to Maine - we were trying to go to my friend's friend's house for a party in New Hampshire, took a wrong turn, and crossed the bridge into Maine, turned around and went right back.
3. I am a Plaintiff's lawyer by trade, but not necessarily by desire.
4. My wife and I were writing partners in English class in 1987. We didn't know we would end up married at the time.
5. I once thought I killed a cat by driving over it on the way to an ice skating rink with my sister and two of our friends. The laughter from the fact that we didn't feel a bump and therefore thought we dragged the cat on the road was not intentional, but more circumstantial. On the way back home, nobody said anything for about a 2 mile stretch where we were expecting to see cat guts all over the ground. The laughter that came from not seeing anything was huge, and full of relief.
6. Sometimes while in law school, I wondered if I was going to school for the same reason Bernice bobbed her hair. I think I had a different motivation.
7. I am an 8 year veteran of the Air Force.

Now, the image of martial discord, from my trip to New Orleans last year in January, a picture I took in the lower 9th Ward:


For those I tag, I'm going to go with the Family and Alumni +1 approach:
1. One Step Sideways
2. Raise Your Hand If...
3. Jack's Mama
4. Rambling Photos of a Life Lived (who's been rather busy living life, and may not have time for twaddle like this)
5. Red Hot Mamma
6. Cat Bandit
7. Vim and Vinegar

Things you learn while avoiding studying

Actually, to be more accurate, things you learn while taking a break from your 8th hour of preparation for Criminal Trial Advocacy.

Anyway, I was surprised to learn, that I will be graduating in 3 months from the same law school that Dan Rather attended, and from which he received a law degree. (source: wikidpedia)