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[theoldchick]

Hi Debby. Glad to have you here. Though you have to bring your own saddle...

 

[Debby27]

The Image of Al Capone still rears it's ugly head. My brother travels a lot and as soon as folks hear he used to live in Chicago, they want to know if he ever saw Al. Used to happen when I had foreign pen pals ( long before computers),- Boy, am I old!

No, you are just a wise person of the world.....like the rest of us....LOL...I'll take my memories of all the "Old" stuff anyday!

 

[Debby27]

Hi Debby! Good to see you here!

awwww, thanks!

 

[Debby27]

Hi Debby. Glad to have you here. Though you have to bring your own saddle...

Thanks! hehe....I've got one somewhere.....

 

[Debby27]

Knicky & old chick......My brain is fried...I thought you were talking to me...and I'm like well thats sweet! and then I saw the new "Debby"......

My apologizes ......and to you too Debby....LOL....WELCOME! I have had a migraine for 2 days now and apparently it's affected my thought processes.....

I also just found out I have a 1/2 brother in OH who is 73! So yeah.....a little brain rattled here.....

 

[NickyKnack]

Knicky & old chick......My brain is fried...I thought you were talking to me...and I'm like well thats sweet!  and then I saw the new "Debby"...... My apologizes ......and to you too Debby....LOL....WELCOME!    I have had a migraine for 2 days now and apparently it's affected my thought processes.....    I also just found out I have a 1/2 brother in OH who is 73!  So yeah.....a little brain rattled here.....

I'm also glad you're on this thread too! So sorry to hear about the migraine. I hope you get to feeling better.

 

[Bunnylady]

Quote: x2. But wow - a 73-year-old sibling that you are only now learning about? That seems pretty mind-blowing to me, migraine or no migraine!

 

[rebelcowboysnb]

None of us like it. It distorts the image of the city, and it's the type of thing that will stick for years. It took us 50 years to get rid of the Al Capone image.

Despite what you hear from the frantic fear mongering 24 hour news cycle, crime rate is way down from the 80's; crime rate is about the same now as it was in 1961. Only difference, in 1961 when something happened, only people within a half a mile heard about it; now everyone in the world hears about it immediately, with breathless news announcers hyping it up.

That really does not mean much. The murder rate is 4 times the national average still. Robberies are 5 times the national average. Auto theft is 3 times national average. Rapes are twice the national average. It does not make the top 10 crime cities an is about the same as Atlanta but compared to most of the country it bad.

 

[Gargoyle]

We don't stand on ceremony here - after all, it is, well, random.

Unless someone can find a photo of somebody standing on a ceremony.

 

[Debby27]

Nicky, thank you I'm getting better it's just a long haul when you have them....

Bunny, yeah....mind blowing is an understatement....lol...my Sis is brokenhearted that my father would have done this...he's been gone for 50yrs now....Momma passed away 4 yrs ago this Sept. We don't know the story and she's not wanting to find out what the "story" is....I'm like "wow, we have a half-brother!".....not so much with the rest of the siblings, my brother is silent, which is not good and don't know yet how my sister in New Mexico feels about it......so I'm getting ready for a roller-coaster ride....