Stimulus check -- big woop

Next week is Nude Recreation Week. Note that Gunnison Beach, N.J., is the busiest clothing-optional recreation area in the nation. Regulars report one blessing from the high gasoline prices: fewer boaters with binoculars offshore. Horseshoes, anyone?

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India’s best-known, twice wounded military hero is dead. His obit said the general held onto certain British army traditions. For example, a 1971 NY Times article said he would arise at 5:30 every morning, drink a small glass of whiskey, listen to the BBC news and putter in his garden before going to work. Gen. Sam Hormusji Framji Jamshedji Manekshaw lived to age 94.

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Richard Gatling was an idea man. He held 43 patents. His deadliest, the Gatling gun, was inspired by his seed planter that dropped seeds one-by-one into the furrow. He thought his terrifying new weapon would shorten the Civil War. See Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

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Parents: take to your attics. Do you have any first issues of X-Men? The comic sold in 1963 for 12 cents. Today, in mint condition, the same comic book fetches $16,500. Sounds good, huh? But the original art…ahhh…that’s where the money is.

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My stimulus check arrived today – just in time to fill the tank.