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malthaussen

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6. Normally, I'd say 3 days tops...

Reply to Ptah (Original post)

Fri Dec 5, 2025, 01:32 PM

Yesterday

... but these are not normal times.

A friend of mine lived in the middle of Nowhere, Kentucky one summer in the '50s. There were still two mail deliveries a day then. She put a request for a song from the local DJ in the morning post one day -- and the song was played that evening.

-- Mal

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