A cop-opera meme

[Wilson Gray]

A. "Did [….] hear the shot?"
B. "Yes. But […] thought it was a backfire!"


What is up with this? Who under the age of sixty could possibly even
know what a "backfire" is, other than a way of dealing with forest
fires, let alone have heard backfires often enough to mistake a
gunshot for a backfire. I can remember when hearing backfires - and
blowouts - was a *very* common, several-times-a-day experience. Back
in the '40's.

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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