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Back when there were fewer stars?
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No, it was before universal warming started killing everything.
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You might be interested in this: Book | The First Astronomers[^]
My daughter met the author a while ago, and gave me the book recently.
 It's still in my reading in-tray...
Cheers,
Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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According to the article quoted below, cooks on the trail with cowboys in the old days prepared their coffee as follows:
Quote: Chuck wagon cooks squeezed every drop of caffeine and flavor they could out of their coffee, piling fresh grounds on the old ones before boiling away. If you're wondering just how strong the cowhands liked their java, this recipe from "Western Words" tells the tale: "Take two pounds of Arbuckle's coffee, put in 'nough water to wet it down, boil it for two hours, then throw in a hoss shoe. If the hoss shoe sinks, she ain't ready."
What Did Cowboys Really Eat In The Old West?[^]
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Beans either way, luckily the trails were 'open air' that time  
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Now I understand Tim Horton's coffee.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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When I was doing trail maintenance we made cowboy coffee but didn't have a horseshoe and didn't make it quite that strong.
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Hmmmm. Please explain: "trail maintenance"? 
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Clearing a trail to hike on of fallen trees, foliage grown across trail, mowing, etc..
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My Father served in a MASH unit in Korea. He described the coffee as "Cowboy" coffee. It was pretty the same recipe. Grounds in boiling water. As a kid, I can remember he made his coffee at home almost the same way except with egg shells now and then. BTW, he said the TV show was pretty accurate.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
modified 23-Oct-22 23:22pm.
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My father told from when he was a boy that the fishermen in North Norway used to make their coffee in the boat shelters, in a huge coffee pot. To make more coffee, they added water, stirred up the grounds and made it to boil. If the coffee wasn't strong enough, they added more grounds. When the layer of grounds grew so high that there was not sufficient space for water, they had to empty out all the grounds and (literally) start from the bottom again 
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Knew where is was just couldn't recall the name. Weird country.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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Bam! Didn't even need a map (I've been there, great country) 
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yes, unique shape for sure.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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Halloween came to mind.
Not sure if you have Halloween in your neck of the woods (your country).
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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jmaida wrote: Not sure if you have Halloween in your neck of the woods (your country).
Only a little.
When I grew up there was none of it, but it gets bigger here every year.
I even got a flyer from our local church (I live in what's called "the Bible belt") about the dangers of Halloween
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Some churches here have that opinion, too. But not many.
The tradition has not changed much since I was a wee lad (65 years ago).
There have been some negatives such as doctored candy,
but the switch to packaged treats reduced that.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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