Betty by Gary Delainey and Gerry Rasmussen for April 19, 2024

I can remember when every household had someone who could play piano! It wasn’t that long ago. My grandmother’s generation grew up during the first days of radio and recorded music, when entertainment was a thing you made yourself.

The west was settled by every type, not just the undereducated.

This is why Westerns died out.

And a piano tuner?

I just wish they never got rid of spittoons. What a fun word for such a nasty little object.

There was a reason for player piano piano players.

Kazoo players weren’t in great demand…

To the first question no, you only ride hard and fast to put some distance between you and the posse or town. Then you rest your horse at a walk and keep your eye on the horizon for sight of the posse to maintain your distance until they give up and go home. It was extremely rare for a posse to continue to pursue you into another jurisdiction. But then the telegraph came into being which allowed the sheriff or marshal to notify surrounding law enforcement to be on the lookout for you. Making it to Mexico was your best bet but then again, the Federales might have been notified so you may have to ride for Argentina and Bolivia like Butch and Sundance. But then again that really didn’t help them either because they wouldn’t stop robbing, so they ended their story in Potos. I read a lot of westerns as a kid. rheddmobile already answered the second question

Jr is getting VERY annoying … as usual.

..and why don’t they show anyone ever having to go to the bathroom?

my mother in law was required to play piano for teaching 1st grade

I wondered if the horsed minded being traded from rider to rider.

After five days of Jr. pointing out the absurdities of old western movies, I’ll never be able to watch a western movie without being cynical.

My cousin trainer her horse for mounted shooting. She had to work with her to gradually be used to and not rear when the rifle went off. They do rodeos in Alberta