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Breckenridge Elkins idiots - Robert E. Howard western character. Stronger than a horse and almost as smart.
Sea Island carry-out - A nice seafood restaurant chain in San Antonio. Good eating if you like seafood.
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humanist - a philosophy that holds that there is nothing more important that human beings..
didoes - Western slang for shoot-outs
Parabolic Microphone - by using a parabolic reflector and placing the microphone in the center, it acts like a telescope for hearing things...
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The last roller seem to join the congregation - Pun on roller. Certain sects of fundamental Christianity in the US are nicknamed "Holy Rollers" (don't ask why), usually shortened to Rollers. The trolleys roll on wheels...
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Most of them seem to have the shakes and some of them are seeing things - Classic sign of alcohol withdrawal. Diplomats are notorious for heavy drinking.
Looey - Lieutenant, a junior officer.
Everclear - Drinkable 95% ethyl alcohol. Used to spike punches with...
Capeesh - American Italian for understand
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dunkers, not sprinklers - Baptists baptise by full immersion, rather that by sprinkling with water as done by many other Christian branches.
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since the old days with Mayor Peppone - From the Don Camillo books. They are a series of short stories about Don Camillo versus The Communist Mayor, Peppone. All the jokes in this section come from the books...
Just as I Am - The Closing hymn at a baptist worship ceremony. A call for conversions.
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They're all safe in the hands of the FBI - A parody of the Baptist phrase "safe in the arms of Jesus".
cojones - Tex-Mex slang for testicles, which is also slang for having courage.
Tom T. Hall's I Like Beer - The perfect country western song about beer drinking.
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Black Talons - A form of expanding bullet that formed a buzzsaw form when it hits a person. Very nasty. So dangerous that the factory voluntarily stopped making them. There are some still in outside world, though.
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