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  1. LakeEffect liked Randy Abercrombie's post in the thread A good one, seen on eBay… where else?.

    I am betting that if we did chip in and send the boy some soap, it likely wouldn't get used.

    Aug 27, 2026 at 9:44 AM

  2. LakeEffect replied to the thread A good one, seen on eBay… where else?.

    A comic book, strawberry Crush, and a circulated Ike. Life is good.

    Aug 27, 2026 at 9:39 AM

  3. LakeEffect replied to the thread The Man Who Would Be King: James Brooke and the White Rajahs of Sarawak.

    It's also an entertaining movie starring Sean Connery and Michael Caine. I should read the original Kipling story. A favorite local...

    Aug 24, 2026 at 8:24 AM

  4. LakeEffect liked The Meat man's post in the thread The Man Who Would Be King: James Brooke and the White Rajahs of Sarawak.

    Thanks Alurid! The Man Who Would Be King was a short story, about two former British soldiers who decided to try to carve a kingdom out...

    Aug 24, 2026 at 8:21 AM

  5. LakeEffect liked The Meat man's post in the thread The Man Who Would Be King: James Brooke and the White Rajahs of Sarawak.

    Here's a coin I recently picked up, with a fascinating history steeped in the British colonial adventurism of the 18th and 19th...

    Sarawak 1863 cent.jpg Sir_James_Brooke_(1847)_by_Francis_Grant.jpg Expanding_Boundaries_of_Sarawak.png Charles_Brooke,_Rajah_of_Sarawak.jpg Charlesvynerbrooke.jpg Aug 23, 2026 at 6:35 PM
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