100 years from now that beautiful piece will have a prominent spot in The Parker Museum and, next to it, the outhouse photo along with a fancy brass plate with an inscription describing its provenance and it's place in history responsible for the evolution of the phrase "shoot the breeze" (reported origin The Great World War) to "shoot the sh*t" (origin credited to Norman Mailer in 1940's) to "shoot the 10" (origin Richard Flanders).
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