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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums$627.17
That was the amount Col. Baldwin lost to Major Charles Emerson Winchester playing cribbage so he got shipped to the 4077th.
MeTV is running an homage to David Ogden Stiers all week.
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$627.17 (Original Post)
underpants
Mar 2018
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mcar
(45,813 posts)1. Love it!
GusBob
(8,190 posts)2. Holy crap were they playing 20$ a point?
I suck at cribbage the most I ever lost in one game was 13.50 at 10 cent a point
Ohiogal
(40,085 posts)3. I liked the episode where the people at the 4077th
each got letters from a school class back "home" ... and one little girl put a red fall leaf in her letter, saying that it was fall where she was in New England, and of course Charles got that letter, and it got him all choked up.
question everything
(51,857 posts)4. What was the value of this amount?
A salary of an enlisted man? Of a colonel?
A surgeon in Boston?
