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[deadandred]

[Bucky has been doing some reading. Quite a lot of reading, about New York, and how it;s changed over the years he's missed, what's gone on -- well, as much as he can manage. And he has noticed one very important thing, here. He fixes the comm with a very serious look, before asking:]

....So, who do I need to yell at for not tellin' me the Dodgers left Brooklyn? Los Angeles doesn't even have trolleys, why do they need a team called the Dodgers.

[A little mutter:] At least the Mets are around, so we don't have to root for the Yankees.

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[thenormalsquint]

[There's a sound of confusion, something like a grunt or a hum. It's confused. She's confused.]

What?

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[deadandred]

Well, I don't know, I was overseas at the time, doll.

All I know is he took some super-serum thing and all of a sudden he's taller 'n me and running dumbass rescue missions behind enemy lines. [Not that he doesn't appreciate those dumbass rescue missions, but.]

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[thenormalsquint]

That sounds... [crazy, weird, strange] ...dangerous.

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[deadandred]

Well, yeah, it's probably why he waited to do it until after I left.

But you might see him around here. Big blond fella, called Steve Rogers. Sometimes calls himself Captain America.

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[thenormalsquint]

[She chuckles.]

Captain America? A little self ego boosting going on there too, huh?

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[deadandred]

No, actually, I think the papers gave him that one. He sure as hell wouldn't pick it.

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[thenormalsquint]

But now he calls himself that so he must have liked something about it.

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[deadandred]

Well, it sort of stuck, I guess.

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[thenormalsquint]

He could have said "Hey, my name is Steve." Too hard?

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[deadandred]

You can't really be a big war-bond sellin' hero if you go out onstage and say 'hi, my name is Steve, buy war bonds', can you?

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[thenormalsquint]

I don't know the first thing about selling war-bonds so I can't answer that question.

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[deadandred]

I don't either, but I'm pretty sure that no one's gonna buy 'em from a regular guy named Steve.

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[thenormalsquint]

If he's a smooth-talker and looks cute, I might.

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[deadandred]

...Well, the one I grew up with was about as big around as a stick and asthmatic. And he couldn't talk to girls for anything. Still can't.

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[thenormalsquint]

Okay, so maybe I wouldn't be coerced to buy war bonds from him if he couldn't come up to me and sell them.

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[deadandred]

So can I assume you'd buy 'em from me?

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[thenormalsquint]

Probably. If you bought me dinner first.

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[deadandred]

Ain't any war bonds here, but can I buy ya dinner sometime anyway? ...Or whatever there is around here, I guess.

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[thenormalsquint]

I'm not going to turn down food and company. As long as it's not canned peaches. I've had that every meal since I got here.

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[deadandred]

It won't be, if I never have any more canned food, I'll be pretty happy, I think.

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[thenormalsquint]

Or C rations. Is that what you guys called it back then?

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[deadandred]

It sure was. Canned meat is a helluva lot better than no meat, I guess.

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[thenormalsquint]

Personally, I'll go for vegetarianism over canned meat, but that's just me.

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[deadandred]

....Why would you eat only vegetables if you don't have to? [....Yeah, this is a guy who grew up in the Great Depression. Sorry, Angela.]

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[thenormalsquint]

Anything is better than canned meat.