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Railroad rat pack relishes relentless ribbingCoffee Club

Railroad rat pack relishes relentless ribbing

Coffee Club

It's Monday morning, and scattered on the table are containers of cream, empty sugar packets and crumpled up napkins.

Ashtrays filled with cigarette butts and mugs brimming with hot java sit before nine men talking sports and cars and Medicare, and trading insults like two teenage girls in love with the same boy.

But these aren't nasty or rude or even sincere remarks. These guys are merely cracking jokes, taking verbal jousting to an Olympic level.

Some have known each other for 40 years. All but two are Havre natives. Eight are reti...

 

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