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Oh yeah it definitely did.

My grandmother actually had wooden swinging doors between two parts of her house that were pretty much saloon doors. They weren’t super heavy, but they were extremely satisfying.

It was the best to kick them open, I got yelled at more than once for doing so and eventually stopped because I didn’t want to break them.

But I can assure you, it was great.

Note that two of the twelve founding patrons are DHH himself and his other 37Signals cult leader Jason Fried.

There are two “distinguished” corporate sponsors. One of those is also 37Signals.

So that’s 10 of DHH’s soulless friends he got to agree to give him $1 million for his little pet project.

Yes it is!

Apparently it’s a still from the 1981 TV miniseries The Mansions of America.

Indeed!

According to the Wikipedia article,

Other names such as Klinton and Madeleine, from U.S. President Bill Clinton and U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright respectively, are also popular in Kosovo for similar reasons.