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  1. p51

    You know you are getting old when:

    Or even recoiling at the thought that the actress is easily young enough to be your daughter or maybe even granddaughter. Frankly, 20-somethings ceased to be attractive to me once I realized I'm old enough to be their Dad.
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    Power poles in rural areas in the early 40s

    I am putting some power poles on my O scale model RR layout and am doing them each with a single crossarm with one insulator on each side. My questions are this for anyone who really knows an answer" What color of insulators was common then? Were green ones even used in the late 30s and early...
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    You know you are getting old when:

    Heck, on forums you see it often. On a RR related forum, one thread was filled with terms and acronyms I had no clue what anyone was talking about, and I posted asking where the decoder was so I could have any idea what anyone was talking about. Nobody got what I meant. Forums can be so insular...
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    Lost art of proper relaxation

    AMEN there! When did it become rude not to answer your phone? People used to even say on their answering machines that they were probably screening their calls and nobody went bonkers at that. But now, if you don't answer your cell, people lose their darned minds. My cell is for if I need to...
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    You know you are getting old when:

    I know a former Navy SEAL who's in his late 50s that shows the wear of that lifestyle in his face but also looks like he's carved from a block of wood. He can still out-PT anyone a third of his age. They should have put him in that video.
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    Lost art of proper relaxation

    Yeah, my wife is pretty old-school and will chew you out if you call much past 9 without a darned good reason. Therefore, nobody calls late at night. I love it. Yeah, remember the days when your work considered you were as impossible to reach as if you were on the Moon if you weren't scheduled...
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    Lost art of proper relaxation

    I never saw any need for cursive. I always wrote in block style, which became quite popular many years later. Frankly, cursive was a pain for me and it was a pain to be able to read it. Frankly, I'm fine with driving a stake through the heart of the concept. I've heard some kids can't read it at...
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    Show us your photography

    Did some train shots on Sunday. Had the light against me for most of the day but I think I got a couple of halfway decent shots out of it: And one I took earlier at Mt Rainier...
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    San Francisco street corner on Dec 8, 1941

    Good job on the coloring, but I picked up on that right away. I've studied a lot of era color photos over the years and I can pick out 40s color easily.
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    What was the last TV show you watched?

    I caught the first 2 episodes of the new X-File series. I like it so far. Yeah, I've long ago tired of Seattle being used as the location of a show, just to justify filming it in Vancouver (as it's much cheaper to film there at this time). To me, it's almost as bad as when I was a kid, and...
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    The Decaying Evolution of Education...

    Yeah, tell the companies that employ them that. Far too many companies hire skilled people or train them to be so, and expect them to be so pleased they have a job in a questionable job market, reminding them constantly that they're lucky to have work.
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I grew up in Tallahassee. It does get cold there in the winter though. So much so that you can always tell the students at Florida State and FAMU who moved from further south and were totally unprepared for the first cold snap. They're the ones with no money and buying any coat they can, no...
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    That's me for sure. I grew up in Florida, where you could go barefoot (which I did) pretty much all the time. During the summer months, I never wore shoes unless we were going somewhere in the car. Even on my bike, which ad spikes on the pedals to keep your shoes from slipping off, I'd go...
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    Show us your photography

    I took these three shots locally yesterday, all within 90 minutes of each other: Amtrak's Coast Starlight:
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    Adventure! Fedora Lounge Folks in Action!

    What caliber is that 1895 in? When I was shooting Cowboy Action, I badly wanted one in .30-40 Krag (as a few of Roosevelt's officers in the 1st USV Cav carried them), but you couldn't use one in matches because technically it was a box magazine. Not long ago, my Dad gave me his Sharp's in...
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    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    She didn't know who he was, either. She's from Oregon (and hasn't turned 41 yet of that makes any difference) and I suspect that the homespun stuff of the South and Midwest never really got out there within her lifetime...
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I went to the restroom at the International Court building in the Hauge once (my war crimes trial wasn't until much later, okay?). Anyway, I was shocked to find the toilet was unisex. So odd to be 'dropping a duce' in a stall where I knew there was a woman doing the same thing. Man, it felt so...
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    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    I tried to explain this to my wife, but she'd never heard of Grit and still doesn't get what I was trying to explain. If it's changed so much, I doubt I'll ever get it across...
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    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    Me, neither. I had no idea until I just read your post. They opened a Tractor Supply store near where I live, I might need to go check it out. My grandmother used to read that religiously.
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    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    Last 4th of July, I was driving my 1944 Willys Jeep to a parade and stopped at a stop sign. A modern car came up really fast and thought, "Cripes, I'm gonna lose the Jeep right here and die as well," right before they swerved off the road. I still had my hand in the stop signal position the...

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